dix, corroborates many of Mr. Frafer's opinions; and this publication deferves, not only the ferious attention of the eminent perfon to whom it is addreffed (which no doubt it will receive), but the confideration of every legiflator who is anxious for the improvement and welfare of his country.

ART. 45. Life of Buonaparte, in which the atrocious Deeds which be has perpetrated, in Order to attain his elevated Station, are faithfully recorded; by which Means every Briton will be enabled to judge of the Difpofition of his threatening For, and have a faint Idea of the Defolation which awaits this Country, Jhould his Menaces ever be realized. By Lieut. Sarratt, of the Royal York Mary-le-Bone Volunteers. 12mo. 3s. 6d. Crosby. 1803.

A very proper book to be circulated at this period; and we shall be glad to promote fuch circulation, by our affurance, that the actions of Bonaparte, his ravages, cruelties, and the defolation which has invariably attended his progrefs, are not at all mifreprefented nor exaggerated. He does real fervice to his country who endeavours, by every means in his power, to imprefs this folemn truth on the minds of his fellow citizens; that the fuccefs of our enemy would be attended with the entire deftruction of our religion, our laws, our property, as well. as with the violation of every object which we either love or venerate. ART. 46. Thoughts on the Education of those who imitate the Great, as affecting the Female Character. 12mo. 2s. 6d. Hatchard. 1803.

Thefe Thoughts were written almost twenty years ago, after Mrs. More's Reflections on the Manners of the Great, and before that lady's Strictures on Female Education. This is expreffed in the Preface, to obviate any imputation of plagiarifin, which from the near coincidence of opinion might hastily be formifed. We have perused them with entire fatisfaction, and do particularly recommend this volume to thofe who may be the guardian of female education. It is much and ferioutly to be lamented, that the principles here inculcated are not impreffed with greater zeal and earneftnefs, where the abfence of them is attended with fo much injury to morals and to fociety.

ART. 47. French Philofophy: or, a fhort Account of the Principles and Conduct of the French Infidels. By Thomas Thompjon, Efq. F. A. S. The Third Edition. 12mo. 32 pp. Whitfield. 1803.

We are told, in the Preface to this work, that "it was drawn up for the benefit of fuch perfons as have neither leifure to perufe, nor money to procure larger publications on the fame fubject." This benevolent defign has been executed with adequate judgment and ability. The fubitance of the Abbé Barruel's work, fo far as it relates to the confpiracy against Christianity, is extracted, and fome judicious reafonjugs and earnest exhortations are added. We are glad to fee that this fmall but well intended and useful tra has already reached a third edition.

FOREIGN

FOREIGN CATALOGUE.

FRANCE.

ART. 48. Voyage en Piémont, contenant la defcription topographique et pittorefque, la fatiftique et l'hiftoire des fix départemens réunis à la France, orné de fix cartes et de buit eflampes; par J. B. J. Breton, anteur du Voyage dans la Belgique, pour le texte; Louis Brion pour la partie géographique et celle du din. 1 vol. 8vo. Paris.

This part of Italy, which has been the theatre of the most memorable wars, from Annibal to own days, and of which the ancient hiftorians have spoken in detail, appears to have been very little known to modern hiftorians. They feem to have regarded it as a barren country, covered with inacceffible mountains, and inhabited by men without civilization, and without induftry; having, as their only commercial refource, fome cattle and ill-wrought filk. M. Breton fhows, that Piedmont is not obliged to depend on the other departments for any of the neceffaries of life; that the Piedmontefe are active and intelligent; and that they avail themselves of what is offered by nature, of what may be produced by labour. Numerous navigable rivers which traverfe the country, and almost all of which take their courfe towards the Po, furnish them with eafy means of circulation for their commoditics. The author, having given a topographical defcription of the fix departments, proceeds to fpeak of the manners, the character, ufages, and habits of the Piedmontefe; of the influence of the climate, the population, the richness of the foil; of the refources of induftry in Piedmont; and of the amufements of its inhabitants. In treating of their talte for the arts, and of the fine theatre at Turin, he gives a concife account of the hiftory of mufic in Italy, and of the compofition of pieces for the theatre, from the Calandra of Cardinal Bibiena and the Sofonisba of Triffino, down to Metaftafio. He is aware of the decline of the Italian theatre, and of the character of the mufic produced by Pergolefi, Leo, Jomelli, &c. "Cette décadence," remarks M. Breton, influe prodigieufement, et plus qu'on ne fauroit le croire, fur les autres branches de la literature. C'eft au théatre que fe forment les grands écrivains, les orateurs, et fans craindre d'exageration, les grands publiciftes." This opinion, which may be regarded as fomewhat paradoxical, is founded on a saying of the minifter Loupois, who afferted, that the tragedies of Corneille dévoient être jugées par un parterre de miniftres et d'hommes d'état.

