“_Where_ CATO liv’d”:— A sober truth! which gets rid at once of all the poetry and spirit of the original, and reduces the sentiment from an example of manners, virtue, patriotism, from the _vitæ exemplar dedit_ of LORD NUGENT, to a mere question of inhabitancy. _Ubi habitavit Cato_—where he was an inhabitant-householder, paying scot and lot, and had a house on the right-hand side of the way, as you go down _Esquiline_ Hill, just opposite to the poulterer’s. But to proceed— “_Where_ CATO liv’d; where TULLY spoke, Where BRUTUS dealt the godlike stroke— —_By which his glory rose_!!!” The last line is _not_ borrowed. We question whether the history of modern literature can produce an instance of a theft so shameless, and turned to so little advantage.] Footnote 58: [Horace Walpole, in a letter to Hannah More, quotes one word of these verses incorrectly, writing:—“Though Cato _died_,” an error which P. Cunningham allows to pass, as also another, that _Mr._—instead of _Lord_—Nugent wrote them.—ED.] Footnote 59: Line 26.—[Sir ROBERT ADAIR. Some observations on his alleged mission to St. Petersburgh to counteract the measures of Government will be found on a subsequent page. The publication here satirized is entitled “Part of a Letter from Robert Adair, Esq., to the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox; occasioned by Mr. Burke’s mention of Lord Keppel in a recent publication,” London, Debrett, 1796, and is by no means a contemptible composition. It is called “_Part_ of a Letter,” because it is a portion of a longer one, being only the part devoted to a vindication of the writer’s uncle, Admiral Lord Keppel, and of Fox; with characteristic delineations of Sir G. Saville, the Marquis of Rockingham, Lord North, and George Byng, M.P., on all of whom he passes great compliments.—ED.] Footnote 60: _And loads the blunderbuss with_ BEDFORD’S _brains._—This line is wholly unintelligible without a note. And we are afraid the note will be wholly incredible, unless the reader can fortunately procure the book to which it refers. In the “Part of a Letter,” which was published by MR. ROBT. ADAIR, in answer to MR. BURKE’S “Letter to the D. of B.,” nothing is so remarkable as the studious imitation of Mr. Burke’s style. His vehemence, and his passion, and his irony, his wild imagery, his far-sought illustrations, his rolling and lengthened periods, and the short quick pointed sentences in which he often condenses as much wisdom and wit as others would expand through pages, or through volumes,—all these are carefully kept in view by his opponent, though not always very artificially copied or applied.