The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-05-16


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At Fontainbleau, the Special Military
School reckons many hundred. folders
trained to difcipline, hardened to fatigue,
who acquire with the habits of their profess
iion, knowledge of its art.
The ichool of Compiegne prefents the
aipeSt of an immenfe mandatory, why're
live hundred young men go from their Ru-
dies to the workshops, and from the work.
ihOps TO their ftudies. After few months
they execute both with preciiion and intel
bgence, works which could not have been
obtained but after years of a'vuigar ap-
prentiCeihip and commerce and induftry
will foon reap the benefit of their labours
and of the care of government.
The engineer and artillery fervice have
but one fchool and common inftitution.
The practice of medicine is every where
fubmitted to the new regimen which the
law has prefcribed for it. In a Pituitary
reform it has undergone, means have been
found to render theexpenfe fimple and yet
add to the inftruStion.
The eXercife of pharmacy has been pla-
ced under the guard of intelligence and
probity.
BY new regulation, judges have been
appointed, whole Office itisto determine in
all differences between the matter and his
workmen, with that CELEBRITY, which their
REFLECTIVE interefs and wants demand, as
alto with that impartiality which juftice
dictates.
The civil code is now finifhing, and in
the cOurfe of the prefent fe!lion, the laf
projects of laws which complotethe whole,
,x-I1t ~ I'll, a ~.
the Legislative Body.
The Judiciary Code, 70 univerfallycalled
for, is now undergoing thefe dhcufions
which will conduct it to maturity.
The criminal Code is in fate of for
wardneis and of the commercial Code,
thofe parts which circumstances appear to
claim mot i,nperioully, are in fate to re-
ceive the feal of the law in the courie of
nextT;iiiop.
New chef d-euVres of art are arrived to
embeliih our Muflums and Whit the reft
or Europe look with enyv on our riches,
our young artitts fill travel into Italy, to
warm their genius with the fight of the great
monuments III that country; and to breathe
that enthutiafm which the, excite.
In the department Of Mafengo, under
the walls of that Alexandria which will
henceforth become one of the molt power
tui buiwariIs OF France, is formed the firt
camp OF our veterans: they viii there pre-
ierve the recollection OF their exploits and
the pride of their victories they will in
ipire into their new fellow-citizens, love &
reiPect tor that country, the limits of which
they have extended and which has recon-
Poied them they will leave in their chill
nf fhaIY ..
defenders of that country, the benefits of
which they will reap.
In the ancient territory of the Republic.
IN Belgium, old fortifications, which were
only ufelefs monuments of the misfortunes
OF our forefathers, or of the progreiiive
augmentation OF France, are demolilhed.
The ground which was facrihced to their
defence will be reitored to culture and to
commerce; and with. the funds airing
from theie demolitions and grounds, new
fortreies will be erected on our frontiers.
Under better fyftem of Judgment, The
turnpike tax has conEderably augmented {:
contractors who held fef one year onlv,
poiehed no emulation and contractors
who had finall portions ofread had no
fortune and could give no fecurity.
Trienniai adjudgments OF many turn
pixies at time, have induced more nune-
rous competitions, richer and holder bid
ders.
The Turnpike duties have produced,
during the nth year, fifteen millions; ten
millions have been fet apart in the fame
year to the reparatien and improvement OF
the reads.
The ancient roads have been repaired
roads have been connected with other roads
by new contributions From Aihis year,
carriages pats over the Sinpionand Mount
Cents.
Three arches of the bridge of Tours,
which had fallen in, are now rebuilding.
New bridges are building at Corbeil, at
Roanne, at Nemours, upon the Here, the
Roubion, the DuIance, and the Rhine.
a direct communication will be opened
between Avignon and Villeneuve, by meaps
OF 4 bridge undertaken by private adocl-
alton.
Three bridges had been begun, at Paris,
with a capital furnithed by fome citizens
two have bscn partly 6niihed by the pub
lie money; and the toll received upon
them afures, in affixed number of years,
the inttrett and Reimbursement of the CAPT
tai advanced.
~ thfro, the mott lntereftlng OF all, THAT
OF the Garden of plants is building, and
will foon be fnifhed. II will free+ he,inte,
riour of Paris from an enbarraffing circula-
ton, viii be joined tos magnificent fquare,
long lince decreed, which will be eInbel-
iiilied by plantations, and the waters of the
river Ourcq, and at which the Rue. Saint
2oiSe, and that OF its fuburb will terminate
in direct line.
This bridge alone will form4he Object OF
an eXpenfe which will foon be made good
by the tolls that will; be received upon it.
The fuuare and all It's appurtenances will