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London, England, 1827-10-13 00:00:00

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I understand, Sir, you knew Thomson long? '
I became acquainted with him In the yeetl7ll6, when be pub-
lished his poem of Winter. 'He lived tipped* to me In Lancaster.

court, in the Strand. I went m the Itast Indies soon alter, which'

tuned a chum in *or acquaintance; but en mr return our Ir.

timer will strengthened, and co:atoned to the Mite of his death.
I do not know any mitt, living or dead. I•rert esteemed men!

highly, sod he was smelled to me. I had muse a complaint of a
etemooarioratetway *Lien moaned me ostaelelleinihes had be was
sas geed hs to mass often from Ksi►-hsr be sit wifb nen
Did you know Amanda?
Know bee? Yes, Sir, I married her sister. Amanda was a
Iliss Young, daughterto Captain Gilbert Young, of the Gulyhill
family, in Dwarfs satire, and was mart ied afterwards to Admiral
Campbell. She was a fine sensible woman; and poor Thomson
was desperately in love with her. Mr. Gilbert Young, her nephew,
left my home this very morning. Thomson, indeed, was never
wealthy enough to many.

His circumstances were said to have been in a flourishing way
at the latter period of his life?
Sir, his circumstances never were very good. and would have
been much worse, I believe, without my friendly Interference.
He was governed by the via inertia, I think. to a great degree?
He was, Sir.
air. Collins. the brewer, has told me, that he was eolieediess 10
his money concerns, that in paying him a bill for beer, he gave him
two hank stairs roiled together. instead of ooe. Collins did het
perceive the mistake till he got bowie, and when be returned the
note, Thomson appeared perfectly indifferent about the matter, and
said be had enough to go on without-it! Mr. Robertson smiled at
this anecdote, and said it was like him.

He ws" not, 1 believe, one aide weeping philosopaem He was
Renato'?

No, be was not indeed. I remember his being stopped, mice.
betwMo London and Richmond, and robbed of Ms win*, and
wbes d expressed my regret for his loss, " 'Maw, damn it," said
be," I am glad they took It from me, 'twas never good for tnytldng."
Was be national in his affections?
He had nu prejadices whatever ; be was the most liberal of men
in all his sentiments.

I have been told he sled to associate with Parson Cromer and
in. other convivial., at the OW Orange Tree in Kew-lane?

Relazation of any kind was, to bins, frequently desirable, and be
could capture! to any company. He was benevolent ■nd social,
bothin his.writings and in his life, as ►is fared. Dr. itreetren.
said 0 madam ecemlee, be practbed what be readied. Lord
L's character of bite, es an author, was perfactly jest, that le his
last moments be ►ad no cause to wish any Meg blotted be bad ever
written.

I bear be kept very late hours ?
N., 81r.wery early: be was always up at snarl e, but then be
hid never been in bed.

, Did yea ever correspond with hint ?
Very seldom: We were so much together there was little Impair.
lenity or ottemier for it.
You do not happen to have any rayon of his hand.writlog ?
I don't think I have ; bet when I gee my breath a little Wier, I
will leek MEOWS my papers to try if I can And any.
The tied old Gentismaa was warmed with the subject, and me
set forward to his escritoire in the pursuit, but returned only with
a letter from the late Dr. Armstrong, which be flattered himself
contained something relative to Thomson. In this be was mistaken.
It was a rhapsody of thanks In return fat being presented with a
large bottle of spirits bet it was weU worth an airing. This. said
M. ft. will show you the intimate terms I was upon with Johnny
Armstrong, who wrote that beautiful poem," The Art of Preserving
the Health." He was a very ingenious and excellent man.
Did you know Dr. Patrick Murdoch, who wrote Thoesson'sLife ?
Ay, very well, and esteemed him% Pattie, as I always called
Wm. had a good hurt.
Pope, as I have heard, used often to visit Thomson?
Yes, frequently. Pope has sometimes said, Thomson, VU walk
te the end of your garden, and then set off to the bottom Kew-
, foot-lane and back. Pope, sir, courted Thomson, and Thomson
was always admitted to Pope whether be had company se sot; but
Pope bad a jealousy of every eminent writer ; be was a viper that
gnawed the file.
Was Pope a great talker?
Pope, when he liked his company, was a very agreeable man.—
He was fond of adulation, and when he had any dislike, was a most
bitter satirist.

