combat au mort between 
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quinio is one of the philofophical {ceptics, 
to whom Dr. Prieftley addreffed a ietter, 
juft before he was driven from ¢ country, 
by the tron-hand of perfecution, which 
will hereafter claim him as her own. 
© Our fons fhall bluth their fathers weve thy 
foes 1? 
SERV AN 
. 
Obtained, by his merit aA. the crofs 
of St. Paitie, and that too ata time when 
other men acquired it by the meaneft arts, 
the moft degrading fubmiifions. Be- 
at a period when a 
liberal fentiment mifht have afforded an 
introduction | into the Baftile, he pubhith- 
eal “6 le Soldat. Citoyen,” in which he en 
cl ‘howe to inipire a mercenary fan 
mg army with the idea of patrioti{m :— 
nis attempt did not prove whcelly abor- 
tive. His talents, by fome ftrange fata- 
lity, had an secured hima place at a dilfi- 
pated and degenerate court, but he was 
_difmiffed in 1790, as his c/vifi rendered 
him Pe to M. 
Guynard St. Priet.. 
When a fucceflor to the minifter, De- 
rave, was thought or, Servan was point- 
y out as a proper one by Roland; and 
being appr roved of by the Ao abe and 
the patriotic deputies confirted by it, he 
was prefented to, and accepted readily | by 
the king.. This is the more remarkable, 
as he was perfonally odious to his Ma- 
jefty. 
Servan hated, and in return was hated 
by the court. It: was then what they 
themfelves were accuftomed to term a 
the royalifis and 
the GRO Vone “party was” fitre ta 
fucceed; and which ever prevail ed, blood 
mutt inevitably | Deqineds | At ae period 
Bourdeaux and Marfeilles (the latter of 
which isa Greek colony y) were the moft 
zealous ef all the cities of France, Paris 
itfelf mot excepted, in behalf of t geese : 
May, it was thither the fricnds of free- 
dom had determined {O retire, 1m cale or 2 
reverfe ; that if abfolute monarchy reared 
its ead; in the North, they might oppole 
it by means of a republic moh Sone 
Accordingly we find Ser Van, ‘Barbaroux, 
and Madame Roland, drawing a line of 
demarcation on the map; fludying the 
pofitions, and the courie-oF the 
Fivers ; invoking the aid of the Bordelais 
and che Muarfeillois ; and {wearing on 
the altar of liberty that they ule 
_ belie the hopes of mank at 
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GE 
CHAMFORT..) 
ik as 
Ifa want of ‘the advantates of birth 
Predifpofe us to favour a government 
Montrary Mac. No. VIII, 
Original Anecdotes. —Servan. ve Chanfo rhe 
and other moderns, for my gps. 
Ips 
643 
which. levels all family diftinétions, no 
man could be born a republican more 
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truly than Chamfort. He was the fruit 
or illicit love, and as it, fhould feem of 
promifcuous amours ; for he never knew 
his® father=—a. Heck ane which in no 
degree diminifhed his affection for his 
other parent, to° fupply whofe wants he- 
often denied himfelf the neceflaries of 
life. 
He was taken ata very early age into the 
Collége des Gratlins, at Panis, in quality de 
of Burar®, and was known there by his™ 
Chriftian name of Neo/as. Nothifig dt 
ing the two firft years announced €xtra- 
eee talents ; but in the third, ont 
of five prizes that were diftributed aD Ws 
ally, he bore away four, falling: | in Latir 
verfes alone. The next year We facols 
Vas complete 5 and he made a remark 
pon the occalion, which difcovered good 
talte, a fuperior mind, and the opinion 
he catertained of the judges : * T loft the 
prize laft year,” {aid he, ‘* becaufe I 
imitated Virgil ; this y ear | obtained it, 
becaufe: 1 to8k Ae Sarbievins, 
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In Greek he made ara progrefs 5 
bat his petulance, his wit, and his wag-_ 
cith tricks, Spee the clafs into fo much 
diforder, that he was expelled from it 
by M: Lebeau, the eee for of that lan« 
guage; and not long after left the col- 
lege altogether Thrown upon the wide 
world, without friends or any point of 
fupport, he was foon reduced to the 
loweft pitch of poverty. He bore his 
misfortunes, however, w vith philof ophic 
patience, and cheered himfelf with the 
moft flattering hopes :) ““) ama poor 
devil now,” faid he to. Selis, another 
a of leeeeve:;  “ but do you know what 
will Rappen ? ah fhall obtain a prize from 
the academy, my play will facceed, I 
fhail be courted by the world, and well 
received by -the preat, whom I defpife : 
they will make my fortune for me, and 
I fhall afterwards live like a philofo- 
pher.”’ 
The firft pat of his predi€tion was 
foon verified. He obtained a prize, and 
fent a copy of his produétion to the very 
M. Lebeau who had expelled him from. 
the Greek clafs, accompanied by the fol- 
lowing note : ‘* Chamfort fends the work 
that has obtained the fulf ftrages of the Aca- 
demy to his old and refpectable maiter ; 
and at the end of nine years begs his 
pardon, for Nicofas.”’ .M. Lebeau made 



* A kind of inferior ufher, with a {mali 
ftipend. 
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