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with him in the glory of the victory of Liegnitz. When the King and his general met in the field of battle after the engagement, Frederick embraced him, and advanced him to the rank of general of cavalry on the spot. Von Zieten's fortitude and reliance on divine Providence fuggefted to his mind noble topics of confolation, with which he at different times foothed and encouraged his matter's defpondency amidit the thickening difficulties of this campaign. "All things are poffible, Sire; and it is our bufinefs to triumph over difficulties,"-were the words with which, when the other generals were filent, Von Zieten encouraged the King to attempt the glorious ftorming of the heights of Torgau. Von Zieten divided with the King the command on that day, and the glory of the victory. In 1761, Von Zieten was fent to intercept the match of the Ruffians out of Poland into the dominions of Pruffia. But he came too late. They had already muftered in fuch force that with the troops there under his command, he could only watch their movements, and follow their progrefs. In the campaign of 1761, Von Zieten was conftantly near the King's perfon, to whom in his feverest trials, the confolation, counfels, and vigilant aid of this chriftian hero were extremely acceptable. In the Monarch's occafional abience, Von Zieten had the chief command; whenever two operations were attempted at the fame time, he shared the command with his Royal Mafter. It was by adopting Von Zieten's advice to ftation a wing of cavalry on' the heights of Reichenbach, that the King gained the great victory of that place on the 16th of August. He was prefent at the fiege of Schweidnitz. As peace followed foon after its furrender, he there ended his fervices in actual war.

After the termination of the Seven Years' War, Von Zieten lived fix-and-twenty years in the tranquil and healthful enjoyment of the glory, the honours, and the emoluments which he had fo periloufly earned. His Sovereign, the princes of the blood, and all that was great at the Court of Berlin, diftinguished him during all this fortunate ol age, with every mark of esteem, of friendship, even of veneration. He had outlived all his invidious rivals; and now faw in the Pruffian army, none but pupils, admirers and friends. Strangers inquired after all the monuments of his fame with the fame eager and refpectful curiosity which was felt in regard to Frederick himself. By the foldiers and MONTHLY MAG. No, 11.

the common people he was univerfally hailed with enthufiaim as a father. Soon after the peace, he passed a short time at the baths of Carlsbad, happy in the fociety of General Laudohn and others of the heroes of the Austrian service, againt whom he had lately fought. At the age of fixy-five he married a fecond wife, with whom he lived happy for more than twenty years; and of her excellence he thus emphatically declared his esteem in one of the laft years of his life;" God referves fuch women as you for thofe whom he loves."

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The greateft uneafinefs which he experienced in his old age, was when the King, on account of his infirmities, declined to take him out in the feventy-ninth year of his age to the Bavarian war. great delight in affembling his old friends of the army around him at his hofpitable table, in affifting in the education of his children, and in talking cheerfully over all experience of former times. Almoft to the laft, he continued to do his duty at courts-martial, as a reviewing general, or at the head of his own regiment at reviews. His laft vifit to the King was in the end of the year 1785. The King ordered a chair to be fet for him; and remained himself with the circle of his courtiers ftanding before the good old man. He bade him adieu with tenderness-it was his laft adieu; and then abruptly retiring, fhut himself up in his clofet. The fcene brought tears into the eyes of all the fpectators. Von Zieten's death followed not long after, on the morning of the 26th of January, 1786, in the eightyfeventh year of his own age. He left a daughter by his first marriage, and a fon and a daughter by his fecond wife, who alio furvived him.

He was fhort in ftature; in countenance homely, but with fine blue eyes; muscular, and well-knit in his limbs and joints; alert in all his movements; quick in penetration; fcornful of ntrigue and of every difingenuous art; cool in the midst of danger; of a military intuition which could meafure ground and its difficulties with the exactnefs of geometrical furvey, even by a fingle glance of his eye; mafter by habitual efforts of virtue over ftrong natural propenfities to anger, and to fome fenfual indulgencies; unaffected, unafluming; exemplarily pious, but ever without fournefs or gloom. Frederick was willing to think his skill in the art of war rather practical than scientific. But all his military difpofitions and achievements evinced

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him to be a confummate mafter of all the knowledge, the prudence, and the arts of generalfhip.

A literary monument has been lately raised to his memory, in an Account of his

Life by Madame Von Blumenthal, which we think one of the finest biographical compofitions of modern times, and from which the preceding facts are extracted.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

To a LADY dreaming of the DEATH of ber His touch fhall dim thy gloffy hair,

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FROM THE LATIN OF PONTANUS.

DAMSEL! fairer than the rose

That buds when vernal zephyr blows, And fwells in crimson to the view, When moistened by the morning dew; Come, mark with me thy emblem flower, When glows the fultry noon-tide hour. Come, fee how feeble, faint, and dead, It gently bows its drooping head, And falls, and withers on the plain. Damfel! thus brief is Beauty's reign. Pafs fome few years, and age fhall trace His wrinkles in thy fading face:

Thy ivory teeth, thy forehead fair.
No ceftus, bright with gems and gold,
Thy fwelling breafts fhall then enfold;
No crowds of fuitors then fhall wait
With garlands trim to deck thy gate;
But dull and dreary o'er thy bow'r
Shall pass the lonely midnight hour.

