SOUTH AMERICA. The following is the atrocious Document referred to in our Review of the "Outline," &c. of the South American Contest, for which we had not room in our last Number. "JOSEPH NAPOLEON. "To my Envoy Desmolard." ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. the vile manner in which they are treated | tendants, and other persons in power, and by them, and the contempt to which they by means of them they will poison those are exposed. They will also remind the of this class, whom they consider as hostile Indians circumstantially of the cruelties of to the undertaking; an operation which is the Spaniards in conquest, and of their in- to precede the revolution, in order to refamous treatment of their legitimate Sove- move all obstacles. The first thing to be reigns, in dethroning them, in taking away considered will be how to stop the remit "Instructions given by Joseph Napoleon their lives, or enslaving them. They will tances of treasure to the Peninsula, which to the commissary or principal agent ap- describe the acts of injustice which they may easily be effected by having good agents pointed by him at Baltimore, M. Desmolard, daily experience when applying for places, at Vera Cruz, where all the vessels arriving and to the others who, furnished with his which are bestowed by the viceroys and go- from Europe will be received, and their orders, have gone to Spanish America for vernors on worthless persons, to the exclu- officers and crews immediately confined in the purpose of exciting a revolution there. sion of the meritorious. They will direct the fortresses, until every thing shall have "The object which these agents are to the people's attention to the superior talents succeeded, and the revolution be in forwardaim at for the present, is only to declare to of the many neglected Creoles, and people ness. The agents are further directed to inthe Creoles of Spanish America, and to per- of merit, contrasted with the European pub- struct their sub-agents to transmit to thei suade them, that his Imperial and Royal lic officers and ecclesiastics, which will make frequent accounts of the progress of the reMajesty has solely in view to give liberty to apparent the hardships they suffer, and will volution, and the chief agents will commuSpanish America, whose inhabitants have enable them to draw a parallel between the nicate with my envoy in the United States been enslaved for so many years; and the talents and merits of the Creoles and those by the channels which shall be pointed out only return expected for so great a boon is of the European officers. They will repre- to them. For this purpose it will be proper the friendship of the natives, and commerce sent to them the difference between the to keep prepared land-conveyances to those with the harbours of both Americas: that United States and Spanish America, the points of the coast which may be deemed to render Spanish America free and in- comforts which those Americans enjoy, and suitable, and where there are always to be dependent of Europe, his said Majesty their advancement in commerce, agricul-ready vessels for any emergency. offers all the necessary assistance of troops ture and navigation; and the pleasure of aud warlike stores, he having agreed with living free from the European yoke, and the United States of North America to ac-being left solely to their own patriotic and commodate him therewith. Every commis- elective government. They will assure them sary or agent in chief being acquainted with that America, once disengaged from Spain, the district to which he is deputed, and also will become the legislatrix of Europe. All with the character of its inhabitants, will CHANCERYANA. agents, both principal and subordinate, are have no difficulty in selecting proper per- to specify the names of those who declare Human vicissitudes are extraordinary. sons, to give them the needful instructions themselves friends and votaries of liberty; for persuading the people, and pointing out and the subaltern agents are to transmit the Wit and humour, it is too well known, to them the advantage they will derive from lists to the principals, who will make their have almost abandoned the Stage, driven throwing off the European yoke. He will may duly make them observe, that large sums will reports to my envoy in the United States, from their ancient abodes by Operas, for my information, and that I Spectacles, Melo-Dramas, and Quadremain and circulate in the American pro-reward every individual. My agents will rupeds. But as philosophers tell us there vinces, by suspending the profuse remit- refrain from declaiming against the Inquisialways exists the same quantum of tances which are continually making to tion or the Church, and in their conversaSpain; and that their commerce will be in- tions rather insist upon the necessity of MATTER in the universe, which, howcreased, and their ports be open to all fo- that