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Lieut. Green, from 2 Dr. G. with Lt. Graham, h. p. Hamilton, from 29 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Richardson, h. p.

Gibson, fm 48 F. with Lt O'Brien, Rif. Br. King, from 49 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Maxwell, h. p.

Read, from 51 F. rec. diff. with Lt. Jones, h. p. 81 F.

J. H. Potts, from 54 F. with Lieut. C. H. Potts, York Rang.

h. P.

Dundas, from 56 F. rec. diff. with Lt. Grey,

Sandys, from 11 Dr. rec. diff. with Lieut. Brisco, h. p. 40 F.

A. Williams, from 25 Dr. with Lieut. MacQueen, h. p.

Harmer, from 5 F. rec. diff. with Lt. Wallace, h. p.

Gale, from 12 F. rec. diff. with Lt. Chamberlayne, h. p.

Ellison, from 61 F. rec. diff. with Lt. Randall, h. p. 60 F.

Cosby, from 63 F. with Lieut. Clune, h. p. 5 W. I. R.

Ewart, from 93 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Macdonell, h. p. 1 F.

hompson, from Rifle Brigade, with Lieut. Douglas, h. p. 26 F.

Stewart, from York Rang. with Lt. Tudor, h. p. 82 F.

Swayne, from R. W. I. Rang. with Lieut. Anderson, h. p. York L. I. Vol.

Jones, from York Chass. with Lieut. Muir. son, h. p. 1 F.

Clason, from 21 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Christie, h. p. 79 F.

Campbell, from 38 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Michell, h. p.

Tipson, from 58 F. with Lieut. Johnston, h. p. 48 F.

Powell from 12 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Jenkins, h. p.

Gregory, from 78 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. M'Queen, h. p.

Odlum, from African Corps, with Lieut. Hammill, h. p, Nova Scotia Fencibles

Beachcroft, from 14 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Meek, h. p.

Heard, from 48 F. rec. diff. with Lt. Cockburn, h. p. 29 F.

Lieut. Blagrave, from 89 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Naylor, h. p.

Farquarson, from 18 F. with Lieut. Campbell, 7 F.

Furlong, from 21 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Allan, h. p. 13 F.

Cockburn, fm. 48 F. with Lt. M'Lean, 75 F. Cornet Spince fm. 5 Dr. G. with Ens. Battier, 98 F. Coventry, from 15 Dr. rec. diff. with Cornet Callaghan, h. p. 1 Dr.

Grant, from 9 Dr. with Cornet Wright, h. p.

23 Dr.

Ensign Napier, from 40 F. with Ensign Newman, h. p. 12 F.

Lynam, from 28 F. with Ensign Borthwick, h. p. 10 F.

Macdonell, fm. 35 F. with Ens. Ingram, h. p. Spalding, from 71 F. with Ensign Woodward, 75 F.

Francis, from 77 F. rec. diff. with Ensign Clarke, h. p. 6 F.

Lennan, from 1 W. I. Regt. with Ensign Wemyss, h. p. 7 W. I. Regt.

Booth, fm. 40 F. with Ens. Miller, h. p. 37 F. Williams, from 4 W. I. Regt. rec. diff. with 2d Lieut. Senior, h. p 3 Ceylon Regt.

Deare, from 4 W. I. Regt. with 2d Lieut. Home, 21 F.

Cornet and Adj. Barlow, from 1 Dr G. with Lieut. and Adj. Hill, h. p. 23 Dr.

Surgeon Pritchard, from 10 F. with Surg. O'Donel, h. p. New Brunswick Fencibles

Assist. Surg. M'Lean, from 78 F. with Assist. Surg. Purcell, h. p. 35 F.

Ekins, from 38 F. with Assist. Surg.

M Munn, h, p. 37 F.

Resignations and Retirements.
Lieut. Colonel Cooke, 1 Foot Guards
Home, 3 ditto
Major J. P. Go don, 1 F.
Capt. White, 4 Dr. G.

Houghton, 5 Dr. G. j
Anderson, 19 Dr.
Campbell, 16 F.

Lieut. Cook, 20 Dr

Ensign J. H. Heigham, 6 F.
White, 59 F.
Marsh, 69 F.

Assist. Surgeon Drinkwater, 2 Life Guards

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BIRTHS.

