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they fhould be publifhed, as they pro- 
bably will be, it will throw much light 
on the characters and motives of the 
leaders of the revolution, and the order 
of events and circumftances which fo won- 
derfully agitated the whole nation. 
The edition in two yolumes publifhed 
in 1790 by Debuire, of his fpeeches apd 
memoirs, contains only thofe that were 
written before Sept. 1789. When the re- 
mainder of them fhall be collected, they 
will add much intereft to his character and 
conduét. During his journey he was by 
no means ignorant of the plans that were 
forming againft him, and feveral oppor- 
tunities offered of quitting France: Cato 
faid ingrata patria mea nec offa habebis, 
Bailly, more firm than Cato, preferred the 
example of Socrates, and retufed to aban- 
don his country. 
Such a man could only be condemned 
for an error, or byacrime; but the re- 
troactive effeét of a law exprefsly declared 
to be unjaft by the 14th article of the 
rights of man, was a crime daily com- 
mitted during the nine months reign of 
that ferocious wild beaft which was ex- 
“tinguifhed on the gth of Thermidor. 
Bailly became a victim of this bloody 
tribunal on November 11th 1793, and 
thofe that had procured his condemna- 
tion, prolonged the period of his fuffer- 
jng by changing the place of execution 
ORIGINAL. 
“THE WARNING. 
Tranflated fiom the German of FREDERICK 
‘ MATTHISSON. 
EE ye, in filent fummer night, the moon 
- Beam’ through the melancholy cyprefs 
boughs, fas 
When Nature, from her daily labours refted, 
In flumbers finking, fcarcely feéms to breathe, 
And ev’ry heart diffolves in fweeteft fadnefs ? 
See ye, by Leman’s lake, Montblanc’s tall 
head, 
Gliftening with gold from Phebus’ parting 
rays? ¥ ¥ 
See ye, how down yon’ rugged rocks, the 
' Rhine 
Tumbles, in lofty tow’ring hills of foam, 
With roar like ftorms of ever-during thunder? 
See ye, by tempetts fwell’d, the raging ocean 
Now, with unbridled fury, up tow’yd heaven 
Sling fhatter’d fleets; then downwards ina 
s moinent, 
With crafh tremendous, in th’ abyfs ingulph 
them! : ; 
Then, heaving once again, the breathlefs 
: corfes ; 
poaife high, and dath them on the rocky thore ? 
— Eloge of Bailly, ty Lalande. 

when he had already arrived at the Icaf- 
fold. 
Bailly married in 1787 Jeanne le Seig- 
neur, the widow of his intimate friend 
Raymond Gaye. She was of an age 
proper to infpire the regard and attach- 
ment of a man of worth, who was not 
to be influenced by the ordinary motives 
of beauty or fortune, efpecially fince he 
had eight nephews whom he educated 
with all the care of a father. 
In perfon, Baiity was tall, ofa fedate 
but ftriking countenance, and his temper, 
though firm, was joined to much fenti- 
bility. His difintereftednefs appeared 
frequently, and in a very ftriking manner 
towards his relations, aud during his ma- 
giftracy he expended a confiderable part 
of his income in adminiitering to the ne~ 
cedlities of the poor. 
Few men of letters have eminently dif 
tinguifhed them/elves in fo many ciffer- 
eut ways, and no one has ever united fo 
many titles of refpect with fuch various 
and general applaufe; but his higheit 
and ereateft fame is derived from his vir- 
tue, which always remained unblemifhed, 
unfufpected, and admired by the aca- 
demy, by the metropolis, in the highelt 
fituations, in the moft re{pectable public 
bodies: thofe who knew him the beit 
loved him the moft, and in his own f- 
mily he was almoft adored. 
Sioa eRe 
POETRY 
See ye all thefe, ye puny poetafters ?— 
Oh! let me then conjure ye by the Graces, 
The Mufes, and the fpirit of Mzonides, 
By Oberon’s and Idris’ magic world— 
The heights fublime to which our Klopfock"s 
genius 
Soar’d from its earliet dawn—by the foft tores 
From harps of Fingal’s bards—by Petrarch’s 
fount— 
The lauyels which encompafs Maro’s tomb—~ 
By that fort paradife of fairy art, 
Where once Rinaldo’s hero-powers lay pro 
 ftrate— . 
By Milton’s falutation to the light— 
By the dark flower of Dante’s gloomy fcenes—~ 
‘The death of Ugolino— D e's 
Hamlet’s foliloquy, «¢ Tobe, or not to be” — 
By the o’erflowings of a father’s heart 
For loft Narcifla—-Geffner’s paftoral fcenes— 
By all to poets facred, I conjure you, 
Profane not by a froth of empty words 
Whate’er is holieft deem’d in {peech or fong 

By god-like Nature !—Oh! profane them net 
By tributes fram’d from tempefts of the foul ; 
By {welling founds, forced thoughts, and big 
bombaft, ‘ 
Uther'd by feeble tones of o’erftrain’d fecling ! 
PME NCR Satta yey Fox 
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