Thomson, I think, was very intimate with David Mallet, the
editor of Bolingbroke?
Sir, that person's name was properly Mello& ; but I used to
call him Moloch in our festive moments, and Thomson enjoyed the
jest. Sir, he had not Thomson 's heart ; be was not sound at the
core ; he shade a cat's.pasv of Thomson, and I did not like the man
on that account.

Thomson had two cousins or oversews, who were gardeners, did
they live with him?
No, slay did out 1100 with him, they lived upon hint. He was
so generous a man that if he had but two eggs he would have given
them both away.
Were you acquainted with Mr. Gray, who lived at Richmond
Hill ?
Yes, I knew a John Gray, who was avictualler. lie purchased
Thomson's collection of prints and drawings after his decease, but I
believe purely out of ostentation.
You must have had peat influence over him, sir, from several
clrettinstances you have mentioned.but wish to be suppressed?
Without ostentation or vanity, dr, I really very often have won-
dered bow I came to have so much, and tke rest of his friends
wondered too ; for I do say it most sincerely, that I never could
find out what made Thomson and many of these geniuses so
partial to me as they appeared.
Then, Sir. I suspect you are the only one who could not make
the discovery ?
Sir, I was not fishing for a compliment, I do assure you.
If you had, Sir, I should nut have matched so eagerly at your bait.
I suppose you attended Thomson in • medical as well as In •
*octal espacity ?
Yes, Arms.rong and myself were with him till his last moments.
I was in the room with hint when he died. A putrid fever carried
him uff in less than a week. He seemed to me to be desirous not to
live, and I had reason to think that my sister-in-law was the occasion
of this. He could not bear the thoughts of her being married to
another.

Pray did you attend his funeral?
Indeed I did, and a real funeral it was to me, es Quin saki when
be spoke the prolocu, to Curio Janus" I was in nut's no actor there."
Doi you bear QOM ap ak that prologue, Sit ?
Yes. I could nut have been absent.
Were you the only minute friend who paid the last tribute of
respect to lluonsores remains?
No, Sr, Quin attended, and Mallet and another friend, 'show-
name 140 not recollect. He was intc:red in the north-west corner

Did yor know Andrew Millar, the books
I knew him well. He took ab .s near T
to keep in wi.h him u an au hor who mist'
Andrew was a good natured man. sal not am
bathe wps a little contracted in mind by Ili
dross of a booksr.fler about him r
Did you know Patron? -
Yes. Patel ui lad kern Air! to a moil
went for some time abroad, and so his rea
Thomson, was his depot? arlol 01
Islands, and succeeded him in that 7 bit
enjoy It, I believe not more than wris unit
Collins, the poet, and Heartwood, ember
visited Thomson?
Yes. Ah ! fuer Collins, be had mach
Hammond was a Gincleatan. and a very pl
man, I:remember oar day called him a burr
he comedian, was a sincere frimd of Them
a mma humane and fsiendly man, and only
he thought it was expected from bum by th
.r the character. i. .
Ira the aneciete of Ode and, Thomason
Yes, I belies' it was.
Boswyll spranteiti Onerithinfeavapt s ev
commonly allowed?'

Sir, friomeotsl,olll4.lte apedit weilweisqw wirers I
without ragooss. and a &titivated nsanosr wit
toeletTy He had a great aversion to lei ter wilting,and did
macho( prow composition of any kind. His time for romp
generally at the-dead of night, and was much in hi. NOS
which, together with every memorial of ids residence. I
prwerved by the Honourable Mrs. Boscatien.
Did you know, Sir, of any other attachments of
ezcept that to his Amanda
No, I believe he was more truly wet+ ed to my htt
her sister than to any one else, nest to Amanda. Jr.% 11.
said be, was once asked to dinner by Thomson, but could
one of'his friends, whn was there, told him that there*
stipulation agreed on by.the whole company, that titer,
no bard drinking. Thorns°, aciuliwed, only reqdhin
man Riould drink his bottle. The terms were, accept.
&wally, and Oben the cloth was removed, a three gout
set before each of his guests. Thomson had much of I
agreeable humour. Mr. Alkman, the paintir, sod Dr.
a physician and ingenious writer, were Inthnate awl brie
et Thomson. If e. Aik man was • gentleman of choir
oad was always blandly to Thomson.
Sir, I cordially .thank you for this kindness, in suffer
to be teased with interrogations • and when Lard Soho
the grave of the peet,ehall be Imposed in Richmond di
hope to we you tripping across the green to take a peep
Sir, if I an crawl across for suck a, gradicatims,
taint, do it.
We then twice shook bands and parted. Intelligent
man i Little was I aware that his lengthened eve of life
mar its close! He was taken seriously ill a few been
bins. Monday, October Se; Ind ow ttle/ Pliday Wand
sad was buried on Saturday the litho( November. by ti
of Richmond Chia k.
uldniviines Vaunt est.
(SP )
GREECE.

