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Biographical Memoirs of Schiller, the Poet.

[VOL. is sanguinary proposal; but the officers each party was attended by a Marechalho accompained him, struck with de-Camp and two Colonels. They met horror at its unexampled savageness, in the Champs Elysées, and fired four refused to permit such a meeting to take shots with pistols, which proving inef place, and referred the point to the con- fectual, they took to their swords, and sideration of their corps, who unani- the brave and excellent St. Morys was mously decided, that it would be a run through the body, and died on the deliberate assassination; and that the spot.

Gardes du Corps would be dishonoured "In England the bloody and premedif they suffered one of their members to itated vengeance of Barbier would unengage in such a duel. doubtedly affix to his crime the guilt of "A gentleman, acquainted with both murder; and if convicted, he would as parties, called upon Barbier, to remon- certainly be hanged. Here, on the strate on his ferocious conduct, and in contrary, it will probably recommend the course of the conversation asked him him to the favour of a powerful party; this question: Sir, if the loaded pistol the police will not suffer the name of had fallen to your hand, and you had my lamented friend to be mentioned in known that it was loaded, could you have the journals; whilst in the salons, and had the heart to discharge it at your ad- private conversations, care will be taken versary? Yes, Sir,' said Barbier, I to represent the duel as having proceedwould have shot him dead. Well, Sir, ed ed from the insolent pretensions of an I can tell you then, that M. de St. Morys Emigrant, a Nobleman, and an Officer would have acted differently; he would of the Gardes du Corps. Nay, I should have fired in the air.' If he had,' said not be surprised, if advantage were taken Barbier, he would have acted like a of the Count's death to postpone, and fool, and I should have given him no ultimately to refuse payment to his family thanks for it.' of the sums due to him from Govern

"Such was the savage spirit of revenge ment, and already acknowledged as and hatred with which this man pursued such by the Commissioners for the liquithe person, whom, as I have above ob- dation of the Royal Accounts. served, he ought, of all others, to have "I can say nothing to you of the aftreated with tenderness and respect. I fliction in which this event must plunge en I am astonished, after this, that the Count's family; especially his amiay man pretending to sentiments of ble and interesting daughter, who is honour, or to the character of a gentle- just married, and whose affection for a man, should have ever gone out as his father, who formed her mind with so second. But party-spirit, I suppose, much care, is carried to a pitch of enblinded his associates to the atrocious thusiasm. This subject is too painful malignity of his conduct; and, in fine for contemplation.--Adieu. E."

SCHILLER, THE POET.

From the Literary Gazette.

CHILLER had been a Physician; in his attachments he poured forth all the an ardent agination inspired him with a taste for the Theatre, and his glory as a dramatic poet is established.

Possessing naturally a timid disposition, he displayed, when in company, a mbre and constrained air. It was exemely difficult to become familiar with im; a strange countenance embarrassed hin, and deprived him of all his advan

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vehemence of his soul. But as soon as etiquette was banished, he resumed bis freedom, and nobody could then be more entertaining. His conversation abounded with sallies and traits; he denied himself no pleasure; he participated in every amusement, and when Schiller was absent, regret supplied his place.

His partiality for the fair sex bordered on veneration. At Leipzic he loved two sisters with enthusiasm at Dresden, the most charming woman in Saxony held

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him captive, and from that time his no- fits would have been considerable, tions of beauty were of a less Platonic wrote very slowly; he had scarcely nature than before. When he discoursed ished one sheet, when Kotzebue hau on this subject, his features became ani- written six. His health was mated, he raised his head; and as he extremely delicate, and a pulmonary afwas at this time labouring at his Carlos, fection rendered close application very he infused all the fire of this passion into oppressive to him. the heart of his heroine. As a friend and a husband, he rigidly He could not endure the etiquette fulfilled every duty. His death, which maintained in mixed companies at Dres- took place at Weimar in 1805, was uniden. His love for independence was versally lamented. As a Physician, he such, that he could not work with closed foretold the period of his dissolution; as doors. The aspect of nature, a walk in a Philosopher, he beheld its approach the country, the irregular course of wa- without fear; but as a father, he dreaded ters and torrents, or a storm in all its vio- its consequences. He left four children lence, were best suited to his taste, and unprovided for at a very tender age. The the desire he constantly entertained for Grand-Duchess Paulowna took charge of powerful excitements.

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POETRY.

With all thy fairy dreams of joy?
With all that sooth'd or pain'd my heart,
With all inexorably fly

Can nought thy fleeting course detain,
Oh! of my life the golden prime?
In vain-thy waves descend amain
Down to the gulf of endless Time.

2.

Faded those Suns, whose cheering ray
Illum'd in youth my pleasing road;
The Fair Ideals fled away,

At which my heart with rapture glow'd.
No more the sweet belief is mine,
In beings, creatures of my dream,
That dream so lovely, so divine,
Dispell'd by Truth's unpitying beam !

3.

As suppliant once in fast embrace
Pygmalion, longing, clasp'd the stone,
Till on the marble's ice-cold face
Warmth, life, sensation, ardent shone;
So did I throw my youth-strung arms
Round Nature's forin, and eager prest,
Till she began to breathe, to warm,
Against the Poet's throbbing breast.
4.

