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EXPRESSLY DESIGNED FOR THE POLITE CIRCLES. SATURDAY, FEB. 22, 1817. PRICE 1s. language and our poetry, and tend to render the bard a THE LITERARY GAZETTE having now passed safely being, whose ambition extended not beyond ephemeral through its initiatory month, we may presume to congra- applause. Not such was the feeling of our mighty tulate ourselves on the favor which it has experienced Milton, whose extant letter shows, that he spurned cotemfrom an indulgent public. We trust that its primary porary fame in comparison with immortal, and that he object, the diffusion of literary intelligence, and its essen-wrote his Paradise Lost for posterity alone. We have not tial difference, in this respect, from all other weekly pub-yet learned to divest ourselves of the notion, that second lications, are sufficiently manifest. For the purpose of thoughts, and second words, too, are often the best; and making that characteristic the more obvious, we have that what is the most easily written, is not always the most hitherto circumscribed the circle of our subjects, more easily read. Wretched indeed were that criticism, which than our original plan required, and have deemed it pru- would hold one author to be better than another by a dent, rather to commence on a scale which might admit thousand lines, or one book to excel another by so many of enlargement, than one which might call for diminu- ounces or inches. On the contrary, we humbly conceive, tion. The general nature of the work being once esta- (supposing the author limited to time,) that the law of blished, we should then enter upon a wider field, with letters resembles the law of postage, and that above a less danger of misinterpretation, and should thus con- certain weight, there is no frank to immortality. vince our readers, that every topic, not directly bearing But though, while pointing out these general faults, we upon literature, would be considered but as secondary have classed both the reviews together, we by no means and adventitious. Indeed, when it is found so difficult, consider them as possessed of these faults in an equal proeven in critical strictures, to preserve moderation and portion. The elder born has a good deal more of that pecandor, we might well shrink from animadverting upon tulant and headstrong temper, which is so often imputable other subjects, which rouse the more rancorous passions, to primogeniture; while the younger born, like other seand set prejudice in array against truth. cond sons, has an advantage over it in a more moral and We would instance, on this occasion, the two principal scholastic education, as well as in a more sober observance Reviews. Perhaps, so noble a body of criticism, so solid of those laws, which the dashing heir thinks it a fine thing a compendium of knowledge, never appeared in any age to laugh at and infringe. To our mind, the one appears or nation before. The joint product of divines, philoso- in the shape of a great boy-senator, who will make a phers, and poets, they compress into their quarterly pages speech or break a lamp for you, just as you please; while all the valuable matter that is diffused through the quartos the other, brought up at his mother's apron, has all her of a whole year. The landmarks of public opinion, they proverbs off by heart, and errs only in sometimes applying excite enthusiasm and rivalry among the learned, while them too strictly. they create taste and discrimination among the ignorant. It has long been a matter of regret, that these two Yet with all these qualities and consequences, it would works, which are dedicated to criticism on others, should still be too much to expect from them unmixed excellence never be criticised themselves. And this appears the more and unexceptionable advantage. Every one is aware, that necessary, inasmuch as a greater degree of injury must both these Reviews now and then indulge themselves in accrue from their errors, than from those of original wrian atrabilious fit of critical spleen; that they have their ters. If readers are left to their own unbiassed opinions, favorite authors, and their contradictory doctrines, and a large portion of them will decide justly; but an unfair their political heresies or bigotries, all often in utter oppo- or injudicious stricture, published with all the pomp and sition to each other, and sometimes in direct hostility circumstance of the plural We, misleads and perverts that against fact and reason. We would revert, for example's great mass, whose information is confined and whose judgsake, to their last numbers. In the one, we have already ment is immature. pointed out a most disgraceful attack upon Pope, to It shall, therefore, be one among our other duties, to which the best answer extant may be found in a former keep a watchful eye over those tremendous censors; to volume of the self-same work; in the other, there is some compare each with his compeer, and to form a proper curious advice to poets, which, really, for