Retrofped of French Literature—School Boo}, 
were attenced with all the difagreeable 
incidents that might be expeéted from 
fuch an origin. Having efcaped from his 
_miferable lodgings, he became fucceffively 
page to a foreiyn ambaffador, and drum- 
mer in an Jrifh regiment employed in 
the expedition which the Chevalier de 
St. George, better known by the name 
of the Pretender, projected againft Great 
Britain at the inftigation of the old go- 
vernment of France. 
Having been, at length, taken pri- 
foner, he faves himfelf in the moft extra- 
ordinary manner imaginable, and we find 
him foon after at Dunkirk, where he fics 
out a privateer, takes feveral rich prizes 
belonging to this country; and having 
acquired confiderable wealth, repairs to 
Paris, in order to {pend his money, under 
the affumed name of M. de la Thomat- 
fiere, into which he had converted his 
own, by way of concealing the obfcurity 
of his origin. ! 
Having foon ruined himfelf by extra- 
vagance and bad company, he becoines a 
capuchin friar on purpofe to avoid the 
fcaffuld. A convent, however, could not 
confine him within proper bounds; but 
on his committing a few peccadilloes, his 
brethren configned him to a dungeon. 
There he remained during twenty years, 
and would have remained for life, had 
not the revolution intervened. Being de- 
livered in confequence of this memorable 
event, infiead of attempting to lead a 
virtuous and honourable life, he becomes 
a maffacreur (murderer) under the 20= 
vernment of the ever infamous Robef- 
pierre, and is of courfe rewarded and 
protected by the modern Nero. 
The defpot being on his fide, he re- 
turns once more to Dunkirk, and fits out 
a privateer, on board. of which he dif- 
plays equal fkill and valour. Having 
retired tu a defert ifland with his booty, 
he declares himfelf independent, and con- 
flitutes a republican government in his 
new colony, the fundamental law of 
which ftates, that he fhall always be 
mofier. ‘Che conftitution impofed by 
“ my uncle-Thomas” contains many fa- 
tirical animadverfions on all the. confti- 
tutions propofed to and adopted by the 
French nation, being a parody of the 
principal articles. At length, however, the 
ravages of the members of the new com- 
monwealth attraét the notice of the 
Englith and Spaniards, who fit out an 
expedition again{ft the freebooters, and 
‘the chief being killed in an engaye- 
ment, his affociates fubmit to the vittors. 
2d. the analyfis of their principles ; 
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