1797-] Dreffes of the French Conftituted Authorities. For the Monthly Magazine. COLLECTION DES NOUVEAUX COSTUMES; Or the Dreffes worn by the Conflituted FRENCH REPUBLIC. 1. COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED. THE members compofing this council wear a long white robe, a blue girdle, and a fcarlet cloke, refembling the Roman toga; all of which are manufactured of wool. The toque, or dress for the head, confifts of a honnet of blue velvet, extremely like that worn by the Scotch Highlanders, and which, from the place where they are ufually manufactured, is called a Kilmarnock bonnet. 2. COUNCIL OF ANCIENTS. The vet is of the fame form, the robe is of violet blue, the girdle fcarlet, the cloke white, bordered with fcarlet; the bonnet of violet blue velvet, to match the robe. All the garments, la toque excepted, are of wool. 3. EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY. The Executive Directory has two dreffes, the one for its ordinary functions, and the other for national feftivals, &c. 1. Ordinary drefs.-The outer drefs, termed 'babit manteau, which is a coat, with broad lapells falling over the shoulders, is white, embroidered with gold. The fcarf, which is tied across the middle, is blue, adorned with fringes of gold; and the pantaloons are white; as is alfo the inner garment, or waistcoat; the whole of filk. The hat is round, turned up on one fide, by means of a gold button and loop, and adorned with a panache tricolor, or bunch of three coloured feathers. The fword is hung en baudrier, or by means of a rich fhoulder belt, of a lively orange red. Blue ftrings in the shoes. 2. Grand, or drefs of ceremony.-An upper blue garment, and above that (un manteau nacarat) a cloke, of a lively orange red colour. The fhirt falls down in what is ufually termed a Vandyke collar, with a rich border of thread lace in both dreffes. Blue ftrings in the fhoes. 4. SECRETARY TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY. A drefs of the fame form as that ufually worn by the Executive Directory.The whole coftume is black, except a fingle red feather, in the panache of the hat. Black ftrings in the fhoes. 5. MINISTERS. The feven minifters are clad in a dress MONTHLY MAG. No. XVIII. 445 of the fame form as that of the Executive Directory. The upper garment is black, and the lapells, veft, and pantaloons, of a deep poppy colour: the whole is filk, ornamented with borders wrought in coloured filk. The hat black, furmounted with poppy coloured feathers; the fhoulder-belt for the fword is black, and the fearf white. Vandyke collar, bordered with a running pattern of thread lace. Poppy coloured ftrings in the fhoes. ftockings, or pantaloons, all of black. Cloke, long veft, and breeches and The fcarf, worn by way of girdle, black. The head covered with a red bonnet, adorned with a plume of the fame colour. A black ftaff, with an ivory head, is worn in the right hand. 8. MEMBERS AND PUBLIC ACCUSERS of the High Court of Ffice. The vestments, which are white, bor-` dered with red and blue, are the fame as thofe worn by the Legislative body.The bonnet is white, adorned with a three coloured band. The two Public Accufers, attendant on this court, wear a fky-blue robe, and bonnet, and girdle; and a white cloke. 9. MEMBERS OF THE TRIBUNAL OF CASSATION, AND OF THE COM- The fame drefs as the Legislative Body. The robe and bonnet of skyblue, the cloke white, and the girdle red. 19. TRIBUNAL OF CORRECTIONAL JUSTICE. The members wear their ordinary drefs, which is generally black. Afmall fafcis, without the axe, is fufpended, en fautoir, or faltier-wife, by means of a blue ribband, with a red and white border. II. TRIBUNAL OF CRIMINAL A fafcis, with a hatchet, fufpended en fautor, by means of a red ribband, with a blue and white border. 3 M 12. CIVIL 446 Dreffes of the French Confiituted Authorities. 12. CIVIL TRIBUNAL. An eye, in filver, fufpended by a white ribband, with a red and blue edging. 