1802. 
centuries tothe crimes of a capricious and 
unbridled defpotif{m, was overcome by the 
momentary exertions of a people who afpired 
to be free; but he refided in France when 
the horde of foreign mercenaries, that. pre- 
fumed to give law to an independent ftate, 
was routed and driven back by the energetic 
eathufiafm of a whole people, rather than the 
arms cf the troops of the line! And, alas! 
it was his fate alfo to witnefs the murders, 
the crimes,.and the barbarities of September, 
3792, when the atrocious machinations-of a 
few rufhan enthufiafts detuged Paris with in- 
nocent blood, and afforded a pretence to fa- 
naticife the greater part of Europe againtft 
the infant liberties of France. The Doétor 
having made the neceflary preparations, fet 
out from London, and reached Dover in the 
beginning of Auguft, 1792, failed on the 4th 
for Calais, and arrived there in the courfe, of 
the fame day, after. a voyage of only a few 
hours. As Lord Lauderdale’s delicate: ftate 
did not permit them to prefs forward with 
rapidity, our travellers did not propofe to 
make rapfd journies towards the capital: on 
the contrary, after being conduéted to the 
town-houfe of Calais, where a circumftantial 
defcription of their perfons and features was 
taken, and inferted in their paffports, they 
flept all night there, and proceeded no fur- 
ther than Abbeville next day. Here they 
learned, that tumults were very prevalent in 
the capital, and that-a petition for the de- 
cheance of Louis XVI. or forfeiture of his 
crown, had been prefented to the National 
Affembly, After their arrival in Paris, the 
Doétur appears to have vifited the Aflembly 
frequently, and he was awoke about. two 
o'clock of the morning of the roth of Auguft 
by the ringing of the tec/in, and alarmed at 
ten by the firing of cannon; events that led 
to the overthrow of the monarchy, and the 
execution of the weak but unhappy king. 
Having repaired after the engagement to the 
palace of the Thuilleries, he followed the 
crowd along the grand ftair-cafe, and had. 
proceeded only half way up, when he was 
deterred from afcending further, firft by the 
fhrieks, and then by the immediate execution 
of a man, who had been detected by the po- 
pulace in ftealing fome of the furniture, 
<< This expeditious mode of executing juftice 
(fays he) removed all inclination of vifiting 
the royal apartments: I defcended to the 
terrace, and took another melancholy walk 
among the bodies of thole whom I had feen 
two days befdte i in all the pride ofshealth and 
military pomp.’ The times being now very 
critical, and the maflacres of September tend- 
ing to render a refidence in Paris highly difa- 
greeable, the Doétor amd his friends had ap- 
plied to the municipality for paffports, ‘and at 
length found means to leave the capital on 
the 4th: Dr. Moore, on his arrival in Eng- 
Jand, began to arrange his materials, and, in 
1795, publifhed ** A View of the Caufes 
and Progrefs of the French Revolution,” in 
Account of the late Dr. Fobn. Moore. 
175 
two volumes, 8vo. dedicated to the Duke of 
Devonfhire. He begins with the reign of 
Henry IV. and ends with the execution of 
the royal familys. In 1796 appeared ‘¢ Ed- 
ward: various Views of Human Nature, 
taken from Life and Manaers chiefly in Eng~ 
land.” In 1800, Dr. Moore publifhed his 
*¢ Mordaunt,” being ** Sketches of Life, 
Charaétexs, and Manners in various Coun- 
tries; including the Memoirs of a French 
Lady of Quality,” in two volumes, 3vo. 
This chiefly confifts of a feries of letters, 
written by ‘* the Honourable John Mor- 
daunt,”” while confined to his couch at Vevay, 
in Switzerland, giving an account of what ke 
had feen in Italy, Germany, France, Forta- 
gal, &c, The work itfelf comes under no 
precife head, being neither a romance, nor a 
novel, nor travels: the moft proper title 
would perhaps be that of ** Recolleétions.”? 
Dr. Moore was one of the firft to notice the 
talents of his countryman, the unfortunate 
Robert Burns, who, at his requeft, drew up 
an account of his life, and fubmitted it té his 
infpection. In 1787, a correfpundence took 
place between them, in confequence of an 
event noticed in the following letter, from 
the poet to the traveller :— 
‘6 To Dr. Moore. 
CC saR, 
‘¢ Mrs. Dunlop has been fo kind as to fend 
me extracts of letters fhe has had from you, 
where you do the ruftic bard the honour of 
noticing him-and his works. ‘Thofe whe 
have felt the anxieties ahd folicitudes of au- 
thorfhip, can only know what pleafure it 
gives to be noticed in fuch amanner by judges 
of the firft charaéter. Your criticifms, Sir, 
I receive with reverence, only I am Tosey 
they moftly came too late; a peccant paflage 
or two that I would certainly have altered 
were gone to the prefs. The hope of being 
admired for ages is, in by far the greateft part 
of thofe even who are authors of repute, an 
unfubftantial dream. For my part, my fart 
ambition was, and ftill my ftrongeft with is, to 
pleafe my compeers, the ruftic inmates of 
the hamlet, while ever-changing language 
and manners fhall allow me to be relifhed and 
underftood, I am very willing to admit that I 
have fomie poetical abilities ; and as few, if 
any, writers, either moral or poetical, are in- 
timately acquainted with the clafles of man- 
kind among whom I have chiefly mingled, 
~I may have feen men and manners in a differ- 
ent phafis from what is common, which may 
aflift originality of thought. Still I know 
very well the novelty of my character has by 
far the greateft fhare in the learned and polite 
notice | have lately had, and, in a language 
where Pope and Churchill have’ raifed the 
laugh, and Shenftcne and Gray. drawn the 
tear; where Yhomfon and Beattie have 
painted the land{cape, and Lyttleton and Cole 
lins defcribed the heart, I am not vain enough 
to hope for diftinguithed poctic fame.’”— 
Ip return for this letter, the Doctor pre- 
fented 
