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into forgetfulness, and it was only by very strong effort that he succeeded in raising him self; he then, by great exertions. succeeded in
 finishing the ceremony, at the end ofwhlch he | again became senseless, and was in this state conveyed home. He did not long survive the marriage of Louisa Mordaunt; he soon after died the vic tim of that worst of all diseases-a broken heart. Louisa Mordaunt lived long and hap 1 oily with him whom she made her husband. nor did she ever surmise the dreadful effect her marriage had upon the Rev. Alfred Cor sar. J. H.
 DAYTON, ROBESPIERRE AND MA RAT.
 The American Quarterly Review, new and able periodical, published at Philadelphia, l under the direction of Robert Walsh, jun. Esq. contains among other subjects ofa highly in l teresting character, Review of the Life of Napoleon" by the author of Waverly. We are indebted to it for the following extract, descriptive ofthe ferOcious and bloody trium- virs, Danton, Robespiarre and Marat, those sangunary ruffians, who rode upon the whIr- wind and directed the storm of the French Revolution. The cool and calculating cruelty of these three monsters cannot find its parallel in the darkest ages of barbarity.
 Three men ofterror, whose names will long remain, we trust unattached in history by those of any similar miscreants, had now the unrivaled leading of the Jacobins, and were called the triumvirate.
 Danton deserves to be named first, as unr- vailed by his colleagues in talents and audaci ty. He was a man of gigantic size, and pos sessed a voice of thunder. His countenance was that of an ogre on the shoulders of a Her Op,1ac cDv,A nF v>l, l wee as of the practice of cruelty; and it was said there were times when he became hu- manized amidst his debauchery, laughed at the terror which his furious declamations ex- cited. and might be approached with safety, like the Maelstrom at the turn of tide. His prOfusien was indulged to an extent hazardous to his popularity, for the populace are jealous of a lavish expenditure, as raising their favor ties too much. above their own degree: and the charge of peculation finds always ready credit with them, when brought against public men.
 Robespicrre possessed this advantage over Danton, that he did not seem to seek for wealth either for hoarding or for expending, but lived in strict and economical retirement, to justify the name of the Incorruptible, with which he was honoured by his partizans. He appears to have possessed little talent, save a deep fund of hypocrisy, considerable powers of sOphistry, and a cold exaggerated strain of oratory, as foreign to good taste, as the mea sures he recommended were to ordinary ha- manity. It seemed wonderful, that even the seething and boiling of the revolutionary caul- drOn should have sent up from the bottom, and long supported on the surface, thing so miserably void of claims to public distinction; but Robespierre had to impose on the minds k@ kNvu, A..r slo them, by accommodating his flattery to their passions and scale of understanding, and by acts of cunning and hypocrisy, which weigh more with the multitude than the words of eloquence, or the arguments of wisdom. The people listened as to their Cicero, when he twanged out his apostrophes of P0urre Peu- ple, Peuple vertuemr and hastened to execute whatever came recommended by such homed phrases, though devised by the worst of men for the worst and most iDhuman of purposes.
 Vanity was Robespierre's ruling passion, and though his countenance was the image of his mind, he was vain even of his personal ap- pearance, and never adopted the external hab- it's of a sans cuOtte. Amongst his fellow ia- cobins he was distinguished by the nicety with which his hair was arranged and pow dered and the neatness of his dress was care fully attended to, so as to COunterDaldnCe, II possible, the vuIgarity of his person. His a. partments, though small, were elegant. and vanity had filled them with representations of the occupant.-Robespierre picture, at length, hung in one pace, his miniature in another, his bust occupied niche, and on the table were disposed few medalIions exhibiting his head in profile. The vanity which all this in- dicated was one of the coldest and most selfish character, being such as considers neglect an insult, and receives homage merely as trib- ute; so that, while praise is received without gratitude, it is withheld at the risk of mortal late. Self-Io,e of this dangerous character
 is closely allied with envy. and Robespierre was one of the most cnvious men that ever lived. He was never known to pardon any opposition, affront or even rivalry: and to be marked in his tablets on such an account, was a sure, though not an immediate sentence of death. Danton was hero, compared with this cold calculating, creeping miscreant; for his passions, though exaggerated, had at least some touch of humanity, and his brutal ferO- city was supported by brutal courage. Ro- bespierre was coward, who signed death- warrants with hand that shook, though his hand was relentless. He possessed no pas sions on which to charge his crimes; they were perpetrated in cold blood, and upon ma ture deliberatiOn.
 Marat, the third this internal triumvirate., Al