holy tribunal, and on the usefulness of ever it may change its form, never has reign nations. He will dwell on the advan- the clergy. Upon the insurrectional stand-one atom annihilated; even so it is with tage to be derived from the freedom of ards, or banners, is to be inscribed the the Immaterial. There are still as much agriculture, and the cultivation of all those motto, Long live the Catholic, Apostolic, wit and humour in the world as ever; articles at present prohibited by the Spanish and Roman Religion, and perish the bad they have only occupied a new field, and Government; for instance, that of saffron, Government!" They will besides make the hemp, flax, olives, vines, &c.; the benefit Indians observe how happy they will be instead of the Play-house, are to be found that will accrue to them from the establish- when they become once more masters of sporting in that quondam dry and barren ment of manufactures of every sort; the their country, and free from the tyrannical region-THE COURT OF CHANCERY! great satisfaction and advantage of abolish- tribute which they pay to a foreign MoWe read in history of the merry and ing the monopolies of tobacco, gunpowder, narch; and lastly, they will tell the people the witty Court of Charles the Secondstamps, &c. To obtain these points with that their said Monarch does not so much our descendants will read of the facetious some ease, in consequence of the greater part of the people being uncivilized, the as exist in his own government, but is in the and witty Court of John Scott, Lord Eldon. agents ought to be solicitous to render power of the restorer of liberty, and the universal legislator, Napoleon.-In short, these Is it the great increase of litigation themselves acceptable to the governors, intendants, curates, and prelates. They will agents must by all possible means endeavour to show the people the utility which which makes the lawyers so ready to spare no expense, nor any other means of will arise to them from the government in laugh at the Judge's jokes? They laugh gaining their good-will, especially that of question. The revolution having been thus who win; says the adage! Is it the purthe ecclesiastics, on whom they are to pre-prepared, and all the principal members who milk of human kindness which imbues the vail, that they should urge and persuade are to take a share in it, in every city and penitents, when they come to confess, that province, having been gained over, it will Chancellor with this jocose spirit, as if it they stand in need of an independent go-be for the chief as well as the subordinate were to shorten the long faces of suitors? agents to accelerate the insurrection, in order They laugh on the wrong side of their able an opportunity as that which now pre-that the revolt may take place at the differ-mouth, is another pithy saw! sents itself, and which the Emperor Napo-ent points agreed upon, on the same day Settle it on what hypothesis you may, leon affords them, who, they are to make and at the same hour; this being a very certain it is, that the frisk of gravity has the people believe, is sent by God to chas-material point, which will greatly facilitate laid its venue in Equity, and that the best tise the pride and tyranny of Monarchs; the enterprize. The principal agents in vernment, that they must not lose so favour and and that it is a mortal sin, admitting of no every province of their department, and the specimens of jests, bon-mots, puns, pardon, to resist God's will. They will on subalterns in the posts assigned them, will quipps extant (witness all the Newsevery occasion call to their minds the oppo-win over the domestics of governors, in-papers) proceed from the Court of Chansition they experience from the Europeans, cery, where frolic, fun, and merriment are at head-quarters. So great a change in the Manners of the Age, secures a place in the Literary Gazette, for CHANCERY-ANA. Facetiarum... in longum memoria est. TACITUS. 1st. Q. An Interruption, or a Full Stop? Mawman, &c. versus Gracie. To restrain Defendant from publishing Cruden's Concordance. It was stated by Sir A. Pigott, that the work was as good as new, as 300 corrections in punctuation were made in it, not including colons and semicolons: THE LORD CHANCELLOR. Let me say, Sir Arthur, that, had I been employed on such a work, I should very soon have come to a full stop. Sir Arthur went on.— Operæ pretium non est. 2nd Q. Taylor v. Ebers-to prevent disposing of a box in the Opera House: Taylor and Waters having been on before. THE LORD CHANCELLOR. What! the Opera House again? I thought we had shut the house for to day. COUNSEL. True, my Lord, but we have opened it again. All the Court laugh. We suppose there was no half price. 'Tis rare If mighty fortunes common sense can share. 