*797-]), 
who have paid the leaft attention to the 
fubjeé&t, that there are now more than 
250 of thefe characters, who clear from 
4001. to roool, annually, by following 
this iniquitous profeffion. I fhall not 
make a fingle remark on the neceffity of 
putting a ftop to fuch injurious practices ; 
Original Anecdotes. —Buonaparte. 
: 393 
but leave the matter -to the confideration 
of thofe it more immediately concerns. 
I remain, fir, your’s, 
Covent-Garden. D. Q. 
P.S. At the laft races on Afcot-heath, 
no fewer than fifty-two of thefe tables 
were at work at one time. 
=- Fee ATI RE ROR 
The MATHEMATICAL DEPARTMENT 75 omitted in the prefent Month, partly from 
the prefure of other Maiter, and partly from the circumfiance of two or three of tbe 
Jormer Queftions remaining unanfwered. 

3 c | 7 
ORIGINAL ANECDOTES AND REMARKS 
EMINENT 
F 
PERSONS. 
[ This.article 1s devoted to the reception of Biographical Anecdotes, Papers, Letters, &c. and 
we requef the Communications of fuch of our Readers as can affiftus in thefe objects. | 
THE GENERALS OF THE FRENCH ARMY OF ITALY. 
NaPoLEONE BUONAPARTE. 
T requires but a very fuperficial exa- 
mination into the hiftory of mankind 
to difcover, that great events are pro- 
duétive of great characters. They excite 
the paffions; invigorate individual 
talents; refcue merit from undeferved 
obfcurity ; and, fetting afide the fictitious 
diftinétions founded on the follies, rather 
than the conventions of fociety, give full 
play to exertion, and ample fcope to 
genius. But this faét is never more 
fatisfactorily illuftrated, than in the con- 
tefts conneéted with, and founded on, the 
love of freedom, a principle intimately 
blended with our exiftence and our hap- 
pinefs, and which, being founded in 
nature, is latent in the bafeft and moft 
felfith hearts. 
The hemifphere of Greece exhibited | 
a galaxy of heroes, during her ftruggle 
for liberty, againf{ the domeflic tyrants 
who oppreffed, and the foreign kings 
who endeavoured to enflave her. The 
names and actions of Pelopidas and 
Epaminondas ; of Leonidas and Agis; 
of Harmodius and Ariftogiton; are 
familiar to every. claffical {cholar, and 
have been long dear to mankind. In 
Rome, we behold one Brutus arife to 
expel Tarquin, and another to punith 
Cefar. The burning hand of Scevola 
appalled the heart of the king of Etruria ; 
and a fingle citizen, in the perten of 
Horatius Cocles, defending a_ bridge 
againft a little army, ftruck an aftonifhed 
enemy with terror and difmay. 
To recur to modern times, a fev 
obfcure peafants, fuch as Tell, Erni, 
Stauffaucher, re{cued Switzerland from’ 
the oppreffion of the haughty Houfe of 
_Mowtruty Mae. No. XVII. 
Auftria, and eftablifhed a federal com« 
monwealth, that has lafted longer wzal- 
tered, than any monarchy in Europe. 
In our own days, we have beheld a few 
American citizens ennobling, by their 
ftruggles, a memorable — revolution, 
achieved by a printert+, a {choolmafter*, 
a farmer||; we have often heard one of. 
its authors reproached with being a 
ftay-maker**; and the St. James’s 
Gazette aétually ridiculed a man as a 
horfe-dealer§, whofe promotion to the 
rank of major-general in the Britith fer- 
vice, it was afterwards forced to record. 
Similar caufes in France have produced 
nearly fimilar effeéts, and the triumphs 
ef the monarchy have been obliterated 
by the glories. of the republic. Dif- 
organized, undifciplined, diffatishied, her 
armies, at the beginning of the conteft, 
exhibited numbers without valour, and 
enterprize without fuccefs. It can have 
been no common principle, then, that has 
forced the veteran troops of Europe to 
turn pale before her frefh levies, and the 
Brunswicks, the CLERFAYEs, the - 
WuRMSERS, to bend their filver locks 
to men, new tothe fcience of war, and i 
unknown to hiftory. At one time we 
have feen DumouRIER feebly oppofing 
the allies, and aétually deprecating their 
efforts ; at anochér time, invading their 
pofleffions, and, foon after, flying to 
them for fuccour and protection. JouR- 
DAN, by the exertion of foldierly bravery 
alone, taught the enemy to refpeét his 
countrymen; PicHEeGRu difplayed ail 

+ Franklin. * Adams, the prefent Prefie 
dent. || Wathington. 
** Paine. § “ One Arnold.” 
200, the 
