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"',loved Diderot tenderly," said Rousseau in his Confessions; " I esteemed him sincerely, and I relied On his feeling the same sentiments to wards me." Poor Jean Jacques ! thou wert in deed mistaken. The event proved it. Diderot, findincr his friend determined on passing the re minder of his days in solitude s immediately added to the preface of his Natural Son, which he was on the eve of publishing, this 'harsh and, unfeeling sentence.—" The wicked alone love solitude." Without making the honourable and just exception'due to the anchorite who lovedhim so tenderig, the brutal sentence came to his know ledge, and the explanation which followed was not at all calculated to mitigate it. Some time after Diderot, whom J . J. Rousseau had informed of his tender and innocent intimacy with Mine. Dh , could 'not keep secret what had been communicated to him in the confidence of friend ship : and to whom did he divulge it ? 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[No. XXVI - .1 . • - HISTORY of the LIFE and WRITINGS of J. J. ROUS SEAU; composed from authentic D ocuments , man y o f w hi c h have recently been found ; to which are annexed several Letters which have never before been published. Two Vols. Bvo. Paris, 1821. • It may perhaps be asked, whether any thing more remains to be said respecting J. J. Rous seau, after his own GOnfessions, and the numerous Memoirs and correspondence s of Iris cotempo varies, which have been published ? The ques tion is easily answered. • The author, M. de Mussey-Pathay, did he possess-no other merit than that of having com pressed into two volumes what .could not before he found without consultiug'tsiKo hundred, would on that account alone be entitled to our thanks ; but they are more especially due to him for hav ing enriched the stores-of literary history with a number of pieces which have hitherto remained unknown. These documents, and his arrange ment of them, added to the judicious criticism which accompanies them, throw considerable light bit many peculiarities in the life of J. J. Rousseau, which hatred and envy have de lighted in misrepresenting. Those then who flatter themselves they know well this writer, will know him still better after having read the work of M. de Mussey-Pathay, which is written with a scrupulous regard for truth, and in which nothing is advanced without proofs, and every assertion - is supported by indisputable authorities. The author does not give only the testimony •which is favourable ,to his opinion, but also that which is opposed to it ; thus generously furnish ing his adversaries with the means of combating and' refuting his conclusions. Few biographers in the present day, it must be admitted, have shewn this good faith and impartiality, more especially when the ashes of the hero whom they Celebrate are in some measure raked up (as is now the case in France with Rousseau) by the passions of the moment and the spirit of party, which are never very delicate in the choice of their weapons. The person of Rousseau, his correspondence, his cotemporaries, and lastly, his works, form the four divisions of this History, and each of them is treated with the importance it deserves. But; in my opinion, the : MOst interesting parts are those where he passes in review the person ages with whom Rousseau was on terms of greater or less intimacy, and the writers - who are men tioned in his works, or who have spoken of him in theirs. This is the trap way of discsivering his real enemies, an historical point which it is peculiarly important to clear up, as certain wri ters in France are, now labouring strenuously to . make us change our opinion in this respect, and to mislead the public. According to them, Rousseau was persecuted by the Clergy and the Parliament. It is proper to examine this charge of persecution. The Clergy and the Parliament, it is true, condemned' some of his writings ; but could they avoid doing SO ? That their condemnation had the effect of making the writings condemned more sought after and read, is not here the question. All I ask is, whether silence would not have been pro ductive of greater mischief than the course they adopted ? Ought the public authorities, civil and religious, by a cowardly silence, which would have degraded them, to have passed over, without animadversion, doctrines the very reverse of those which they were required to uphold ? And is it not an act of injustice to brand with the odious name of persecution the exercise of the most sa cred light, that which is authorized_ by all the -principles of legitimate defence, and could not be abandoned by any Government without com promising its honour and endangering its exist ence ? It seems to me 'that these questions ad mit but of one decision in the minds of all rea sonable men, whose judgments are unbiassed by party spirit. . The real, we ought • rather to say, the only 'enemies of Rousseau, were the philosophers of his time. Others condemned his writings, but it Was him whom the philosophers hated. M. de Mussey- Pathay puts it beyond a doubt. All his accusa tions are proved to the very letter ; and most times he takes, as it were, the delinquents in the very - fact, making use of their own testimony t o convict them of the charge. •. J. J. Rousseau never spoke of Voltaire, But in terms of admiration. He called hint his master, and was even simple enough to believe and to de clare, that he owed his talentS to him. Truly, the homage was flattering. How was it paid ? Read the Guerre de Geneve, and some other pamphlets, sad testimonials of a rancourous animosity, the cause of which cannot even at this day be divined, and- you will soon be convinced. Voltaire and Rousseau had never seen each other. The high and- mighty Lord of- Ferney had never met the humble copier of music, living in a fourth floor, and reduced to such distress as to find " every thing, even bread, dear