3rd Q. Ex parte Judkin, a lunatic. Whether the lunatic was to be examined by the physicians at home, or be carried to Chester for their opinion. ORIGINAL POETRY.. was for the plaintiff's long and short haired they cannot blame one who has so clearly LORD CHANCELLOR-Is it a Fox's brush? LORD CHANCELLOR-Hand me the brush of this old gentleman. It must be a curio- MR. HEALD-Your Lordship will see by THE LORD CHANCELLOR reprobated such scandalously litigious motions, and hoped the Counsel would see the propriety of not troubling him again in this way. do (said his Lordship, who has the care of all fools, ex officio) I shall be obliged, I am afraid, to send for a number of physicians to examine you, whether you be sound in mind, for I believe none but lunatics would scarcely mention this case." The Counsel grinned but did not laugh, or if it could be called a laugh, it was of the nulla ineptior kind, though each thrust a hand into his breeches pocket. LORD CHANCELLOR-That is because they are younger. THE LORD CHANCELLOR-I have examined this old brush, Mr. Tresslove, and I see it is rather an odd kind of thing; but when you and I get so old, and are so well worn as it has been, we shall be as antique. MR. TRESSLOVE said he had advised his he was bound to show it; for if an injunc to cease? peace: Wherever he turns, in his front or his rear, He fears for the state when provisions are dear; lurch; May be swallow'd up quick, or be left in the FICTION. D―y. All the realities of life But Fiction holds her magic glass! And Honor, beaming Glory bright, Oh, fiction! thy creative power, THE FINE ARTS. -y.. The conclusion of W. C's admired Essay on THIRD LETTER OF AN ARTIST. Thoughts on cultivating a Taste for the Arts, and the practice of Design. Individual instances may be brought forward whose powers were peculiarly adapted for a retentive memory. But we must not cloy our readers with too many of these lively processes, or our Essay would become as long as a Chancery suit. Only one other rich example, in which there the other branches connected with it, the Glass Painting will appear in our next Number. was more wit than in Colman's Heir at Law! article on which such an injunction is grantPATENT HAIR BRUSHES. Metcalfe versus ed must be, and in future I do peremptorily Thompson. This case set the whole bar order, that it shall be lodged with the Masupon the broad titter. Plaintiff Metcalfe has ter. I remember in a case of waste, that a a patent for hair brushes, the grand secret person in this Court who made an affidavit, of which is that some of the hairs are long actually affixed his oak trees to his affidavit, shew the Court of what nature the trees and others short, so that one way or anoGainsborough painted whole pictures from ther, they search the head. Defendant were. recollection, and Morland was a striking exThompson was selling brushes of the same Upon this Metcalfe was non-suited, and ample. In him facility was styled genius; we close our view of Society and Manners and he did not fail, by eccentricity, folly, and No Counsel at first appearing for the plain-as connected with the High Court of Chan- vulgarity, to act up to the notions his comtiff, the LORD CHANCELLOR said, "This in- cery. If the essay be dull, it is the fault of panions entertained of this quality. Unforjunction must be brushed off, unless some the Lord Chancellor and the ablest lawyers tunately he has not only had his imitators Counsel be here in a few minutes to sup- at the bar; if parties in this Court are not as an artist, but many who could never reach port it." amused with their sorrows, it is neither the the excellence of his pencil, have thought fault of the judge nor counsel, for they do some credit might be acquired by indulgence all they can to promote hilarity; if persons in his dissipated and vulgar propensities; are not tempted into litigation by the pros- and the slang of the art has been studied pect of the fun they must enjoy through it, instead of its principles. sort. Counsel did appear. Sir S. Romilly, who is a partizan of the W(h)igs, was also for the defendant's brushes to keep them clean; and Mr. Leach, though he has left the W(h)igs, Morland's early talent and general course becoming a mannerist, and will also be likely | painting, in which the satire of his pencil of life led many to imagine that all was to fail in giving that which might compen- was employed to instruct mankind. acquired without effort or study. On the sate for just imitation; by which should he When the memory is sufficiently exercised contrary, his father, at a very early period, understood, that degree of the deceptive in and improved, it will from the slenderest kept him regularly to the pencil, exacted art, which keeps every object in its proper hints proceed to embody them into substantasks from him, and punished his neglect place, and where the whole strength is not tial forms. by confinement. He was by this means placed on the mere accessaries or subordipushed to extraordinary exertion, and attain-nate parts. ed that facility of execution which