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It became an atmosphere beset with new stars, whose various glories will perpetuate the me­ mory of the 2 d of April. For several weeks Professor Rahbek wrote and received essays on this theme, till the disapprobation of some inclined them to censure the editor, for persisting, in what they called, a thread-bare subject; but the murmurs reach­ ing Rahbek, he silenced these little minds, by a severe stricture in his next number. '-‘Were you,” he says, “ now flying from a “ successful foe ; your houses in flames; your “ families hurrying over the ruins of the tc once beautiful city, where comfort and hap- “ piness smiled around you; then would you tc wish you had been as bravely defended as “ you have been. Then should I have parti-