attended the Angel no farther than the thinks the poet could not with propriety door or entrance of the bower, then he fay, that the Angel parted from the thick fhrewdly asks, "How Adam could return shade-that is, the bower, to go to heaven. to his bower if he was never out of it?"

Our Editor has made a thousand fimilar corrections in his edition of Milton! Some have sufpected that the fame kind intention which prompted Dryden to perfuade Creech to undertake a translation of Horace, influenced those who encouraged our Doctor, in thus exercifing his "fagacity" and "happy conjecture" on the epic of Milton.

But if Adam attended the Angel no farther than the door or entrance of the bower; then he asks this fhrewd queftion; "How Adam could return to his bower, if he was, never out of it ?"

I have now given the reader fpecimens of every kind of correction, which our Editor has made in this edition of Milton: they are in all above a thousand. However, it may be said in the Doctor's behalf, that this was not his own voluntary undertaking; for he tells us in another place, non injuffa cecini. But whoever encouraged him to it, no doubt did it with the fame kind intention that Dryden perfuaded Creech to undertake a tranflation of Horace.

Le Cosmopolite

OU

LE CITOÏEN (Sic.) DU MONDE.

Patria eft ubicunque eft bene.
Cic. 5. Tufcul. 37.

Aux depens de l'Auteur,
(N. Fougeret de Monbron).
(Hambourg et Amsterdam).

Universelle, he was born at Péronne in the early part of the eighteenth century and died in the month of September, 1761 Quite early in life he entered the army, which, after a few years, he abandoned for the profeffion of literature. By this unfortunate mistake Louis XV. loft prematurely a tolerably good foldier, and the world M.DCCL., 12mo, pp. 125. gained another unneceffary author of no This cynical little volume, from which fmall number of bad books. Monbron Lord Byron felected the lugubrious motto appears to have been one of those miseraprefixed to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, is able, half-educated, and conceited men of one of uncommon rarity. Independently flender talents, who adopt literature as a of the rather vague merit of being excef- trade. None of his works that we have fively rare, it appears to us to poffefs at seen can be charitably characterized as leaft fufficient bibliographical importance, being even "firft-rate mediocrity." Like if not enough true literary excellence, to the friend of Gil Blas who rhymed himself justify a brief notice of its contents, and a into the hospital, Monbron persisted in fhort sketch of the author. The bio- writing and publishing by ftratagem fundry graphical data regarding N. Fougeret de grofs and indecent novels, until, "one fine Monbron are extremely fcanty and unfatif- morning," as he fays, << un Limier de Police factory. According to the Biographie came to his refidence and thence politely

escorted him to prifon." After a fhort im- bermaids in the inns of the various cities prisonment he was releafed by the minif- he vifits. The flight sketch that he gives of ter, M. de Maurepas, and ordered to leave his travels is too frivolous and commonParis immediately, and not to return again place to merit analyfis or quotation. We within fifty leagues of the city. At this venture to give, however, one inftance of point the travels of "The Cosmopolite" his fuccefs in gallantry, as it is the most (who is fimply M. de Monbron) abruptly chafte and unexceptionable anecdote in the begin. The following extract from the book: firft page, which commences with the

"Je fis provifion avant de quitter. Lorette, de

paffage quoted by Byron, is a fair fample grains benits, de Rofaires, d'Agnus Dei, et autres of the querulous fpirit and flippant ftyle femblables denrées. On ne fauroit croire de quelle in which The Cosmopolite is written. We fe faire des amis. reffource font quelquefois ces pieufes babioles pour Souvent de pareilles guenilles preferve faithfully the peculiar orthography m'ont applani bien des difficultés dans le cours de of M. de Monbron: mes avantures galantes. Telle Agnès que les f'eft fouvent attendrie à la vie d'un chapelet ou larmes, les foûpirs et l'or n'auroient pû corrompre, d'une image miraculeufe. C'eft de cette manière

"L'univers est une espece de Livre dont on n'a lû que la prémière page, quand on n'a vû que fon Pais. J'en ai feüilleté un affez grand nombre que J'ay trouvées presque également mauvaises. Cet examen ne m'a point eté infructueux. Je haiffois ma Patrie. Toutes les impertinences des Peuples divers parmi lefquels J'ay vêcu m'ont reconcilié avec elle. Quand je n'aurois tire d'autre benefice de mes voiages que celuy-là, je n'en regreterois ni les frais, ni les fatigues."

que les Caffards porte-frocs favent engeoler de jeunes innocentes et fe procurer les plus charmantes jouiffances. Je diftribuai affez heureusement ma dévoté marchandise dans mainte Ville de la Romanie excepté à Boulogne, où une Chambrière me donna la gale pour une medaille de Notre Dame.

folant dans cette disgrace, c'est que la fille étoit Au refte ce que je trouvai de conjolie, et qu'on ne pouvit guere gagner la-gale à

meilleur marché."

From Bologna The Cosmopolite continues his tour to Venice, Madrid, and Lisbon, and thence fails for London, which "séjour Angelique" he reaches in fafety. Here his travels abruptly end, and he clofes his incoherent account of them with this philanthropic sentiment:

"Chaffé autrefois de Paris, je conçûs le defir de vifiter les Habitants de la Grande Bretagne, dont quelques bilieux enthoufiaftes m'avoient conté des merveilles. Je croiois trouver dans cette Ifle fameuse non feulement l'homme de Diogene, mais y en trouver par millions. J'arrivai à Londres ennivré de ce doux espoir. Tout m'y parut au premier coup d'œil infiniment au deffus de l'idée qu'on m'en avoit donnée. Châque Anglois etoit pour moy une Divinité. Ses actions, fes démarches les plus indifferentes me fembloient toutes dirigées par le bon fens et la droite raison. S'il ouvroit la bouche pour parler, quoique je n'entendiffe pas un mot de ce qu'il difoit, j'etois dans une admiration qui ne fe peut exprimer. Cependant l'etat de mes affaires ne me permettant point alors de refter dans ce féjour Angelique, je l'abandonai pénétré des plus vifs regrets, avec la confolation néantmoins, d'y Our principal object in noticing Le Costransporter mes Lares dés que j'en ferois le maître. mopolite has been fimply to preserve a Leaving England, THE COSMOPOLITE fets flight bibliographical record of a foolish out on a fort of a vagabond tour through book, which appears to have pleased Lord Continental Europe. Henceforth, the Byron merely on account of the bitterly principal part of the volume is taken up mifanthropic fpirit in which it is written. with a voluptuous and detailed account of In a literary point of view it is utterly his low intrigues with the cooks and cham- worthless. Of M. de Monbron we shall

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