The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-04-09

! We mentioned, in fpeaking OF the conductor
OF the inf@nifates, that were 4, angers to the
| hiitory OF his pat life.-An intimate friend of
Mr. Cirarcin, on whole veracity and accuracy
we can rely. informs us, that he received his edu-
cation in one of the principal cities Of France /;
where he had for his private tutor the director
ola 'fonasery OF fc;fa,Ss On which one of his
annts hved), and attended, at the fame time,
the public lectures delivered at the COLLEGE of
! that city. His Juvenile ftueiies were attended
with no uncomfortable fuccefs, and he more
than once was proclaimed victor in the literary
combats in which the fudents of that college
were exerciied, at the expiration of each year
lhoir combats were brilliant, and the viStori-
ons wreath highly honorable. MI. Girarsiin's
oh)ect was the bar. He applied to the ftudy Of
the law, at fri in an univerfity, and afterwards
IN Paris under an eminent practitioner. The
revolution commenced, and progrefied rapidly.
The parliamentary courts were fupprelitd, and
many old and tliftinguiihed lawyers remained
without employment ofcourie, the protection
now offered but little encouragement. During
his refdence in Paris, Mr.. Grardin had Guilt
waited literature, and, Especially, as recreation
from his more ferrous ftudies, poetry. He had
pubiiihed fome fugitive pieces, aud even ven
tured on a tragedy. This, and other circum-
RANGES, procured him the efteem and friendfl,ip
OF the literat, in particular, of Mont. b. De ST.
Pierre, whom he has laid he ihall ever recoe6t
with enthuiiaftic grattude.-M. D'Ormehon,
then at the head of the king library, offered to
him iituation in the department conducted
by the Able Barthelemi, the celebrated author
OF the L ravels of Anachariis." MIR. Girardin
was iure ofthat tituation, and fondly cheri!hed
the idea OF literary exifence when MIR. Dor
mellon fell victim to political perfecution. Car
IA, his fucceilor, offered the amelituation to Mr..
G. but hisprinciples didnot permithim to accent
1t from one of his friends bitteret enemies
He retired to the city where he had formerly
lived, fill cuItivating fcence and literature, and
waiting for happier times. A friend to rational
liberty, but an enemy to licentouflefs and diff
organization, the terrors of the Roberfpierrean
resnEQuid not awe him into i!cuce-he fpoke,
he wrotesz-and the dagger of afanination was
pointed to his breaft.-In the navy, he found
trefnge, though dearly-purchaied one. He
long was fcreened from the guillotine by thefe
means, and narrowly efcaped Destruction from
the thunder of the Britif in well known ac-
ton. He afterwards fought an afylum on the{e
hofptable flores; where he has found what he
mott values, liberty we'll underitood, protect
ing and wife government. He has been in this
country employed in the laborious and ureful
Protection o! initruStor fyouth, a career which
he has purified with fome fuccefs, and with I'M.
RENTED zeal.-An exifeDce thus agitated, has
not permitted him to attain eminence in fcen-
the purfuits, but he has the courage to under
take, and the energy to execute, any fcheme
which may rebound to his own honour, and t.
the beneti. of the world.