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feurity fome time after this forced abdica- 
tion, and finally retiring to Ruffita ona 
penton, fella viétim to an apoplexy, at 
St. Peterfburgh, on the rith of April, 
£798, 0.8. 
Thus died, in exile, in the 67th year 
ef his age, Staniflaus Auguitus Ponia- 
towiky, ‘the lait king of Poland. It was 
le@'nac, that the fame hand which had 
preiented, fhould bereave him of his 
crown ; he woud have jolt it fome years 
ae had it nct been for the generous 
int rvention of Potemkin, who ee con- 
weried wit! h, and conceived agreat friend- 
fhip for his majefty, during the empreis’s 
soca: to the Crimea. This prince 
wo iecret interviews with Catharine; 
the fir% was at Riga, in17645 the often 
after an interval of twenty-three years 
7, 0n oe ay eae in the cee 
te. rence lafted 
dG “on its conclu- 
Catharine decera her old lover 
with the order of St. Andrew. 
Poniatowiky had a taite for the fine arts, 
and w2s intinately acquainted with all 
the beft authers of Sea Cees 
Tialy, and Eneland. He was particu- 
larly attached £0 this Ss eaLa and, du- 
ring his reiidence here as a pr ivate gentle- 
man, was baliotted for, and eleéted a 
member of the Royal Society. His ma- 
jelty is fuppoted to have been privately 
married to a lady who lived many years 
with him, and by whom he has had feve- 
ral children. 
Of the family of the unfor tunate Po- 
ee there is ftill alive: 1. His 
elder brother C ifimir, E Prince Poniatowlky, 
born ov ae: as of September, 1721, who 
was married,in 1757, toApotionia,daugh- 
ter of Bafil ess Cafiillan of Prze- 
mifl, by whom he has two fons, Stani- 
ia and Conftantius. 
2. His fitter Louisa, néw in her 7¢ 
year, widow of Count John Bisa 
3. His fifter IsSABELLA, now in her 
68th year, widow of Count Jolin Cle- 
ment Brani iky ° 
4. Hisnephew, JosEPH ANTHONY, 
fon of Prince Andrew Poniatowfky, for- 
merly general of the troops of the repub- 
Rese : 
And 5. Maria THERESA, ANTOI: 
NETTA JOSEPHINA, the wife of Count 
de TY¥SKIEWIEZ. 
eS 
ACCOUNT OF EMINENT LIVING 
-[TALIANS. 
(Communicated by Mr. Damien.) 
ALBERGS Tr CAPACEELL: 
HE Marquis BRANCHES ALBER. 
GATi CAPACELLI, fenator of Bo. 


; 
only tairty aa iG an. 
ated 
. | 
Eminent Living Charatters.....Albergatt Catacelli. 
logna, is, next to Goldoni, the greatel® 
comic writer in Italy... He is yet’ living. 
and about 65 years o: ages . Heys 
a handiome man, extremely good nae 
tured and facetious. He {peat his early, 
-youth in every kind of diflipation; andy 
according to his own confeflion, he did 
not betake himéelf to his fiudies in earneft, 
betore he had attained his thirty-fourth: 
year. At forty he was an author and an’ 
actor. A fhort critique on his principak 
works, with a communication of fome in= 
terelting anecdotes, relative to the Tta- 
Jian fhage, will not be, perhaps, undeferv-, 
ing of public notices 
‘© the Prejudices of Falfe Honour,* 
one of his beft comedies, could not be 
aéted in the theatre of Venice; on account 
of the part ‘of Countefs Larenci, an old 
high-{pirited woman of quality. . No 
actrefs could be found in that city to play 
the part of an old woman, half mad and, 
ugly. It was aéted, however, in Bologna 
with great applaufe. This piece refem- 
bles very much the French comedy, 
“¢ Le Philofophe fans le Scsawoir.. The 
only critique made on it was a prolixity 
in feveral {cenes,. 
‘¢ The Prifoner” was the firft piece that 
ALBERGATI compofed in verfe. .He 
was well aware that blank verfes are not, 
as is gener ally thought; the beit adapted. 
to. familiar dialogue ; he would have 
given the preference to what the Itahans 
call, Martei‘ian verfes: but as the de- 
putation of Parma required the former. 
fort, he was obliged to adopt a mode of. 
verfification not ~ congenial to his own 
taite. ‘* The Prifoner’’ was crowned in 
Parma in 1 773>_ and adted afterwards in 
a country of the houfe of Aldewran- 
di, near Bologna. This piece is confi- 
dered as the beft of the author’s perform- 
ances; and the European journalifts no- 
ticed it with the gr eateit encomiums. 
<< The Emilia’ is a piece in imitation 
of a French comedy, which Mr. At- 
BERGATI did not with to name, nor de- 
fignate its author, declaring, in a jocofe 
way, that he left it to the curious en- 
guiries of the public. 
<< The Unfaithfid Guy contig! beau- 
tiful piece, was alfo reprefented before 
the deputation of Parma in .1774. 
was written in verfe, and highly extolled 
in all the journals. Some objeétions wene 
made againft it, on the fcore of the actors 
dining and drinking together in the 9th 
fcene of the 11th a: a circumftance 
which had ailfo given occalion to cenfure 
in Goldont. , 
“The Wife Friend” got the author 
much 
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