Sharing each wish that in me burn'd,
The silent Nymph responsive knew
To meet eash thought, Love's kiss return'd,
To my heart's thrilling pulses true-----
Then liv'd for me the Tree, the Rose;
For me the crystal fountain flow'd;
By my life's cheering influence warm'd,
The Lifeless with sensation glow'd.

5.

The narrow breast, with mighty force
Expanding, sought a boundless sphere;
Eager to rush in word and deed,
On fancy-painted life's career.

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How lightly was he onward borne!
What for his strength too arduous found!
As roll'd the splendid car of life
How danced the airy Guardians round!
Love, flatt'ring, came in smiling prime,
Fortune her golden wreaths displayed;
Glory, with stariy crown sublime,
And Truth in Phoebus' beams array'd.
8.

But half the course was scarcely run,
When lo! th' attendants proved untrue;
Gradual they turn'd their steps aside,
And, faithless, one by one withdrew.
With winged speed, first Fortune fled;
Science conceal'd her heavenly forms;
Doubt's sable cloud, malignant spread,
And veil'd Truth's radiant Sun in storms.
9.

I saw the sacred wreaths of fame
Upon the vulgar brow profan'd;
Alas! too soon Love's tender flow'r
In the first bloom of beauty wan's.
And still more silent, still more drear,
The rough and arduous pathy grew,
While scarce across the gloomy road,
Hope a faint glimmering twilight threw!
10.

Of all the noisy, dazzling train,
Whose love was constant to the close!
Who still consoles my every pain;
And follows to my last repose

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HEAR the thug of thy wing!
feel my heart valg spring

To coast in the sc e,

Before thy
tight the clouds give way,
And hope anticipotes a day,
To freedor sacred made.
My, thou avenger o'er the hill
6, the stia 50. ---to triumph still
Thegue and the guide,

The ice fee courser champs his rein,
Sore he wanton paws the plain,
To bitter slavesy tied.

The galleu rue is deally pale,
And withers the blighting gale

Of dire adv sity:
The lord's got crouches low,
Beneath a prom hy vanating foe,

With a submissive eye.

Thon ouly life'st thy pensons free,
With contage and with liberty,
Undaunted and aloue,

As the bright orb that rules the day,
Sames with an und mushed ray,

When all the rest are gone.
Soon shall I find thy chil iren stand!
Soon shall I meet thee in a band

Of warriors true and brave;
Toon brvey only o'er the field,
Where fre-bora mee the sabre wield,
For victory on dir grave,
Then whatsomite inay be,
Gspread thy palous over me,
White thousand round ne bleed:
esperadenly gain
A grave for det hung the slain,
Upon tv lov d. ny mat plain,
By its exerior, à ed.

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It is not Tuscan, Saxon, nor yet Doric,
Commemorative, votive, or historic,---
'Tis but an emblem of its owner's mind,
Erect and firm, by no false taste refin'd;
Of steady fabric, pointing to the skies,
A friendly beacon to enquiring eyes;
Open to all, by all reputed good,
And often prais'd, when little understood.
And how inscribe it on the rolls of Fame?
Feb. 1817.

From the Gentleman's Magazine. INTELLECTUAL ENJOYMENT. [Written in 1810.]

W

N.

THAT though the rich Canopian wave
Of mellow Nile shall never lave,
Nor Pactolus, with golden sands,
Snail pour its tribute o'er his lands;
Nor exiles, from Siberia's snow,
On him the ermin'd robe bestow;
Nor him, the fair Iberian fleece,
Dipp'd in Tyre's bright purple, grace;
Nor gorgeous lords alliance bring,
With silky gifts, from Persia's King;
No! nor Marengo's trophied field
Its laurels to his fame shall yield:
Yet shall not Gallia's monarch be
With happier pleasures crown'd than he
Who, wise, can keep obscurer ways,
Content to seek no vulgar praise;
1a scienc'd case, delight to find
The laws that various Nature bind;
His wilder passions keep controul'd,
And o'er them Reason's empire hold.
He for Hispania's wealth ne'er sighs,
That useless pageant honours buys.
Who madly seeks, in kingdoms join'd,
The tenant of the temper'd mind,
With discoutent would be unbless'd,
Were he of Earth's domain possess'd.
Not richest tributes peace can give,
Nor scepter'd fools from wants relieve.
This changeful scene, without surprise
Who views with philosophic eyes,
And wisely learn'd in Nature's law,
No anxious cares from thence shall draw:
Whether he meet th' assassin's hand,
Or roam a vagrant through the land;
Or in seditions countries bide;

Or bound o'er Ocean's surgetul tide;
Or dark Orion hide his head
In stormy skies; or Sirius shed
A blighting influence o'er the earth,
And send the dread Sirocco forth.
The golden wain that ploughs the pole,
And guides rich navies round this hall,
Shall, wrapp'd in clouds, its aid deny,
And Eurus blot out earth aud sky
With flaky snows, and winter's rain---
With tempests shall provoke the inain,
Unfear'd by him, whose constant mind
Cau see the wild-ass snuff the wind,
Inon'rous when earth's herbage yields
To parching suns in desert fields,
Undaunted; see, destroy'd by hail,
The olive's fruit, and vintage fail:
Yet trusts, submiss, the Power that lends
Hir life, and food convenient sends.
Then may I still unmov'd behold
Is J Ledus' gold:
suv'd with calling tear,
Still we do 3 tabar'd war draw near:
And with apzelenting hard

