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Antony with the fame zeal with which 
the Conful Cicero crufhed Catiline, is no 
fubject of furprize, for it only preferves 
the unity of the piece: but if the fame 
Cicero would direé&t the thunderbolt of 
his elequence with fuch energy and fuccefs 
againft others, his former fame would fink 
in comparifon, and the laft dazzling a¢t of 
the illuftrious drama would be crowned 
with the plaudits of remotelt generations; 
and furely if ever one was fitted to be the 
guardian of the common-wea!, and patron 
of the people, by the endowments of na- 
turé, by high reputation, and by the con- 
current teftimony -of the world, that one 
is my friend, 
A truce, then, with your paltry peti- 
‘tions, and memorialize me no longer. 
Rather retire into the facred recefs of your 
own great heart’as into-that inmoft apart - 
ment where are placed our altars, and 
houfhold gods: there commune with the 
{pirits of your anceftors—be rapt into 
the deeds of lefs degenerate days—call up 
your own heroic aéts, and let them ftand, 
as it were, embodied before you, nor dare 
to come out to the world, until you can 
fhew this fentence beaming on your breaft: 
—The people may, the people mutt, be 
free, if the leaders of the people be ready 
with head, and heart and hand, to write, to 
fpeak, to act,and to fuffer, in their caufe.”” 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
DESCRIPTION of all the DEPARTMENTS 
of the FRENCH REPUBLIC, including 
thofe in the CONQUERED COUNTRIES. 
(Continued from Page 398, of No. 80 ) 
Department of Fura. 
HIS department is one of the three 
formed of Franche Compté. It is 
hounded on the north by the depart- 
ments of Doubs, of Upper Saone, and of 
 Coré d°Or ; on the eaft, by the departments 
of Doubs and the Swifs Cantons} on the 
fouth, by the departments of Leman and 
of Ain; and on the weft, by thofe of 
Saone and Loire, and of Cété d’Or.. Its 
fuperficies is about -9$6,246 fquare acres, 
or 403,364 hectares; its , population 
284,460 individuals. It is divided into 
four communal difrits. ! 
Department of Landes. —This is one of 
the four compofed of Guienne. Ir is 
bounced on the north by the department 
of Gironde; on the eat, by the depart- 
ments of Lot and Garonne, and of Gers ; 
on the fouth, by that of Lower Alps ; and 
and onthe weft, by the ocean, Its fuper- 
ficies is about 1,764,425 fquare acres, or 
900,534. hectares; its population 249,140 
individuals. It is divided into three com 
munal diftriéts. 
Department of Leman.—This depart- 
ment is formed of the territory of Geneva 
united to feveral cantons taken from the _ 
departments of Ain and of Mont Blanc, 
It is bounded on the north by the Leman 
Lake, Helvetia, and the department of 
Jura ; on the eaft, by le Valais, Piedmont, 
and the department of Mont Blanc; on 
the weft and on the fouth, by the depart. 
ments of Ain and of Mont Blane. Its 
fuperficies is about 550,000 fquare acres, 
or 280,000 hectares; its population is 
about 195,000 individuals. It is divided 
into three communal diftricts. 
Department of Liamone.—T his depart- 
ment is the fecond formed of the ifland of 
Corfica. It is bounded on the north by 
the department of Golo; gn the eaft, on 
the fouth and on the weft, by the Medi- 
terranean. Its fuperficies is about 903,65% 
f{quare acres, of 461,209 heétares ; its po- 
pulation about 72,656 individuals. It 
is divided into three communal difiri€s. 
Department of Loir and Cher.—This 
department is one of thofe formed of Or- 
Jeanois, Blailois and le Pays Chartrain. 
It is bounded on the north by the depart- 
ments of Loiret, of Eure and Loir, and of 
Sarthe ; on the eaft, by thofe of Loiret 
and of Cher; on the douth, by thofe of 
Cher, of Indre, and of Indre and Loire ; 
and on the weft, by this laft, and that of 
Sarthe. Its fuperficies is about 1,181,691 
{quare acres, or 603,161 heétares; its 
population about 205,749 individuals, 
It is divided into three communal dil- 
tricts. 
Department of the Loire. —This depart- 
ment is taken from that of Rhone and 
Loire, which, by a decree of the 29th 
Brumaire, in the fecond year of the Re- 
public, was divided into two, under the 
denominations of the Loire and of the 
Rhone. It is bounded on the north by 
the departments of the Rhone, of Saone 
and Loire, and of Aliier ; on the eaft, by 
thofe of Rhone and of Ifere; on the 
fouth, by thofe of Ardeche and Upper 
Loire ;. and on the weft, by thofe of 
Puy de Dome and of Allier. Its fuper- 
ficies is about 964,083 fquare acres, or 
270,423 hetares; its population about 
322,965 individuals. It is divided into 
taree communal diffriéts. 
Department of Upper Lotre.—This de- 
partment is one of the three formed of 
Auvergne and lke Velay. It is bounded 
oa the north by the departments of the 
Loire aud of Puy de Dome; on the eat, 
by thole of the Loire and of Ardeche; 
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