6:8 
After having defcribed all the prodigies 
of the creation, in elegant language, our 
author then recurs to the deftruéction of 
the world, and thus terminates his pro- 
phecy, which, luckily for the human race, 
is not likely; even by his own account, to 
be foon realized. 
«* But the funs themfelves in their turn 
fhall become chilled. It is in vain that 
each perihelion fhall render their fires 
more ardent, and renew the flame of 
thole fecondary flars which they have not 
abfirbed. Short and fleeting fummers 
will indeed feem to re-animate the 
face of nature ; but fuperficial heat can- 
not reftore the loft caloric to the mafs, and 
the eternal winter, which advances with 
flow and filent feps, muft at laft triumph 
over al] their labours. 
«« The funs, inhabited and cooled, 
-burnt, repeopled, and refrigerated again, 
will become extin like their planets; and 
infinite worlds, falling from {pace tu f{pace, 
fall all be re-united to the central fun; 
that alfo will Become cold ; the caloric 
will evaporate from the fountain of light ; 
the light, recalled from the extremities of 
fpace, and henceforward immoveable, 
fhail cover the tomb of nature ; darknefs 
fhall-reign a fecond time, and immutable 
eternity fhall have beheld the commence- 
ment and conclufion of time.” 
<* Viede Milton.”°—The Life of Mil- 
ton, by J. MONNERON, a Member of the 
Legiflative Body.” 
This is an abridged tranflation of Hay- 
ley’s Life, the latter of which appears to 
have been reprinted in Englith at Straf- 
bourg.+ This author, firft ‘made known 
to the French by means of Voltaire, now 
enjoys a high eftimation on the Continent. 
C. Monneron has already publifhed a 
‘tranflation of the Paradife Loft, in two 
volumes o€tavo. 
«< Traduétions de |AEseide en Veis 
Frangaife.’—Tranflations of the 4Eneid 
of Virgil into French Verle. 
The French now boaft that their lan- 
guage will foon be univerfal, and that 
not only in polifhed countries, but amcng 
the remotett nations, fuch as thofe who In- 
habit Carinthia, the Tyrol, Suabia, Tiu- 
ringia, Pomerania, Suravia, Efclavonia, 
and Tranfylvania, the village poets make 
as good verfes as thofe of Paris. We 
cannot give credit to what manifeftly ap- 
pears to be a grofs exaggeration ; but it is 
probabie enough that it has 2 late ob- 
tained a larger fpread than before, and 
will continue, if not prevented by fome 
fignal cataftrophe, to be the predomi:.ant 
language of Euro) ¢. 
Retrofpedi of French Literature.—Mz/cellanies. 
The work now before us indeed affords 
but too certain a proof of this. The 
Athzneum of Carlowitz, a little obfcure 
town in Hungary, lately propofed a prize 
of fix hectogrammes of gold to the author 
of the beft tranflation of the Eneid inte 
Freneh verfe. Several Hungarian poets 
have entered the lifts for the prize, and 
the two tranflations now prefented to the 
public have been confidered as the beft, by 
thofe appcinted to decide on their refpec- 
tive merits. We fhall here prefent a {pe- 
cimen of the labours of one of the candi- 
dates: 
« Moi, celui qui, jadis, fur un pipeau chame 
péue, 
** Ai modulé des airs, puis hors des bois, au 
maitre, 
“© Ouelqu’ aride qu'il fut, foumis le fol des 
champs; 
‘+ Quvrage aux hameaux cher, renforcant 
mes accens, 
«¢ Je chanie les combats de Mars, et cet 
Enée, 
¢« Qui le premier, des bords de Troye aban- 
donnée, 
‘€ Vint, fugitif, conduit par Parrét des det- 
tins 
<¢ Se rendre en Italie aux champs Laviniens. 
** Beaucoup, il fut fur terre et fur la mer 
profonde 
‘© Pourfuivi par effort des Dieux maitres cu 
monde ; 
** A caufe de courroux fi cruel de Junon, 
‘* Dont le dépit haineux repouflait le par- 
don,” &c. 
‘¢ Faits Glorieux de la Marine Efpag- 
nole,’? &c. — Glorious Achievements of 
the Spanifh-Navy ; collected by Don 
JouN-Antonio Henriquez, a Mem- 
ber of the Councilof his Catholic Majefty, 
and Secretary and Intendant of the Ma- 
rine ; tranflated from the Spamifh. 
The high fituation occupied by Don 
J. A. Henriquez enables him at leat to 
co!le& his materials from the moft authen- 
tic fources ; while the nomenclature at 
the end of volume I. (the only one that 
has hitherto appeared) proves that he has 
confulted a prodigious number of books oa 
this occafion. He b-ginsat the year 3030 
of the world, and terminates at 1491 of 
the vulgar era. We thall make a fhort 
extract relative to our own ccuntry,. the 
authority of which is doubtful. 
« An. 1380.—In the month of April 
of this year, King John equipped twenty 
gallies at Seville, under the orders of To- 
var, who immediately failed for the coaft 
of- England, and having entered the 
Thames, caft anchor within fight of Lon- 
don. ‘This was the firft time that an ene- 
my’s fleet had penetrated fo far; and To- 
Var 
