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N.4TION AL 1110NUJI A' NT.
TO 26 ERECTED AT EDINBURGH, TO THE

DlENOrtlf (ft
ROBERT BURNS.

The festival in commemoration of the Scottish
poet, Burris, and to promote a subscription to erect
A NATIONAL. MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY, at
Edinburgh, was celebrated at the Freemasons
Tavern, on Saturday.
About twenty minutes before eight o'clock, when
about three hundred persons had been assembled,
his Royal Ilighness the Duke of Sussex entered the
grand room, amid thunders of applause, the band
playing the old national air of "Gillierankie," and
took the Chair, supported by Sir James Mackintioll,
Sir F. Burdett, and several other characten distin-
guished for rank or talent ; among whom it will be
seen were the Rev. George Crabbe, and Thomas
Moore, Esq. Walter Scutt and Thome. Camp-
bell, Daps. were to Imre been present, but were
prevented from attending by indisposition.
gallery preseidlA a brilliant display of female
beauty and fashion.
When the cloth was removed, " Non Noble Da-
ytime" was eitecated by NICSITS. ,WERB, TAYLOR,
BROADHURST, EVANS, dec.
The following toasts were then proposed, and
drank, with universal marks of enthusiastic re-
spect :
The fring.--song soul chorus, " God Save the King."
Ile Prince Regent, and the other BialiVIWS at the Royal
Taesily —Gke, " Hail, Star of litositairk!'
The Navy and Army —Snug, Mr. Broadhurst, " Scot. olio
Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH then rose and said, that
after paying the tribute of respect and affection to
our beloved awl afflicted Sovereign, to the Prince
Regent, and the other branches of the Royal
Family, and after testifying their admiration of the
I:tnve defenders of their country by sea and land—
( Herte)—the next duty that naturally presented
itself, and which wax without doubt anticipated in
the thoughts of every individual present. was to
• *press their gratitude ho the Illustrious Personage
who had, at the exile:nee of much personal iticonve-
iiielice, sonclisafril to honour their meeting by his
presence—lncur:l—and whose zeal and ardour, in
promoting every benevolent, liberal, or patriotic
object, were too generally known and appreciated
to require the aid of his panegyric.—(App/rare.)—
lie could state with truth, that on the present occa-
sion—an occasion which inteiested the pride of every
Scotchmen, and the good wishes and feelings of
every generous-miisiled titan—in an ussenibly where
he saw collected so much of the most distinguished
Went and respectability—where he observed around
him the fiat ports, rioters, and sculptors the
empire could boast of, coming together to assist at
the commeinuretion of departed poetic genius,
worth, nod independence—so humble an individual
as himself would thd have presumed to claim their
alien ..t so early a period of the evening, had
nit the office been forced upon loan by the kind
partiality of certain Gentlemen, the original pro-
p••••ers of the design, to whom lie lord the good for-
tune in lie known in India. But the office, though
beyond lots pretensions, was most grateful to his
heart—tor cold must be that heart whit,' would
lint exult in contributing, however humbly, to
perpetuate the Lime of that bard who loud pre-
served the characteristic language. manners, and
eatery of his native land, in the most Airlightful
strains of poetry.—(tlear, hear.)—No monu-
ment, indeed, was wanting to eternise tke tissue
of Burns. Ins immortality rested on a sister
hasis--it lived in his pnefil•, and would flourish as
long as literature and civilization existed in the
world—as long as human beings felt Disinterest and
• sympathy i,r u true repreteatitt. Or the history,
the curve, the joys, riot soriowe of their fellow mein.
—(Hear.)—Venous individuals, at different ages of
the world, had surmounted the difficulties of 100-
_
twice and want of education, rind lord attained a
reputatimi in their day, deserved, indeed (coosider-
tog the disadvantages of their situation). but trip-
licity awl short-lived. Borns was not (*leaf these—
without taking into consideration that tl:e hook of
nature and of life (from whence the roost solid les-
sons of instruction and wisdom have been always

drawn by those whose eyes are po•iirtrating enough
to read its pages) was open and st 011100.4 perused
by him--on other grounds, it was absurd to lock
upon him as Si. ignorant or illiterate man. In
the knowledge of languages lie war deficient—
but there was • clear distinction between tra-
dition wild information. He had enjoyed the bene-
fits resulting Trent a system of national instruction—
lie had tEetiVed an excellent English education,
and had industriously availed himself of the re-
sources presented by it. He had taken en exttip.
sive range through the literature of his own, and
(by means of translations) of other conistries; and
there wag uo question but lie hail read more books
than Homer could have read.—(lleur.)—The el-te-
nnis of • coununieut, then, to the memory of Burns,
would suggest to all who might ever are it, that as
it was to the general diffusion of education' in Scot-
land his inimitable welsOlga awed their origin—so,
the same cause, if allowed to operate in other
countries, would, iii all probability, incalcu-
lably augment the common riches of the iiitel7
'tenni' world—would open unnumbered mines
of mental treasure,
drhich would otherwise lie