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the age of manhood, than his powerful 
intereft procured him a foreign miffion. 
Fle accordingly accompanied the baron 
de Breteuil to Switzerland, and refided 
with him fome time at Soleure. Thence 
he repaired with the fame Munifter to 
Sweden, witneffed, and if I miflake not, 
affifted in that memorable revolution, the » 
event of which has demonftrated, how 
eafy it is for a king, aided by a flanding 
army, a parafiticai nobility, and a few 
foldiers of fortune, to everturn the li- 
Derties of a nation. 
When count d’Adhelmar was fent am- 
baffador to this country, he avas accom- 
panied by the prefent diréGtor 3 and on 
his return to Paris, M.B. who. before 
was fecretary of legiiation, became mi- 
nifter plenipotentiary. He allo refided 
here for a contiderable time, during the 
embafly of M. de la Lucerne. 
In the mean time, a great revolution 
wvas infenfibly preparing in his native 
country ; aad it was his fingular good 
fortune, notwithftanding his decla red as 
verfion to it, to be benefited by the 
event. His family had. been proteéted 
by the aoblefi, and both himlelf and 
his uncle had received many marks of 
attachment from Louis XVI. It was 
accordingly imagined, that he would Rave 
openly joined the emigrants ; one of two 
things, -however, muft have occurred: 
ether he became a fincere convert to 
the principics of the republicans, and 
acted from a conviction of the goodnefs 
of their caufe; or, he concealed ne fenti- 
ments, and, affecting to be the open ene- 
my of the royalifts, facrificed his opinion 
to his ain dition. 
fe w as Switzerland, a fchool of his 
juvenile years, that was deitined to be- 
come the theatre of his- glory. . There 
he fir cpened the diplomatic powers 
Ty 
entrufied ro him as minilier of the new 
commonwealth, and it is but judice. to 
d, that he conducted himfelf through- 
C a ne 
en 
Vi 
When he made his D 
polit heal hemifphere, ike was tested a 
contempt, nay even with iiult; but 
magic of fuccefs. that fame 
no fooner began to difplay her gigantic 
’ powers, than he found means firft to get 
himfele acknowledged as the minifter of 
she pee and foon afterwards to en- 
ter into advantageous alliances with the 
ery fiates which had been its bittereft 
énemies. ae 
M. Barthelemy was eleéte 
eirecivrale In the moft hunourable 
fuch iS the 
o the 
“qnan- 
Original Anzcdotes —Barthelemy....Sallicetti. 
ee of i political 
ner. Declining pomp and parade, he 
repaired to Paris, by a different route 
than that expected, and thus avoided the 
envy which er accompanies popu- 
larity. On his firft interview with his 
colleagues, he ribl icly proclaimed him- 
felf a friend to peace. He-is fince f{2id 
to have been in a minority in the cabinet, 
as he has fided with Carnot againft the~ 
other three directors, with whom they 
have differed on almoft every fubjeé. 
M. Barthelemy fucceeded Letourneur 
in the direé bony, who went out by lot; 
the latter has fince been employed to con- 
duct the negociation at Lifle. 
SALICETTE 
Is a native of Baftia, in Corkies, His 
family, which is one of the beft in the 
ifland, is known and efteemed through- 
out Italy, on account ef his great uncle, 
Monfignar Sal:cetti, a prelate of diftin- 
guithed knowledge and learning. 
Salicetti was educated at the univerfite 
of Pifa, and afterwards brought up te 
the bar; he even praGifed fora confi- 
derable tipi in the capital of his native 
country, but would moft probably have 
lived and died in obdfcurity, if the French 
revolution had not raifed him to celebrity. 
Scon after that event, he was appointed a 
deputy to the National Aflembly, and 
While in that fituation, acquired the re- 
pugs of a learaed civilian, and an 
excellent patriot; while on the other 
hand, his colleagues, Arena, Buttafouoco, 
&c. exhibited many {ymptoms of contract- 
ed minds, and ariftocratical prejudices. 
On the sth Dec. 1790, the gratitude of 
his countrymen was evinced, by a deputa- 
tion to the National Agembly, exprefsly 
entrufed with orders to praife the conduct 
of Salicetti,and blame that of hiscolleagues. 
The coté drat, or court party, took fire at 
the lan guage made ufe of by the Corfican 
vho delivered the fpeech; M. de Ja 
Chaize moved, thar he fhould be com- 
mitted to prifon ; and the abbé Maury, 
infifted, that. the mott exemplary juftice 
fhould be infliéted on the calumniator. 
Mirabeau, however, not only palliated, 
but even applauded the conduct.of the 
deputation ; for he read feveral original 
ees from “the Corfican reprefentatives, 
in which the majority of the affembly 
was defcribed, as.an impious, rebellious, 
and immoral crew. 
Soon after his return to his native coun» 
try, an event wnich took place on the 
breaking up of the Jegiflative body, Salis 
cetti was elected (in September, 1792) a 
deputy to the National Convention, where 
he exhibited frequent proofs of a decided 
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