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oontinucd, owing it has been understood to some disappoinl- 

 luent on the part of the engraver. 



In 1805, Mr. Girardin connnenced the translation of the 

 RevoUitionary Annals, or History of tlie French Revolution, 

 upon the original manuscript of his friend, likewise a refugee 

 to this conntry, M. Jean Henri de Croiseuil. This labour also 

 remained unfinished. To the fifth part, which comprises the 

 time when Buonaparte ascended the political horizon together 

 with the first three years of his consulate, there is affixed an 

 introduction by Mr. Girardin : it speaks in his favour, both 

 as a writer and a politician. About this time also, he pub- 

 lished his Latin poem De Monomachia, which did him credit 

 as a moralist and as a votary to the Muses. In the eighth 

 and twelfth numbers of the Old Baclielor, there are two letters 

 by him, signed T. Lovetruth, that afford elegant specimens of 

 his elevated tone of thinking, and of his sound ideas on the 

 subject of education. Mr. Wirt has given the following testi- 

 mony to their worth. 'As I read his letter,' he says, 'I felt in 

 the style of his thinking the percussion of genius and virtue ; 

 and I am convinced that literature and science stand at their 

 back. Ex pccle Herculem. He should feel himself, bound to 

 come forth for the good of our common country.' Of his 

 second communication it is observed further ; 'Here follows a 

 letter from one, to whom he feels well assured that he will 

 never have to propose either condition or qualification: it is 

 from his first correspondent and fast friend Lovetruth. Even 

 the sorrows and tears of my old friend are full of virtue and 

 instruction. He is a pen, 



'To wake the soul by tender strokes of art. 

 To raise the genius and to mend the heart.' ' 



In the 'Virginia Argus,' Mr. Girardin likewise published a 

 series of literary and moral essays under the title of the 'Piii- 

 lanthropist,' furnishing fresh evidence of the extent and ver- 

 satility of his talents. The character of 'truth and decency, 

 united to sound principles,' bestowed by a cotemporary upon 

 the columns of the Richmond Enquirer, was acquired whilst 

 Mr. G. was its joint proprietor and sole editor. About this 

 time also he wrote a life of John Adams, at the solicitation of 

 the classical Dennie, which was published in the Port Folio. 



