388 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1797. 
eyes ; and his lively and penetrating 
genius appeared in his countenance, 
Befides being a good Latin claflic, 
he was mafter of moft European 
languages of note, and poffefied a 
deal of general information nowife 
connected with thofe branches of 
{cience required in his profeffion. 
He was a great wit and fatirift, and 
a good companion, even under the 
fufferings of bodily pain. His too 
liberal and unguarded ufe of fatire 
made him many enemies. In_ his 
youthful days he wrote the Staats 
Peruicke for the amufement of his 
friends ; this was afterwards publifh- 
ed without his knowledge. But 
nothing fhows more his talent for 
fatire than his Monacholgia, which 
he publifhed in 1783, juft when the 
Emperor Jofeph was making his 
reforms in the church. Indeed, at 
any other time fuch a fevere fatire 
on the monks would not have been 
permitted. They are charatterif- 
ed thus: 
“¢ Monachus. 
_ “ Deferiptio. — Animal avarum, 
foetidum, immundum, fiticulofum, 
iners, inediam potius tolerans quam 
laborem ;—vivunt ¢ rapina & quef- 
tu; mundum fui tantum caufa crea- 
tum effe. predicant; coeunt clan- 
deftine, nuptias non celebrant, foe- 
tus exponunt; in propriam {peciem 
feviunt, & hoftem ex infidiis aggre- 
diuntur. U/us. ‘Terre pondus in- 
utile. Fruges confumere nati.”— 
And upon the order of Dominicans 
he fays—‘ Eximio olfadu_pollet, 
vinum & hzrefin* e longinquo odo- 
rat. Efurit femper polyphagus. Ju- 
niores fame probantur. Veterani, 
relegata omni cura & occupatione, 
gulz indulgent, cibis fucculentis 
nutiiuatur, moiliter cubant, tepide 
quiefcunt, fomnum protrahunt, & 
ex fuis dizeta curant, ut efca omnis 
in adipem tranfeat, lardumque adi- 
pifcantur: hinc abdomen prolixum 
paffim prefeferunt; fenes ventri- 
cofi maxime zftimantur. Virgini- 
tatis facre ofores in venerem vols 
givagam proni ruunt. Generi hu- 
mano & fanz rationi infeftiffima 
fpecies, in cujus creatione non fe 
jactavit auctor nature.” 
The Archbifhop of Vienna com- 
plained to the Emperor againft this 
work; who replied, that it was only 
the idle and ufelefs part of the {pi- 
ritual order which was attacked. 
This was feconded by his Defenfo 
Phyfophili; and to this facceeded hig 
Anatomia Monachi. He wrote like- 
wife a fatire on Father Hell, the 
aftronomer, by publifhing a long 
Latin advertifement, full of irony, 
announcing a book written againft 
the free mafons, in the name of this 
learned Jefuit. 
It muft not be forgotten, that his 
houfe was always open to the tra- 
veiling literati who vifited ‘Vienna ; 
and that unproteéted genius was al- 
ways fure to find in him a friend 
and patron. He carried this pers 
haps too far, fo far as to ruin his 
eftate: probably the expectation of 
receiving a large income from the 
amalgamation, made him lefs atten- 
tive to ceconomy in his domeftic 
concerns; though I believe his in- 
folvency was chiefly owing to ufu- 
rers and money-lenders, to whom 
he was obliged to have recourfe to. 
carry on his expenfive projects. 
Through thefe, though his patrimo- 
ny was very confiderable, he died 
greatly in debt: this is the more to 
be lamented, as he left a wife and 
two daughters. 
* As being inquifitors.- 
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