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three commissioners to the army of the 
interior, adopted the plan of combining 
in the person of Barras the powers of tie 
commissioners and those of commandant 
of that army. But the occasion was too 
critical for him he had not seen service. 
The events of Thermidor and Vende- 
miaire brought him into the Directory. 
‘He did not possess habits of application, 
yet he succeeded better than was ex- 
pected. ‘He was censured for his ex- 
travagance, his connexions with con- 
tractors, and the fortane he made daring 
the four years he was in office, which he 
took, no. pains “to conceal, and which 
greatly contributed. to the corruption of 
the administration at that period. Bar- 
yas was of tall stature ; he sometimes 
spoke in moments of violent contention, 
aud his voice would then fill the hall. 
His moral‘ faculties, however, did not 
allow bim ‘to go beyond a few phrases ; 
the passionate manner in which he sppke 
might bave made him pass for a man of 
resolution. In Fructidor, he with Rew- 
bell and Ja Reveillere formed the ma- 
jority against Carnot and Bartclemy. 
After that day, he was, apparently, tie 
most considerable person in the Direc- 
tory; but in realit} it was Rewbell who 
managed affairs, After the 13th of Ven- 
demiaire, te always supported in publie 
the character of a warm friend to Napo- 
Jeon, although they had quarrelled ; Na- 
poleon having severely censured the mea- 
sures which followed the 18th of Prue- 
tidor, and especially the law of the 19th. 
He displayed some dexterity on the goth 
of Prairial, year VII. and vid not share 
in the disgraec of his colleagues. 
LA REVEILLERE LEPAUX. 
La Reveillere Lepaux, deputy to the 
Convention for Maine and Loire, was . 
one of the seventy-three persons arrested 
on the 31st of May. He was lame, and 
of the most disagrecable exitcrior pos- 
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Napoleon’s History of France. 
sible ; he was as deformed as Alsop. He 
wrote tolerably ; his mind was of little 
scope; ‘He was neither aettstonied to 
busitiess, nor skilled in tle characters of 
men; he: was alternately governed, ae- 
cording to events, by Carnot and Réw- 
bell. The Jardin des Plantes and Tlieo- 
philanthropy formed bis whole oeenpa- 
tion; he was constitutionally fanatical, 
but a warm anid sincere patriot, ‘an 
upright citizen, and a tan of good in- 
tentions. He entcred the Directory poor, 
and left it sd. Nature had onlyendowed 
him with the qualities of a subaltern 
magistrate, ‘ ; 
REWBELL:) ~ «sot 
Rewbell was one of the best advocates 
of Colmar; be had a considerable portion 
of the spirit which characterises’ a good 
practitioner; be was apt to conceive 
prejudices against individuals ; had little 
faith in virtuc, and carried his patriotism 
to extremes. Notwithstanding all that 
lias been said about him, he did net aes 
cumulate wealth in the Directory ; lie 
was, indeed, constantly surrounded by 
contractors, but that was beeapse he 
was partial to the conversation of active. 
and enterprising men. He enjoyed their 
flattery, without making them pay for 
the complaisance he ocvasionilly shewed 
them. He had a partieuldr ‘aninsosity 
against the Germanic systtin, Aud ‘the 
immediate nobility of the empire. He 
evinced energy in the assemblies, buth 
before and after his magistracy : he was 
fond of oé€upation; he had been a 
niember of the Constituent. Assembly 
and of the Convention. “When he was 
commissioner at Mentz, be did not per- 
form what might have been expevt 
of him ; he did not oppose the surrender 
of the place, which might have been 
longer defended.” He” Trad, ike” host 
lawyers, a professional dislike to the 
military, which he could wot dissemble, 
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We continte indebted to Mr. Marshall for a series of Statistical INustrations, whieh 
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in extent of detail, perspicnity of arrangement, the inferences to whi 
and the serious reflections which they are calculated to produce, have the highest. 
claim to general attention. Regardless of the prevailing distaste to figures, especially 
when they make against theoretical mistakes, Mr. Marshall, with an ardour worthy 
of the subject, pursues his series of Statistical. Analysis as the only principle by 
which correct conclusions can be obtained, that is, by arithmetical ilinstration, and 
the unerring evidence of figures. To the Readers of the Monthly Magazine, however 
yaried from ifs usual’ matter, the insertion of the following pages will require no 
apology ; they will_remaia-.prond and lasting memorials,-constituting standards-for 
yeference, aud claim the attention‘and regard of future ages, whenall the 'specula- 
tive opimons of the present time, with whatever pretension to fine writing and 
charm of language they may be embodied, will be totally obliterated.] 
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