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It describes their intestine struggles, their foreign wars ; but in these vast pictures which exhibit the birth, growth, exten sion, and decay of societies, an essential part of man is lost, because in these masses minute de tails are unavoidably imperceptible. The part omitted, however, is not the least interesting : it consists of the dometic life of a nation, corn prizing its familiar habits, its manners, and usages. Our view is bounded : we cannot seize every thing at the same moment ; 'we occupy only a part of duration and space-; w€ : cannot say and hear every thing at one time e iwnce that neces sity of distributing all human knowledge into di visions which we call sciences or arts; and hence also that inability of grasping at the same instant the masses and the details of any one subject. History, therefore, describes the events of the State, but it does not paint those of families ; it shews us one instant man disputing in the public square, but it does not follow him from the pub lic square to his fire-side; it neither exhibits his dwelling nor the form of his garments, nor his re lations with his wife:. and children ; it does not follow him to his amusements pr-the theatres ; it does not shew: us how he -employs 'bis .leisure, how he reasons on the laws, on justice, on morals . , and on the Divinity. Nomenclators and scholars furnish us, in alphabetical chapter and order, with all that-Thueydides, Livy, or Tacitus have not stated respecting - the life of the Greeks and Romans : but who has the courage to go through enormous volumes in order to ascertain how na tions lived who have disappeared from the globe centuries past ? .A scholar who. bad passed many years in stu- ' dying Grecian literature and history, without .losing in these dry researches the, powers of his imagination, felt the necessity of animating those precious details of the life, of ,nations ; he did not exhibit armour and dresses, as -they are sus pended in museums, but he clothed the Greeks with their ;he -made them move before-the eyes of the reader ; - bedid not explain their mode of thinking and speech, hut made them talk and shew themselves in their conversation. This was . _ paintilg, and not, as some do, drawing out an in ventory. The author of- Anacharsis was the crea tor of a genuine species of writing as necessary. as history itself, and which ought to relate those particulars into which , Ole latter cannot enter. •ti . Ever?, tiiing:thafsatisfies:a.desire of the - human mind is surety rodtice lively sensation. The work of :--Bartlietem:delighted his age ; a new and grand , coirreption' a happy. execution, and_a continual flow of elegance,.justify_the•success of this beautiful- production, and promise to render it permanent. 'Still it must be • admitted that it is a modern . work -on an antique subject ; and while we admire it according to its merit, we may be permitted -to wish that it possessed, not greater:niaterial fidelity, but a little more appa rent'rettlity in the tone, a little of the beautiful antique of Telemachus. It is, notwithstanding, a model of taste, which does honour to . the author and his country. We were . prepared to -expect new essays of this nature, for success always excites .emulation. The unfavourable appellation of imitators should not, hoWever, be given to those-who - come. after Barthelemy, for they are-no more deserving of that reproach than the later . historians can be called the imitators of the earlier ones, becaUse like them they related human events.. To paint the manners of a people -after Anacharsis, and with the same means, is to cultivate a true style, which is highly necessary, and in which no dis tinction should be made between, the first And the last corners, except that of talent. After Greece there remained Rome ; and the subject, though very different, was not less grand, and demanded an able painter ; he has been found in M. de Theis. We announce this work as a very remarkable production, and though we have many observations to make on the manner in which the subject is treated, we shall offer them with the respect due to such an important composition, and the length of time bestowed on it. The time of man is precious, and when a great portion of it is devoted to a single work, we ought to respect the object on which it is em ployed. Criticism is not permitted to decide in a moment of levity, with a dash of the pen, on what has cost nearly the whole of a man's exist ence to accomplish. Greece presented not so vast a subject as Rome, but more varied :—a family of republics always divided,except in times of common danger; Athens, Sparta, Thebes, that is to say Epami noudas, succeeding one another in ruling over resisting Greece ; a • hundred towns, a hundred worships, a hundred systems ; the Arts almost brought to perfection, the Sciences at least budding forth ; the heroic times at its origin, extreme civi lization