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its wish, will have but to perfect your geau for having written his Journal, and re-racter, and his countenance is animated by work, before it sanctions it. Thus you may joice at having read it. It has made us ac- a noble and gracious smile, or rendered cause a great event by bringing it about quainted with the excellent man in the more interesting by tears which call to mind yourself; thus it will be brought about with- great King. On viewing him closely, the rights of humanity. In a word, he is out a shock; thus the interval of a rapid stripped of all the pomp of majesty, in the still the hero, frequently the King, and aldeliberation will change an old chaos into privacy of his most secret moments, in the ways the man. solid and permanent order." thousand little relations by which he is apThese Memoirs therefore contain an inexThis wise counsel was given to the King, proximated with us, we feel for him that haustible fund of interest. It is however in time to have prevented the scenes that weakness of heart which it is impossible to certain that a few repetitions of ceremonies followed; the memoir having been present- withhold from good and generous beings. and domestic details which occasionally ed to his Majesty before the demand for the Without ceasing to respect the powerful mo-occur in course of the work, may be consicalling of the States-General was made by narch, we involuntarily become attached to dered somewhat tedious. The reader is now the Parliament. Yet notwithstanding the the father, the friend and the benefactor; and then informed that the King went a high authority of the author, and the King's every new detail of his private life renders hunting, that he received company, that wet personal respect for him, his counsel was re-him the more precious. Whether in pro-weather prevented him from going abroad, jected with contempt. Mr. L. says, that he nouncing an eulogium on the bon homme, and what courtiers he appointed to accomsaw Mr. Malesherbes compose this memoir, Boutems, his principal Valet-de-Chambre; pany him to Rambouillet or to Fontainethat he read several times; that Mr. Neckar or when on learning the resolution of M. de bleau. But an incalculable number of afterwards, when he entered again into the Cavoye, his Grand Mareschal des Logis, the amusing, interesting and original anecdotes ministry, requested him to borrow it for state of whose affairs obliged him to resign which throw new light on the character of his perusal, which he did, and that Mr. his situation, he replies: "we have lived so Louis XIV., make ample amends for one or Neckar returned it to him. What has be- long together that I cannot now consent to two repetitions, and compel us to overlook come of it he does not know; but thinks it our separation;" or when lending the sum a few trifling details. probable that Mr. de la Luzerne, bishop of of a thousand crowns to M. de Rovigny, he The brief account of the regency which Langres, and nephew to Mr. Malesherbes, replies: "You did right to apply to me, I terminates this collection, includes many may have some knowledge of it. lend them you with all my heart;" or finally, judicious and well expressed reflections. The when in the article of death he preferred to name of Madame de Genlis reflects importendure the fatiguing noise of a band of mu-ance on the labour she has bestowed on a sic under his windows, rather than vex work which no one was so well fitted to pubthose who were performing by sending out lish as herself. Almost all the productions an order to interrupt them, we every where of Madame de Genlis bear a reference to observe a kindness of national feeling, a nobleness of soul, and a real sensibility which call forth our affection and mildly captivate our hearts.

MEMOIRES DU MARQUIS DE DANGEAU, écrits par LUI-MEME, contenant beaucoup de particularités et d'anecdotes sur LOUIS XIV., SA COUR, &c. Extrait du manuscrit original avec des notes historiques et critiques, el un abrégé de l'Histoire de la Régence, par MADAME DE GENLIS, 3 vols. 8vo.

It is well known that in the time of Louis XIV. there were two noblemen at the court of this monarch employed in writing a daily journal of every thing that passed under their observation; one of these was the Duke de St. Simon, the other was the Marquis de Dangeau. By examining and comparing the opinions of these two men, we have much better means of forming a just opinion of the events, and of their causes and consequences, of this brilliant period of the French monarchy.

Princes whose names and virtuous qualities excited the jealousy of a government which proved itself anxious to annihilate all recollection of the past. The courageous attachment which Madame de Genlis manifested for the old monarchy still remains unrequited: we have not sufficiently acknowledged the services which she rendered to our national glory, by the recollections which her charming works tended to revive, whilst the venal pens of contemporary historians were labouring to efface or at least to disfigure the traits of those great sovereigns who constituted at once the ornament of the throne, the delight of France, and the glory of our ancestors.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

(For the Literary Gazette.) REMARKS ON THE BATTLE OF PHILIPPI.