13. JUDGES OF THE PEACE. No particular drefs; but by way of diftinctive mark, they wear an clive branch, cut in metal, and fufpended at the breaft, by means of a white ribband, with a very narrow border of blue and red. They alfo wield in their hands a white ftaff, of the height of a man, furmount ed with an ivory head, on which is engraved a black cye. 14. ADMINISTRATORS OF THE DEPARTMENTS. The drefs of the fame form as that of the Executive Directory. The upper grment black pells, cuffs, and veft of fky-blue. The fearf, worn as a girdle, white; breeches and ftockings, or pantaloons, black. The hat round, black, and turned up on one fide. It is adorned with a three coloured p'ume, in which the blue predominates. 15. TREASURER. Common black drefs. On the left breaft a key, embroidered in gold. 16. PRESIDENTS OF THE MUNICIPALITY. A black round hat, furmounted by a plume, ftreaked with the patriotic colours. They alfo wear a narrow threecoloured fcarf, falling acrofs the fhoulder, and meeting in a knot a little above the left-hand pocket. The other municipal officers are diftinguished by the fcarf alone. 17. AGENTS OF GOVERNMENT, in the French Colonies. The veft is of the fame cut and form as that worn by the members of the Executive Directory; the colours only are different: the cloke is blue, faced with fcarlet, the veft white and long, the pantaloons white, the girdle and feathers of three colours, the embroidery and gold fringe very rich. N.B. All the filks, cloths, embroideries, laces, &c. of the above, and alfo all the military dreffes, muft be of the production of the republic. STAFF OF THE ARMY. 1. GENERAL AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF. Blue coat, fcarlet collar and cuffs, with a lift of white along the latter; three buttons to the pockets; a fcarf, by way of girdie, across the middle, of white and red, ending in a fringe of twisted gold. The collar, pockets, and facings, adorned with two rows of gold lace, in [June, the manner of embroidery, the first row being twelve, and the fecond eight Ines in breadth. The hat, which is ornamented with a red panache, elevated above three party-coloured feathers, is bound with a lace, fourteen lines in breadth. The veft and breeches are white. The coat laced behind as well as before. coat. 2. GENERAL OF DIVISION. Blue uniform, fcarlet collar and cuffs, yellow buttons. Three buttons on the Red fcarf, worn at the girdle, and ornamented with a three-coloured fringe. Gold-laced hat, furmounted by three poppy-coloured feathers, in a three-coloured panache. The cuffs, facings, &c. laced, as in the former, but no lace behind. Veft and breeches white. 3. GENERAL OF BRIGADE: The uniform the fame as the former, only one row of lace, fourteen lines broad. The hat, which is laced, is furmounted with three party-coloured feathers, and a panache, or plume, of the fame colour. The girdle is fky blue, ornamented with a three-coloured fringe, Veft and breeches white. 4. ADJUTANT GENERAL. Blue uniform, fcarlet collar and cuffs, with a double row of gold embroidery. wrought in the manner of lace, and two button holes on each fide, of gold lace alfo. Two epaulets of corded gold. Laced hat, with party-coloured plume. White veft and breeches. 5. AIDES-DU-CAMP. Blue coat and flaps, fky-blue collar, fcarlet cuffs. An epaulet and contre epaulette. A fcarf on the left arm, in conformity to the uniform of the general to whom they are attached. A threecoloured cockade, in a plain cocked hat, ornamented with a feather, tipped red and blue. Breeches and veft white. 6. ADJUTANT, OR ASSISTANT the Adjutant Geneval. The fame drefs as the former, except that they have not embroidered buttons on the collar and facings. A gold but ton and loop in the hat. White waiftcoat and breeches. 7. COMMISSARY AT WAR, &c. Coat of blue cloth, with lappels of the fame colour, fcarlet cuffs and collar, fearlet edgings to the pockets, and three buttons to each. White veft and breeches, large and fmall buttons of yel low metal, and the following legend, furrounded with a garland: Admini ftration Militaire." The collar, cuffs, &c. have a narrow gold-lace border. A black 1797-] Lift of Diffenting Congregations. Congregations. I I 1 I I I I 2 I I I 2 1 2 2 2 I - 8 447 ported the academy at Painswick, in Gloucefterfhire; and another at Blackburn, in Lancashire, under the direction of the rev. James M Quhae. I think these three academies were fupported by Mr. Welsh at the fame time. That, however, in Lancashire, has been difcontinued for fome years; that in Gloucefterfhire, but very lately; and that in Hampshire was continued till the time of his death. The