brought good humour with him, that gave life to the circle he was in. He presented himself always in his fashion of apparel; a brown coat with metal buttons, black waistcoat, and worsted stockings, with a flowing bob-wig, was the style of his wardrobe, but they were perfectly in good trim; and with the ladies which he generally met, he had nothing of the slovenly philosopher about him; he fed heartily, but not voraciously, and was extremely courteous in his commendations of any dish that pleased his palate; he suffered his next neighbour to squeeze the China oranges into his wine-glass after dinner, which also, perchance, would have gone under and trickled his shoes, for the good man had neither straight sight nor steady nerves."

LINES TO THE MEMORY OF MR. PITT,

"Short was his life, but large the space he ran :
Ambition blazed through his extended plan;
While virtue's light serene adorn'd the man."

P. STOCKDALE.

WHEN the fiend Treason spread her sable wing,

And mark'd Rome's traitors secretly combine, Their country's hope to sudden wreck to bring, She sought the gloomy breast of Catiline.

He felt her venom quick through every part ;
He
gave his spirit to her stern controul:
He felt the fury swell his vengeful heart,

And brooding malice swell his secret soul.

Treason, tho' cloth'd in darkest shades of night,
Shunn'd, like nocturnal birds, th' approaching day;
But god-like Tully dragg'd the fiend to light,
And by his wisdom, crush'd Sedition's sway.

In Albion, thus fell Treason's serpent tongue
Infus'd its venom thro' the giddy crowd;
With fraudful art reduc'd the unwary young,
While Faction's voice grew impudent and loud.

Who sav❜d great Albion in that dreadful hour,

When Treason, fed by Gallia, hover'd nigh; When swift destruction threaten'd lawful pow'r,

As the blue lightnings pierce the troubl❜d sky?

Who sav'd his country? who her greatest friend?
The mighty champion of his native land,
Who, Heav'n directed, for that glorious end,
Oppos'd black Treason with a mighty hand

"Twas Pitt! who, great of soul, and brave as great, Quench'd by his fortitude the bursting blaze, Preserv'd the best of kings, the laws, the state,

And pierc'd the black recess of Faction's maze

While gratitude shall live, or stars shall shine;
While life shall flourish, or wide oceans roll,
An empire's tribute, Pitt, is justly thine,
And Fame shall sound thy praise from pole to pole.

CHARACTER OF THE GENOESE.

ECONOMY, in the utmost extent of the term, appears to form the base of their character: the words ageo, lotto, (the former signifies the difference between the bank-money and the current in Venice and Holland; the latter, all lottery games), many financial inventions, and a multitude of Italian mercantile terms, have originated in Genoa, and still remain entire in other languages. The form of this government has always been republican; it may be remarked, that in no detail of the wars of Liguria, in the time of the Romans, is once found the name of king, of prince, or chief of the nation, not even a commandant-general of the Ligurian armies; a proof sufficiently convincing, that a great equality of condition must have reigned in that nation. In Genoa have been found, without doubt, men of great talents; but the spirit of the government, which naturally retains always much of the primitive character of the nation, never shewed itself propitious to the arts and sciences. It is certain, that their celebrated men owe not their success to the encouragement of their

own country: the two brothers, Columbus found it in Spain, Sestiniani at Rome, and the end of Bonfadio, the only good scholar which the republic drew to Genoa, is but too well known *."

COMPARISON OF THE THREE GREAT HISTORIANS OF ROME.

"The knowledge of history gives us an insight into futurity, by instructing us of what will be from what has already been."

Ir appears, in comparing Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus, the three great writers of history at Rome, that their style is sufficiently characteristic of the ages in which they flourished; those of Cæsar, of Augustus, and of Trajan: in the two first, are displayed the vigour, as well as the graces of a mature and polished period; in the last, the sensible decline of taste and genius among a people, who were great in their vices, no less than in their virtues, and in both almost exceeding the measure of humanity. "Sallust is concise, strong and rapid; like a stream which rolls over a firm and rocky channel, he is often harsh and abrupt, but always pure and perspi

By this character of the Genoese, it will be evident, that Buonaparte has little to hope with respect to his ambitious projects, from the assistance he will receive from his new subjects of Genoa

cuous.

Livy is copious, smooth, and flowing; he is a majestic river, passing over a fertile soil, but of which the windings are sometimes artificial, and the water sometimes turbid: while their successor Tacitus, who copied the abruptness of the one, and far surpassed the art and obscurity of the other, charms with the strokes of original genius, and rises to an energy peculiar to himself. Of the three, Sallust is the most correct and pure; Livy the most diffuse and eloquent; Tacitus the most vigorous and impressive. Perhaps they were all too apt to forget, that the highest, as well as the most pleasing effort of art unquestionably is, when it effects its own concealment. Had the first been less sententious and abrupt, the second less artificial and declamatory, and the third less affected and obscure, nothing more would have been desired as a perfect model for imitation; as it is, no one of them can be strictly said to come up to our ideas of such a standard."

EPISTLE FROM CAYENNE TO FRANCE.

AMID Guiana's wide-extended woods,
Savanna's rich and broadly rolling floods;
Her skies unclouded, and her dazzling beams,
That pour around their ever-fervid streams,
Why does my soul, beyond th' Atlantic sea,
Roam to my country, and, my friend, to thee?
Why, thus forgetful of immediate woes,
Seek in the dear ideas for repose?

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