Come, then, enjoy the vernal day,
And crop with me the flowers of May;
With filent wing Time fpeeds his flight,
And wafts us fwift to endless night!
Come, then, my fair, and whilft we prove
The dear delights of mutual love,
Let glowing Venus beam from far
Our morning and our evening star.

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W. SHEPHERD

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"Twas thus at noon, as fings the swain,* Who tun'd the fimple Doric ftrain,

Shepherds retiring lay,

And, while in awe they dropp'd the reed, And careless left their flocks to feed,

To Pan would reverence pay. Thus, too, on Mana's fecret heights, The Druid paid his mystic rites,

And vervain duly fpread; And thus, while Silence liften'd round, Encircling wide the facred ground,

In meek devotion prayed.

I, too, with wearied fteps and flow
For I have reach'd this green hill's brow,
Now reft, at eafe reclin'd,
Feafting, while round I turn my eyes,
And view the mingling hills arife,

With folemn thoughts my mind.
Oh! Parent bleft of young delight,
Fair Health, now glide before iny fight
In more than mortal grace,
With rofes, blushing on thy cheek,
In radiant fmile, and dimple fleek,
And harmony of face.

Let Love ftill move thy matron breast, And let thy flowery-cinctur'd vest

In folds majestic flow;Splendent as funbeams be thy hair, In braids bright waving in the air,

And bright thy neck as fnow.
Yet what avails? To thee in vain
I pour the pious-warbled ftrain,

The fruitless incense burn:
I fee thee fmiling ftill and fweet,
Yet haftening far from my retreat,
Ah! never to return.
Theocritus.

Enfav'd to love, confum'd by thought,
With books, and verfe, and follies fraught,
Too long I flighted thee;

Oh! how my youth has pafs'd away,
And now I feel my ftrength decay,

And now thou flightest me.
Ah! flowers, which look, in vain, fo gay;
Ah! gales, to me which idly play;
Ah! birds, that vainly fing:
The bloom of Spring, the Summer's flow'r,
And golden Autumn's milder store,

To me no pleasure bring.
Go, then, more kind, to Stella go;
Give her the pure vermilion glow,

And ftreak her eye with fire;
Still the dire throbbings of her heart,
Bid Languor's liftlefs form depart,
And all her foul refpire.

And let her drink th' ambrofial gales,
Which by thy fprings, and hills, and vales,
Their balmy influence shed;
There haleft herbs luxurious grow,
And flowers with brightest colours glow,
And daintiest odours spread.

Then fhall the feas, and earth, and skies,
With double fplendors feaft her eyes,
Her breaft with rapture fill;
Then fhall the bid her founding lyre,
(For Stella has the poet's fire)

With ardent numbers thrill.

Thus deign, oh Health! to hear my prayer, And oft-times here will I repair;

For fhouldst thou not impart Thy healing genuine warmth to me, Still fhall my incenfe rife to thee, And that shall warm my heart.

G. D.

Extracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters.

SANTO ZAGO.

HE paintings of this famous fcholar

known, any more than the work of Bof chini, who informs us, that he followed fo clofely the rules of his mafter, that any one who had feen his Angel conducting Tobias in the church of St. Catherine, in Venice, at the first view would doubtlefs give it to Titian; and were it not to a certain degree inferior in point of tenderhefs, even the best-informed judges might be deceived.

Bofchini, p. 19 and 430. Query. Are any one of this matter's works in England? The writer has feen one in Italy that fully answered this character.

BOCCACCIO.

In the Vatican library, bequeathed by

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1552 Do. 8vo,

1552 Ven. Valgrifi, 4to.

1555 Lyons. Rovillius, 12mo.

1557 Ven. Valgrifi, 4to.

1590 Ven. Fabio & Augs. Teppino, 4to.

1554 Ven. Marcolini, 4to.

ANDREA MELDOSSA,

that great collector of books, Capponi, Whole works have been fo often mistaken

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for thofe of Parmigiane, was probably the first inventor of the method of work ing on copper in dry point (that is fcratching on copper without varnish); afterwards carried to fuch perfection by Rembrant, Worlidge, and Capt. Bailly; and lately revived, with great improvement, by Mr. Blake, by means of a procef's only practifed by himself and a few of his friends. As few of the prints of Meldoffa (all of which are usually fold at exorbitant prices) have his mark, it may be uftful to point out two of the larger performances that are marked with his name, and by means of a reference to which, his ftyle may be ascertained to a certainty. The firit is a folio print on two plates, on a ftone in the corner of which is engraved, ORIENTIBUS. GALLIS. ILION. CE

CIDIT. MD XLVII-EXVRCITIBVS. GALLV. RENOVABITVR,

Below the infcription is a river god, with his back to the spectator, and on the waves, Andrea Meldoffa, inventor. The ftyle is very much like Parmigiano, and the print has twenty human figures, and three horfes in it, alfo a veffel overfet; above are Jupiter, and Juno in her car, drawn by peacocks, a temple, and an obelisk in the right hand corner. This print was in the collection of Mr. Cratchrode, now I believe in the British Mufeum, and near it was another impreffion of the fame print; where in the place of the name of the engraver, was a dolphin. Even that learned collector had put them at the end of his volume of Parmigianos.

