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Committee of Colonies, &c. requires no dis-or pick up at a pamphlet shop-and
tinct observation) we shall close our analysis, start for Charing Cross between the
in the hope that in bringing this excellent hours of 4 and 6. When opposite the
Society more directly under the public eye man on horseback, pull out your Bill,
through the medium of the periodical press, and saunter along Whitehall until you
we shall not only have fulfilled a duty grate-
ful to ourselves, but by diffusing this intel-approach Palace Yard. Then fold
ligence through unaccustomed channels, your bill, put it carefully in your pocket,
have promoted its interests, and with these return to Charing Cross, and commence
the best interests of the British Nation.
your saunter de novo, and my life for it,
in half an hour you will be qualified for
the Chiltern Hundreds !

ORIGINAL POETRY.

On MR. CHANTREY'S MONUMENT of Two
CHILDREN, exhibited 1817.
Yes, lovely Innocents, though o'er the bier
Your parents dropp'd the unavailing tear,
Time's soothing hand may cause those tears to

cease,

And Hope's bright dream may sanctify their

peace.

FRENCH MANNERS.

THE BEARNAIS.

[It may not be misplaced to remind our from the originals of the celebrated M. Jouy,' readers that these Essays are translations as they appear in the Mercure.]

up Before I reached the first stage, the roads
became so execrable that I was twenty times
inclined to think I should not escape alive.
After changing horses I got again into the
carriage. The Adour was still before my
eyes. The river, which is not very broad,
was all that separated me from the Labour,
and yet every thing had already a different
aspect and appearance. I should have sup-
posed myself a hundred leagues off but for
the Adour and the Pyrenees, which con-
tinued at my side. Neither the women nor
the men, neither the trees nor the shrubs,
the horses nor the oxen, the houses nor the
short resembles what I leave behind ine.
fields, the carts nor the ploughs, nothing in
at these varieties so striking and yet so near.
People are perhaps not sufficiently surprised
To wonder at nothing appears fine; but to
observe many things is more useful.
As I passed through Peyre-Hourade, a little
town, a chateau flanked by two great towers
belonged, but to whom it had belonged; for
made me curious to know, not to whom it
these chateaux, though very agreeable to
their owners, are no longer of importance to
any body, except as they relate to the an-
cient history of the monarchy. They toll
me at the post-office that it had heen the
property of Viscount Dorlès. This name of
the Viscount Dortès put me in mind of the
brave cominandant of Bayonne, who so
proudly refused to obey those who ordered
the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and who
expressed his refusal in such noble terms.
"I have found in your good city of Bayonne
only worthy citizens and brave soldiers, but
not one assassin; command, Sire, things
that are possible."

The Society and the public at large are infinitely indebted to Mr. Aikin for the very admirable view he has produced on this occasion; and it affords to both an auspicious Now for my Lady-the first object is presage of future improvement, that to the how to give a Crowded Rout. If you unwearied industry, diligence, and ability mean only to ask real friends, pray take already attached to the establishment, has the smallest house you can find within a been superadded the assiduity, talents, and mile of Grosvenor Square; but if you acquirements of its new Secretary. mean to have, as it is called "a few friends”-—then take the largest mansion you can procure―send out three times as many cards as the house will containand you cannot fail of being crowded. Formerly, Madam, and perhaps even now with you in the country, it might be thought considerate to apportion your company to your apartments-now it is the easier way to accommodate your rooms to your company; therefore furniture will only be in the way, and if your rooms are so crowded that there is no room for the servants to enter, you may have the credit of having had every delicacy of the season for refreshment, without the trouble of sending for the confectioner. In former times, in days, or rather nights of hoop-petticoats, a dozen ladies could fill a drawing room, and keep the men at a distance, but then a crowded rout could be made up out of a very small number of carriages; happier are we at the present day, when our drawing rooms are no longer filled with the produce of the mercers' and taylors' shops, with satin and buckram, but with human bodies all alive, interspersed with a few muslin trains and superfine swallow tails.

But if to marble it were ever given,
To imitate the purest work of Heaven;
If marble ever spoke to soul and eye,
From gazers drew the tear and heaving sigh;
Chantrey, the meed is thine-in future age,
From maiden innocence to hoary sage,
All will attest the wonder-working power
That throws such charm round Death's event-

ful hour.

