The Miscellaneous Pieces, as fet to Mufic by George Frederic Handel. Part II. With the Life of Handel, and a General Index. Heptinftall, Holborn.

THE First Part of this valuable collection we have

already recommended to our readers. The Second now demands our attention; and, it is with pleasure we declare, that it is executed with equal neatnefs and accuracy. The lovers of mufic will deem themfelves obliged to Mr. Heptinstall for this little work with which he has prefented them. This volume is decorated with the monument of Handel, and with the pofition of the muficians at the famous mufical celebration at Weftminster Abbey. The paffages here brought together are characterized by beauty and fublimity. Even the individual, therefore, who does not join with the poet in thinking that

"Mufic hath charms to foothe the favage breaít,"

will meet with fentiments calculated to raise and elevate his devotion.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The Sunday Journal is not quite fuitable for infertion. Many other favours are come to hand, and shall be acknowledged in our next Number.

ASTOR, I BROK

TILLE FOUNDA

THE

MONTHLY VISITOR.

AUGUST, 1799.

SKETCH

OF THE

CHARACTER OF GENERAL SUWARROW.

VENI, VIDI, VICI.

W Ruffian empire has, in the courfe of the pre

X7ITH the philofopher and the politician, the

fent century, become the object of admiration. The extent of its dimenfions, the variety of its foil, and its immenfe population, have drawn the eye of curiofity towards it with a more than ordinary intenfenefs. But thefe circumstances alone will not ferve to aggrandize a nation. The complexion of the inhabitants is to be taken into confideration, and that clafs of characters is to be drawn forth beneath our review, who by their talents or virtues have excited univerfal approbation.

GENERAL SUWARROW, it must be confeffed, has roufed the attention of Europe, and his hiftory is a fubject of general enquiry. The warrior is well known; his enterprizes against the Turks, against the Poles, and recently against the French, in Italy, are fresh in the memory of all. His victories are fo interwoven with the rife and progrefs of the wars in which he has fucceffively engaged, that even a detail of them could not be eafily comprised within the limits usually affigned to this department of our miscellany. VOL. VII.

But

But though we prefume not at prefent to enter into a detail of his martial exploits, yet we are able to gratify the reader with an account of him, which we have received from a gentleman of diftinction in the republic of letters, who refided in Ruffia for a feries of years, and who perfonally knew the celebrated officer, a fhort sketch of whofe character we are now presenting to the public.

General SUWARROW has reached the feventy-fecond year of his age, an extraordinary circumftance, when we recollect the hard fervice which he has repeatedly experienced, and the exertions which he has recently made for the conqueft of the French in Italy. In this refpect, a confiderable difference obtains between him and Buonoparte, who, notwithstanding his numerous engagements, is ftill in the prime of life. The fame of both is great, though in the time of acquiring it no fimilarity exifts. Suwarrow is hoary headed, nor with the infirmities of advanced years can he be wholly unacquainted.

From a boy he was always brought up in the army, and uniformly difcovered a fervent paffion for a military life. Various anecdotes are told of him in Ruffia, which fhew the extent of his predilection.

-To feek the bubble reputation,

Even in the cannon's mouth,

was the great and early object of his ambition. Hence it is not to be wondered that fuch a character thould -afterwards have fo eminently distinguished himself in his profeffion.

Strength of mind is another quality for which SuWARROW has been celebrated. Intimidated by no danger, nor turned afide by any obftacle, he proceeds ftraight forwards to the accomplishment of his ends. Intent on the fcheme which he adopts, he purfues fteadily the means which, in his opinion, are the most likely to enfure fuccefs. Perfeverance, in the utmost extent of the word, may be faid, in every enterprise, to