demoiselle Defhoulieres, the celebrated Poetefs, whom he had patronifed, contrived to fend him intelligence even into that inacceffible fortrefs the Baftille. The Great, who had condefcended to partake of his favours whilft he was in power, completely forfook him when he had no longer any thing to give them; and this after he had fo far attended even to their vices, as at all the entertainments he gave to put money under their plates to enable them to pay their loffes at play. Foucquet was confined many years in the fortrefs of Pignerol, where he composed some devotional Treatifes. It is not known whether he was ever permitted to return to Paris. St. Simon, in his Memoirs, gives a very curious account of the meeting between him and his fellow-prifoner the Duke of Laufun at Pignerol, PELISSON. THIS elegant Writer contrived to be sent to the Baftilie, to give his patron M. Foucquet intelligence of what had been done respecting his trial. Whilft he was confined there, he wrote a Poem called, Eurymedon; perfuaded," fuaded," fays his Biographer, " that by a great effort of application of mind to a par"ticular fubject, he fhould alone be able to "foften the rigours of confinement.” He wrote the following lines on the walls of his cell: Doubles grilles à gros cloux, Vous reprefentez l'enfer, Mais aux ames innocentes Vous n'êtes que du bois, des pierres, et du fer. Voltaire fays, there are no compofitions in the French language, which in ftyle and manner more refemble the orations of Tully; than the remonftrances of Peliffon to Louis XIV. in fayour of M. Foucquet. M. DUMOULIN. "I LEAVE behind me," fays this excellent Physician on his death-bed, " two most power"ful remedies, diet and exercise." Dryden has faid, God never made his work for man to mend. This may be true of man as he came out of the hands of his great Creator; but he has fince, fince, by his vices and his follies, debased his frame, and made it neceffary for him often to apply for the affiftance of thofe who have made the diseases of the body their particular study. Yet with what caution he should apply, the learned Frederic Hoffman will warn him, who wrote a book entitled "Medici Morborum Caufe;" Phyficians the Causes of Diseases *. M. Dumoulin had this infcription engraved over the Fountain of the Mineral Waters of Bourbon: Auriferas dives jaɛtet Pactolus arenas, Unenvied now, Pactolus, roll along "The lives of many hysterical and hypochondriacal "patients," fays the ingenious Dr. Ferriar, of Manchester, in his excellent Treatife on the Converfion of Diseases, "have been at once fhortened and embittered by the "thoughtless encouragement given by fome practitioners to the use of fpirituous liquors. I have feenmo ft melan"choly inftances in which habits of dram-drinking have "been thus acquired, under the fanction of the medical "attendant, by persons not only temperate but delicate in "their moral habits. In this manner hysterical diseases of 66 no great moment are converted to schirrus of the liver "and dropfy, to apoplexy, palfy, and other difeafes; fed manum de tabula!” The The three Greek words lately infcribed by the learned and excellent Dr. Harrington on the Pump-room at Bath have a peculiar and specific propriety. They are fimple and elegant in themselves, are taken from a great lyric Poet, and allude to the celebrated system of an ancient Philofopher, that water is the principle of all things; and they bear a specific allufion to the properties of the Bath waters, which are extremely falutary to those who have indulged in wine and fermented liquors, mance. REGNARD. THE life of this celebrated French Comic Poet appears to have been a life of real roHe was born at Paris in 1647. His great paffion throughout life was that of travelling. In returning from Italy to France by an English merchant ship, he was taken prifoner by an Algerine veffel, and carried with the reft of the crew to Algiers, where he was fold for a flave to one of the principal persons of that city. Regnard, being a very good cook, was in confequence of his knowledge in very ufeful art taken notice of by his mas ter, and treated with great lenity. He was that however however detected in an intrigue with one of the women of his master's feraglio, and was fentenced either to be impaled, or to turn Mahometan. The French Conful at Algiers, who had just received a very confiderable fum of money to purchafe Regnard's liberty, made use of it to procure him both that and his life. Regnard, again a free man, returned to France: having however the goût de la vie vagabonde (as he calls it) he travelled into Flanders and Holland, and from thence to Denmark; the Sovereign of which country advifing him to vifit Lapland, he and two other Frenchmen (whom he chanced to meet at Copenhagen) went together into Lapland as far as the extremity of the Gulph of Borneo, and extended their travels even to the Frozen Sea. Stopping here, as they could not poffibly go any farther, Regnard had thefe lines engraved upon a stone on a mountain near that immenfe repofitory of ice: Gallia nos genuit, vidit nos Africa, Gangem In Gallia born, by fcorching Afric view'd, • The principal circumftances of this intrigue Regnard has worked up into a Novel called "La Provençale.” We've |