April 13. At Berlin, the lady of George Sholto Douglas, Charges des Affairs of his Britannic Majesty, a son.-27. In Piccadilly, London, the lady of John Barrow, Esq. of the Admiralty, a son.--At Somborne, Hampshire, the Right Hon. Lady Kennedy, a son.-28. Mrs Christie, Dublin Street, Edinburgh, a daughter.In the Fleet Prison, the lady of Charles Henry Baseley, Esq. a son.-At Rothiemay, Lady Jane Tayler, a son.

May 3. At Overton, Mrs Captain Crawford, a son-At St Omer's, the lady of Captain Barwick, 79th, or Cameron Highlanders, a son.-Lady Fitz-Herbert, a son. At Castletown, Isle of Man, the lady of General Cumming, a daughter. At Ednam House, Mrs Douglas, a son. 4. At his house, Great Russell Street, Lon

don, the lady of James Loch, Esq. a daughter.-6. At Banff, the lady of James William Mackenzie, Esq. younger of Pittrichie, a son and heir.-At Stockholm, Viscountess Strangford, a son and heir.-9. At Edinburgh, Mrs Craigie of Dumbarnie, a daughter. At Brahan Castle, the Hon. Mrs Stewart Mackenzie of Seaforth, a son and heir. At Broughton Place, Edinburgh, Lady Campbell of Aberuchill, a son.-10. In George Street, Edinburgh, the lady of Roderick Macleod, Esq. jun. of Cadboll, a son. At Fife Place, Edinburgh, Mrs Spence, a son.-At Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, Mrs Gordon, a son.-13. At Paris, Lady Harriet Drummond, a daughter. -14. At Bedrule Manse, near Kelso, Mrs Brown, a son.-16. At Relugas, the lady of Thomas Lawder Dick, Esq. a daughter. -17. At Edinburgh, the lady of Sir James Montgomery, Bart. M. P. a daughter.-18.

At his house in York Street, London, the lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Dance, 2d Life Guards, a son.-At Coldstream, the lady of Captain A. M Laren, Berwickshire Militia, a son.-19. The lady of Sir A. O. Molesworth of Pencarrow, Cornwall, Bart. a son. -21. At Cortachy Castle, the lady of the Hon. Donald Ogilvy, a daughter.-At York Place, Edinburgh, Lady Heron Maxwell, a daughter.-23. At Springfield, near Perth, Mrs M Duff of Bonhard, a son.-26. At Edinburgh, Mrs Johnstone of Alva, a son. -29. In Bedford Place, London, the lady of Lieut.-Colonel James Allan, 94th regt. a son. At Naples, the lady of Thomson Bonar, Esq. of Camden Place, a son.

MARRIAGES.

July 19, 1817. At Po. Penang, East Indies, William Armstrong Clubly, Esq. chief secretary to government there, to Margaret, eldest daughter of James Carnegy, Esq. merchant, of that place.

Sept. 1. At Malacca, East Indies, James Carnegy, Esq. third son of Patrick Carnegy, Esq. of Lower, to Maria, eldest daughter of Adrian Kock, Esq. merchant there.

Nov. 1. At Madras, Lieutenant Michael, commanding the resident's escort at Tanjore, to Williamina, daughter of the late Dr Robert Grant, physician in Inverness.

Dec. 6. At the Cathedral of St John, Calcutta, John Trotter of Castlelaw, Esq. to Matilda, fourth daughter of the Hon. Sir Francis Macnaughton, Judge in the Supreme Court of Bengal.

March 17, 1818. At Perth, A. Pringle, Esq. to Miss Jarvie, only daughter of the late Rev. Mr Jarvie, Perth.

April 13. At Edinburgh, Mr R. Smith, merchant, Airth, to Miss Jemima, daughter of John Shirriff, Esq. Dunmore.-27. At South College Street, Edinburgh, Mr Joseph Theodore Mitchill, R. N. to Miss Margaretta Cunningham, eldest daughter of Mr John Cunningham.-30. At Union Place, Edinburgh, Capt. Hector H. M'Lean, of the 93d regt. of foot, to Miss Ann Macleod, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Mr Macleod, minister of Kilfinnichin and Bunnessan, Mull.

