From the Monthly Magazine.
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Men of Bus,ness.-The very greatest
men Of business that the world has yet
produced have been distinguished for their
Ipredilection to literature. As states.
man, Demosthenes is no less celebrated
than as an orator Cicero is scarcely
more famous as barrister than as an au-
thor MILTON. in his own day, was more
renowned as practical politician and Sc
cretary of state, than as a poet ;-Shak'
speare was quite as good theatrical ma
lnager as any of his successors ;-Sherldan


was certainly as able debater IN the


House of Commons, Notwithstanding his
comedies, as the gravest man OF business
there ;-I.orenzo de Medici was as clever
a money dealer as Mr.. Roschid, and a.
successful in the negotiation of foreign
loans too, although addicted to 'the pro
fame and Improbable art ot poem-making;


the late Sir William Forbes was quite
as good banker as any in Lombard street


even while he was writing the Life OF Beat
tie the great Lord Chatham stood as
high with the public, and the merchants OF
London, as a minister, and yet he did no.
Iscruple to amuse his leisure with verses,
and even addressed some of his best to
Garrick, the player Lord Chesterfield
was as gay cour'icr, and as polished a


man of the world as any member OF the
Regents court, and yet he has beqneathed
no less than three large quartoes OF clas-
sical literature to posterity;-Jnllus Ct-
sar cannot be thought inferior to the Duke
of Wellington as a soldier merely because
he has written more Ineligible account
of his campaigns ;--oId Ere crlck of Prus-
sa was as well versed IN kng-craft as any
prince of his own or any other time, not
withstanding his musical and literary com
positions nor will it ever BE- objected to
the regal talents of Katherine Ii. OF Rus
sa, or Elizabeth of England, that the for
mer wrote PLAYS and the latter was bal


lad mongcr: DIR. Franklin was not thought
the less sensible for his essays. nor has
MIR. Vansittart made worse chancellor
of the exchequer for being party in re-
ligious controversy and it is well known
that Solomon, the wiscst man, was author
of the Canticles. To multiply instances
is unnecessary. for we have convinced our
readers sufficiently that it is absurd or in
vidious to allege, that, merely because a
man has literary predictions, he is there.
fore unqualified for business.