18C0.] 
art. He is said, however, to have fpurred 
his Pegafus on at too adventurous a rate, 
and bas in confequence fumbled over 
fomé very illegitimate verfes. The witty 
J.ebrun {peaks as follows of Baour’s lame 
lines in the Fanal: 
6 Onelle immonde poélie 
Que celle de ce Marfias, 
Oui puife fon ambrofie, 
Dans lcs étables d’ Augias ! 
Sont ce fatras ridicule 
Que fottife lui dicta, 
Ec dont Baour vinfe&a 3 
Eft ce que Je bon Catulle 
Wommiait Cacata Charta.”” 
In Baour’s ‘* Second Mot’ appears the 
followmg line 
«* L’ennui quwinfpire un fot ne le gagne ja- 
mats.”* 
which, his critics obfrve, makes its owa 
application by the time ten of his verfes 
are read, out of the eighteen thouland of 
which the aftonifhing tranflation of his 
«6 Jerufaiem Delivered” is compofed. 
LACLOS (CHODERLOS) 
Ts the author of that immortal chef- 
@oeuvre, Les Liaifons dangeréufes. It is 
conjectured that this work, unhappily too 
much difperfed, contains the recital of his 
own adventures. 
The fedu&ive poifon of this bock is 
the more fubtle and dangerous, as it is 
breathed out with all the charms and 
graces of fiyle; and in fhort with all the 
magic of which langwage is fufceptible. 
It is thought it has done more mifchief to 
morals in the few years fince its publica- 
_tion, than all the books of i's kind -had 
done fer a century before. The infamous 
romance of Fz/fine is the only ene capa- 
ble of difputing the criminal fuperiority 
with it in the number of its victims. Woe 
betide thofe mothers ef families who, by 
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their culpible neglect or imprudence, let 
this romance fall into the hands of their 
daughters! We know not whether the 
author of a fimilar work, however great 
may be his literary merit (as is the case 
in this inftance), ought to applaud him- 
felf for his triumphs. 
LAMARTELIERE 
Robert Chef de Brigands, is of his tran{- 
lation. The fuccefs of his Mz/anthropic 
et Repentir gave him the idea of choof- 
ing (and that he has done with tafte from” 
the German theatre whatever was molt. 
interefting, and beft defigned for deco- 
rating the French fcene. The young au- 
thors in the dramatic walk cannot but be 
pleafed with him therefore, for thus open- 
Ing as it were, anew mine for them to 
work in. 
BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE, 
A writer has faid * I could with only 
to have been the author of Paul and Vir- 
ginie, but if I had written ‘© Etudes de la 
Nature” (The Studies of Nature), 1 would 
not have underiaken Paul and Virginie 5 
a work better done perhaps. Itis ealy 
for a fenfible well-informed man, endued 
with the fofter affections, to cumpofe a 
pretty romance; but a romance 1s a trifle 
compared with profound refearches into 
nature and the origin and bafis of focietys 
as well as into the means of rendering 
men happier and. above all, better; bute 
whatever the former may be (he con- 
cludes), I would rather have written ten 
pages of Paul and Virvinie, than the let- 
tera from Gabrielle de Vergy to her fitters 
the “© Anniverfaire d’un Dauphin,” and 
all the other poems of the like nature, with 
which the Journal des Dames, and the 
Mercure de France, have been larded by 
J. J; W. D’ Abancourt officier du roi.” 
(To be continved iy 
Es Do 
TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
We beg leave to decline inferting the Letter figned ‘* A Re‘for,” as we are convinced that 
it is an aflumed fignature, and think it not liberal with refpeét to the pérfon whofe caufe i% 
oppofes, 
The remarks of Hibernicus would, we conceive, be very trite to moft of our readers. 
M. M. is informed, that we have no prefent occafion for the kind of afliftance he offers : 
The fubje& of Celtic Origins could oniy be made interefting by adepth of knowledge which 
we do not find inthe letter fent ts relative to it. } 
Nearly the fame may be faid concerning A Manufaéturer’s Letter on National Wealth. 
We wifh to avoid Latin Poetry, unlefs peculiarly diftinguithed by its merit or fubjed. 
The idea of a Society for providing Work for the Unemployed Poor, has, we believe, no 
novelty. To bring it to effe€e would require much more thought than our Correfpondent 
has beftowed upon it. 
We believe Eutheates will find, upona little enquiry, that the Abbé Barthelemy is corre& 
in his reprefentation of the antiquity of pledging and drinking healths. Hi 
The Effay on health and Long Life does not fuit our Mifcellany. 
The Toleration of Roman Catholics has been fo much cifcuffed in parliamentary fpeeches, 
that A Proteftant’s Letter on the fubjcét feems to us fuperfluous, 
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