an efficient preparation for war could alone enfure peace. It was at the option of France to reftore that bleffing: whether it was her wish would be seen hereafter. The able prefident concluded a judicious harangue with inculcating the importance of concord and unanimity, and expreffing his hopes that the two affemblies, by the temper and wisdom of their proceedings, would contribute to secure to their country that weight and respect to which it was justly entitled.' That the legislature will answer this expectation, the general conduct of the two houfes will not fuffer us to doubt. The great inconvenience, lofs of lives, and confumption of treafure, occafioned by the occupancy of a part of St. Domingo, have long been lamented: but it is now useless to wish that the island had not been invaded. We are informed that the posts which were retained by our troops after the evacuation of Port-au-Prince and St. Marc, have been abandoned, to the great joy of general Touffaint, who seems inclined to render himself independent of the French republic. In confequence of warm difputes, Hedouville, the agent of the directory, has retired from the ifland, accufing his opponent of selfish ambition and perfidy; while Touffaint has tranfmitted to Europe a vindication of his conduct. What will be the iffue of the conteft is a point of curious speculation, which we leave to the fagacity of our political readers. VOLUNTARY APOLOGY TO AN AUTHORESS. As works of inftruction for females are not infrequently written by perfons of the oppofite fex, we attributed 'l'inftitutrice' (fee our laft vol. p. 560), notwithstanding the feminine title, to Monfieur Le Noir: but, finding that it is the work of Mademoiselle Le Noir, we gladly reftore to that lady the honour of which we had deprived her. Landaff, III 339 472 Difcipline, Medical, 465 Charge to the clergy of the diocese of Difeafes, Treatife on chirurgical, 222 357 Charnock on finance and national de- fence, Chemistry, Annals of, Diforders (phyfical and moral of wo- 340 Diverfions of Purley, 498 532 320 Domingo (St.) Inquiry into the na- 347 178 222 228 Brand (Mifs)'s plays, 467 237 Cambre-Britons, III 356 Cléry's journal of Louis XVI.'s con- fin.ment, Coleman on the ftru&ture, &c. of the horfe's foot, 148,436 Collier's effay on the fcriptures of the 103 New Teftament, Lovers' vows, Natural fon, Penn's works, Series of plays, Dumonriez' fpeculative picture of Europe, 458 98 Duffeldorf, 236 Dutens's tocfin, 462 Dwight's Greenfield hill, 107 352 Confpiracy, Reflections on the Irish, 97 Education, Analyfis of, 466 Mrs. Landen's plan of, 350 Correfpondents, Reviewers' answers to, 120, 360, 480 Cow-pox, Inquiry into the caufes and Elegy on a much-loved niece, 353 107 effects of the, 221 Cowe's tracts, Coxe's memoirs of fir R. Walpole, Crimes of democracy, Cruikshank's experiments on infenfi- 163 339 Επεα πτερόεντα, Eleonora, Italian tranflation of, Enquiry into the principles and cy of taxation, Epistle in rhyme to M. G. Lewis, I to 114 470 poli- 459 320 ble perfpiration, 102 Cumberland, History of, 368 |