May, 1817.

W. J, R.

PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED

SOCIETIES.

CAMBRIDGE, July 18.--Messrs. Randall Proctor Burroughes and George Archdall, Bachelors of Arts, of Emmanuel College, were on the 4th instant elected Fellows of that Society.

SKETCHES OF SOCIETY AND
MANNERS.

FASHIONABLE HINTS.

The first relay after Peyre-Hourade is Pujol, where the landscape first begins to assume the features peculiarly characteristic of Bearn. All that comes before rather resembles the Landes, the environs of Montde-Marsan, Roquefort and Basas. Here the tains on one side and the hills on the other, frame of the picture, that is to say the mounlimit and mark more distinctly the plains and gaves which extend or wind in their intervals. The agriculture of this country, where there is no fallow, and which is generally founded on a succession of wheat and maize, is particularly distinguished by the details. The most extensive fields are great attention and great regularity in all as carefully cultivated as gardens or parterres. All the intervals are drawn with a line. The Basque measures every thing by his eye; the Bearnais by the foot and the toise. The Basque has large habitations, in which he their ease; the Bearnais confines all in desires that himself and his family, among which he counts his animals, shall be at small dwellings, where by dint of order he

It was formerly a geographical axiom
that two bodies could not be in the same
place; but thanks to modern dockings and
Mr. EDITOR,- -Understanding that loppings, half a dozen bodies can now be
your rural circulation is extensive, and squeezed into the place of one; nay,an inge-
doubting not that many of your rustic
nions female friend of mine has contrived
readers may long for Six Weeks in town, a method of putting double the number
though they cannot have the Six Weeks of bodies into the same space that any
at Long's, I beg leave, through your me- others of her acquaintance can perform.
dium, to offer a few hints to all the mem- In fact she has only two small rooms, but
bers of the Wronghead family, in suc- then she takes care to ask triends of dif-
cession, for their deportment in search of ferent sizes, and different protuber-
notoriety, and shall now commence with ances, whom she places alternately, long
Sir Francis and my Lady.
As Sir Francis, of course, wishes to all vacancies are filled up, the company
and short, in each room, by which means
be, or to be thought to be, a Member of can turn round as if upon pivots, and
Parliament, his task is easy and simple. every body declares that it is vastly finds room for every thing.

Take, as Hannah Glasse says, a printed agreeable. Your's,
Parliamentary Bill, which you may get

from an understrapper at the vote office,

QUIZ.

The Basque has a sort of careless confidence in himself, in nature, and in him to whom nature is only a handmaid: the Bear

