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he even addreffed an epiftle to Voltaire, 
which concluded with the following 
lines: 
c¢___. Notre état fait notre lois -- 
I] nous oblige, i] nous engage 
A mefarer nctre courage 
Sur ce qu’exige notre emploi. 
Voltaire, dans fon hermitage, 
Dans un pays dont 1béritage 
Eft fon antique bonne fol, 
Peut s’adanner en paix-a la vertu du fage 
Dont Platon nous mareua Ia loi. 
Pour mo?, menacé du navfrage,y 
Je dois, en afirontant Porage, 
Penfer, vivre et mourlr en rol.’ 
At the battle of Cunnerfdorf, in which 
he contended againft the Ruffians and 
Auftrians, commanded by Sattikow and 
_ Loudohn, (Auguit 12, 1759) and which 
he loft by his own fault, he appeared but 
Kittle defirous to furvive thet misfortune, 
and was accufiemed to afk, during the 
moments of defpair, wes fome fortunate 
bullet would not releafe him from” his 
fituation? After having had two horfes 
kiiled under him, and receiving a fhot in 
his clothes, he obfihately perfitted in re- 
maining on the field of battie, and that 
too in the very place where the fire was 
hotteft ; nor could he be prevailed upon 
to retire by any means, that his own 
aides-du-camp were, at length, forced to 
drag him from the fatal field. In the fol- 
lowing campaign (that of 1760), the Ruf 
fians feized on Berlin, and-laid the inhabi- 
tants under contribution. 
At length, however, fortune changed, 
for no feoner had Pope Clement XIII. 
conceived the ridiculous mummery of pre- 
fentng Marfhal Daun with a conlecrated 
fword, and a cap filed with Agnus Det, 
than the fuperior genius and talents of the 
King gained a decided afcendancy over 
his confederated enemies. Thefe were 
forced, partly by his unfhaken conftancy, 
and partly by a {age adminiftration of his 
finances, to-fubmit to the law which he 
himfelf -was pleafed to dictate. He ac- 
cordingly re-entered his capital in ‘rium sph, 
and foon made its citizens participate in 
all the advantages of peace, while the 
powers who had con! {fpired to ruin him, 
€ontinued for many years to languifh 
onder the wounds which they themielves 
had occafioned. 
The Seven Years War cof Bitnoe. no 
Jefs than 800,009 men, and exhaufted the 
treafures of the Beiligerent powers. The 
King of Pruffia retained pofkfficn of Si- 
Jefia; and, with the exception of France, 
which lot Canada, the various ftates en- 
gaged in the conteft refumed the poftion 
Retrofpee of F- rench Literature. —Mifcellanies. 
in which they found themfelves in 1756. 
They made the peace of 1:63, we,are 
told, merely from tbeir inability to conti- 
nue the war any longer. 
<¢ Confiderations Médicales furles Avan- 
tages de |’Allaitement particulier, &c.”— 
Medical Confiderations on the Advan- . 
tages to be derived from the Employment 
of hired Nurfes for the greater Number 
of Children of great Cities. 
Thefe Confiderations, written and ee 
lifhed in Paris, have been prefented to, 
and defended in, the Schoo! of Medicine, 
eftablifhed. in that capital. The pofi- 
tion here laid down is, however, net a 
little apocryphal. 
«« Geographie Mathematique, Politi- 
que, &c.”’—The Mathematical, Phyfical, 
and Political Geography, of every Part 
-of the World ; compiled, &c. by Epo. 
MeENTELLE, of the National Inftitute. 
This work, which we before announced, 
fiill continues to be publithed in numbers, 
and has now attained the formidable fize 
of 15 Vols. 8vo. A folio Atlas, with a 
varicty of new plates, is given By, way of 
fupplement. 
<< Traité Elementaire de Phyfique,”— 
An Elementary Treatife on Natural Phi- 
Jofephy ; a Work defigned for the Ufe ef 
the National Lyceums. 2 vols. 8vo. with 
24 plates. Phice 12 frances, Paris. 
This work, which we before announced, 
continues to obtain frefh popularity in 
France. In order to explain the ele@rical 
phenomena, C. Hauy has recourfe to two 
fluids, the one refinous, the other vitreous ; 
each of which attracts the molecule of 
the other, while it reprefies i iisown. The 
natural philofophers appear, of late years, 
more efpecially on the Continent, to prefer 
the theory here Jaid down, to the pofitive 
and negative electricity of Franklia. Tiis 
part of the wrk contains a methodical, 
altheugh bricf, expofition of the labours: 
of Grey, Dufay, Frankiin, A pinus, and 
Coulon. The arms of Jupiter, to whom 
was formerly affigned the deftruétive thuns ” 
der-bolt, are now “ demonftrated to be 
nothing more than large electrical {parks ;”” 
white the author, in cenfequence of the 
Galvanic experiment by Volta, treats of 
the new dilecy ery cf Galvanifm under the 
head of ordinary cleéiricity. 
The phenomen-n of the | loadfiene, 
which, it is maintained, poflefles an inti- 
mate analogy ts the electrical fluid, is 
here alfo explained by means of two fluids, 
on which the author cenfers the pig 
tions of the doreal and auftral: “ the 
former, becaule the fluid intended to be 
defignated under this appellation, is accu. 
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