a 
CBX fine of ACB; but AG==AB, and 
ABH=A C, and angle GA H=B A-C; ‘there- — 
fore ABx AC x# fine of BAC=AGxX AH 
Xz fine of (GAH, or the triangle GA H=the 
triangle ABC. Alfo BF==BA, and BD= 
BC, and angle BD E=<fupplement of ABC, 
becaufe ABFxXABC+CBD-+DBE are 
équal to 4 right angles, of which ABF and - 
CBD are 2 right angles, therefore ABC-- 
DBF=2 right angles, and confequently DBF 
==fupplement of ABC, of courfe their fines 
are equal, and therefore BAX BC x4 fine of 
ABC=BEXBD x} fine of DBF, or the 
tuangle A BC==triangle FBD. And in like 
manner may be proved the equality of the 
triangles ABC and CKE. 
Nearly in the fame manner. was the demonftration 
given by Meffrs. Fohn Richter. 7. Hartley, 
« YD. Hickman, and F. M. 
New MatHemarTicay QUESTIONS. 
To be anfwered in No. VII, the Mag. for Auguft. 
Question XIV.—BSy Mr. Fe pees 
WHAT is the mean yelocity of a nail in the 
tire of a coach-wheel, when the coach travels 
7 miles an hour ? Me 
Anecdotes.—Vergniaud. . » Chabot... Pafioret. 
[ June 
QUESTION XV.—By the fame. 
What is the difference in the proportions, by 
meafure of alcohol or pure fpirit, contained it 
two ditierent kinds of brandy, one of the fpe- 
cific gravity of 09200, and the other of 
6°gQ00°? 
Question XVI—By Mr. ames Wilfon. 
Four’ men owed go pounds among them, in 
fuch fort that if to the firfi man’s money you 
add 2, it equals the fecond man’s diminithed 
by 2, and the third man’s multiplied by 2, and 
the fourth man’s divided by 23 what was each 
man’s part of the 90 pounds ? = 
*y* The folutions of the above quefions mufe 
be fent, at the latefi, in the firft week of Auguft 5 
but the fooner the better. And all Communications 
muft be poft paid, and directed, For the Monthly 
Magazine, at Mr. Johnfon’s, Bookfeller, St. 
Paul’s Church Yard, London. 
Errata. P. 214, col. ii, 1. 20, for (AC? 
x CE) read (AC?—CE?). Ib. 1. 49, for fent 
read ferent. P. 21s, col. ii, 1. g and 10, for 
> read}. Ib. 1. 12, for fum read fun. Ib, 
1. 15, for G. O.read 0. G. P. 305, col. 1,1 6. 
I I 
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ANECDOTES AND REMAINS 
OF 
EMINENT. 
PERSONS. 
i This article is devoted to the reception of Biographical Anecdotes, Papers, Letiers, Sc. ant 
wwe requeft the Communications of fuch of our Readers as can affift usin thefe objects. | 
ANECDOTES OF PERSONS CONWECTED 
WITH THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 
[Continued front our laft. | 
VERGNIAUD, seh 
AMeiyYe of Limoges, and.one of the 
deputies from Bourdeaux, was a moft 
able orator in the convention; in fhort, 
hé was inferior, in point of eloquence, to 
s 
no man who has: appeared in France - 
fince Mirabeau. On the roth of Aneuit, 
1792, he eccupied the prefident’s chair, 
and conduéted himfelf with an uncom- 
mon dignity, On that very critical ccca- 
ficn. 
very, and an ealy fow of words ; this en- 
abled him ‘to {peak on all fubjects with 
eafe, and without premeditation; but he 
was both indolent and negligent: he de- 
fpifed mankind, yet he loved liberty, and 
di¢d for it on a public {caffold, in 1793. 
aC 
CHABOT: - 
Was born at St. Deniex-Dol, in 1759, 
appointed a Deputy to the Conyention in 
1793, and executed at Parison the 5th 
ef April, 1794, in confequence, of being 
- 
,of him thus: 
Ee Was gifted with a happy deli- 
implicated in a confpiracy with Danton. 
He was-a friar in his youth, a hypocrite 
in his manhood ; but, like the French in 
general, who die perhaps better than 
they live—he fuffered like a hero. In 
allufion to his drefs,.he was here termed by 
a familiar alliteration, the fhabby Chabot. 
One of the beft judges in Europe fpeaks 
‘* Chabot ne démentit 
point. la poltronnerie d’un ‘prétre, mt 
Phypocrifie dun capucin ?” 
PASTORET 
Both zhought and wrote before the revolu- 
tion, In 1788, he publified a work en- 
titled, «¢ Moife confidéré comme Legifla- 
teur & comme Moralifte,”’ by way of fup- 
plement to his comparifon between Zo- 
roafter, Confucius, and Mahomet, which 
‘conferred fome celebrity on his talents, 
and breathed throughout a {pirit of liber-. 
tyand inveftigation. Such works as thefe, 
taught the people to shizk alfo, and they 
began to be publifhed in great plenty. 
Even. in .1787, M. Mathon de la Cour, 
a member of the Academy of Lyons and 
Villefranche, obtained the’ prize from 
ee MD ie east the 
