And eyeless newt inhabited, once stood Thoughts on the Times, but chiefly on the Profligacy of our Women, and its Causes. Addressed to evėry Parent, Husband, and mode Woman in the three Kingdoms. In two Parts; Sewing First, the Danger of public Incontinence; the Absurdity of our Female Education ; the Folly and bad Tendency of a fashionable Life, and the Evils that arise from French Refinement ; and Secondly, how feldom Man-midwives are necessary; that tbeir Practice is dangerous—that it is repugnant to Modesty, tends to destroy the Peace of Families, and endanger Virtue, 12mo. 2s. 6d. Bew. Had our author given himself time to have thought at all, 'this publication would never have made its appearance. FOREIN* FOREIGN LITERATURE. FRANCE. THE arts and sciences are the great links of society. They level all diftin&tion which a mean prejudice has established between men and country. Every learned man is a true cosmopolite, and if aduated by the purest spirit of civism, it is not to despise or depreciate the merit of any discovery ; but to endeavour to make it peculiar to his own country, bị concurring with foreigners in adding to the store of human knowledge. This opinion, which we hope will ineet with no contradi&tion, has engaged us to lay before our learned readers an account of the premiums proposed by foTeign academies, and the subjects to be treated on. French being a rival nation in more than one sense, we shall begin with the royal academy of sciences at Paris, and continue our academical journal from time to time. ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. Premium in natural history proposed by the faid academy: The royal accademy, ever disposed to contribute to the progress of sciences, being enabled to give every two years an extra-premium, had come to a resolution in 1777 that the subject should be natural history ; in consequence the following question was proposed to the investigation of the learned, viz. An esay on the system of the lymphatic veins. None of the memorials that have come to hand having solved the question in a satisfactory manner, the academicians have resolved to have the fame subject further discussed, and propose the following queries : Are there several species of lymphatic veins, as it has been maintained bitherto ? Which is their origin and' which their termination ? Are all the parts of the body provided with those veins or veffels ? What is their manner of afling in the conglobate glands? What is the course of shofe vessels whole trunks may be made S Such Such are the principal heads of which tho academy requires a full clucidation. The members declare previously that they will attend to nothing but facts. Comparative anatomy may be called to the affiftance of the natural one, but the greatest regard must be payed to the latter in ftatu fanitatis and not in ftatu morbido, because in this case the organization of the parts is not always exactly conformable to nature. That the learned may be alloxxed a fufficient time to make the necessary inquiries into to important and difficulta matters the premium will not be adjudged till the Easter-meeting of the academy in the year 1982; but the essays must be fora: warded before the id of January in the said year. As the intention of the inembets is to verify by experiments fuchs obfervations ag-may appear novel, they require that the canso didates will give a clear account of their proceeding the in ftruments they shall have made use of, and the matters they shall employ in performing the injections: they also defire that their eflays may be accompanied with drawings, or at least sketches, when it may appear neceffary for a clear explanation, The premium will be of the value of 1500 livres. The leamed of every country, even the foreign affociates, are invited to concur in this matter, ar none will be excluded but the focii regnicola. The effays muf: be written in French or Latin, and the authors are requested to do it in a legible hand. They need not put their names but only a motto. They may, if they chule inclole with the effay a paper, sealed up, with the said motto inscribed therein, together with their names, country, and places of abode. This will not bei opened, unless the memorial or eGay that bears it should de serve the premium. They are to direct, poft paid, or caurer their efsays to be delivered to the secretary of the academy, twho, in the latter-cafe, will give a proper receipt, which, when produced, will entitle the beaser, or his agent, duly, and. legally authorised, to receive the proposed premium, in cafe fuch effay should become intiiled to it, at the above appointed meeting of Easteig, 1782 Eurres de N. P. Colar dear de 7.4adi mie Françoife.-The Works of N. P. Colardeau, Fellow of the French Acade-any. 2 vols. in 8vo. Paris apud Le Jay Mr. Celardeau, whether we consider him as a man of the world, or an author, is intitled to general esteem and approbation, as he did no less an honour to humanity by his moral character, than to the learned fociety of which he was a member by his learning and writings, which place him nearly upon a level with the, most celebrated of his cotemporaries. His loss must be severely felt by the académy, who, miftaking the froth of genius for real literary' merit, have chosen to succeed him, a Mr. De la Harpe, as great a pedant as ever disgraced literature, and as complete an Ariftarchus as at any period infested the republic of letters. Virgil, defcribing the tree which carrried the golden bough, says: ;*Una a vulfo non deficit atter “Aureus." This does not seem to be the case with the French academy, where the authority of the Tovereign, the cabal and interest of the great, have often more influence' than genuine, but unsupported merit. The collection now before us, published by a near relation of the deceased, contains nothing new but a comedy, in five acts, which only serves to prove that a man may be an excellent poet, have a thorough knowledge of the world, and be but an indifferent dramatic writersThis play, which, according to the predominant taste of the French ftage, tho' reprobated by reason and nature, is wrote in verse; abounds with several lucky strokes, and thew's the easy pleasing poet throughout; but the fable is improbable, the incidents uninteresting, and the situations by no means descriptive of that vis comica which alone is the stamp that sets a proper value on those kind of productions. The second volume confifts of miscellaneous pieces of poetry, never published before, out of which we beg leave to lay before our readers the two following, as a specimen of Mr. Colardeau's poetry, much admired amongst his countrymen for his peculiar ease and elegance, The firft was intended as an inscription to a statue of Voluptuousnels, represented in the seducing attitude of a woman supinely reclined and to all appearance faft asleep. Comme un écliar, nait& meure le plaisir, Confidérez S 2 Confidérez cette jeune beauté, Amour le sçait, je l'ai, mis du fecret." "Je l'ai dit à l'écho, l'écho l'a répété ; |
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