MEMOIR OP BARON HALLER. 59 
Hayne, the celebrated professor of eloquence at 
Gottingen, has stated that he did much to improve 
and simplify the language, and enriched it with 
many new and happy expressions. He was also 
master of French, English, Dutch, Italian, Danish, 
and Swedish, and communicated in all these lan- 
guages with his foreign correspondents. These 
were numerous, as were his intimate acquaintances 
and friends, in which list may be enumerated the 
celebrated names of "Worlhof, Bonnet, Gesner, and 
Tissot, Zimmermaun, Zin, Mecket, Hubert, and 
Sproegel. He was celebrated for the power of his 
memory, which scarcely allowed any thing which 
he had once heard or read to escape. On one oc- 
casion, being with Tissot in company with an officer 
who had served under the celebrated Charles XII. 
of Sweden, and who was giving a recital of his 
campaigns, thus fighting his battles o’er again, but 
who forgot the names of a great many places and 
positions, these were supplied so readily and accu- 
rately by Haller, that the old soldier could not be 
persuaded that the Baron had not visited and ex- 
amined the country he seemed so well to know. 
We may add, that it was generally allowed at 
Berne, that no one was a sounder politician, or more 
intimately acquainted with the general politics of 
Europe, and still more with those of their own 
republic. 
As the author of so many and great works, the 
habits of Haller could not fail to be most active, 
and his life much occupied and devoted to their 
