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775] Rev. W. Bingley's Account of the various Productions of Nature.

while perusing the course of his. history, and to institute that cautionary check which the detection of a certain some

thing by which his pen is influenced, naturally commands, is more than a modest reviewer is at all times prepared 19 discuss. "If I may not be allowed to state the share which I had in that most important transaction, I shall continue silent; and I presume that the loss of the information in my power, will be heavily felt by the world at large, who are now concerned in this affair; and by posterity, which, of all things, would be delighted with my evidence, my opinion, and my sanction."

When a man is pleased with himself he is a much happier being than the dull dolt who captiously wonders what he can find to be pleased at; when he publishes his self-satisfaction, he increases his happiness in proportion to every copy sold-say a thousand times; -In the name of Christian charity, how then can a reader endure the thought of mortifying his canity! by exclamation? Is it doing as he would be done by? To this disposition of M. de Pradt, we are indebted for the pamphlet before us; in which there is some truth, and much self-sufficiency. The best part of it is the writer's account of what passed in the Council of the Kings, at Paris, and the share taken by Talleyrand and

Fouche in the restoration of the Bour

bons. As to the steps previously taken by this writer, in conjunction with a select few, we happen to know, that they were later by many months than some others; and that Napoleon was perfectly correct in scolding his legislative body for their disloyalty! His crossing the Niemen castward was the signal for active, but concealed, operations in the west.

M. de P. tells us that the foreign Sovereigns thought it impossible to displace Buonaparte; and therefore intended to make peace with him, taking proper securities that they appeared to be of this opinion we allow the reality of it, we doubt.

The council was not satisfied with the assurances of Talleyrand, it seems, till I, with Baron Louis, was introduced; and our opinions, effected the restoration of the Royal family.

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When my turn to speak arrived, I burst out by a declaration that we were all Royalists: that all France was the same as we were: that if France had not manifested this disposition, the prolonged negotiations at Chatillon, must bear the blame: that they had by their tediousness slackened every thing: that the same was the feeling of Paris, generally; that the city would pronounce this opinion, so soon as called on to do so, and that it might be done safely; and according to the influence that Paris had exercised over France, during the Revolution, the example would decide the nation, and be every where fallowed.

This was true enough: proper measures were taken to encourage the Bourbonite disposition in Paris; and Napo leon was huiled from his throne,—but not with sufficient violence to break his neck; which would have saved the lives of tens, and perhaps of hundreds, of thousands.

M. de Pradt seems to have been useful among his brethren of the Clergy; and he certainly did an essential service to those who were confined for refusing to pray for Napoleon. We give him full credit for these benevolences; and are happy to close the article with a commendation, in our esteem, of no light import.

There is an English translation of this work published, which may claim its place among materials for history of these eventful times.

Useful Knowledge; or, a Familiar and
Explanatory Account of the various
Productions of Nature, Mineral, Vege
table, and Animal, which are chiefly
employed for the use of Man. By
the Rev. W. Bingley, A.M. F.L.S.
3 vols. 12mo. price 11. 1s. Baldwin
1816.
and Co. London.

Compendiums of a kind like the present, are acceptable services to General Knowledge. They assist the conceptions of youth; and they refresh the memory of those who have been instructed. The quantity of matter comprised in these volumes renders them cheap; and by a judicious mode of reference, they contain more than they seem to do. Correctness should be their merit; and for this, we mast rely on the well-known ability of

stone; that they all resemble each other, and all are composed of the same ingre dients.

their author, who is no novice in this branch of literature. Beside this, Selection is another branch of merit; for, all The greater part of the stones which have substances and productions used by man, fallen from the air have been preceded by in all stages of his existence, could hard-the appearance of luminous bodies, or mely be introduced in three small volumes. teors. These meteors have burst with an We cannot expect in such abridg-explosion, and then the shower of stones has ments, where no superfluous words may fallen to the earth. Sometimes the stones be admitted, that fullness of definition or have continued luminous until they sunk indescription, which the mature Philoso- to the earth, but most commonly their lumipher has a right to demand; it is suffi-nousness disappeared at the time of the excient, if it answer general purposes. We commend these volumes, therefore, as answering their title; of elaborate and extensive researches they do not boast. The Contents of the first volume, are Minerals: Stones, Earthy, Soft, and Saline; then Salts, Combustibles, Metallic Substances, Rocks, and Water in General. The second volume contains Vegetables, divided into the twenty-four classes of Linnæus. The third contains Animals; Birds, Amphibia, Fishes, Insects, and Worms.

It is scarcely possible to fix on one subject in preference to another in these multifarious Volumes: but, as an article which is neither mineral nor terrestrial, perhaps not even belonging to our globe, though found upon it, we insert our author's account of Meteoric Stones.

Meteoric Stones, are a species of iron ore, which have, at different times, been known to fall from the atmosphere.

plosion. Their motion through the air is surprisingly rapid, in a direction nearly horizontal, but they seem to approach the earth before they explode. In their flight they have frequently been heard to yield a loud whizzing sound. They are hot when they first reach the earth; and exhibit, on their surface, visible marks of fusion.

Amongst numerous other instances of these stones, it is recorded that, on the 7th of November, 1492, betwixt eleven and twelve o'clock at noon, a dreadful clap of thunder was heard at Ensisheim, a considerable town in Alsace, and a huge stone was seen to fall on a field lately sown with wheat. On several of the neighbours going to the place, the hole was found about three feet in depth, and the stone, when dug out, weighed two hundred and sixty pounds. It was preserved in the cathedral of Ensisheim until the beginning of the French Revolution, wheu it was conveyed to the public library at Colmar. There are in the British Museum (saloon, case 32) two small pieces of this stone, and fragments of several other meteoric stones which have fallen in different parts of the world.

Two stones fell near Verona in Italy, in the year 1672, one of which weighed three hundred, and the other two hundred, pounds.

They have been seen only in shapeless masses, of from a few ounces to several hundred pounds in weight. Their texture is granular. They are covered externally with The origin of these stones is involved in a thin blackish crust, and are internally of great obscurity. Some writers have conan ashy grey colour, mixed with shiping mi-ceived that they might be projected from nute particles.

distant volcanoes; others, that they may There is sufficient evidence to shew that have been detached from rocks, and had solid masses of stone have been observed to their substance considerably changed by a fall from the air at a period considerably concurrence of natural causes; others, that anterior to the Christian era. Notwith- they may have been generated in the air by standing this, so very extraordinary was the a combination of mineral substances; and phenomenon, that, until the year 1802, it others, that they may have been projected was generally regarded by philosophers as a from the moon. The latter was the opinion vulgar error. Mr. Howard in this year sub- of La Place the astronomer, who says that a mitted to the Royal Society a paper which mass, if thrown by a volcano from the moon, contained an accurate examination of the with a certain velocity of about a mile and testimonies connected with events of this half per second (which he conceives possikind, and in this paper described a minute ble to be done) it will thence be projected analysis of several of the substances which beyond the sphere of the moon's attraction, had been said to have fallen in different and into the confines of that of the earth. 'parts of the globe. The result of his exa-The consequence of which will be, that the mination was, that all these stony bodies `differ completely from every other known

mass must presently fall to the earth, and become a part of it. Vol. I. pp. 169, &c.

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