2706.) Oo Original Anecdotes—Dumourier. .. Mad. Genlis. 
property, of which he gave back, froma 
noblenefs of mind, much more than any 
ene could in ftriét juftice have required. 
He now fet up a printing-prefs with 
a view chiefly to the new theatrical un- 
dertaking, 11 which he had for fome 
time Leffling for his colleague. This laft 
undertaking; however, foon fell to the 
ground, and a defign was formed to efta- 
Dblifh a book-fhop for the learned. Un- 
fortunately, thefe two worthy-men were 
very little acquainted with the mechani- 
cal part of the book trade, and in a fhort 
time the partnerfhip was diffolved. 
The deje€tion of mind which thefe 
difappointments might have occafioned, 
was taken off by the tranilation of Sterne’s 
Sentimental Journey and Triftrarn Shan- 
dy, which he undertook by the fuggeftion 
of his friend Leffing, whofe tranflation of 
Noverre’s Letters on the Art of Dancing 
he completed, and at the fame time gave a 
tranflation of de l’Abbayé’s Treatife, in 
French, on Agriculure. Humphrey 
Clinker he tranflated for the bookfeller 
Reich, and fucceffively he gave tranfla- 
tions of the Vicar of Wakefield, fome 
Englith plays, a little original manufecript 
on the poor, anda mode of providing for 
them, Yorick’s Letters to Eliza, and the 
two laft volumes of Burney’s Mufical 
Journal, improved with many additions of 
his own. In the weekly paper, called the 
Companion, which, however, had nota 
very long run, he took the greateft part ; 
he alfo fuperintended the publifhing of 
the German Extracts from the Englith 
paper the Adventurer. In 1778, he ac- 
compained the countefs dowager of Bern- 
ftorf to Weimar, where he lived to her 
death in the moft agreeable manner for 
One of his literary turn, in a liberal inde- 
.pendance, as the gueft, the friend, and 
counfellor of this amiable woman. After 
her death, he publifhed a new tranflation 
of the weekly paper the World; of the 
Peniador da Clavijo, aut of the Spanith; 
ef the Incas of Marmontel; of Tom 
Jones, in which, however, he could not 
waite much time or patience; cf the hif- 
tory of the 39 years’ imprifonment of La 
Terde, which he prepared in Paris, after 
his journey thither in 1787; and his latt 
beft work was his mafterly tranflation of 
Montaigne. Inno other of his tranfla- 
tions did he employ fo much time or la- 
bour: in this work, to ufe the expreffion, 
he has excelled himfelf, and his merits in 
German literature are the greateft. No 
other employment was fo well fuited to his 
turn, andit pracured him the higheft en- 
jJoyment. He fympathized with his aus 
thor, whofe humour, fingularities, and 
ways of thinking, correfponded entirely 
with his own. In the autumn of 1793, 
he made a vifit to Lower Saxony. to caft: 
the laft look on his native couatry, Here 
his ftrength began to fail, and yet he made 
preparations for a tranflation, which he 
had long projeéted, of the works of Rabe- 
lais.. With this intent, fome weeks bee 
fore his death, he placed T.uther’s Table 
Talk and Hans Sackfen’s works on his 
table; but his purpofe was deftroyed on 
the 13th of December, when death, fuch 
as he had wifhed, without any appear- 
ance of the decay of his natural powers, 
put an end to his labours. 
mour, with his beft fentiments, and a 
goodne{s of heart, are the ftriking fea- 
tures of Bode’s works, for he was fome- 
thing more than a good tranflator. He 
was a good man, full of enthufiafm for 
the rights of man, for his country, and his 
friends, and ever ftudious to benefit man- 
kind, 
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ANECDOTES oF PERSONS CONNECTED 
WITH THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 
DuUMOURIER. 
DUMOURIER pofleffes fingular ac- 
quirements: he is a good orator, an 
able politician, an excellent writer, and 
one of the beit generals of his age. His 
father, alfo, was a man of talents, and by 
infifting that he fhould never learn any 
thing by heart, prevented him, accord - 
ing to his own account, from ever for- 
getting any thing! : 
It has been generally fuppofed that he 
acquired an immenfe fum of money dur- 
ing the revolution; but he folemnly de- 
clares this to be a cruel and unjuft afper- 
fion; and boafts that he is now indebted 
to his pez, as he was formerly to his 
fword, for his fuppore. 
He has an uncommon facility at com- 
pofition, writes with elegance upon all 
fubjcéts, and is intimately acquainted with 
every thing relating either to the politics 
or the wars of Europe. He received a, 
fum equal to 5001 of our money, for his 
life, from a bookfellerat Hamburgh, in the 
neighbourhood of which city, and within 
its territory, he now refides, with 
Map.GenLis—SILLERY—BRULART, 
who occupies part of the fame houfe, 
and, like himfelf, is employed in writing. 
This celebrated lady is well known as an 
author, a lately publified a new 
¥ 
2 work, 
219° 
Yorick’s hue. 
