tion, too often inattentive, tumultuous, full of "quips and cranks," and unseasonable glee, more disposed to make merry with the teacher's solicitude for their improvement, than to profit by it. But the mingled dignity and gentleness of his manner had power to charm the giddiest and most froward boy to his book and to his seat. There was a witchery in his address which could prevail alike over sloth and over levity. Those who but a moment before, and in a different class-room, were noisy, restless, negligent, wantonly troublesome, no sooner came into Mr. Dalzell's presence, than they were, for the hour, transformed, as by magick, into the most modest and quiet young gentlemen, and the most attentive students one could desire to see. He treated them with a gracious politeness and respect which, in a manner, compelled them to respect both him and themselves. He was careful to make a spirit of piety and virtue pervade the whole course of his instructions. It was gentle, insinuating, and pleasing. It breathed itself into young minds without harassing or disgusting them. His concluding lecture every session was, in particular, a favourite with the students. To hear it many would defer, even for several weeks, their departure for the country. It reviewed the studies of the session; exhorted to ardent diligence dur ing the vacation; pointed out the books the fittest to be then read; indicated the proper exercises in composition; dwelt affectingly upon the charms of classical literature, and of virtue; and, in a strain of the finest Christian and Platonick enthusiasm, taught the heart to elevate itself, through the survey of the works of nature, up to nature's God. On this occa. sion, the Professor and his pupils never parted but in tears. Such was his conduct as a Professor for a period of, I think, nearly thirty years. His pupils regarded him with the affection due to a parent, and usually met from him the beneficence of a father's love. Hundreds have been introduced by him into situations as tutors, and into other honourable connexions, which proved the means of their subsequent advantageous and useful establishment in the world. His advice was confided in by parents, in respect to their children's education, more than (I believe) that of any other man in any uni. versity, or other seminary, in the three kingdoms. Upon the institution of the royal society of Edinburgh, he was persuaded to undertake the functions of secretary to its literary class. At the death of the learned professor of oriental languages, Dr. James Robertson, Mr. Dalzell was chosen to succeed him as keeper of the publick library of the university. With an exception in favour of a layman, which was, I believe, without example, he was chosen to succeed Dr. John Drysdale in the highly respectable appointment of principal clerk to the ge neral assembly of the church of Scotland. He discharged the functions of all these offices with a zeal, a fidelity, and a masterly ability which gave universal satisfaction, and have never, indeed, been exceeded in any one of them. He was, as may well be imagined, the pride and delight of the private society in which he chiefly lived. Among his particular friends were, the late Dr. Gilbert Stuart, Dr. Russel, known as the judicious compiler of the History of Modern Europe; Mr. Liston, who has so long and with such distinction served his country in a diplomatick capacity; Mr. Porter, an eminent Russian merchant; the late Dr. William Robertson, the historian; the late venerable Lord Monboddo,well known as an amiable enthusiast in Grecian literature; Mr. Dugald Stuart, that most learned, ingenuous,and modest of the members of the Scottish universities; Mr. Professor Christison, and many others, the most eminent for virtue, rank, and talents. Amidst so many publick duties, Mr. Dalzell's application to private studies was indefatigable. The composition and continual improvement of his lectures, with the compilation of his Collectanea or AZT cost him prodigious pains and labour. His correspondence with Heyne and other men of learning abroad, encroached a good deal upon his hours of leisure. He has enriched the volumes of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh with a variety of interesting communications in biography or on subjects of erudition. He was the editor of the posthumous Sermons of his fatherin law, the learned and judicious Dr. John Drysdale. He gave a value to Chevalier's Description of the Plain of Troy, by translating and illustrating it. His application was, indeed, far too intense : but so very much was his heart in his studies and his official duties, that no tender suggestions of his friends, no counsels of his physi cians, could divert him from them. He was in stature among the tallest of the middle size; his complexion was fair; his aspect mild, sweet, and unavoidably interesting; there was peculiar power of ingenuous expression in the modest, almost timid, serenity of his blue eye; his features were plump and full, but without heaviness