2790.) Original. Anecdotes. —Boifly 2 Anvlas ... Lefebvre, Sc. 
mittee of -Legiflation; had expreffed an 
opinion favourable to the appointment 
of a perpetual Prefident of the Executive 
Directory: — This circumftance rendered 
him for atime unpopular, drew on him 
the fufpicion of being a fecret Royalift, and 
even occafioned his being denounced in a 
genéral committee. 
In 1794,Boussy publifhed a work, great- 
ly admired for its beauty and energy, un- 
der the modeft title of —* Certain [deas 
on the Arts.’ The following paffage may 
ferve, in fome degree, to throw light on 
the philofophical fy{tem planned and adopt- 
ed in his mind:—<*‘ We fhould be enligh- 
tened with regard te the extent of our du- 
ties, our power, our means; let us calcu- 
late the quantum of our ftrength and 
riches, and then confider the end which 
we ought to have in view, Let us fill 
keep in mind, thatit is nota new people that 
we are called to organize—that it is not a 
few tribes difperfed here and there over 
uncultivated regions, without opulence, 
induftry, luxury, great cities, and great 
eftaplifhrynents—but that is an oid nation, 
whofe regeneration we are ambitious to 
Operate.—It is a.mafs of alive and en- 
_dightened individuals, to whom induftry 
das become a want, luxury a natural paf- 
fion, and knowledge a neceflity.x—It is a 
people prompted by their fublime and ar- 
dent genius, to maintain the firft. rank 
among polithed focieties ; a people living 
on the moft fertile territory in Europe, 
polleffing extenfive colonies and commer- 
cial efiablifhments in Afia, Africa, and 
America.— 
Tt is our duty, therefore, to organize 
for fuch a people, nor the means of pover- 
zy, but péexty—not to inftruét them in the 
things they ought fo part with, but to thow 
them what, and iz what manner, they are 
TO ENJOY.” 
Bossy D’ANGLAs is in the 36th year 
of his age. 
GeNfRAL LEFEBVRE 
is reprefented by his énemies, with the 
crime of having been born in a cottage. 
God knows that this muft have been in- 
voluntary, at leait, on his pare! But, in 
imitation of Macius, when the Roman 
nobility boafted of the ftatues of their an- 
ceftors, he. too may open his bofom, and 
exhibit his honeft fears, by way of a reply. 
Deftined for the army, Lefebvre rofe to 
a balbert, and would have ftopped for ever, 
at this poiat in the mufter-roli, under the 
ancient order of things: without either 
patronage, friends, family, or title; with- 
out any thing but talents to back his pre- 
senfions, he would have been worn out in 
88. 
the fervice, and pined away the latter 
part of a miterable exiftence (had death, 
famine, and fatigue tpared him fo long) 
in.a jail or an hofpital. 
In confequence of a revolution, wonder- 
ful in allits parts, the gvondam <trill-fer- 
jeant has dittinguifhed himfelf confide. 
rably, more efpecially on the late paflage of 
the Rhine. The max, who made himfelf 
a general, was oppoled by a prince, who 
was born one! His Highnefs* had learn- 
ed to dance, aad, unfortunately for him, 
Is faid to have been a€tually practifing a 
pas de deux, at a ball, the very moment 
that Lefebvre was beating up hts quarters 
The Aultc council of war would have 
inftantly broken an untitled fubaltern, and 
chained him, perhaps, like poor Trenck, 
ina duageon, 10 fect by 63 but exalted 
rank, and high blood, muft be dealt dif. 
ferently with: his /erenity, therefere, has 
a jocular kind of punifhment afiigned him ; 
for berng ‘known to be attached to the 
Pyrrick meafaure of the ancients, he has 
been ordered, if we are to credit the fo- 
reign journals, to dunce all the way to 
Vienna! 5 
TREILLARD 
Was bred to the bar, and practifed with 
fome degree of reputation, in the ancient: 
courts. He foon found, however, that 
the ae 
/“ VERA LEX, RECTA RATIO, NATURE 
CONGRUENS,”’ 
of Cicero, was not known there. Money, 
patronage, beauniful women, tke protece* 
tion of Verfailles, were all played off be- 
fore the parliament of Paris, and thofe of 
the provinces, againft a good caufe, when 
accompanied by poverty. Procraftination, 
in the frit inflance, and too frequently in- 
juftice in the laff, enfued ; and thefe con- 
fequences inevitably ied to another, in the 
fhape of diiaffeétion, which, when arrived 
at a certain height, became one ef the pre- 
difpofing caufes to produce in that, as it 
will finally in all countries, a revolution. 
Treilard, like many others, fufferea 
him{elf co be carried away with the ftream, 
andon the laft anniverlary of the execu- 
tion of Leuis XVI, adminiftered, as pre- 
fidenc of the legiflative body, the oath, for 
the perpetual exclufion of royalty from 
France, and its utter abhorrence there. 
The following ftanza has been loudly 
cenfured, both by the emigrants, and the - 
zealots ef kingly power : 
“¢ Jurons, le glaive en main! jurons a la patriey 
De conferver toujours ?’éga/fité chérie, 

* The young prince de W. a general in the ; 
Imperial army. ; 
5 V2 De 