The simple narrative style in which this book is written constitutes one of its principal charms. The Marquis de Dangeau wrote without pretension or interested views. He never dreamt either that his book would be read by the King, or of making his hero shine in the eyes of posterity. Thus the courtier disappears and the historian alone is recognisable throughout the whole work, which is divested of all ornament, arrayed The following account of this interesting only in the simple garb of truth, and is the work has appeared in a French journal. more attractive in proportion as it is unasWhen Louis XIV. is viewed seated on the suming. It is evident that the author put first throne in the universe, diffusing over together his recollections only for himself France and Europe the rays of his brilliant and his friends. The reader must not exgenius, judging with a single glance the pect to find in him the qualities which congreat men whom heaven had profusely stitute a finished writer; for he is not one. granted to his age, and distributing them He has but little wit, yet in return, he poswith discernment in his councils and ar-sesses what is still better, the art of intermies, at the head of art and science: when esting. The Marquis de Dangeau makes he is viewed constantly occupied with vast us intimately acquainted with Louis XIV.; tory which impress on the mind of the projects, multiplying to the French people the reader follows this Prince into the bosom reader a more painful regret than the the paths of glory, the fruits of civilization, of his family, witnesses the marks of affec-issue of the battle of Philippi. and the conquests of power, is there an ima- tion which he bestows on his children, and To have ensured success to the good gination which is not exalted at so magnifi- hears him lament a separation which cost cause, it appears to me, that as the field cent a spectacle? What a triumph does such him so many sighs when he bad adieu to the of action was so vast, Macedonią should a reign afford to national pride! But admi-Duke of Anjou, who had become King of have been the fixed central part of the ration, unceasing admiration, terminates in Spain, and when forgetting the dignity of his fatigue and such overwhelming majesty rank, he yielded to the first weaknesses of operations of the armies of the republic. dismays. Such was our situation before the nature. We enjoy, as it were, a close view of Brutus and Cassius should always have appearance of the Memoires de Dangeau. that great soul, the sentiments and passions been together in that part of Greece, We entertained for Louis-le-Grand the same of which cannot fail to excite interest in where they might have organized a strong kind of sentiment which a little girl may be every mind; we the more esteem that ex-and efficient council of war. Lentulus supposed to feel in the presence of her mo- quisite politeness, which was always na- and Trebonius would have been more ther, who happens to be a very respectable tural because it arose out of benevolent than an equipoise for the renegade Dolaand at the same time very imposing lady. feeling. In the work before us Louis bella in Asia Minor; and this is not a If asked whether she loves her Mamma, the XIV. does not assume the same majestic air

There are few events recorded in his

poor child will reply: Oh, I dare not. We as on the page of history; amiable benevo- mere conjecture; for we find from a dared not love Louis XIV. We thank Dan-lence is the principal feature in his cha- dispatch of Lentulus to the Senate, pre

served among the letters of Cicero, that awful and irreparable crash. This, I degrade the genius of the British School, he was wandering from city to city in think, would have ensured success to the and blast the professional estimation and Asia Minor, more as a chief of banditti, Republican cause; but the arrangement character of the whole body of the British artists, without a solitary exception, as men than as the head of a well-organized force. was defective in another point of view. of upstart pretensions," (Vol. ii. p. 211.)On the other hand, Decimus Brutus, in Either Brutus or Cassius should have as "bastards, not children of the art," (p. Italy, supported as he was by the great been appointed by a decree of the Senate, 212.)" a gang of sturdy beggars, who demajority of the senate, and of his country, generalissimo of the armies of the Repub-mand public encouragement and support, and by the civil authority of Cicero, lic, and one or other should have been with a claim of settlement in one hand and would have been more than a match for subservient to the orders of him who a forged certificate of merit in the other," Mark Antony; who suffered a repulse, might have been named. It is surprising and E. O. tables," and "Cut-purses of the (214)-Keepers of "professional little-goes as we know, from Decimus Brutus, under that Cicero, or some other leading senator, art, that from the shelf the precious diadem the walls of Modena. But let us did not provide this. A lamentable fa- stole, and put it in their pockets," (219.)— throughout suppose the worst, and that after the tality prevailed Cassius There are a number of other instances of this siege of Modena, Anthony, Lepidus, killed himself when he had no need for utter disagreement between their titles and and the young Octavius, had united their doing so. If ever there was a moment the substance of their essays. They maniforces, and marched straight to Rome. when his energies were requisite, it was fest, altogether, to use their own hacknied The good cause, it is true, would have when he had recourse to suicide. The term, an abstract malignity against the character of their country-women; against inbeen much shaken, but by no means armies of the Republic were better ap-dividuals, and whole classes and bodies of lost, so long as Brutus and Cassius were pointed than those of the rebels. The their fellow-subjects; of whom they never centred in the north of Greece; for the triumph of Brutus was at one period could have had personal knowledge; and staunch friends of the Republic would complete, and the forces of Octavius and who never could have given them offence. then have had a fixed point to look to, a Antony were reduced by famine, and We shall, at present, only notice an extrafixed standard to rally round. As the diseases, which were the consequence of ordinary opportunity, which they have taken, case stood, mark their deplorable con- their unhealthy encampment. But the dition. Some would have been flying particulars are well known: and the after Cassius in Asia Minor, others after downfall of the Republic must be attriBrutus in Macedonia, others again after buted to the neglect of precautionary the latter in Asia Minor, others after measures, which we should have imagined the legions in Africa, and Sardinia, whose any tiro in arms capable of suggesting. dispositions were very doubtful. Thus, they would have been cut off in detail by the adherents of the triumvirate, as most

