1797-4 
in Vauban, fell into his hands, on the rath of 
November. Here his fucce {Tes terminated, and 
his genius was-compelled to yield to the enthu- 
fiafm of the republicans, under the command of 
Pichegru and Hoche. On the 8th of Decem- 
ber, his army was driven from Haguenau, with 
immente lols; on the 26th, from Weiffembourg, 
and finally acrofs the Rhine. ‘The laft fervice 
in which Marfhal Wurmfer was employed, was 
to attempt the relief of Mantua, when befieged 
by Buonaparte. 
it is unmeceffary to repeat the details in this 
place. The tactics of Wurmfer proved of little 
avail again(t that phenomenon of military genius, 
Buonaparte; and, after feveral days of hard 
fighting, he was compelled to throw himfelf 
and the wreck of his army into Mantua. The 
brave defence which he made in that city, ren- 
ders its fiege one.of the moit important in mo- 
dern hiftory—the vistor Buonaparte paid a tri- 
bute to his military character, fuch as few men 
have received or deferved from an enemy, 
At Paris, Jean Baptiste Louver, ce- 
lebrated as a reprefentative of the pegple in the 
late National Convention, and as the editor of 
the moft extenfively circulated new‘paper in 
Europe. As a man of letters, Louvet, for 
many years, lived by the exercife of his pen, 
which produced romances, plays, and fore po- 
fitical tra€ts. He conduéted a newfpaper of 
confiderable celebrity, but his Seatine? obtained 
him the greateft renown *. He was chofena 
deputy to the National Convention for the depart- 
ment of the Loiret, having been before admit- 
ted a Jacobin, when that fociety conferred, as it 
were, on its members a diploma of talent and 
civifm. Louvet attached himfelf to the party 
of the Gironde, and was the only ene out of 
feven of that clafs who furvived to return to the 
Convention, having been forced to fly, after the 
infurrection of the 31(t of May, or go to prifen. 
He particularly drew upon himielf the hatred of 
Robefpierre, by an expofition of his ambitious 
defigns, and on that account, the tysant obtain- 
ed his expulfion from the Jacobins. Louvet 
Supported the motion of Salles, for an appeal to 
the people on the judgment. of Louis XVI; 
and this meafure ferved to involve him'in the 
decree of :profcription, The narrative of the 
dangers and hardfhips to which he was exnofed 
in his flight and concealment, as written by 
himfelf, and tranflated into Englifh, is an af- 
fe&ting pifture of human calamity and hair- 
breadth efcapes. He is now dead; and therefore 
his friends and his enemies may fay the bett 
and the worft of him; his career is haifhed, and 
his character is confirmed. It is honourable to 
his memory, to fee that he has always been of 
one opinion with regard to.the revolution, and 
that the opinion of the public, when undeceiv- 
ed, appeared to be the fame with his. He was 
efteemed an amiable man in private life. He 

* He offered a comedy to M. d’Orfeuil, full 
of a republican fpirit, fo early as 17903 but 
was told by/that theatrical manager, that it 
would require the protection of cannon to per- 
fazm it, ; 
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remained in the legiflature after the diffolution 
of the Convention, and diftinguifhed himfelf in 
the latter—as much againft the infidious projects 
of the ropalifs, under the mafk of modéres, as 
he did in the former againft the outrageous 
‘views ofthe Rebe/pierrifs, He entered into 
partnerfhip with arclation, as a bookteller, un- 
i 
der the Piazzas of the Palais Royal, and was - 
nearly affafiimared, within a fhoit diftance of his 
houfe, in the month of July, 1796, by an hired 
ruffian of the difappointed party. Louvet wrote 
his hiftorical niemorandums, while hidden in the 
Caverns of Mount Jura, and is the Grottos of 
Emillion, Louvet was at once an ufeful leffon 
for virtuous patience. and a fair example to ho- 
neft ambition., With talents and no fortune, 
with patriotifm and no influence, he was railed 
to the honourable diftinétion of a legiflator ; 
and, had he lived, was in the fair road to have 
filled the higheft and mof dignified oiKces in 
the republic. 
At Paris, on the 17th of May,,azed 7% 
years, Mrcnaet Joun SEDAINE, one of the 
forty members of the Académie Francaife. —~ 
This dramatic author was folely indebted for his 
fame to nature and to his genius. Abandoned 
by his friends, without fortune, he was, at the 
age of thirteen, obliged to quit his ftudies, in 
which he was little advanced, and to praétife a 
trade for his fubfiftence. He was firft a jour- 
eyman, and then a dmafter mafon, and architeét ; 
which bufinefles he conducted with uncommon 
probity. 
vate literature, and particularly the drama. His 
principal works are, La Gugeure impréuue 3 Le 
Pilof-phe fons le Savoir, in five aéts: he was 
likewife the author of a number of charming 
comic. operas: Rofe <P Calas; On ne Farife jam 
mais de tout; les Sabots; le Ra & le Fermier, 
&c.; and fince he has rifen to higher and mote 
ferious fabjects, he has written Feix, ov 1’ En- 
fant trouve; le Déerteur; Aucafin © Nicolette; 
Richard Caeur do Lisn, &c. Almoft all his 
plays have met with great fuccefs, and fill 
Continue to be performed, The critics have 
fometimes ridiculed the verfification of his 
ariettes, and it is true, that. his poctry is not 
-written in the pureft and moft corre ityle. He 
poilefted; however, a quality of greater confes 
quence to a dramatic writer—the talent of pro- 
ducing ftage etteét. His dialogues almoit al- 
ways bear the admirable charaéter of ftrong 
probability. He writes a play well, who bet 
knows how to make us forget that it has been 
written. Sedaine publifhed, in his youth, a 
colle&tion of poetry ; andin it we do not forget 
the Hfitre a rion Habit, and the canticle of Le 
Lentation de Ssint- Antoine. To diftinguifhed ta-, 
lents he added domettic virtues, and was a good 
hufband, a good father, and valuable friend. He 
poffefied, however, the haughtinefs of foul and 
fimplicity of chara&ter, which are ever the 
chara€teriftics of genius. He was alfo a true 
patriot and a genuine philofopher, never 
changing. his fentiments, as many of his fellow- 
academicians have doi.e, to fuit the circus 
{tances of the time:, and promote. their pecs 
niary intereft. 
PROViEGEA 
Natural inclination Jed him to culti- 
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