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republican fpirit ;-he was the fole Cor- 
fican deputy who voted for the execu- 
tion of Louis XVI. He was alfo one of 
the-party of the Mountain, and acted a 
confiderable part during the reign of | 
Robefpierre. From the autumn of 1793, 
to the autumn of 1794, he was employed 
conftantly in a public capacity, having 
been fent fucceffively to the fouthern pro- 
vinces, and to the army of Italy. It is 
to his zeal that the French are indebted 
for the conqueft of Wado and Savona, in 
the riviera of Genoa.» Notwithftanding 
thefe fervices, he was expofed to great 
perfecutions during the fummer of 1795: 
for at that period, the odium very juftly. 
attached to a few, had, avith the greateft 
injuftice been transferred to all the depu- 
ties of the Mountain, many of whom 
Were imprifoned in confequence of the 
popular infurreétions of the /aurbourg 
St. Antoine, on the 12th Germinal, and 
t Prairial. Salicetti was threatened with 
the fame fate, but he avoided it by croff- 
ing’the territories’of the republic sacogzito, 
under the difguife of a Genoefe mer- 
chant, in which affumed charaéter,. he 
embarked, without moleftation, at Mar- 
feilles. From Genoa, where he was 
claimed ‘by the French minifter (citizen 
Villard) he repaired to Venice, where 
he refided until the new conftitution was 
‘accepted, and an amnefty granted. He 
returned to Paris during the winter of. 
1796, and found means to ingratiate him- 
felf with the direétory ; in confequence 
ef which, he was once more employed 
as commiffioner to the army of Italy, in 
the courfe of the f{ummer 1796. In the 
_ “defence of his native country, againft the 
Englifh, he took an active part, and con- 
tributed not a little to the evacuation of 
Corfica. 
Salicetti is at prefent a member of the 
council of five hundred. He is about 
forty years of age, tall, well fhaped, elo- 
quent, and courageous. He is accufed of 
having acquired a fortune of four mil- 
lions of Frerch livres, during his miffion 
into Italy; but a charaéter like his is 
not likely to be tinétured with avarice, 
whichis generally the concomitant of.a 
little anda narrow mind. 

_£In confequence of our inability to give place to 
thefe articles of French Biography, in fo ra- 
pid a manner as is wifhed by many of our 
Readers, it is propofed to publifh, in the 
courfe of three or tour weeks, a Duodecimo 
Volume of “© Anecdotes of the Founders of 
the French Republic, and of other eminent Cha~ 
vaéters, conne&ted with the Events of the 
French Revolation.’”} 
Original Anecdotes—Salictttio.. Default. 
DESAULT. 
Perer JosapH DEsAvuLt, fargeon= 
in-chief to the Hofpital of Humanity 
(ci-devant Hotel-Dicu) at Paris; was 
born on the 6th of February, 1744, at 
Magny -Vernois, a village in the neigh- 
bourhood of Lure, in the department of 
Haute Sa6ne (formerly the province of 
Franche Comté). His father and mother 
were in that fituation of life which is re- 
moved from want, and yet does not dif- 
penfe with labour; he himfelf was the 
younger child of a numerous family. 
At Lure, under the dire€tion of a pri- 
vate inftructor, he was taught the firft 
rudiments of the Latin tongue; his 
parents afterwards confided him to the 
care of the Jefuits, then almoft exclu- 
fively entrufted with the education of 
youth in the public {chools.. This cele- 
brated- fociety, prompt in difcovering, as 
expert at developing, and adroit in ap- 
propriating talents, foon diftinguifhed — 
the young ftudent from the crowd; and 
he, in his turn, was not difpleafed with; 
the life he led in one of their feminaries. 
On the completion of his ftudies, his 
father, who had deftined him for the 
church, intimated a with that he fhould > 
apply himfelf to theology ; but his genius 
had taken a different direction, and he 
was averfe to the profeffion of an eccle- 
fiaftic: in fhort, young DesauLT de- 
clared that he was determined to betake 
himfelf to the ftudy of the healing art, 
and, after a long and ineffectual refitt- 
ance on the part of his family, he was 
fent to Béfort, in order to ferve an apprex- 
tice/bip, as it was then termed, in the 
military hofpital of that place. He ac- 
cordingly {pent three, years there, during 
which he acquired fome knowledge of 
anatomy, attended to the drefling of the 
patients, and endeavoured to fupply, by 
his own obfervations, what was wanting 
in his inflruétion. \ 
In the mid& of thefe profeffional 
labours, his mind frequently rambled 
towards another fcience but little con- 
neéted with furgery: this was mathe- 
matics, the elements of which he had ac- 
quired among the Jefuits. His progrefs 
in this favourite ftudy was rapid, bat he 
fell into one of the many errors fo. com- 
mon among the phyficians of that day: . 
this confifted in a falfe application of the 
rules of geometry to the laws of the 
animal economy. 
He not only perufed, with avidity, the 
treatife of Borelli de Motz animalium, but- 
aétually tranflated ‘the whole of it, and 
eyen added a commentary, ftill more 
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