ftudents that had then entered upon their ftudies, will remain the ufual time with Mr. Bogue. Mr. Welth was a man of exemplary piety and diffufive benevolence. As he was anxious to do good, fo was he judicious in his felection of objects. What can a man do, that is more beneficial to fociety, than to promote the interest of learning and piety? Many pious young men have been brought forward, with advantage, into the facred miniftry, by his means; by whofe miniftry, many finners have been turned to righteoufnefs, and, fo far, a foundation has been laid for national exaltation. Were opulent diffenters to follow the example of Mr. Welsh, it would add much to their refpectability and ufefulnefs in the 3 THE arrangement of that very useful Note. For feveral years there has been an academy at Gofport, under the direction of the rev. David Bogue. This - gentleman has had the pleature to fee many young men formed for the miniftry, under his tuition, who have gone forth, diftinguished for their piety, and confpicuous for their usefulness. This academy was fupported at the fole expence of George Welch, efq. banker, Cornhill, who died in Bath, Nov. 27, 1796. In all probability, this academy will not long furvive the death of its fupporter. Befides this academy, Mr. Welsh fup ( 448 ) MATHEMATICAL CORRESPONDENCE [June, QUESTION XXVII (mif-numbered XXVI, No. XIV)-Anfæwered by Hermes. LETx+2x and x-2x express the two numbers which fulf the two firft conditions; then if 2x+1 and 4x+1 be fquares, the question will be answered. To effect this, their reétangie 8x3+2x2+4x+1 must be a fquare; suppose it =1+x+3x22=1+20x+25+a.x2+ 2bx34; then, by comparing the terms, we find 24, and henee a=2; alfo 2h2— 42, and hence -1; laftly, -4x3+x48x3 (fee the Append. to Hutton's Diarian Mifcel. vol. iii.): confequently, by divifion, &c. x=12; which, fubitituted in the affumed expreffions, gives 168 and 120 for the two numbers fought. The fame anfwered by Mr. James Ashton, of Harring on. Put x2+2x= one of the required numbers, and x2-2x= the other; then x2+2x+1, and x-2x+1 are both evidently fquare numbers; but their fum is 2x2, and their difference is 4%, hence, by the question, 2x2+1 and 4x+1 must also be fquares. Now put 4x+12, then x= and here the least number that a will admit of (fo that 2x2+1 and 4x+1 may both 4 n 49-1_48 4 be fquare numbers) is 7; then x= ===12; and hence 168 and 120 are the numbers required, to answer the conditions of the queftion; and the four fquate numbers are 169, 121, 289, and 49. This Queflion was also answered by Mr. Jofeph Youngs, of Norwich. QUESTION XXVIII (No. XIV)-Anfwered by the Rev. L. Evans, Froxfield, Wilts. By multiplying the first and fecond equations, we have y2+2xy+x2=ab, and the root is +x=√ub. Mult. the fecond equation by xy, gives y+x=bxy; therefore bxy=/ab, and 4xy=W ub ; this taken from y2+2xy+x2=ab, gives y2—2xy+x2=ab— is b 4V ab and the root ; which being added and subtracted with y+x=✔✅ab, &c. gives x= √ √ ab + }√ub—4/0, and y=1}√ ab—}√✓ab_4b, as required. I I The fame anfwered by Mr. J. H. Hearding, of Ringfafh, Devonshire, aged 16 years. The product of the two given equations (x2y+y2x=a, and=+=b) is (Equa. 3d) x2+ 2xy + y2=ab; make abr2, and we shall have (Equa. 4th) x+y=r. Again, the fecond equation multiplied by x1y2, gives x1v+y2x=bx2y2; which, taken from the sist equation, leaves a—bx2y=o, that is x2y2=7; make = s2, and we shall have (Equz. 5th) xy=s. a From the third equation fubtract 4 times the 5th, and there will remain x2-2xy+y22-45, Hence (Equa. 6th) x—y=√ -4s. Then by adding and fubtracting the 4th and 6th equations, and dividing by 2, give x 2 This Question was also ingeniously answered by Mr. J. Ashton, Mr. T. Hickman, Mr. R. Wood, and Mr. Jof. Youngs. NEW MATHEMATICAL QUESTION. QUESTION XXXII.