May 7. At St Margaret's church, Westminster, London, and on the 18th, re-married at Carron-house, Mr John Walker of Orchardhead, Stirlingshire, to Mary Ann, second daughter of Mr Charles Lea Jeffery, Broadway, Westminster.-8. At Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Mr Andrew Henderson, surgeon, R. N. to Miss Mary Scott, only daughter of Mr Peter Scott, merchant and insurance broker in Edinburgh.-11. At Conan-house, the seat of Sir Hector Mackenzie of Gairloch, Bart. the Rev. John Macdonald, minister of Urquhart, to Janet, eldest daughter of the late Kenneth Mackenzie, Esq.-13. At the new church, Mary-le-Bone, the Hon. Hen. Pierrepont, brother to Earl Manvers, to Lady Sophia

Cecil, sister to the Marquis of Exeter.-16. At St George's church, London, by special license, Horace Beauchamp Seymour, Esq. third son of the late Lord Hugh Seymour, to Elizabeth Mallet Palk, cldest daughter of the late Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart. M. P. for the county of Devon.-19. At Llynon, county of Anglesea, James Orr, Esq. George Street, Edinburgh, to Rachael, second daughter of Robert Scott, Esq. Forth Street, Edinburgh.-20. At the Marquis of Cholmondeley's house, in Piccadilly, London, Colonel Seymour, to Lady Charlotte Cholmondeley.-21. At Cheltenham, Sir W. Cunningham Fairlie, Bart. of Robertland and Fairlie, to Anne, only daughter of the late Robert Cooper, banker, Woodbridge.-25. At Mary-le-Bone church, John Clayton Freeling, Esq. second son of Francis Freeling, Esq. of the General Postoffice, London, to Mary, third daughter of the late Edward Coxe, Esq. of Hampstead Heath.-27. Miss Maria Giffard, daughter of the Marchioness Dowager of Lansdowne, to Count de Lusi, of the first regiment of Prussian guards.-28. At Edinburgh, Mr George Gordon, writer, to Catherine, eldest daughter of Mr Dick, accountant.

DEATHS.

Jan. 1, 1818. Fell, in a sally from Koreguam, near Poonah (having volunteered his services), Thomas Wingate, assistant-surgeon to the 2d battalion 1st native infantry, and eldest son of Dr Daniel Wingate, Stirling, aged 21.-13. On board the William Pitt, East Indiaman, and soon after leaving Bengal, William Hall, Esq. a partner in the house of Messrs Palmer and Company of Calcutta.

Feb. 10. At St Lucie, Mrs Mary Russell, wife of John I. I. Alexander, Esq. of that island, and relict of the late Right Hon. Robert Cullen, one of the Lords of Session and Justiciary in Scotland.-12. At sea, Mr Peter Murray, surgeon of the Hon. East India Company's ship Charles Grant. -28. At the Havannah, Lieutenant Thos. Sibbald, R. N. son of the late William Sibbald, Esq. merchant, Leith.

March 10. At Charlestown, South Carolina, Mrs Christiana Boston, spouse to Tucker Harris, Esq. M. D. in the 88th year of her age. Mrs Harris was a daugh ter of the late Rev. Thomas Boston of Jedburgh, and grand-daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Boston of Ettrick.-30. On his passage home, on board of the William Pitt, East Indiaman, Archibald Seton, Esq. of Touch.

April 12. In the guard-room of Kinross jail, in extreme wretchedness, Andrew Nicol, well known in the Court of Session and caricature shops under the name of the Kin ross Lawyer. From a tradesman in easy circumstances and of decent character, he reduced himself, by his most litigious and quarrelsome temper, to the state of a beggar, and finally an outcast from all society.