the honor of equipoise between both. We grant that their engines are of criticism, as well as for the purity of writing, we cannot a larger calibre; but against this advantage, we can oppose suffer to circulate unexposed. This unlucky passage con- a quicker cannonade. Our rapidity of fire is more than in tains nothing more nor less than an exhortation against an inverse ratio to our weight of metal. correctness of style,-or, at least, against the means by which that correctness is obtained. It advises the poet to write often rather than well, and to continue flinging off his sheets roughly and rapidly, while the public are in a good humour with him. This counsel, though somewhat qualified by certain conditions, in that case wisely made and provided, would, if pursued, debase both our ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. SHERIDAN'S DRAMAS. To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. confidential letters from him. In consequence I feel inter-lousies, and their vices,' have yet left materials for ample supested to rebut the late insinuations, that Mr. Sheridan's mo-plements. If political honesty is rare, still more so is literary ther wrote, or chiefly wrote, "The Rivals." I would ask, probity. MATHEUS has launched into bitter complaints on this was not the elder Mr. Sheridan alive when it was first repre- property not less sacred than money; and when to the habit subject. Books, manuscripts, discoveries, and thoughts, are sented, and would he have suffered even his son to defraud of borrowing such objects, is added a constant neglect in rehis wife of her literary credit? With respect to the "School turning them, it is impossible not to condemn the heart as an for Scandal," I can aver, that Mr. Sheridan told Mr. Rich-accomplice of the memory. The robber, who plunders the traardson that he drew Charles for himself, and Joseph for a veller, is not more culpable than the man of letters, who denear relative; but chiefly to explode the sentimental hypo-prives another of his discoveries. The sole difference lies in the crisy prevalent at that period, in novels and in real life. name; and the one might be called a literary theft; the other He told Mr. Kemble the progress of the play, as he had a pecuniary plagiarism. Force of character, which consists as much in the power of originally written it; and Mr. Robert Palmer declares, that abstinence as of action, is a quality not less susceptible of an the verses, at the end of the play, were not given to Mr. evil, than of a good application; as the CESARS, the ALEXSmith, who performed Charles, and was to speak them, ANDERS, and other heroes of the same stamp, abundantly prove. till the last act was in representation. They who knew But such strongly marked beings, firm in their purpose and Mr. Sheridan, know that he was affable, courteous, and inflexible in their principles, have become excessively rare, from good-humoured in private life. His manners were pecu-ing originality of sentiment, and leaves only a few slight the operation of a false civilization, which is gradually destroyliarly exempt from affectation, or an attempt to lead; but shades of difference between man and man; which must neces he had a high sense of his literary character, and would sarily disappear in those countries where all individuals are not have brooked any disposition to suggest improvements forcibly moulded on the same form; where despotism, like of his works, unless he solicited the opinions of his friends. PROCRUSTES, is constantly extending and curtailing whatever The attempt to sap his literary fame induces me thus to does not quadrate with its own exclusive notions. Energy of come forward, in defence of a gentleman of whose friend-character abounds in a nation, in the strict proportion of its ship I was proud; who was an ornament to his country, circumstances among those literati, who, alive to the charm of greater or less degree of liberty; but it may be found under all and might have risen to its highest honors, if he had pos- solitude, have not suffered themselves to be diluted by the sessed such a degree of prudence as is rarely, if ever, the enervating pleasures of society; thereby resembling, as JUSTUS concomitant of genius, and particularly genius of a tran- LIPSIUS has observed, those great and majestic rivers which scendent order. AMICUS. pour their waters far into the sea before they permit a mixture with its waves. PLAN of a general Association of Learned and Scientific Men, and of Artists of all Nations, for accelerating the Progress of Civilization, of Morals, and of Illumination. By the ABBE GREGOIRE, Ex-Bishop of Blois. Translated and arranged by SIR T. CHARLES MORGAN, M. D. (Continued.) If governments are in some degree chargeable with the ignorance and depravity of the people, the blame will equally attach itself to those writers who, having aspired to the glory of instructing their species, have neglected at the same time to become its models. To this distinction they might have attained, if