Retrofped? of Dome/ftic Literature.— 
Mr. Fofter’s enquiries favours the fuf- 
pic cion. When the Englifh took pofiefiion 
of Cairo, however, Mr. Hammer pro- 
cured in that city asscomplete edition of 
them in Arabic manu(cript, containing 
many more {tories than have hitherto been 
publifhed. This we fate on the autho- 
“ity of Sir Robert Wilfon, who alfo af- 
fures us that Mr. Hammer intends to 
tranflate them. Perhaps itis needlefs to 
mention, that Mr. Forfter’s Tranflation is 
not iin any oriental manufcript, but 
from M. Galland’s French copy. 
«© Mifcellanies, by the late DANIEL 
Wess, Efq.” 
A confiderable portion of thefe were 
publifed many years ago. Tn conjunction 
with thofe articles which have fince bern 
produced, they form an interefting and 
eleg: int caltestion. 
The anzecdotical part of the following 
work is very amufing. It fhould be pre- 
mifed, that there is nothing concern 
ing the Man in the Iron- matk wh 
ich 
has not been repe ated an hundred times: 
—** Memoirs of the Bafiste, tranflated 
from the French Regifters, Records, and 
other authentic Documents found in tbe 
Archives of the Cajtle at the Time of its 
‘Surrender on the rath of Fuly, 1789 5 and 
ublifhed under the Sanétion of the Natioxz- 
al Affembly of France. 
Anecdotes of the moft remarkable Prifonirs 
avho have been confined in the Fortre}s, 
particularly the Man ufuclly fyled the Man 
in the Ivon-mafk. By FRaNcis GiBsON, 
Ef." 
An honorable column in this divifion 
of our retrofpe& is claimed, for * 4 xew 
abridged Tranflation of the celebruted Let- 
‘ters of Madame de Sevigne, by Mrs. 
Mackie, who, in the compafs of three 
volumes, has confolidated the lively wit, 
happy anecdote, brilliant fallies, as well 
as the more profound obfervations of the 
countefs ; and this is executed with fo 
much (pirit, tafte, and judgment, that it 
is not without fingular approbation” we 
recommend the engaging French woman . 
‘in this new Englifh drels. 
Who has not read Mercier’s Tableau 
de Paris 2 A feleétion from it, intitled, 
‘¢ Paris Delineated,” has been tranflated ; 
but with exquifite ill-judgment the PabE: 
lator has adapted it to modern times, 
omitting the notice of buildings which 
have been deftroyed, and cultoms which 
have been abolithed fince the Revolution ! 
In the fhort interval between two wars, 
when we found 
a time for frighted peace to pant, 
And breathe fhort-winded accents of new 
broils, 
for the Louvre Galler Ye 
judgment and obfervation. 
Interfperfed with : a 
capes him, and he has the art of deferibing 
Mifcellanies. 645 
many of our countrymen took, a trip. to the 
metropolis cf France; anda few of theaa 
have amuled thofe who ftaid at heme witha 
an account of their excurfion., Having 
already exceeded the ufval limits .of our 
article, we mutt be more brief ia the no- 
tice of them than we could have wifhed. 
<< The Praife of Paris ; 3 or, a Skeich of 
the French Capital ; in Extracts of Let- 
ters from Krance in the Summer of 1802 % 
with an Index of many of the Com Be 
Churches, and Palaces, not ia the Freach 
Catalovues, which hawe furnifbe d Pictures 
By S.W. F.R.S. 
F.S.A.” 
This isa very whimfical and very brief 
fketch ; but it is obvioully drawn by the 
hand of amaiter. S. W. (the Rev. Srx- 
PHEN Weston) fled from Paris in the 
year 1792, when, as he lays, it was pei- 
 Yefled with a demoniacal fpirit of carnage. 
Ten years afterwards he revifited at, and 
found it fo fwept and garuifbed, that he 
felt himfelf inclined to tuz the Praife of 
Paris ! 
“© A Rough Sketch of Moderz Pariss or, 
Letters on weg Gc. in that Ce i ely 
avritten during the laf wo Movihs a 
1801, and the firjt five of 1802.7 
The author of this work nas fhewn home 
felf to be a well-informed man, a man of 
Nothmg el- 
with fo much felicity that his reader¢ al- 
mott teel themfelves belonging to his party 
and being at Paris with him, The luxury 
of Jes parvenus; ou, nouveatx riches, ape 
(tarts, or new pentry, is fcarcely conceivas 
ble 5 the following is a delcriptios of the 
howle of Madame m=: The drasy- 
ing room and falle a manger (eating 
room) were not yet finifhed. The furni- 
ture prepared for each was richy I did 
not think it particularly beautiful; bue 
the bed-room and bathing-cabinet ape, 
ed in luxury every thing gn, ich I ever be~ 
held, or even ventured to imagine. The 
canopy of the bed wasof the firet maflia, ihe 
covering of pink (atin, the frame cf veau- 
tiful mahogany, fupported by figures ip 
gold of antique fhapes. The feps which 
led to this delicious couch were covered 
with red velvet, ornamented on each fide 
with artificial flowers, hichly 
On one fide ftood, on a pedeftal, 
ftatue of SILENCE, 
{cented.—— 
a marble 
with this inferipiion : 
“© 'Tutatur fomnos ef amoxes confcia lefti.??* 
Ona the other, a very lofty gold fiand, for 
ataper or lamp, A fine mirror filled u 
one fide of the bed, and was reflected by 
one at the top, and another at the oppo 
" % ¢6 Silence guards the flumbers and the 
loves of this bed.” 
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