at Paris." How different their lot!. It seems to me that Rousseau might have replied to Voltaire in these words ? What' is there in common between you and me, great Sir ; between you, whom literature. worships and monarchs court, and the poor Rousseau who, proscribed at Paris, proscribed at Geneva, ex pelled from Berne, stoned at Motiers-Travers, abused in France and in England by all your friends, knows not where -to lay his head ?" Is it possible that the celebrity. of theme citizen of Geneva can have occasioned.a moment's uneasi ness to the Patriarch of Ferney ? We may be allowed to suspect it ; but at least we might, its justice to Voltaire, to say that his blows were never given in the dark'. He attacked his enemy manfully and in the open face of day, leaving ship should ever remain sacred, notwithstanding its ties might have been broken asunder, but Diderot was of a different opinion. The memoirs of cotemporaries and many passages of his own works attest it. But how .could he have the effrontery to reproach Rousseau" with having ac cepted from him, Diderot, and his friends, during many years, pecuniary assistance." M. de Mus sey-Pathay remarks with reason, that there are in this passage, which I abridge, as many false hoods as words ; and, in fact, no person can be ignorant of the noble pride with which J. J. Rousseau refused on every occasion the assistance offered to him. He has even frequently been re proached• for it by the philosophers. They found • him a very savage on this point; and it must be admitted that, if hot all, at least some of them were not possessed of this Sauvagerie, and that in this respect they were composed of better mate- rials than Jean Jacques. Pensions were not obliged to be forced on them : they wok care to ask for them. Rousseau was admitted into the society of the Baron d'Holbach, but it was impossible he could be pleased with it long. His susceptible and re ligious mind held in horror all the doctrines pro fessed there ; vile and desolating doctrines which, destroying the principle of morals and the bond of all society, remove every restraint from the powerful, deprive the weak of his only support, the oppressed of his redress, and the unfor tunate of his last consolation. He who said, —" Being of beings, I am, because thou art. " The best use I can make of my reason is to " humble myself before thee. It is the delight " of my mind, the charm of my weakness, to find " myself overpowered by thy grandeur. The " more I endeavour to contemplate thy divine " essence, the less I understand it : but it exists : " that is enough for me : the less I comprehend "it the more I adore it." That person, I say, who could thus express his thoughts, must have found himself quite out of his place in a society by v, hom the System of Nature had just been composed. He therefore quitted it, and from that moment the Baron d'Holbach regarded him in the light of a miserable bigot. The Baron's companions followed his example, and did all they could to ruin J. J. Rousseau in the opinion of the public : but none laboured so efficaciously in this good work as M. Grimm. This Grimm, who afterwards . . . . but he was then a person of very little consequence, had lived on the' most intimate terms with Jean Jacques. He had also received several acts of kindness from him ; for whenever he wanted mo- ney, which happened very frequently, he applied to Rousseau, who always lent it to him, though he . seldom had much, and who in obliging him always considered himself the person obliged.— Bnt the fortune of Grimm changed, and his man ners changed with it; he became insolent, like all upstarts of his species, and never called his lacqueys but by, the monosyllable El► ! as if, among the number of his attendants, my gentle man did not know which of them was in wait ing. From that time, this adventurer, this Baron of the stage, assumed towards Rousseau the to►►e and the airs of a patron. And what were the happy effects of this patronage ? The protege informs us :—" I made all my friends his, and in return he deprived me of all of them." Grimm went still farther; for he reported every where, that Rousseau was the worst copier of music in all Paris, as if he wished to reduce to beggary the man who had formerly opened his purse to him. If this is friendship, by what signs can we detect I►atred ? Jean Jacques was then living in his retreat at the Hermitage. _Madame d'Epinay having, for reasons which discretion forbids me to name, re solved to go to Geneva, wished Rousseau to ac company her, but he very properly declined , ac cepting her incitation. How could this refusal mortify Baron Grimm ? I could tell, but I will still be silent, though my lingers are itching to write it down. However, thi s adventurer thought proper to come, to an open rupture with Roils).- seau. " lie forbade me to appear in his pre sence," -says Jean Jacques, 46 as he would have forbidden me to enter his domittions.'"llds'was declaring war long after the commencement •of hostilities; but be that as it may, Grimm now fancied he was no longer bound to keep any terms with his proter , !, and gave a freer course to' his hatred. One of Rousseau's friends wrote to him at this period, and told him that " the most infamous reports were circulated against him:"—it was Grimm who disseminated these infamous stories, not only in France, but alSo in other countries: His Correspo2idence proves this fact in glaring colpUrs.. It is very-painful to me to find the name of D'Alembert in thelist of Rousseau's enernies, I I wish it was in my po‘ter to efface it, hut truth forbids me. D'Alentbert " afterwards: repeated .of the prejudices he had raised against. Rous seau." His repentance, does him honour ; but what. do - you think was the cause of his hosti lity to Jean .Jacques • Rdusseau had pub lished his Lettres sur des Spectaf;les, width ,D'Alembert fancied he -was bound to answer. This refutation was not very