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But, though this distinction was refused to republican warriors, the name acquired a kind of currency, and it has been given to a town, which possibly, may be otherwise distinguished, as time elapses. To say the least, an account of the establishment of this new residence, may prove interesting, as it shews what the more liberal and better informed mind desires, to render an abode of human beings tolerable. Natural and Statistical view of the Town of Cincinnati, and of the Miami Country accompanied with maps; and an Appendix on the late Earthquake, the Aurora Borealis, and the South-west Winds By Daniel Drake. 8vo. printed at Cincinnati, in the United States. The town of Cincinnati is situated on the Ohio, and is the principal place of the county of Hamilton, in the state of Ohio, and indeed, of all the district situated on the Miami. The author takes a geographical and topographical view of the state of Ohio, which is situated on the river of the same name, and of which the great. and little Miami are the two branches. The town of Cincinnati is situated in 70° 24' 43" W. long. from Washington; in N. lat. 39° 6' 30". The author describes Improvement in the Manufacture of Paper. From the New York Evening Post.] We have lately visited the paper mills of Thomas Gilpin and Co. on the Brandywine, and witnessed the performance of their new machine for manufacturing paper on an extensive scale, which promises an importaut addition to the arts and manufactures of our country. This process of making paper delivers a sheet of greater breadth than any made in America, and of any length-in one continued unbroken succession, of fine or coarse materials, regulated at pleasure to a greater or lesser thickness. 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M. the King of Bavaria, 4 vols. 4to, with upwards of 150 large folio plans and maps. Munich, 18091817. The work on Hydraulic Architecture, the constitution of the soil, the productions by the Chevalier de Wiebeking, in four 4to. natural and artificial, vegetable and ani- volumes, is generally considered as one of mal: also, the population of the town, the most complete and extensive treatises which in 1810 was 2,800; but in the course on this interesting science. The fourth of seven years has doubled itself, and now and last volume, which was published in amounts to 6,000. The number of negroes the course of last year, and has only lately (in a state of slavery, no doubt) amounts reached this country, contains much highly to about 2,000, in the country of the Ohio. interesting and valuable information resThe town of Cincinnati boasts of a Uni-pecting all the great works of Hydraulic versity, several establishments for instruction, schools, &c. a printing office; sundry manufactories and warehouses, and two Banks. The medical topography of the town engages the author's attention, also; and he finds something to say on its anti quities. One of the maps presents the plan of the town; the other, the plan of the country situated on the Miami. VOL. VIII. No. 48. Lit. Pan. N. S. Sept. 1. Architecture, executed in different parts of Europe, developing their principles, mode of execution, advantages and defects; and suggesting useful ideas for their further improvement and conservation. Thus it serves to the student, as well as to the experienced engineer, as a never-failing assistant, and as a valuable book of reference in his pursuits and plans. 2 M The fourth volume chiefly contains sup- | beneficial to the navigation and conservancy plementary matter to the different divisions of the river in general, to the port of of the three former ones, and particularly London in particular, and to the improvetreats in several chapters on the Inland ment and embellishment of the city of Navigation of Great Britain, enumerating London. the different canals in various parts of this country; and of the great bridges that have lately been constructed across the river Thames at London. The Chevalier's observations on these subjects are very judicious, and exhibit much mind. In speaking of the river Thames, M. de Wiebeking chiefly laments, that no proper means are used to promote the navigation and to preserve the necessary depth of the water in the river, and that thus in the greatest mercantile city of Europe, the finest river is in a state of actual neglect and degradation, the principal cause of which is the irregular width of its bed, which near London Bridge is considerably narrower than at Waterloo Bridge, and again contracts at Wetsminster Bridge; whereby the tide loses the power of removing the shoals and mud banks, that are daily increasing; and diminishing the depth of the water, which at some not very distant period may prove fatal to the navigation of the river. In order to obviate these inconveniences, the Chevalier suggests, that the whole bed of the river, from Westminster Bridge down to the Tower, should be reduced to certain uniform breadth, which he fixes at 550 feet; that London Bridge be removed entirely; and that, in the construction of new bridges, this principle be always adhered to. As to the removal of Loudon Bridge, and the great advantages that would result from this operation to the navigation of the river, all the British engineers are, no doubt, of M. de Wiebeking's opinion; but as to his project, to reduce the width of the river to 550 feet, many may doubt whether, under present circumstances, such an alteration would be advisable or even practicable, though the reasons which the Chevalier suggests for it are founded on sound principles and corroborated by experience. The immense saving, which a reduced width of the river would have caused in the construction of all the bridges over it, certainly would have been a matter of great consequence; and we may safely assert, that if before the year 1787, or the construction of Westminster Bridge, the public mind had been as enlightened as it is at present on the subject of the navigation and management of rivers, and if an experienced engineer had brought forward a plan similar to that of M. de Wiebeking's, the adoption and execution of it would have been highly lustead of the London Docks, the Chevalier de Wiebeking is of opinion, that it would have been more advantageous for the trade and commerce of the city of London, if a solid quay had been constructed. from Westminster Bridge down to London Bridge; and if, in the place of one great bason, several small basons had been excavated in different parts of the town, which by means of locks would have communicated with the river. The dimensions of these small basons he fixes to 120 feet breadth, and to 4 or 500 feet