The ROUND-TABLE EXAMINER examined.

LETTER III.

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in an essay "On Good-Nature," to vent a cite the worst passions and local prejudices of the multitude, by a false and vile representation of the SCOTCH and IRISH people. This libel upon nearly seven millions of their fellow subjects, was published in the very next essay to that containing the slander upon the whole body of the people of England, in the memorable passage-" He (John We noticed, in our last letter, that a good Bull) boasts of the excellence of his laws, likely was the case with several. In all sign over an inn door, is no security for good and the goodness of his own disposition; yet these great issues, there is nothing so de- fare within; and that some of the best titles there are more people hanged in England sirable as to strengthen the acropolis in the Round-Table Examiner, are made use of than in all Europe besides :-he boasts of of action, and make it as notorious and to introduce us to the most opposite princi- the modesty of his country-women, and yet central as possible.—Yes, the great fun-ples. This sort of contrast is so general, there are more prostitutes in the streets of that it is difficult to suppose it accidental. London, than in all the capitals of Europe damental error was, the desultory war- In an essay "On the Literary character," put together."- We have already pointed fare of Brutus and Cassius; had they men of letters are, by innuendo, inference out, that, in the above, without the means remained together in Macedonia, instead and direct assertion, in separate passages and of ascertaining the number of men hanged of weakening their cause by an ill-com- the entire context, represented as Sensual-or executed in all Europe, or the number of bined system of operations, by their mis-ists, (Vol. ii. p. 197-198.) as men, upon prostitutes in all the capitals on the Contiunderstandings, and their personal quar- their hold" and who palter with their duties credit, by confidently giving their random whom prejudices as well as attachments lose nent put together; they risked all claim to rels, a perpetual flow of auxiliaries would as they please. In the same paper, (see our assertions as facts, to obtain the pre-eminent have been poured into them from Italy, last letter,) an opportunity is taken, under gratification of making the world think the and the provinces, happen what might the pretext of showing the grossness of ex-worst of their own country! From the adverse in either. They might from cessive refinement, to assert and show the Round-Table Moralists, who had vilified the thence have detached troops to the as-advantage of the sensual over the intellectual Men of Letters as unprincipled Sensualists; sistance of Lentulus and Trebonius in gratifications; and we are gravely told, by the Clergy as Hypocrites; the British Artists those precious imitators of Addison and as Cut-purses of the Art, Forgers and ImAsia, or to Decimus Brutus in Italy, ac- Steele" grossness and sensuality have been postors; all the people resident in the councording as either might have stood most remarked with no less triumph, in the religious try parts of England as stupid, envious, in need of support. By a lamentable devotee than in the professed philosopher." brutish, hating, ready to devour each other, fatality, those two bold Doric columns of (Ibid.) In their essays "On Religious Hypo- and eager to return injuries for benefits; we the Republic were disjoined. Had they, crisy"-" On the Tendency of Sects"-"On need not be surprised at this latter horrid from the death of Cæsar, invariably re- the Causes of Methodism"-and in some and insulting character of the men and mained together in the north of Greece, others, the cause of religion itself is treated women of England. A foreigner, who would they would have preserved the custyle of David adverted to, with blasphemous in- a land of Prostitutes and sanguinary Felons. with scoffing disrespect, and the Bible history believe them, must suppose this island to be . disposition; as it was, they even ex- decency. They slander the whole of the Any libel, however black, upon the Scotch or cluded the anceastyle; consequently the Clergy with the opprobrium of hypocrisy, of Irish people, in their pages, can appear only architrave of the Republic fell with an which we quote but this one sentence-"The as a matter of course; another indulgence ■ Romæ delectus habetur, totâque Italiâ, si Ministers of Religion are perhaps more liable of their malignant propensities. We shall hic delectus appellandus est, cùm ultrò se of to this vice than any other class of people." here quote a part of their laboured atferunt omnes: tantus ardor occupavit animos (V. ii. p. 172.) In an essay "On the Cata tack upon the Scotch and Irish people, in "On hominum desiderio libertatis, odioque diutinæ logue Raisonné of the British Institution," their own words, from their essay Cic. Dec. Brut. lib. 11. ep. 8. an occasion is seized upon to calumniate and GOOD NATURE."-"A GOOD NATURED MAN

