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Flowers, are confidered as the beft among 
them. | 
In philofophy and morals, an Effay on 
Luxury ; another on the Love of our 
country ; a Commentary on the Civiliza-.- 
tion of the Eighteenth Century ; a fmall 
‘Treatife on the Slave-Trade; or, Differ- 
tation on Natural Probity ; and an Effay 
. 
Extraéis from a Port-folio of a Man of Letters. [ December, 
on Metaphyfical Writings, placé Count 
’ Roberti in the fame honourable rank among 
philofophers, which he holds among poets 
and orators.—A complete colleétion of his 
works was publifhed in Baffano, after his 
death, by Mefl. Remondini, in 1789, in 14 
vol, duodecimo. 
Extraéis from a Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
ANAGRAM OF JABLONSKI. 
K / HEN Staniflaus, king of Poland, 
returned from his travels, his re- 
jatives of the noble family of Lefcinfki 
affembled at their palace in Liffa, to wel- 
come his return with feftivity. Jablonfki, 
then rector of the fchool at Liffa, and af- 
terwards court-chaplain at Berlin, held on 
this occafion an adfum oratorium, as it was 
called, in which the more learned boys 
publicly exhibited their acqnirements, by 
repeating, in prefence of the prince, their 
oratoric and metrical compofitions. After 
the intellectual difplay, thirteen of the lads 
executed an heroic dance: each had a fhield 
on his arm, infcribed with a letter ofxthe 
alphabet. At the end of the firft move- 
ment, the dancers were arranged in a row, 
‘fo as to exhibit on their fhields the words 
DOMUS LESCINIA, in large golden 
letters. At the fecond paufe was pre- 
fented ADES INCOLUMIS. After the 
third, appeared OMNIS ES LUCIDA. 
After the fourth, OMNE SIS LUCIDA, 
~ After the fitth, MANE SIDUS LOCI. 
After the fixth, SIS COLUMNA DEI. 
And at the conclufion, I SCANDE 
SOLIUM, 
BUONAPARTE. 
Great men almoft always entertain a 
pre-fentiment of their future elevation. 
Fifteen months before Buonaparte was ap- 
“pointed commander in chief cf the army, 
which he invariably led on to viétory, he 
formed the plan of the conquef of Italy. 
Being at that time at Toulon, he took a 
pleafure in communicating it to the fecre- 
tary-generalof one of the reprefentatives of 
the people, upon-a miffion in the South. 
The Secretary afterwards related this 
firiking faét to the author of this article. 
—‘* Buonaparte,”’ - faid he, ** had con- 
quered Italy before he attacked it.” 
Scarcely had Buonaparte begun to make 
trial of his plan, when a general confter- 
nation was diffuled through the Auftrian 
army. Collz, one of the generals, could 
not repre{s his indignation. Retiring to 
an inn at Turin, he could not tefrain trem 
and of Ronco ?”’ 
tears ; and was repeatedly heard to ftamp 
and exclaim, ‘* If a man of twenty or 
thirty years’ fervice had been oppofed to 
me, I fhould not have cared. But a boy? 
a boy !” ; 
It was above all to the fevere difcipline 
that Buonaparte eftablifhed in his army, 
that he was indebted for his: prodigious 
faccefs. He was never afraid to {peak 
truth before the face of any man. One — 
day, when his room was crowded with of- — 
ficers, he caft a terrible look upon one of 
them: ** T knew,” faid he, ** that you were ~ 
a coward; but I did not know that you 
were a knave.” 
A fum of feven hundred and fifty thou- 
fand livres, which had been taken from the 
contributions impofed upon Verona, and 
put into the military ~cheft, was diftri- 
buted by Angereau to the different ftaff- 
officers who happened to be in that city 
at the time of the capitulation. The 
maximum of the. gratification was ten 
thoufand livres ; the minimum fix hun- 
dred : each foldier received twenty-four. 
This diftribution did not pleafe Buona- 
parte : ‘“* What fhall we give,” faid he, 
<©to the conquerors of Lodi, of Arcola, 
He immediately. or- 
dered a fum equivalent toa fortnight’s pay 
to be given to eveny officer who had re- - 
ceived nothing. 
It is faid that an ambaflador was fecret- 
Jy fent to Charles XII. of Sweden, by » 
Peter the Great, to folicit peace. He 
found him ina clofet, alone, and occupied 
in looking over a map, in order to find out 
the fhorteft road to Mofcow. -Scarcely 
had the ambaffador uttered a few words, 
which announced the objectof his miffion, 
when Charles XII. rudely interrupted him ; 
<¢ T will treat with your mafter,” faid he 
‘Cin his palaceat Mofcow.’? Buonaparte, 
in a private conference with Prince Charles, 
behaved with as much pride, but with 
more decency. With one hand he pre- 
fented to him the olive branch,’ in the 
other he held a fword. ‘* Accept peace,” 
faid he, ‘¢ or content yourfelf with a place 
of municipal officer at Vienna.” 
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