1801.] 
the unconfeionable overfeers of it. This 
made fo great a noile at Berlin, that the 
king nominated commiffioners to examine 
into the ftate of tlhe holpital; and from 
their inquiries it appeared the accufations 
were ali founded m fact: and now by the 
powerful aflittance of the King, the Cha-. 
rité has been put under better regulations, 
and relief and confolation afforded to many 
hundred patients. In the Almanack for 
xy8or there is an imitation of Peter Pin- 
dar’s Loufiad, full of ftriking allufions to 
the fafhionable follies prevalent in Ger- 
many, with a caricature prefixed, ridi- 
culing the abfurdities of the Leipzig 
Book-fair. 
Falk is of a moft unoffending, mild, 
agreeable, temper: an excellent hufband, 
a warm friend, and glowing with zeal for 
the good and enlightening of man, which 
alone has made him a fatirift. 
VON KOTZEBUE 
Had before his late journey to Ruf- 
fia returned to Weimar, his native 
city, where his mother {till refides.. He 
was formerly Town-prefident in Reval, 
and in conféquence of his holding that 
office became ennobled. Eternally the 
{port of fortune, and of his own humour 
and vanity, he is undergoing continual 
metamorphofes before our eyes. —His mo- 
ther takes the moft lively concern in his 
theatrical fame: at the reprefentation of 
any of her fon’s productions, fhe watches 
the public attention, and is always ready to 
anfwer with animation the critics, who 
from this fide or that fide may happen to 
whifper their objections. His fifter, who 
is now married to the chief fyndic of the 
city of Bremen, was once the moft beauti- 
ful young lady in Weimar. The poet 
Gothe became enamoured of her, and 
wrote the excellent little family drama, 
entitled Die Gefchwiffer, folely with the 
view of having the pleafure of a&ting the 
principal character along with her at a 
private theatre. Many rehearfals having 
been made on this occafion, and much 
converfation pafling relative to theatrical 
affairs, the boy Kotzebue’s talent for dra- 
matic compofition was firit developed ; 
and being afterwards cultivated under the 
foftering care of the poet Mufzeus, his ma- 
ternal uncle, was at length fully matured 
and perfected inLivonia, whenhe was fecre- 
tary to General Bauer, Governor of Riga, 
by the fortunate circumétance of his being 
appointed manager of a private theatre.— 
Kotzebue’s writings and adventures are 
too well known to require to be here par- 
_ ticularifed. » For an authentic account of 
the treatment he lately met with in Ruflia, 
Account of the Literati of Weimar. 
“49 
we refer our readers to vol. x. p. 428 of 
our Magazine. 
COUNT VON LINKERT 
Is a Member of the Board of Revenue, 
having, contrary to long. eftablithed ulage, 
been called, though a Roman Catholic, to 
to fill that place on account of his extra- 
ordinary merit. Germany efteems him as 
one of her moft intelligent forefters. In his 
journal, entitled The Careful Foreffer, he 
propolfes fome judicious remedies againft 
the deftructive vermin (dermejtes piniperda, 
and phalena monoc. Linn.) which for the 
laft ten years have committed great havoc, 
in the woods of Germany. At prefent. 
he is engaged on a large work relative to 
the breeding, &c. 5, ae 
VON KNBBEL " 
Ts a Major in the Pruffian fervice, and» 
enjoys a penfion of 800 rix-dollars a-year’ 
from the Duke of Weimar, having been. 
tutor to the deceafed Prince Conftantine. 
Knebel has publithed Tranflations of Ca- 
tullus and Propertius, which are highly. 
efteemed ; and we may foon expect from> 
his pen a malterly metrical Tranflation of. 
Lucretius, on which he has been engaged 
for feveral years. He is likewite the au- 
thor of fome very pretty original elegies 
in the German language, which weil de- 
ferve to be colleéted into a volume. Fhis 
worthy man lately married a Demoifelle: 
Rudolph, an efteemed finger, lately be- 
longing to the band of the Duke of Wei-. 
mar. 
JAGEMANN, 
Councillor and Librarian to the Dow- 
ager Duchefs Amelia, has deferved well 
of German literature, which he enriched 
with many precious flofeules and fruits 
from Italy. fagemann is much efteemed 
by the Duchefs Amelia. . He has publifh- 
ed an excellent Italian Dictionary, and 
teaches the Italian language in Mounier’s 
Inftitute in the Belvedere. He was edu- 
cated in the Roman Catholic religion, 
went to Italy as Father-conteffor to the 
Grand-duke of Tufeany, and refided 14, 
years in Florence, where he ftudied Ita- 
lian literature at the fountain-head. On 
his return from Italy, he became a con- 
vert to Proteftantifm, and was taken into 
the fervice of the Duke of Weimar. His 
Letters on Italy in particular, his Italian 
Chreftomathies, and his Trarflation of 
Galanti are defervedly efteemed by the li- 
terary public of Germany. 
PROFESSOR MAIER, 
The Painter. Gothe became acquaint- 
ed, during his travels in Italy, with this 
eminent artift, who is a native of Stafa, 
near the Lake of Zurich in Switzerland ; 
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