pofitive fact. I finish by obferving, that I was only the wife of Louis XVIth, and it was requifite in me to conform myself to his will."

Fouquier, the public accufer, then addreffed the Jury-after which Chauveau and Ducondray spoke for the QUEEN. The Prefident then fummed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict, finding Marie Antoinette Guilty of all the charges. She was executed next day.

Fronfon de Coudray and Chaveau de la Gards, the pleaders for Marie Antoinette, were, by order of the Committee of General Safety, put in a state of arrest, before fentence was pronounced. The order fays, that this is a measure of general fafetythat the arreft shall last 24 hours, and that every attention fhall be paid to these prisoners.

Next day a report was made to the Convention, that the two Advocates had been examined, to fee if Marie Antoinette had declared any fecret to them in confidence, and they replied fhe had not. They were ordered to be fet at liberty.

Marie Antoinette, during the whole of her trial, preferved a calm and fteady countenance. When she heard her fentence read, fhe did not fhew the fmalleft alteration in her countenance, and left the Hall without faying a fingle word to the Judges or to the people. It was then half paft four o'clock in the morning, O&ober 16. The Queen was conducted to the condemned hold in the prison of the Conciergerie. At ten o'clock, numerous patroles paffed through the streets. At half paft eleven o'clock in the morning, Marie Antoinette was brought out of the prifon, dreffed in a white difhabille. Like other malefactors, she was conducted upon a common cart to the place of execution. Her beautiful hair from behind was entirely cut off, and her hands were tied behind her back.

Befides her difhabille, she wore a very fmall white cap. Her back was turned to the horfe's tail. On her right was feated upon the cart the Executioner; upon the left a Conftitutional Priest.

An immenfe mob, especially women, crowded the streets, infulted the Queen, and vociferated, Long Live the Republic! She feldom caft her eyes upon the populace, and beheld with cold indifference the great armed force of 30,000 men which lined the ftreets in double ranks. The fufferings which the fuftained during her captivity, had much altered her appearance, and the hair on her forehead appeared as white as fnow.

The Queen, without anguish or bigotry, was speaking to the Priest feated by her fide. Her fpirits were neither elevated nor depreffed; the feemed quite infenfible to the fhouts of Vive la Republique! the fhewed even a kind of fatisfaction to look forward for the moment which might rid her of her miferable existence. She afcended the scaffold with feeming hafte and impatience; and then turned her eyes with great emotion towards the garden of the Thuilleries, the former abode of her greatnefs.

At half past twelve o'clock, the Guillotine fevered her head from her body. She died in the 38th year of her age.

When her head was under the fatal axe, fhe was heard to exclaim, Adieu, my Children! I go to your Father!"

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and preffed it with veneration to his breaft, was inftantly apprehended. Upon him were found the portraits of Louis XVI. and of Marie Antoinette.

The corpfe of the ill-fated Queen. was immediately after buried in a grave filled with quick-lime, in the church-yard called de la Madelaine, where Louis XVI. was buried in the fame manner.

Thus died, by the hands of the most relentless monfters, Marie An

toinette, of Auftria and Lorraine, daughter of the great and immortal Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary, and of Francis I. Emperor of Ger

many.

She was born November 2, 1755; married May 10th, 1770 Louis XVI. then Dauphin of France. She died with a fpirit and greatnefs of mind far above her misfortunes, October 16, 1793, after having furvived the fate of her lamented Royal confort near nine months.

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HHOMAS STUCLEY was a very extraordinary character, and was born June 6, 1681. He refided fome time in the Middle Temple, but never practifed the law. Retiring to his native place, he conceived the idea of being able to discover the quadrature of the circle, and the perpetual motion. Such abstract studies kept him fo much from company, that at length he would not go out of doors.

By this means he became hypochondriacal, and was haunted with the dreadful apprehenfions of catching fome epidemic diforder, or of dying with want; land yet he lived in filthinefs, and would fcarcely ever receive money that was due to him.

Of his early neglect of pecuniary concerns it is related, that fome years after he quitted his chambers, a gentleman who occupied them, feeing fomething on a shelf over the door, took it down, and found it to be an old portmanteau, containing among other articles two hundred guineas.

