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XII. Defcription of a Three-hlaft Fufing Furnace, conftrud-
ed in the Chemical Laboratory tif the French School of Mines.
By P. Toretli Nirg, attached to the Cou-cil of Mines.
XIII. On a metal* Solution, which forms a Yellow Ink,
that appears and difappears like that of Hellot. Read before the
French National Inftitute, by C. Gillet Latimont, Affociate.
111 r. A Mott Niew of the Craeingnomic Syftem of 1:r Gall,
of Vienna. By L. Bojanue, M. I) Member of the Medical So'
clinks of Jens and Paris, and of the Society of the Olifervers
of Man.
XV. Proceedings of Learned Societies.
XVI. Intelligence and Mikellaneous Ankles.

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I PECIEMBFri
piton vita montvettat.l
As the Addreft to the King on the opening of the &Ol
was voted Without any amendrhent or diva on, and in appear:.
asters w th unanimity', it might be imagined that tber: prevail.
bu one opinion in Parliament. A volarne might howetet
be made Op out of thecontradidtori fpeeches tostbirh that Ad.
drefs has given rife. When men are coilecned together in order
fpeak, they cannot well refrain from (peaking, and as very
frequently they would have nothing to fay, if they were Dot
animated by the fpitit of party, it may naturally be eireled
that a party fpirit will break out wherever a number of men ore
affanbkd together to deliberate. All the (perches t' at have
hitherto been delivered have therefore tended only to difelofe
the parties into ivhich Parliament is divided. There parties
may be diltinguiffied into three, the party of the prefent Ada
minifttatlon, Mr. Pitt's party, and the party of the old Oppoil-
don, who feeni difpofed to rapport the Minifters who made
peace,- with the view either of preventing or retarding the re-
turn of Mr. Pitt and his adherents into office, or of forcing in
along with them fume of the more dininguiffied members of
the Oppolitiefla The latter view appears the.rttOre probable.
Theft: three parties agree together on one point, but under a
variety of mu 'ffications, viz. that a great ft tte cannot he In.-
differait to what paffes in other Rates, flat is, that England is
inclined again to interfere in the affairs of the Continent, al-
though fhe laid it down as a principle, on concluding the peace,
that all Continental alliances were btirthenfome. When, not-
withftanding the colidion of fentiment which took place be-
tween the different fpeakers, not one of them has explained
why England pretended to ieulate herfelf from the Continent
on making the peace, or why the would now again endeavour
to re-eftablint her influence on the Continent; their filence upon
this point we than attempt to make up for.
During the late war the Drab Cahi :et were loud in their
complaints of having bt'en abandoned by all their allies. No
complaint more groundlefs. fr was England that facrifieed all
the powers who at her inflization had taken up arms. Let us
take Auftria as an 'trample of heir et!duCt. Wan the Cabi-
net of Vienna made peace, it was indu!ritahly from necefftty
As England had made Come conquell., if th..: had attempted to
interfere in that treaty, fhe muft nec &ray have placed
Come compenfatioris in the balance, a thing which fhe was
anxious to avoid. Auftria was left to her fate, under the dif-
advantages of a Power laid proftrate by defeats. France, how- -
ever, took no undue advantage of her vietories; but it to not to
the Britifh Cabinet that Auftria f indebted for the rrangc.
ments which promoted and direded the Peace. It is therefore
inconteftibly proved, that Auftria was abandoned by England,
who d dared at the time that the fhould no longer concern
herfelf with. the affairs of the Continent. The Minh Cabinet
made afterwards a feparate Peace for England, with all the
advantage! of a Power that has made conquefts, and that treats
for itfeif alone. That is, that England reftored much leis than •
the would have reftored, had fhe treated at the fame time for
herfelf and her Allies.

But now, when there are no more compenfations to be
made, En land shifts her principle, and tells us that the can
no longer retna'n indifferent to what pates in Europe. In
order to come therefore to fo:ne explanation of this change-
ful policy, one muft be brought to believe that the Englilb Mi-
nitter,gnided folely by hi own intact:, infulatcs his country in
order to p-eferve the profits of the war, but forms alliances
that be may not have to fupport the expences of it. In this
confift.s the fecret of the derangement which the fpace of a few
months has introdoced in the opinions of Parliament. And
there, however, are the men who attempt to complain that
they are left without Allies! Becauft they give nt ney, they
imagine themfelves to be abfolved from every. obligation. To
expole to hazard their dominions in order to is:creak the Com-
merce of England, opens fuch golden views, that the Banker*
of London cannot conceive how the governm-nts of other
countries can retrain from war. They have at length nurfed
themfelves into a belief that at their le fute they may fay to
Kings, " fight for us: % e will make peace without ) on, while
we accufe you of not having gained vidtories at the iLpulated
price."

After having declined taking app part in the Treaty of Lune,
vile, it is fomcwhat whimfiral that England thould enter into
difcutfion upon that Treaty, in which the is not fo mu h
as
named. Whether additions he made to, or retrenchment;
from it, what right has England to complain Who has told
her that every thing that happened fince the concluti n of that
treaty was not previoufly agreed upon by the contra ding par-
ties? Who can allure her that many more things may not RBI
take place with refped to which the parries interc fled will not
trouble thernfrives, even in thinking what the Parliament of Eng-
land may fay about them ? If England was anxious to retain
a pretext for intermeddling in the affairs of the Continental
Powers, the thould not have negotiated merely on a maritime
and infular power.
England reproaches France with inordinate *ambition ; but
the ambition of a nation is not to be judged of by her vidories,
&Tante her vidories prove nothing but her courage. We lhail
not, therefore,enter into an idle difcultiun of fuch an accufation,
but limply appeal to the evidence of fads. At the coniniehce-
ment of the war, England had a great number of A1i:.,,; at
the conclufion of peace the had nut a tingle one. France, on
the contrary, had to nand alone againtt all Europe, while every
Peace the concluded procured her alliances. May it not then
he atked, of which nation the ambition is molt fatal to other
Govetuments, whether that which had allies and loft the m,
without fisfpending the courfe of her conquc its or th t who
had no allies at the beginning of the war, and who, at the con-
du on of the peace, had allies all over Europe ?
A Member of Parliament alerted that France had allies
merely ()manic the favoured their projeds : it is impullible to
reafon more happily; for it is evident that every alliance be-
tween the greater states retta upon the recipro al advantages
which .they can guarantee to each other : but it were vain to
iris:pare what advantages could be procured and guaranteed to •
other nations by a people who avow that they tight only to pro- -
mote their Commerce. England stands out of the Continiait-
theie her remain. Such is at prefent, and long will continue
to betheirft Principle of European policy.
We have proved that the Englith court alliances only for
the purpofes of enabling them to w ge war, and that they in-
fulatr themfelves with the view of making peace, awhile France
fupports war by herown strength, Nal fe, ks allies only to con
folldate peace. This difference pf cunouct fo honourable to
the Preach nalan, ought to regulate t"e pulley of all the Ca.
bluets of Europe. We ought not. therefore, to he attonithed
at hearing England complain of not being able to find allies; it
is the contrary which ought to et ate opr. attonithaient- At
this 12101nent it is important to etarttlhe what eircuniftances
give Alto the agitation which Mitt:False, the Foglith Go-
vernment. contralted with that fteadinefs and fccurity which.
usarits the condinik of the. Dover meet of I 'rance.On this point
wa tappet do, better than qu•-te a p.,tfage frorn"Lreerr , a far
144" a yeorkwthten within thelait fie months. es To deferiba
ie& wore blast itiatiai dm it:44 alit s.nout,