and carelessness which were so unusual a concomitant of these 
duties. His abode at ‘Gessenay, gave rise to a description of that 
picturesque country ; his sojourn at Nyon is impressed on the mem- 
ory of the present generation, by the numerous services which he 
rendered to the persecuted of all countries, and all opinions. 
_ After the fall of the ancient government of Bern, De Bonstetten, 
restored to-liberty, renewed his travels for the purpose of enlightened 
observation. He passed through Italy, and especially the province 
of Latium, which he traversed with his Virgil in his hand, and of 
which he published a lively and original description. He went after- 
wards to Denmark, and the physical and moral contrast of these two 
countries was so impressed on his mind, as to give rise to a charm- 
work, L’Homme du nord et Vhomme du midi, and to another less 
known, entitled La Scandinavie et les Alpes. In the first, he com- 
pares the north and the south, especially in their moral relations ; in 
the second, the worth of Europe and Switzerland, chiefly in their 
physical characters. The tendency of his mind naturally gave to 
the first of these essays, a decided superiority. At the conclusion 
of a journey in France, he > published bis. Pensées sur divers objets de de 
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that amiable philanthropy which directed. his whole life. On ‘his 
eturn from these several journeys, he took up his abode within our 
walls, whither he was drawn, as well by the recollections of his youth, 
as by the great number of distinguished friends whom he found there, 
gathered at that time around Mad. de Staél, Pictet, and many 
others, whom we shall always regret. It was in this retreat, embel- 
lished by friendship and the conversation of enlightened men, that 
he wrote the works above mentioned, and his two great philosophical 
treatises on the laws of the imagination, and on the nature of man. In 
rendering the justice due to the real merit of these works, we, nev- 
ertheless feel, in reading them, that the author does not shine in his 
native brilliancy. The grace and the freedom of his style disappear 
in this too didactic species of writing. His genuine triumph was in 
the epistolary style. He was intimately connected in his youth with 
the celebrated historian Miiller, and there remains a collection of 
their letters replete with judicious and striking observations. Con- 
nected at a later period by a tender friendship with the German poet, 
, , and with Mad. Frederique Braun, a woman of wit. and 
i correspondence with these two distinguished persons, is 
aso preserved, and it is in them that we discover the flexibility of his 
