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et les Saliens, et le Commencement de 
PHiffoire du Dieu Mars; précédé par 
que'ques Obdfervations fur notre Orto- 
_graphe.”’—TIntrodution to the Hiftory of 
the City of Avignon, Vol. I. containing 
Memeirs relative to the Celts, &c. By 
M. ForTia D’UrBaN. 
Here again the author propofes to re- 
form the ani Orthography, and after 
mentioning his fevourite plan in the in- 
trodnciion, he endeavours to prove that 
Avignon was a Celtic town or city. 
“e Ror la Ligue Hanf€atique, de fon 
Origine; fes Progrés, fa Poiflance et fa 
Conftitation politique jufqu’ a fon Déclin 
au feiziéme Siéclé.”"——-Ot the Hanfeatic 
League, its Origin, its Progrefs, its 
Power, and its political Conftitution, un- 
til its Decline in the fixteenth Century. 
By P. H. Mauer, Profcflor of Hitory. 
This interefting fubjeét has been treat- 
ed of by feveral authors, particularly 
Profefor Bufch of Hamburg, M. 
Fifcher, and M. Saag profeflor, of 
Gottingen. I: is from thefe, and fimilar 
{eugecs, that the author has derived mate- 
rials, well calculated to intereft fuch 
yeaders as ‘are defirous to become ac- 
quainted with the commercial relations 
of the North of Europe. 
After having made fome obfervations 
on the times which immediately preceded 
this famous union, as well as on the 
events which prepared, and the circom- 
fiances that proved favourable to it, he 
brings us to the epoch of its formation, 
which occurred in the latter part of the 
thirteenth century. Its progrefs was at 
firft flow, but it foon obtained extraordi- 
nary privileges, eftablifhed monopolies, 
and extended to England, Germany, Swe- 
den, Denmark, Ruffia, and the feuth of 
Europe. To maintain its power it formed 
acode of political regulations, and infti- 
tuted a mode of government peculiar to 
itfelf. 
It often occurs that cupidity and jea- 
Jouly deftroy the beft-regulated affocia- 
tions, and this is precifely what occurred 
in the prefent cafe, by the defection of 
the Dutch towns, and the revolution 
which occurred at Lubeck. Notwith- 
ftanding fome expenfive wars, and a ruin- 
ous ambition; notwithftanding the inter- 
vention, in fhort, of a variety of difaf- 
trous events, its influence and its com- 
mercial connexicns throughout the North 
of Europe, enabied it to fubfift during a 
long period. The decline of the Han- 
featic League may be traced from the Jat- 
ter end of the fixteenth century. The 
Retrofsed? of French Litenature.—Mifcellanies. 
laft- general Diet was convoked in 1630, 
but the greater part of the afflociated 
towns negleéted to fend deputies thither. 
Notwithftanding this, Lubeck, Ham- 
burg, and Bremen, always remained 
united, under the honourable game of 
Hanleatic cities; and although fhorn of 
that fplendour which they formerly en- 
joyed as members of the League, yet they 
have continued under the, immediate pro- 
tection of the Empire, and have been ac- 
cuftomed to fend commercial agents to all 
the fates of Europe. 
“© Annales des Arts & Manufaétures.” 
—Anpnals of Arts and Manufa&iures, by 
R. O'REILLY, of the Academy of. Bo- 
logna. 
This work has been publithed at Paris 
during a long feries of years, with an ex- 
ception of a few -of the mo boifterous 
epochs of the revolution. The prefent 
volume contains memoirs, or rather zo-~ 
tices, as the editor is pleafed to term them, 
on the following fubjects : 
x. On the artificial {tone proper to be 
employed in hydraulic conftruétions. 
2. A procefs for whitening cotton ov 
flax, and conferring a fine red colour on 
then). 
3. On the pens and feathers of domef- 
tic animals. 
4. On the deficcation of feathers ; or 
the employment of new fubftances in the 
procefs of tanning. 
5. On the ftereotype of Herham. 
6. A procefs for gilding fteel by dip- 
ping it in a liquid. 
7. The defeription of a horizontal 
wheel, to be turned by the flux and 
reflux'of the tide. And, 
8. Different modes of facilitating navi- 
gation, when the fall of water in canals 
is confiderable, &c. &c. 
« Bulletin de la Societé d’Encourage~ 
ment pour |’Induftrie national.’’—The 
Bulletin of the Society for the Encou- 
ragement of National Induftry. 
This contains the following papers : 
1. A mode of preparing nth, fo as to 
be ferviceable in the fabrication af foap. 
2. A method of preduai an oxyde of 
phofphorus, extremely inflanimable. 
3, A Difiertation on the denfity of mer- 
cury. 
4. Acompofition for cleaning muflins 
and cloths. 
5. A new way of preparing a black 
colour, poffeffing all the properties of 
China ink. . 
6. A method of purifying geld and 
filver; and, 
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