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FRENCH BOOKS, PUBLISHED SINCE JANUARY 1817.

Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire de la Guerre entre la France et la Russie; par un Officier de l'etat major de l'Armée Française. I vol. 4to; and Atlas. pp. 369. Memoires sur les Lignes du Second Ordre ; par C. J. Brianchon. 8vo. pp 68.

Le Cabinet du Roi, ou les plus beaux Tableaux des Peintres de l'Ecole Française, avec un notice sur les Ouvrages de chaque Maitre. No I. containing 4 plates, 12mo. A number will appear monthly.

Nouveaux Elemens de la Science et de l'Art des Accouchemens; par J. P. Maygrier. 2 vols 8vo. pp. 1140.

Gastronomia, ou Recueil d'Anecdotes, Reflexions, Maximes, et Folies Gourmands. 32mo. pp. 128.

Euclide en Grec, Latin, et Français; par F. Peyrard. vol. 2d. 4to. pp. 564.

Tables des Diviseurs pour tous les Nombres du premier million; par H. Burckhardt. 4to. pp. 122.

Memoires et Dissertations sur les Antiquités Nationales et Etrangeres; par la Societè Royale des Antiquaires. Vol. I. 8vo. pp. 450.

L. F. Lecarpentier Essai sur le Passage. 8vo. pp. 218.

J. B. Say Traite d'Economie Politique. 2 vols Svo. Third edition. pp. 1024.

M. B. Constant de la Doctrine Politique qui peut reunir les Partis en France. Second edition.

J. A Salguer Hygiene des Vieillards, ou Conseils aux Personnes qui ont passé l'Age de Cinquante Ans. 12mo. pp. 294.

Tablettes Chronologiques de l'Histoire Ancienne et Moderne jusqu'a Imo Octobre 1816; par A. Serieys, professeur d'Histoire en l'université royale de France. pp. 612.

12mo.

Biographic Universelle. Vols XVII, and XVIII. (Ge-Gua) pp. 1216.

Seroux d'Agincourt Histoire de l'Art, par les Monumens. No 17. in folio. pp. 20. and 28 plates.

Dictionaire des Sciences Medicales. Vol. XXII. (Gen-Gom) pp. 606.

Sermons par J. F. M. Roux, pasteur de l'eglise reformée d'Uzés, President du Consistoire. 8vo. pp. 272.

F. J. Double Semciologie Generale. Vol. IL. pp. 608.

Archives des Decouvertes et des Inventions Nouvelles, tant en France que dans les pays etrangeres, pour l'an 1816. 8vo. pp. 448.-A volume of this work is pubished annually, and the present is the ninth

of the collection.

Nouvelles Recherches sur les Maladies de FEsprit; par André Mathey, D. M. P. de Geneve. 8vo. pp. 361.

F. Roullier Petit, Campagnes Meinor

ables des Français depuis l'Epoque de l'Expedition en Egypte, jusqu'a celle du Traité de Paix du 20 Novembre 1815. 2 vols folio. pp. 606. 45 plates, of which 5 contain the portraits of 100 French generals.

Histoire Literaire de la France; par des Men bres de l'Academie Royale des Inscriptions. Vol. XIV. 4to. pp. 680.-This volume, which concludes the History of the 12th century, is composed by Ginguené, Pastoret, Brieil, and Daunou.

L'Hermite de la Guiane; par l'auteur du Franc-Parleur. Vol. I. fourth edition, 12mo. pp. 372; with plates.

Lalande, Astronomie des Dames; fourth edition, 18mo. pp. 232.

Histoire et Memoires de la Societé de Medicine Pratique de Montpellier redigés par J. B. T. Baumes. Svo. pp. 208.

Precis des Evenemens Militaires, ou Essais Historiques sur les Campagnes de 1799 à 1814; par le Comte M. Dumas; vols I. and II. Svo. with an Atlas, folio oblong, containing 4 maps and 3 plans. pp. 1056. Dictionaire des Sciences Naturelles. Vol. V. Svo. (Boa-Byt) pp. 640.

Histoire de Politique des Puissances de l'Europe depuis le Commencement de la Revolution Française jusqu'au Congres de Vienne; par M. Le Comte de Paoli-Chagny. 4 vols 8vo. pp. 1552.