characterized his subsequent practice. To use the model by observation, cannot be done successfully, unless the artist is first employed in some portion of deceptive imitation. The memory strengthened by exercise, will then exert itself to advantage, and not as in the mere imitator, who dares not lose sight of his model lest he should lose His model, indeed, was occasionally before him, but the truth of memory supplied every thing; it was sufficient for him to see an object once to repeat it at pleasure. His studies (if such they may be called) were always going on. Not an object that ap-himself. peared, but was considered by him in all its characters of form, relief, and colour; and though in him there might be naturally a strong power of memory, yet it must not be forgot, the same mode of practice will be useful to all; even those unacquainted with the practice of art, may be brought to look on nature with something like a painter's eye, by thus considering whatever presents itself, with an eye to its form, relief, and colour. We have been led to mention the eccentricities of Morland, and the affectation of them in others, from a feeling of regard for the credit of the profession. Gainsborough was in the habit of drawing trees from twigs, and rocks from stones or coals, which he would place before him as his model; but it must be remembered he would spend whole days among trees and rocks, drawing and studying their character minutely. Should an artist without this practice set up his twig or his coal, it will never turn out any thing else. Every particular of form and character must be studied and felt ere such expedients may be resorted The incomparable Hogarth united the In a state of improved perception, the eye is prepared to observe and catch resemblances from the merest accidents. Shapes in the fire, a stained wall, or any thing of a like nature, will often present to the artist an idea; and to these seeming nothings he will often give a local form, a character and name. In many of his characters it is easy to trace individual likeness. But a glance of the eye must have seized the character and expression, no model could have continued In the early state of English art, Cozens that for more than a moment. His despair-introduced his blots for the exercise of ining Gamester, and the same, in a state of vention. They were contrived for the purlunacy, could only be traced by memory, and pose of setting the imagination at work, fixed by observation. where, from a chaos of accidental shapes, some bold and daring effort would arise. Leaving these exceptions, every one must This great artist was in the habit of combe aware, that a true knowledge of art and mitting to his sketch book, chiefly from meits principles is to exalt the human character, mory, or by a few leading lines upon the inand to open a source of intellectual enjoy-stant, any striking or remarkable character; ments. and his facility and skill this way has never In Sir Joshua Reynolds, the artist, the been equalled. How far the versatility of scholar, and the gentleman, were united: talent in this great painter might have been nor would it be difficult to name others whose carried, if the study of the antique had heen talents and habits are fully sufficient to ungrafted on the powers he already possesrescue the character of artists from any nar-sed, is not easy to say. row or confined imputation. That they are His own notions led him to enter the lists liable, from their sedentary employments, with one of the old masters. But his Sigisto such dispositions of temper and irritabi-mund will hardly warrant the supposition, lity of nerves as usually accompany the stu- that the style of the Italian school would dious of every class, cannot be denied; but not to a larger or more exclusive share. have been compatible with the bent of his But to return to our subject. The use of the model is so sufficiently connected with what belongs to design, that we shall endeavour to point out how far it may be admitted or excluded in the practice of art: and whether that model is a statue, a human figure, an Among the old masters we find a passing animal, a tree, &c. as an object of imitation, hint or two at caricature, but it never occuour endeavour must be truth of representa-pied any serious portion of their time. And tion, unaffected, and stripped of the flou- few artists of our own day, but have occarishes of the pencil. sionally indulged their fancy this way. It is the practice of the Royal Academy, to attend strictly to this; and in their distribution of the prizes, to guard against facility of execution wherever it interferes with the truth and simplicity of imitation. It is not only the purposes of landscape, these accidental hints may serve; figures and groupes are sometimes the results, and often with more claim to originality than many a studied form. Still they are but accidents which come in aid of invention, and