licentiousness. Their success, however, was very considerable, fifteen or
sixteen editions being sold within a short time. In the same year he
advertised a work entitled "Philosophy of Pleasure;" but this was never
published.

Towards the autumn of 1803, Mr. Moore embarked for Bermuda, where he had
obtained the appointment of Registrar to the Admiralty. This was a patent
place, and of a description so unsuited to his temper of mind, that he
fulfilled the duties of it by deputy, but the profits ultimately proved
unworthy of Mr. Moore's serious attention; and we believe Mr. Moore has
suffered by the villany of this substitute, to an important amount. He
likewise visited the United States, and upon his return home, in 1806, he
published his remarks on the American character, in a work entitled
"Epistles, Odes, and other Poems." The preface to this little work
sufficiently established the talent of Mr. Moore, as a prose writer. His
opinion of the Americans is also there pretty freely expressed, and some
of the poems, like those ascribed to Little, were objectionable in a
moral point of view. The work was accordingly attacked with much severity,
by Mr. Jeffrey, the editor of the Edinburgh Review: the irritated poet
challenged his critic, but the duel was prevented, and the pistols being
found loaded with paper pellets, the whole affair ended pleasantly enough.

The fate of Addison, with his Countess Dowager, holding out no
encouragement for the ambitious love of Mr. Moore, he wisely and happily
allowed his good taste to regulate his choice in a wife, and some years
ago married Miss Dyke, a lady of great personal attractions, and
accomplished manners, in whose congenial society he passes much of his
time in the retirement of an elegant cottage, in Wiltshire, devoting
himself chiefly to literary pursuits.