Nouveau Dictionaire de l'Histoire Naturelle, appliqué aux Arts, a l'Agriculture, a l'Economie Rurale, &c.; par un Societé des Naturalistes et des Agriculteurs. Vols VII. VIII. and IX. (Cho-Dzw) 8vo. pp. 1930.

Histoire de la Legislation; par le Comte de Pastoret. 4 vols 8vo. pp. 2336.

Traité du Choix des Livres; par Gabriel Peignot. Svo. pp. 320.

Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertibres. Tome IV. par M. Le Chevalier de Lamarck. pp. 608.

Catalogue de la Collection Mineralogique Particuliere du Roi; par M. Le Cointe de Bournon. 8vo. pp. 580, with an Atlas.

Annales Generales d'Administration Publique des Sciences et Arts, Manufactures et Industrie Generale. No 1, 2, 3, 4.

Annales de Chimie et de Physique redigées par M. M. Gay-Lussac et Arago. Janvier 1817.

Journal Universel des Sciences Medicales. Aout et Septembre 1816.

Voyage Historique et Pittoresque fait dans les ci-devant Pays-Bas,et dans quelques Departmens voisins, pendant les Années; par M. Paquet-Lyphorien. 2 vols 8vo.

Histoire Particuliere des Provinces Belgiques sous le Gouvernement des Ducs et des Comtes; par M. Davez. 3 vols 8vo.

MONTHLY REGISTER.

Europe.

FRANCE.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

tion of the opinion of the Duke of Welling ton, are the sole causes of the relief thus afforded to France.

In the Chamber of Deputies the minis

the important question of what we would call the Navy Estimates. The minister of that department had calculated upon a grant of 50,000,000 of francs. He had already appropriated upwards of 48,000,000; but the commission appointed to report upon the loan recommended 44,000,000, and this sum was carried by the numbers above cited.-The Chamber has at length finally agreed to the budget by a majority of 47. The total expenditure of that country is fixed at about £45,000,000 sterling.

In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 8th_ters were left in a minority of 89 to 108, on January, the Election Law, consisting of twenty Articles, was passed by a majority of 132 against 100. The main question for discussion was, Shall the Deputies be chosen by the electors directly, or shall the great body of electors name a certain number from among themselves, by whom the Deputies shall be chosen? By this law the Deputies are to be chosen directly by the electors in one single assembly, as in England. All Frenchmen who have attained the age of thirty, and pay 300 francs of taxes per annum, are to be allowed to vote.

A royal ordinance, dated the 8th of Janary, contains the following article: "Every vessel, whether French or foreign, which shall attempt to introduce into any of our colonies blacks for sale, shall be confiscated; and if French, the captain shall be held incapable of holding a command."

The Houses of Lafitte of Paris, Barings of London, Parish of Hamburgh, and Hopes of Amsterdam, have taken upon themselves the advance of the loan wanted by France, which is 12,000,000 British, or 300,000,000 of francs. Report adds, that one half will be required in money, and the other half in provisions and clothing. The Gazette de France states, that this loan was finally signed on the 13th February.

On the 9th of January, M. de Serre brought up the report of the Committee on the law relative to personal liberty. It is a modification of that of last year, and enables the crown to confine, under specific forms, persons suspected of conspiring or attempting the overthrow of the established constitution. After a debate of several days this law was carried in the Chamber of Deputies by 136 to 92.

In the Chamber of Deputies the debate on the law respecting the public journals is terminated. It was voted by a majority of 128 against 89. All the journals of France are thus rendered dependent upon the king's authority, by which any of them may be immediately suppressed.

By the first April 30,000 of the allied troops, being one fifth of the whole, will quit the French territory. The official note of the four plenipotentiaries of Austria, England, Prussia, and Russia, declares, That the high personal character of the king, and the principles and conduct of his present ministry, together with the sanc

Jan. 15.-The king has created a large number of knights of St Michael, for the purpose of distinguishing men who have rendered themselves celebrated in literature, science, and the arts, or by useful discoveries. This does great honour to the king. It is the only order of knighthood we believe in Europe, that pays such a tribute of honour and respect to those who may well be called the benefactors of mankind.