matured only by a previous knowledge of art. Of Guido, it is said, that from the rudest shapes and most unpromising forms, he could produce his divine Madonas and other elevated subjects. His model gave him but the light and shade, the rest was in his mind. In like manner, Phidias, when employed on the figure of his Jupiter, wrought from the description of Homer. "Spirits are not finely touched And when the poet or the historian has im- To be continued. LEARNED SOCIETIES. Even Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the early period of his life, amused himself and his friends with two or three specimens of this OXFORD, August 16-On Friday the 8th sort. But his good sense soon prompted instant, the Hon. and Right Rev. Edward him to stop. As a portrait-painter it was Lord Bishop of Oxford was admitted WarYet, paradoxical as it may seem, there is every way incompatible, and his disposition den of All Souls' College, with the usual cesomething to guard against even here; and led him to the better qualities of the profes-remonies, in the room of the Rev. Edmund this individuality of imitation should rather sion. Isham, D. D. deceased. be considered the beginning than the result As an exercise of the memory, caricature of the painter's aim. The artist who dwells is comparatively easy; all is exaggerated, and CHRISTOPHER DANIEL EBELING. minutely on the representation of his silks, it seldom goes further than a sketch. It BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAITS. satin, fur, or any thing which comes under was for Hogarth to embody it with the worth the denomination of still life, will be liable of legitimate art. His was the comedy of to be drawn from the principal object of his pencil, character and expression. On the other hand, he who loses sight of his model too soon and too entirely, will be in danger of Corregio. 2 A gentleman in Yorkshire is in possession of one. The characters are a Mr. Woodyer, Mr. Cook, Dr. Drake, and Sir Charles Turner. To the Editor of the Literary Gazette. late great Mineralogist Werner, which is conSIR,-The very interesting memoir of the tained in the 29th Number of your valuable Journal, induces me to send you some ac-[the correspondent of Richardson and of countries: but his exertions were chiefly count of another distinguished literary cha- Young. The respect shown by the citizens dedicated to the Commercial Academy, for racter, who died at Hamburg on the very of Hamburg to the memory of the latter the use of which he composed several valusame day that Werner died at Dresden. I confers honour on themselves. Indepen-able elementary books, among which were am the more strongly tempted to do this, dently therefore of my personal respect for his selection of pieces in the Spanish, Engboth because I had the pleasure of being the memory of the poet, it affords me real lish, Italian, and Dutch languages, which personally acquainted with the gentleman pleasure to learn, that the citizens of Ham- have all gone through several editions. In in question, and because it affords me a wel- burg, whose unvarying kindness during a conjunction with Busch he published a come opportunity of doing justice to the long series of years I can no otherwise re- Commercial Magazine, which was continued inhabitants of the city of Hamburg, in a point quite than by my earnest desire to see them for several successive years. His forte in which they are, I believe, generally distinguish themselves by every thing however was certainly statistics and geothought deficient: I mean the encouragement honourable, have resolved to celebrate his graphy. Together with Zimmermann in given to learning. The learned world in- birth-day (the 3d of July) by an annual Brunswick, the two Forsters, and Sprengel in deed do not need information in this respect, pilgrimage to his tomb in the neighbouring Halle, he published a collection of the most for the literary history of Hamburg can pro- village of Ottensen, in a manner worthy of important voyages and travels translated from duce names which will be long gratefully the object. The solemnity this year was ar- foreign languages: he published besides a remembered in every country where learning ranged by the active and patriotic exertions collection of his own, which appeared under has friends. But the far greater part of of Dr. Meyer, one of the few surviving Ca- the title of " New Collection of Voyages and those who have ever heard of Hamburg, nons of the Cathedral, which was suppress-Travels," from 1780 to 1790,in 10 volumes. But know little more of it, than that it is one of ed, I believe, by the treaty of Luneville. A the work on which his title to fame is chiefly the Hanse towns, and one of the greatest company of 160 admirers of Klopstock, of founded is "The Geography of the United commercial cities in the continent of Europe. both sexes, assembled in the well-known States of America," of which the first part