successful, but whose fault was that? It was surely. not . Rousseau's fault that his Letter was not better answered ; and yet he Was to suffer for it. D'Alembert was naturally of. a pacific temper ; but he had at . Ferney a brother, who was fond of entering- the lists, and whom we too frequently obr-ve, in his Correspondence, exciting the nervous irritabi lity of his brothe r a t P ar i s , w h o i n truth ought not to have been roused by this stimulant. And you also, M. Suard ! The contagion must have been subtle indeed, to have affected one of the best and kindest of men. It was M. Suard who translated the Diatribes of Hume, and who annexed to his translation a. preface very injurious to J. J. Rousseau. This fact is attested by the best .of his female friends ; and yet M. Suard had no cause of complaint against Jean Jacques, who scarcely knew . him by name. The literary distance which separated them was greater than would be imagined. Is. it not, therefore, rather surprising that an academician of such amiable manners and inoffensiVe character should have taken part in a quarrel in which he was not at all concerned ? But he was the friend of the enemies of Jea n J acques ; an d t hi s circum stance accounts for his conduct. Thanks to the researches of M. de Mussey- Pathay, Rousseau is now fully acquitted, if not of the faults which he committed and of which he accuses himself, at least of the 'calumnious charges imputed to him by the philosophers. It was with this intention, as I imagine, that M. de Mussey-Pathay wrote his History; those readers who love truth, and search for it with imparti ality, will admit that he has attained his object. The evidence he has adduced in suppo'rt Of his opinion is so weighty, that those only .will.rise from the perusal of his wort; unconvinced who have determined to - continue in error. CHIEF BARON O'GRADY. The Nintb Report of the Commissioners of In quiry into the Law Courts of Ireland charges the Lord. Chief Baron O'G RADA , with having in creased the fees in his Court since his,bppoint ment. A letter on the subject from his Lordship to Mr. GREGORY, Under Secretary to the Lona LiEUTENANT of Ireland, has lx , en pcinted by order of the llouse of Commons. It enters into an explanation of all the charges, and. contends that he has done nothing but what was perfectly justifiable by law and usage. It is of great length, occupying 25 folio pages. The following is an extract : " It will be observed, that. I have heen obliged to . extend my obiervations beyond . theseccipt of my fees, or tht logality of them. I have been obliged to discuss the.general conduct of the Court of Exchequer, in its distribution .of time, in its general regulations, and in the management tad , lispatch of its business. My conduct has been contrasted with that of my predecessor, and with the several Courts 'of Chancery, King's Bench, and Co ninon Pleas. I have entered into this comparison with reluctance, and have not One a point further in it than I was compelled to ko. I have candidly given all the information Which it was in my power to supply, and I did so already upon my examination, as far forth as the Com Missioners thought proper' to interrogate me. I have explained my acts, and defended My- motives. 1 have en dured this scrutiny, without once stopping 'to inquire, whether such a general review, either of myself, or of the Court in which I have the honour to preside, was within the intention of those under whose advice the Commissioners were 'appointed, or within the scope and authority of the Comrnis - sion under which they have acted. 1.. "If it is intended by them to ccr.trast my abilities or lean_. ing, either with the living or the dead, of Whom mention has been made, I must shrink with unfeigned humility from the comparison; but if it extends. no farther than attention arid fi delity in the discharge of public duties, antL'a distinterested zeal for the benefit of the King, and the good of his jieoplo, it is but manly to avow, that I feel, in the conscious integ:ity of my own heart, sufficient to uphold rile. When imputations are cast upon a man i n pr iv ate life, he often tines it most p;udent to. submit in silence, and leave to time the vindicaiien y of character.. I have ofteii done so. The well-irnOwn nrofives* -; t,l :lie accusers, frequnntly afford an ar,titlote to the thev endeivour to instil. I hz,ve had my shar,i (- ;,hut none of t'anse observatlo,ns are apylicahlc: tj I a 0CCf..5204. . The imputations, for sorb I reel them to , Cast upon my judi cial character and t.racetd from hoi.o- -. rile.n who, like mys-lf, are acing . as tlie.y co.aceivc in disi . Nage of a great public duty. Their imputions become the Moz,..e.oppressive, in prOportion to the reluctance with which they appear to be expressed. NiThat they cat.not justify they excuse. ,This well_ intended lenity aggrr.vat e;.large. • " It has therefore become mybountlen duty, if, pczible, to tli.;ahtuicboth them and ii r, and to vindicate theiclig,h characters to whose 2 ::-pinon, t,he . iitst insta,nce, I one my promotioi., <_:l .to the Bcr.ch ; prornetier.s which were never " The character of a *, not hie cx:lusive property- ; rt equally belongs to to c and taerefine \in advocatiag that el , T I • their ..most I ights ; and in i maint4ning the purity of the law, and ti;ic whizh snould alwe.ys attend the I,*c neral administration o; joetiee. • "'There is a rie,lce of di - iprs... , ity which correct:; its: - 2f, by the rein oval of the tulge *44 deprncato that miC:dle.course which tarnishes his honour, and yet leaves him to linger in the seAt of justice ; which eonsigns Jhire to a sort o f su(ii,iat purgatory, ,suspect: - .d, hut not cor_dennied ; too, had to b e tfusted, and not b:ot erpUii-,h to be removed. This left'..liantled course; I apprehend, E.; - t - 14, - Ls a vital blow at the- independence of tbeJudg.:43, the seeuriv of the Ciown, aria the liberty and happinc::s of the people.