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the Academy of Chalons-fur-Marne by 
his “ Difcours fur les meilleurs Moyens 
de faire naitre, et d’encotrager le Pa- 
‘triotiime dans une Monarchie ;” in 
which he difcriminates between patriot- 
ifm and the love of one’s country. ‘* Pa- 
triotifm, more rare,” fays he, ‘* becaufe 
it is more difinterefted than the love of 
our colintry, is an ardent defire of ferv- 
ing our compatriots, and of contributing 
tu their welfare, happine(s, and fecurity. 
This defire, difinterefted in itfelf, is fuch 
as is felt by the noble and virtuous 
‘mind; while the moft defpicably felfifh 
wretch loves his country only as it con= 
cerns-his own welfare, the true patriot 
is always ready to facrifice to it, not 
only his deareft interefts, but even his 
lite i oe : 
This magical word patriotifjm, which 
began to be known and_ proclaimed 
throughout France, contained within it 
the emébrvo ox liberty ; and Paftoret, Con- 
dorcet, and Briffot, but developed the 
germ planted indeed by the hands of Na- 
ture in the human heart, and only wa- 
tered by Rouffeau and*Voltaire. _ oa 
_On the diffolution of the States Gene- 
ral, which Had affumed the more modern 
name of the National Affembly, Paftoret 
_ was elected a deputy to the convention, 
from which he afterwards retired in dif- 
guft, He is a member of the prefent 
legiflature, and has Jately propofed 
fome falutary regulations refpeéting 
the trial by jury, fo far as the zmfen- 
tion, Or what we technically term the 
' .guo aiimu, is concerned. 
~ During the difputes with the {eétions, © 
about the re-election of the ¢wwo-third:,. 
Paftoret was returned a deputy for Paris. 
He is confidered in general to be an 
Arifiocrat, aud his reproaches againit 
Condorcet for writing ina mew{paper de- 
- dicated to liberty (le Journal de Paris) 
will never be forgotten or forgiven by the 
patriots of 1789. 
St. HURUGE 
Was a marquis and a man of fortune, 
but neither his title nor eftates exempted 
. him from moft cruel perfecution under 
the old government of France. He was 
unlucky enough to have a very handfome 
_ wife, who happened to be admired by 
the beron de Breteuil, the minifter of po- 
lice: this was more than fufficient to 
ruin one of the provincial mobleje, difh- 
‘pated and diffolute as he was, and what 
‘was infinitely worfe, wtproteded at court ! 
Lhe procefs was fhort. Madame la mar- 
quije was feduced into the arms of the 
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opulent, and powerful, and amorous mi- 
nifter ; and her hufband, under pretence 
of infanity, confined at Charenton. 
On being liberated, he inftantly re- 
paired to England, and lived in Londoa 
during 1777; 1778, and. part of 1779, im 
great diftrefs. He is ftill remembered at 
the Stratford coffee-houfe, on account of 
his bad Englifh, his amazingly good ap- 
petite, and his rooted averfion to agovern- 
ment that had connived at fuch flagrant 
oppreffion. 
On the revolution, he returned to Pa- 
ris, and glutted his revenge at the exe- 
cution of the king, queen, and moft of 
the powerful nobles, whom he confider=- 
ed as his perfecutors. He is even faid to 
have been a€tive in the maflacres of the 
prifoners, both in the capital and Ver- 
{ailles—this procured him the appellation 
of le petit Septembrifeur. 
During the monarchy. of Robefpierre, 
he was one of his creatures : on his con- 
demnation, one of his revilers; on his 
execution, the bittereft of his enemies. 
All the Englith imprifened by the orders 
of the diéfator, were well acquainted 
with him, for he yifited them daily, and 
was accuftomed to affright the timid, and 
appal the bold, by his malignant predic- 
tions,. After the thermrdorcan revolution, 
they in their turn threatened him with 
vengeance, _ 
It was the perfecution experienced by: 
the little talkative, lafcivious, infignifi- 
cant marguis, that converted him into 2 
favage : injuttice fometimes begets hypo- 
crify, and not unfrequently wrong, in 
re:aliation for wrong. “Lhus too, while 
defpotifm is knotting her whips, arrang- 
ing her chains, and fharpening her axes, 
anarchy, the, daughter ‘of licentioufnefs, 
but often alfo the midwife of liberty, 
hovers around, bufied in preparing the 
{corpions of revenge, and whetting the 
{word of defolation ! 
AN ACHARSIS CLooTs 
Was born in Cleves. Although a Pruf- 
fian, a baron, and a man of fortune, he 
feems to have imbibed, while yet a boy, 
a tafte for liberty ; and, indeed, notwith.. 
ftanding his fingularities and extrava- 
gances, he never appears to have belied 
his original opinions. At an early period 
f life, he travelled into all the different 
countries of Europe, and being rich, no-~ 
ble, and fprightly, he was every where 
received with attention. 
While in ingiand, he frequently 
_vifited Mr. Burke, to whom he was in- 
troduced by means of letters from jome 
: Mes Ge aa : very 