He alfo engraved thus, a long 4to. the fubject from Rafael, and put his name at length to it; on the ground a fhield, with a Medufa's head.

F. QUEVEDO DE VILLEGAS Says fomewhere, "Lend and never afk for your money, make prefents, treat, bear, endure, do good turns, hold your peace, and fuffer yourself to be cheated cheerfully; fo fall you be beloved of all mankind."

His advice to thofe who would be fuccefsful in fuits at law was, "Never pay your council nor attorney, nor difcharge any fees of court; for all that money is certainly loft, and it is a daily charge to you. And if you pay them and gain your caufe, ftill your money is gone; or, if you are caft, till worte. For, take notice, before you go to law, the controverfy is, whether the money is your's or another's; but when the ruit is begun, the contrivance is that it be neither your's nor the other's, but

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It was beautifully faid by him, "The weavil and the moth oblige the wealthy monopolizer to bring his goods to market and by destroying the wardrobes of the opulent they give bread to the induftrious Were grain as incorruptible as gold, i would be foon as fcarce; and we ought to blefs the hand that created the infe& that obliges them to fift, turn, and ulti mately to bring the grain to public fale.'

MASUCCIO SALERNITANO.

The first edition of his novels, printed in Naples, in folio in 1476, was told, i the Paris fale for 211.; the fecond edition 1492, for 51. 15s. 6d. The language o both is Neapolitan, and very obfolete yet it feems very probable that Lawrenc Sterne had ftudied them, for his manne of telling a ftory is very like old Mafuc cio's. To go no farther than his Preface where, by way of compliment to hi readers, he relates the following event.

"In thofe days of illuftrious and happy remembrance, in the reign of Queen Mar garet, there was a wealthy merchant o great traffic, and well known throughou all Italy, named Guardo Salufgio, of a honourable family. Now this man, walk ing one day carelessly before his fhop i

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the Clothiers' fireet, and at one of his turns feeing, at the very feet of a poor taylor, a Venetian ducat, which, however dirty and trod upon, nevertheless, by the merchant, who was well acquainted with the coin, was inftantly recognized; and fo, without ceremony, ftooping down, with a fmile, he faid,By my faith, here is a ducat! The wretched botcher, who was just then patching a doublet for a morfel of bread, overcome with envy at the fight, and from extreme poverty acted upon by rage and grief, looked up to Hea ven, and, with his clenched fift, blafpheming the justice and power of God, added, Well is it faid, that gold flies to gold, and that mifery and want cannot influence it! Here have I toiled all day to earn five-pence, and find nothing but stones to wear out my fhoes; while this great lord of treasures picks up a ducat of gold at my feet, who has no more occafion for it than a dead man for incenfe.'

"The prudent and wife merchant, who during this fpeech had, by the fiery arguments of the filverfmith, who lived oppofite, reduced the ducat to its priftine beauty, turning to the poor tailor, with a miling countenance, replied; You are wrong, my good man, to blame Heaven, who has jully decreed that I fhould find the ducat; for, had it fallen to your share, you would foon have spent it; or, if, by chance, it had remained a while in your hands, you would have put it in fome dirty place, alone too; whereas I, on the contrary, fhall fend him to his equals, among gay and fplendid company. So faying, he turned round to his bank, and threw it on the top of many thousand florins that lay therein.'

The ducat was his book; the heap of flarins, his genteel readers.

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"I find (by a letter, on Friday) Mifs Carter is very much vexed at the publication of her Ode in Clariffa, whether the thought it unfinished, or what was her reafon the does not fay, but wanted me to inform her how he could properly exprefs her diflike of it. This is the af fair that I wanted to confult you about before I wrote, (when I called last night) which

did, as I was not to mifs that poft, and to this effect, that I could conceive no other method, but to let me publifh it in the Magazine, as the should correct it; with an introduction, that it being wrong without the leave and contrary to the intention of the author, we had obtained a genuine copy.

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"If I can have leave to print this Ode correct, and that to Mr. Y in the fame Magazine, this will tally very well, being cacumitanced alike.

"I will wait on you on Monday or Tuelday, and am

Your very humble fervant,
ED. CAVE."

Original Letter from the Rev. Peter Whalley, the Editor of Ben Jonson's Works in 1756, to Dr. Richard Rawlinson.

SIR,

"Your very obliging favour came safe to hand; and I beg leave in this to return you my thankful acknowledgements for what you fent me in relation to Ben Jonfon. That piece will be of fervice to me, both in compofing a new Life of the author, which I defign, and in explaining one or two of his finaller poems. Your inclination and abilities to gratify me, will, I am afraid, make me a troubletome correspondent; as they embolden

me

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