He had a large quantity of gold and filver thrown into a heap in his bed-chamber, and as he was accuftomed to walking much, he had, by his kicking the pieces afide, made

two paths through the heap, which remained fo to his death. There was hardly a corner in his house but contained money in piles, to which the fpiders hung their webs in peace. By this carelefinefs his executors loft confiderable fums. Whenever he vouchfafed to receive any money it was always put into a bafon of water, and remained there for fome hours.

He was fond of politics, and regularly read the newspapers. When the Duke of Marlborough laid fiege to any town in Flanders, Mr Stucley would draw a plan of the place upon his kitchen floor, which, according to the Devonshire cuftom, was made of lime and afhes, and by the intelligence of the newspapers, he would work at the plan with a pick-axe, so that every conqueft coft him a new floor.

At the acceffion of George I. he was obliged to appear at the townhall to fwear allegiance; and the concourfe of people affembled to fee him was immenfe. He wore then a little, round hat covered with tar, and his beard was of an immoderate length. After this he never ftirred out of doors. He was afraid of hav

ing new clothes for fear of infection, and because he would not fee a new face. Though his fervants lived well, yet they were always in a ragged condition, and could very rarely get permiffion to have a new garment.

He would never fee any of his friends, not even his brothers and fifter.

At his death there were two trenches in his kitchen, made by his

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EAUCLERK having obferved to him of one of their friends, that he was aukward at counting money," Why, Sir," faid Johnson, "I am likewife aukward at counting money. But then, Sir, the reafon is plain; I have had very little money to count."

He had an abhorrence of affectation. Talking of old Mr Langton, of whom he faid, " Sir, you will feldom fee fuch a gentleman, fuch are his ftores of literature, fuch his knowledge in divinity, and fuch his exemplary life;" he added," and, Sir, he has no grimace, no gefticulation, no burfts of admiration on trivial occafions: he never embraces you with an overacted cordiality."

Being in company with a gentleman who thought fit to maintain Dr Berkeley's ingenious philofophy, that nothing exifts but as perceived by fome mind; when the gentleman was going away Johnson faid to him, "Pray, Sir, don't leave us for we may perhaps forget to think of you, and then you will cease to exist."

Goldfmith, upon being vifited by Johnfon one day in the Temple, faid to him with a little jealoufy of the appearance of his accommodation, "Ifhall foon be in better chambers than thefe." Johnfon at the fame

time checked him, and paid him a handfome compliment, implying that a man of his talents fhould be above attention to fuch diftinctions" Nay, Sir, never mind that. Nil te quafiveris extra.”

At the time when his penfion was granted to him, he faid, with a noble literary ambition, "Had this happened twenty years ago, I should have gone to Conftantinople to learn Arabick, as Pococke did."

As an inftance of the niceness of his tafte, though he praised Weft's' tranflation of Pindar, he pointed out the following paffage as faulty, by expreffing a circumftance fo minute as to detract from the general dignity which fhould prevail:

Down then from thy glittering nail,
Take, O Mufe, thy Dorian lyre.

When Mr Vefey was propofed as a Member of the Literary Club, Mr Burke began by faying that he was a man of gentle manners. Sir," said Johnson, you need fay no more. When you have faid a man of gentle manners, you have faid enough.'

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The late Mr Fitzherbert told Mr Langton, that Johnson faid to him,

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Sir, a man has no more right to fay an uncivil thing, than to act one; no more right to lay a rude thing to

another

another than to knock him down." "My dear friend Dr Bathurft (faid he with a warmth of approbation) declared that he was glad that his father, who was a Weft-India Planter, had left his affairs in total ruin, because having no eftate, he was not under the temptation of having flaves."

Richardfon had little converfation except about his own works, of which Sir Joshua Reynolds faid he was always willing to talk, and glad to have them introduced. Johnson, when he carried Mr Langton to fee him, profeffed that he could bring bim out into converfation, and ufed this allufive expreffion, Sir, I can make him rear." But he failed; for in that interview Richardfon faid little clfe than that there lay in the room a tranflation into German of his Clatiffa*."

Once when fomebody produced a newfpaper in which there was a letter of ftupid abuse of Sir Joshua Reynolds, in which Johnson himself came in for a fhare," Pray," faid he, "let us have it read aloud from beginning to end;" which being done, he, with a ludicrous earneftnefs, and not directing his look to any particular perfon, called out,' "Are we alive after all this fatire !"

