immediately retired, and waited at a little dis tance until he awoke, when rising he opened the door, darted through the thicket, accompa nied by his dogs, and made directly for the house." This characteristic anecdote accords exactly with other accounts that have been communicated respecting this extraordinary nobleman, who took a pride in deviating from the usual practices of mankind. 3. The manner after which he conducted his paternal estate, forms another singular trait in the character of his lordship. We say conducted, because we cannot use the term cultivated in the present connection with propriety. It was his mode to suffer every thing on his lands to run out in all directions. The woods and parks with which his mansion was encircled, were left to vege tate with a wild luxuriancy. Nature was not in any respect checked by art-she sported her self in ten thousand charms, and exhibited the countless forms of variety. The animals also, of every class, were left in the same state of perfect freedom, and were seen bounding through his pastures with uncommon spirit and energy. In some respects, this general licence which he gave to the animate and inanimate objects. around him, may challenge admiration. Nature, in such a case, must undoubtedly be more unrestrained in her operations, and would of course, stinted by no foreign causes, expand with a greater grandeur and sublimity. But, nevertheless, it must be confessed that this idea was carried by his lordship to an excess. The God of Nature has left much to be performed

formed by the care and industry of man. We are expected to reduce many things to juster proportions—and we are to render this lower world, by improvements, subservient in a still higher degree, both to our pleasure and utility. -Such then, is our portrait of Lord Rokebywe have endeavoured faithfully to copy the original-and happy shall we deem ourselves, should it be found that we have sketched the features with fidelity. His was no common character. Peculiar in his talents, in his habits of life, and in his general views of mankind, we must expect his history to have been marked by a singular train of actions. Such was really

the case and few individuals had a more indisputable claim to originality. With all these eccentricities, however, he possessed virtues by which his defects were abundantly overbalanced. We shall close this narrative by specifying one trait of excellence for which his whole life was distinguished-HIS ardent and unabated love of freedom! Inimical to measures, which in his opinion encroached on the liberties of mankind, he ceased not to lift up his voice against every species of oppression. Independent in his own views and manners, he spoke his mind freely on all occasions, which drew even from his enemies, expressions of admiration. Intent on the diffusion of happiness, he uniformly studied, (though in his own peculiar manner) the welfare and prosperity of his country. ROCHESTER, (JOHN, Earl of) a witty profligate poet in the reign of Charles II. was born in 1648.

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He was very perfect in the Latin language, of which he was extremely fond; and, if we believe Andrew Marvel, he was the only man in England who had a true vein of satire. He led such a life of drunkenness and gross sensuality, as to wear out his constitution before he had attained his thirty-fourth year. Mr. Walpole calls him "a man whom the Muses were fond to inspire, and ashamed to avow." In his last illness he grew serious, and though he had been an avowed infidel all his life, the perusal of the 53d chapter of Isaiah, converted him to christianity, and he died perfectly resigned, and full of faith and penitence, in 1680.

ROUSSEAU, (JOHN JAMES) an eminent philo sopher, and most eccentric genius, was the son of a watchmaker at Geneva, where he was born in 1712. His birth cost his mother her life, which he says was the first of his misfortunes. When a youth, he delighted in romances, but afterwards, made choice of better books, as Rossuet's Discourses on Universal History, Plutarch's Lives, &c. He made up for a scanty education, by a constant application. He was

apprenticed to an engraver, from whom he says, he learned to be idle, and even to be a thief. At length the brutality of his master compelled him to quit his service; and by the kindness of M. de Pontverre, the rector of Consignon, in Savoy, he was recommended to Mad. de Warens, a very hospitable lady of Annecy. Assisted by her, he went to Turin, with letters of recommendation, and was admitted into a seminary there: having first been made a

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proselyte to the Roman catholic religion by his benefactress. Being soon disgusted with his situation, he left it almost pennyless. To obtain a support, he was then obliged to engage himself as a footman to a lady of quality. After her death, which happened about three months after he came into her service, her nephew procured him another place out of livery. Being again reduced to very great distress, he thought himself happy in getting employed to copy some music, though for a very trifling consideration. At length he became a composer and teacher of music, and about 1743, began to rise from the obscurity in which he had been buried. In 1750, he appeared in the field of literature, when the Academy of Dijon proposed the question, "Whether the re-establishment of the Arts and Sciences had contributed to purify morals?" In answering this, he supported the negative, and the Academy crowned his work. He then published "A Discourse on the Causes of the Inequality among Men, and upon the Origin of Society." In 1752, he wrote a dramatic pastoral, called the "Devin du Village ;" and in 1757, "A Letter to M. d'Alembert, on the Project of Establishing a Theatre at Geneva." A quarrel with Voltaire was the consequence of the last production. Rousseau also wrote "A Dictionary of Music;" and, in 1761, "An Epistolatory Romance, called The New Heloise." But his " Emilius," a moral romance which appeared the next year, made a greater noise than all his productions which preceded it. The book was

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demned, and the author prosecuted by the parliament of Paris. The author therefore fled into his own country, which refused to afford him an asylum, and he was obliged to retire to Newfchatel. By the invitation of Mr. Hume, he came to England in 1766, but he was so eccentric and capricious, that he supposed his best friends his greatest enemies. He obtained permission to return to France, on condition that he would never write on the subjects of religion or government. Rousseau died suddenly in 1787, at Ermenonville, the seat of M. de Giraldin. In his "Confessions" all the disguises which pride, hypocrisy, self-love, and shame, had wound round the human heart, are removed; all its secret recesses are laid open to the eye; and he appears a strange mixture of good and evil, of sublimity and littleness, of penetration and simplicity! Most of the writings of this strange man have been translated into English.

RUSSEL, (-) was always known under the guise or habit of a woman, and answered to the name of Elizabeth, as registered in Streatham parish, Nov. 21, 1662, but at death proved to be a man. He was buried April 14th. 1772. In speaking of this extraordinary person, it will be necessary, in order to avoid confusion among the relative pronouns, to make con. stant use of the masculine gender, however. oddly it may sometimes be combined. The va❤ rious adventures of his life, had they been collected by a cotemporary, would have formed a volume as entertaining as those of the cele

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