Tiet tos dispropling plague commod,
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Though treacherous Fate should
Worth sublime:

Tho' modest Merit step unheed
Yet shall we live in this unequal
And wonder at a cold and low'
'Oh! never let the lap of Sloth sup

Betray my Damon to inglorious The active charities of life be thine And thine the ardour of the socią Shall the dark frown of Malice clo Which warms the breast inviolab No---Brighter bid the heavenly flan 'Tis noble to be good, and to endu

From the Literary Gazelle,
NIGHT.

Nexus on the sable brow of Night:

TOW scarce a glimmering ray of light

Save where, amid the louring clouds,
The Moon her silver bow unshrouds ;
And sheds a wan and transient gleam
Upon the dim discover'd stream.
No busy Echo wakes the plain,
Where Peace and awful Silence reign:-
At rest, beneath the friendly shade,
The weary race of man is laid;
And Sleep, descending soft and kind,
With glowing visions soothes the mind.
March, 1817.

From the Monthly Magazine.

THE RULING PASSION.

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dipshaw him whatever was writ

His warlike achievements she raised to the skies,

And the prudence and sense that he had or had not;

For to make a weak mortal believe himself wise,

Is a method most certain to prove him a sot.
She made all his vanity speak in her cause,
She flatter'd his passion----the thirst of re-
nown;

Already the hero is drunk with applause,
Already he grasps Immortality's crown.
A look at the syren he tenderly cast,
And strove from the sailors to make himself
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rets of fate, from the first to the Oh bind him, fast bind him, my lads to the Or this wisest of mortals will jump in the sea. September, 1817.

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INTELLIGENCE:

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL.

THE APOLLONIcon Organ.

A very old Cor spondent communicates a method of mank INK which will never be- Of the completion of this grand polyphonic Come the 1 out using any other than frame, we spoke in our last. It is now submitted the coponosangents." It occurred to me to public inspection, and affords to Messrs. ad proceed from the vegeta- Flight and Robson's numerous visitors no less ble e escany :erefore put an ounce of surprise than gratification. Its construction, deangum Alable in to a jug, with a quart Win- we understand, was commenced as far back as best," "measure of a clearinfusion of galis,made the year 1812, under favour of the experience with rain water and three ounces of galls well derived from the formation of two smaller orsounded; and placed the jug in a cellar, and gans, previously built by them upon similar overed it loosly with paper. I stirred the principles. Of the properties of this stupen quor two or three times a day, for several dous piece of workmanship, it would be diffaces, that the g might be perfectly dissol- cult to convey a just idea,; but some notion The would began to form upon the sur- of its capacity may be formed, when it is we 216..: three days afterwards I remov- known that the diameter of its largest pipe is Severalones e portions of mould formed, nineteen inches; that of its smallest scarcely tch I took off occasionally, during three the eighth of one inch, and that its powers exathe when the liquor became perfectly pu- tend to the imitation of a vast variety of instruthen added an ounce of pounded cop- ments---as flageolets, flutes, oboes, violins, Then the mould first began to form, I clarionetts, bassoons, &c. &c. which, whether the jug into the shady part of a room heard in full combination, or in their separate Wate here was a fire."---Gent. Mag. and independent diversities of tones and par When Walter Scott presented tial concords, are peculiarly striking, and be world with Cos much admired poem, he really astonish, by the proofs they offer, of the exception of the name, what art and ingenuity can achieve in this ehaladopre hing from the feudal history province of human exertion. This instrument, of the Old Brot of that family. To lovers of by its very varied and wonderful effect, apthisertainly was cause of discou- proaches, it should seem, nearer than any othwere few in number; but er congeries of vocal tubes, the organ describ we now considerably increased by Plato and Proclus, denominated by the sing publication of the real Greeks---a Panarmonion. If, in the ancient embellished with engrav- machine, every aperture of the innumerable panied by the History of the pipes, the fistula innumera, was capable of and, and all the feudal servi- emitting three or more different notes, the the manor of Scrivelsby, &c. modern instrument possesses the capacity of pouring forth its voluminous and voluble AROO Ftory of the mysterious female sounds, either automatonically, or by the livtely excited so much interest in the vicin- ing action of the finger For the former of Beetes it is said she proved an im- these operations, three cylinders, each six feet 8 pts) si gular as was at first supposed in circumference, are provided; for the latter, are Jenal says that there are at pres- six distinct sets of keys. If the pealing tones es of the line Panarmonton Called the distal Vesturan; na- those of the Apathe on shake the floor the injgb... sofwhich t wiecie stands; a icient organ was * Be a V. dem, is constructed upon principies un satan to pr neizb', aặc che would get. enta bis the modern instrument opitate } ed 50s of which the melents were e nort; and, vie

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