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BIOGRAPHY. MKS CH \!'0\ii. Mn lie ’<»r rVi > ,rv , an imp minus writer, was ♦ lie d i'nr||f.-i-, of I’ii iiii is M li'O, Jl-q and was born m r,Mi;l imi. October _.rih, 17.?. S' i v»«; y eel, hit • exhibited proofs of un n ; n gT ' * *s, aie I f " hi » of nppivi, ii .inn. With a t •• i-i’i-n p-*« • marly hv'-tv, --id a temper . w i -a uid i d nf, s'; - re i• l iwmv works of ? ii.c.. t an \v s quite co;:.. stent with judgment, or ) ii,i.»V Mr uT'i 'Mt'* hippun.h. K Mi ui'. vsapp- <r .) ' tv.* 'I:--mi the favorite read-: d t Males m tir.it -rod . •; . i it is not to be wondered d;ot this voting ?» ly, n:Mu ■•rv.I bv the t -sample of these around *. , ‘*• •• ’ i ha e rev! with av. iitv w nks so alluiv:£ •. . *■: r i Ov'i, ", though '•) !i;tle instructive m tie *' ten 1 , oi b'»ncli* i tl mi tin ;»• < ft ct». I7.se ie , !iov"e r, a such n study im dit have been to ’ » ; n■■ .1; v o< youthful r< iM-ts, it was not wholly ,'iete. •• id advantage to her, f«»r at rune \ car:; < id, s'-e c - np :ed a roni nice, called ‘ ihe loves .,f \m ‘ an I M hs** if* wlr t), v»e are toM.Vxh.bds ii M- t 5 nvrntion, and >wt;- iordiir.it \ s;k cdim: in* i t p i and laid the foundation of that respect, and '.tt a 1 in. vat ion ct,-,Mr talent , to which her an sc ,t character and unties have so fully ent.'i r i f-■■»:> piifsii.ts so nnprefitalde, die at oi.ei c-.rnm. n * 1 a cjoi\>j of studc , wii. ii vyve ii-' f-d as well a? cl- pant ddiocpli chicfh sell' t vap ,t. -b tju re 1 a 'll eone’i i.n 'Wie !tpe of the m, T. eneti, and It d an luii^ua-p She read the D. *. ao'h >rs on m> als an 1 pit Im nphy an l so a elite w »s h- r p:d ;uir*nt, that no d:= pnsr of flowing On tl. >n, ;r.i ir;* n’c I s'.' could mislead it \t an when, p-.n nps, f ,v ader-% are capable of vc:v d [> 1 '.ua?n nav.n, she wmii 1 sr.rut,n;/.e an 1 con: .-v-r* py?ry p mil on which her own on.on-. d: l rot ac([n see. 1’hat siie read the HoK scrip tures both w th deh^lit and beru fit to In a > if, her exc lic it Jr - ”ion; h r the study of them m tier let ter- is .* ,■ int testimony. Vi ■ £■'. '!)■>' ■ wlm composed her literary fire! »ii 1 ({'f.iiaivls'in, i hr ,:i._;i wii nn she afterwards hcej.no a •ijiij-.m."! won Mr. Chapone, a vounu gentleman 'lien p. ic’i-wng law in the Pemple — ah. ■ r attachment tvs* inti'in!, hut n >i lusty or im prudent. She obtained her fiath-r’s consent, ae 1 a s ir i! intimacy continued for a considerable period, bet r it em'.e I in m ir. rage in the mean tune, site became acquainted with the celebrated M ss Car te. . a cu r -spondence took plate heiwren them, which increased their mutual este ill, and a liien ! blip was thus eemeiite I, Hitch lasti d during a ■jitrse of more than fifty years. * Mss Mulso’s first production was att Ode to Peace, wh..dl she .fern ar I. i-ld-e-scd to M ,s Car ter on her intend.- 1 p d» ica i n f the tMii.slation of i'.p c cuts A.ha it t■> • my t.tn-- site wrote tnc sto. iv >ti Pi.’ ’ i, winch, ill .ugh e inposed purposely t.trti'.e \di r. urer, yet such was her timidity. that null >g hut the earnest p r-:tastons ot Miss Carter, and ti i fn- uds, could h .ve prevailed upon her to take c virage to sen 1 r to die pre -• ! i lrh'J, die was married io 11 r. Chapone, and i ein.iv t t.i I.o.a Ion Here slie enjoy.