As for the citizens, they are supposed to be gardens of Rainville, opposite to the cele- appeared in 1793, and the seventh was ana mere money-getting, money-loving race, brated lime-tree which overshadows the nounced as ready for the press in 1817. much resembling a certain Dutchman, with grave that holds his mortal remains. This After the death of Busching, three men diwhom Dr. Moore tells us he fell in compa- is not the place for an account of this meet-vided between them the task of completing ny at Basle, and who, being made to under-ing. With profound regret the company the geographical work which Busching had stand that the Doctor regretted their being missed the oldest of the poet's friends, the so well begun. Professor Sprengel in Halle, unable to converse together, because neither venerable Ebeling, who died but three days took Asia; Professor Hartmann, Africa; and of them spoke a language known to the before. Doctor Meyer mentioned him with Ebeling, America. Ebeling alone executed other, replied that" it was of no consequence, great feeling on the occasion, and the high- what he had undertaken. His sincere love as they had no dealings in trade together." minded poetess Christine Westphalen, in of rational freedom, and his hope that the Without entering into any detail on this a short tribute to his name, exclaims in a New World would one day exhibit the pleassubject, which, however interesting, would voice which finds an echo in the heart of ing spectacle of a people enjoying all the adbe here misplaced, I may observe that from every patriotic Hamburgher, "Klopstock, vantages of the civilization and science of the 15th century up to the present time Busch, Reimarus, and Thou! Ye blessed the Old World, untainted by the vices and Hamburg has continually possessed men spirits! Hammonia casts after you a wist-unsullied by the prejudices, which with us whose names are mentioned with high ho- ful look, deeply sighing at the near prospect depreciate the value of the one, and diminour in the annals of literature; and that it of the desolation that awaits her!" nish the lustre of the other, these flattering should never be forgotten what this com- Ebeling closes the series of Hamburg prospects, I say, perhaps determined his mercial city has done for letters,how many dis- Worthies of a former race of literati; nay choice of the share which he took upon himtinguished men who were formed there, have even the following generation resembles by self in the continuation of Busching's work, lived the ornaments of their native city; how its thinned ranks a forest which the unspar- and stimulated his ardour in the execution many others, natives of other parts of Ger- ing axe has already despoiled of some of its of it. Those who are acquainted with his many, have been induced to choose Ham- fairest honours. Gerstenberg alone, now work will indeed do him justice in respect burg as their abode, either as professors in nearly 80 years of age, still remains on the to the excellence of the performance, but its high school, (the Gymnasium, as it is earth a solitary memorial of the days that will not be able to form an idea of the Hercalled) or as independent individuals, at- are past. Ebeling was born in July, 1741, culean labour that it required, or of the tracted by the facility of intercourse with at Garmissen, in the principality of Hildes- scrupulous conscientiousness with which he all parts of the world, and how many native heim. He studied at Leipsig with Engel and proceeded in the use of his materials. It Hamburghers have been invited to fill his contemporaries, and came soon after the may truly he said that it was his sole object abroad more splendid situations than can be year 1770 to Hamburg. Here he soon to "speak the truth, the whole truth, and noafforded in the simple government of a free formed an intimate union with Busch, re-thing but the truth." In order to attain this commercial Republic. The names of Lucas sided in his house, directed together with object, he spared neither pains nor expence Holstenius, Peter Lambeck, Fabricius, Wolf, him the Commercial Academy for 20 years, to procure from North America the neces&c. are too well known to be insisted upon and was otherwise most closely connected sary information. From each single State in the latter part of the last century and the with him by professional duties. In the he received complete sets of the most imbeginning of the present, we find the distin-year 1784 he became Professor in the Aca-portant journals and periodical publications, guished names of Lichtenberg, Busch, Klop-demical Gymnasium at Hamburg, an insti- and even the least pamphlets did not escape stock, Reimarus, Ebeling, &c.