He had a ftrong prejudice against the political character of Secker, one inftance of which appeared at Oxford, where he expreffed great diffatisfaction at his varying the old efta

blished toast,

Church and King. "The Archbishop of Canterbury," faid he (with an affected smooth fmiling grimace,) "drinks" Conftitution in Church and State." Being asked what difference there was between the two toafts, he faid, "Why. Sir, you may be fure he meant fomething." Yet when the Life of that Prelate, prefixed to his fermons by Dr Porteus and Dr Stin ton, his Chaplains, firft came out, hé read it with the utmost avidity, and faid, "It is a Life well written, and that well deferves to be recorded."

Of a certain noble Lord he faid, Respect him you could not; for he had no mind of his own. Love him you could not, for that which you could do with him, every one elle could."

Of Dr Goldsmith he faid," No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wife when he had one."

He told in his lively manner the following literary anecdote :→→→ "Green and Guthrie, an Irishman and a Scotchman, undertook a tranflation of Duhalde's Hiftory of China.

Green faid of Guthrie, that he knew no English, and Guthrie of Green, that he knew no French; and thefe two undertook to translate

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Duhalde's Hiftory of China. In this tranflation there was found, the twenty-fixth day of the new moon. Now as the whole age of the moon is but twenty.eight days, the moon, inftead

ftead of being new, was nearly as old as it could be. The blunder arofe from their mistaking the word neuvième, ninth, for nouvelle, or neuve, new.

On occafion of Dr Johnfon's publishing his pamphlet of "The Falfe Alarm," "there came out a very angry anfwer (by many fuppofed to be by Mr Wilkes ;) Dr Johnfon determined on not anfwering it, but, in conversation with Mr Langton, mention ed a particular or two, that if he had replied to it, he might perhaps have inferted. In the Anfwerer's pamphlet it had been faid with fo. lemnity," Do you confider, Sir, that a Houfe of Commons is to the Peo. ple as a Creature is to its Creator?" "To this question," said Johnson, "I could have replied, that, In the first place, the idea of a CREATOR must be fuch as that he has a power to unmake or annihilate his creature. Then, it cannot be conceived that a creature can make laws for its CREATOR."

His profound adoration of the GREAT FIRST CAUSE was fuch as to fet him above that" Philofophy and vain deceit," with which men of narrower conceptions have been in. fected." I have heard him ftrongly maintain, What is right is not fo from any natural fitnefs, but becaufe God wills it to be right, and this is certainly true; because he has predifpofed the relation of things fo as that which he wills must be right." BOSWELL.

Depend upon it," faid he," that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is fomething in them that is not difagreeable to him, for where there is nothing but pure mifery, there never is any recourfe to the mention of it."

"A man must be a poor beast that should read no more in quantity than he could utter aloud."

the Saxon k added after the . I hope the authority of the great Master of our language will ftop that curtailing innovation, by which we fee critic, public, &c. inftead of critick, publick, &c."

"Many a man is mad in certain inftances, and goes through life without having it perceived: for example, a madness has feized a person of fuppofing himself obliged literally to pray continually: had the madnefs turned the oppofite way, and the perfon thought it a crime never to pray, it might not improbably have continued unobferved."

He apprehended that the delineation of Characters in the end of the first Book of the "Retreat of the Ten Thoufand" was the first instance of the kind that was known.

"Suppofing," faid he," a wife to be of a ftudious or argumentative turn, it would be very troublesome; for inftance, if a woman fhould continually dwell upon the subject of the Arian Herefy.'

"No man fpeaks concerning another, even fuppofe it be in his praise, if he thinks he does not hear him, exactly as he would if he thought he was within hearing."

"The applaufe of a fingle human being is of great confequence.". This he faid to me with great earnefincfs of manner, very near the time of his deocafe, on occafion of having defired me to read a letter ade dreffed to him from fome perfon in the North of England; which, when I had done, and he afked me what the contents were; as I thought be ing particular upon it might fatigue him, it being of great length, I only told him in general, that it was highly in his praife, and then he expreffed himself as above.

He mentioned with an air of fa tisfaction what Baretti had told him; that meeting, in the course of his ftudying English, with an excellent paper in the Spectator, one of four

that