Application it is said has been made by the French government to our ministers, for issuing the usual orders to our settlements, for giving facility to an expedition under Mons. Freycinet, consisting of the Uranie frigate and a corvette, about to sail from France to finish their survey of New Holland.

The price of provisions at Boulogne is thus given, in a letter from an officer to his friend at Christchurch, dated the 5th March. A leg of mutton from 74d. to 8d. per lib. ; beef and pork, 7d.; inferior sorts, 5d.; poultry very dear; wild fowl cheap; a good widgeon or wild duck, from 6d. to 9d.; a pair of very good soles, 10d. which is considered dear; a turbot, from 8 lb. to 10 lb. for 2s. 6d. or 38; 26 eggs for 10d.; vegetables very cheap: all articles of living are one-third dearer than in June 1816.

In the Chamber of Deputies, March 5th, 4,000,000 francs were appropriated from the revenue arising from the sale of the national forests for the support of the church.

On the law respecting the customs ministers had a majority of 134. This act is intended to exclude, by heavy duties, the import of cottons, sugar, and iron.

The Moniteur of the 22d March contains the new law relating to bills of exchange, as passed by the two Chambers, and sanctioned by the royal assent. It enacts, That the holder of a bill of exchange, drawn on the continent or islands of Europe, and paya ble in the European territories of France,

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Intelligence has been received at Amster. dam, that the Dutch commissioners receiv. ed the island of Java from the English on the 19th of August.

On the 19th of February, at Brussels, the Princess of Orange was delivered of a son, who is to take the title of Duke of Brabant.

The States General have finally rejected a proposition for prohibiting the exportation of grain.

The Dutch papers communicate a measure calculated to injure, if not to ruin, the trade at Antwerp. A toll is ordered to be collected upon all vessels entering or leaving the Scheldt, in addition to the custom-house duties. Its weight is represented as incompatible, not only with any prosperous commerce, but with any other intention than that of destroying it, for the toll is seven times greater than the freight of goods brought from a short distance-England for instance. The king has been petitioned for its removal, and the latest reports give reason to believe that the application has been successful.

The episcopal Prince de Broglie at Ghent, still occupies the public attention, by refusing to acknowledge the temporal supremacy of the crown. Shortly after BONAPARTE assumed the imperial diadem, this prelate ventured to act upon the same principle; but the Emperor, as jealous as himself of his authority, conveyed orders to M. d'HouDELOT, the prefect, and to M. d'ERLABURATH, the general of division, to put the bishop under military arrest, and to compose a regiment of the numerous seminarists who embraced the orthodox tenets of their unbending pastor. This ridiculous scene really took place. The youths" un peu "gauches,” in tindir black robes, were marched to the place publique; and, in the presence of an immense multitude, were marched and counter-narched, and taught all the evolutions of military discipline by corpora's and serjeants of the notional guard. In the aight they were quartered in barracks, and VOL. I.

were not permitted to return to their holy duties before a month or six weeks. This measure was arbitrary; but during the whole reign of Napoleon, the name of the Prince de Broglie never once reached the public

ear.

SPAIN.

The strict prohibition of journals published in England or the Netherlands, which had for some time been suspended, is renewed with great severity, probably on account of the popular discontent manifested at some late acts of the government. The frequent arrests for political offences is said to be regarded with particular disgust.

Letters from Spain of the 4th Feb. state, that in consequence of a new impost levied on charcoal at Valencia, which bore very hard on the poor in the winter season, the people murmured, and at last deputed com missioners to wait on the governor (Elio) with their complaints. Instead of listening to them, Elio put the commissioners in prison: the people rushed to arms and liberated them; and the governor, in his turn, was obliged to fly to the citadel. The insurgents kept possession of the city all the 17th January; but on the 18th, sup plies of troops arriving, they were overpowered, and the governor liberated. He attempted to put to death some of the riot. ers without trial, but the judges of the High Court of Justice declared, they could allow no citizens to be executed without a trial. The governor threatened to imprison the judges. The citizens were emboldened by this vigorous conduct of the judges, and affairs wore so serious an aspect, that Elio posted off to Madrid to lay the matter before the king.

The report of some commotions having arisen in Valencia, agrees very well with what we know of the present state of popu lar feeling in Spain, viewed in connexion with such instances as the following, of the cruelty of their semi-barbarous government.

