ed it when it came and fwept away the 
privileges and the diftinétions he enjoy- 
ed. Ywoor three years before the convo- 
cation of the States General, he was cap- 
tain in the regiment of Chartres, of which 
M. de Valence was major. At that time 
the mouth of the Baftille was always open 
to receive the perfons of rank who opened 
their’s too frecly ; but, in fpite of its ter-. 
rors, and of the remonfirances of their 
brother officers, both Dampierre and the 
Major were loud in the praife of freedom, 
and liberal of invective againft the abufes 
of government, not ouly at the regimen- 
tal mefs, but in companics more public 
fill. 
The emigration that took place at an 
early part of the revolution, enfured a ra- 
pid promotion to every friend of freedom, 
and to every man of talent, who flood fak 
by his colours.. Dampierre, accordingly, 
foon rofe to the rank of major-general 
(meséchal de camp) avd in that quality 
commanded the vanguard of Dumouriér’s 
army, at the battle of Gemappe. The 
attack of «the village of that name feil to 
his fhare; and there it was that the action 
was the moft defperate and deftructive.. By 
the boldnefs of his attack, and by the cool- 
efs with which he formed his battalions 
of national’ guards, under a moft furious 
and fteady five from the veteran legions of 
Auftria, he acquired the praife ef cou- 
rage, and of miliary tkilli—a praife he 
lays claim re, in his printed Relation of the 
Conduét of the Fanguard, with 2 -trank- 
nefs, which would be vanity in any one 
but a Frenchman. “ How inuch I withed 
you there,” fays he, apoftrophifing Sirven, 
his mafter of taétics, “ to witnefs the re- 
gularity and precifien with which I re- 
duced my columns, and formed my line, 
in the prefence of the enemy.” 
Unfeduced by the example of his old 
comrade, Valence, who joined Dumourier 
in his. attempt to march to Paris, and in 
his fubfeqnent flight, Dampierre adhered 
firmly to the principles he prorefied ; did 
not defpair of the. republic ; and exerted 
-himfelf in reftoring order end confidence 
tothe army, with a.zcal and diligence that 
deferved, and. chtained the chief com- 
mand. He did not enjoy it long. Atthe 
battle, or rather at the retreat of Fa- 
mars, he adventured fo near tothe ene- 
my, for the purpofe of reconnoitring, that 
he was marked out as a diftinguifhed per- 
fonage by the Englifh gunners, and was. 
firuck with a cannon fhot, which carried 
away his thigh. He furvived it but a few 
hoars, and bréathed his laft figh in withes 
far the fafety ef the republic. q 
£7. 
: be) 
Orivinal Anecites.—Dampierre. £2 Boi F Ficlase 
zi } & 
[ Dez. 
There was fomething uncommcen in the 
compofition of Dampierre’s body and mind. 
His comp'exion was fatu:nine; his difpo- 
fition fanguine in the extreme: be was. 
corpulent and heavy in his perfon; in his 
manner and converfation he was more 
lively evew than Frenchmen general y are, 
though fubjeét at the fame time to mental 
abfences, which, even in a thoughtful 
Englithman, would have appeared ridicu- 
lous and flrange. Gere 
His principles of liberty he drew from 
England, and Englith books; and fpoke 
aad wrete-our language with tolerabie. 
eafe. 
the death of a foldier. Had he lived to 
fee the reign of Robefpierre, the firft re- 
verfe of fortune he might have met with,. 
added to the original fin of noble birth, 
Dampierre’s fate ought to excite no re-. 
gret in the bofems of his frien@s. Hedied 
would, no doubt, have conveyed him, like. 
the {caffold. 
afelon, to 
Bolssy D ANGLAS.. 
The reprefentative, Boissy D’ ANGELA, 
was of the order ef the ci-devaut mobleffe, 
and voted uniformly with that, patriotic. 
minority of the nobles, which aéted im 
union and concert with the fiers-cfat, His 
reputation. .began to rife confiderably, 
about the time when the firft national af-. 
fembly was verging to its clofe, in cenfe- 
quence of his eloguent and {pirited obfer- 
tions on CALORNE’s work, “ On the pre= 
fent and future State of. France,” and his. , 
maferly Reply to.a Publication. of the ce- 
lebrated RAYNAE.. 
Under the government of Robepierre | 
and Danton, Boissy D’ ANGLAS made no. 
very prominent figure, being thrown, as it 
were, into the back-ground of the sadlea. 
¢ 
Ever fince the othof Thermidor, how- . 
ever, he has had occafion to aét grand and 
important parts. His political and eeco- 
nomical Reports, prefented, at intervals to 
the Convention, in the name of the Com- 
mittee of Public Safety, difplay unufual, . 
vigour and boldnefs of conception, com- 
bined. with a fuperior elegance of manner: 
his fentiments on the expediency or in- 
expediency of reftoring the Belgic Pro-. - 
vinces to the Houfe of Auftria, unfold the 
deepeft politica] views. 
He is generally reputed to be the prime 
mover and author of the exifting conftitu- 
ticn of 1795, infomuch that the Jacobins,, 
who are bigotedly attached to the confti- 
tution of 793, do not feruple to ftyle 
that ef 1795—¢he Patrician Conflitution of 
a’ ANGLAS. 
For fome time, a report was very cur- | 
rent at Paris, that Botssy, in the Com~ 
muirtee- 
