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ing from the venal pens of his accusers , and thus exposes the intention of their constant repetition : ** Eh quMmporte ? Iniprimons tous les matins qu'il est regicide , suppleons raiso la et &crete ' raisons la et acrete
aux ns par surcharge P aux par surcnarge r des ^ ejpithetes : la r £ pe * tition tiendra lieu , des preuves : nous auroiis pour echos non settlement nos journaux salaries , niais encore les gazettes composes sur les bords de la Seine qui s'impriment sur ceux de la Tamise et du Danube . "—2 de
Lettre , p . 7 . Monsr . Grfigoire displays great eloquence as well as argument in these letters , in which he has stated , without ostentation , his labours for the good
of his country . We recommend the perusal of the whole to our readers , but we cannot resist extracting one short passage which most exactly reflects the benevolent feelings of its author :
€€ Parmi le $ faveurs multiphees dont la bonte * celeste m' a comble * je compte pour beaucoup celle d * avoir pu , quelquefois , faire du bien & ceux qui m ont fait du nial . Si mes vceux sont exauces , cette faveur ne me sera pas retiree . " - —Ibid . p . 24 ,
And another , which eloquently proves that fortitude may form a part of the character of the meekest of mankind : ** Oelui que la fortune ne peut enivrer par ses faveurs , ni abattre par ses rigueurs : celui qui calculant toutes les chances d * adversity , Texil , la pauvrete , les cachots , les supplices , a son parti pris
pour toutes les hypotheses : celui qui dans le trajet rapide de la vie , toujours haletant apres le bonheur , en place le ravissant espoir au deL \ des bornes du temps , peut braver et de * sespe * rer les perse ' cuteurs . " Ibid . p . 28 .
The work of calumny is still going on ^ and , thanks to the censorship which governs the periodical press of France , it goes on uninterruptedly . M . Gr ^ goire wrote lately a letter to
all the journals in contradiction of one of the libels which are so diligently reiterated , and finding that the careful guardians of public opinion would allow no defence of a proscribed character , to neutralize the effect of the
poison he wrote a second letter to the Due de Richelieu , demanding , as an act of justice , that the calumny should hot stand against him unanswered .
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These two letters have given the first part of the title to Monsr . La Roche ' s pamphlet , which has , we imagine , an extensive sale , as it has almost immediately reached a third edition . Monsr . La Roche is an able advocate of all the
Liberaux , and particularly of M . Gr&-goire , of whom he gives many interesting anecdotes . But we must refer our readers to the work itself . We are greatly gratified to think that some of his countrymen dare yet to stand forth with their testimony in favour of so good a man . Indeed , M . Gre * goire himself takes occasion to thank several
anonymous writers who have undertaken the justification of his conduct . He has been , within a few weeks , addressed in an animated E p istle by Audiguier , with a quotation from which , in praise of his struggles against the power of Napoleon , we shall conclude :
Un seul homme naguere au sein de la patrie Sur les debris des lois fondait sa tyrannie , Tout pliait devant lui : despite redoute " II voulait , abusant de sa prosperity Agrandir chaque jour ses conquGtes fao
tices ; Mais tu ne craignis pas , lorsque dans ses caprice * II opprimait les rois , et les peuples domptes , De lutter constamment contre ses
volontes , Et de lui faire entendre un langage severe ; Aussi , quand le suffrage et le choix de T Is £ re
T ' elevaient , triomphant , au rang de ses elus , C ' e * tait pour honorer tes sto'iques vertus , Ta justice inflexible , et ton in&le courage Et pour recompenser par ce public liommage
Non celui qui jadis pres du trAne place * A briguer la faveur f&t toujours empresse * ; Mais celui qui brava le maitre de la France , Et qui , malgre * 1 ' efliol qu' ins pi rait sa
puissance Sen&teur patriote , et pr ^ lat citoyen Fut ] de nos libert £ s le plus ferqie ^ 3 outien . " Audi&uier * J ^ pitre d M . Gr £ ga iref Paris * Nov . 1820 .
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38 Review . —Life and Character of Abbi Gregoire .
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After the above was written , an account reached this cpuntry , which gives , we suppose , a fair specimen of the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1821, page 38, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2496/page/38/
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