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Afaph, when after carrying his oppofition te 
Mr. Erfkine-éven to threats -and commands, 
he felt conftrained to withdraw them. Mr. 
Erfkine had put a queftion to the jury rela- 
tive to the-meaning of their verdia: Mr. 
Juftice Buller objeéed to its propriety: the 
counfel repeated it, and perfifted in demanding 
an anfwer,-the judge again interpofed his 
authority in-thefe emphaticwords--‘¢ Sit down, 
Mr. Erikine ; know your duty, or I thall be 
obliged to make you know it."—Mr, Erikine 
with equal. animation replied ¢¢ I know my 
duty as well as your lordthip knows yours 5 
Fitand here as the advocate of a fellow citizen 
and I will not jit down. The judge after this 
remained. filent, and the advocate perfifted in 
his queftion. Judge Buller was never in 
parliament; his relation , Francis Buller, a 
major in the Cornwall Militia. was chofen a 
_ reprefentativefor the Borough of "Weftlooe, 
at the general ele€tion in-1762, and this cir- 
cumitance has occafioned many miftakes, by 
one of thefe’ perfons being taken for the other. 
The political worid has loft ‘otie of its bet 
champions in the death of Monfieur Mallet 
du Pan, who expired on Saturday, the roth 
of May, at the houfe of his intimate friend 
the Count de Lally-Tolendal, in Ormond- 
place, “Richmond, Surry. “Soon after. his ar- 
rival in England, nearly three years ago, he 
expétienced an alteration in his conftitution, 
whichhe afcribed to the change of climate ; 
and this indifpofition terminated in that dif. 
order, which in this Ifland appears more in- 
exorable than elfewhere, a confumption. He 
was born in 1749, at Geneva, that cit 
which gave birth to the celebrated philofopher 
Rouffeau, and the no lefs celebrated financier’ 
Necker, of which republic like many of 
his anceftors, he was a citizen. - M: Mallet 
du Pan, according to the cuftom of his cou ntry- 
imen, ‘and efpecially of the Swifs, went 
early into the world to feek his fortune, and 
fixed upon Paris as the great market. en the 
continent for talents of every rate: we do 
not however hear much of him asa maa of ' 
letters till his. concern with the Mercure 
Francois, a publication of confiderable celebrit 
and of which the direG@ion at length fell into 
his hands. The leading article in this print 
Was always underftood to be from his own pei, 
and in this he fhewed more modefty than the 
editors of fimilar publications, in other 
countries, for he did not dire@ the fubjeét 
mattcr to be di 
with leads and fpaces to give it contpicuity, 
but had it printéd ina fmaller letter than 
that which compofed the body of the work, 
His conduct on the firft burft of the revolu- 
tion théws him to have been little more than 
what we in Engiand denominate a Whig, and 
i little lefsghan we now underfand by the 
character of a ‘Tory. In the courfeof this 
Sreat political conteft he was often allailed by 
thofe whofe views and interefts he oppoied and 
through this, and other caufes, he contracted 
an acerbity of temper, whicly nb profef- 
fions of philofophical moderation and im- 
pertiality could cenceal. We do not pre- 
3 
Miinaits of Mallet du Pan. is 
difplayed in larger types, or: 
[July 1, 
was his political profeffion - 
moments ; but we may’ 
fay, without fear of contradi@tion, it be- 
ing known to all anatomifts, that by look-— 
ing too earnefily on an objeétand then fhut- 
ting the eye, the figure and form -of the 
obje& remains on the retina, but is never- 
thelefs found to affumé a different hue. His 
Mercure Britannique whicly he fet up foon after 
his arrival in England, was difeontinuea a 
fhort time before his deceafe. Its ee as 
an Anti-jacobin we believe, did not al together 
gratify the hopes of its moft fanguine fupport- 
ers. In the laft literary campaign he made. 
in France, his banner was infcribed with the 
words les parliamentaires, but on the afcendancy 
of the Briffotines he was compelled te rétreat 
from the republic after making a fruitlefs at- 
tempt to rally with the Malouets and Lallys. 
The political horizon grew more and more 
Sioudy, and the Mercure fell into the hands of 
Poultier, with whom he has fince had a- 
literary and political quarrel. The new com- 
batant on the fame fide endeavoured to preferve 
the keen edge ofthis once powerful weapon, 
but it was now found too impotent againit 
the numerous literary adverfaries who ftarted 
up every day: the valor therefore of our 
modern Patrocles, tho? clad in Achilles? 
armour, could not tertify his fans culottesene- 
mies, and he was himfelf, after the memorable 
roth of Auguft, obliged to Hee from the field’ 
of battle. In the next year (1793) Monfieur 
Mallet du Pan tool up his quarters at 
Bruffel’, where he publithed, Confidérations fur - 
ta Nature de la Rewoluticon de France, & fur les 
Caufes gue ex Prolonge la Durée. Here again 
he experienced the fate of many great warriors, 
being compelled to fall back’ upon Holland, - 
At Leyden the next year 1794 he fent another 
tract from the prefs in the way of a trumpet 
of Alarm, and called it, “Les Dangers gui 
menac.nt Europe. ‘His quarters a third time 
were beaten up, and he took pot atVienna, 
where he with more fafety to himfelf, but 
with lefs annoyance to the foe, Tet off 
féveral political cpufcules. In the capital of 
Germany he was not quite at his eafe, and 
was befides too far from the feene of a@ion 
to wield his pen with full effe@. He had 
fome thoughts of taking up. a permanent fe- — 
fidencein Switzerland, near his native place; 
bat Bonaparte occafioned his expulfion 
With that of a few others, by exprefs defire, 
London appeared now the only fafe garrifon 
left for the .profecution of his pen-and-ink 
défence of the old caufe. It is faid that Lewis 
XVI. when near his end, repofed confi- 
dence in him, and once entrufed him with 
a ipecial commifion to Germany: he was | 
hdwever far from enjoying the good opinion 
of thofe who had been moftabout the perfon 
of that unfortunate monarch. When the par- 
tizans of Royalty were preparing tao fly in 
all direétions, thofe who refolved to ftay be- 
hind complained’ of the ‘inefficacy of M. 
Mallet du Pan’s réafoning, which could not 
Keep othe fugitives at their pofts. Cur xon 
rewiratur Htures? It muft however be ac- 
knewledged 
tend to know what 
de fai in his laf 