-d every de gree ■ ‘I happiness w u.. It mutual attacliun nt could confer ; hut it w as of short duration. In less than ter. months aft r they w re married, Mr Chapone wa sc,/ d w oh a tew . winch terminated with lus jife* after abotit a we. s's illness. \t first site seemed to bear ‘his calamity with fortitude, but it preyed on iier health, and fir some turn her lit - uis despaired of Sac, however, gradually recovered, and "esigned herself to a state if Ilf-, to winch slit ; t found main friends and many eons ijucn.s Most .t iu-r dnie was passed aw y m Londoe, ".r ill occasion d visits to tier fru- i Is, among whom slut ha 1 tiie happiness to OUUViei 'll ! -t IU'. shed C‘. ii-.io: -s ,i .o’h-,-\os -Led l.ittle ->o, Mrs Montague, and t ie circle -.vim usually a.si; d her Kbits, In iT7:i, o le ae '.mipaillc i Mrs Montague to* s , > , , . | , ^ she published n -r ‘ Leueis on :n. it, , of • - m nd,' o.igimdly in'cnde i *bt tie t... it iter I mere, but given to’he world at the request of Mrs 1 M i ‘ >; C * * '“* and her <-'* I’.er hterury friends. Tins ! vvuib A h followed by u * volume uf Miscellanies,* i puhl.-died without lo r nirnc. Ihe latter ycais of I liter life were emblt’ereit by the loss of the greater jof the t::eruls ot her youth; tin.a, together v. itli other privations, begun to ufiect hern,hid, and :i' the persuasions of her symputh shig f: ic-iids, she | i cm* v -d t<> II idh‘v l : October, 1 s /1, she completed her 71-th year j On the (‘hristmas cay 1 Slowing, Without anv pre ; vioms illhaving declared herself umisuJIy 1 u >11 tlit* day h« tor e. <he fell into a slumber, from | winch nothing could arouse her, and which her ; physician, who a ended her, immediately pro j nounced the forerunner of death ; and, at eyght > o'clock :n the « v./.m g, w.tiiout one appar nt | struggle u! s.gii, ^ ,e huuilieu her last in the arms ; of her niece. Her works were published in 2 volumes, 12mo. i 1110.V A LITE ENGLISH I'M’ER. j SIB. WALTER SCOTT S LETTER ISFECTl.^ ISUILXS | As for Burns, I in.w truly \ . I'irniliirm ri<!: I tantunl i was a lad of 15 in I7SH.7 when In; ' came first o Hdinhurg, but had sense and feel ing enougl to be much interested in Ins poetry, mu! would ha* e giwn the world to know him — h it I had veiy little acquaintance with any lite | r iry p'op.e, and still less with the sentry ol the i , west eiiudry, the two sets that he must Ire ([united AJr. Thomas Giiersun was at that time a c! ik of my father's lie knew Burns, ami [jromw'd to ask In in to his lodgings to din ner, hut ba I no opportunity to keep bis word, ; otherwise ! might have seen m ire of this distiu j truis'ied in.m \s it was. | saw ld,n one day at j the late vet.etahle Prolcssor Fergtisson's, where ! there were several gentlemen of literary reput.i- I I tinn. ■luioii^ whom I remember the celebrated I Mr. Dii^.i! ! Stewart Of course w c youngsters j sat silent, looked an I listened Tiie only thing I ; I rein '.tidier which was rein ark ihle in Burns’ | til inner, was the oil t produce 1 upon him hy a ( print of Ij.iiihurv's, lepresentin,; a soldier lying I dead on the show, lm d 14 sitting in misery on i one side—on the other, his widow with a child I in her arms. These lines were written beneath ; “ (fold on (,’a ichan h.lls, or Maiden’s plain, Perhaps that parent wept her sol.her s| tin Bent o’er her babe, her Uye dissolved in dew. The big drops, mingling! with the nulk lie drew, (lave the sad presage of his future yeats. The ci. fj of misery baptised in tears.” i 1 Bui s seemed much affected with the print, orrit er the ideas which it suggested to his mind He actually shed tears. He asked whose the I nes were, and it chanced that nobody but mys, 1: remembered that they occur in a half l.u gotten poem of Lunghornt's, called by the unpromising title of The Justice of Peace. 1 whispered my information to a friend present, who mentioned it to Burn*, who rewarded me w i.ha) lit and a word, which though of mere civilitv. 