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is utterly unfit for any situation or office in tinction, to which in all his party wars we tors of ADDISON and STEELE! Their labours, life that requires integrity, fortitude, or ge- believe that his worst enemies never before instead of being "similar papers" to the nerosity, any sacrifice except of opinion, or raised this celebrated statesman. any exertion but to please. A good natured Round-Table moralists did not heap to- as night is to day, or as deadly poison is to But the Spectator and Tatler, are as opposite to them man will debauch his Friend's mistress, if he gether all this magazine of vile and detes-wholesome food. The Spectators and Tathas an opportunity; and betray his friend table imputations, for the mere confined lers breathed peace and good will among sooner than share disgrace and danger with pleasure of blackening only Lord Castle- men. The Round-Table lectures are calcuhim. He will not forego the smallest grati- reagh, Lord Eldon, and Charles For. Theylated to convert kindness into distrust; and fication to save the whole world. He makes aimed at higher game than a couple of Ca- to fan every spark and expiring ember of his own convenience the standard of right and binet Lords, and the deceased leader of the local difference into wrong. He avoids the feelings of pain in WHIGS. Having accumulated a competent No public enemy could more effectually ina devouring flame. himself, and shuts his eyes to the sufferings of store of calumnious materials, in seven tor- jure the popular interests or endanger pub others. He will put a malefactor or an inno-tuous pages of crimination, as the charac-lic freedom. There are but two modes of cent person (no matter which) to the rack, teristics of "a good natured man," they in a enslaving a free people; by divisions created and only laugh at the uncouthness of the couple of sentences blacken whole nations by corruption; or divisions produced by ingestures, or wonder that he is so unmannerly at once; and with perfect coolness add cendiary writers. The latter are more danas to cry out. There is NO VILLANY to "THE IRISH ARE A GOOD NATURED PEOPLE," gerous. When corruption has spent its which he will not lend a helping hand with that is, according to the context, the Irish force, the corrupted may be restored to a great coolness and cordiality; for he sees only are as great villains as Lord Castlereagh, sense of their duty. But when an incenthe pleasant and profitable side of things; he Lord Eldon, Charles For, and that class of diary, under the mask of philanthropy, has will assent to a falsehood with a leer of com- detestable villains, whom they had been in poisoned the minds of his fellow subjects, placency, and applaud ANY ATROCITY that so many pages describing. This charitable and inflamed their hearts against each comes recommended in the garb of autho- attempt to foment national prejudices against other, he cannot, even if he would, repair rity." (Vol. ii. p. 78.)-" The shrieks of their Irish fellow subjects, is curiously the evil. The injury is permanent; the death, the torture of mangled limbs, the last minced up with a show of candor, which hatreds and divisions descend from father groans of despair, are things that shock his by affecting to place the virtues of the Irish to son, from generation to generation; a smooth humanity too much ever to make an in their animal sensations, at the expence of fatal legacy of public weakness and a sure impression on it; his good nature sympathises their heads, implies a depravity or defect of invitation to domestic oppression and fo only with the smile, the bow, the gracious understanding, that deepens the die of these reign invasion. salutation, the fawning answer: vice loses horrid imputations. We give here the least preceptors make their fellow subjects doubt These Sunday-morning its sting and corruption its poison in the oily exceptionable part of the passage: "The and fear and hate each other. They scatter sweetness of his disposition." (Vol. ii. p. 79.)