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8 (General Articles. DISTRESSES OP MEN OF GENIUS. Pope Urban VIII. erected an hospital for the benefit of decayed authors, and called it 41 The Retreat of the Incurables,” intimating that it was equally impossible to reclaim the patients from poverty or poetry. Homer is the first poet and beggar of note among the ancients: he was blind, sung his ballads about the streets, and his mouth was oftener filled with verses than with bread. Plautus, the comic poet, was better off; for he had two trades : he was a poet tor his di version, amd helped to turn a mill in order to gain a living. Terence was a slave, and Boethius died in a jail. Among the Italians, Paulo Burghese, al most as good a poet as Tasso, knew fourteen different trades, and yet died because he could get no employment in either of them. Tasso was often obliged to borrow a crown from a friend, to pay for a month's subsist ence. He has left us a pretty sonnet to his cat, in which he begs the light of her eyes to write by, being too poor to buy a candle. Bentivoglio, whose comedies will last with the Italian language, dissipated a noble for tune in acts'of benev nee, fell.into overty in his old age, and was refused adu hance into an hospital which, in his better days, he had himself paid for building. In Spain, ihe great Cervantes died of hun ger ; and Camoens, equally celebrated in Portugal, ended his days in an hospital. In France, Vaugela? was surnamed “the Owl,” from having been obliged to keep within all day, and only venturing out by nfght, through fear of his creditors. In his last will, he bequeathed every thing towards the discharge of his debts, and desired his body to be sold, to that end. Cassandar was one of the greatest geniuses of his time, but barely able to procure his livelihood. In England, the last days of Spenser, Ot way, Butler and Dryden are a national re proach. THE SILENT CLUB. There was at Amadan a celebrated aca demy. Its first rule was framed in these words : “ The members of this academy shall think much—write little—and be as mute as they can.” A candidate offered himself—he was too late—the vacancy was filled up—they knew his merit, and lamented their disappointment in lamenting his own. The president was to announce the event; he desired the candi date should be introduced. He appeared with a simple and modest air, the sure testimony of merit. The presi dent rose, and presented a cup of pure water to him, so full, that a single drop more would have made it overflow ; to this emblematic hint he added not a word ; but his counte nance expressed deep affliction. The candidate understood that he could not be received because the number was com plete, and the assembly full; yet he main tained his courage, and began to think by what expedient, in the same kind of language, he could explain that a supernumerary aca demician would displace nothing, and make no essential difference in the rule they had prescribed: Observing at his feet a rose, he picked it up, and laid it gently upon the surface of the water, so gently that not a drop of it es caped. Upon this ingenuous reply, the ap plause was universal ; the rule slept or winked in his favor. They presented imme diately to him the register upon which the successful candidate was in the habit of wai ting his name. He wrote it accordingly ; he had then only to thank them in a single phrase, but he chose to thank them without saying a word. He figured upon the margin the number of his new associates, 100; then, having put a cipher before the figure 1, he wrote under it —“ their value will be the same’' I —oloo. To this modesty the ingenious president re plied with a politeness equal to his address : he put the figure 1 before the 100. and wrote, “ they will have eleven times the value then had—l loo HYPOCHONDRIA. A person at Taunton often kept at home for several weeks, under an idea of danger in going abroad. Sometimes he imagined that he was a cat, and seated himself on his hindquarters ; at other times he would fancy himself a tea-pot, and stand with one arm a-kimbo like the handle, and the other stretched out like a spout. At last he con ceived himself to have died, and would not 3 ft) ‘o’ Uisli £1 <L3 if lAA Hi I ®ASISif TANARUS& ♦ move or be moved till the coffin came. His | wife, in serious alarm, sent for a surgeon, who addressed him with the usual salutation, “ How do you do*this morning ?•” “ Do !” replied he in a low 7 Voice, “a pretty question to a dead man !” “ Dead, sir ! what do you mean ?” “ Yes, I died last Wednesday ; the coffin will be here presently, and I shall be buried to-morrow.” The surgeon, a man of sense and skill, im mediately felt the patient’s pulse, and shaking his head, said, “ I find it is indeed too true: you are certainly defunct; the blood is in a state of stagnation, putrefaction is about to take place, and the sooner you are buried the better.” The coffin arrived, he was carefully placed in it, and carried towards the church. The surgeon had previously given instructions to several neighbors how to proceed. The pro cession had scarcely moved a dozen yards, when a person stopped to inquire w T ho they v 7 ere carrying to the grave ? “ Mr. , our late worthy overseer.” “ What! is the old rogue gone at last ? a good release, for a greater vil ain never lived.” The imaginary deceased no sooner heard this attack on his character, than he jumped up, and in a threatening posture said, “ You lying scoundrel, if I was not dead I’d make you suffer for what you say ; but as it is, I am forced to submit.” He then quietly laid down again ; but ere they had proceeded half way to church, another party stopped the procession with the same inquiry, and added invective and abuse. This was more than the supposed corpse could bear; and jumping from the coffin, was in the act of following his defamers, when the whole party burst in to an immoderate fit of laughter, the public exposure awakened him to a sense of his fol ly, and he fought against the weakness, and, in the end, conquered it. LITERARY INGENUITY. 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