1 inert recep ed, and still recollect, with icv great pleasure His person was strong and robust—his man ners rustic, not clownish—a sort of dignified plainness ai.d simple ity, w hieh received part of its effect, perhaps, fmni one s knowledge of his I extraordinary tal-mls His Pastures are rppre | senfed in Air Vismvth’s picture, but to me it 1 conveys the td> a that they are diminished as if seen in perspective I think his countenance was more m.tss.ee than it looks in any of the porlra'is I would have t iken the poet, had I not l,n ovn what he u <st p>r a very sagacious until farmer of the H Scots school i e none of your "ude:;i agriculturalists, who ketp labor |,|s lor ‘‘heir drudgery, but the douce gudeman v'.ho held his own plough There was a strong expression oi sense and shrewdness iu a!) his lineaments—the eye alone, 1 think, indicated the polite character and t« mperarnerit It was large, and d a dark cast. winch glowed (1 say literally glowed) vv hen he spoke with feeling or interest. ! never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men o! my time. Ilgs conversation expressed perfect sell-confidence, without the slightest presump tion Amung the men who were most learned of their tune and country, lie expressed himself with perfect firmness, hut without the least in trusive forwardness; and when he differed in . pinion, lie did not fail to express it firmly, yet at the Same time with modesty. I do not re memb -r any part of his conversation distinctly enough to tie quoted, nor did I ever see him again except in (he street, where he did not re cognize me, as f could not expect he should He was much caressed in Kdinhnrgh, (hut consider ing what literary emoluments have been since his day) the efforts made tor his relief were ex tremely 11illiug. I rt member on this occasion t mention, t thought Burns' acquaintance with English po etry was rather limited, and also, that having twenty tunes the abilities of Allan Ramsay and oi f »■ [gii-an, h. talked of them with tori much humility as his models—there wa-, doubtless, national predilection iu his estimate This i' all t can tell you about Burns I have only to ad i. that his dress corresponded with Ins matin r. He. was like a farmer dressed iri his host ro dine with the laird 1 do not speak in malum partem, when I say, I rniver saw a man m company with his superiors in station and inlorm ition. more perfectly free from either the reality or the affectation of embarrassment. I was t -1-1. hut d - d not observe it. that his address to f-males vvas extremely deferential, and al wav, with a turn either to the pathetic or humor uus, which engaged their attention particularly I have heard the late Ductless ot Gordon remark this — I do not know any thing I can add to these recollections ol forty years since. MADAME PASTA We must relate ;ui anecdote of Madame Pas ta. Some gentlemen who knew her well, inform ed a friend of ours, when lie was m Paris, that she would come home from the opera, and sit in a passion of tears at the recolleetion of what she had heen acting. They told him that no thing could he more unaffected, and that she would say she knew it to be idle, but that she ‘ could not get it out of her head.’ This is just what imaginative people would expert her to say She never pretended that she. had taken herself for the character she represented; but she had sympathized with it so strongly that it became the next tiling to realitv; and if our hearts can he touched, and our colour changed, by the mere perusal of a tragedy, how much more mav not a woman's nntiiie be moved that has been almost identifi d with the calamities in it ; that by force of iid igmafion, ha- brought the soul of another to inhabit her own w arm f> ins: r. and has entertained it there as the very guest of humanity, given it her own heart to agitate, and taken upon herself the burden of its infirmi ties! | ££/• Arrearages will he thank'nlly received Five i complete veils of the 3d nr Til volumes will be > furnished for fo (post paid 1 A few compkte setts of the 1st and 2d volume? I will be ready for sale during the summer.