- Irish are a GOOD NATURED PEOPLE; they suspicions, exasperations, firebrands, and "He is a slave to the will of others, a have many virtues, but their virtues are discords through the two islands. We recoward to their prejudices, a tool of their those of the heart, not of the HEAD. vices. A GOOD NATURED MAN is no more fit passions and affections they are sincere, but cold-blooded malignity; this unappeasable, In their peat it, that we know of no parallel to this to be trusted in public affairs than a coward they are hypocrites in understanding." (vol. ii. unprovoked, and wanton craving for the inor a woman is to lead an army. SPLEEN is the p. 81.) According to this in their likings discriminate slaughter of public and private soul of patriotism and public good. Lord and dislikings, their animal feelings, which character; this horrid fiend-like eagerness Castlereagh is a good natured man, Lord are in some degree involuntary, the Irish are to traduce defenceless women, and foment Eldon is a good natured man, CHARLES FOX sincere; a compliment which is equally due local hatreds and national divisions among a GOOD NATURED MAN. The LAST IN- to the wolf and the tiger; "but they are hy- their countrymen. These essays are calcu STANCE is the MOST DECISIVE. The defi-pocrites in their understanding." nition of a true Patriot is a good hater once begin to calculate the consequences, rancorous party hostilities; and corrupt "If theylated to tear open all our old wounds; revive A King, who is a good natured man, is in self-interest prevails. An IRISHMAN who the morals and manners of the empire. fair way of becoming a tyrant." (vol. ii. trusts to his principles, and a SCOTCHMAN They set all classes in array against each p. 79, 80.) It would be difficult to produce who yields to his IMPULSES, are EQUALLY other. We refer to the Sunday Newspaper any parallel of a malevolence so cold- DANGEROUS." (vol. ii. p. 81.) The plain in which they were published; and to their hearted, deliberate and active, as appears English here, according to these profound two volumes which are in circulation, for in the whole of this essay "On good nature." moralists, amounts to this, that the Irish their own words. We now shall recapituOther public writers have proved their im- people having "no co-herence of understand late the SUBSTANCE and essence of their pious partiality by conferring praise, without dis-ing;" (ibid.) otherwise having heads without labors, their mission of love and kindlier intinction, on all sides; but, in the excess of virtue; are "a good natured people;" a peo-tercourse. We mean their slanders only, their causeless hatred, and anti-social feel-ple willing to lend a hand to any villany, not their attacks upon revealed religion; and ings, the Round-Table libellers strike and any atrocity, and are of course a dangerous our limits oblige us to give them in a constab in every direction. They prove their people; objects of suspicion and dislike; densed form, with a reference to their own impartiality, by equally blackening both and to be shunned by the people of Eng- essays. The men of letters are traduced and sexes, Whig and Tory; Administration and land as unfit for safe companionship or rendered objects of general disgust, as senOpposition; English and Scotch and Irish; trust! The SCOTCH, according to these pre-sualists, not to be bound by duty or moral men of all parties and persuasions. The mises, are allowed to have clear heads; but, obligation. The CLERGY are aspersed and friends of the ministers have no reason to owing to their having no impulses, or feel- rendered odious to the Laity, as being more charge them with partiality; as they have ings animal or mental, but for themselves, inclined to the vice of hypocrisy, than other coupled together Lord CASTLEREAGH and Mr. are "EQUALLY DANGEROUS;" quite as vil men. The Genius of the empire is contempCHARLES FOX in the same class of mis-lanous, atrocious, and unfit to be trusted as tuously reviled and insulted; and the Bricreants, whom in the language of their the Irish, whenever any act of villany or tish artists are belied; injured in their paessay "On good nature," under the desig atrocity will serve their own turn! An tronage; defamed and lowered in the opination of "a good natured man," they had IRISHMAN therefore, according to the Round nion of the whole country and all Europe; described as cowards and tools, willing with- Table, must never trust to his principles, or as cut purses of the art; and impostor, out hesitation or remorse, to lend a helping a SCOTCHMAN to his impulses; or woe to the whose claims of merit are forged. The pour hand to any villany, or sanction any cruel man, woman, or child, who stands in the rustics, in a season of scarcity, and all the atrocity for their own interest. The most way of their interest! So much for the phi-residents in the country parts of England, are singular thing in this is their having placed lanthropy of the moralists, who were to have deprived of public sympathy, and caluniCHARLES FOX, at the head of this horrid dug deep beneath the surface to bring up niated to the inhabitants of London and the class, as the most decisive instance of diabo- materials for the "kindlier intercourse" of great towns, as brutish, envious, stupid, unlical complacency! This was a post of dis- their fellow subjects! These are the imita- grateful, and malignant beings,

