1796.] Original Anecdotes——Lavoifier... Wallot..« Labarpe. 56 
Jot, if you fhould ever ceafe toemploy your 
ability and talents in fupport of the in- 
fant Republic !”’ : 
This newfpaper was publithed at Pa- 
ris, and coft only nine livres a year. 
_ Had Cerutti lived until the monarchy 
of Maximilian I, he would have been 
then profecuted on account of his talents 
and his virtues. It was lucky for him 
perhaps, that he died before he wit- 
nefed the excefies that difgraced—not 
the revolution—but the authors of thofe 
atrocities. ‘The maflacres of the priefts 
and nobles, in September ; the civic bap- 
tifins, or drownings in the Loire ; and the 
excels of punifhment inflicted on the 
wretched infurgents of Lyons, by means 
of cannifter and grape fhot, attach only 
to the perpetrators. All Kings do not 
yelemble our Henry VIII; nor do all 
Republicans emulate the vices. of Collot 
D’Herbois and M. Robefpierre ! 
BD i: LAVOISIER 
Was one of Robefpierre’s martyrs—of 
that Robefpierre in whofe prefence vir- 
tue was a crime, and genius a founda- 
tion for fufpicion. 
The name of this great man is well 
known toevery one who cultivates’ the 
{ciences, as the ableft chymift of his day ; 
and to him the prefent age is indebted 
for many of the new difcoveries, parti- 
cularly thofe refpeétine air. It is faid, 
that he afked permiffion to make a few 
important experiments before his death, 
but was refufed. 
He is lefs known as an aftronomer than 
as achymift, but we have Lalande’s au- 
thority for afferting, that he was emi- 
neat alfo in this branch of knowledge. 
From him we learn, that he occupied 
much of his time, and expended part of 
his ample fortune, in the conftruétion 
and improvement of aftronomical inftru- 
ments, 
Lavoifier was a farmer-general, and a 
member of the Academy of Sciences: 
the former circumftance proved fatal to 
fim, he having been executed under pre- 
tence of taking a larger rate of intereft 
than that allowed by the law, with an 
Intention, as it was faid, of aflifting the 
€nemies of his country. His friends, on 
the other hand, affert, that he fell a mar- 
tyr to the avarice and envy of his oppo- 
nents. He was executed on the igth 
loreal (8th May) 1794. 
WALLOT, 
Alfo aman of fcience, and one of the lat 
victims of the Robefpierrean tyranny, was 
MontTuty Mac. No. VII. 
a native of the Palatinate, but he had 
fettled in France, where he cultivated at- 
tronomy for fome years. In 1768, he 
he accompanied Caffini to America, in 
order to obferve the longitudes of dif- 
ferent flations, and try the marine time-» 
pieces. : ae iis 
He was beheaded on the 27th of July, 
1794; had his execution been but delay- 
eda few hours longer, he would have 
been inevitably faved, as the guillotine 
fevered the head from the body of his 
perfecutor, Maximilian Robefpierre, on 
the fucceeding,day! 
LAH ARPE. 
The little territory extending from the: 
lakes of Yverdun and Morat, to that of 
Geneva, aud known by the name of the 
Pays de Vaud, is governed by the ariftc- 
cratical canton of Berne, with a degree 
of oppreffive infolence that has more than 
once excited inlurreétion. It is there, 
thata haughty Baril: exercifes a plenitude 
of authority not always delegated to the 
viceroys of Kings ; and that a fenate, for- 
merly praifed by J. J. Rouffeau for its 
“ wifdom,”’ not unfrequently brandifhes 
the iron red of unrelenting defpotifm. 
It was inthis fubfidiary ftate, that Gene- 
ral T.aharpe happenedte be born, in 17545 
and it was here he retired, after having 
acted for fome years as an officer in the 
army of the States-General, in one of , 
thole regiments whofe fervices, in imi- 
tation of the German defpots, are fold 
by Berne for money, to any country 
whofe inhabitants may be deemed unfit 
to defend themielves.. Agricuiture, phi- 
lofophy, a good wife, and a numerous fa- 
mily,were at once the enjoyments and the 
recompence of a fpotlefs life, and he 
might have lived happily on his Jittle pa- 
trimony until now, had not the French 
revolution occurred, and led him to be- 
lieve that individual enjoyment was dif- 
honorabie, unlefs connected with public 
liberty. In fhort, that great event taught 
him and his countrymen, as it has taughe 
ti Kurope,to thizk, and it wasimpoflible to 
exercife that facuity, without recollecting 
that they were the /udreés of men, who 
arrogated no higher title than that of c/- 
| tzens. ¢ 
On the flight of Louis XVI, the Ber- 
mois indulged themfelves in a childith 
joy ; onhis capture, andalfo on the 14th 
of July fucceeding, the inhabitants of the 
Pays de Vand retaliated with a féte, and 
celebrated the latter event by means of a 
fraternal banquet, at which the cap of 
ta € liberty, 
