Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Anchor Club.

No. I.

SOME ACCOUNT OF
A MANUSCRIPT,
Found among the papers of a French emigrant
in London, entitled,
"TALLEYRAND'S DESCENT INTO HELL."

THIS work appears to have been composed at intervals of time, as an English
exercise, and partakes of all the vicissitudes
of temper which may be supposed to influence
a Frenchman in his situation; exiled
from his country, stripped of his property,
cut off, forever perhaps, from a beloved fa-
mily, and only supported under the weight
of misfortune by the elasticity of a French
mind. This perfect subjection of the mat-
ter and manner of the work to the disposi-
tion of the author, has produced a very ex-
traordinary contexture, and much variety of
style and entertainment: sometimes verse,
sometimes prose—sometimes narrative, some-
times dialogue, it pursues its broken course
not unfrequently through meads of flowers,
but oftener doubling into the wild recesses of
romantic humour; now prattling with echo
in Philosophy's rocky labyrinth, and then
winding its plaintive current among the
willows of sorrow, "Telling its mournful,
pitiable tale."

ice! the sulphureous breath of Avernus at
every step. All day they continued their
wanderings, guided only by the supernatural
intimations of Weishaupt's Familiar, till the
shadows of night began to close around
them. The moon was at the meridian; the
moment auspicious, when the necromancer
commenced his incantations. Birds of dark-
ness began to flit around them; heavy clouds
gathered over their heads; and the earth
was felt to tremble as Weishaupt muttered
his potent spell. On these unholy rites,
Par has interposed her curtain, and blotted
out the pages which ought to succeed. We
lament the loss of this part of our author the
more, as a description of the best way of
going to hell, now a days, must have been
entertaining. One circumstance strikes
defection of the conjuror: No Weishaupt
is mentioned in any of the succeeding pages
in our possession, and the Hero of the Great
Nation is left to prosecute his infernal peri-
grinations alone. We are therefore autho-
ried to suppose, that this adept in mischief,
not wishing to participate in the danger he
had allotted to Talleyrand, led him to the
brink of the precipice, delivered him into
the hands of the great enemy of mankind,
and withdrew himself, safe and sound, from
the honor and responsibility of so hazardous
an undertaking.

(To be continued.)