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may both undertake to endeavour the execution of my project, because I think. that, though unforefeen difficulties may arife, expedients will be found to remove them, and the fcheme be found practicable. If one of them accepts the money with the conditions, and the other refufes, my will then is, that both fums be given to the inhabitants of the city accepting; the whole to be applied to the fame purpofes, and under the fame regulations directed for the feparate parts; and if both refufe, the money remains of courfe in the mafs of my eftate, and it is to be difpofed of therewith, according to my will made the feventeenth day of July 1788.

My fine crab-tree walking-stick, with a gold head curioufly wrought in the form of the cap of Liberty, I give to my friend, and the friend of mankind, General Washington. If it were a fceptre, he has merited it, and would become it.

EULOGIUM

O N

Benjamin Franklin, L. L. D. &c.

DELIVERED IN THE ROTUNDA,

ON THE 21ST OF JULY, 1790,

IN THE NAME OF THE COMMONS OF PARIS ;

In prefence of the Deputies to the Legislative Affembly, and of all the Departments in the Kingdom, the Mayor, the Commandant-General of the National Guards, the Reprefentativesof the Commons, the Presidents of the Districts, and the Elec

tors of the Capital..

BY THE ABBE FAUCHET,

NOW CONSTITUTIONAL BISHOP OF THE DEPARTMENTY

OF CALVADOS, AND A MEMBER OF THE
NATIONAL CONVENTION..

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Representatives of the Commons of Paris paffed a vote on the twenty-fecond of July, 1790, in confequence of which it was ordered, that this Eulogium fhould be printed, and prefented to the National Affembly of France, and the Congrefs of America.

EULOGIUM

Ο Ν

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ;

'ronounced by the Abbe FAUCHET, in the Name of the Commons of Paris.

A SECOND creation has taken place; the ele aents of fociety begin to combine together; the oral univerfe is now feen iffuing from chaos; he genius of Liberty is awakened, and fprings up;. ae fheds her divine light and creative powers upn the two hemifpheres: A great nation, aftonifhd at seeing herself free, ftretches her arms from. me extremity of the earth to the other, and emraces the first nation that became fo: The founlations of a new city are created in the two worlds; brother nations haften to inhabit it; it is the city of mankind!

One of the firft founders of this univerfal city was the immortal Franklin, the deliverer of America.

The fecond founders, who accelerated this great work, made it worthy of Europe-the legiflators of France have rendered the most folemn. homage to his memory. They have faid-"A friend of hu-. "manity is dead; mankind ought to be over"whelmed with forrow! Nations have hitherto "only worn mourning for Kings; let us affume "it for a Man, and let the tears of Frenchmen mingle with thofe of Americans, in order to do

"honour to the memory of one of the Fathers of "Liberty!

The city of Paris, which once contained this philofopher within its walls, which was intoxicat ed with the pleasure of hearing, admiring, and lov ing him; of gathering from his lips the maxims of moral legiflation, and of imbibing from the effu fions of his heart a paffion for the public welfare, rivals Boston and Philadelphia, his two native cities (for in one he was born as it were a man, and in the other a legiflator,) in its profound attach ment to his merit and his glory.

It has commanded. this funeral folemnity, in order to perpetuate the gratitude and the grief of this third country, which, by the courage and ac tivity with which it has profited of his leffons, has fhewn itfelf worthy of having him at once for an inftructor and a model.

In felecting me for the interpreter of its wishes it has declared, that it is lefs to the talents of an orator, than the patriotism of a citizen, the zeal of a preacher of liberty, and the fenfibility of a friend of men, that it hath confided this folemn func tion. In this point of view, I may fpeak with a holy confidence; for I have the public opinion, and the teftimony of my own confcience, to fecond my wishes. Since nothing elfe is wanting than freedom, and fenfibility, for that fpecies of elo quence which this eulogium requires, I am fatif fied; for I already poffefs them.

My voice fhall extend to France, to America, to pofterity; I am now to do juftice to a great man, the founder of tranf-Atlantic freedom; I am to praise him in the name of the mother-city of French liberty; I myself alfo am a man; I ama

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