1798.) 
his part, finds the caufe of the fecond in the 
weaknefs of the human mind, ever paffion- 
ately fond of the marvellous and of fuper- 
natural oracles. ., 
The expreffions made ufecf by Ariftotle 
in his recital, give our colleague an occa- 
fion to inveftigate the queftion, what is the 
meafure which the Greeks denote, by an . 
expreflion very much ufed among them : 
fuch a fpace of the Axe of a hall with three, 
‘ten, or twelve couches (lits de table). 
' The third recital refpeéts the clive-tree, 
the branches of which formed at Olympus 
the crown of the victors. The celebrity 
of the Olympic. games diffufes of itfelf 
‘a lively intereft over the fmalleft details 
concerning thofe national feafts. But, 
independently of a motive fo noble and 
fo powerful over republican fouls, Citi- 
zen CAMUS excites the attention of the 
reader, by a critical difcuffion of the 
fext, and-by a botanical difcuffion on the 
nature of the tree delcribed by Ariftotle. 
He is induced to think that this tree is 
the olea fylveftris, folio mollt incano, of 
many ancient botanilts, and the eleagnus 
of Tournefort and Linnzus. 
Citizen DusauLx read a work inti- 
titled, ‘ Of my Conueclions ‘and Corre- 
fpondence with Fean Facques Rouffeau.” 
This is a writing full of literary anec- 
dotes, and new traits. Some will excite 
a groan in the foul of fenfibility, relative 
to the cruel deftiny of the illuftrious citi- 
zen ot Geneva; others command the re- 
{pe&t and admivation which he has fo 
well merited of his cotemporaries and 
poiterity. ; 
The author has chofen this epigraph: 
Sinz ira et odio, quorum caufas procul ha- 
beo. Tac. * Without animofity, or 
hatred, fentiments foreign from my heart.” 
He has performed more than he pro- 
mifed.. His impartiality may be judged 
of, by the merceau we fhall here tran- 
{cribe : 
«¢ My colleagues; I have only fhewn you 
Jean Jacques at variance with himfelf, 
that is to fay, a prey to the accefs of fo rooted 
a.melancholy, that he was.no longer in a 
capacity to meafure back his fteps. Ihave 
only fhewn him to you as paying to human 
nature the tribute of weaknefs, which no 
mortal is exempt from; but you are juft, and 
you think with me, that it is not by domef- 
tic manners and particular connections that 
it is fitting hereafter to appreciate a writer, 
inceflantly agitated by a love for the public 
good, and whofe glory and fuccefs have been 
ublifhed by fame through all Europe. A 
rival of Plato; itis in his immortal works, 
that the true Jean Jacques has depi¢ted him- 
felf ig traits of fire, His involuayary errors 
National Inftitute, 15th Nivofe, 1498. 
. will fall into oblivion, What he poffeffed of 
a 
44¥, 
fair, of great, of fublime, will live in the’ 
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memory of men. 
Tt is thus that Citizen DUSAULX tere” 
minates the taithtul recital of his con-~ 
nections and coireipondence with JEAN 
Jacques. He propofes joon to commit 
this work to the prefs, 
Two morceaux of poetry have been 
prefented to the clafs; one by Citizen’ 
CoLiin-HaRLeIRuce, the other by Ci=” 
tizen CHENIER. ‘The firft is a detached 
{cene of a comedy, intitled, “ Les Nou-* 
weaux Enrichés.”? 
The fecond has for ti+ 
tle, ** Le Vicillard @ Ancenis; a Poem on™ 
the Death of General Foche.’ The author 
is to recite it in this fitting. 
Citizen PEYRE has fubmitted to the ’ 
clafs the project of a monument confe- 
crated 10 widtory and peace. 
defenders of the country, returning to 
The brave ’ 
their hearths, would come with a trophy | 
worthy of them and of their chiefs, to 
depofe in a republican temple the arms 
which have immortalized their valour, 
This temple exifts already more than a * 
century, the admiration of Europe; and” 
gratitude, mixed with love and venera- 
tion, is due from all the friends of liberty, © 
to the citizens whofe blood has been fpilt - 
for thein. It is the Dome des Invalides. 
v 
Citizen CHALGRIN, architect, had con-" 
ceived the project of making it the depot ’ 
ef our trophies. In the plan of Citizen 
bee 
PEYRE, the two projects may be eafily 
reconciled. 
The ftatue of peace would rife with 
majeity on the place where the principal - 
altar was placed, and the chifel of the 
artift would indicate to the people the be- - 
nefits with which peace is about to re- 
plenifh them. 
In the center of the dome would bea 
groupe, reprefenting the French Repub- * 
lic, which receives an olive branch from 
the hands of victory. She would fix her 
looks on the ftatue of peace. Victory 
would thew her the trophies of the re-. 
pudlican phalanxes united to the chef- 
dawuvres of the arts. In the focle of 
the pedeftai, the igure of abundance in 
baffo relievo, would gather from an olive 
tree fruits of different kinds, with which 
fhe would fill her cornucopia. A number 
of genii would be actively employed in ga~- 
thering fruits and prefenting them to 
her. ; 
The four fmall cupolas would be deco- 
rated by trophies in marble, groupes of _ 
laurel, olive branches, with the ftatues and 
attribute of agriculture, commerce, the 
polite and mechanic arts. 
Citizen 