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nais foresees, watches, and is provident with- witnessed the marriage of her daughter the shoulders of an enthusiastic nation, out intermission; the next year is to him to the Duc de Broglio. and now flying from Paris to Geneva like the next day. In the look of the This is not the period for an analysis amid the curses of an enraged populace. Basque, one sees that he is musing; in that of the character or writings of this cele- These things were common in France! of the Bearnais, that he is calculating. It is difficult to be more ingenious, more coubrated lady, though we look very spee- Neither does it enter into our design to rageous than the Bearnais; but he is so in a dily to lay such an Essay from a power- dwell upon the literary attainments of great measure from a point of honour; he is ful mind before our readers: our purpose the mother-her charities and philanso because he will not have it said that any is simply to narrate facts, and if opinions thropy. Suffice it to record that while body does better than he; whatever the are delivered they shall be only inci- Necker published political pamphlets, Basque may be, he would be the same in a views of finance, and statements of addesert as on the theatre of the world. As for Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, was the ministration, his spouse was no less dehis courage he is no more proud of it than of his beard. A man who was necessarily a daughter of James Necker, a Swiss, whose voted to works of benevolence, as is hojudge of these things said one day, "All the financial career and conduct contributed nourably testified by her Essay on French are courageous, those of the South probably more than any other cause to ac- precipitate Burials," "Observations on as much as those of the North; they are so complish the overthrow of the French mo- the founding of Hospitals," in different manners rather than in different narchy, and of Susan Curchod, of whom Thoughts on Divorce." degrees." The Basque tirailleurs fire as if they we know little till she became the wife were fighting a duel, but they must be per- of Necker, Our chief, and indeed our only reason she except that mitted to run, leap and spring. The Bearwas for touching on the progenitors of Manais and his neighbour of the Upper Pyre- the daughter of a Protestant clergy-demoiselle Necker, is to account for her nees are fit for all kinds of fire. man in Switzerland, admired' by the re- early predilection for literary pursuits. In manual arts the Basques work very ra-nowned Gibbon during his residence in She was educated for an author. Her ridly and well; the Bearnais slowly and bet- that country, and at one time a governess first perceptions were directed to science, ter. As for the fine arts they are both too in the family of De Vermenoux. Wilhel- and literature. Her very infant ideas little versed in them to allow of a parallel; mina was born at Paris in the year 1766, were associated with the intelligence of however, two men have carried to a high degree of perfection the French vocal music; and, displaying what such parents might Marmontel, Diderot, Buffon, St. LamIeliotte and Garat, the first a Bearnais, the well consider to be precocity of talent, bert, Thomas, and all the learned of second a Basque. But after the first it was was educated entirely under their imme- Paris, who formed the circles of her mostill said in Italy that we did not know how diate inspection. The incipient fame of ther. Her talents were cultivated, her to sing; it is no more said so after the se- her father seems to have grown with her taste was modelled, the bent of her growth, and she must have been about mind was given, her opinions were conThe Bearnais is the more amiable; the Basque loves much more ardently. In the smallest towns in Bearn there are assemblies; there are none in the great towns of the Labour. The Basque only knows how to live in the temples, in the public places, and in his family.

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BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAITS.
MADAME DE STAEL-HOLSTEIN.

years of age, when, in consequence of firmed; in short her intellect was formed his eulogy on Colbert (for which he was in this school; and the philosophy then crowned by the Academy) and other prevalent in France, too often concealing publications, he was raised to the office dark principles under brilliant wit and of Director of the Finances. Necker, lapsing from the light of reason into the though of humble birth, being the son of perplexities of abstract metaphysics, beAll the features of this parallel have been a tutor in the college of Geneva, had came the dominating principle in her furnished to him who draws it, either by previously realized a large fortune as a nature, and imparted the tone to all her his own observations or by the information which he seeks and collects from all quar-partner in the Parisian banking-house of writings and life. As variety and ambiTellusson and Co. in which he originally tion were the ruling passions of her faset out as a clerk. His success as a pri-ther, so was sentimental refinement and vate individual was taken as an augury metaphysical confusion the besetting sin of success as a public minister, which was of her more amiable parent, and a dismiserably disappointed by the result. organizing experimental philosophy, the Living, thank heaven, in a country It is unnecessary to follow the fortunes object of inquiry with nearly all those where the sex are less addicted to poli- of the father through the fluctuations of associated with her "young idea" and tical intrigue than in any other nation of his ministerial life; now dismissed, and " tender thought." Europe, we take up our pen this week to now recalled; now the staunch advocate To these sources may be traced almost trace as correct a biography as our pre- for royalty and now the friend of the every feature which marks the faculties sent means of information and the haste people; now "the adored Minister," or distinguishes the writings of Madame of the moment will allow, of a woman and now the abhorred peculator; now de Stael. The events of the Revolution much distinguished in the annals of a borne in triumph from Basle to Paris on only drew them forth: they were imneighbouring state, whether as descended planted ere it commenced. from a parent deeply implicated in the Mademoiselle Necker was little more Revolution, as herself participating largely than fourteen of years when, in pur-` age in that terrible convulsion, as connected suit of his ambitious projects, "her father with its various factions and most famous published the memorable " Account renleaders, or as a female author of the foredered to the King of his Administration," most rank in modern literature. which created so strong a sensation

Last Saturday we announced the death of Madame de Stael-Holstein upon the 14th instant at Paris:-she had been long afflicted with a painful disorder, which carried her to the grave, in her fiftysecond year, a few months after she had

is

described as

2

In Colman's "Eccentricities" there is a
humourous story on this amour. Mad. Curchod
"A philosophic Blonde, a Charmer wise,
Studious, and plump, now languishing, now
prim,

Who, skilled most temptingly to syllogize,
Chopped logie with a pair of large, blue, melt-
ing eyes."

