154 Extraéts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. [March }, 
but in his latter years he confined his 
amufement to courfing hares. He was 
fkilful in-mufic, and a good judge of paint- 
“ings. He lived kindly and happily with 
his family, in a ftyle of expenfe fuitable 
to his ftation, and in the exercife of libe- 
yal hofpitality. He died withovt having 
accumulated riches, or involved himfelf 
in debt. The curators of the Univerhty 
purchafed his private library for an an- 
nuity of five hundred florins to his widow 
and daughters. He was a man of the 
mott ardent attachment to the iterefts 
of literature, and of great and active be- 
nevolence. As a Critic he excelled in 
genius or inventive per{picacity, in deep 
and various erudition, in juftnels and ex- 
quifite delicacy of tafte. He was de- 
fervedly efteemed as the pureft and moft 
elegant writer of Latinity in the age in 
which he lived. His compofitions dif- 
play much of the fpirit of the Greek eriti¢ 
Longinus, whofe works he fo delighted to 
illuttrate. He was, in his life, the pride 
of critical erudition, and of the Univer- 
fity of Leyden. His death was Jamented 
as a great and common lois by the whole 
learned world. 
Extra&ls from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
A PLEASING PICTURE. 
AMUS, a member of the French 
National Inftitute, who was deputed 
to visit the countries united to the Repub- 
lic, concludes his Journey through the De- 
partments of the Lower Rhine, and of the 
vicinity of Calais and the Somme, with 
this general and pleafing view of their 
ftate in the tenth year of the Republic: 
<¢ The general refultof my obfervations 
may be comprifed in a few words. The 
Republican departments that I have vifited 
are in a flourifhing condition. All active 
perfons turn their views to manufactures 
and commerce. The arts, which give life 
to manufactures and fuggeft new proceffes, 
are honoured and ftudicd. The energy of 
mén of talents are bent this way. ‘The 
éelies-lettres and fine arts are generally in 
a fiate of Ragnation. Materials for liter- 
ature are not wanting. But, as the belles- 
letires and the fine-arts flourifh only in peace 
and in the bofom of opulence, when the 
perfons capable of appreciating their va- 
lue have plenty of money, we are not to 
be furprifed, if they have not obtained 
that confideration which is the caule of 
their fuccefs. The duration of peace, the 
fecurity of property, the patronage of go- 
vernment, tafte and dilcernment in the 
application of the funds, which a prof- 
perous commerce will abundantly fupply, 
render fruitful the feeds which are gene- 
rally {pread through the foil of the Re- 
public.” 
ANECDOTE. 
Dumourier furrendered himfelf to Clair- 
fayt in the hope of receiving, at leaft in 
compliments and fine {peeches, fome re- 
compence for delivering up to the Auf- 
trians four deputies of the Convention 
and a French General, With his hat off 
~ 
be waited for the moment when the Ge- 
neral would {peak to him. Some Auftrian 
foldiers came in great hafte, bringing to 
Clairfayt a wounded French foldier. He 
was a fentinel whom they had met with 
on duty. As they approached him, they 
commanded him to be filent, and levelled 
their pieces at him. The Frenchman 
cried out ‘* Alert,” and,prefented to warn 
them. The Auftrians fired and wounded 
him ; led him away prifoner, and requefled 
the General to decide on his deftiny. 
Clairfayt got up, took the Frenchman by 
the hand and faid: ** Brave fellow, you 
have done your duty: Iefteem you more 
than I doatraitor. I will fend my phy- 
fician to you. Soldiers, take the greatest 
care of him.”’ 
A ROYAL REMONSTRANCE, 
That learned, ingenious, and classical 
scholar, the. Rev. Stephen Wefton, to 
whom the literary world are confiderably 
indebted, has lately direéted his ftudies to 
Arabian and Perfian literature... We may 
expect from his tafte and induftry much 
curious and mifcellaneous information. 
The following extraéts are taken from a 
fingular paper, printed, but we believe 
not publifhed, which bears for title ** The 
Spirited Remonftrance of Rajah Soobab 
Sing to the Emperor Aurungzebe.”” It is 
accompanied by the original Perfian on the 
oppofite page. 
‘¢ When we confider the writer of this 
Letter was a petty Prince addrefling a 
powerful Emperor, we cannot but admire 
the bold intrepidity and the contempt for 
a mercilefs tyrant it difplays in every 
put. But its eloquence, the warmth of 
its colouring, and the propriety of its 
images, and the charm of, its genius, 
ftamp it with a-peculiar and unicoked for 
value, 