length. M. de Wiebeking further proposes to join these small docks together by a canal paralled to the quay, which would produce of scouring alternatively, as the tide served, every one of these basons by the water contained in the others. At the side of this canal and the docks, warehouses of different descriptions could be constructed, and thus the mercantile depôts would have been nearly central in the metropolis; besides this advantage, the water in the canal would have been of great use in case of fire. The Chevalier concludes these observatious with the following passage (page (190): "According to the plan, the length of the Bridges of Westminster, Waterloo, Blackfriars, and Southwark, would have been considerably lessened, and the saving thus produced would have been more than sufficient for the building of a new bridge in the place of London Bridge; the great expense of the London Docks would have amply covered the costs of the execution of the plan which I have thus sketched in its outlines, if it had been proposed and attended to at the proper time. But at present the only object which is most deserving of [the public attention, is the construction of a new bridge in the place of London Bridge, and that of a regular solid quay along the banks of the river, and whether, notwithstanding the excavation of the London Docks, the small ship-basons, which I proposed, would yet be of moment and use for the trade. I therefore leave it to the judgment and to the consideration of the British engineers, to decide whether this part of my plan still deserves to be attended to, and in what manner the principal ideas of it, viz. the construction of solid banks of the Thames, the excavation of small ship-basons, and the project of the new Bridge in place of London Bridge, might best be determined and executed. But before it is possible to enter into the particulars of these projects, it is indispensably necessary to procure more minute soundings of the river, than those that to the best of my knowledge have yet been made." FRANCE. able to meet it, at the time. We are glad, now, to announce that the press is doing justice to the cause; that the Protestants have appealed to the public, and that the public has felt and acknowledged, the importance of the appeal. We are glad, too, to announce answers to these complaints; being well persuaded that not the truth of the facts, merely, as painful occurrences, but the latent cause, can only be detected and developed by such opposing crimina tions. By comparing the counter-statements coolly, and carefully, much more may be learned, that may be useful by way of precaution, prevention, and remedy, than by the best attention founded on imperfect information. With this idea we combine, in the present article, the mention of a number of publications which have made their appearance in France, on the subject of the Protestants in that country: some of them appear to be historical labours of much research and importance. PROTESTANTS, PERSECUTION OF. Whoever has observed, that the affairs of Lyons, though a political and notorious subject, a subject involving the dignity of the crown, and the peace of the nation, are but beginning to engage the attention of the Courts of Judicature in France, though they happened so long ago as June, 1817,--and whoever will add the remark, that notwithstanding the numerous publications to which they have given occasion, the assertions and re-assertions, the contradictions, charges and challenges among distinguished actors on the scene-whoever has observed these things, will not be surprised at the slow motions of the govern ment of France, then much less established than at present, respecting the justice due to the suffering Protestants in the South of France. The difficulty of obtaining the truth-the difficulty of distinguishing personal resentment, and party violence, from ecclesiastical ill-treatment, was very great. The action and re-action to which that Dissensions and Persecutions in the arpart of unhappy France had been doomed roudissement of the Vigan (in the Departfor years, intermingled, as all such vio-ment of the Gard) by M. Arma, formerly lences must be, with the ardour of political Deputy Prefect of the Vigan. party, always furious and even bloody, added incalculable impediments to the dif ficulties alluded to; while the recent, and imperfect settlement of the royal authority, allowed no confidence of sudden restoration to order and peace. That the government was no party to these calamities, is clear: it felt the difficulty, but was not "The disorders that have taken place at Troubles et Agitations du Department du Gard, in 1815; containing the Report of the Rev. M. Perrot to the Committee of Non-conformist Ministers of England, on the alledged persecution of the Protestants in France; with its refutation; by the Marquis d'Arbaud Jouquet, Prefect of the Gard in 1815-16, 17. Memoire historique, &c. Historical Me moir on the Ecclesiastical State of the French Protestants, from the time of Francis 1. to Louis XVIII. addressed to the Secretary of State for the Interior: by the Rev. Martin Rollin, Pastor. President of the Reformed Consistorial Church of Caen. Ecclaircissemens historiques, &c. Historical Illustrations, in answer to the calumnies directed against the Protestants of the Gard: with a sketch of the Agitations and Troubles of that department, from 1790 to the present day. By P. J. Lauze de Péret, Advocate in the Royal Court, at Nismes. The first number, in Svo. price 3 francs. This work will be continued in numbers; and no doubt, will contain much information: perhaps, even, it may be continued as a kind of journal, Nismes, and in the department of the Gard, shew how dangerous it is to suffer the people to exercise sovereign authority. In that province, the Protestants, naturally the most zealous defenders of liberal principles, became the victims of a licentious populace, under pretence that they were Buonapartists. This re-action in the South is so much the more to be lamented, that the maliguity of factions De l'Etat, &c. On the State of the Prohas sought to injure the royal cause, by insi-testants in France, from the sixteenth cennuating that the Commissaries of the Princes favoured their acts of hostility against the Protestants. It would be an offence to the French Government to justify it against such Calumnies." Helen Maria Williams's Narrative of Events in France. p. 373. tury to our own times; with notes and historical illustrations, by M. Aignan, of the French Academy. In this work, the author, "without any participation with the unhappy sons of Luther or of Calvin, without any connexion among them, as he declares formally, 2M 2 |