The ascent of the lusty lover up the high hill
skirting Lausanne, and the result of his court
ship, is admirably told by our whimsical bard.

To the adored Minister," was inscribed
on the gate of his hotel by popular admiration,
and erased by popular abhorrence!!!

It was undoubtedly the effect of this publication upon the mind of her daughter, which led to the wish she expressed before her death, to have her corpse attended for three days; which wish was fulfilled with filial duty by her son, Augustus de Stael.

throughout France, and led to the resig- of habit and singleness of heart. The in which he remained fifteen months, and nation of the author's official situation in opposite nature of their dispositions was then driven from office for ever to 1781. He then retired to Copet, a ba could not fail soon to affect connubial the retirement of Copet, where he died rony in Switzerland which he had pur- harmony; and though four children on the 9th of April, 1804. chased, and six years elapsed before he were the issue of this marriage, and what Madame de Stael, who had gone to re-appeared permanently on the public are called public appearances were main- Copet in 1790, returned on the following stage at Paris. In 1787, we find him intained till the death of the Baron, it is year to Paris, and took an active part generally understood that there was little in the intrigues of that eventful period. of communion between him and his Lady Whether she plotted to save or to debeyond the legal ties of their state. Their throne the king is not for our present bodies and not their souls were united. inquiry; but at this time she formed

that capital, attacking Calonne; and the years 1788 and 1789 constitute the era which so intimately connected his history with the destinies of France and the annals of Europe.

In August, 1787, Madame de Stael or matured intimacies with Talleyrand, It was during one of the occasional was delivered of her first daughter, and Sieyes, Lafayette, Narbonne, the ungratevisits of the Necker family to Paris, immediately after accompanied her fa- ful Lameths,2 Barnave, Vergniaud, and prior to 1787, that Eric Magnus Baron de ther in his exile, which was of short du- other characters distinguished for the Stael, by birth a Swede, was introduced ration. Her other children were two parts they played in the Constituent, to their acquaintance by Count de sons and a daughter. Two only survive Legislative, and other bodies, whose opeCreutz, the Swedish Ambassador. He her. One of her sons lost his life in a rations nourished the germ of discontent was young and handsome, and succeeded duel. into the tree of liberty. As the wife of in pleasing, we know not that we can say The year 1789 is designated as the an Ambassador she was protected from gaining the affections of Molle. Necker, epoch at which Madame de Stael em- the first violent shocks of revolution; who consented to become his wife. barked upon the stormy sea of literature, but the bloody ascendancy of Robespierre Count de Creutz was shortly after recalled by the publication of her "Letters on rendered all protection vain, and in 1793 to Stockholm to be placed at the head of the Writings and Character of J. J. Rous the Baron and Baroness de Stael found the Foreign Department, and Baron de seau."" But previous to this period she it expedient to fly together to Copet. Stael was appointed his successor. Thus was well known to the Parisian world by The Duke of Sudermania, Regent of dignified, and with the further recom- the composition of several slight drama- Sweden, having acknowledged the Remendation of being a Protestant, his tic pieces, which were performed by public, M. de Stael was appointed ammarriage was not delayed, and the rich private amateurs, by three short novels bassador, and in 1795 returned with heiress, to the chagrin of many French published afterwards, 1795, at Lau- his lady to Paris. About this date she suitors, became Baroness de Stael- sanne, and by a tragedy founded on the published her "Thoughts on Peace, ad. Holstein. We believe however that this story of Lady Jane Grey, which obtained dressed to Mr. Pitt;"3 and is believed union did not prove to be one of the considerable circulation among friends to have exercised a powerful influence over most felicitous. The Lady was wealthy, and admirers. Her reputation was there- the manœuvres which distracted the goyoung, and though not handsome, agree-fore no secret, when her first public ap-vernments of several ensuing years, espeable and attractive; she was rather peal was made. The letters on Rousseau cially as connected with the Directory. under the middle size, yet graceful in her met with great success, and the budding Legendre, the butcher who, on the 22nd deportment and manners; her eyes were fame of the writer was attended with all of June, 1795, began to declaim against brilliant and expressive, and the whole the eclat usual among our continental the "spirit of moderation" which he said character of her countenance betokened neighbours. This triumph was however was gaining ground, more than once dcacuteness of intellect and talent beyond abridged and embittered by the critical nounced Madame de Stael and her party the common order. But she inherited and rapid advance of the Revolution. On as directing the political intrigues of that to the utmost particle from her father the the 11th of July M. Necker was in-time. restless passion for distinction; and de- volved more desperately in its vortex. A domestic calamity varied the public rived from the society in which she had While seated at dinner with a party of tenor of her existence. She was summonlived not a little of that pedantry and friends, the Secretary of State for the Naval ed to attend the death-bed of her mother, philosophical jargon which was their Department waited upon him to intimate to soothe whose affliction, it is stated, foible and bane. Aiming more at lite- his banishment from the territory of she was playing on a musical instrument rary fame than at domestic happiness, France. Madame de Stael, whose whole a few moments only before she expired. she was negligent in dress, and laboured life has been erratic, accompanied her On this melancholy occasion, Madame in conversation; more greedy of applause parents in their hurried exile. A new po- de Stael flew to her pen for consolation; from a coterie than solicitous about a litical turn recalled them by the time they a resource to which she appears always husband's regard; more anxious to play reached Frankfort, and Necker was once to have applied when pressed by care or "Sir Oracle" in public than to fulfil the more re-instated in the administration, grief, or smarting under the charges sweet duties of woman in private; the which party did not fail to heap upon her, or soured by the animadversions of critics to which she was uncommonly sensitive. At Lausanne she composed

