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particular fiouré, may be well applied in 
building-ornaments, and to other ufeful 
purpofes, and prove more oe gs than 
iucco, or any other compofition now in 
ule. 
CLEANSING CHIMNEYS 
On the fourth of July, letters patent 
were granted to Daniel Davis, of the 
par rifh OF #St: Giles, Midd Tues for his 
invention of a machine, by which he 
propofes to {weep and cleanfe chimneys, 
and extingutih chimneys on fire, with- 
out any perfon g going up the fame, as is 
now the pra tice. The machine configs 
ef an apparatus of rack work, of various 
Jengths, which, by means of a hand- 
turn, is made to afcend the’ chim mney. 
Davis's Patent... Original Anecdotes.—Chaumette. 
[Od. 
The 
joined together by means of mortices and 
tenons, wich a {pring which holds them 
faft. In each length is a joint, by which 
the rack work will accommodate itfelf 
to angles or turms in the flues. To the 
firfit or uppermot length is affixed a 
bruth, of hair, or wire, or- {punge, or 
orhér elattic fudftance, as the occafion 
may require. 
This’ invention | is, doubtlefs, well 
calculated to anfwer the purpofe intend- 
ed, and may, perhaps, be the means of 
diminithing the number of thofe obieéts 
of mifery, the unfortunate chimney- 
iweepers.? . Si see Pee eae be 

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PERSONS. 
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ANECDOTES OF PERSONS CONNECTED 
WIth THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 
[Ce ntinued frum our lafi.| 
CHAUMETTE. 
IERRE GASPARIN CHAUMETTE, the 
revolutionary recorder of Pari is, was 
anative of the town of Newers, in the 
Orleanois. Few men excited more at- 
tention in France for a time, or had a 
more hateful talk to pe rform, during the 
meft tragical ‘part of re _Revolution, 
than Chaumette. He had been bred to the 
fea, but not relift hing that 1 life, and failing 
to obtain expected pre eferment therein, 
he quitted it, and lived by the ufe of his 
en, which he certa inly knew how-to 
Manage more to his profit, than the com- 
fafs. We could, howe abe {peak better, 
and more finently, than he could write. 
He had alfo been employed as a librarian 
and amakuenfis to -a eae ary of the 
church, in the diccefe of “Niverncis; but 
at the commencement of the troubles in 
France wes actually a clerk to an attor- 
mey, and occafionally wrote for the new!- 
papers, as well as trifies for the fiage. 
He was one a the chief difciples of ‘Gixt 
MILLE DesMOULINs. and among the 
fir who put the tri-coloured cockade 
an his har jute before the taking of the 
Battille. He greatly out-ran that apof- 
tle in zeal for the new faith, for w Hes 
Camille was compofing the firft number 
ef his Prewt Cordeliey, with the hope of 
tranquilifing the overheated imaginations 
of the leaders of that great eyent, and 
tempering the public rage againft the 
real or fuppofed enemies of the new 
order of things, Chaumette was {till 
farther inflaining it, and directing it ia 
vengeance againit particular individuals, 
It was Chaumette that infiigated the 
commune of Paris to demand the. trial of 
the queen, and he was of the committee 
which. prep pared the charges, and regu= 
lated the evic lence againft thar_ill- fated 
woman. He was himfelf a witnefs top 
againit her, at the revolutionary tribu- 
pal, and undertock to reprimand M. La 
“FOUR abs PIN, Jately war minifter to 
Louis XVI, for not expofing thot: parts 
of Antoinette’s conduét, which, was 
infifted on, he was privy to, or ie 
ed with. The moft odious part of this 
man’s charaéter, as to his charge againft 
this impiycent queen, was an inceituous 
penchant towards her infant fon, till then 
confined with her in the temple. This 
infinuation, for it could be called no more, 
fhocked the whole court and auditory, 
and efpecially the female part of it, and 
immediately funk the accufer in the po- 
pular opinion.’ Even Robefpierre him- 
iclf, under whofe aufpices he was be- 
lieved to aét, grew outrageous when he 
was told of ‘this article of accufarion, 
more abfurd than all'the reft; and it is 
not denied, even by her fev ereft enemies, 
that that culpable and loft princefs was 
murdered, 
lengths of the rack-work are 
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