"Pamplona, Feb. 10th. On the 2d, 3d, and 4th of this month, and in the prison of this city, the torture was inflicted on Captain Olivan, who for this purpose was brought down from the citadel, where he had been confined during eight months, merely because he was suspected of disaffection to government. Amidst the most excruciating pangs, no other than energetic declarations of his own innocence were heard, as well as of that of more than thirty other officers confined with him under similar circumstances."

The English government lately solicited, that a field in the neighbourhood of Tarragona, in which 300 English soldiers and some officers fell gloriously defending that fortress, should not be cultivated, or otherwise disturbed, offering to purchase it; but the city of Tarragona, emulating the feeling of our government, nobly made a present of the ground.

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Previous to the 18th Feb. a great number of persons had been executed at Madrid, under charges of treason against the person and authority of the sovereign. Nothing yet has transpired concerning the fate of the unfortunate Arguelles and his companions, who have been transported to a desert island of the Mediterranean. To those who know the true character of the present Spanish government, it will be no matter of surprise if this notice conclude their history.

An edict for the prohibition of certain books, divided into two principal classes, was published at Madrid on the 2d of March. In the first are comprehended those which are prohibited, even to the persons to whom the inquisition may have granted licenses or particular permissions; the other comprises works which are only prohibited to such persons as have not obtained those licenses. The works of the first class are eight in number, and are prohibited as defamatory of the supreme authority of the pope and clergy.-The second prohibition falls upon forty-seven works, which are described as full of a corrupt and revolutionary spirit. In this last class, M. De Constant's Principles of Policy-La Croix's Elements of the Rights of the People-Blanchard's Felix and Paulina-and Adelaide and Theodore, or Letters on Education, are included.

ITALY.

On the 15th of December, a catholic priest proceeded on foot to the Cathedral of Adria, in Lombardy, and returned thanks for having attained his 110th year, without infirmities or sickness! He was accompanied by an immense concourse of people, and chaunted the cathedral service in a firm, manly, and dignified voice.

The German papers have brought us a document of greater importance than usual, in the shape of a new constitution for Sicily. That interesting portion of Europe has lost nothing by the restoration of the legitimate sovereign to the throne of his ancestors. The king of Naples, unlike his namesake and cousin the sovereign of Spain, has signalized his restoration by confirming and extending the blessings of a free constitution.

The emigration of our countrymen to Italy is so extensive, that 400 English families now reside at Naples alone.

Between 500 and 600 English are now resident at Rome, including branches from the noble families of Devonshire, Jersey, Westmoreland, Lansdown, Beresford, King, Cowper, Compton, Dunstanville, Denbigh, Carnarvon, and Breadalbane.-The duchess of Devonshire gives parties every week, and is a great patroness of the fine arts.

Canova. The pope had attached to the title of Marquis of Ischia, which he conferred on the sculptor Canova, an annual pension of 3000 crowns. This celebrated artist has disposed of this revenue in the following

manner: First, a fixed donation to the Roman academy of archeology of 600 crowns. Second, 1070 crowns to found annual prizes, and a triennial prize for sculpture painting and architecture, which the young artists of Rome and the Roman states only are competent to obtain. Third, 100 crowns to the academy of St Lue. Fourth, 120 crowns to the academy of the Lynx; and fifth, 1010 crowns to relieve poor, old, and infirm artists residing in Rome.

Foreign papers, dated in March, reckon above 800 English families to be resident in the three cities of Florence, Leghorn, and Pisa. The number of young English who are receiving their education in various schools in Italy may be estimated at 1500.

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By the latest accounts, the present government of this country appears to stand on very slippery ground; and something more than even all the characteristic prudence and worldly wisdom of Bernadotte will be required to support him on the Scandinavian throne.-Stockholm, March 18: alarming reports of a political nature have arisen. One Lindhorne, a publican, denounced, on the 13th, certain seditious language which he had overheard. The affair, of which the object was no less than a total subversion of the present order of government, has immediately given rise to the strictest investigation, and has appeared sufficiently important to induce all the high colleges (or public boards), and deputations of the armed force,-the nobility, the citizens of Stockholm, and the peasants,-to wait on the Crown Prince, and assure hins of their fidelity and attachment.