wife was cold and the blue-stocking ar- 12mo. pp. 140. The later editions have a dent; she spoke in apophthegms to letter of the Countess de Vassy, and Mad. de admiring fashion, but delighted no hus- Stael's answer. The author also published "A band with the charms of affectionate Short Reply to the Author of a Long Answer”— conversation; to be brilliant was pre-criticism by Mr. Champçenets. a defence of the work against an anonymous ferred to being beloved, and to produce 2 The title is "Collection of Detached an effect upon the many was sacrificed Pieces," and the "Essay on Fiction," written the higher enjoyment of being adored by long after the novels, and a " Poctic Epistle to lio family, into which Madlle. de Stael has just Misfortune," inspired by the Reign of Terror married.

the few. The Baron de Stael was a man form part of the contents of this volume. on the contrary of remarkable simplicity 3 Only a few copies were printed.

1 She wrote a Defence of Marie-Antoinette in 1793. 2 The mother of the Laineths was of the Brog

3 Sir F. D'Ivernois' Thoughts on War was an answer to this work.

the first part of the essay "On the biguous that we shall not venture to pro- their authenticity nor have we left ourInfluence of the Passions upon the nounce whether it was a defiance or a selves space for their repetition. Happiness of Individuals and Nations," compliment! Madame de Stael first The party in France with which she which was published at Paris in 1796, went to Auxerre, which she left for Rouen, was most intimately connected at the time and the second part in 1797. This pro-and with an intention to settle in the of her decease, is that known by the duction is reckoned one of her best, and valley of Montmorency, in search, as she name of the "Constitutionnel." The was translated, in 1798, into English; a gave out, of more agreeable society. But Mercure, we have reason to believe, relanguage in which the writer was well Rouen and Montmorency were within corded the latest of her opinions and the versed, as indeed she was in English lite- the forty leagues, and Buonaparte was last tracings of her prolific pen. rature generally, far beyond the usual not accustomed to have his prohibitions Faithful to the promise with which we acquirements of a foreigner. infringed upon. She was ordered to set out, we shall now refrain entirely Madame de Stael was with her father withdraw, and, in company with her from discussing the merits or demerits of when the French troops invaded Switzer-daughter, and protector Mr. Constant, her life and writings. These merits asland; and though he had been placed on journeyed to Frankfort, and thence to suredly raise her to a foremost rank the Emigrant list by Robespierre, and Prussia, where she applied herself to the among the female authors of our age; consequently exposed to death wherever cultivation of German literature. From and these demerits, whether springing the troops came, his daughter's influence Berlin in 1804 she hastened to Copet, on from "susceptibility of being misled," as with the Directory was sufficient to se- receiving intelligence of her father's dan-urged by her father, from the pernicious cure him not only safety, but respect, ger; but he died before she reached the inculcations of modern philosophy, or and the erasure of his name from this place. A mortality in her family invaria-from but we will not proceed: sanguinary roll. She then returned to bly consigned our subject to the occupa- her earthly account is just closed, and Paris and her husband; but in a few tion of the study. At Geneva in the her frailties with her sorrows alike repose months, either tired by the persecutions year 1805 issued the "Manuscripts of in trembling hope awaiting the decision to which she was exposed, or prompted Mr. Necker, published by his Daughter." of an immortal tribunal." by some other motive, hastened back to Still further to divert her mind, she MELENDEZ, THE SPANISH ANACREON. the repose of Copet. In 1798, the