and its disgusting attendants at the end ; every kind of genius, from the grandest and richest imagination to the most ingenious subtlety, all the degrees of intelligence, from the penetra tion of the Athenian to the stupidity of the Boeotian; every description of manners, extreme austerity and extreme licentiousness ; every form of government, from democracy to absolute mo narchy.; lastly, a condensed view of humanity and its phenomena in a few islands and a small continent; this was the subject which presented itself to Barthelemy, and to which he has given motion and life. Rome exhibited quite another spectacle : city raised by robbers on an usurped soil, peopled by them with ravished wives, and which marched with a firm and sure step, sometimes faster and at other times slower, to the conquest of the world ; a single people, a single character, a single passion, that of aggrandizing itself ; a long and bloody contest between the high and low orders which interrupted not conquests and ended in despotism ; grave and serious habits, a pro found love of country, a supernatural heroism, a passionate taste for the Arts, and, in spite of an excessive pride, an .humble imitation of the Greeks ; lastly, extremes of all kinds ; and after the passion of grandeur that of frivolities and the most unheard of luxury ; such is Rome, and this subject, though less rich, less general and exhibit ing less than Greece the different varieties of man, presents however a large portion of humanity, and requires a vigorous pencil. The most important consideration is a good selection of the period. That which M. de Theis has chosen is no doubt very grand : the wars of Marius and Sylla form a vast picture ; the figure of Sylla itself, the greatest and the most charac teristic perhaps contained in history, was one motive for preferring this period. Rome, be sides, had nearly achieved her conquests ; she was on the point of ceasing to be virtuous, and she was rich ; so many reasons determined, and perhaps misled, M. de Theis. Time has, like space, a perspective; we ought to place ourselves there, and be able to compre hend every thing in an able sketch. Rome was at first austere, frugal, and disinterested, and afterwards rapacious and addicted to every spe. , cies of debauchery and luxury. All this should appear in the same picture ; and since . we can go back to the past by recitals, as we have always the resource of an antique family representing olden ages, and since we cannot, on the con trary, anticipate the future, except by a magic shield, bearing in relief the destinies of a people, which is only allowable in epic poetryi it is al ways better to place ourselves in later, than in earlier times . . Under Sylla, Greece was scarcely known ; the new manners were not then introduced Cicero had not yet spoken, and Lucullus had not given any banquets in the hall of Apollo: Every thing is. best 'appreciated by • contrasts.. The most striking moment among a people •is that wheit'ancient and modern manners come in oppo sition„ .for the contest gives things all their energy. The ancient austerity - reappeared with a kind of excess in Cato ; the republic, its man tiers, its liberty; all ancient Rome, in short, struggling and tatting with the hero of Utica; Caesar. or modern Rome, armed with the good will of the soldiery, assisted by every species of seduction, and powerful as a single mind, a de spotic sway; Cicero placed between them, moral because he..was enlightened, and,• because he was enlightened loving also all that was sub lime and beautiful; .the new aura; Cicero going from Cato - to Caesar, • and negociating be tween the two; all this exhibited the picture of republican Rome and of imperial Rome, and here it is that we ought to place ourselves.- We know that. the republic died under Sylla ; : or rather, we think, she was condemned under Sylla, and did not really die until the time of Caesar and Augtistus. llowever, there is nothing irreparable. What a.number of good works err in a funda mental point. That of M. de Theis, however, is possessed of considerable merit. We have another observation to make, of a much more serious nature, which is, that the vast picture of M. de Theis wants action. PO lycletus is at Rome, but he is there without terest, regretting continually his country, taking part in nothing, recounting by letters what he sees, as an author would by chapters. Man is a curious and inquisitive being, but curiosity may . be fatigued ; new manners, customs, and'us'ages excite attention, but they must be clothed in forms, and, if they are inanimate, the eye is tired with beholding them. We do not mean to say that he should have written a romance ; but he ought to have , composed an historic drama.