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The following letter from Corfu contains a curious
document, purporting to have issued irons the Tar kisk
Court, on the subject of the affairs of Greece: '
CORFUy_lkarau.

The 7th inst. the Secritari_uf the V,air Omer Viione,
?ache cf Salonichi, arrieHen onr Lazaretto, who re-
ports that the not. of the treaty of the 6th of July bay-
ing been pte-ented to the Ottoman Porte on the p irt
the Mmisters in Constantinople, the Suiten caused all
his Vizirs Pachas of three tails, to be informed of it,
writing to each in the following tenor:
" Though from the beginning of the rebellion of the
infidels, oar Greet subjects, the Ewopean Powers nct
'stay have declared their neutrality, but appeared even
desirous to see the rebels ;ad insurgents punished. it
most be too surprising to reason, that atter the lapse of
some space of time they begin to proceed differently..»
ghat is, in the opposite direction.
" But Of ill the other powers, England administered
to the rebels, in various modes and circumstance,, me.
diately and immediately, (tiff rent aids for their sup.
port in the cause of rebellion, without ever consenting
to listen to the most just and reasonable c mplaints of
my Sublime Porte, advanced solemnly at vrrious times.
" Besides this, it wished formerly to inter pcse its me-
diation in favour of the rebels, and chiefly within a few
months, in union with other Powers. My Royal Ma.
jesty, by means of the Reis Effendi, gave always. at the
fit time, suitable enviers; and the last and .lefinitive
one in the month of Zichizze, just passed.
" But instead of our reasons having found their fit
place and due force and vigour, beyond all expectatien,
in these days, the Ministers cf the powers of England,
France, and Russia, abiding in this my capital, ad-
vanced, in the name of their respective Courts, another
new declaration, still snore absurd as well as most un-
just, in which it is manifestly expressed that theyinipe.
siously require the independence and emancipation of
the insurgents, our rebel subjects, and that they iniqur-
tonsly determine that my Royal Majesty ant our faith-
ful Mussulmans shall abandon, to the infidel Grisks,
the property conquered for so many centuries by our
ancestors, by arms, and by the sheddstir of so much
blood; and that, in case of opposition, they will take
means to carry their purpose into execution, without
obtaining my consent.
" My Royal Majesty, therefore, having examined
the affair profoundly and maturely, observing whither
their purpose tends, determines on what is to be lone,
and conforming itself to the doctrines of our holy teli.
gion, decides to prefer, if it should so hap; en, to sub-
ject, by means of arms. its most pow, rt.'sl throne to
general and entire ruin (which GOD, as all •powerfuf,
avert), than to consent to the ah.urd and iniquitous
propositions of those posers as most fatal.
" Hence my Royal Majesty has deigned to warn your
also, my Viz ens and Agents, and mei e you t express
sincerely y ur opinion ou this important affair ; Or•
cerilla at the same time that you must be more cau-
tious and attentive than at ally • ther note, to resist and
most prompt to meet eve' y hostile attack that may
occur on the part of those Pagan Posers; so that with
th• aid of 'I e Mora than, and the grace of our Pro-
phet, we may be able, as I trust, to del, nd our incon.
.est ble leas. ns against the injustice of others.
" He'eatter you shall have , atticular. and detailed
instructions on the part of my Royal Majesty.
" Peace a d health to all the faithful, and.the oppu.
site the nn aithtul.
0 Gives the ad or the month Sage'
(lath August, Old Style.) •
The VIVI of course, will all echo the opinion.
The Gulf of Lepanto is closely kiti ckaded by the
titeeks, who have taken many vessels laden with pro.
visinns. At Patras there is a great scarcity, bread btiag
60 paras per ors. Ibrahim Pacba has made no move.
meet in the Mores.