or grossness; his address, in accosting a stranger, or in the general course of conversation, was singularly graceful, captivating, and yet unpresuming. He took little exercise, but in occasional walks in the King's Park, which was the rural scene the most easily accessible from his residence in the college. An attick propriety, a golden moderation, seemed to pervade all his habits in common life. He was eminently temperate, yet hospitable and convivial. In the tenderest connexion of domestick life he was truly fortunate, having married the eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. John Drysdale, a lady whose temper, taste, good sense, accomplishments, and turn of manners, were entirely in unison with his own. She survives, with the children of their marriage, to mourn his premature loss. Urget! cui pudor, et justitiæ soror, Ergo Quintilium perpetuus sopor Incorrupta fides, nudaque veritas, Quando ullum invenient parem? Multis ille quidem flebilis occidit Nulli flebilior quam mihi—. London, Jan. 1807. For the Anthology. PROFESSOR LUZAC. The following letter, from a gentleman of high respectability, residing in Holland, was addressed to the late President of the United States. It contains the relation of an event of the most afflictive nature to the friends of humanity, of freedom, and of virtue. To the people of New-England, who recollect with reverence and affection the pilgrimage of their parents, the city of Leyaen was a spot, peculiarly interesting; and to all those, who know any thing of the American Revolution, and feel any attachment to its principles, the name and character of JOHN LUZAC will ever be dear and venerable. He descended from one of those virtuous and persecuted families, which,in the reign of Louis the 14th, took refuge in Holland from the violence of that religious fanaticism, which will forever disgrace the annals of that prince. Educated to the profession of the law, and highly distinguished in its practice at an early period of his life, he had for many years relinquished these forensick pursuits to discharge the duties of Professor of the Greek Language and History at the University of Leyden. He had also been the principal editor of the Leyden Gazette, a paper equally celebrated for the elegance of its composition, for the accuracy of its narratives, and for the comprehension, penetration, boldness, and correctness of its political views. In the following letter the voice of ardent and sorrowing friendship speaks the language of strict and unexaggerated truth. There are men of louder fame, and more extensive influence yet remaining; but the civilized world cannot produce a man, uniting that assemblage of qualities, necessary to form a profound classical scholar, an accomplished statesman, and a virtuous and honourable man, in more perfect harmony, than was exhibited in the character of JOHN LUZAC.] JOHN ADAMS, ESQ. SIR, INTIMATELY Connected in a disinterested friendship of many years with Mr. JOHN LUZAC, Professor at Leyden, who often confided to me the marks of esteem he received from you, his respected friend, as well as of the immortal Washington, I now take the mournful task to announce to you his death, in a dreadful manner, by the explosion of a barge with gunpowder, that laid, contrary to the laws, in the centre of the city of Leyden,... the two-thirds and best part of which is ruined by the force of it, which is to be conceived by the quantity, being thirty thousand weight. His house is dashed to pieces; his children were saved before it fell down. His absence from thence, of about five minutes, makes it almost certain, that hẹ was, at the fatal time, at the place where the barge laid. Thousands perished with him, and the town is a heap of rubbish. The churches and a considerable number of houses threaten to fall, and are taking down to prevent more mischief. This catastrophe took place on the 12th instant, at four o'clock in the afternoon. Not fifty houses are left, without being damaged. Mr. Luzac, great by his profound learning, by his unrelenting assiduity and labour, and by his incorruptible honesty, was reckoned to be the greatest, deepest, and most virtuous politician in 135 parental eye in the school of wisdom and learning, promises to become the successor of his great father's merits. The second of 14, and the youngest of 10 years, promise both also well. They entered early in the school of adversity, having lost a few months ago their tender and beloved mother by an apoplexy, very suddenly and very unexpectedly. He left them, with his great example, a moderate fortune, and the benevolence of his friends and admirers, deeply wounded by his loss. Full of respect to you, I remain your most "ope. Neglected by the inung herd, they did him all the hey dared; they feared his ing eye, and wounded him he dark. He disdained and stood them on all points. His nies were those of his unhapountry, whose fall he tried to nt; but his voice was stifled, principles calumniated, the sp. of party, of ambition, of