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kirby’s wonderful museum,
to judge more correctly of the accuracy of facts, and to deve-
lop with greater certainty the motives of actions.
Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothe D’Eon
de Beaumont, Doctor of Civil and Canon Law, Advocate of
the Parliament of Paris, and Censor-general for Belles Lettres
and History in that city, was born at Tonnerre in Burgundy,
Oct. 17, 1727, and descended from a respectable family,
many branches of which had held situations of trust under the
government of France. Having received an education suit-
able to his rank, and passed through all the gradations of col-
lege with considerable credit, he was called to the bar of the
Parliament of Paris; and early in life rendered himself con-
spicuous in the annals of literature by the publication of se-
veral pieces of much celebrity. In 1755 he was introduced
by the Prince de Conti to Louis XV. and was employed by
that monarch on some important missions. The first mission
which introduced him to notice in Europe was of a diplomatic
nature to the court of Russia, in the year 1756, when he acted
as secretary of embassy to the Marquis de 1’Hospital, and con-
ducted himself so much to the satisfaction of the empress
Elizabeth, that, on leaving Petersburgh the same year, he
was presented with five thousand roubles, and a valuable mi-
niature of her imperial majesty. On this occasion, he was
charged by the Empress with a packet for Voltaire, contain-
ing presents to induce him to soften the character of Peter
the Great in his History of Russia, as w ell as some papers in
manuscript. >,
On his arrival at Paris he was immediately commissioned
to communicate the plan of the Russian military operations
against the King of Prussia to the court of Vienna, and when
he had performed that task was entrusted by the Count de
Broglio with dispatches to the court of France, containing an
account of the victory obtained over the Prussians, and of
the treaty concluded between Russia and France. The be-
ginning of this journey was unfortunate, for at the mountain
kirby’s wonderful museum,
to judge more correctly of the accuracy of facts, and to deve-
lop with greater certainty the motives of actions.
Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothe D’Eon
de Beaumont, Doctor of Civil and Canon Law, Advocate of
the Parliament of Paris, and Censor-general for Belles Lettres
and History in that city, was born at Tonnerre in Burgundy,
Oct. 17, 1727, and descended from a respectable family,
many branches of which had held situations of trust under the
government of France. Having received an education suit-
able to his rank, and passed through all the gradations of col-
lege with considerable credit, he was called to the bar of the
Parliament of Paris; and early in life rendered himself con-
spicuous in the annals of literature by the publication of se-
veral pieces of much celebrity. In 1755 he was introduced
by the Prince de Conti to Louis XV. and was employed by
that monarch on some important missions. The first mission
which introduced him to notice in Europe was of a diplomatic
nature to the court of Russia, in the year 1756, when he acted
as secretary of embassy to the Marquis de 1’Hospital, and con-
ducted himself so much to the satisfaction of the empress
Elizabeth, that, on leaving Petersburgh the same year, he
was presented with five thousand roubles, and a valuable mi-
niature of her imperial majesty. On this occasion, he was
charged by the Empress with a packet for Voltaire, contain-
ing presents to induce him to soften the character of Peter
the Great in his History of Russia, as w ell as some papers in
manuscript. >,
On his arrival at Paris he was immediately commissioned
to communicate the plan of the Russian military operations
against the King of Prussia to the court of Vienna, and when
he had performed that task was entrusted by the Count de
Broglio with dispatches to the court of France, containing an
account of the victory obtained over the Prussians, and of
the treaty concluded between Russia and France. The be-
ginning of this journey was unfortunate, for at the mountain