ANOTHER.

[From the fame.] Haydn fuccefsful. Haydn loquitur.

NOTE OF THE EDITOR..

AS Mr. Haydn, the foreign reprefentative of the literature and the fine arts of Europe in the National Inftitute of France, doth himself profefs to be only a very eminent compofer of mufie, it would be extremely unjuft in any of our readers to be hypercritical with refpect to a few trifling errors, which may occur in the metre or rythm of this his first attempt at literary compofition; indeed we have ourfelves taken the liberty of correcting, in many places, the grammar and fpelling of this little poetical jeu d'efprit, both in the original German of Mr. Haydn, and in the Englih tranflation which his Englifb correfpondent, Mr. Florio, has fo obligingly furnithed us with.

N. B. Since the above apology was actually put to prefs, we have received a note from Mr. Haydn's agent, Mr. Spreinck, cautioning us not to print Mr. Haydn's German effufion until the fame fhall have been corrected by the pen of his friend, Mr. Baumgarten, late leader of the band at Covent Garden Theatre. We accordingly fupprefs the original for the prefent, and only affure Mr. Baumgarten, that it lies at the Courier Office, awaiting his comments and amendments whenever his leifure fhall ferve; but as Mr. Spreinck lays no embargo on Mr. Florio's tranflation, we should hold ourselves unjustifiable in withholding that a moment from the public.

HAYDN

YDN TO FLORIO,

A VERY DISTINGUISHED PER

FORMER ON THE GERMAN FLUTE.

ENGLISH VERSION, BY MR. FLORIO.

E wond'ring world has heard with admiration fine English oratorio call'd Creation;

eed it fucceeded greatly beyond my expectation; And fince the days of Handel,

I may fay it without fcandal,

fuch a piece of mufic has been heard in that there nation.

But now the National Inftitute of France

Have thought proper their humble fervant to advance,
And member of that Inftitute created me;
In spite of Sheridan's prefumptuous claim
To all that genius can derive from fame,
For wit, for eloquence, and poetry,
I be only fearful in my new station,
That this the Inftitute's Creation
(If it be not in truth a blunder)
May cause more admiration,

And create more wonder

Than did my faid delightful Oratorio?
Pray tell me what you hear, dear Florio.

Yours,

HAYDN,

Foreign Representative of Literature and Fine Arts of Europe.

ANOTHER.

THE facred truths of claffic lore

Let wits profane deride;

Be't mine their leffons to adore,
The Mufe's friend and guide.

You 've heard how Midas, fage of old,
Tremendous judge of wit and gold,

From God Apollo gave the wreath to Pan;
Thus the wife Inftitute's decree,

From wit, and taste, and poetry,

Diverts their need, and turns from Sheridan.

Of

Of thofe two judgments, thus the Mufe complains,
That earu'd the afs's ears, and this his brains.

ANOTHER.

TROS, Tyriufve, mihi nullo difcrimine agetur.
Kindly tranflated by Mr. Baumgarten.
Haydn loquitur.

Me gwill be dammmb'd giff tween the artfh me make any podder,

Shinch me doesh know as much of one as me doefh of todder

OF SPECTACLES.

[From the Clef du Cabinet, a French Journal.]

IN the last century, to wear Spectacles was regarde as an unequivocal mark of wifdom. The nofe whic bore them was always that of an informed perfonthe eyes to which they tranfmitted the foftened ray of light were fuppofed to have been dimmed by mud reading-and the head which they decorated, an to which they imparted a certain venerable air, mu of course have been occupied by profound meditatio and ftudy. Towards the end of the century, your men adopted the fame fashion, it being thought dangerous to fee, as it was of advantage to be din fighted. So prevalent at length was this fafhion wearing fpectacles become, that many perfons who eyes were excellent took to wearing them, ufing on the precaution, left they fhould injure their fight, firft taking out the glaffes! Thus they conformed the established mode. But at prefent fpectacles fee to have returned to their primitive ufe, and to be wo only by those who have really an occafion for the

On this fubject I have made a moft fingular difcovery; which is, that every pair of spectacles has the property of retaining the manner of feeing peculiar to the coun try in which it was made. Thus with fpectacles made in London, a man fees very differently to what he does with thofe made by Gonichon at Paris. Both differ widely from the glaffes made at Geneva; and those again have no refemblance whatever to the spectacles which are fabricated at Venice.

I lately found myself in a grave affembly of politicians, confifting of an Englithman, a German, a Genevefe, two Venetians, and fome Frenchmen. All wore glaffes, and each faw in a different point of view the fubject which they were difcuffing, and which was that of divorce. The firft would not admit of it, except. in the cafe of adultery; the fecond would have it in no cafe whatever; the third, in whofe country the females are obfervant of their conjugal vows, faw no neceffity whatever for the difcuffion. The two Venetians were by no means agreed upon the fubject. One of them, who had refided a long time in France, was a ftrenuous advocate for the French opinions. During the difcuffion they both laid down their spectacles, and unknowingly made an exchange in taking them up again. I perceived immediately that the French Venetian, in putting on his nose the spectacles of his countryman, had alfo adopted his manner of viewing the fubject. This fuggefted to me the idea of trying the feveral glaffes of the Englishman, the Genevefe, and the German, and I foon found that I changed my opinions as often as I did the fpectacles!

I haften to make public this interefting difcovery, which is particularly important to the juftification of many perfons who are fufpected of not holding any fixed opinions. It is to be prefumed that it is not their fault, and that they have done nothing more. than changing their fpectacles. Many perfons, it is evident,

evident, wore very different fpectacles in 1792, from thofe which they have recently ufcd. I am alfo firmly perfuaded, that if the Baron de Coppet (M. Neckar) had not brought on his nofe his Genevefe fpectacles, he would have feen much better into the French finances! It is pity that the fpectacles of Sully were not carefully preserved for the use of the comptrollers of finance who were his fucceffors. They say that Barbé-Marbois has an excellent pair, and that Pitt's countrymen are in general not diffatisfied with the fpectacles which he made ufe of. They fay that our minifter of finance is not ill provided. He is therefore among thofe perfons who thould be cautious how they change their fpectacles; but there is a far greater number who fhould haften to exchange them as foon as poflible, and to provide themselves with better. SPECULATOR.

THE CLUB OF FALLEN AUTHORS.

[From a French Journal.]

N affociation under this title has lately been formed at Paris. The idea is evidently borrowed from the defcription of the Ugly Club, fo humorously given by Addifon in the Spectator. As, in the latter, no perfon was admitted who had not a hump back, a club-foot, a crooked nose, or fome other freakish twist of nature, which might ferve to keep deformity in countenance; fo, in the former, no candidate can be propofed, who has not made fome remarkable failure in the literary world. He muft have printed a poem, which, though decorated and embellished in the modern ftyle, has dropped ftill-born from the prefs;he muft have written a political pamphlet, which even thofe of his own party refused to read ;-or he muft have produced a dramatic piece, which by a critical

verdict