--- The passions of the human heart are not what is required to be made known to us ; but there is a certain point at which the passions operate only in animating characters and manners, and this is the precise point which the author should have seized.. It was not necessary that Polycletus should come to Italy to be in love, for Mitliridates in love displeases us ; but he ought to have taken part in passing events, mix himself up in all the concerns of Rome, examine the various classes, and pass from private to public life. The friend of a young Roman, and the husband, if you please, of a Roman Lady, cm bracing one- party, he ought to have attached himself to their concerns by making them his own. We expected, for instance, to see a conqueror en joying the honours of a triumph, in whom we should have taken an interest, as connected with Polycle tus, to walk with him over the sacred way, to live in short at Rome the same day. In all these things have we been disappointed : we have only found some pages,, which tell us what was done at the Capitol on these great occasions. e therefore venture to say, that though this production is of considerable importance, yet it is deficient of spirit and animation. After an eminently dramatic opening, the beauties of which shall he hereafter noticed, we arrive at Rome, we languish there with Polycletus, who describes incessantly, and who finishes, after an accurate and faithful nomenclature, 'by tracing some scenes of the civil war p very beautiful, it is true; but afterwards the curtain drops, and we return to Greece. We dislike as much as most persons useless ad vice ; yet 'we could cite more than one instance to prove to M. de TheiS that we do not demand impossibilities by requiring greater interest. — There are plays which pourtray the passi,ms alone ; others which develope characters, and a third description for the inculcation of moral. truths. Many of these have been eminently suc cessful ; and we do not see Why M. de Theis should not in like manner have dramatized the , subjects of his work. Living beings, we must have life every where ; we must fear and hope, and follow a character through the chances of existence. In an affect. ing situation, every circumstance strikes, the most trifling interest us ; we expect and require them all ; he therefore who has many to•- relate ought to make them impatiently desired, if he wishes they should be well received. For this • reason we have recourse to the 4rima,_that is to say life, to interest man and to captivate his at tention. We have begun with the faults of this work, and shall finish with its merits of every kind. — So important a composition deserves the greatest impartiality, and such has been and shall be our study. C. LORD BYRON. The following narrative is the historical foun• dation of the Tragedy intitled, THE Two Fos-. cam, one of the three recent productions of this Nobleman : Foscari, son of the Doge of that name, having offended the Senate of Venice by the commission of some juvenile impru. dences in that city, was, by their Orders, put into temporary confinement at Treviso : when Almor Donato, one of the coun. cil of ten, was assassinated on the sth Nov. 1750, as he entered his own house. Foscari's footman (OliVier), had been observ.... ed loitering near Donato's palace on the night of the murder ; conscious, probably, that this solitary circumstance would give rise to his apprehension, and dreading the unappeasable fury of his judges, he fled from Venice the next morning. This act, combined with other trifling coincidences, created a strong suspicion that Foscari had employed his servant to commit the murder. After seizing Olivier, and putting him to the most cruel tortures, without extracting from him any thing but re- , - pcated protestations of his total ignorance of the transaction, fae council of ten cited his master Foscari before them, and treated ' ' him in the same barbarous and unjustifiable manner. His • assertions of innocence, while' under the endurance of the rack, ' were but slightly attended to by his merciless judges. " They , convinced the Court of his firmness, but by no means of his innocence." Still, however, they could . not sentence to death the son of one of the -noblest families in Verric., without something like a , legal proof of .his guilt; .they . accordingly satisfied their thirst of vengeance for the assassin ation of their colleague, by banishing him to Canea, in the .. island of Candia. The unfortunate youth bore his exile witia.- More impatience' than he had done the tack ; lie often wrote to his friends, praying thein to intercede, on his behalf, that tine. -- term of his banishment might be abridged, and that be might be permitted to return to his fain4yhefore he died. All these , applications were fruitless. At the end of five years' exile, . having given up all hope of return through the intercession - • of his own family or 'countrymen, 'he wrote to the Du'k of. Milan, reminding him of services. rendered to that prince .hr` his father, and urging him to exert his. powerful influence Wier the government of Venice, to obtain a remission of his sentence. ' 7 This letter was intrusted to a merchant joUrne•yingfrom Caeesee to that capital,. who; instead of . forwarding .it to the Ihikein his arrival at Venice, treacherously laid it befiire the e.:Ouned'of' ten. It should herebe premised, that; 'by the lais Of the Ves netian republic, its subjects were strictly enjoined, under !qee,. severest penalties, from applying secretly , or . oth erwi s e, fors-the ' protection of foreign princes, in any matters referring to' ftle decisions of their own court of judicattire.