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of England, as we have shewed, are tra- and countries. It is an eternal truth, that a course ofinquiry,and to employ himself upon duced, rendered objects of suspicion, and divided people can neither acquire liberty, much laborious calculation. His son has jealousy; and held up by malignant infer- nor retain that inestimable blessing. They very properly favoured the public with four ence, to their husbands, fathers, brothers, must be either amicably joined in the bonds volumes of his revered father's discourses and lovers, as the most depraved and im-of a common interest, by nature, reason, and and some other of his erudite performances, modest of their sex in Europe. The men the dictates of humanity and religion; or but one thing remains for filial duty to disof England are blackened and stigmatised by an over-ruling Power, in fetters of an op- charge, and he is hereby respectfully called to the people of Scotland, Ireland, and the posite kind. An empire composed of differ- upon to remember that time is passing away whole world, as dolts, dupes, blockheads, bul- ent nations requires the pen and voice of and that many are hastening to the grave, lies, and by palpable inference, cowards; the mild, persuasive Eloquence, to charm away who would be glad to contribute their assis most dishonest, base and bloody-minded their prejudices and melt them into one peo-tance in enriching a memoir which, properly people in Christendom. The IRISH, in their ple. The unhappy divisions of the several executed, cannot fail to be one of the most turn, are calumniated and rendered objects states, which composed the commonwealth, valuable in the English language. of public odium to England and Scotland, as overthrew the liberty of Rome; and finally May 9, 1817. a people, in a good natured way, ready to lend subverted the empire. Those incendiaries a hand to any villany or atrocity through an who would excite popular divisions are pubincoherence in their understandings, a want lic enemies. The British Writer, who can of virtue in their heads. The SсотCH, not-subdue a local prejudice or national dislike, withstanding the clearness of their heads, in the breasts of Englishmen, Irishmen, and have come in for their full share of defama- Scotchmen, is the true friend to his country; tion with the Irish and English, as equally and will merit more than a statue of gold; dangerous, equally ready for any villany or the gratitude of the latest posterity. These atrocity, whenever the selfish depravity of are the victories which are to our taste, but their impulses" puts them in the way of we have the will only without the power. a profitable robbery, assassination, or any other These are the glories of which a friend to heinous crime. In this latter concluding re-humanity, a man of real genius, might well capitulation of the parts only to which we be proud. Our voice is weak, and our hope in varied colours, has been applied by Mr. The system by which Cottons are printed have hitherto adverted, we are obliged, as humble, but we shall repeat, again and again, W. Savage to the colouring of Prints in imiwe before observed, to condense the matter that a Writer, who subdues a popular animo-tation of highly finished drawings; or, in of their words and malignant inferences, with sity, and introduces tranquillity and affection other words, the print both in outline and a reference to the preceding extracts and among his countrymen, does more for the colour is worked off by successive applicareasoning, in this and our two former let- public security, than a general who wins a tions of wooden blocks cut and tinted in a ters; and as their essays are before the pub-dozen bloody battles, fills a country with wilic, every man who sets a value upon the dows and orphans, and conquers a kingdom, effect required. Our fair readers will at once manner so progressive as to produce the morals of his family, can form his judgment in a distant part of the world. by their own words, by the letter and the spisee that this idea has partly been practised rit of their whole publication. A full and in the progressive application of colour, impartial comprehension of their work, in through the vacancies cut in plates of copparts and as a whole, in its direct and ultiper, so as to produce ornamental flowers on To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. mate tendency to injure public manners muslin and tiffany trimmings. and morals, can easily be acquired by a com- your excellent journal, which appears to be a SIR,-Allow me through the medium of parison of its letter and spirit, which in many proper vehicle for eliciting literary informastriking passages will be found to preserve, tion, to enquire whether there is any likeliin appearance, a guarded separation, al- hood that the world will be favoured with an though they work together in the minds of ample memoir and correspondence of the the reader. The words "On good nature," late learned Bishop HORSLEY! It is truly to prefixed as a title to one of their essays, be lamented that in this age of Biography, were made use of to introduce their false and infamous attack upon the Irish and Scotch; so in their scoffing attacks upon revealed religion, and their impious mockery of the Deity, which require a distinct expo-ed away without any detailed account of one sure, the letter and spirit will be found to of the brightest ornaments the English be as cautiously set at a seeming distance. When the benevolent mind of Addison Bishop of St. Asaph was not confined to his suggested lately by Mr. Mushet, in conseChurch ever enjoyed. The excellence of the ANTEDILUVIAN DISCOVERIES.-It has been forewarned the people, in his essays, that, peculiar profession, for it is well known that quence of analysing some native Iron disif ever the liberty of England should be de- he was a mathematician of the first rank, covered in Brasil, that such specimens are stroyed, it must be by their own party ani- and a scholar of almost universal knowledge, actually the remains of Antediluvian Metalmosities and national divisions, he little His writings will ever speak his praise, and lurgy, and not resulting from the chemistry foresaw that, in another century, English the journals of parliament exhibit ample of nature. This idea struck him from its Writers would be found, under the pretext proofs of his diligence as a member of the resemblance to the residuum so often found of publishing a series "of similar papers," to House of Peers, and of his powers as an ora- in blast furnaces; particularly as similar make a mockery of the Scriptures; and blow tor of the most commanding eloquence. In masses are often found where an ore of iron into a flame all those fatal prejudices and private life he was truly amiable, and I can is abundant on the surface, perhaps the national divisions, against which, as the most cheerfully bear testimony to the suavity scoria of former works! grave of freedom, he so earnestly admonish- of his manners, and the liberality of his dised his country. Yet all the anti-social male- position. He held a very extended corresvolence and sneering contempt for revealed pondence with learned men abroad and at religion, in the Round Table, is set forward home, upon all subjects of literary impor Salisbury, 27th May, 1817. under the mask of philanthropy. Our stream tance, and he was to my knowledge always gaged the attention, puzzled the brains, and Mr. Editor,-No problem has more enof thinking is not muddied by the petty punctual in answering any letters that he baffled the efforts of Mathematicians and interests or fluctuating maxims of parties in received, though frequently he was called Mechanical Men, for these two thousand or out of power. We speak in the spirit of upon to give his opinion upon compositions years past, than the celebrated problem of history, and our reasoning applies to all ages which obliged him to enter into an elaborate a Perpetual Motion. I find in a late num

