The National Register.
London, England, 1808-09-19 00:00:00

Vaster. General Junot was born at Orleans, where his father
.vas a corn chandler, of the lowest description in the trade;
• ithout education beyond its mere rudiments, or the slighteet
etention to his morals, the young Juno was occupied in the
;lost laborious drudgery of the business, emit the year 1789,
hen having been tempted to make rather free with the till, in
irder to gratify hievicious !sessions, his father turned him out
)f the house, giving him the wide world In which to follow his
disposition. Paris was at that moment the foyer of the
tissolute and discontented, and this young pupil of liberty and
oquality having turned his steps to the capital, his active phila-
,aphy soon gained him admittance into the Jacobin Club, those
great patron's of revolutionary genius, who, finding him fit for
their every purpose, retained him as a follower, and initiated
him in all the revolutionary jargon and polio of the day. In
the early scenes of the Revolution, in the horrible massacres at
bbayr, and through the whole progress of lanternization,
emot was an active assistant, and having bathed himself deep
in blood, was considered as fit fir the departments; of course,
a hen the operations on the southern frontier required an aug-
mentation of the national army, this elrve of liberty, in his zeal
to regenerate the country of Nice, which at that period was
still unenlightened, shouldered his musquet, and marched for
Provence. It would be beyond our limits to detail the horrors
of this expedition, to enumerate the murders of loyalty and the
violations of innocence; there is, however', one anecdote of
which (1113 monster is said frequently to have boasted, and which
merits notice. In a small village near Antibes, where a de-
tachment of the revolutionary army was frolerni:ed, Citizen
.I mint look up his (plasters in the house of a poor peasant, who
had seen better days ; the man was loyal, but his wife, charmed
with patriotism, yielded to the ardour of this military philoses
pher ; in a short time, however, in consequence of some :Wean.
tages gained by the loyal party, this district was Os en up to the
fury of the soldiery, whets the philanthropic reeirmer not only
aided, butt joined in the violation of the wife and dm glees of
his host, who was coolly and tauntingly murdered, are r heing
obliged to witness his own degradation. After ibis display of
revolutionary virtue, he extended his services and ci visin to the
neightmerhoed of Toulon, previous to its evacuation by the
British mil Spanish forces t here during the short siege he
served with the artillery, and attrar'cd the notice of Bormparte,
who was then Chef de Brigade. It has been stated, that the
Corsican Ciiief, during a heavy eannmeele, enquired if any one
near him could write ; .Tenot immediately tittered his services,
and whilst employ:el on a drumhead, a shot striking the ground
close to his side. covered him with dust; undisturbed by the oc-
currence, he coolly said, " that u ill do I I wanted sand for my
letter." etrecis with his behaviour, Bonaparte este:timed,
" You are a Erase fellow I how con I serve sottl"ess" CZive me
pronestion," replied Junot, " I will not disgrace it ;" he was
instantly taken from the ranks, and repainted by Napoleou his
ceded} seejeant, from which, for his abilities and cooltoee, he.
was promoted to tee rank of an officer. When Toulon surren-
dered, he had a fresh opeortunity of displaying his thee :NU-
tics, and vss partictearly net's: ed for his activity in esseeiug in
the atrocities which were inflicted on all those who had favour.
ed the British, and when all those who had even ln,Led an
Eneiiseman in their houses, or who were suspeerce of bring fn.
eottralee to the came of losalty, were assembled by a tresdicr.
ous preclarnation in the Chadip f!li Mars, and butchered et colti
hetet], to t=ie nmetineof 1501) men. women, tied childreu ; en
evioit bowed of by his friend, when be wrote to the `Zobeets•