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designed only for the enjoyment of the 
owner ; they were suited to his fortune, 
his individual taste, and fixed habits of 
life. On the other hand, the gardens, 
pleasure grounds, and buildings of the 
atter, are laid out with a view to capti- 
vate the eye, and delight the fancy of 
others, without any respect whatsoever 
to the particular, wishes of the posses- 
sor. 
~ The view of modern Ostia, with its 
galley-slaves, its dungeons, its ruined 
walls, and its nepbitic exhalations, is 
finely contrasted with the ancient town 
of the same naine, between which and 
Anzio, for an extent of ten miles, the 
whole country was covered with villas, so 
as to resemble a city extending length- 
ways. We are told, that near to the 
Torre di Paterno, once stood Pliny’s vil- 
Ta, in-the immediate vicinity of Lauren- 
tinum, 
“ Memoires sur la derniere Revolution 
de la Pologne,” &c.—Memoirs relative to 
the last Revolution in Poland, 8vo. 
This little pamphlet was found in ma- 
nuscript when the French entered Berlin. 
Tt consists of two reports, drawn up by 
General Pistor, who was chief of the 
staff of the Russian army in Poland, pre- 
Retrospect of French Literature—Miscellanies. 
ceded by an introduction, detailing the 
facts that led to the unjust dismember- 
ment of chat country. 
Having accompanied the commander- 
in-chief, Iglestrom, to Warsaiv ; he wit~ 
nessed the beginning, and the progress, 
of a legitimate insurrection against a 
most unprincipled and perfidious spoiler, 
whose pretensions to the dominion ot 
Poland were about as much bottomed on 
justice, as those of Bonaparte to the 
government of Spain aad Portugal. 
General Pistor having beheld the Poles 
arousing from their lethargy, at the call 
of the gallant, but unfortunate, Kosci- 
usko, in 1795, endeavoured to preserve 
the capital to his sovereign. But War- 
saw, at length, acceded to the general 
confederation, and rendered it unsafe to 
yemain there any longer. He accordingly 
sallied out, with @ part of the garrison, 
and, marching at its head, was enabled, 
partly by bravery, and partly by good 
fortune, to escape that death which 
so many of bis countrymen had ekperi= 
enced from an exasperated people. 
Having at length reached Petersburgh, 
he detailed, not only the events, but 
pointed out the causes of a revolutionary 
movement which alarmed for a while the 
old age of the Empress Catharine. 
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