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 356 BRUMATH IJKUX ries, where Sieyes made a harangue upon the perils of the republic, and the reported plots of the Jacobins to reestablish the reign of ter- ror, and induced the council to place Bona- parte in command of the military in Paris, and to transfer the sittings of both legislative bodies to St. Cloud, where they would be out of danger. Sieyes, Barras, and Ducos resign- ed as members of the directory, so that there was left no executive authority ; but Bona- parte commanded the troops. On the next morning, Nov. 10, the two councils met at St. Cloud. The republican majority in the ancients inveighed against the trick by which they had been left out in the proceedings of the previous day. Bonaparte appeared at the bar to justify his action. He began a violent speech, lost his presence of mind, and became con- fused, but catching a glimpse of the grenadiers outside, he threatened the council with milita- ry violence if they should decide against him. Meanwhile in the council of 500 Lucien Bona- parte read the resignation of the three directors, amid shouts from the members of " No Crom- well! no dictator! the constitution for ever." Bonaparte now entered, accompanied by four grenadiers, and attempted to speak, but was interrupted by cries and execrations, and could utter only a few broken sentences. The mem- bers appeared to be on the point of proceeding to violence against him, when a body of soldiers rushed into the hall and bore him off. A mo- tion was made for his outlawry ; but Lncien refused to put it, left the chair, and went out- side the hall, where he addressed the troops, declaring that a body of factious men in the pay of England, and armed with daggers, had set the deliberations of the representatives of the people at defiance, and that he, as president of the assembly, summoned the military to quell the disturbance. The soldiers hesitated until Lucien swore that he would stab his own brother if he attempted anything against the republic. Murat at the head of a body of gren- adiers then entered the hall, and ordered the assembly to disperse. The members replied with shouts and execrations. The drums were then ordered to beat, the soldiers levelled their muskets, and the members of the council made their escape by the windows. Bonaparte had meanwhile gone to Paris, where he said that attempts had been made to stab him ; and one person declared that he -had received wounds intended for Bonaparte. The council of 500 was dissolved by a vote of about 50 of its members, who also in conjunction with the ancients passed a decree making Sieyes, Bona- parte, and Ducos provisional consuls, and in- vesting them with supreme executive power. The coup d'etat was merely begun on the 18th Brumaire, and its success was only assured on the 19th. BRUMATH, or Brnmpt (anc. Brocomagus), a town of Germany, in Alsace, on the river Zorn, 10 m. N. of Strasburg; pop. in 1871, 5,601. Here are a number of tumuli, supposed to be the remains of a Celtic cemetery, in which have been found a hatchet, knife, ring, and other articles of Celtic origin. Near the town is the insane asylum of Stephansfeld. BKUJH9IEL, George Bryan, a celebrated English man of fashion, born in London in June, 1778, died at Caen, France, March 29, 1840. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, where, though he displayed some skill in writing Latin verses, he was less distinguished for scholarship than for a fastidious taste in dress, which early gained for him the sobriquet of " Beau Brum- mel." On the death of his father in 1794 he inherited 30,000, and about the same time he became the favorite companion of the prince of Wales, who gave him a cornetcy in his regi- ment, and rapidly promoted him to a cap- taincy. Military life not being to his taste, he sold his commission and devoted himself to fashion and fine society. He set up a splendid bachelor establishment at the west end of London, and became the arbiter of taste and fashion, a position which he retained so long as the favor of the prince of Wales and his own money lasted. The former he forfeited about 1813, and the latter, replenished occasionally by gambling, gave out soon after ; and in the latter part of the next year he fled from his creditors to Calais. After living there for some years on such remittances as he could obtain from his friends, he was appointed consul at Caen, where he became reduced to utter penury and died in a hospital for lunatic mendicants. See " Life of Brummel," by Capt. William Jesse (2 vols. 8vo, London, 1844 ; 12mo, 1854). HIM .V Frlederike Sophie Christlane, a German authoress, born at Grafen-Tonna, near Gotha, June 8, 1765, died in Copenhagen, March 25, 1835. The daughter of Balthasar Munter, a German clergyman and poet, who removed to Copenhagen, she was early remarkable for her linguistic and poetical talents, and married in 1783 the wealthy Danish COUB- cillor Constantin Brun, with whom she went to St. Petersburg and to Hamburg, where she formed the acquaintance of Klopstock. She became deaf during the cold winter of 1788 -'9, and subsequently travelled in various coun- tries, and for some time in company with the princess of Dessau and the poet Matthisson. With the latter and with the historian Jo- hannes von Milller she spent some time in Switzerland in the house of Bonstetten, who was afterward for several years her guest in Copenhagen, and who addressed many re- markable letters to her, which have been pub- lished. After a long residence in Italy, she spent nearly the last 25 years of her life in Co- penhagen, gathering round her many eminent persons. Her husband survived her hardly one year. Her early poems, edited by Matthis- son in 1795 (4th ed., Zurich, 1806), were fol- lowed by Neue Gedichte (Darmstadt, 1812), and Neveste Gedichte (Bonn, 1820). She described her travels in her Prosaische ScJiriften (4 vols..