Rather than give up his pretended rights to the famous midden-stcad, he obstinately refused all supply from the poors funds of his native parish; and in order that he might retain what he conceived would be the means of bringing him once more within the walls of the Parliament House, wandered about from place to place, until at last, from his habits of life, he became such a nuisance, that, disowned by every relation, and shut out from every house, it was found necessary to convey him to the common prison, which he quitted only for that asylum "where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest."t."-At Eildon Hall, Katherine, the infant daughter of Leaver Legge, Esq.-15. At Libberton, Margaret Manson, spouse of the Rev. Mr James Simpson, minister of the Associate Congregation, Potter-row, Edinburgh.-21. Mr John Hatchet, senior, of the White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, London, aged 62.-23. At Topsham, aged 78, Captain Carter, R. N. With the exception of Admiral Schank, he was the only surviving officer who went to the North Cape of Lapland, to observe the transit of Venus, in 1768, in the Emerald, commanded by Sir Charles Douglas, of which the deceased was then first lieutenant. -At Avignon, Colin Macdonald Buchanan, younger of Drummakil.-24. At Liverpool, aged 81, Mr John Gore.-25. At Fraserburgh, Mr George Daniel, writer.-26. After a lingering and painful illness, Mr Rob. Wilson, merchant, Leith.-At Perth, the Rev. James Scott, late senior minister of Perth, at the advanced age of 85.-28. At Gartur, John Graham, Esq.-29. At Havre, Alexander, second son of William Oliver, Esq. younger of Dinlabyre.-30. At his mother's house, 65, Prince's Street, Edinburgh, James George Mackinlay, student of medicine, aged 20.-At Burntsfield Links, Edinburgh, Mrs Margaret Finlay, widow of the late James Bell, Esq. Finglen, Campsie. At his house in Beaumont Place, Edinburgh, Capt. Henry Bevan, retired adjutant of the Dumfries-shire militia, aged 52 years. At Edinburgh, the infant son of William Erskine, Esq.At Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, Mrs John Gardner.At Berwick-upon-Tweed, Mrs Barbara Hodgson, aged 88, relict of the late Dr Henry Hodgson, formerly Mayor of that

town.

May 1. At Lorn, Furnace House, Argyleshire, Mary Harrison, in her 36th year, wife of James Park Harrison, Esq. and eldest daughter of Matthew Harrison, Esq. Newland Furnace, Lancashire.-At his house, in Montague Street, London, John Crawford, Esq. late of Monorgan, in Perthshire. In Cumberland Place, London, the Hon. John Douglas. The deceased was grandfather to the present Marquis of Abercorn; he was father to the Countess of Aberdeen, and son-in-law to the Earl of Harewood, having married the noble Earl's daughter, Lady Frances Lascelles, who died

last year.-2. At his house, in the Admiralty, London, Rear-admiral Sir George Hope, K.C.B.-3. At his father's house, in Howe Street, Edinburgh, Arthur Forrest, Esq.-At Glasgow, Mr A. Ruthven, of the Ship Bank there.-At Glasgow, Mr James Russell, jun. grocer, High Street. Mr Russell has left the following donations :-To the poor of the Relief Chapel, Campbell Street, £200-Sabbath Evening Schools, £50-To the Royal Infirmary, £50-To the Lunatic Asylum, £50-To the poor of his native parish, Falkirk, £50.-4. At Gortnagally, near Dungannon, John Woods, an industrious farmer, at the advanced age of 122 years. He lived a regular and sober life. His wife died about two years ago, aged 82 years. He was 42 years old the day of her birth.-At Ramsay (Isle of Man) aged 61 years, the Hon. Norris Moore, his Majesty's first deemster in the island.-5. At Dublin, in the 25th year of his age, on his way homewards from Jamaica, on account of bad health, Mr Archibald Robertson, only remaining son of George Robertson, Esq. Bower Lodge, Irvine.-At her house, in Chapel Street, Mrs Alison Hay of Haystown, in the 90th year of her age.— 7. At Chapelton, the infant daughter of Capt. Durie, late of the 92d regiment.-At Sheerness, at an advanced age, Mr Wyatt, ship-builder. His death was occasioned by an anchor, weighing 46 cwt. which he was trying to move, falling against his chest, and knocking him down, the Monday preceding.At Edinburgh, Mrs Margaret Aitchison, wife of Mr James Clarkson.At Fernie, Francis Balfour, Esq. of Fernie. -At Campbeltown, Major Robert Elder of Belloch.-Christian, youngest daughter of William Haig, Esq. of Dollarfield.-8. At Hill Street, Edinburgh, Colin Mackay, Esq.-At Edinburgh, in the 73d year of his age, Alexander Robertson, Esq. of Ettrickhall, late one of the keepers of the records of Scotland.-9. At Edinburgh, at the house of his son-in-law, the Rev. Dr Anderson, Thomas Brown, Esq. of Waterhead, aged 82.-11. At Edinburgh, Mrs Rattray, wife of Lieut. Col. David Rattray, and only Daughter of General John Hamilton of Dalzell and Orbiston.-At Burdiehouse Mains, Mr Alexander Peacock, architect, aged 85 years.-12. William Richardson, cousin-german to the late William Richardson, Professor of Humanity in the University of Glasgow, aged 76.-At Glasgow, Mrs Loudoun, wife of Morehead Loudoun, Esq.-13. At his house, Wester Duddingston, Robert Kay, architect, aged 78.—At his house in George Street, in the 73d year of his age, Mr William Scott, teacher of elocution and geography. Mr Scott was the father of elocution in this country, and for a period of upwards of forty years distinguished himself by his extensive useful. ness in his profession, having also instructed in this elegant accomplishment a great proportion of our countrymen who have risen

