1823.] 
Wieland acquired a farm at Osman- 
stadt, not far from Weimar, to. which 
he retired. Some particulars of his 
residence and burial there were given 
in our 86th volume, page 40., His 
interview with Napoleon at Weimar, 
in 1808, was detailed in our. 42d 
volume, page 422. These form the 
more prominent anecdotes of his latter 
days. His last. work was. entitled 
“ Ruthanasia.” He died of a para- 
lytic stroke on the 13th of January, 
1813; and was pompously buried, at. 
the expense of his brethren of the. 
Masonic lodge of Weimar. 
_ OF that higher class .of writers, 
whose popularity, incompressible with- 
in the seanty limits of one country, 
language, or age, is likely to assert a 
diffusive and permanent influence over 
the opinions of a refined portion of the: 
whole Europeén public, Wieland is 
one of the most remarkable and volu- 
minous, Second only to Voiiaire in 
the copiousness and variety of his 
effusions, he is admirable as a com- 
poser, both m verse and prose. He 
has excelled in epie and didactic 
poetry, and has appeared in. the dra- 
matic arena without disgrace. His 
varied disquisitions are admired for 
elegant erudition aml philosophic 
penetration; his dialogues, for poetry 
ef form and urbanity of manner ;. his 
novels, for the insight they display 
and conimunicate of the most hidden 
recesses of the human heart. A liberal 
morality overspreads his pages, which 
every where teach the love of the true, 
the fair, and the good. 
Few writers have so uniformly 
walked within the precincts uf,the 
beautiful. He never swells into bom- 
bast, he seldom mounts, to sublimity, 
and, if he sometimes tires by the gay 
usion of his repeated descriptions, 
he never sinks into a vulgar insipidity, 
His wit, ratlier dextrous than forcible, 
might satisfy the delicacy of a Ches- 
terfield. Scenes .of pathos he seenis 
toavoid, either as unattainable by his 
powers, or as painful to his equani® 
amity. Like the painter Albani, he 
delights to detain the ithagiiation be- 
heath groves gay with a thousand 
flowers, peopled with happy. lovers 
sacrificing to Cupid, or haunted by 
‘choirs of nymphs, whose thin drapery 
is the sport of the zephyrs, and whose 
eharms are the pursuit of fawns, or the 
prize of river-gods. 
Moytary Mac. No, 386, 
~ 
Wicland, concluded}—Interpreter to the Chinese Embassy. 
. With the'proceeds of this edition, . 
129 
Possessed .of the. whole mass of 
ancient and modern literature, Wie- 
land has distilled from it the favourite 
ornaments of his compositions, which 
are throughout more remarkable for 
selection than invention; he ever 
delights in assisting the reader to trace 
his eternal allusions to their source; 
in pointing out the narrator whose 
fable he embellishes, the stylist whose 
epithet he transplants, or the. philo- 
sopher whose tmference he impresses. 
His career began with the dawn, and 
extended tothe sun-set, of German 
literature: he had, as he himself 
expresses it, the heart-exalting satis- 
faction of being the contemporary of 
all. the German .poets and writers, 
in whose works breathes the genius of 
immortality, and the rival of none: 
most of them were his friends, not one 
of them was his foe. ; 
alee , 
To the, Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
A CORRESPONDENT in your 
last month’s Magazine remarks, 
upon the review of Dr: Murray’s 
‘* History of the European Languages,” 
given in your Critica Prormium, 
that the doctor’s statement, respecting 
the interpreter to the Chinese embassy, 
was ieorrect. His statement, how- 
ever, is true ; and the misapprehension 
of your, correspondent must have 
arisen from the absence of quotation 
points, within which the assertion 
ought perhaps to have been placed. 
Dr. Murray died in 1813; and, of 
course, could’not have alluded to the 
embassy of Lord Amherst, (to which 
Dr. Morrison was atiached,), but to 
that of Lord Macartney. D. B 
Aug. 5, 1823. 
= 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
CHRISTIAN WARFARE against the TURKS. 
Extraordinary Journal, called. “ the 
Bloody Journal,” kept by William 
Davidson, on-board the St. Dinian 
Russian Privateer, in the Years 1788 
and 9; with some Particulars of the 
said William Davidson. 
PREFATORY MEMORANDUM, 
N the year 1791, aseaman, by name 
William Davidson, who belonged 
to one of the boats of the Niger frigate, 
being intoxicated, and’ insolent to the 
midshipman who was on duty inthe 
boat, was put into confinement; and 
on the following day, his offence being 
of a nature which called for particular 
8 notice, 