BISHOP HORSLEY.

summer has put all our Steam Boats in moSTEAM BOATS. Since the approach of tion for Margate and the other marine watering places, it has been proposed to obviate all danger of explosion, and to encourage the timid, by substituting the mechanical action of hydraulics for the impulse produced by steam, It is true that the first when so many insignificant characters are impulse given by the latter mode is not so eulogised with as much pomp and parade as rapid; but all mechanists know the mode of if they had been persons of the first distinc-multiplying power and increasing rapidity; tion in science, eight years should have pass- so that the only objection can be the increased expense of machinery, which would be saved in fuel in a few seasons.

PERPETUAL MOTION.

ber of your valuable Literary Gazette, that "a Monsieur Louis, of Valence, has constructed a machine that is said to solve, as far as may be reasonably expected, the notable problem of perpetual motion."—Now, Sir, a gentleman of iny acquaintance has proceeded in discovery to at least an equal extent with this persevering and ingenious foreigner: his machine will regularly and uninterruptedly proceed, without the interposition of any external cause: all supplies from foreign or external causes being, of course, excluded in a perpetual motion; and, thus far, all well. One sad obstacle however arises, and, it is thought, ever must arise to prevent the completion of the ub. ject in view; I allude to the impossibility of finding in this world materials of an imperishable nature. Pray, Mr. Editor, will you or any correspondent inform me (and the information may be acceptable as well to others as myself) what reward is held up to the longing eyes of the man, who fancies he can with Pythagoras exclaim εύρηκα, εύρηκα! and also if any reward has been claimed and allowed for laudable approaches towards the solution of this famed problem.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ARCHIMEDES, Jun.

POETRY.

LINES, by the late COUNTESS B- Primavera! gioventa dell'anno." GUARINI. Thou com'st, sweet Spring! but com'st not now the same

As late I saw thee Winter's frowns remove,
When sportive hours all jocund with thee came,
And drooping nature wak'd to life and love.

When charm'd by thee, my rural pipe I sought,
And bid the vallies all thy praises bear;
When from the tuneful tribe (well pleas'd) 1
caught

Some sylvan notes the lonely dale to cheer.

When list ning nymphs adorn'd my flowing hair

With garlands gay that with thy blushes glow'd, (Wreaths that in promise blossom'd tresh and fair,

But never fruit or lasting sweets bestow'd') So have my fates their flattering smiles with drawn,

Though gentle once they seem'd serene and ངན་!

As oft the sun, that gilds a joyful dawn,

Sees brooding clouds obscure his noon-tide ray.

Then com'st, sweet Spring!—but bringest not

to me

The precious gifts ere now profusely shed; A tranquil mind, gay mirth, and liberty-

But rather these at thy approach are fled.

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For thou a sympathetic look dost wear!
In vain, alas' thou wouldst my peace restore,
In vain thou seem'st to pity my despair.

With lingering glance, on yonder russet plain
Thou still appear'st reluctantly to shine:
Perhaps thou may'st lament the faithful swain,
Whom love and mutual truth bad chosen mine.

