ART. I. Discours sur le Progrès des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, depuis 1789 jusqu'à ce jour (1808); ou, Compte IV. A View of Spain; comprising a descriptive Itinerary of each Province, and a general Statistical Account V. The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, with some of the Letters of her Correspondents. Part the First; containg her Letters from an early Age to the Age of Twenty-three. Published by her Nephew and Executor Mathew Montagu, q. M. P. Application de la Theorie de la Legislation Penale, ou Code de la Sureté Publique et Particuliere, fondé sur les Regles de la Morale Universelle, sur le Droit des Gens ou Primitif des Societés, et sur leur Droit Particulier, dans l'etat actuel de la Civilization, &c. Par Scipion Bexon, ancien Avocat, &c. &c. &c. The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan. Translated VIII. An Introduction to Physiological and Systematical Botany. By J. E. Smith, M. D. F. R. S. &c. &c. 118 XIII. Histoire des deux derniers Rois de la Maison de Stuart. Par Ch. J. Fox. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglais; auquel on a joint une Notice sur la Vie de l'Auteur 190 THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, OCTOBER 18C9. N°. XXIX. ART. I. Discours sur les Progrès des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, depuis 1789 jusqu'à ce jour (1808); ou, Compte rendu par l'Institut de France à S. M. l'Empereur et Roi. En Hollande. 1809. A FTER the intercourse of England with the nations of the Continent has been so long and so unhappily interrupted, it cannot but be acceptable to our readers, to receive, from the most enlightened of those nations, an account of the scientific and literary improvements that have taken place in Europe during the last nineteen years. This account is of high authority, consisting of reports made to the Emperor of the French by Committees of the National Institute, about the beginning of the year 1808. These reports, made by command of the Emperor, are mere abstracts or skeletons of more extensive memoirs, which we may expect hereafter to be published. Even the abstracts, however, are interesting; not only on account of the information they contain, but as belonging to a ceremonial, which, if not quite singular, is certainly very uncommon in the courts of princes. They are accompanied with very useful notes by the editor J. L. Kesteloot, a Dutch physician of the University of Leyden. We are told, that on the 6th of February, his Majesty being in his Council, a deputation from the mathematical and physical classes of the National Institute was introduced by the Minister of the Interior, and admitted to the bar of the Council. M. Bougainville, the oldest member, and therefore the president of the Class, then addressed the Emperor in a short speech; which we shall give in his own words. SIRE, Votre Majesté Imperiale et Royale a ordonné que les classes de l'Institut viendraient dans son conseil lui rendre Compte de l'Etat des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts, et de leur progres depuis 1789. La classe des Sciences Physiques et Mathématiques s'acquitte VOL. XV. No. 29. A aujourd'hui |