Curse of our nation, source of countless woes,

From whose dark womb unreckon'd misery flows,

We take this opportunity to correct from good authority a mistake which has found its way into the publick prints, respecting the author of this work. Madame de Stael was not banished from Paris for any obnoxious contained in passages Corinna. Her crime was that she made her house a place of rendezvous for a society of disaffected cit. izens. The officer of police informed her, that she must abolish this plan, or submit to leave Paris. She chose the latter, and is now resident in one of the provinces.

ART. 20.

The Embargo, or Sketches of the Times, a Satire. By a youth of Thirteen. Boston, printed for the purchasers. 1808. 12mo. pp. 12.

IF this poem be really written by a youth of thirteen, it must be acknowledged an extraordinary performance. We have never met with a boy at that age, who had attained to such command of language and to so much poetick phraseology. Though the poem is unequal, and there are some flat and prosaick passages, yet is there no small portion of fire and some excellent lines. The following passage is written with strength and spirit.

Much injur❜d Commerce! 'tis thy fall

ing cause, Which, from obscurity, a stripling draws; And were his powers but equal to his zeal,

Thy dastard foes his keen reproach should feel.

Fear low'rs before, and famine stalks behind.

What words, oh, Muse! can paint the mournful scene,

The saddening street,the desolated green; How hungry labourers leave their toil and sigh,

And sorrow droops in each desponding eye!

We regret that the young poet has dared to aim the satirick shaft against the breast of our most excellent President. But, as the lines are a good specimen of the author's powers, we cannot resist the temptation of quoting them, conscious that the first magistrate of this country, secure in the impenetrable armour of moral rectitude, " smiles at the drawn dagger, and defies its point."

When shall this land, some courteous

Throw off a weak, and erring ruler's sway? angel say, Rise,injur'd people, vindicate your cause! And prove your love of Liberty and laws; Oh wrest, sole refuge of a sinking land, The sceptre from the slave's imbecile hand!

Oh ne'er consent, obsequious, to advance The willing vassal of imperious France! Correct that suffrage you misus'd before, And lift your voice above a congress' roar? And thou,the scorn of every patriot name, Thy country's ruin, and her council's

shame!

lectures on subjects generally acknowledged important, nor does the of episcopacy, or the validity of Doctor meddle with the divine right presbyterian ordination. We regret that this ridiculous controversy has been revived at New York by the 'puny whipsters' of modern theology, in which the great ecclesiastical gladiators of former times, left the victory undecided. Great and good men have adopted different modes of faith and worship, nor can the mere forms of religion be of much impor. tance. We abhor bigotry, whether in an episcopalian, or a dissenter, in a trinitarian or an unitarian. If revelation were clear on these subjects, there could be no dispute. But since they are involved in obscurity, let every one adopt that system, which he thinks on the whole most eligible, nor presume to censure the creed of others, who may be as sincerely pious, and as learned as himself.

The man who first attacks the mode of worship adopted by another, is in fact the bigot, and will be avoided by all prudent men. Hic niger est, hunc tu Romane cavet o

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight,

His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right.

ARTICLE 3.

M. T. Cicero's Cato Major, or his Discourse of Oldige, with Explanatory Notes. Philadelphia, printed by Benjamin Franklin. 1744. 4to. PP. 159. (Continued.)

THIS treatise of Cicero affords fittle to exercise the sagacity of a

critick, or to interrupt the progress of a translator. Like all his writings on subjects not obscure in themselves, it hardly presents a difficult passage to delay the reader; and therefore from this translation of Mr. Logan it is not very easy to ascertain the accuracy of his knowl edge of Latin. The notes are en

tirely historical, illustrating no obscurities in the text, and offering no comparisons of various readings. The edition which he used it is impossible to determine; though he appears not to have availed himself of that of Grævius, which was the best of that time. Instances in which he appears to have erred through ignorance of the force of individual words are not numerous; the following are the most important. The word inhumanus (sect. 3.) he has rendered inhuman, a term which in this place by no means conveys the meaning of the original. Cicero is speaking of the defects of old men, and one is that they are unsociable, and indisposed to join in the amusements of others. "Inhumanus dicitur, says Ernesti, qui in convivio meditatur attentius, quod alienum est ab homine &c."

In the tenth section Cato says of himself, that he "was never denied to any who came to consult him. Nemo ad huc convenire me voluit, cui fuerim occupatus." This Logan has unaccountably rendered, " no man ever yet found me quite idle." He must have followed the reading of Manutius, quin fuerim occupatus, who quotes from the treatise de Officiis this saying, numquam minus otiosum, quam cum otiosus, nec minus solum quam cum solas, of which the famous inscription of Sir Henry Wotton, (I think,) over his study door, never less alone,than when alone, is little more than a translation.

In the eleventh section, Cicero mentions it as à circumstance highly honourable to old age, when, nemini emancipata est. The difficulty of the expression has been felt by the commentators, and Logan appears to have thought it most prudent to give it no translation. We should have thought mancipata the proper word, but the criticks tell us, "liber

homo est suæ potestatis; itaque cum se emancipare dicitur, intelligitur è potestate sua abire, non amplius suus esse, alienus fieri, &c. This legal subtlety of the language Logan ap. pears not to have understood.

In relating the story of Lucius Flamininus in the twelfth section, a story too odious to be here repeated, he appears to have been ignorant that scortum is used to signify both sexes, and of course has considerably di minished the detestable nature of the transaction; and has at the same time pretended to discover a disagreement in the story between Cicero and Livy which does not exist.

At the beginning of the fourteenth chapter, Cato observes, that, old as he was, he found a sensible pleasure in the protracted entertainments of his friend. The word he uses is tempestivis convivüs, which many of the commentators have ignorantly interpreted to mean, regular, and seasonable feasts, and Logan has fallen into the same errour. The truth is that the Romans in the more pure and frugal ages of the republick used to defer their principal meal, which we should call their dinner, till a late hour in the day; but as luxury increased, the hour of dining was continually anticipated, that their meals might be the longer protracted, till at last, contrary to modern custom, they dined at the unfashionable hour of one o'clock. Hence the word tempestivis came to denote an early, and of course a luxurious entertainment. It would seem that this meaning of the epithet was not understood, till it was settled by the laborious Salmasius, in one of his learned notes, and the grammarians were forced to acquiesce in this reading, which in many instances they had ignorantly attempted to alter to intempestivis. We make this remark, because we

find that Adams, in his admirable work on Roman antiquities has fallch into the same mistake.

Our translator has discovered also his ignorance of a Greek word in the last book of the Odyssey, v. 226 where arrpivot is used. It means pruning, and not levelling, and Logan in correcting a mistake of Cicero, has fallen into one of his own. Once more; after relating the speech of Cyrus on his death bed, when he expresses his hopes of immortality, Cicero concludes, "Cyrus quidem hæc moriens, Nos, si placet, nostra videamus." This Logan has render

ed "and now to mention some of our own people ;" whereas the meaning undoubtedly is, as Melmoth has given it, "permit me now to express my own sentiments."

These are the principal instances in which Logan appears to have discovered a want of intimacy with the language, and surely his sins of ignorance are very few. He has frequently, however, mistaken the meaning of passages, through mere inattention; and some of these sins of negligence we proceed now to note.

[To be continued.]

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