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very learnéd and refpe€table men on the 
Continent. 
~ The interview between the philofo- 
pher of Beaconsfield, and the “ orator of 
the human race,” will be deemed lefs 
whimfical, perhaps, thai is imagined, 
when it is known, that Mr. Burke, at 
the period alluded te, was neither the 
penfioner nor the pandar of royalty, but 
upheld a lofty charaéter for mdepen- 
dence, and poffeffed fome of the very 
fingularities, fo con{picuous in his friend 
Anacharfis. 
M. Cloots was not only the nephew of 
aman of letters *; but aétually a man of 
Fetters himfelf. In 1792, he publithed 
a {mall oftavo volume; entitled * La Ré- 
publique Univerfelle, ou Addreffe auxTy- 
Fanricides,” which was printed at Paris, 
in ‘‘ the fourth year of the redemption,” 
and had ‘¢ veritas atque libertas,”’ by way 
af motto. Voltaire having ftyled himfelf 
the reprefentative of philofophers, the 
author pretends to be “ the reprefenta- 
tive of the oppreffed,’ and claims an 
“ univerfal apoftlefhip for the gratuitous 
defence of the millions of flaves, who 
groan from one pole to the other.” En this 
tract, he afferts that nations are not to be 
delivered by the blade of a poniard, but 
by the days of truth: “ ftcel cam kill 
only the tyrant, but tyranny itfelf may 
ke deftroyed by knowledge.” 
Cloots was-a great advocate for one 
commen language, and fo well convinced 
of the neceflity of one univerfal govern- 
ment, that he deems two funs above one 
horizon, or a pair of gods in heaven, 
not more ablurd than two feparate na- 
tions upon earth t 
Anacharfis, a Pruifian by birth, a 
Frenchman by adoption, and a citizen of 
the world by choice, at laft found means 
to become a meinber of the National 
Convention. On the great queftion re- 
fpefiing the death of the king, he voted 
in the affirmative; and with the fame 
breath paffed fentence on the head of the 
houfe ci Brandenbourg, and Louis XVI. 
“Es je condanine parece. nt @ mort [im- 
fame Frederic Guillaume PP? 
Scon after this he was implicated in 
the affair ef Pére Dachefne, arrefted, fent 
coprifon, and as Robefpierre never for- 
gave, he was put to death on the 24th of 
Mareh, 1794. It is but juftice to Rate, 
that he continued faithful to his princi- 
pes, and that he appears to have diced 
aes ls. Sie! eMedia lat 
* Cornelius Pauw, euthor of ‘ Recherches 
Philofephiques fur les Amerieains, ou Mé- 
molres intcreffans pour fervir a l’Hiftoie de 
‘efpecehumene. A Belin, M.DCC,.LXXL”’ 

Anecdstes.— Mallet du Pan. 
f June 
innocent, It is not a little fingular, that 
he infifted on being the laft prifoner exe- 
cuted that day, in order to have an op- 
portunity of inftilling principles in the 
mind of each, by means of a fhort ha- 
rangue, which he pronounced as the 
fatal guiflotine was about to defcend on 
his neck. 
MALLET pu Pan 
Is a native anda citizen of Geneva. This 
interefting little republic, which is not 
more extenfive than fome of the manors of 
our own nobility, has produced an aftenifh- 
ing number of illuftrious men, moft of 
whom have been at once the zealous defen- 
ders andenlightened propagators of hu- 
man liberty. To this, as toevery other rule, 
there are exceptions ; for we know, that 
Necker, D’Evernois, and Mallet du Pan, 
although they have each by turns boait- 
ed of having been born in the commons 
wealth which produced Rouffeau, yer 
have evinced no common enmity to 
France, from the moment fhe abjuted 
monarchy. This feeming problem can, 
however, be very eafily folved, when it 
is recollected, that one has been lfately 
dubbed a knight by the fword of a king; 
and that a fecond was the prime mmifer, 
and the laft the penfioner, of a fovereign 
prince ! 
Mailet du Pan was the editor of the 
political department of the ‘* Mercure 
de France.’ This journal was pubiifh- 
ed once a week, and hada moft aftoniffi- 
ing fale, as it was calculated to gratify 
all parties ; for while a citizen of Geneva 
preached up tyranzy in one part, M. de 
la Harpe, although born within the very 
clutches of French defpotifm, adorned 
the literary department, which had been 
confided to his charge, with the moff 
animated and brilliant paffages in favour 
of liberty. 
After the revolution, it was not likely 
that M. du Pan fhouid find a very fecure 
afylum in France—no 3; he himfelf beaits 
that his papers were twice fealed up; 
that he was thrice afiaulted ; had three 
decrees iffued againft him; and during 
four years, never went to bed with the 
hope cf finding himielf alive in the morn- 
ing ! 
Having at length effcéted his efeape 
from Paris, he retired to Brufiels, and 
in 1793 publifhed his celebrated pam- 
phlet called “¢ Confiderations fur la Nature 
de la Revolution de France, & fur les 
Caufe; quien prolongent la Durée, &e.” 
In this traét he loudly laments that the 
feparate views ot the combined powers 
had rendered the icheme for fubjugating 
race 