to eminence in the senate, the pulpit, and at the bar. He is also well known as the author of several useful and popular elementary works on subjects connected with education, among others, Lessons on Reading and Speaking, of a System of Geography, and a Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, which has always been considered a work of high authority, and equally esteemed on both sides of the Tweed. In the private relations of life, he was distinguished for his benevolence and piety; and during the protracted period of his last illness, he displayed that fortitude and resignation, and even cheerfulness, which the consciousness of a well spent life, and the joyful anticipations of a happy futurity, alone can give.-At Edinburgh, Captain David Havan, 21st Foot, or Royal North British Fusiliers.-14. At Edinburgh, Mrs Arbuthnot, relict of Robert Arbuthnot, Esq.-At Leith, in the 20th year of her age, Agnes, youngest daughter of the late James Scarth, Esq. merchant in Leith.-15. At Wilson Park, Portobello, J. P. Donaldson, Esq. assistant-surgeon of the Fifeshire Militia, and surgeon in Portobello.-16. At Gaddesby, near Leicester, Eliza, wife of LieutenantColonel Cheney, of the Scots Greys.-17. At Glasgow, Mrs Taylor of Kirktonhill. At Edinburgh, Mr William Sawers, bookseller. At Edinburgh, Elizabeth, the infant daughter of the Rev. C. H. Terrot, Albany Street.-At Crossmont, Capt. James Menzies, Royal Perthshire Militia.-18. At Leeds, of a typhus fever, after an illness of ten days, in the 36th year of his age, Dr John Thomson, of this town, late of Halifax. His best eulogy will be found in the sentiments of deep and heartfelt regret which the sudden stroke has excited in the breasts of those who knew him. Warmly beloved by his friends, highly respected by the generous brethren of a liberal profession, universally esteemed, he is now universally lamented. Seldom has the hand of death blighted fairer prospects, or inflicted a severer wound. In Dr Thomson, a powerful, enlightened, and active mind was united with a kind and benevolent heart. He had the will, as well as the ability, to be and to do good. His talents were great, and he used them as the instruments of his virtues. As a physician, though but lately settled here, he was already rising into eminence; and if unwearied diligence in collecting the materials of medical knowledge, combined with great skill in the application of them, could have ensured success, he must have succeeded. To the practical duties of his profession, his attention was unwearied, and his patients will bear witness to that unaffected kindness of manner which always made his advice doubly acceptable; which led them to believe, that he took a personal rather than a professional interest in their welfare; that he was their friend

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as well as their physician. And such indeed was the case; he considered his fellow men as friends and brethren, and valued his Christian even more than his medical profession. It was the first wish of his heart to do good himself, and to teach others to do good in every possible way: and deeming the moral still more dangerous than the natural maladies of man, he was proportionably anxious to minister to them also. As a firm believer in the divine mission of Christ, he considered it a sacred duty to lend all the aid that he could in diffusing the knowledge of the gospel. A diligent and conscientious inquiry had led him to the peculiar views of religious truth which he entertained, and he therefore exerted himself with zeal in their diffusion; but his zeal was according to knowledge, and consequently without bigotry. For many of those who differed from him most widely, he always felt and expressed the highest regard, and where he dissented honestly on points of faith, could still unite with heart and hand, sincerely and cordially, in the spirit of charity. As a physician and a friend, a fellow-citizen and a fellow-christian, he will be long and deeply regretted. May the sorrow excited by his sudden and premature death, lead to the earnest emulation of his good example! "It is the end of all men, and the liv ing should lay it to heart." -At Minholm, near Langholm, in the prime of life, William Kier, Esq. conductor of improvements to his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh and Queensberry, in the district of Eskdale, and late captain in the Dumfriesshire yeomanry cavalry. At Limekilns, Jean, daughter of the deceased James Reddie, Esq. late farmer, Purvishall, Fifeshire.

