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368 © —-Biographical Notice of Haiiy. 
functions ! At such an epoch, his impunity was more sur- 
prising even than his courage. 
At the death of Dauberton, the public voice designated 
the extreme modesty of Haiiy. But the former was at that 
time under arrest, contrary to the rights of nations, in the ! 
dungeons of the Neapolitan government; and the only evi- 
dence of his being alive was a few lines written upon the | 
_ margin of a book with a splinter of wood, and the smoke 
of his lamp, which the ingenuity and humanity of an En- 
glishman had bribed the gaoler to transmit to his friend. 
These lines, as well as his works, pleaded powerfully in 
his favour, and the member who urged his election with the 
greatest zeal was Haily himself. [It might have been ex- 
pected that such testimonials of esteem, rendered by such 
_ men, would have softened the rigour of Dolomieu’s treat- 
ment; but how many persons are there in power, whe 
when blinded by a momentary passion, take no pains te 
inform themselves of the opinion of their fellow-creatures, 
until they discover it in the indignation of posterity! Do- 
lomieu was released from his dungeon only by virtue of 
d to be informed. He admitted them to 
his chambers, opened to them his cabinets, and refased no 
explanations. The most humble students were received 
_ like the most learned and august personages ; for he had 
Phe University, at the time of its foundation, thought . 
| honour to place Haiiy on the list of one of its faculties. — 
. He was not required to deliver lectures for he was supplie® 
e with an adjunct well worthy of him in M. Brongniar 
present member of the Academy of Sciences, and his § 