dan- next travelled into Italy, and collected Spain has just lost one of its most celegerous illness of the Baron de Stael re- materials for perhaps her most celebrated brated poets. M. Juan Melendez Valdez, called her to Paris, where she received work, "Corinna, or Italy," which has been born of a noble family at Ribera, a little his last sigh, and soon left the metropolis translated into many languages. Having town in Estremadura, studied at the Unifor Switzerland. After this period she returned to Geneva, Madame de Stael versity of Salamanca. At the age of 22 he published an essay "On the Influence of amused herself with appearing upon the received the degree of Doctor of Laws, but by Literature upon Society," which may be stage in 1806, and performed in tragedy the reading of the Greek, Latin, French, and considered as a continuation of the two with considerable skill. There is a drama himself to become the head and the model Italian Classics, he was already preparing last mentioned works. In 1800, Buona- from her pen, called "Secret Sentiment," of modern poetry in Spain. He might have parte, in passing through Geneva, had but we do not know its date. She has pretended to a Professorship of Law at Salathe curiosity to visit M. Necker, and, also given to the world a work entitled manca; he preferred and obtained a Proaccording to rumour, Madame de Stael" Germany," embodying her observa- fessorship of Belles Lettres. In 1780, his took this opportunity to read him a long tion on that country. It has provoked" Panegyric on a Country Life," was crowned dissertation on the course he ought to some controversy. Letters and Reflec- by the Spanish Academy, though the celepursue for the prosperity of France. The tions of the Prince de Ligne," in two prize. Some time after another prize was brated Yriarte was a competitor for the First Consul, it is added, who did not re- volumes; 3 an "Essay on Suicide;" and adjudged to his "Bathyllus." The first volish the political plans of ladies, listened several minor publications, as well as lume of his poems obtained him the title of to her very patiently, and in the end coolly many contributions to the periodical the Spanish Anacreon. In 1789 Melendez inquired "who educated her children!" press in Geneva, Paris, and elsewhere, was appointed Judge in the Court of Appeal The well-known novel of Delphine, complete the catalogue of her produc-at Saragossa: in 1797 he was called to the written during this retirement, was print- tions. capital, to fill the office of King's Attorneyed at Geneva in 1802, and excited great General in the Supreme Court of Criminal Madame de Stael has twice visited attention in England, France, and Ger- Englaud; formerly during the revolutionmany; where it has been translated, at-ary conflict, when she resided in a small tacked, criticised, and praised, according Gothic house at Richmond, which is visito the wants or humours of the parties. ble from the river above the bridge; and The author published a defence of her again about three years ago. During her stay in London, she was much courted In 1803, she revisited Paris, and formed by persons of the highest rank and of all that connection with Mr. Benjamin Con-parties. Some of her bon-mots are in stant, a Swiss of considerable literary circulation, but we can neither vouch for attainments, which lasted to the day of her death. Whether for past or present offences is not easy to tell, but Napoleon was not slow in banishing her to the distance of forty leagues from the capital. Report says that on this occasion the Lady told him: "You are giving me a cruel celebrity; I shall occupy a line in your history."-This sentence is so am

work.

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! Since writing this we have ascertained that

this piece was composed in 1786, and the Tra-
gedy of Lady Jane Gray in 1787. About
the same time Madame de Stael wrote an
Eulogy on Guibert," not published but quo-
ted in the Correspondence of Baron Grimm.