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RUSSIA.

By an ukase of the Emperor Alexander, the male population of Poland has, with few exceptions, been made liable to the military conscription, from twenty to thirty years of age. A rescript to the governor of Cherson, in favour of the Duchobooze, a sect of dissenters from the Greek Church, is highly honourable to the humane feelings and enlightened views of this monarch.

TURKEY.

Letters from Constantinople of the 1st February state, that the British minister is still in negotiation relative to the affairs of the Ionian Islands, of which the divan pertinaciously refuses to acknowledge the independence. Yet it was not unknown at Constantinople, that General Maitland had arrived at Corfu, and had convoked the Grand Senate to pronounce definitively on the administration or organization of the state-If we may credit letters from Vienna, inserted in the Paris papers, it would seem that the Porte has to contend with a rebellious subject in the person of the Pacha of Bagdad, who having been formally deposed by a firman from Constantinople, refused to resign his power, and acknowledge his successor. It is also stated in the same journals, that the Pacha of Egypt, the most powerful of the Turkish governors in the Mediterranean, is preparing to dispute the sovereignty of that province with the Ottoman Porte.

America.

UNITED STATES.

THE president of the United States transmitted to both Houses of Congress, on the 4th December, a message by Mr Todd, his secretary, of which we can only give the general outline. It begins by noticing the partial failure of the crops, the depression of particular branches of manufactures, and of navigation,-complains of the British government for prohibiting a trade between its colonies and the United States in American vessels,-notices the attack on the American flag by a Spanish ship of war, and the uncertain state of the relations with Algiers,-expresses much satisfaction at the tranquillity that has been restored among the Indian tribes, and between these tribes and the United States, recommends a re-organization of the militia, provision for the uniformity of weights and measures, the establishment of a university within the district which contains the seat of government, an amendment of the criminal law, and suggests, that the regulations which were intended to guard against abuses in the slave trade should be rendered more effectual. The expediency of a remodification of the judiciary establishment, and of an additional department in the exetutive branch of the government, are re

commended to the consideration of Congress. [ On the subject of finance the President expresses much satisfaction. The actual receipts of the revenue during 1816 are said to amount to about 47,000,000 of dollars, and the payments to only 38,000,000; thus leaving a surplus in the treasury, at the close of the year, of about 9,000,000 of dollars. The aggregate of the funded debt, on the 1st January 1817, is estimated not to exceed 110,000,000 of dollars, the ordinary annual expenses of government are taken at less than 20,000,000, and the permanent revenue at 25,000,000. The state of the currency and the establishment of the national bank are then noticed; and Mr Madison concludes this moderate and well-written document, by referring to the near approach of the period at which he is to retire from public service, and with animated expressions of satisfaction at the tranquillity and prosperity of the country.

It is pleasing to observe the facility with which useful institutions are adopted, under the harmony at present subsisting among mankind. The Provident or Saving Banks, which have been established so beneficially in Britain, are likely to be soon very generally resorted to in the United States. The plan was in progress at Boston before the close of 1816, and was countenanced by a large body of the state legislature.

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From the report of the late secretary to the treasury, it appears that the gross revenue for the year 1816 amounted to 59,403,978, and the expenditure to 38,745,799 dollars, leaving an excess of receipts, amounting to 20,658,179, exclusive of the sum in the treasury on the first of January 1816.

A bill has been brought into Congress, to prevent citizens of the United States from selling vessels of war to the subjects of any foreign power, and more effectually to prevent the arming and equipping of vessels of war intended to be used against nations in amity with the United States. This bill is supposed to be chiefly directed against the insurgents of Spanish America, and to have been brought forward through the representations of the Spanish minister.

It has been officially announced, that Mr Monro has been elected president, and Mr Tomkins vice-president, for the constitutional term of four years from the 4th of last month.

An act of Congress has passed, by which all British vessels entering the ports of the United States, from our colonial possessions, are to be subjected to an additional duty of two dollars per ton. This proceeding is resorted to, in consequence of the exclusion of the American shipping from our West India islands.

It has been proposed, in the House of Representatives, to reduce the peace establishment to 5000 men, and also to repeal all the internal taxes.

The exports from the United States, for the year ending 30th September 1816,

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