-By Mr. James Afhten, of Harrington, near Liverpool. The wall of a houfe being 30 feet high, a fpout, 24 feet length, is to be fixed on the top of it; it is required to find the angle the spout must make with the plane of the wall, fo that the water may fall into a refervoir, on a horizontal plane, at ten feet distance from the bottom of the wall? The Solutions to QUESTIONS XXV and XXVI (No. XIII) having been unfortunately loft, or mifluid at the printer's, the Authors of those two Questions are requested to supply us again with the folutions of them. ORIGINAL 1797-1 ( 449 ) ORIGINAL ANECDOTES AND REMARKS O F EMINENT PERSONS. This Article is devoted to the Reception of Biographical Anecdotes, Papers, Letters, &c.; and we request the Communications of fuch of our Readers as can affifi'us in these objects.] ANECDOTES OF PERSONS CONNECTED AMAR were foon afterwards beheaded. AMAR continued to exercife his functions until the death of Robefpierre, when a new WAS, by birth, a gentleman of Gre-order of things was introduced. Co noble, and a counsellor, under the ancient regimen, in the parliament of Dauphiné. In early youth, he was expofed to the calumnies of the abbé lie, canon in the cathedral of Grenoble, who accufed him of having offered violence to him (the priest) piftol in hand, to force him to impart the facramental abfolution to a young lady, his coufin, with whom he had cohabited in the fecret practice of inceft. Amar was able completely to refute this abominable calumny: the circumstance, however, feemed to infpire him with a melancholy humour, an averfion for fociety, and a pre. dominant love for folitude. After having, therefore, fulfilled the duties of his profeffion, he conftantly employed his leifure hours in the ftudy of philofophy, and natural and political history. His reputation daily increafed in the province of Dauphiné, both as an honeft lawyer, and a well-informed man. In 1792, he was chofen by the department of fire, a deputy to the National Convention. When the revolutionary government was moved and carried, by Danton, patriots of the mot auftere principles were felected for the offices of the committees of government; and AMAR was appointed a member of the committee of General Security. He immediately became the organ of that committee to the National Convention, the reports of which were, for the most part, drawn up by him; and all orders of arreftation were commonly figned by him. This power, with the exercife of it, could not fail to draw upon him the animofities of all the aristocrats and royalifts, who imputed to him the various horrors of the revolutionary regimen. The most celebrated report made by AMAR to the National Convention, was that against the Girondine party, in November, 1793. It was in confequence of his report, that the National Convention iffued a decree of accufation against the 21 Girondine members, all of whom vere, who fucceeded AMAR in the committee, fpared no pains to ftain the memory of his magiftracy, and to involve him in the fame profcription with Barrere, Vaudier, &c. All his efforts, however, proved fruitlefs; for though AMAR was known to be a violent patriot, or as it was then the fashion to call them, a terrorift, he was by no means a Robefpierrift. AMAR acted a very obfcure part during the remainder of that fitting; and when the famous confpiracy of the it of Prairial was difcovered, being afraid left the inflamed fpirit of party fhould f fufpect him of having been concerned in it (as others of his colleagues had been fufpected) he concealed himfelfin the neighbourhood of Paris; neither durft he appear in public again, till the new government was re-established, and a general amnesty proclaimed for all paft errors. He repaired, therefore, to Paris, in the winter of 1795, where he lived in great obfcurity, and in honest poverty. He dined every day at Mrs. Meux's, in the Palais Royal, among other poor people, and was unknown to every one, until he, one day, happened to difcover himfeit, by a jeft:-going out of the dining-room, the landlady obferved to him, that he had left his hat behind; AMAR politely thanked the lady, beg ged her pardon for being fo abfent, and added, with the ufual French vivacity-It is better for me, madam, to leave my hat here, than my head on the feaffold. Thefe myfterious words excited a curiofity in the lady, to know who he was ; and he took the liberty to ask his name. He replied, that he was AMAR, fo much talked of in the time of the late government; that he was now happy to have efcaped all farther profcription; and that he was fatisfied with having fpent his time and fortune in ferving his country, although he had been rewarded by it with notorious ingratitude. The landlady, though by no means a republican, could not but feel fome interest for a perfon |