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We fhall conclude this extract, with 
fomething in the thape cf a prophecy :-— 
S¢ O Louis | 6 des arts augufte créateur, 
‘¢ Par eux, du monde entier tu fus le bien- 
faiteur. 
Voila, voila furtout ta véritable gloire. 
Cent rois ont partagé- Phonneur de ta vic- 
toire. 
Ces images d’airain, ces buftes adorés, 
Qu’aux jours de Ja grandeur, Paris a con- 
 ~ facrés - 
Au vaingueur des Germains, au vainqueur 
des Bataves, 
Ces bronzes fupplians et courbés en ef- 
claves, 
Un jours’écrouleront fur leur bafe ébranle€s; 
a 
és 
ee 
é« 
es 
ce 
<€¢ 
«¢ Le tems dévorera ces branzes mutilés, 
<* Ce palais of tu crus attacher ta mémoire : 
<¢ J] rongera le marbre oti tu gvavais ta gloire; 
és Et peut-étre qu’un jour Vhabitant de 
Paris 
«© Iynorera le lieu, tombeau de ces deoris. 
«+ Mais les écrits fameux que ton fiecle a vu 
Naitre, 
> Que protégea ton govt, qu’il infpira peut- 
étre ; 
*€€ Dans ces jours reculés, fubfifteront encore ; 
<< Le tems rajeunira leur anticue tréfor 5 j 
Et de ces monumens la vieillefle immor 
3 
telle, 
«< PS S> 7 2 uvell 
Etonnant d’age en age une race nouvelle, 
6 
Ira de tes Francais, dans l’immenfe avenir, 
Imprimer le refpe et le long fouvenir, 
Et jufgues dans les cours, dignes de les 
entendre, ; 
Aux hommages des rois recommander ta 
cendre.”* z 
The fecond volume confifts entirely 
of profe, and contains a treatife, or ra- 
ther part of a treatife, on the poetical lan- 
guage ; refieCiions on languages in gene- 
ral, more efpecially the French ,, remarks 
on the D.ctionary of the Academy, &c. 
«© Nors pour fervir a l'Hitoire de 
P Armée d’Italie.2’>——Notes for a Hiitory 
of the Army of Italy, collected by 'R. 
ESGENETTES. 2d Edit. : 
Thefe notes contain fome prefatory de- 
tails relative to operations which, eve 
now, in confequence of the events pro- 
duced by them, will be confidered as im- 
oftant. At the beginning of 1792, the 
French Government formed a conhider- 
able army in the fouth, under the com- 
mand of General Montelquicu, and Nimes 
was the cential point at which the troops 
were ordered to affemble. In April this 
body was formed into two divifions, one 
of which, commanded by the General in 
Chief in perfon, ma:ched into Savoy, 
which it conquered, and afterwards af 
fumed the: appellation of ** The Army 
of the Alps;"° the other, firft undcr Ge- 
neral Chartoa, and then under General 
regular troops 
Retrofpeét of French Literature.—Mifcellanies: ys 
Anfelme, advanced to the borders of the 
Var, and remained cantoned or encamped, 
until the month of September, at Anti- 
bes, Grafie, and Vence, &c. 
In the mean time, a fquadrom, under 
Rear Admiral Truguet, reconnoitred the ~~ 
coat of Nice, during the month of Sep- 
tember, and fpread terror and alarm 
among the enemy. General Anfelme, at 
the fame period, at the head of 30co men, 
croffed the Var, entered the territories of 
Nice, took poffefion, on the very. firft 
day’smarch, of Fort Moatalban, chafing. 
before him a body of men, molt probably: 
‘exaggerated in his difpatches to ** 80ca 
1"? Next day (Sept. 30) 
Villefranche and its caftle furrendered ; 
fo that, mma few hours, the French had 
obiained poffeffion of the greater part of 
the Comté, or territory of Nice; confit- 
ing of acharming country, feparated from 
Italy only by a chain of elevated moun- - 
tains, and communicating with it by fe- 
-yeral narrow defles. 
Nice, its capital, whence it alfo derives 
its appellation, is reprefented as being ‘ 
moft admirably fituate, in 23° 55' 30/¢ 
of longitude, and’ .in 43° 41/ 30” of la- 
titude, reckoning from the meridian of 
Paris. The climate has always been coi. 
fidered as admirable; valetudinarians have | 
confequently flocked to it from all parts 
of Europe. The population, at the en- 
trance of the French, is eftimated at 
24,000 inhabitants; while that of the 
rett of the territory is only reckoned» at 
15,000. 
The thermometer, at Nice, when com- 
pared with that of Paris, is found to ex-" - 
hibit feven degrees lefs of cold. During - 
the fummer, its temperature, eflimated 
at a medium calculation, is from 22-to 24 
degrees. ‘Fhis heat” is moderated by the 
fea-breeze, which commences daily atten 
o’clock in the morning, and continues | 
until fun-fet, when the land wind begins 
to blow. ; 
Villefranche, half a lesgue to the eaft. — 
of Nice, is built at the bottom of a gulf, — 
and the foot of a fleep mountain, which 
completely circum{cribes one fide of it. 
The houfes are far from being beautifal, 
but here were found feveral edifices and 
eftablifhmests belonging to the marie; ~ 
a dock, an arfenal,-a rope-walk, cafe- — 
mates for the troops, and the old militany E 
hofpital, The population is eftimated to 
have amounted, at that period, to 3000 
inhabitants, neaily all of whom obtained 
their living by the fea. — 
After thele prefatory remarks, we are” 
told by the author, that from the month’ 
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