Klopftock....Archenbolz....Vafz. 
ment of health. For this ineftimable 
bleffing, next to a good conftitution, he 
ftands indebted to his ftri& and uniform 
temperance, added to a prudent ufe of 
exercife. He rides out regularly every 
morning, and will leap a five-barred gate 
with all the impetuofity of youth. His 
countenance is highly pleafing, and re- 
flects that calm tranquillity, that divine 
peace of mind, fo,forcibly depictedin his 
verfes, and which nothing but the-con=~ 
{Cioufnefs of a well {pent life can beftow. 
He poffeffes an aur of dignity, equally 
remote from haughty infolence and repul- 
five referve, which commands involun- 
tary refpect from all who approach him. 
His converfation is marked by the fame 
fententious, yet unaffected concifenefs, 
which characterizes his writings. Among 
his very intimate friends, he is fometimes 
prevailed upon to repeat extra‘ts from his 
poetical works,. which he delivers in a 
moft animated, impreflive, and feeling 
manner. He is particularly fond of re- 
hearfing thofe paflages in which he pays 
a tribute to the virtues of his deceafed 
wife, who was early feparated from him by 
death; and he takes a pleafure in fhewing 
the monument which he has ereéted in 
memory of her, and of the infant of 
who fhe died in childbed. 
Poffefied of an independent fortune, he 
is relieved from the painful necefflity of 
making his talents fubfervient to his 
animal wants, and is enabled to pafs his 
days in the {weet converfe of the Mufes, 
und to purfue the favourite ftudies to 
which his inclination prompts him. The 
virtuous Count -BERNSTORFF, formerly 
minifter at the court of Denmark, and 
uncle te the lately deceafed minifter of 
that name, procured him a penfion from 
the Danifh monarch, to which he added 
a handfome annuity from his own purfe. 
KLOPSTOCK, in return, undertook the 
poit of reader to the countefs. On 
~BeRNstToRFF’s difmiflal from court, in 
coniequence of the appointment of STau- 
ENSEE aid BRAND to the adminiftration, 
KLOPSTOCK accompanied his patron to 
Hamburgh, where the count died of vex- 
ation and’ chagrin, at the yery moment 
he was recalled to refume his former fitu- 
ation. KLopsrocx continued for fome 
time to refide with the dowager countefs ; 
but, for certain reafons, which we do 
not think ourfelves authorized to com- 
ment upon, as we deem it unbecoming to 
queftion the propriety of a lady’s conduct 
upon bare report, and KLOPsTOCK was 
too noble-minded to give fanttion to the 
repeyts in circulation; he preferred te 
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withdraw from the fervice of his patro- 
‘refs, and retired to enjoy the fweets of. 
independence at Altona. It is, however, 
but juitice to obferve, as it affords an ad- 
ditional proof of the natural goodnels of 
heart and excellent difpolition, which fo 
ftrongly characterize this amiable bard, 
that KLoPsTock has never once ex- 
plained himfelf upon this fubjeét, not 
even to his moft intimate friends., In- 
deed we canfine curfelves within the ftrict 
limits of truth, when we afhirm, that he 
has never been known to fpeak in angry 
or difrefpectful terms of any perfon, with 
whom he has been’ connected. Much 
lefs has he defcended to the mean arts of 
fecret detraStion and anonymous fatire. 
To fum up the catalogue of his virtues, _ 
he isa man whom envy herfelf has never 
attempted. to Ax a ftain upon. He ftill 
enjoys. his pendion from the Danifh govern- 
ment, and the French republic has, paid 
homage to his extraordinary merit, by 
complimenting him with the. right of 
citizenthip. 
eH ARCHENHOIZ -: inciteys bes 
IS likewtfe an inhabitant of Altona*, 
and a writer of great. political . cele- 
brity in moft countries. of Europe. . His 
‘« Hiflory of the Seven Year's: War,” i | 
which he took an aétive part, having.the 
rank of captain in the Pruffian fervice,- 
may juftly be pronounced one of the beit 
historical compoiitions which ,Germany 
can boaft. ARCHENHOLZ refided feveral 
years in. this country, and his.‘* Pzdure 
of Euzland and Italy,’ in which he {peaks 
very freely of the degenezacy and profli- 
gate character of the modern Romans, is . 
highly. complimentary to the genius. and 
manners of Great Britain. .A continua- 
tion of the above work appears. regularly 
every year, under. the title of © Briti/b 
Annals’  ARCHENHOLZ. is..likewiie 
editor and proprietor of a refpectable 
monthly publication, called the . ¢¢ Ma. 
nerva.” daha 
Sich Voss. : 
NOT far from Hamburgh, .in the 
fmall. town of Eutin, lives Voss, a) poet 
of great and merited reputation. Voes 
is the author of a number of neat and 
elegant 

* Altonais likewife the -refidence: of “M. 
VON SCHIRACHy a writer of confiderable 
abilities, and proprictor of the’ << ‘Polrical - 
Journal; a work which has a very extenfive 
fale all over the continent, The adjoining 
town of Hamburgh, though one of the firft 
commercial cities in Europe, and of confe-— 
quence more immediately under the aufpices 
of the. god of traffic than the _mufes, main- 
tains, 
