Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-01-19

admiration always fnifhed with forne eperam
OF Gear He had monkey that be called
Luc, and be diverted himfelf with frequently
giving this rame to the King of PruGia. ! et
prefed iome furpriie at this and be onfwered
" DO yor' Zee how this monkey bites every body
and then laughs 20
In 1860, at bis own requeR, iens him my
remarks on fome mihakes that had elcaped him
in his Unigerial HiRory, relative 10 Iraly and
Italian literature. He returned me thanks IN
letter; but, as ufual, launching his thunder
againGt The inquifition, Italian 1ayery, EnglIh
freedom, and the hyPscrify Of the miniRers Of
Geneva. His letter concluded with this PAT
age:
~ Have you heard Of the poems Of the King
of Prudia He, you will find is no hypocrite.
He fpeaks of the ChriRians as Julian once
fPoke It hould feem that the Italian and
Greek churches, beaded by Soikow and Duan,
will Immediately excon4municare him with can
non balls but he will fight like a devil in his
defence. You and know he will be damned
but We are not quite fo fure that he will be
beaten"
was frequently led to refea on the fruitful
neis OF his mind contracted with the meager
nefs of his body, 1t IS true he often repeats
what he had faid before bur this IS occafion.
ed by the extreme facility with which he writes.
What author ever produced 70 many original
things many Of them profoundly msditated.
and all OF them happily exprefed
have iomeumes thought, that bis flow and
interrupted maDner Of fpeaking was to gain
time, till he could recolle9 f5mething which
Pleafed him 10 fay for this manner was BE-
come habltual; 70 that, hearing him fpeak, we
might imagine be was reading one Of lis own
works.
When converting he frequently mingled l.
tallaE Phrafts, and quotations from Tafo, ard
Arido but he never could forget his French
accent. ! one day teaifed my aRonilhment al
the III treatment he had beloved in his EG4y
on Epic Poetry, on Attic, Whole mind appear
ed 10 congenid with that of Voltare This
produced dilcuGion, in which it was not diff.
cult TO prove, thai the Author Of Orlando Flu.
rioio was great poet that h did not de-
ferve 70 be treated as a mere ;ocofe flntaR;e
writer, and that his fIults were the faults Of
his age, and not Of his genius. Vo.taire prom
lied to read Arito again and IL 4 new ed;.
uon OF his Ehay he has ipoken with more pro
Priety and jufice.
He read fome Of my poems, ana faid manv
lsNN~AAAA A4AilAS3 ~ Ol tine eQlOpIuTlg
| had written on the king of Pruail. Calico.
and Newton. He continued 10 declaim againa
fuperaition, the inquGtion the court of Rome.
the monkih orders, &c. aod repeated what
Cardinal Po(ionei fiid to traveller. "H IL
"nrasnloa' that tbe Cbnr1b bqJ Ia nothing THE
gar
one day went to dine with him at his
new feat at Ferney. After dinner he iaid,
have eaten too much ihlll not live 70
enjoy my new purcha(e. But we mutt enjoy
life. am inclined to gormandze, and 70 was
Horace; fra5H Jaa quem,t v2Iaptas The child
NUT be rocked till he falls aGeep."
You perceive he belonged 10 the epicurean
tribe; though in iome relpets he was Do.
genes his win was iometimes to be Socra-
ties, at others, AriitpPus. One day be would
fay he was dying The next that he was indebt-
ed to TrOnchin for life and health, though IL
the fame breath he would ridicule phyhc and
Phyhcian.