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had been banished his country. Independent of its poetical beauties* it contains the truth of this maxim, “ You may quit your country, “ but you cannot quit the unceasing love you “ naturally cherish for it.” Mr. Bruun’s iirst production, was te The Aristocrats' Catechism ” for that he was par­ doned ; but having afterwards written another, entitled “ Tria juncta in unoy" he was prose­ cuted, and sentenced to perpetual banishment. The trial took place in his absence, for he had previously fled to France. It is to be lamented that this genius should have misapplied the axiom of Goldsmith, in his Citizen of the World, “ We should find every great attempt u suppressed by prudence, and the rapturous “ sublimity in writing cooled by a cautious