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lace. The genius of glory, who is feen 
defcending from the clouds, is now made 
to hold, inftead of the original laurel- 
wreath, a cap of liberty over the mo- 
narch’s bald head. 
The beautiful colle&tion of above 
twelve hundred fine orange-trees, fome of 
which date their exiftence from the time 
of Francis the Firft, is in perfect prefer- 
vation, and tended with the utmoft care. 
The man who had never feen the great 
palace of Verfailles in all the dazzling 
{plendor of the court, or he who can have 
forgotten that fleeting pomp, may think 
that the interior parts of that edifice, as 
well as the gallery and the apartments of 
the royal family, have .acquired more 
beauties and greater brilliancy than they 
formerly poffeffled. ‘The mufeum of arts, 
of the department of Verfailles, is dif- 
played in thofe apartments. The arrange- 
ment of this mufeum might ferve as a 
model for others, and is far fuperior to 
that of the mufeum of Paris in the gal- 
Jery of the Louvre. The pieces which are 
here exhibited are chofen with greater 
tafte, better arranged, lefs crowded, and 
placed in a better light. The happy dif- 
pofition of the building itfelf favours the 
general view of the whole, and the fepa- 
Yate examination of each individual piece. 
We here find none but mafter-pieces of 
painting and fculpture, without any mix- 
ture of petty trifles—fuperb paintings of 
the Italian, Flemifh, and French fchools, 
ancient and modern ftatues, bufts, baffo- 
relievos, bronzes, vafes, porcelain, rich 
and tafteful articles of furniture. In this 
mufeum have been colleéted all the coftly 
works of art which were fcattered through 
Verfailles and the neighbouring ebateaux. 
Several mafter-pieces with which the pro- 
digal Madame Du Barry had infolently 
ornamented her chateau of Lucienne, now 
decorate the queen’s apartment. They are 
particularly diftinguifhable from all the 
others by their dazzling richnefs, their 
voluptuous character, and the beauty and 
perfection of the workmanthip. 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
Account cr AMERICAN PoETS, continued. 
HE eleventh number of ** American 
Antiquities,” contains an extraci from 
the 17th book of the Anarchiad, entitled 
«© THE Lanp oF ANNIHILATION. — 
This extra&t is introduced by fome inge- 
nious critical remarks, partly ferious and 
partly jocofe, on the machinery of the 
Epic Poem; and particularly on the uni- 
form practice of Epic Poets, of intyeduc- 
American Poets....Anarchiad. 
{ Dec. 
ing the reader into the zaferual regions, 
«© The philofophical caufe’’ proceed the 
pretended antiquarians, which has led all 
poets into thofe regions, we fhall not at- 
tempt to inveftigate. The following ex- 
tract is more excellent in its plan, and has 
fuffered lefs from the hand of imitators. 
The LAND OF ANNIHILATION, defcrib- 
ed in fo picturefque a manner, is a valua- 
ble addition to the fubterranean geogra~ 
phy ; but the theory of a race of beings, 
‘properly the denizens of that country, 
-who, after having mixed undiftinguithed 
with mankind, and performed all human 
funétions, then retura to their primitive 
nibility, might pafs for a burlef{que idea, — 
if it were not found in fo ferious a per- 
formance. 
‘¢ Beyond the realms where ftygian horrors 
dwell: 
And flocds fulphurous whelm the vales of 
hell, 
Where Naiad furies, yelling as they lave, 
In fiery eddies roll the turbid wave 5 
Beyond the verge of chaos’ utmoit ciime; 
The dubious bounds of nature, fpace, and 
time 5 
A realm extends its uneffential gloomy 
The vaft creation’s univerfal tomb. 
There no fair funs emblaze the;courts on high® 
Nor moon, no ftarry fires, the evening fky; 
No matin clouds in ether hang their fails, 
Nor moving fpirit wakes the vernal gales 5 
But endlefs twilight, with a feeble ray, 
Browns the dim horrors of the duiky day, 
And filence, famenefs, and eternal fhade, 
The unboucded, wild inanity pervade. 
‘6 In night pavilion’d, o’er the fhadowy 
plains, 
The peerlefs Power, ANNIHILATION reigns, 
Eldeft of Fiends ! whofe uncreating breath 
Peoples the fhores of darknefs and of death. 
Down the deep gulph’s abforbing vortex 
whirl’d, 
Sink the vain fplendors of each upper world 5 
Ambition’s toil, the ftatefman’s gleried name, 
The hero’s triumph, and the poet’s fame ; 
Infatiate throngs who, firee with luft of gaing 
Dive the firm earth, and force the fuithieis 
main, 
Here, lull’d to flecp, eternal ftillnefs keep, 
And curtain’d cloie in dead oblivion fleep. 
‘* Beneath his fceptre, in imperial ffate, 
His ftern commands ten thoufand demons 
wait; _ 
Prompt, like their prince, in elemental warsy 
To tread out empires, and to quench the it-rs5 
Extinguifh'd worlds in delug’d fires to la¥e 5 
Sweep ruin’a fyiems to a common giave 5 
Exterminate exinence, and reftore 
The vanquifh’d vacuum to the tyrant’s power. 
‘© Thee the great Hierarchs, whole prowsts 
leads 
The vaff.l throng to defolating deeds :— 
But far beneath them (preads a junior fiv, 
Tae pigmy populace o; the nether fky 5 " 
With” 
