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efpoufed her from the odious principle of 
intereft, and never once claimed the rights 
of a hufband. 
The two firft volumes are filled with 
the adventures of her early life, a great 
portion of which are likely to be at leaft 
apocryphal ; in addition to this, they have 
been repeatedly narrated before. The 
third and fourth contain an account of 
fa&ts, lefs known, but more interefting ; 
they chiefly rclate to her conduct dering 
the late revolution. A robbery of dia- 
monds, to a confiderable amount, render- 
ed it neceffary that the fhould take no lefs 
than four journies to England, &c.; 
and thefe became a pretext for her death, 
while certain Dutch bankers, who could 
be reproached with no other crime than 
that of tranfinitting money toa female who 
had left France with regular paffports, and 
therefore could not be confidered as an 
emigrant, were involved in her ruin. 
A little before her execution, fhe at- 
tempted to obtain a procraitination, if not 
a repeal, of the fentence, by offering to in- 
dicate the particular parts, where fhe had 
concealed her money. On the other hand, 
M. Wandenyver, {fenior, who was affaffi- 
nated along with her, fo far from lament- 
ing his fate, calmly employed himlelf in 
defignating certain effects appertaining to 
foreigners, which had been entrufted to 
his care; and knowing that all his own 
property would be confifcated, he e rnett- 
ly entreated that a debt of 300 livres in 
affignats, which he owed to Boze, the 
painter, might be repaid him. 
On being placed in the fatal cart along 
with this old man, his two fons, and the 
deputy Noel, Madame Debarry was feiz- 
ed with terror, and uitered loud and pier- 
ing lamentations. 
«© The grief of the Countefs (fays M. 
De Favrolle) was fo violent, and indeed 
fo moving, that the officer of the gendar- 
merie, fearing leR a capricious people, 
who had permitted the king and queen to 
be tranquilly conduéted to the guillotine, 
might produce a commotion, and thus fave 
the miftrefs of Louis XV. gave orders to 
haften the progrefs of thofe condemned. 
On their arrival at the Place de la Revo- 
lution fhe was obliged to defcend firft, and 
her grief now became fo violent, that her 
reafon feemed to be affected; and when 
the executioner appeared, fhe exclaimed, 
Help! Help! (Amoi! A mot!) Soon 
after this, fhe. was more colleéted, and 
with that mild and perfuafive, voice that 
never before entreated in vain, exclaimed, 
« Ajlow me a moment longer, Sir, 1 bes 
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feech you!” (Encore un moment, Monfeur,7é 
vous pric!) Butdeaf, as the fright'ul deity, 
of which he was the minifter, he did not ap- 
pear even to hear the words addreffed ta 
him from her fill charming meuth, for 
he feized the unfortunate Dubarry and 
without the leaft pity for her fine form, 
threw her on the block ; a moment after 
this, that head whofe bcauty had placed it 
fo near the throne, fell unde: the axe thar 
terminated the fate of our laft king and 
his auguft fpoufe. 
<¢ Introduétion a la Phyfique Terreftre _ 
par les Fluides Expanfibles.’”—An Intro- 
du€tion to the Natural Philofophy of the 
Earth, by the Expanhble Fluids. 
M. de Luc, a natural philofopher of 
great repute on the continent, appears by 
this publication to be at open war with 
the chemifis of the prefent day. He an- 
nounces in his preface, ‘¢ that he confiders 
the new chemical theory, as completely 
barring the way to the advancement of 
{cience,’” and he treats it with an equal 
degre of ferocity throughout the whole of 
his work, 3 
After quoting Bacon, and making 
the fame reproach to the philufophers of 
the prefent day, as that great man did to 
thofe of his own age, he enters on an ana- 
lyfis of the new theory, and while alluding 
to the compofition and decompofition of 
water, obferves, that the whole foundation 
of the modern doétrines, entirely refts on 
two faéts, one of which, if we are to give 
credit to its advocates, has been proved 
analytically, the other fynthetically. He 
then attacks the principles which have 
direéted the late M. de Lavoifier in his . 
opinions, and after defcribing a variety of 
experiments concludes thus: ‘¢ All thefe 
particular fa&ts, of which it would be eafy 
to multiply examples, authorife me to lay 
it down as a general principle, that nearly 
all the bodies in nature, (according to M.de 
Lavoifier) are capable of exifting in three 
different ftates; in the ftate of folidity ; 
in the fate of liquidity ; and in the aere- 
form ftate ; and that thefe three ftates of 
the fame bodies depend on the quantity of 
caloric combined with them.”” 
This, however, is denied by M. de Luc, 
who maintains, that mercary and water 
alone are in the ftate here alluded to; he 
alfo reproaches Lavoifier with having mif- 
taken the nature of water, and infinuates 
that he has confounded the elaftic vapour 
with the permanent gaffes. 
< A Defcription of Plants, either en- 
tirely new, or hitherto but little known, 
cultivated in the Garden of J. M. tee 
Wil 
