The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-28 00:00:00

1832,
Contains—The Spirit and Practice of the Whig Exe-
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meteries—London, a National Song—The Stock Exchange,
No 111.--A National Ode, in commemoration of the pro-
posed General Fast—Schiller, Goethe, and Madame de
Stal—Theological Library. Life and Times of Wiclif—
The Warrior's Steed— A Second Paper, by the Rev. Ed-
ward Irving on the recent Manifestations of Spiritual
Gifts—Gallery of Literary Characters, No. XXII., with
a full-length portrait of Goethe—Historical Romance,
No. 11. Sir Walter Scott and his Imitators—lnvasion
of Portugal—Address to Cupid. By a Modern Pythago-
rean—Rencontres on the Road. Mary Fenwick—The
Elder in Love. By the Ettrick Shepherd—Letters to the
Learned Professions, No. I. To the Students of Medi-
cine. By Gabriel Cowitch—Are we to have New Peers
or not?— John Black's Lord Plunkett and John Galt's
Archibald Jobbry—Epistles to the Literati, No. 11.
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This day was published,
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MA-
GAZINE. No. CXCII. for MARCH, 1832.
Contents:—l. Present Balance of Parties in the State
The Belgian Question--Abandonment of the Bar-
riee—Tlae Russian Dutch Loan—Guarantee of the Throne
of the Barricades—lll. What caused tke Bristol Riots?—
IV. The Executioner (concluded)—V. The Showing up
of Strath Lugas—Vl. Gaffer Maurice. By the Translator
of Homer's Hymns—Vll. Nautical Adventures—Vlll.
Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Canning. Letter to the Editor
from the Right Hon. Thomas Peregrine Courtenay,
M.P.-4X. The Papal Government—X. Family Poetry,
No. 111. The Play—Xl. Chateaubriand. No. I. Itine-
raire—Xll. The Ministry and their Supporters.
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In an account of the Life and Writings of
Akenside, by Mr. CHARLES BUCKE, wiitten with great
spirit and a right understanding of his author, we find
some passages which are new to us. Mr. DYSON, the
generous and constant patron of AKENSIDE, having passed
from Whiggism to Toryism at the beginning of the reign
of GEORGE 111., procured his friend to be physician to
the young QUEEN. AKENSIDE, however, never appears
to have forsaken his principles, or to have concealed them.
What sort of favour this allowed him to maintain at Court
does not appear. He was also one of the physicians to
that excellent establishment, Christ's Hospital. He ex-
hibited in early youth a taste for drawing. Dr. ROBERT
SON, the historian, used to go to the Medical Society in
Edinburgh, for the pleasure of hearing him speak. He
had a great desire to get into Parliament. He was fond
of the Castle of Indolence, of DYER'S Fleece, of
FENTON'S Ode to Lord Gower (which he thought the
best in the language next to Alexander's Feast!), and
svas a liberal praiser of the writings of his con-
temporaries. He considered GLOVER'S Leonidas,
however, a failure,—as he well might. He had a
notion, at one time, of writing an epic poem, the
hero of which was to be Timoleon. He was indig-
rant at a company of French players attempting to
at up in London ! He was in love with some young lady
Hampstead, who was to marry him, but died. Also
with another in some other place, before her, who was
taken from him under the same circumstances. Like
TuoNtsoti, he was not a good reader of his own verses.
BoLus, the zealous admirer of the great men of the
Commonwealth, made him a present of the bed which
11lwroN died in, expecting " an Ode" in return, with
which the poet, though he is said to have been highly
pleased, does not appear to have been inspired. He chal-
lenged a lawyer of the name of BALLow, who insulted
nun
rence for the Supreme Being ; and, though supposed to
have been a Deist, for the Bible. At the age of about
ren'atid-tvventy, he left Hampstead, where he had been
living with his friend, and took up hie abode in Blooms-
bury-an
rest ofivare, where he appears to have remained for the
dente of
19life, and to have died. This (and the resi-
Sir RICHARD STEELE, in the same square, for a
certain period) will help to make it classical ground. We
may add (says the Plain-Dealer, in a well written ana-
lysis), as Mr. BUCKE has not noticed the circumstance,
that he was buried in the church-yard of St. James's, Pic-
+ cadilly. The only thing known of his collateral kindred
that he had a sister who lived at Newcastle, of the
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