they had laboured as assiduously to render themselves upright men, as they have to become eminent authors; if they had thought less of the brilliancy, and more of the utility of their parts; if, with more courage to uphold truth, they had less disposition to adulation and to sycophancy; if, while they studied the laws and phænomena of nature, their lives had been a continued hymn in praise of its creator. The connexion between these remarks and the general subject of this paper, is evident. The observations on the state of increase of knowledge and a decay of virtue, and the evil will European civilization, with which we commenced, exhibit an grow to an enormous extent, if moral education be not more In our present state of social existence, the consideration bestowed upon talent neglects all reference to the purposes to which it is applied. The great world continually outrages virtue by the distinctions it thus lavishes on eminent men, notwithstanding the utmost irregularity of their moral conduct. If such persons alone are to compose our Congress, let it for ever remain unassembled; for what can be expected from men who, without principles or stability, yield to every impulse of personal interest, creep into the dirtiest paths of adulation, and sacrifice to their insatiate desires for wealth and honors, truth, Probity, and not learning, is the first and most valuable qualification; for it is the vocation of all mankind. "Whatever man may say or do, it is essential to myself that I be honest." This inflexible rule of MARCUS AURELIUS leads at once to the constitution of the proposed Congress, whose object is not more the extension of science, than the improvement of morals; and this end cannot be obtained, without a selection of the ele-private character, and the interests of humanity. In France, ments of which the Association shall be composed. If the old proverb be just, that beauty and chastity are in mutual hostility, "Rara est concordia formæ "Atque pudicitiæ," it is no less true that talents and virtue are too frequently opposed to each other. Vir bonus dicendi peritus, the definition of the complete orator, ought also to be applicable to writers of every other description. Why then is disorder in the domestic economy of our men of talent, the almost constant type of the irregularity of their morals? TOLLIUS and others have composed works on the misfortunes of men of letters; but those who have written the most extensively upon their charlatanism, their jea of late years it has been the fashion to declaim on probity and devotion to public duty; but this contrast of words and actions, far from edifying, excites indignation. The Congress is principally calculated for raising up the throne of virtue: it must therefore leave behind it other recollections than those of its talents. Let us suppose therefore that a person, like those we have described, should present himself; one whose works tend only Besides the well known work of MENKE, see "De peccatis Eruditorum," 4to. 1696, "Helmstadius de Vitiis Eruditorum." ibid. also "De moribus eorum qui quæstus solius causâ studeant." FOU to the corruption of posterity; where, it will be asked, resides | exertion, does not seem to have produced the slightest the power competent to his rejection? and the answer is, change in his friendship and affection towards him who had opinion-public opinion, a supreme and irresistible power. If been the object of so much unavailing labour. there existed but one voice which dared to exclaim against the admission of such a character, it would suffice to unite all newed correspondence from the par In the re year 1756 until the death ties in his exclusion-however brilliant his talents, however of Mr. Stanhope in 1768, there is no word of the graces, estimable his works, his person would be justly despicable. the turns of conversation, the little attentions, the civility The same force of opinion would repel the tribe of libellers, and politeness of good society, topics which had been and throw back to their proper stations the crowd of pretenders, whose attitude and physiognomy betray their satisfaction with themselves, and their discontent with the world. The progress of the sciences has compelled the rulers of States to surround themselves with knowledge; let us hasten the epoch, when it will be alike indispensable for them to embrace the virtues. We will next consider the time and place of meeting, and the power of convocation. (To be concluded in our next Number.) CRITICAL ANALYSIS. over and over again repeated in the former letters-this omission proves clearly, that he had utterly given up his first and favourite object; but nevertheless he is uniformly kind and affectionate, according to all appearance extremely liberal, very active in promoting his son's advancement and welfare in the world, very anxious for his health; and he writes with that ease of expression and constant communication of daily events and occurrences, which characterises the intercourse between familiar friends who