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.”
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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!
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