31796.) 
LETOURNEUR DE LA Mancue, 
Little diftinguifhed himfelf, either be- 
fore or fince the prefent conteft, as an 
officer, notwithftanding he is {aid to 
have entered, at an early period of life, 
into a corps that has produced more great 
men.than any other. Although an of- 
ficer of engineers, he had, however, the 
merit of fiding with the people, who 
pad, in preference to the executive 
power, which only employed him ; a dif- 
tinétion fufficiently plain and obvious, 
indeed, but which, notwithftanding that, 
is not always felt, even in this country. 
He was the nephew of M. de Caux, 
lieutenant-general, and commandant du 
génie at Cherbure ; when employed on 
the celebrated works of that port, he 
was muchapplauded for his peculiar con- 
ftruction of a magazine for powder. 
Letourneur, abandoning the profeffion 
of a foldier, became a legiflator, and 
fided fometimes with the mountain, and 
fometimes with the plain; but as he 
countenanced energetic meafures, he was 
always confidered as appertaining to the 
former party. _ 
He has the character of a cool, re- 
ferved, and ambitious man ; but, to his 
honour, neither his public nor private 
character have. been fullied with any of 
the exceffes of the revolution; and this, 
when every thing is fairly and liberally 
confidered, is, of itfelf, no {mall matter of 
praife. He is reported to have loft con- 
fiderable property in America, in con- 
fequence of the waf with Great- Britain ; 
and, if we believe fome, it was he who 
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planned the late expedition under Richery, 
againit Newfoundland. 
REWBELL, 
Like Lepaux, was bred to the bar, and 
-praétifed with great fucceis as an advo- 
cate, at Strafburgh. Born in Alface, and 
{peaking German from his cradle, feve- 
ral of the princes of the empire, who 
held fiefs, and claimed feudal fervices” 
in France, employed him as their agent. 
Having been deputed from his native 
province to the Conftituent Affembly, he 
conducted himfelf fo as to unite confi-+ 
derable talents. with the reputation of 
a fteady and enlightened friend to liberty. 
He fupported the fame characéter in the 
Convention, and was fent on a miiffion to 
Mayence, by the committee of public 
fafety. It was he who fir founded the 
court of Berlin, and revived the ancient 
jealoufy between the houfes of Branden- 
bourg and Auftria. It was he alfo, who, 
in conjunétion with the Abbé Sicyes, 
concluded the treaty with Holland, and 
- by ftriking off one enemy from the coa- 
lition, and adding a maritime ftare to the 
fcale of France, effentially altered the 
balance of power. 
Rewbell, lofty, refolute, and intrepid 
by nature, poffeffes at the fame time a 
cool judgment. While energy was ne- 
ceffary, he fupported the Jacobins ; but 
the moment that his native foil was purged 
of its inviders, he joined the middle 
party, and has contributed not a little to 
the: eftablifhment of the new conftitu- 
tion, and a more permanent order of 
things. 

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LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL ; 
including Notices of Works in Hand, 
Domestic and Foreign. 
FARLY inthismonth, the Firfi Volume, 
on the large paper, of Mr. Waker- 
FIELD’s new edition of T.ucretius, in 
quarto, with feleét notes of former com- 
mentators, and thole of Dr. Bentley ne- 
ver before publithed, from the Doctor’s 
copy, in the editor’s poffeflion, will be 
delivered to fubfcribers. The text will 
be materially amended upon the autho- 
rity of mss. and the firft editions; and. 
the whole poem illuftrated and:explainede 
by copious annotations The large pa- 
per copies will make three volumes ; the 
common paper, two. 
Mr. T. Tayuor, the tranflator of 
feveral Greek authors, has lately tran{- 
lated Plato’s Laws; and is proceeding 
with thofe Dialogues of Plato that have 
not yet been tranflated; and to revife 
and correc feveral former tranflations of 
parts of Plato. 
Uhe different eftimation in whichtalents © 
are held in Germany and England, may be 
eafily conjeétured fromthe terms offered 
by Profeffor HEnLwie, of Brunfwick, to 
any one of fufiicient abilities in botany 
and natural hiftory, who is willing to ac- 
company a friend of his on a botanical 
expedition for two years, through diffe- 
rent parts of Hurope. His travelling ex- 
pences, including board and lodginb, are 
to be paid. He is to be treated in the 
fame manner as the principal in this ex- 
pedition ; is to have 200 thalers, or 261. 
138. 4d. a year: in cafe of giving com- 
plete fatisfaction, his falary is to be in- 
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