&c. With seve-tution which was already very flourishing him. After the publication of his first ral of those eminent characters I had the ho- in the time of the elder Reimarus, often volume, the Americans themselves shewed nour of being personally acquainted; and I am counting 40 or 50 students from different the most laudable readiness to assist him; certain all my countrymen who have at any learned Americans who resided any time in time enjoyed the same gratification, will readily join with me in paying the tribute of respect to their memory. To Englishmen indeed in particular their names should be dear; Kishtenberg the Commentator on the moral paintings of Hogarth, Busch the enlightened writer on commerce, to whose instructive lectures many an Englishman has owed the best part of his commercial knowledge; Klopstock the sublime poet of the Messiah, the admirer, the friend, and Mrs. Westphalen is the lady of Mr. Senator Hamburg, as for example, Mr. John BarWestphalen. She has published two volumes row, afforded him much valuable informof poems of great merit; besides a tragedy on ation, and the most distinguished characthe death of Charlotte Corday, and a dramatic ters in all the considerable cities of the poem called Petrarca, into which she has intro-United States, carefully sent him whatever duced admirable translations of some of his native eity is not more respected for her genius, pa. SKETCHES OF SOCIETY. copiousness of his materials had one bad con- of the most amiable virtues; genuine phisequence; it increased his labour, so that lanthropy, liberality, frankness, cheerfulness, his work proceeded but slowly, and was for readiness to oblige, were its distinguishing that reason never finished. But it may be features. He was never married, but had In my way through Spain to Corunna, safely affirmed, that in comprehensiveness, the happiness to possess virtuous, highly to await the arrival of the British forces, accuracy, and mature judicious study of the accomplished nephews and nieces, who were I had occasion to visit the city of Ororiginal sources, Ebeling's Geography of the fully sensible of his worth, and loved him dunna in Biscay. In the principal room United States of America is superior to every with filial affection. A hardness of hearing of the inn, I found several people gathergeographical work of modern times. The with which he was early affected, and which ed round an elderly woman, who was Americans themselves confess that all their afterwards increased to entire deafness, speaking with great emphasis. I was own geographers, such as Morse and others, which even the hearing trumpet could not attracted to listen, and heard the followare but children in comparison with him; and relieve, deprived him indeed of the resources I have frequently heard them say that Ebe- of conversation; but this did not, as fre- ing tale; but I have to regret that I did ling was probably better acquainted with quently happens with deaf people, render not arrive in time to hear its commenceAmerica than any man living in it. There him mistrustful, or unsociable. On the con- ment. can be little doubt but that the American trary, he always retained a high relish for "Indeed, Senor Juan," said my lady Government will excrt itself to obtain this company; and it was astonishing how well to the music-master, as she turned over valuable "Bibliotheca Americana," which he could understand a great part of what was a book of Italian songs, "I do not like will be an inestimable treasure for their Uni- said, particularly by persons whom he knew those airs just now; let us play over the versity of Cambridge, or some other public intimately, merely by the motion of the institution. There is at least as much reason lips and the turn of the features. With patriotic song that was sent me this mornfor their seeking to obtain this, as to acquire others he had various means of reciprocal ing from my cousin at Madrid. the rare treasures of philology, contained in communication, and was to the very last the "As it may please your Excellency," the library of the great Hellenist Schaefer in much consulted, always answering oracle, of said Battista, taking away the book. Leipsig, which I understand they have all those who sought information, particu-" Colonel Walstein, my dear," said Don lately purchased. larly of sensible women, in whose society he Antonio Perez, opening the door and In order to obtain room for the vouchers took particular pleasure in his advanced age: introducing an officer in the French to his principal geographical work, he pub-Having been in his youth an accomplished uniform. At this sudden intrusion, lished at an earlier period, with his excellent practical musician, he read with great defriend Hegewisch in Kiel, an American Ma- light, in his state of deafness, new musical my lady stepped back, and put on one. gazine; in the same manner he began with compositions. He was fond of innocent of those looks, which when a girl she Professor Herrmann, in Lubeck, to publish a raillery, which he often practised; and was had learned from me, as being proGeographical Magazine, for countries out of among other