We may however fay, upon the whole, that thefe travels prefent accurate obfervations, ufeful hints, and entertaining or infructive particulars. Magaf. Encyclop.

ART

ART. 49. Lettres philofophiques et hiftoriques à milord S***, fur l'état moral et politique de l'Inde, des Indoux, et de quelques autres principaux peuples de l'Afie, au commencement du dix-neuvième siècle, traduites en très grande partie des Afiatic Refearches, des Works of Sir William Jones et d'autres ouvrages Anglois les plus récens et les plus eftimés; par l'auteur de l'Efai biftorique fur l'art de la guerre, depuis fon origine jufqu'a nos jours. 1 vol. 8vo. Paris.

A judicious extract from the Transactions of the Society at Calcutta, of the whole of which a French translation is foon to be published by MM Duquesnoy and Langlès. The Letters are accompanied with notes, explanatory of the paffages cited from the Vedas and the Bourmahs, by M. de d'E***, and with fuch reflections as were fuggefted by these claffical works. Some of them ferve to throw light on the Indian cafinogony and mythology.

Ibid.

ART. 50. Annales de l'Imprimerie des Aldes, cu Hiftoire des trois Manuces et de leurs éations; par Aut. Aug. Renouard.. Paris, 1803. 2 voll. in svo.

Of this important and profound bibliographical work, the second volume, which ought, perhaps, to have been the first, contains the history of the three Manutii; first, that of Aldus Manutius, the elder, who was the founder of the celebrated Aldine prefs; then that of Paulus Manutius, known under the name of the younger Aldus, the lait of the family. These biographical memoirs extend, therefore, from 1466 to 1597. They are accompanied by a number of interefting notices relative to literary history, and by excellent reflections on the typographical

art.

This volume is terminated by a feries of juftificatory pieces very rare and curicus, fech as the different privileges granted to the elder Aldus, by the Senate of Venice and by the Popes; a catalogue of his editions given by himfelf; a catalogue of the excellent editions of Andrea d'Afola, father-in-law of the clder Aldus; another of the works fold at Paris by the bookfellers Bernard, Turrifan, and Colombel, who decorated the works printed by them, with the famous mark or fign of the Aldive prefs; a catalogue of the works printed in imita tion of thofe of Aldus. We are forry to fee here the vexation which was occafioned to this indefatigable man by the Lyonnefe counterfeiters, who copied and often disfigured impreffions which had coft him fo much labour, expence, and care. We read, not without confiderable intereft, the directions given by Aldus himself for the detection of thefe counterfeits.

The first volume prefents the defcription of all the editions published by the Aldi, ranged in chronological order. Mr. Renouard, before he entered on this work, had himle!f procured all the editions which he could meet with ; a small number only was wanting, of which he gives a lifi ; thefe he found either in public libraries, or in thofe of his friends, fo that all these deferiptions were made from an actual infpection of the works themselves. Thefe defcriptions are interfperfed with curious details on the merit of the editions, and with a variety of literary

anecdotes.

anecdotes. If thefe defcriptions are compared with the accoun's of the Aldine editions given by Nauger, Zeno, Manni, Lazzeri, Maittaire, and Tirabofchi, it will eafly be feen how little thofe guides are to be depended on, and how much more fatisfactory and ufetul the work of Mr. Renouard is.

Befides thefe catalogues in chronological order, there is likewife a Notice des éditions Aldines par ordre des matières.

