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The SEXAGI NOI.1N; or, The RECOLLECTIONS of a
LITERARY LIFE.—F. C. and J. RIVINGTON; PAYNE and
Foss,

To:din:fed front THE StiN of, Thursday, August 7.)
The characters hi:ought. forward in this various work will '
probably becclue the Chief object of public attention. Some
will please, from the elegant delipeation of merit, known or
obscure; others will excite indignation, from containing too
intelligible intimations, of troths, which the individuals in
question would wish to be concealed. Even the dead will
have their partial friends, who will he carnet to vindicate
their memory from supposed obloquy; and the living are al.
%/my, snai,vietitly partial to. themselves, to coosider troth as a
,libel, whenever it is not of a flattering nature I%lcaistime,
'the Author is beyond the reach' gforfiticism. He can neither
hear complaints, nor answe p.ohjections. - His friends only
efii• speak for him; and e4e the, general tt,fi ituony will
lie siv'en, with one voice. 't tat he ete.itanily never meant to be
what
,_just ; nor was naturally inOinkocrg be severe. If li nned
an accusation, .it was from tifillikowledge, or what sup-
posed-to be the knowledge of its truth. If a harsh . thip.cion
came from his hand, it was extorted by feelings of no comnion

lint leaving this debateable ground, let 'its rather notice
passages which all will agree to commend. Such is the ge-
neral reflection of the Sexagenarian im tl•se fates and fortunes
of his early. friends:—" The subject of cotemporuries is,-at
an advanced period of life, more painful than pleasing.
Many of those, whom we most loved and esteemed, are se-
parated fool us,. to meet no more, but in another. scene of
thinks. Of the majority. perhaps of the rest, there is, so
much tolament and to regret, iu the failure of thiAr views'
and hopes; iu their calamities, their follies and their errors,
that. remembrance presents the mind with a motley picture,_
where there is more,gloom. than sunshine, ,More.tlyirns than
flowers." .. •
When our Author comes to describe his own sensationsom
first exchanging the riniet of country occupations. for' 'the
bostle of themetrOpolis, his style becomes pecultarlv ani-
'mated few.paasing days, nay, almost iu a few 'hours,-
a hat a change of scene! itetirement, properly .•so - called,
fur busy scenes'and active employments;—from a space in
.which there was not room for ambition, to one where ainbiH
tioli appeared to have ;—from •a spot where a few
wild flowers occasionally charmed the sight with their beauty',
and the senses with their fragrance, to the prolific and aus-
picious nurs'ery•of every art and every science; from knowing
everybolly, to knowing nobody;—froin*!"" to London.
" Here let us take time to•tireathe awhile.: He who for
the first time in his life leaves the white cliff; of Dover, on
an excursion to France, is for a few nrsanents 'bewildered
with the strangeness, the novelty, the wonderful change of
the -scene. He,feels.as if he was removed to anotherailanet.
The language, the dress; the manners, every thing he be-
holds, dazzles and confounds him: till at •length reflection
and judgment resume their influence, and. experiepce makes
the cuatrast familiar. Such was, and such; under similar
circumAstances, will ever he the first periods of residei,ce in
London, after a low' familiarity with the quiet, repose, and
ordinary pursuits of the country." •
With the famous Professor PoasoN, the Sexigenarian was
long and intimately connecied, on the most friendly footing.
It cannot therefore be thought extraordinary, that he should
have dwelt with particular pleasure on the subjects of his
life, talmsts, and character; or, that lie should have preserved
souse playful'etfusions of his pen, which to less partial readers
may appear little worthy of publication, however gratifying
they might be as private memorials of his, good humour.—
..Against the misrepreseniationiyf the jealous, and therefore
• unjustG.WAK Ell ELI), lie has properly ,lefended his friend;
who lai'self had too much contempt for,his ambitious inac-
curacy of critieLni, ever to condescend to meet him in any
line of compe,tition. \V's desire of fame was a perfect fever,
and the great offence which drew him forth
.as an assailant of
the Professor. Was merely that of not noticing his criticisms.
The same offence finally separated him from the Sexagenarian;
though it is within the knowledge or the friends of the latter,
that the aid, whith he would have had acknowledged, was
really so trilling, that perhaps no Pther literary man existed'
alio would for.-a moment have thought it worth mentioning;
Another tribute:to friendship appears in the account given
of the late Dr. D. Pitcairn. The Authoi first votes a most
elegant eulogy (Al him and Dr. .1. Muter, in. the classical
Latin of Heherden; then addsdlis own Commendations
as the testimony of one " whn knew him in the recesses of
private life, with no ordinary intimacy, for dmost forty years."
The picture is well and strongly painted, but too -Much ex-
tended to be copied • here ; but the conelusion-,is affecting,
and as it proved, prophet ic..• • •
" Farewell, Pitcairn ! May the turf lie lightly on yosr
ashes! This tribute is not paid without great mental emotiir
in the writer, arising froni the Combined feelings of sorrow,
affection, esteem, and gratitude. .
• Kat room' tw G-? 1 -;:pscrq,'Eow Ircancr.-co-xc,
lißr ivoc-c.elovg avraic a3oi ,rvAattr ."
The S. knew himself to be near his end, when•he made this
quotation, but he' was 'in fact much' nearer than 'even Iris
own-conject urea placed itim.•
We have thus, taken a cursory .view of the first Volume pf
these Literary MCMPirs. A te.w notices on the subject of the
teeundi must be reserved fora future opportunity.