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MEMOIR coNCERNING JERQS LALANDE. EROM LALANDE is-a Pp hiloſopher 0 eminent in afſtro=-

nomy, a ſcience to which many of the moß uſeful arts Aare, ſignally indebted, that we ſhould deem ou! pn ER unworthy of that literature and knowledge which we profeſs to cultivate, 1..WE could vot, 1n his favour, OV a AO circumſtances of US hoſtility between France: änd Britin, and eagerly contributé our feeble, but ingenuous, endeavours to do honour to his name.*

He has attained“ to that venerable age, at which the. faculties of many of the greatelt SE Se s have been, conſpicuouſly, the moſt vigorous IA aßive. His labours bave been ſteadily de- votedeto the purſuits of the ſcience 1n which he excels.* Under the monarchical government of France, the Abbé LALANDE's talents and exertions were honoured and rewarded. During. a revolution in which men. of letters‘have been the E 2e e O this philoſopher häs been: more than ever 7 applaus ded atd em- ploye: ed. H! s papers are: the chief ofnaments of the publ1 it 108. of that which 1s called. the LE ATIONAL LEA of France. His annual Memoîirs of the, Progre/s of Aſtronomy; are eminedtly intereſting to ſcience, ¡He yas the I ER Deputy to a late gp greſs in which the philo PRS of GERMAN Y. were perſuaded to

aſſemble, in order, as the Frènch hoped,.to ſubmit ſcience,#ar al

8 more enlightened part E: the(JONIIEDb, to-.the fetters‘and fantaſtic tricks of that novel language, and tuoſe new meaſurements of time,&c. which the Xerxes-like vanity and caprice of the republican French have been prom 1pted to impoſe

In the ENGRAVING which we preſent as the fro! ontiſpiece tothe Sixth Number of the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine, is exlubited a genuine and very exprelſl repreſentation of the j Ss Oi LALANDE.; is aititude, the whole expreſ- ſion in his countez cak a man of ſcientific penetration,

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