Mr. R. has joined to this work the figures neceffary to it. The portraits of the elder Aldus and of Paulus Manutius are well engraved by that excellent artist Mr. de St. Aubin, after authentic originals, and that of the younger Aldus is engraved in wood by the late Beugnet; laitly, Mr. R. has had faithfully copied by the fame engraver in wood the five different marks, which fo many other printers have thought fit to adopt, though it has, in reality, added nothing to the merit of their editions. Ibid.

ART. 51. Monumens antiques inédits ou nouvellement expliqués: Collectian de Statues, Bas-reliefs, Bufles, Peintures, Mofaïques, Gravures, Vafes, Infcriptions et Inftrumens, tiré des Colle&tions nationales et par ticulières, et accompagnés d'un texte explicatif; par A. L. Millin, Confervateur des Antiques, Médailles et pièrres gravées de la Biblic théque nationale de France, Profeffeur d'hiftoire et d'antiquités, &c. Tome Ier. VIe. livraison. Paris.

The first volume of this valuable and learned work, which this liraifon completes, contains thirty Differtations on fo many ancient monuments, reprefented on eleven plates. It is terminated by an Index of the authors cited, and by another of the matters.

ITALY.

Ibid.

ART. 52. Relazione di un Viaggio ad Oftia, ed alla Villa di Plinio detta Laurentino fatto dall' avvocato Carlo Fea, prefidente alle antichità Romane, e al mujeo Capitolino in Rɔma. 1802.

The prefent Pope Pius VII. has formed the project of augmenting the Mufco- Pio-Clementino, in which he has already placed many beautiful ftatues; he has likewife made many confiderable excava tions; and is going to carry into execution the project, which has been fo long propofed, of fearching at the bottom of the Tiber, for thofe productions of art that had elcaped from the ravages of the barbarians. Among the excavations ordered, thofe which have taken place, for fome years paft, at Oltia, have first attracted his notice; and Mr. C. Fea here gives an account of these labours, and of their refults.

Thefe excavations are made under the direction of Mr. Petrini, a young man who has thown himfelf to be well qualified for fuch refearches.

In regard to the fecond object of his journey, Mr. Fea gives the opinions of all thofe writers who had undertaken to determine the place where the villa of the younger Play was fituated, from John Albert Fabricius to D. Pietro Marquez, a Mexican Ex-jefuit. It was

fuppoled

fuppofed to have been discovered at Caftel Fufano, near a place called Piafra, and at prefent la Palombara; Mr. Fea, however, conceives that he has found it in another fituation.

This learned antiquary has added to this tract a curious Appendix, containing feveral pieces, copied from hiftorical regifters, and from the pontifical archives; in which it has been ordered by the Popes fucceffively, that no ancient monuments fhould be mutilated, deftroyed, or carried away from Rome; as alfo the regulations of the prefent Pope, relative to the continuation of the excavations. Ibid.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Mr. Phillips, editor of Ritfon's book on Animal Food, having written to our publisher a ftrong affurance, that he was at firft the dupe of the forged travels of Damberger, and not the only person who profited by them, we cannot further conteft a point fo afferted. He thinks alfo, which to us feems rather improbable, that Mr. Ritfon knew nothing of the edition by his friend and publisher, but only that of Meffrs. Longman and Co. which he quoted. See the Article on Ritfon's book in our laft, p. 486.

W. X. may be affured, that we take all poffible pains to inform ourfelves of all publications. But he fhould recollect, that there is no very obvious clue to thofe which are printed in the country, and not advertised in London.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Mr.King's third volume of the Munimenta Antiqua, will foon be ready for publication.

A new Perfian Dictionary is about to go to prefs, under the direction, as has been intimated to us, of Mr. Wilkins.

Sir Richard Hoare is printing a fuperb edition of the Itineraria Cambria.

A refpectable French emigrant, we understand to be em ployed on a Hiftory of Malta.

Mr. Repton is preparing two volumes of Mifcellanies for the prefs.

Mrs. Sewell, whofe Poems we lately mentioned in terms of deferved commendation, is about to print a fecond volume, with fome Elfays.

Mr. C. Pye, the whole impreffion of whofe Dictionary of Ancient Geography was confumed by fire, is preparing an enlarged edition of his work.