things a great master in the art per on such occasions. "This gentleEurope. He was still employed in this, of parody. man," said he, "commands the detachwhen he was overtaken by death in his 76th When he was on an intimate footing with ment of the French army which does year. If any one should however imagine Klopstock, he used regularly to commemo- Ordunna the honor of a visit on its rethat Ebeling was versed only in Geography rate his birth-day by a very witty parody of "Madam," said the and Statistics, he would be greatly mistaken. some one of Klopstock's Odes. When his turn to France." He was also an historian, a philologist, a friend Engel came from Berlin in 1790 to Colonel, addressing himself to my Lady, man of letters in the most extensive sense; visit him, he parodied his own Cantata on and at the same time looking very archly and his learning was as profound as it was the death of the Emperor Joseph, in a comic on me, "with the assistance of that lady, extensive. He first brought into order the Ode upon Engel's dead stomach, which died, I hope soon to have the good fortune to valuable and extensive city library, of which he said, at Stomachopolis, a name given by be less disagreeable to you." "I beg you he made, with extraordinary pains, a complete Ebeling in jest at that time to the feast-loving will be seated, Sir," said my Lady, with catalogue. This was a most serious task; Hamburg. One favorite wish was not granted the old catalogue was so ill drawn up, as to him, and that was that he might live to wit- becoming dignity. Without more cerebe a hindrance instead of a help. He has ness the solemn celebration of the third cen- mony, Monsieur le Colonel drew his chair assured me himself, that he was almost tury of the glorious Reformation, from which close to the Lady Aminta, and took her obliged to examine the whole library volume he expected great advantages to be derived by the hand with an excessive freedom, by volume, because in innumerable in- for the maintenance of the true liberty of requesting her to sit down also. My stances smaller works were bound up three, faith and of opinion, against all mystical Lady was perfectly well bred, having four, or more in a volume; and the old cata- and Catholic combination. It is to be hoped had me about her from her infancy, so logue invariably gave the title of the first that his nephew, Dr. Ebeling, who is so only, so that many of the most scarce and highly esteemed as a practical physician and that she acquiesced without the least embarrassment. Don Antonio cast a look valuable tracts did not appear in the cata- man of letters, or the learned Dr. Gurlitt, logue at all. The pleasure he found in the his colleague, or some other equal to the on me, made an attempt to say someconscientious discharge of his duties as li- task, may be prevailed upon to publish a thing very courteous to the stranger, and brarian was some indemnity to him, when selection from his literary remains, and at withdrew. the circumstances of the times reduced the the same time to give a more complete acSir," said Donna Aminta to the Coscholars who attended the Gymnasium to count of him, than my own recollection, so small a number, that the good he could aided by the notices I have been able to collonel, looking steadily at him notwithdo by his lectures from the Professor's chair lect, has here supplied. He was in the standing his glances and impertinences, was greatly limited. A man who at the age strictest sense an honest man and a true we are very happy in seeing you at of 74 can express himself in such elegant patriot; while his country groaned under the Ordunna, as you are so far on your reand pure Latin as Ebeling did in his masterly yoke of French oppression, especially after turn to France. We understand that Memoria I. A. H. Reimari, 1815 (50 pages 1811, when Hamburg was incorporated with they have not been very civil to you at 4to.) and who can furnish such excellent cri- the Grand Empire, he bore the trial with for- Madrid, and that the ladies of Saragoza ticisms in every branch of learning, as Ebe-titude, and with full conviction, that heaven have been still less amiable." He replied ling did, for 40 years together in the Ham- would not permit that tyranny to last. Hoping with much gaiety, and, after a short burg Correspondent, and in other journals that you will excuse the length to which my wholly devoted to literature, will always esteem for the subject of this Memoir has pause, added with a smile of self-appromaintain a high rank among men of learn- unintentionally led me. I remain, Dear Sir, bation, that neither Madrid nor Saraing. But however distinguished in this re- Your's, &c. &c. H. E. LLOYD. goza could boast a Donna Aminta de spect, the character of Ebeling had yet higher Buxheda. My Lady remarked that she claims to regard. It presented a rare union| did not think her family name was known London, 18th August, 1817. 66 |