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1803.) Lxtracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
pension, on. his return from India, no- 
thing could induce him to take,any. step 
to obtain a racurnpence. The Abbé 
_ Barthelemy was sull his providence, and 
served him without his knowledye, in 
order not to offend him, in. such a man- 
ner, that Anquetil always considered the 
grant conferred on him by the minister, 
solely asan act of justice. Towards the 
end ofithe reign of Louis XVL when 
that monarch was bestowing gratuities on 
a certain number of men of letters, he 
was included in the list for a sum of 
$000 kvres; but the difficulty was to ob- 
tain his acceptance of it. One of hts ac- 
quaintances undertook this delicate com- 
Iaission. After having in vain ted every 
method of persuasion, se secretly put 
the money on one corer of the chimney- 
piece, and hastily left the room; but the 
purse with the money found its way to 
the bottom of the stairs before him. In 
like manner he refused a pension of 6060 
livres, which was adjndged him by the 
Committee of Public Instruction, and be 
returned the warrant, protesting that he 
had no need of it, and that he would ac- 
ceptof nothing alihoughitwas well known 
he was at that time in the greatest dis- 
tréss.. So familiar with poverty hinself, 
he felt only for that of others, and was at 
@ loss on whom to bestow the superfluous 
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part of his moderate income, When he 
was admitted a member of the National 
Iustitute, at the Commencement of its 
organization, he was then uneasy, lest he 
should be too rich. “ Pray inform me 
(said he, to one of his friends) what ho- 
nest family i is in need of relief. 1 know 
of none, and I receive at least 100 francs 
per month, which are totally useless to 
ine, unless applied this way.” Old age, 
and the length oftime he had beensecluded 
from all literary society, had not changed 
his sentiments; he retained the same love 
of truth, the same principles, and the 
sane attachnient to his original opinions, 
Atlength exhausted by late study, rigo- 
“rousand abstemious cliet, ‘andalmost edie 
tute of sight, the sudden failure of his sens 
ses, when he was still anticipating some 
new works, convinced him thathis end was 
fast approaching. He had five brothers, 
who repaired to him as soon as his situ- 
ation was known; and be at length cone 
sented to be taken to one of their houses, 
that he might receive that attention 
which it was S impossible to pay him in his 
own lodging, which contained uo kind of 
moveables except books... He died the 
17th of January, 1805, in the arms of 
his. brother, professing to the last the 
same sentiments as he had all his life ene 
tertuined. 
par ten one 
Evtracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
: ood [Communications to this Article are always thankfully received. ] 
EEE ; 
PORTE AITS OF SHAKSPEARE aND SPENSER. 
NE of our Correspondents [Vol. 
16, p. 233] has pointed eut a for- 
mer possessor of a portrait of Spenser, 
or-the follewing we are indebted to 
Berkenhout’s Biographia Literayia, 4bo, 
Te published by Dodsley. 
_ “ A pieture of Spenser was in the pos- 
Session of John Love, esq. Castle Saffron, 
near Kilcolman, in Ireland. There is 
also a print ef him by Vertue,” Bvo. 
. 378. 
4 Mr. Nichols affirms, ‘ral. 6, p. 68; 
‘edit, 1780, of bis Collection of Poems) 
that the portrait commonly supposed to 
be. Banpbete was taken, long after 
his eath, from one who resembled him. 
_ Berkeyhout informs us (p. $98) that 
wo are (or were) in existeuce, one of 
which he traces as follows:—By Jobn 
Taylor, the water- poet, who painted it: 
it was bequeathed to Sir W. Davenant, 
ef whom Betterton purchased it, Mr 
4 : 
’ 
lkeck purchased it of Betterton for forty 
guineas ; from whose possession it devi- 
ated into that of Mr. Nichol, whose 
daughter married: the Marquis or Caer- 
narvon, the last proprietor. 
It appears, from the same anthor, that 
Mr. Nicholas, of Southwell, had ano- 
ther, painted by “ old Cornelius Jansun, 
or Burbage, the actor.” 
FRANCIS I, OF FRANCE. 
Francis the First of France, when 
taken prisoner by his rival Charles the 
Fifth, wrote thus to the queen-tnother : ~~ 
she : Madawe, tout est perdu, hormis l’hon- 
neur. » Voltaire had this national trait 
in his thoughts when he composed the 
following passage of his ode on the de- 
‘feat of the French by Frederic of Prus« 
sia (inisnamed the Great) :-— 
«6 Francois, ta valeur si vantée, 
Devant le Prussienest glacte 5, 
« Tout est -ipaver jusgw & Phenneur” 
és CREBILLOA, 
