l6 Travels and Adventures of the Brothers BachevlUe. [Feb. \, 



suhject, and numerous elocution, also, was slow and embar 



the same 



Essays in tiie Monthly Magazine, are 

 well known ; but none of these iiave 

 suflicicntly considered tiie subject now 

 bel'ore us. Perhajis this may have 

 arisen from a notion which our know- 

 ledge of pliysiology enables us to pro- 

 nounce to be false, namely, that medi- 

 cal knowledge ot a usiful nature is 

 promoted by such experiments. Tiie 

 following is the extiact alluded to 

 from the Idler, No. 17, written by tiie 

 masterly pen of Johnson. 



Amoiiy tiie iiilVrior professors of medi- 

 cal knowledge, is a race of wretches, 

 •whose lives are only varied by varietitsoi' 

 cruelty, wliose favourite amusemeiil is to 

 nail dogs to tables and open them alive, to 

 try how long life may be continued in 

 various degrees of .ntitilation, or with the 

 excision or laceration of tlie vital pails, 

 to examine whether burning irons are felt 

 more acutely by the bone or tendon; and 

 whether the more lasting agonies art- pro- 

 duced by poison forced luio the mouth, or 

 iiijecird into the veins. It is not without 

 leluctaiice that I offend the sensibility of 

 the tender mind with images like these. 

 If such cruelties were not practised, it 

 were to be desired that they should not be 

 conceived ; but, since they are published 

 every day with ostentation, let me be 

 allovved once to mention them, since I 

 mention them with abhorrence. It is lime 

 that universal rcsenlinent should arise ugainst 

 these horrid npfraiims, which tend to harden 

 the heart, extinguish thnse sensations which 

 give man cmfidence in man, and make the 

 physician moic dreadful than the gout or 

 slone. 



The following note, appended to the 

 above extract, in a small and separate 

 publication, printed by one of the 

 Society of Friends,shows that this sub- 

 ject has already engaged some saare 

 of public attention. 



'J Ins papt r is intended to be placed in 

 books which contain accounts of cruel 

 philosophical experiments, in order to 

 couaieiact the evil consequences which 

 may arise fiom reading such abominable 

 acts of inhunianlty. 



The publication of the above obser- 

 vations from the Perennial Calendar, 

 will oblige N. T.R. 



Dec. 14, 1823. 



Fur the Slonthhj Magazine. 



TRAVKLS of the I5R0THERS BACHEVILLE 



in VARIOUS COUNTRIES, before and 

 after tlie UNiiAi'PY restoration of 



tlie BOURBONS. 



MY brother, la point of figure and 

 countenance, had not the physi- 

 cal advantages which 1 possessed ; his 



rassed. A\ ilh this exterior, and wiili- 

 out any recommendation, in 1806, he 

 entered into t!ic corps of Chasseurs 

 Vetites of the guards; and, in five 

 years, rose to tiie rank of captain, 

 with military decorations. General 

 Bonnet, w lio has had many opportuni- 

 ties of w ituessing ray brother's courage 

 and talents in a diversity of circum- 

 stances, will always readily testify, 

 with strong expressions, the genuine 

 esteem which he had conceived for him. 

 He has constantly evinced a just 

 sense of his merits, by pronouncing 

 him the first Captain of Voitigeurs in 

 the army^ 



Antoine had served two campaigns 

 in Germany, in t'le Prussian st.-ites, as 

 a private soldier, when he was named 

 officer D'EmbUe in the 122d of the 

 lino: His regiment was ordered for 

 Spain ; he repaired tliither, and tliere 

 he earned his promotions and his 

 cross ?.t the point <d' the sword. He 

 was several times wounded, but never 

 would relinquish his post till the strug- 

 gle was terminated. Antoine was ever 

 to be found in the Bonnet division; 

 and. among so many well-contested 

 combats in the Astuiias, tliere were 

 few, indeed, wherein my brother was 

 not present, and distinguished himself. 

 He conducted hitn.scif no less ho- 

 nourably in (fcrmany, in 181.3; the 

 following little anecdote may be con- 

 sidered as an example of that warmth 

 and assiduity of atlenlion with which 

 he endeavoured to discharge his 

 duties. When his regiment was at 

 Erlicimbrcschtein, Antoine obtained 

 leave to spend a day at Mayence, on 

 a visit to Lis brother. He was one 

 day standing before the gales, when a 

 number of wounded men were brought 

 in. He springs forward to see if 

 there were an) of his regiment, and, 

 fitidinghis lieutenant mortally wound- 

 ed, instantly, without returning for his 

 sabre and his schakos, he moves, in all 

 haste, to join bis company, which he 

 encourages, rallies, and eventually 

 beats oil" the enemy's tirailleurs. He 

 was wounded, on this occasion, jnst at 

 the instant when his brother, mounted 

 on horseback, was bringing him bis 

 arms. 



In 1814, my brother proved himself 

 an indefatigable defender of his natal 

 soil, feeling the ties of consanguinity 

 by which he was more immediately 

 connected with Ins country. 'J'he 

 sliokeof asabre, which partly deprived 



him 