are sincerely attached to one another. This we think is but justice to the memory of a nobleLETTERS written by the Rt. Hon. PHILIP DORMER man, whose name is rarely mentioned without reprobation STANHOPE, Earl of Chesterfield, to ARTHUR CHARLES or ridicule; both of which, to a certain degree, he unSTANHOPE, Esq. relative to the Education of his Lord-doubtedly merits. He aimed at the utmost political subship's Godson, PHILIP, the late Earl. 12mo. 7s. tlety and refinement: for this purpose he studied Tacitus, son. THIS little volume must derive most of its consequence Machiavel, and De Retz; he formed himself upon the from the name of its author. It consists of letters written characters of Richelieu and Mazarin, of whom he had by the celebrated Earl of Chesterfield, to his Nephew, read, and of Marlborough and Bolingbroke, whom he had Arthur Stanhope, Esq. respecting the education of his seen the event of it all was, if we may trust the accounts great nephew, who was at that time the probable, and of the time, that he over-reached and outwitted himself, became the actual, successor to his Lordship's titles and and defeated his own views by over-cunning and calculaestate. Under these circumstances, it was not unnatural tion. His letters, however, excepting the objectionable that the education of the child should be committed to parts of them, which have always appeared to us, if poshis great-uncle, and the latter seems to have undertaken sible, more absurd than they are immoral, will always the task with the same eagerness and anxiety, which he remain a great manual of worldly wisdom; in some degree had before manifested in the instance of his own natural from the recommendations which they contain, but in a The zeal with which he applied himself to this much greater from the warnings and admonitions with work, the pleasure he evidently took in it, and the patience which they abound. If experience had not taught him corand gentleness with which he appears to have conducted rectly what was to be sought after; he had learned, from it, it, exhibit a favorable view of his character, which was what was to be avoided. Our limits, however, confine us to certainly by no means harsh and unamiable. He seems to the volume before us. In the preface the Editor observes have laboured to form himself upon the worst parts of with great judgment, that Lord Chesterfield, with all the courts, of political parties, and of the world in general; attention which he bestowed upon the subject, was woebut still, the bad maxims which he studiously followed, fully mistaken in bis selection of tutors both for his son and the bad models which he proposed to himself, seem and his great nephew. We apprehend he might here truly to have been unable to overpower and stifle the original have added, that he erred as much in that, upon which he kindness and benevolence of his nature. This goodness had evidently bestowed great pains and much thought, of his disposition appears to us to be strongly shown in namely, the plan and course of education which he recomhis conduct towards his own son, after that, as is perfectly mended-for, evidently indebted himself to the ancients for evident, he was utterly disappointed in the views and ex- the grace and elegance and point of his style, though he pectations which he had so fondly formed respecting him. does not utterly reject classical learning, he everywhere When Mr. Stanhope returned to England in the year undervalues and considers it as secondary. Educated at a 1754, his father at length discovered, that nature was too public school, he removes his son from Westminster before strong both for the precepts of the instructor and the ex-the age at which, it is generally allowed, the great benefits ertions of the pupil; that the Graces are not to be won of those seminaries are reaped; and he commits his great by whosoever woos them, and that winning manners are to a great degree, at least, like personal advantages and accomplishments, of which Homer has made Paris truly say nephew to Swiss teachers and private academies. The Universities, of one of which he was a student, and to which it is probable he owed something, he condemns entirely as illiberal and ungentlemaulike. This is a mode of Soft-moving speech and pleasing outward show, thinking and acting which we may very frequently observe No pray'rs can gain them; but the Gods bestow. in the world, and which takes its rise from personal vanity It is something in favor of a courtier, a politician, and at least as much as from any other cause. Men, and para man of rank and fortune, that this failure of his fondest ticularly men of eminence, are very apt to be dissatisfied hopes and his warmest anticipations, for the fulfilment of with their own learning, their own accomplishments, and which he bad so earnestly toiled, and which he had accus-with the part which they have played in affairs. Self-love tomed himself to think so easily realized by effort and whispers that all these ought, if their natural abilities had |