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2 This work was suppressed by Buonaparte, and subsequently published in London, from a copy secreted by the author in 1814.

Translated into English by Mr. D. Boileau.

We beg permission to annex in a note a neat and epigrammatic opinion on these points, for which we are indebted to a very able country

man of M. de Stael.

"Née à Paris d'un père Génevois, et ayant épousé un Suédois, Madame de Stael sembla réunir en elle les qualités particulières des trois nations qui sembloient avoir influé sur son existence. On trouve dans ses ouvrages le brillant de l'imagination Françoise, la métaphysique de Genève, et les principes littéraires particulièrement adoptés dans le Nord de l'Europe.

2 Madame de Stael was one of the writers in the "Biographie Universelle," in which the articles" Aspasie, Camoens, Cleopatra," &c. are from her pen. Two letters from her to Talma appeared in a Bourdeaux Journal about a month ago. She was upon the point of publishing

Considerations on the respective situation of France and England in 1813," at the time of her decease. We take it for granted that it will be edited.

Justice. This same year he published two the most successful pupil of this great mas-Jones, Blanchard, Bannister, Munden, Innew volumes of poems, consisting of sacred ter, or whether it received its finishing and cledon, and poor old Dicky Gossip Suett. and philosophical odes, elegies, epistles, a sublimest touches from his hand, may be a There were others too of less note, but not little poem on the fall of Luzbel, and a co-matter for inquiry, but neither impairs nor less truly copied, and the applause bestowed medy or pastoral on the wedding of Ga- adds to the intrinsic merits of the work. was as hearty as it was unanimous. mache. Though none of the other works The original picture, as is well known to The rest of the dramatis personæ were of Melendez can boast the degree of excel-artists, was painted on the wall of a religious very ably supported. Terry, one of the lence which is admired in his Anacreontics, house, and was soon almost obliterated. most judicious actors upon the stage, perthey all deserve to be read; because they all This copy, it has been confessed, nobly sup-formed Sir George Thunder. Tokely is rapossess a delicate and lively imagination, plied its place, and rendered the loss less to ther coarse, but his John Dory possessed a natural sentiments, ingenious thoughts, an be lamented; and there are good reasons for good deal of humour. Ephraim Smooth perelegant style, and a happy union of philo- believing that it was painted for the illus-mitted Watkinson to make several hits, but sophy and poetry, which have rendered him trious patron of Leonardo, Francis the First there was occasionally broader grimace and the worthy rival of a Garcelasso, a Herrera, of France. It is now the property of a citi- a deeper accent than sound discretion wara Leon, a Rioja, and a Villegas. zen of Milan; and while we think with ranted. Butler shewed considerable talent The Muses are alarmed by the din of regret on the disastrous turns of human for parts of rustic simplicity in Sim-these arms. At the time of the first troubles in fortune which led to this wonderful change characters are more difficult than the generalSpain, Melendez was on a mission in the of proprietorship, we cannot but rejoice in ity of play-goers are aware of; the slightest Asturias; and being in imminent danger of any chance which has brought so rich a overcharge in the grotesque renders them perishing in a popular commotion, he sought treasure to a country whence we trust it will offensive, and the slightest failure in the protection in the French army. Soon after never depart again. pathetic, ridiculous. Harry Thunder, Bara new master was imposed upon Spain, and nard; Farmer Gammon, Martin; Banks, Melendez had the misfortune to serve a foFoote; Lamp, Menage, were all respectareign ruler. Ile was made Counsellor of ble; and we never desire to see a better BaiState and Director-General of Public Instruc- HAYMARKET THEATRE.--On Tuesday liff than his representative-in the Haytion. When the French were obliged to night we visited the Haymarket, but instead market. We are ashamed to speak of the evacuate the Peninsula, Melendez withdrew of seeing, as announced by the bills, Mat- ladies after such a person, and especially as into France. He beheld no more that bril-thews play Rover in Wild Oats, witnessed we must be short with them. But we shall liant sun, the beams of which had animated Rover dis-play Matthews to our great enter-endeavour to preserve their good graces by his genius. He died very lately, at Mont-tainment. Not unfrequently doomed to sit being also sweet:-Mrs. Glover's Lady Amapellier, in the arms of his wife, and of a ne-out a regular drama regularly cast, from ranth was excellent, and Mrs. Gibbs's Jane phew who came voluntarily to share his which we retire under the absolute domi- inimitable!

