196 Biographical Memoirs of Schiller, the Poet. [VOL. is sanguinary proposal; but the officers each party was attended by a Marechalho accompained him, struck with de-Camp and two Colonels. They met horror at its unexampled savageness, in the Champs Elysées, and fired four refused to permit such a meeting to take shots with pistols, which proving inef place, and referred the point to the con- fectual, they took to their swords, and sideration of their corps, who unani- the brave and excellent St. Morys was mously decided, that it would be a run through the body, and died on the deliberate assassination; and that the spot. Gardes du Corps would be dishonoured "In England the bloody and premedif they suffered one of their members to itated vengeance of Barbier would unengage in such a duel. doubtedly affix to his crime the guilt of "A gentleman, acquainted with both murder; and if convicted, he would as parties, called upon Barbier, to remon- certainly be hanged. Here, on the strate on his ferocious conduct, and in contrary, it will probably recommend the course of the conversation asked him him to the favour of a powerful party; this question: Sir, if the loaded pistol the police will not suffer the name of had fallen to your hand, and you had my lamented friend to be mentioned in known that it was loaded, could you have the journals; whilst in the salons, and had the heart to discharge it at your ad- private conversations, care will be taken versary? Yes, Sir,' said Barbier, I to represent the duel as having proceedwould have shot him dead. Well, Sir, ed ed from the insolent pretensions of an I can tell you then, that M. de St. Morys Emigrant, a Nobleman, and an Officer would have acted differently; he would of the Gardes du Corps. Nay, I should have fired in the air.' If he had,' said not be surprised, if advantage were taken Barbier, he would have acted like a of the Count's death to postpone, and fool, and I should have given him no ultimately to refuse payment to his family thanks for it.' of the sums due to him from Govern "Such was the savage spirit of revenge ment, and already acknowledged as and hatred with which this man pursued such by the Commissioners for the liquithe person, whom, as I have above ob- dation of the Royal Accounts. served, he ought, of all others, to have "I can say nothing to you of the aftreated with tenderness and respect. I fliction in which this event must plunge en I am astonished, after this, that the Count's family; especially his amiay man pretending to sentiments of ble and interesting daughter, who is honour, or to the character of a gentle- just married, and whose affection for a man, should have ever gone out as his father, who formed her mind with so second. But party-spirit, I suppose, much care, is carried to a pitch of enblinded his associates to the atrocious thusiasm. This subject is too painful malignity of his conduct; and, in fine for contemplation.--Adieu. E." SCHILLER, THE POET. From the Literary Gazette. CHILLER had been a Physician; in his attachments he poured forth all the an ardent agination inspired him with a taste for the Theatre, and his glory as a dramatic poet is established. Possessing naturally a timid disposition, he displayed, when in company, a mbre and constrained air. It was exemely difficult to become familiar with im; a strange countenance embarrassed hin, and deprived him of all his advan vehemence of his soul. But as soon as etiquette was banished, he resumed bis freedom, and nobody could then be more entertaining. His conversation abounded with sallies and traits; he denied himself no pleasure; he participated in every amusement, and when Schiller was absent, regret supplied his place. His partiality for the fair sex bordered on veneration. At Leipzic he loved two sisters with enthusiasm at Dresden, the most charming woman in Saxony held moreover him captive, and from that time his no- fits would have been considerable, tions of beauty were of a less Platonic wrote very slowly; he had scarcely nature than before. When he discoursed ished one sheet, when Kotzebue hau on this subject, his features became ani- written six. His health was mated, he raised his head; and as he extremely delicate, and a pulmonary afwas at this time labouring at his Carlos, fection rendered close application very he infused all the fire of this passion into oppressive to him. the heart of his heroine. As a friend and a husband, he rigidly He could not endure the etiquette fulfilled every duty. His death, which maintained in mixed companies at Dres- took place at Weimar in 1805, was uniden. His love for independence was versally lamented. As a Physician, he such, that he could not work with closed foretold the period of his dissolution; as doors. The aspect of nature, a walk in a Philosopher, he beheld its approach the country, the irregular course of wa- without fear; but as a father, he dreaded ters and torrents, or a storm in all its vio- its consequences. He left four children lence, were best suited to his taste, and unprovided for at a very tender age. The the desire he constantly entertained for Grand-Duchess Paulowna took charge of powerful excitements. If Schiller had written much, his pro their education. POETRY. With all thy fairy dreams of joy? Can nought thy fleeting course detain, 2. Faded those Suns, whose cheering ray At which my heart with rapture glow'd. 3. As suppliant once in fast embrace Sharing each wish that in me burn'd, 5. The narrow