Charles Williamson, Esq. of Mairfield, for many years a respectable tobacconist in Kelso.-At Harperden, East Lothian, Mr Peter Bairnsfather, farmer.-19. At Edinburgh, Mr Charles Hunter, eldest son of Lieutenant-general Hunter of Burnside.21. In George Street, James, infant son of John Mansfield, Esq.-At Thurso, Mrs Margaret Leith, wife of Mr George Paterson, senior magistrate of that town.-22. At Ham Common, Surrey, Hannah, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, Bart.-23. At Borrowstounness, Miss Margaret Padon, aged 73. -At Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Boyd, perfumer, Duke Street, aged 39.-24. At the house of Mr Alexander Allan, merchant, Leith, Mary, daughter of the late John Grant, Esq. of Kincardine O'Neil.-At Lanark, Mrs Jane Smith, spouse of Mr John Lamb, writer in Lanark.-25. At his father's house, St John's Hill, in the 20th year of his age, after a lingering illness, Mr John Bruce, son of Mr William Bruce, late banker, Edinburgh.-At Portobello, Mrs Blackwood of Pitreavie.

Oliver & Boyd, Printers.

BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No XVI.

JULY 1818.

VOL. III.

ESSAYS ON THE LAKE SCHOOL OF

POETRY.

No I.

WORDSWORTH'S White Doe of Ryl

stone.

THE three great master-spirits of our day, in the poetical world, are Scott, Wordsworth, and Byron. But there never were minds more unlike to each other than theirs are, either in original conformation or in the course of life. It is great and enduring glory to this age, to have produced three Poets,-of perfectly original genius,-unallied to each other, drinking inspiration from fountains far apart,-who have built up superb structures of the imagination, of distinct orders of architecture, -and who may indeed be said to rule, each by a legitimate sovereignty, over separate and powerful provinces in the kingdom of Mind. If we except the Elizabethan age, in which the poetical genius of the country was turned passionately to the drama, and which produced an unequalled constellation of great spirits, we believe that no other period of English literature could exhibit three such Poets as these, standing in conspicuous elevation among a crowd of less potent, but enlightened and congenial Worthies. There is unquestionably an etherial flush of poetry over the face of this land. Poets think and feel for themselves, fearlessly and enthusiastically. There is something like inspiration in the works of them all. They are far superior indeed to the mere clever verse-writers of our Augustan age. It is easy to see in what feelings, and in what faculties, our living Poets excel their duller prose brethren; and the world is not now so easily duped,

as to bestow the "hallowed name" upon such writers as the Sprats, and Yaldens, and Dukes, and Pomfrets, "et hoc genus omne," whom the courtesy and ignorance of a former age admitted into the poetical brother➡ hood. Unless a Poet be now a Poet indeed,-unless he possess something of " the vision and the faculty divine," he dies at once, and is heard of no more. There is, of necessity, in so poetical an age as this, a vast crowd of deluded followers of the Muse, who mistake the will for the power. But the evil of this is not great. The genuine Poets, and these alone, are admired and beloved. Of them we have many; but we believe that we speak the general voice, when we place on a triple throne, Scott, Wordsworth, and Byron.

Though greatly inferior in many things to his illustrious brethren, Scott is perhaps, after all, the most unequivocally original. We do not know of any model after which the form of his principal Poems has been moulded. They bear no resemblance, and, we must allow, are far inferior to the heroic Poems of Greece; nor do they, though he has been called the Ariosto of the North, seem to us to resemble, in any way whatever, any of the great Poems of modern Italy. He has given a most intensely real representation of the living spirit of the chivalrous age of his country. He has not shrouded the figures or the characters of his heroes in high poetical lustre, so as to dazzle us by resplendent fictitious beings, shining through the scenes and events of a half-imaginary world. They are as much real men in his poetry, as the "mighty Earls" of old are in our histories and annals. The incidents, too, and events, are all won

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