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during their paflage from France to Cor- 
fica, but by this time they are undcubt- 
edly reftored to their country. and their 
friends, 
ANGEREAU.: 
Tt was once faid of a man, as it is fi il 
of a horfe, that, in order to be good for 
any thing, he mu be of fome particular 
firain, ov breed. What the Arabian crofs 
er mixture is to the one, nobility was 
confidered-to the other, and heroes were 
fuppofed to be derived exclufively from 
that clafs? What contributed not a little 
to fupport this chimera, was the circum- 
fiance of moft of the armies of Eur ope 
being officered by the nobles only. 
This, however, is one of the many ri- 
Ai ail ous and degrading ‘llufions difpelled 
by the French rev olution. JourDAN 
and HOCHE are fvivriess, or defcendants 
of the motility; and DuMOURIER and 
BuUONAPARTE would f{carcely have been 
confidered aS gentlemen under the. old 
government. 
ANGEREAU, fiding with the people, 
to whom he appertains by birth, For he 
gs the fon of a petty Parifian tradefman, 
faddenly rofe to the rank ofa general. 
#ie has often dif ringuiihed himfelf in the 
republican ranks, and of late acquired 
great celebrity in Italy, where he com- 
mands one of the wings of BUONAPAR- 
TE’s army—of ‘that ool that has enni- 
hilated no lefs than five Aufrian ones 4 
He is a low fellow} Taétually knew 
him a fencing- mater “=!” -exciaimed an 
dee Sienora, on hearing of thie battle 
f Lodi—* T! his very fame ANGEREAU 
cit my fon! 
Coat hope your fon will follow the ex- 
ample of fo great a mafter,’’ replies a 
Frenchman 5 <6 he will then have fome.. 
thing of the ancient Roman in him '’’ 
«© He was nothing more than a drum- 
mer at Naples,” cried a pert Sicilian, 
“Ah! this man,” rejoins the lively Pa_ 
rifian, “ feems to have been deftined to 

* ANGEREAU ferved in a fubordinate fitua- 
tion ina Neapolitan regiment of Epirots, until 
4787, when he a€tually fettled as a fencing- 
matter in the capital of the Two Sicilies: In 
¥7092, he was banithed, along with the reft of 
his countrymen. On this, he repaired to the 
Army of Italy, and became a volunteer. Pafl 
ing through all the fubordinate fteps, he has at 
feceth Hien to the rank of general of divifion. 
He fig not a niere foldier; for, after’ ating as 
a political miffionary in Italy, he concerted, 
with the friends of liberty in that country, on 
the beft{ means of facilitating the entrance and 
progiefs of the French army. 
ty- five or forty-fix years of age. 
Original Aneciotes——Angereat Rufca...Maffena. 
He is about for- | 
unmanly refinement, that burfis into ec- 
_— 
[May, 
make a noife, I perceive, from his very 
infancy !1 Ve 
No feoner had the glad tidings of the 
capture of Mantua reached the capital, 
than the elder ANGEREAU, who ts an 
honeit prover, was complimented on the 
valour and taients of his fon. A frater- 
nal banquetwas prepared, to celebrate the 
grcat event. At the age of venty-five, 
the father of the victorious general yas 
placed in the feat cf hensur at’ a table 
covered with an elegant repatt, dnd a 
wreath of laurel, adorned with a three- 
coloured rbband, was prefented to him, 
in the name of an applauding country. 
Thus, to honour an aged parent, was 
the mot delicate compliment that could 
be pad to an affectionate fon 4 
* Les homes font egaux; ce weft point la raif- 
“ fance, 
oe ef la fewle vertu qui fait leur difference.” 
V OLTAIRE. 
RUSCA, 
Who was bred a phyfictan, could not 
avithitand that revolutionary ardour 
which has larcly been intpired into fo 
many youthful befoms. 
He was born at Dolce Aqua, a village 
on the Rivera, or coaft of Genoa, but 
fubjeét to the king of Sardinia. Having 
exprefied himfelf in fuch a manner as 
to give umbrage to a {nfpicious court, he 
was exiled by the Piedmontele govern- 
ment, at the beginning of the revolutiom 
Gn this he joined the French army ¢ 
in confequence of whichy his {mall pa- 
trimeny was conffcated, aad his: affafi- 
nation encouraged, by the offer of a fung 
of money for his Head. 
Profcribed in one country, and adopt- 
ed by another, Rusca, from that mo- 
ment, confidered himfelf as a French- 
man. He accordingly ferved with tuck 
extraordinary bravery and fidelity in the 
army of Italy, that the popular. fociety 
of Nice prefented him with a. fword, 
and petitioned the reprefentative es of the 
peopte, that he might be appcinted a 
general of brigade, ana employed avith 
the army of the Pyrenneées. 
On the conclution of the peace with 
Spain, ,he returned to Italy, and was ap- 
pointed commandant of Leg ghorn, which - 
he lately occupied with a body of French 
troops. i 
MASSENAS 
No nation in Europe has experienced 
a greater degree of degeneracy than the 
Inhabitants of modern italy. Does this 
proceed from fuperitition that degrades; 
tytanny that humbles and debates ; or an 
ftacigs 