selfinterest, and intrigue prevailed, and his country was ruined. Even those, whom he had instructed and fed, became his oppressors. The more he was ill-treated and persecuted, the greater he became in the eyes of those, that saw him act ;—that were sensible of his virtue, of his wisdom, of his merit ;-the great- Jan. 17th, 1807. er he became in the eyes of the Almighty God, whom he always fervently served, and who, judging him to have fulfilled the hard task he had given him, took him home in a moment....to everlasting felicity! He left to his friends three sons; the eldest, of about eighteen years of age, bred under the Obedt. servant, P.S. I inclose this to my friends, Messrs. James & Thomas H. Perkins of Boston, desiring them to forward it to you, and after they calculate it to be in your hands, to have it placed in one of the best newspapers; as America is yet the country where such a man can be duly appreciated. For the Anthology. Sylva gerit, frondes.. ARMSTRONG. POETRY, at no time, has possessed more admirers, than in the present age. But it may be ask ed, is our taste, in this charming art, correct? Do we judge of a poem, as Aristotle, Quintilian, and Horace would have judged of it? What would they have said of the extravagant encomiums passed on the vulgar emptiness of a Bloomfield, on the crude conceptions and sleep-inspiring versification of a Southey, on the unintelligible fus OVID. tian of a Della Crusca, and on the numberless poetical Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire,' which the monster-breeding' breasts of our modern bards have produced? Modern poems are a species of romance in metre; and the sentimental trash of a Circulating Library, turned into verse, would possess equal merit, and excite equal admiration. It is not to be wondered at, since the publick taste is thus perverted, that poems of sterling merit, For the Anthology. PROFESSOR LUZAC. The following letter, from a gentleman of bigh respectability, residing in Holland, was addressed to the late President of the United States. It contains the relation of an event of the most afflictive nature to the friends of humanity, of freedom, and of virtue. To the people of New-England, who recollect with reverence and affection the pilgrimage of their parents, the city of Leyden was a spot, peculiarly interesting; and to all those, who know any thing of the American Revolution, and feel any attachment to its principles, the name and character of JOHN LUZAC will ever be dear and venerable. He descended from one of those virtuous and persecuted families, which,in the reign of Louis the 14th, took refuge in Holland from the violence of that religious fanaticism, which will forever disgrace the annals of that prince. Educated to the profession of the law, and highly distinguished in its practice at an early period of his life, he had for many years relinquished these forensick pursuits to discharge the duties of Professor of the Greek Language and History at the University of Leyden. He had also been the principal editor of the Leyden Gazette, a paper equally celebrated for the elegance of its composition, for the accuracy of its narratives, and for the comprehension, penetration, boldness, and correctness of its political views. In the following letter the voice of ardent and sorrowing friendship speaks the language of strict and unexaggerated truth. There are men of louder fame, and more extensive influence yet remaining; but the civilized world cannot produce a man, uniting that assemblage of qualities, necessary to form a profound classical scholar, an accomplished statesman, and a virtuous and honourable man, in more perfect harmony, than was exhibited in the character of JOHN LUZAC.] JOHN ADAMS, Esq. SIR, INTIMATELY Connected in a disinterested friendship of many years with Mr. JOHN LUZAC, Professor at Leyden, who often confided to me the marks of esteem he received from you, his respected friend, as well as of the immortal Washington, I now take the mournful task to announce to you his death, in a dreadful manner, by the explosion of a barge with gunpowder, that laid, contrary to the laws, in the centre of the city of Leyden,... the two-thirds and best part of which is ruined by the force of it, which is to be conceived by the quantity, being thirty thousand weight. His house is dashed to pieces; his children were saved before it fell down. His absence from thence, of about five minutes, makes it almost certain, that he was, at the fatal time, at the place where the barge laid. Thousands perished with him, and the town is a heap of rubbish. The churches and a considerable number of houses threaten to fall, and are taking down to prevent more mischief. This catastrophe took place on the 12th instant, at four o'clock in the afternoon. Not fifty houses are left, without being damaged. Mr. Luzac, great by his profound learning, by his unrelenting assiduity and labour, and by his incorruptible honesty, was reckoned to be the greatest, deepest, and most virtuous politician in |