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ANECDOTES OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
REVOLUTIONARY ANECDOTES. 
[Intereffing and Original Anecdotes of the 
French Revolution; to be continued iz a 
regular feries from its commencement to 
the prefent period, and including its fecret 
biffory.] 
MIACZINSKY. 
F all thote who perifhed upon the 
fcaffold, in confequence of Dumou- 
rier’s treachery, the man, who appeared 
to excite the frongeft intereft in the pub- 
lic mind, was Miaczinfky, ci-devant 
Maréchal de Camp. . He was a Pole by 
birth, and nephew to Prince Radzivil, 
well known by his long refidence at Paris. 
From his early youth he had ever fhewn 
himfelf ftrong attached to France. Ap- 
pointed Grand Marfhal of the confederacy 
formed in Poland againft the Ruffians, and 
the King’s party, he exhaufted his whole 
fortune, which amounted to feveral millions 
of livres, in the fupport of that affociation 
to which Louis XV. and the intrigues of 
the Duke de Choifeul had given birth. 
He beat the Ruffians, whom he detefted, 
feveral times; but his party being weakly 
fupported by the Court of Verfailles, 
which contented itfelf with fending a few 
French gentlemen to join him, Miaczinfky 
was at laft obliged to abandon his country. 
‘Taking refuge in France, he was foon re- 
duced to the extreme of poverty, no part 
of the money he had advanced in the name 
of Louis XV. to fupport the confederacy 
being reftored tohim, At length, over- 
whelmed with debts, and perfecuted by his 
creditors, he retired to the Temple, at that 
time the facred afylum of infolvent debtors. 
After long folicitations, however, Ver- 
gennes, Minifter for Foreign Affairs, ob- 
tained for him a penfion of fix thoufand 
livres, which, owing to the diftrefs of the 
times, was badly ‘paid. 
From that moment every fentiment of 
honour and delicacy appeared to be ba- 
nifhed from his breaft. He became a 
gamefter from defpair, and loft all thofe 
qualities which had diftinguifhed him at 
the age ‘of twenty-five. When the Revo- 
lution brought on a rupture with Ruffia, 
he folicited and obtained fervice from the 
new government, with the hope of being 
employed againft the Ruffians, and of re- 
eftablifhing his fortune ; his old connexions 
with Dumourier confirming this hope, 
when that general obtained the chief com- 
mand. ‘The latter had been the fpy of 
the Cabinet of Verfailles at Warfaw. It 
was to his order, and in the name of 
Louis XY. that Miaczinfky had paid the 
money neceflary for the fupport of the 
confederacy ; and at the time of the firft 
National Affembly, Dumourier had backed 
one of his: memorials, claiming an indem- 
nification, upon condition of their fharing: 
between them whatever fums he might be 
allowed. This condition, impofed by the 
French General, rendered Muaczinfky fe- 
cretly his enemy. It appears, howevery 
that notwithftanding: his averfion to Du. 
mourier, he was no ftranger to his treafon- 
able plans; being, perhaps, either feduced 
by his ambition, or, in his quality of noble, 
an enemy tothe popular party. Having 
undertaken to furprife Lille, he prefented: 
himfelf at the gates of that city with five 
thoufand men; but Demourier’s treachery 
was already known; and the commandant 
would only receive him attended by a fmalf 
efcort. As foon as he was within the 
place, he was taken into cuftody, fent a 
prifoner to Paris, tried and condemned to 
die, as an accomplice of Dumourier.. 
Miaczinfky, during the whole courfe of — 
his trial, conftantly denied that he had any 
knowledge of Dumourier’s treachery, anc 
perfilted in afGrming that he had only pre- 
fented himfelf at the gates of Lille, in order 
to deliver a letter to the Commandant. 
So much intereft did he excite in the minds 
of the fpeftators, and even of the judges 
who condemned him, that his execution 
was refpited.—He perifhed at the age of 
forty-five, a victim at once of his unfortu- 
nate connexions, and of his own difpofition. 
He left two children, the miferable fruit of 
his marriage with a French woman, the 
daughter of a taylor. This woman, with 
whom ke had become acquainted in Po- 
land, and who had not always had reafon 
to be fatisfied with his condué&, laviflied 
on him every mark of the tendereft affec- 
tion to the laft moment of his life. The 
two children receive their education at the 
French Prytaneum, and, from their talents 
and behaviour, are already confidered as 
youths of the higheft promife. : 

SECREF CAUSE OF THE ATROCITIES 
PRACTISED AT LYONS. 
Oftentimes, in the thick gloom of a 
foreft, a whiftle colleéts a band of robbers, 
who rufh upon the paffenger, ftrip, and 
murder him. This fignal for the com- 
miffion of crimes is atrocious, but it only 
affects individuals. The annals of the 
French republic will have to record far 
more fatal whiftles,* the found of which 

* Whiftling, not hiffing, is the theatrical ex- 
preflion of difcontent upon the Continent. The 
cat-calls there, are fimply whiftles. 
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