ISSi.] Stephemiana, 



multitude of liis little poems appeared 

 in the Aimanacli of llie Musus, and 

 journals of the time. In 1775 he com- 

 posed a piece for tlie Grand Opera, on 

 occasion of the marriage of Louis XVI. 

 Ihe music by Grelry. His posihumous 

 works, pulijished l)y his children, in. 

 ch«dc Treatises on Logic, Grammar, 

 Ethics, and the " Memoirs of a Father," 

 &c. This last forms a summary of the 

 author's life, exhibiting the various turns 

 of his fortune, and representing many 

 plher characters, free from tiiose illiberal 

 and unjust aspersions which too Ire- 

 quently sanction contumely. Nor does 

 Jie lavish impudent flattery ; but gene- 



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523 



rally, in a way that prepossesses in his 

 favour, devoid of aU'eclation, depicts and 

 fairly appreciates the principal events of 

 his age. These were connected witli 

 names well known and celebrated, and, 

 with the sure marks of truth, he charac- 

 terises the conduct of very able men, 

 with whom he was perfectly well ac- 

 quainted. Great, indeed, must have 

 been the labour, intense the apjdicatioH, 

 invincible the ardor, displaced by this 

 author. In the list of his works, only 

 a few of which are here enumerated, wo 

 find Lucan's Pharsaiia, translated into 

 French verse, and published in 176t» 

 and 1772. 



STEPHENSIANA, 



NO. XXIX. 



COFFEE, 



THE Arabs never adulterate their 

 coffee with sugar and milk (no 

 sugar colonies!) — The Chinese drink 

 their tea pure, — being a simple decoc- 

 tion with boiling water. — Cream and 

 sweetening are European adultera- 

 tions. 



SIR FRANCIS EULLER, 



while pupil to Mr. Coulthard, uncle to 

 the Graham of Lincoln's Inn, having 

 bought a fiddle, was addressed as fol- 

 lows by the special pleader just alluded 

 to: — " I would advise yon, young man, 

 to part with your kif, for music is so cn- 

 ti<:ing, that, if yon take to it, you will 

 never endeavour to comprehend Coke 

 ii|)on Littleton." Mr. Bullcr took the 

 hiiit ; and became a judge ! 



QU1:F.N ANNE. 



In Sir John Dalrymple's " Memoirs 

 of Great Britain," page 424, is tiiis cu- 

 rious note relating to Anne, one of King 

 James's unnatural daughters ; I call her 

 so from her foolish letters, written in 

 1687-8, to her sister in Holland: — 

 "An anecdote (sajs Cole), though not 

 strictly suited to the dignity of history, 

 may perhaps be [)ardoned, which marks 

 the state of the exiled court. James 

 was one day complaining to his courtiers 

 of his eldest daughter, but s|)eakiiig with 

 lendcrness of the Princess Anne; Ca|>l. 

 Lloyd, of the Navy, who liked not the 

 last part of the conversation, quitted the 

 room, but, turning back his head as he 

 shut the tloor, muttered aloud, 'Both 

 b— s, by God.' " 



AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT. 



I take the following to be a correct 

 litatcnicnt of the moditications which 



characterise the Austrian government. 

 In the hereditary states, German and 

 Italian, the power approaches to abso- 

 lute, notwithstanding the existence of 

 the states ; in Hungary and Transylva- 

 nia, the emperor divides the right of 

 legislation, and of imposing taxes, with 

 the states, which consist, generally 

 throughout all the provinces, of the no- 

 blesse, the higher clergy, and the privi- 

 leged towns; but in the "Tyrol, the pea- 

 sants form the fourth class of the states. 

 In Hungary, the power of the prince is 

 most limited, but the executive is 

 whollj in his hands, and he has lhej«* 

 supremcB inspertioNis in liter ariis. 



COLONIES. 



The foreign acquisitions of a country 

 are generally unfavourable to freedom: 

 the free constitution of Sj)ain was 

 subverted by the introduction of the 

 riches of America, the revenue from 

 which rendered her kings independent 

 of the Cortes. It was not the defeat of 

 Padilla, it was the gold of Montezuma, 

 that mined the liberties of Spain. It 

 was the success of Cortez, Almagro, 

 and Pizarro, in the new world, that sub- 

 verted the rights of the old ; and the 

 hands, died with the blood, and sullied 

 with the s|)oils of the nnhajipy Indians, 

 forged the domestic fetters for the hands 

 of their countrymen. 



STRATFORD AND SHAKSPEARE. 



The approach to Oxford is mark- 

 ed by inultij)Iied evidences of taste 

 aiid regard to genius and learning; 

 Stratford has none, but it was the birth- 

 place of Shakspeare, to whom silence, 

 solemnity, and an cxtasy, such as may 

 be conceived and felt, but which cannot 



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