THE DRAMA.

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exile. At the moment when he was snatched nion of ennui, we do not feel that an inno- A new Comedy from the pen of Mr. away from the literary world, he was pre-vation like the present on what has been Jameson is expected to be brought out by paring a new edition of his works, to which justly called a five-act farce, and from the per-Tuesday or Wednesday. Tokely we hear two volumes would have been added. The formance of which we derived much amuse- has another good Crockery character. friends of Spanish literature hope, that his -unpublished pieces, which were to form a part of this collection, will soon be published separately.

THE FINE ARTS.

The season of the year and not the disposition of the Literary Gazette is to blame, if our department of the Fine Arts is at present only meagre and unfrequent. In fact there is little or nothing new to attract the public regard.

It is no

NEW ENGLISH OPERA.

DIGEST OF POLITICS AND
NEWS.

There are indications in public matters

ment, demands splenetic criticism. doubt true that we had mimicry rather than acting, but it was really astonishing this Theatre: should the candidates be enThere have been two first appearances at how little the business of the piece was interrupted by the imitations. The part of Couraged to proceed in their theatrical course, we shall give them due notice in our next. Rover indeed, a strolling player ever quoting favourite passages from dramatic writings, is propitious to the use to which it was now put-so much so that we are not quite sure that these imitations are out of character. [Intended as a Record of Facts and not of It is but one step beyond the usual course. Opinions.] Other Rovers deliver their shreds of Shakspeare personating those in whose mouths We must except however a noble picture the bard has put them; Matthews only per- of only secondary consequence, which just opened as an Exhibition in Pall Mall, sonates the personators. And then he does afford surer evidence of the character of THE LAST SUPPER," ascribed to Leonardo so with so much accuracy and whim, that the a country than can be gathered from afda Vinci. This grand composition offers resemblance is at once forced upon the audi-fairs of the highest importance. In the much for examination, and we shall devote a ence, heightened with exactly the degree of latter the interests of rival nations clash portion of our next Number to the subject. But humorous caricature to lay the wrinkle of we could not deny ourselves the earliest mirth on that smooth brow of complacency and perplex the testimony, in the former opportunity of announcing where a spectacle which rarely fails to reward the successful it runs uninterruptedly in its natural chanso interesting to the Arts is to be seen. On minic. The satisfaction with which men nel, and the tribute is paid to virtue, or Thursday, when we visited the Gallery, many contemplate the exertion of this talent is the sword is yielded to power, or the asof the chief Members of the Royal Academy, easily accounted for in human nature, and bitriment is referred to justice. This gewith their venerable President, had assem- were we inclined to philosophical disquisi-nerally applicable axiom has been sugbled to view this sublime production, and, tion we should desire no better theme than until we deliver our own sentiments in de- to demonstrate how precious the levelling it gested to our minds by a determination tail, it is but justice to observe that they involves is to some of our least noble of the Dict of Frankfort exceedingly howere unanimous in their expressions of ad- sions. For this time we shall attribute it all nourable to Great Britain. Upon the miration: thus confirming the fame which to delight in what is extraordinary, and to subject of the piracies of the Ba:the picture has obtained not only in Italy admiration of the artist's skill. bary States in the North Seas the but among the connoisseurs, and the learned In other hands it might be said we recog- Diet has of all countries. We can scarcely refrain nised the principal objects of imitation, but the spirit of England in commanding not only acknowledged from dwelling on the variety and power of it would be doing injustice to the talents of these robbers, upon pain of chastiseexpression, the noble simplicity, and all Matthews, not to acknowledge that in the the other excellencies of this great and an- present instance we recognised them all. ment, to steer far from her shores in cient chef-d'œuvre of the painter's art. Nor can we determine which was the best, their lawless cruizes, but has resolved Whether the sole production of Oggiano, By turns he was Kemble, Kean, Fawcett, to solicit her, through the mediation of

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