478 
plodding, man ; totally incapacitated, by 
nature and educatibn, to act the impor- 
tant part affigned to him by friendthip, 
on one hand, ge fhe Sartor of able and 
* patriotic competitors, on the other—for 
all thofe appertaining to the ancient 
mariné-royal, fromm the minifter of the 
department down to the ex/eizne, which 
an{wers to our midfhipman, was, at this 
period, notorioufly counter-revolutionary. 
Monge had folved feveral difficult 
problems while a boy, before the sAca- 
demy of Sciences, a circumftance which 
had captivated the oe ard of the fecre- 
tary. As the infpector of a’ oy for 
fhip-building, this might have been a 
 fufficient qualification; but when, in- 
ftead of Fonecndine ich the patiive figns 
. Of triangles and parallelograms, the ma-~ 
thematician was to enter upon active life, 
- and regulate men and fleets, he was quite 
bewildered. The refult was, accordingly, 
what might have been expected—the 
French marine became almoft annihi- 
lated, during the adminiftration of a 
minifter, an adept indeed in geometry, 
but an zgmoramus in refpect to mankind. 
Buzor 
Was one of the Girondifts, and his at- 
tachment to a federative republic, fuch 
_.&sthofe of Greece, America, and Swit- 
zerland, inftead of a republic, ove and in- 
divifible, cot him his lite. How much 
muft the idea of royalty have been 
dreaded in France, when his enemies 
could undermine his reputation, and ruin 
his character, by the opprobrious nick- 
name of le ro: Buzot! But this was ata 
period, and the cuftom is not yet abo- 
hthed, when naughty children were 
whipped by their parents for being /es 
pents urifiocrats 
BAILLY, 
The firft mayor of Paris, was a man of 
fcience rather than a politician He 
diftinguithed himfelf by his Hittory of 
Aftronomy, in 5 vols. 4to; by his The- 
ory of the Satellites of Jupiter, which 
had engaged his attention ever fince 
1763); ae by feveral learned Memoirs, 
inferted in the proceedings of the Aca- 
demy of Sciences. Jerome Lalande, one 
ef the firft aftronomers of the prefent 
day, and who, at this moment, prefides 
ever the National Obfervatory, was fo 
much pleafed with the paper on the 
des Sciences, & Monge fut Clu, Cp un offie ece 
d’ original qui fer oit he des fingeries 2 la manisre 
deS ours que jai uus jouer dans les feffes de la Pile 
de Berne, Sem App fiz el de M. ad. Roland: 


Original Anecdotes —Buzot .. Bailly... Champagneux. 

light emitted from the Satellites of Ju- 
piter, publithed in 1771, that he told the 
author, then in the height of his glory, 
that he would rather have compofed that 
Memoir, than been prefident of the 
Giatics Generals ‘‘ for,” added he, “* there 
are, afluredly, many citizens, worthy of 
being mayor of Paris, or of filling the 
chair of the National Affembly, 
are not ten men in all Europe, capable 
of writing fuch a differtation as that ; it 
ae theref fore, of courte, become a more 
ertain pafiport to the notice of pofterity.” 
Jean Silvain-Bailiy exhibited a rare 
inftance of modeity, zeal, affiduity, and 
talents, united in one and the fame per- 
fon; it was a great misfortune, both for 
im fele and his country, that he fhould 
have quitted the retreats of feience, and 
embarked on the ftormy fea of politics. 
During his mayoralty, he was induced, 
by Lafayette, to hoift the red flag, the 
fymbol of infurreétion, on the top of the- 
Hotel de Ville, and faa countenance the 
maffacre, as it was called, of the Champ 
ae Mars, which enfued. 
. He was tried for this, upwards of two 
years afterwards, before a tribunal, vai 
ed with blood ; and "ae fio the u 
fparing g euillomines onthe 21% Br mains 
(aith Nov ember). 1793, in the 57th year 
of his age. 
CHAMPAGNEUX 
Was the editor of one of the three-feore 
new({papers, that imparted the revolu- 
tionary ftimulus to France. He is the fa- 
ther of a numerous family ; a man of un- 
impeached morals, and was attached to 
liberty from principle, at a time, and ina 
country, when it was not unufual to be 
fo, from mere fpeculation! He was fe- 
leéted by, Roland on account of his in- 
duttry and talents; and was put by him 
at the head of the principal divifion of the 
home department. In fhort, during his 
adminiftration, he became, what is termed. 
in England, wader fecretary of flaie. 
Camus. 
This is another of Roland’s &éwes, and 
does great credit to his difcernmént. Scon 
after the refignation of his friend, he ui 
ted the home de; partment, was ele€ted a 
member of the Con, ention, and Is now 
Archivifi to the prefent legifiature. He 
was one of the deputies delivered over by 
Dumouriez to, and confined by, the 
Prince de Cobourg. From an Auftrian 
prifon he has been reftored to the exercife 
of his legilative funétions, -(for he ts one 
of the éwo thirds) and, on the firft vacancy, 
is 
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but there’ 
