at Copenhagen--Publishes his various works--Marries--Quits the capital--Appointed secretary of the district at Meldorf--Anecdotes and character of Niebuhr by his son--Illiberality towards Bruce--Account of Niebuhr’s latter days--Illness--Death 99 CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER. Born 1752.--Died 1817. Incompleteness of the biography of celebrated men--Born at Paris of an illustrious family--His passion for the fine arts--Taste for literature--Falls in love--Marries--Adopts the profession of arms--Obtains the rank of colonel--Sails for Greece--His enthusiasm for antiquity--Visits the Grecian Isles--Occupies himself in drawing--Grotto of Antiparos--Opinions respecting its construction--Proceeds to Lemnos, Rhodes, &c.--Ruins of Telmissus--River Mæander, Ephesus, Smyrna, and Troy--Homer--Trojan territories--Rivers Simois and Scamander--Remarkable spots in the neighbourhood of Troy--Tombs of Ilus and Patroclus--Camp of the Greeks--Returns to France--Arranges the materials of his travels--Flattering reception--Patriotism--Modern Greeks--Elected member of the French Academy--Celebrated discourse on the death of D’Alembert--Delille’s poem entitled “Imagination”--Extract applied to Choiseul-Gouffier--Appointed ambassador to the Ottoman Porte--Acquires the confidence of Halil Pasha, and of Prince Mauro Cordato--Attempts to introduce civilization among the Turks--Turkish ship-of-war--Obtains the release of the Russian ambassador--Prevents the imprisonment of the Austrian internuncio--Protects the Russian and Austrian prisoners--Revisits the Troad--Despatches artists to Syria and Egypt--Appointed ambassador to the court of London--Anecdote of the Count de Cobentzel--Emperor Paul of Russia--Returns to France--Rose harvest of Adrianople--Personal existence of Homer--Is seized with an apoplectic fit--Dies 154 JOHN LEWIS BURCKHARDT. Born 1784.--Died 1817.