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progreis; a circum@ance that affected him 
greatly, and forced him often to flied tears. 
The elder Sédaine, having at length procured a 
etty office in the iron-works of Berry, he 
followed him thither, and beheld this unhappy 
parent die from mere vexation. After paying 
his laft duties, young Sédaine determined to 
repair to Paris, in fearch of bis mother, whom 
he had left there, with one of his brothers. 
In cofnpliance with this plan, he took a place 
in the ftage-coach for another brother, who had 
gone with him into Berry, but, as after paying 
the fare, the fum of eighteen franks (about 
fifteen fhillings) conftituted the whole of his 
fortune, he accompanied the carriage on foot, 
and as the weather proved cold, he covered the © 
fhoulders of the little boy with his own coat. 
All the travellers were affeéted with this 
circumftance, and the ccachman was fo much 
pleafed with it, that he, in his turn, became 
difinterefted, and feated the generous youth by 
nis fide onthe coach-bex. On his arrival in 
the capital, he found his family to confit of 
two children, younger than himfeif, and a wi- 
dowed mother, at once poor and helplefs. In 
arder to. fupport them, he became a day-la- 
bourer, and aétually gained a livelihood for the 
whole, by scutting; he, at length, 
with much pains, and great> difficulty, was 
enabled to procure for his remaining parent .2n 
afylum in a convent at Montaar, where fhe 
fpent the remainder of her days in happinefs 
‘and tranquillity. . Fortwne had done every thing 
in her power to ftifle chofe talents which were 
one day to receive due homage ; but nature 
proved too ftrong for her, and Sedaine became 
a dramatic poet, notwithfanding the many, 
and feemingly infurmountable obitacles thrown 
in his way. -Molitre, Montagne, and Shak- 
fpeare, were the great models whom. he re- 
fpeSted, confulted, «and fiudied; there was, 
alfo, a wonderful fund of fympathy in his own 
boiom, for he never liftened to the recital of 
any ation, in which the intereft of humanity 
proved triumphant, without becoming affected 
even to tears. Without recapitulating the names 
ef any other young men, whom he, in his turn, 
patronized, when he had attained eminence, it 
will be fufficient to mention that of David. 
It was he who firit put a pencil into the hand 
of that artit; he, alfo, afiged him with his 
purie, after he had obtained an apartment at 
the Louvre, and, thus as it were, beftowed on 
his country, the immortal painter of Brutus, 
and the Horatli.. Sédeine received a chair in 
the Fiench Academy, in confequence of the 
tuccefs of his Richard Caur de Lien, and was 
intimately connected with all the men of letters, 
and all the artifts of his time; in particular, 
’ Wailly, Peyre, Pajou, Duces, David, &c. He 
was indifferent as to weaithy but the republic, 
¢onfcious of his worth and talents, beftowed a 
dum of money on him, a few months before his, 
end, This refpectable old man died a few weeks 
“hace, in the ayms uf a family that adored him, 
and he was accompanied to his grave by thofe 
Deaths Abroad.—Citizen Sédaint...Adr. Brown. 
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At Philadelphia, Mr. Andrew Brown, the 
re{pectable printer of the Federal Gazette. 
His death was accafoned, and attended by the 
following melancholy and fingularly tragical 
circumftances :——Mr. Brown, his wile, and 
George, his fon, were at the Circus, on Thurf- 
day evening, the 26.b of Jan. lat. A tudden 
indifpofition of Mrs. Brown obliged them to 
retire before the performauces were terminated. 
On-their return home, Mrs. Brown and the 
children went to bed before ten o’clock.—»-lr. 
Brown remained writing, till near eleven o’clock, 
He was accuftomed to keep large quantities of 
afhes in the back part of the fiove: to this cir- 
cumftance, which arofe from what he conceived 
prudent precaution, was, probably owing the 
deftru@tion of his family: for it is_ believed, 
that the log which he raked up, was, by mcans 
of the afhes behind it, kept fo far forwards, as 
to caufe it, when it broke in the middle, to 
fall on the floor; where the fire caught fome 
loofe papers.—-Be this as it may, it is likely 
that the fire commenced foon after he retired to 
‘bed3 and that it fpread flewly, from want of 
air to nourldh it.—Mr,. Brown roie about five 
o'clock, and quickly found the perilous fitu- 
ation of his’ family and fortune. His fir ftep 
was to call Joudly to Mrs. Brown, and the reft 
of the family, to-rife and take care of them- 
felves. Then, with the affifiance of a white 
and biack jervant, and an apprentice, he eflayed 
to extinguifh the flames, by quantities of water 
brought from a neighbouring pump. In this 
ineiteétual attempt they {pent about eight or 
“ten minutes; but the frefh air that rufhed 
tirough the freet-door added fuch fury to the 
till then dormant flames, that they forced a 
paflage through the office-window, and through 
the ceiling, clofe by the bed-chamber. door 5 
thence they feized the ftair-cafe between the 
fecond and third (ory, and a fulid column of 
fixe and {moke iffued upwards, and into’ the 
adjacent roonss.—Ia the interim, Mrs. Brown, 
on the firft alarm, ftarted from bed, amd, un- 
drefled-as fhe was,>ran dowm fairs... Her eldef 
daughter, Mary, had) Ukewile. come down. 
Alarming as were appearances at this Time, the 
danger did not deem by any means fo imminent 
as it really was. It was judged, as the Gre was 
then confined to one room, that there would be 
time to run up fiairs, and put ona few clothes. 
Another motive had weight with "the . fond 
mother: two of her children were full up fairs, 
and in danger of perifhing; female delicacy and 
parental affeCtion combined therefore to impel 
. Mys.°B. to afcend thofe ftairs, which fhe was 
never to de(cend with Jife.— All this occurred 
between the firft difcovery of the fire, and the 
moment of its forcing a paflage upwards. Mrs. 
Brown had. dreffed herfelf, and ber daughter 
Betfey, and with that cbild was at the room 
door of the third fiory, when an irrefiftible 
torrent of flames and fmoke hurried her inte 
eteinity.—W hile fhe remained at the dear, one 
of the apprentices attemptedto pafs by her, but 

fhe forced him back te arefs himfelf, perhaps 
+ whem be loved and ¢ficemed, ' not deeming the danger Jo urgent as is really 
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