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he put upon the collar of his favorite goat : 
6¢ Beaumarchats mappartient’ (Beau- 
smarchais belongs tome). We was buried 
according to his own directions in his 
garden, fituated upon the boulevards of 
Paris, near the gate of St. Antoine. 
BEFFROY-DE REIGNS, 
Commonly called Coufin Facques. 
_ Itis a proof of good fenfe to commu- 
nicate fuch philofophic truths tothe people 
at large, as may guard them againft giv- 
ing countenance to abufes, or reform with- 
out exciting their paflions or directing 
them towards violent meafures. Coufin 
Jacques, as he is familiarly called, has 
been greatly commended for the exercife 
of his underftanding this way in a popu- 
lar piece entitled ‘* Nicodeme,’? wherein 
he preached a mild tolerance, humanity, 
and concord, at a period when the revo- 
lution jnflamed men’s minds to an extreme 
degrees The theatrical pieces of Beifroy, 
have attached great celebrity to the name 
of Juliet, and it is to him alone that Paris 
owes that inimitable actrefs. All the 
verfes of Coufin Jacques are fo many lef- 
fons of morality, which the poignant wit 
of a vaudeville, renders eafy for the me- 
mory to retain. His romances are delicate, 
and he feems formed to beat once amiable 
and gay, fo that it is no wonder he fhould 
have acquired what he is fo juftly entitled 
to, the appellation of the French Zrouba- 
dour. Bi a 
LEFRANC. 
This poet has newly diftinguifhed him- 
felf by feveral beautiful pieces in the 
Pantheon Litéraire, and other periodical 
collections: but the fables which he has 
read at various fittings of the tociety of 
Belles Lettres, and which he declines to 
publith in detail, have more particularly 
elevated his character as a poet. His 
touch in poetry is faid to be exaétly that 
of TYeniers in painting. 
ViTALIS (ANTOINE.) 
The fables of this author are read with 
pleafure, even after thofe of Lafontaine, 
of Lamotte, of Peffelicr, and of Boiffard, 
and hid fair for carrying his name to pof- 
terity. 
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PAIN (JOSEPH), 
The produétions of this young poet, 
firft appeared in the Fournal du department 
de Seine & Oife: poelies, which thewed 
the writer to poflefs goodnefs of heart and 
fentiment. He afcerwards wrote a pleaf- 
ing dramatic piece called, ‘* Apartement & 
Louer,”’ ‘reprefented upon the theatre des 
Variétés, in the Palais Egalité, formerly 
Montaufier. This Apartement has furnifhed 
him with a feat on Mount Parnaflus. He 
has lately read feveral MS. pieces to the 
fociety of Belles Lettres, which have been 
greatly applauded. 
LEROUX (ADRIEN) 
Ts an officer of engineers, who has em- 
ployed his leifare hours in compofing (ome 
beautiful poems, for which occupation it 
might feem nature had mtended him. His 
firit Efays were printed in the Journal des 
Dames in couplets, with an epigrammatic 
point. Meeting’ with great applaufe in — 
thofe trifles, he refolved to fteal more time 
from military labours and mathematical 
calculations, and compofed a little volume 
under the appellation of Les Charmes de la 
folitude, reveries & contes en vers. In 
tais work the author has manifelted great 
feniibility, and the poffeffion of a lively 
imagination. 
BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE. 
A writer of confiderable celebrity faid, 
he fhould have withed only to have written 
Paul et Virginie; but that if he had com- 
poled Etudes de la Nature, he would not 
have written Paul and Virginia, though a 
work perhaps fuperior: fo eafy is it toa 
man of feeling, well inftructed, and endued 
with the fofter affections, to make a pretty 
romance; but a romance is a trifling thing, 
by the fide of profound refearches into na- 
ture, and the means of making men hap- 
pier, and, above all, better: but however 
that may.be, a wife and good man would 
prefer, the having written a few pages of 
Paul' and Virginia, to have been the 
author of all the congratulary Odes pro- 
duced in the lait century. 
( To be continued. ) 

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AN GLD ASTROLOGICAL PROPHECY. 
ET. TURELLUS, or, according to 
Jocher, perhaps more accurately Lur- 
velius, Turreau, rector ef the {cheol of Au- 
‘ 
tun, the place of his nativity, and a great 
mathematician and altrologer, placed, ac- 
cording to Joa. Wolf Lect. memorab. et 
recind, t. li, p. 228, Lauinge 1600 (for 
there 



