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with the portraits of officers in their nniforrn. Be- 

 neath, there was an infcription indicating their 

 names, their age, the place of their birth, and the 

 battle in which they had been killed. There is 

 likewife fubjoined, if my recolledion is accurate, 

 a line or two of elogium. The military enthufiafm 

 kindled by this fight is inconceivable. 



Among us, there is not a monkifih order (o 

 mean, as not to exhibit in their cloifters, and in 

 their churches, the pidures of their great men, be- 

 yond all contradiftion more refpefted, and better 

 known, than thofe of the State. Thefe fubjeds, 

 always accompanied with pidlurefque and intereft- 

 ing circumftances, are the mofh powerful means 

 which they employ for attracting novices. The 

 Carthufians already perceive, that the number of 

 their novices is diminiQied, now that ihey have no 

 longer, in their cloifters, the melancholy hiftory of 

 S. Bruno, painted, in a ftyle fo mafterly, by Le 

 Sueur. No one order of citizens prizes the por- 

 traits of men who have been ufeful only to the Na- 

 tion, and to Mankind ; print-fellers alone fome- 

 tinies difplay the images of them, filed on a firing, 

 and illuminated with blue and red. Thither the 

 People refort to lock for them among thofe of 

 players and opera-girls. We il.all foon have, it is 

 faid, the exhibition of a mufeum at the Tuille- 

 ries i but that royal monument is confecrated ra- 

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