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ANECDOTES OF THE BANISHED DEPUTIES.

SALA DIN

Was one of the deputies who signed the protest against the infamous decrees of the 31st of May and the first and second of June, 1793; for this he was sent to prison, and only escaped the guillotine by the death of Robespierre. He always voted with the Girondists.

BOISSI D'ANGLAS.

Was of the order of the ci-devant nobility: he is well known by his celebrated observations on Cantonne's publication "On the present and future state of France," and by his masterly reply to a publication of the Abbe Raynal. He has always been considered as the author of the Constitution of 1795; insomuch that the Jacobins, blindly attached to the Constitution of 1793, stigmatized that of 1795 by the appellation of the patrician constitution of D'Anglas.

It was reported at Paris for some time, that Boissi, in the committee of Legislation, had expressed an opinion in favor of a perpetual President of the Directory:—this circumstance drew on him the suspicion of being a royalist. In his work, entitled, "Ideas of the Arts," he has evinced much ability; and it is greatly admired for the elegance of its style and energy of its thoughts. At the period when the mob, instigated by the Jacobins broke into the hall of the convention with a demand of "Bread and the constitution of 1793," it fell to the lot of Boissi to be in the chair, deserted by most of his colleagues, and the bleeding head of one of them (Ferrand) fixed on a pike presented to his view, he boldly refused to put the question on the inflammatory resolutions of Tallien, Duval, and their anarchic supporters, and remained at the peril of his life, till Legendre brought up a party of citizens, who had armed themselves for the protection of their representatives, and who drove the rabble from the hall.

VILLRET JOYEUZE

Is an old and brave officer in the French navy; he commanded the republican fleet on the memorable epoch of the 1st of June, under the orders of Jean Bon St. Andre, the Conventional commissioner:—his behaviour on that day gained him much credit; and it is said in France, that had his advice been attended to by St. Andre, the defeat of the fleet would not have been so disastrous.

PASTORET

Was known before the revolution by his writings on the subject of religion: they breathe throughout a spirit of investigation and liberty. His first publication was a comparison between the characters of Zoroaster, Confucius and Mahomet. In the year 1788 he published his work, entitled "Moses considered, as a legislator, and Moralist;" which was universally read. He was elected deputy to the Convention, on the dissolution of the national assembly; but re