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by the laws; and that one is the brother 
of an emigrant : 
CarNoT, REWBELL, REVIELLIERE 
Lepaux, LEToURNEUR DE LA Mayn- 
CHE, AND BARRAS. 
The Luxembourg, appointed for their 
refidence, is now known by the name of 
le Palais DiveGorial. Its courts are filled 
with buifiers and zardes de corps; and the 
apartments appointed for giving audience 
are decorated with a fplendour unknown 
toany of the exifting monarchies of Eu- 
rope. Under their aufpices, the king of 
the two Sicilies has acceded to a peace, 
which bereaves the coalition of another 
of their affociates ; while their treaty of- 
fenfive and defenfive with Spain, muft 
confiderably augment their . maritime 
firength. Nor has the fortune of war 
been, on the whole, unfavourable to 
them—Corfica has been reftored without 
an effort, and Lombardy, by a feries of 
valoreous atchievements, has, under their 
adminiftration, been fevered from the 
dacminion of the houfe of Auftria. 
In refpeét to domeftic regulation, their 
government is avowedly fuperior to that 
of the ancient committees; and their 
late meflage purporting it to be their in- 
tention, “that even the flighteft veftige 
of military regimen fhall be effaced— 
that the conftitutional order fthall be uni- 
form throughout the whole extent of the 
republic—and that the citizens fhall ap - 
proximate to each other, by the cares of 
agriculture, the relations of commerce, 
and the love of the arts,’ bef{peaks inten- 
tions pregnant with the happieft confe- 
quences. i : 
Upon the whole, much ‘room is left 
for hope, that a legiflature, fairly and 
freely chofen by the nation, whofe image 
it refleéts, muft always operate as a confti- 
“tutional check onthe ambition of indivi- 
duals. All power. is cumulative ; autho- 
rity neceffarily tends towards defpotilm ; 
it is the fron it meets with in its pro- 
grefs that alone prevents an accelerated 
movement. : 
_ The five direftors,ofyFrance poffels a 
great fhare of knowledge; fagaciry, ener- 
gy, and even experience. Lr fhort, they 
are, in all points of g®vernmcnt, at. 
leaft equal, if not fuperior, to any other 
cabinet in Kurope. 
BARRAS. 
Paul Barras, is a native of the fouth 
ef France. He was born in Provence, 
and his family, which is both ancient 
and noble, has hitherto been enlya fource 
Original Anecdotes. —The Direforye..Barrase 
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of reproach to him. ‘The youngVi/comte 
(for he poffeffed a title anterior to the 
revolution) entered early into the milita-. 
ry fervice, and followed the profeflion of 
arms, the ufual, and indeed only calling 
of ancicnne noblefe. Waving procured a 
commiffion in the regiment of Pondicher- 
ry, he remained for a confiderable in 
the rank of afubaltern, having rifen no 
higher than a /ous-lreutenant, or fecond 
lieutenant. It is well known, that un- 
derthe old government, every regiment 
in the fervice was a feminary of difipa- 
pation, and that play and gallantry eceu- 
pied all the leifure moments of the young 
officers. This provengal, born witha warm 
temperament, like one of the mofi eminent 
characters in cur Own country, was una- 
ble to refift the allurements of feduétion, 
and foon became as much addicted to 
gaming as his companions. This of 
courfe hurt-his finances, and reduced him 
at times to the moft humiliating neceflity. 
Taving repaired to Paris to folicit pro- 
motion, the Marechal de Cafiries, then 
minifter at war, refufed to gratify him, 
under pretext of his crreguarimes. This 
pretext indeed, would have excluded 
half the army, and the whole court, 
from the good graees of the fovereign ! 
The truth is, that the heutenant was 
deftitute of proteétien, and this, which 
at all times is a misfortune, was then 
litle lefs than a difgrace. At the period of 
the revolution, Barras was only twenty- 
feven years of age. He beheld his country 
about to be refcued from flavery, and 
faw with tranfport, that a new career 
was opened to his ambition. While his 
brother fided with the caft to which he 
appertained by birth, he took up arms 
in behalf of the people. They both ferv- 
ed at Thionville ; his brother is a Knighr 
of Malta, and now ferves in the army of 
Cendé. Recovered from the fellies of 
youth, the pleafures of the table, and 
the fafcinations of play, he a*ted witha 
mafculine encrgy on all cecafions, and as, 
during the monarchy, he had aped the 
vices of the courtier, fo on its overthrow, 
he practifed all the felf-denial, and all the 
Virtues of a republican. 
On being ele€ted a member of the na- 
tional convention, previoufly to which he 
was appointed “juré a la haute cour na- 
tionale, Barras joined the mountain, and 
voted for the death of Louis XVI; the 

* A juror of the High National Court. 
Girondifts, 