• The coneeqnence4: the infringement of this edict in young Foscari, was, that '.he-. was immediately remanded from Camlia, and Incarcerated 'hi the prison for state criminals at Venice; 'fromwhence Ie wee. once more brought up to be put to the torture, in order tOelteir.., from him the motives by which he had been actuated, in ad e dressing the Duke of Milan. In answer to this inquity,...hc declared, that; conscious of the perfidy 'of his messenger, ai as well as of the punishment that would, in all proleability, follow his offence, in endeavouring to conciliate the 'good orfi ccs of a foreign prince, he had, in a fit of despair, addressed the Duke of Milan, as lie foresaw that 'it would occasion his removal to Venice ; the' only . opportunity. that was -ever likely to be afforded him of obtaining an interview with h=are- lathes and friends ; a consummation which he protested he most ardently desired, although it were only to be purchased by his death. This 'act of filial piety availed him but little with his inquisitors. He was ordered back to Candle, there to...re main in close confinement for the space of one year-; belideS which, his banishment from Venice to that place was. made per petual ; and a threat held out to him, • that if he solicited agein in any way, either directly or indirectly; the aid of totem princes, his imprisonment should only terminate with hiilke. The father of Foscari had filled the office of Mee for thirty years; but, notwithstanding the influence which so exalted a situation ought to have created for him with the senate, in a case of such flagrant injustice as the condemnation of , his son', '(without any proof, or even reasonable grounds for, suspecting him Of the offence which had been laid to his charge), he was unable to obtain from the council any remission of:the young man's plinishanent. Ile however, visited his son in the palate - wherein he was confined during his stay at Veriice e and exhorted - him to bear with fortitude the evil; however severean4 unde served, for which there was no remedy. " His ion ieplied, (says Dr. Moore), that he was incapable of attending .A) the advice of his father ; that, however others could suppArtsthe dismal loneliness of a prison, he could not ; that hii heart was formed for friendship and the reciprocal endearments 'OP - frivate life, without which his soul sank into dejection writsa tharieleath, from which alone he should look for rejief, if he, should. be a• • again confined to the horrors of a prison ; and, melting into tears, he sank at his father's feet, imploring .him tO,take rom a passion on a son who bad ever loved him with the most elutifu/ affection, and who was perfectly innocent of the.crime of which he was accused ; he conjured him to use his inilnence with the Council to mitigate the sentence, that he might be saved from the most cruel of all deaths, that of expiring under the slow tortures of a broken heart, in a banishment from every creature be loved." This affecting appeal rendered the . grief of die tiahappy father still more acute, who was well . aware how fruitless would be his endeavours in his son's behalf. Unable to Support the anguish of a separation under such distressing circumstances, the old man sunk into a state of insensibility, from which he did not recover until the vessel, that was.to bear his son once more to exile, had spread its sails for Candid. The grief of his aged Consort has been movingly described by those who.have taken upon themselves the record of this melancholy history.— The oyerwhebning misery of these unfortunate parents inte rested, at length, one or two' of the most powerful et' the sena tors ; who applied with so much earnestness for the pardon of the young Foscari, that they were on the point of accoillplishing their object, when information arrived from Candia, that' the noble-hearted youth had expired in prison, a few months after his return. It was not until some time had elapsed, that the re3l mur derer was discovered. Nicholas Ernizzo, a Venetian of high rank, being a few years, afterwards upon his. deathebed, tl con fessed thae,in revenge for a supposed affront : put Upon him by the ' se nator Donato. •lic had committed the , . assasematio for, which Foscarihadl a'great measure undergone the ern ...- Before this disclatitire took place; the sonows of elle aged ge were at an end: - Ile died a .f6V-Iln&atta:after4hie3 oll a. ~,. 1 q;!.1 ,: :.z,' i ,'• . 4 ,7. . 1::%:, , ..... .2 S:1!) .b r: .' ,