breast, with mighty force 7. How lightly was he onward borne! But half the course was scarcely run, I saw the sacred wreaths of fame Of all the noisy, dazzling train, Poetry. HEAR the thug of thy wing! To coast in the sc e, Before thy The ice fee courser champs his rein, The galleu rue is deally pale, Of dire adv sity: With a submissive eye. Thon ouly life'st thy pensons free, As the bright orb that rules the day, When all the rest are gone. Of warriors true and brave; I A has lone Fle-ifa hed, too much. ball you from the rain, rms of Hanover. inds. [VOL.2. It is not Tuscan, Saxon, nor yet Doric, From the Gentleman's Magazine. INTELLECTUAL ENJOYMENT. [Written in 1810.] W N. THAT though the rich Canopian wave Or bound o'er Ocean's surgetul tide; Tiet tos dispropling plague commod, Though treacherous Fate should Tho' modest Merit step unheed Betray my Damon to inglorious The active charities of life be thine And thine the ardour of the socią Shall the dark frown of Malice clo Which warms the breast inviolab No---Brighter bid the heavenly flan 'Tis noble to be good, and to endu From the Literary Gazelle, Nexus on the sable brow of Night: TOW scarce a glimmering ray of light Save where, amid the louring clouds, From the Monthly Magazine. THE RULING PASSION. W. C. 1.. MAR dipshaw him whatever was writ His warlike achievements she raised to the skies, And the prudence and sense that he had or had not; For to make a weak mortal believe himself wise, Is a method most certain to prove him a sot. Already the hero is drunk with applause, [mast, rets of fate, from the first to the Oh bind him, fast bind him, my lads to the Or this wisest of mortals will jump in the sea. September, 1817. INTELLIGENCE: LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL. THE APOLLONIcon Organ. A very old Cor spondent communicates a method of mank INK which will never be- Of the completion of this grand polyphonic Come the 1 out using any other than frame, we spoke in our last. It is now submitted the coponosangents." It occurred to me to public inspection, and affords to Messrs. ad proceed from the vegeta- Flight and Robson's numerous visitors no less ble e escany :erefore put an ounce of surprise than gratification. Its construction, deangum Alable in to a jug, with a quart Win- we understand, was commenced as far back as best," "measure of a clearinfusion of galis,made the year 1812, under favour of the experience with rain water and three ounces of galls well derived from the formation of two smaller orsounded; and placed the jug in a cellar, and gans, previously built by them upon similar overed it loosly with paper. I stirred the principles. Of the properties of this stupen quor two or three times a day, for several dous piece of workmanship, it would be diffaces, that the g might be perfectly dissol- cult to convey a just idea,; but some notion The would began to form upon the sur- of its capacity may be formed, when it is we 216..: three days afterwards I remov- known that the diameter of its largest pipe is Severalones e portions of mould formed, nineteen inches; that of its smallest scarcely tch I took off occasionally, during three the eighth of one inch, and that its powers exathe when the liquor became perfectly pu- tend to the imitation of a vast variety of instruthen added an ounce of pounded cop- ments---as flageolets, flutes, oboes, violins, Then the mould first began to form, I clarionetts, bassoons, &c. &c. which, whether the jug into the shady part of a room heard in full combination, or in their separate Wate here was a fire."---Gent. Mag. and independent diversities of tones and par When Walter Scott presented tial concords, are peculiarly striking, and be world with Cos much admired poem, he really astonish, by the proofs they offer, of the exception of the name, what art and ingenuity can achieve in this ehaladopre hing from the feudal history province of human exertion. This instrument, of the Old Brot of that family. To lovers of by its very varied and wonderful effect, apthisertainly was cause of discou- proaches, it should seem, nearer than any othwere few in number; but er congeries of vocal tubes, the organ describ we now considerably increased by Plato and Proclus, denominated by the sing publication of the real Greeks---a Panarmonion. If, in the ancient embellished with engrav- machine, every aperture of the innumerable panied by the History of the pipes, the fistula innumera, was capable of and, and all the feudal servi- emitting three or more different notes, the the manor of Scrivelsby, &c. modern instrument possesses the capacity of pouring forth its voluminous and voluble AROO Ftory of the mysterious female sounds, either automatonically, or by the livtely excited so much interest in the vicin- ing action of the finger For the former of Beetes it is said she proved an im- these operations, three cylinders, each six feet 8 pts) si gular as was at first supposed in circumference, are provided; for the latter, are Jenal says that there are at pres- six distinct sets of keys. If the pealing tones es of the line Panarmonton Called the distal Vesturan; na- those of the Apathe on shake the floor the injgb... sofwhich t wiecie stands; a icient organ was * Be a V. dem, is constructed upon principies un satan to pr neizb', aặc che would get. enta bis the modern instrument opitate } ed 50s of which the melents were e nort; and, vie 0. ་་་ the it with the 10 itiat and ar the hope, ust, sti #nd Robson's succes |