But no-fell discord, and the din of arms
Alike we fall, in prime of nature's charms,
Far off have seiz'd, and borne my love away

To glory one-and one to grief a prey!
So opes the lily to the solar beam

Her silver bell; intent its warmth to woo;
Yet droops dejected ere its setting gleam,
And in the blessing meets affliction too!

MORNING.

Now dewy Nature starts from her repose---
Already has the bee her task begun,
And Flora's image upon earth, the rose,
Bursts into beauty with the morning sun.

A thousand zephyrs now are hovering there,
With wings invisible to earthly eyes,
To catch and waft her odours through the air,
As streaming from her lovely breast they rise.

Fair flowers less lovely, handmaids to their

Queen,

keeping; a deficiency of taste, and of the qualities that inspire love: they will be careless in every thing. The gul of eigh teen, who desires not to please, will be a slut and a shrew at twenty-five. Pay attention, young men, to this sign; it never yet was known to deceive." Husbands, as well as lovers, are gratified and delighted in seeing their partners handsomely adorned, and I am well convinced, that many a heart, now roving in quest of variety, might have been detained in will. ing captivity at home, by the silken chains of personal decoration." It is one of the moral duties of every married woman, always to appear well dressed in the presence of her husband To effect this, expensiveness of attire is by no means requisite. The simplest robe nay evince the wearer's taste as nobly as the most gorgeous brocade. With respect to reigning fashions, it must never be considered, that

“One form of dress prescrib'd can suit with all:

One brightest shines when wealth and art com. bine

To make the finish'd piece completely fine,
When least adorn'd, another steals our hearts,
And, rich in native beauties, wants not arts,
In some are such resistiess graces found,
That in all dresses they are sure to w sand,
Their perfect forms all foreign aids despise
Unclose their eyes and weep the dew away,
And gems bat borrow lustre from the r eyes."
And lift their heads late drooping o'er the green, The natural figure of a woman is of the
And sweetly welcome the approach of day.first importance in determining the style
What varied strains are gathering in the sky!
The ploughman whistle and the lark's shrill
The rook's discordant answer to the cry

tone,

Of noisy nestlings helpless and alone.

Now floating far, the full and mellow note'
Of piping blackbird, perch'd upon the thorn,
And twittering strams from many a tuneful

throat,

of her dress. What sight, for instance, can be more preposterous than that of a short, thick, broad-shouldered, fat female in a spenser? It has been well observed, too, that "short women destroy their symmetry, and encumber their charms, by all redundancy of ornament;" and that “a little woman, feathered and furs belowed, looks like a queen of the Bantam tribe, and we dare not approach her, for fear of ruffling her feathers.”

Mix in the concert of the merry morn.
And oh what eye could gaze on such a scene,
And coldly view the beauties there display'd, Nor is the substance of which dresses
Her rainbow tints, but most prevailing green,
Chaste in the light, and mellow in the shade-ing due allowance for the season, that
are composed unworthy of notice. Mak

Woods slowly waving to the scented gale, which will display, or soften, the contour
And imaged, waving in the stream below, of the form, with most propriety and
Flocks calmly browsing in the cowslip dale,
effect, should always be preferred. i be
With fleeces brightened by the matin glow.Roman ladies had their ventus textilis,
Halewowth, May 176, 1817

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and their finca nebula-haeu so hue as ON TASTE IN FEMALE DRESS, to acquire those names —~; and, from { Concluded from our last Number.) the transparent musim, to the substantial Personal neatness may almost be class-silk, the merino and kerseymere, our ed with the cardinal virtues. It was as variety of texture is almost mhaite. I hus, Stern Winter's frosts have far less cruel been, observation of Lavater's, that persons ha- whilst the sylph-formed maiden may be Though long their rigors whiten'd o'er the bitually attentive to dress, display the allowed to float in gossamer, the more Safe were my flocks beneath the scowling scene, same regulanty in their domestic affairs. matured and portly female should adopt And blest my cottage-sacred then to love!" Young women," says he, " who neglect a fabric better suited to her size, her their toilette, and manifest little contigure, and her time of life. cern about dress, indicate in this very There is nothing, perhaps, mo. particular, a disregard of order, a mind cult of choice, or more delusive but ill-adapted to the details of house wearer, than colours; and nothu

grove;

Bright blaz'd the turf, the social board appear'd
With rustic plenty, and with joy supplied.
For 'twas Alexis every sadness cheer'd,
Nor then foresaw in spring we must divide:

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