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Dear Edgar. dear Edgar, to thee I'm now sending
My love and my dripping by Sally our maid,
And your sweet bttk song-book, with thanks for the lending,
And a doges of quills, nice pens to be made!
Accept, my sweet Edgar, I pray you, this present,
This kg of a goose, dock, turkey, and pig ;
This pie made of pigeons, this half of a pheasant,
This bottle of claret, my ape to swig !
This venison pasty, which I made rather hasty,
But I'm fearful %is not like the last ;
And as you're in the habit of eating of rabbit.
I send you the whole of the breast!
The parsley' and butter, it might have been better.
Which I send you on this bit of veal;
But don't you refuse it, but pray do e: tree It.
And, my Edgar, accept this cow-beel I
We've a party on Sunday, don't fail on the Monday,
My Edgar, to come with thy bag;
W have all sorts of dainties, such venison pasties!
But, stay, 'tem I made them, s* I must not btag!
Dear Edgar, adieu! be constant. be true,
With bungee you never shall die;
Whilst mistress has meat, you always shall eat;
Dont forget me, and Dever will I!

THE LATE BISHOP CAMERON.

It Is with profound regret we have to announce the
death of the Right Rev. Alexander Cameron, D.D.
Bishop of Mazimiannpolis, and Vicar Apostolic of the
Lowland District of Scotland, which took place on the
7th inst. at his house in Catholic Chapel Lane, Edin-
burgh. The venerable deceased was born in August
1747. He went to the Scctch College in Rome in
1760, where he remained eight yea's, and eatriedi
away the first prizes awarded dining that period. He
returned to Scotland in 1772, and acted as Missionary
Apostolic in titrathearn till 1780, when I e was ap•
pointed Rector of the Scotch College in Valladolid
in Spain, w ere he remained eighteen years. In 1798,
be was appointed coadjutor to Bishop Hay, then Vicar
Apostolic of the Lowland District of Scotland; and,
was consecrated a Bishop in Madrid the following year.
In 1802 he r.-tOrned to Scotland, and Bishop Hay
having resigned in 1806, he then succeeded that prelate.
From the period of his last return to Scotland, he uni-
form y resided In Edinburgh. The late Bishop Came-
ron's character was an ornament to his church, and,
we may add, to the age he lived in. He was pious
without bigotry, profoundly learned without the least
pral,entr y and his benevolence was truly Catholic, em-
bracing all denominations of Christians. His appearance
was at once venerable and gentlemanly, and was the
f .414%11 index to his highly cultivated and amiable mind.
Had he ever engaged in the_ field of controversy, he
would have been found armed at all points, with
learning, in which few am passed him—with wit, of
which lie had an abundant store—and with powers of
reasoning, in exercising which no man could display
greater acuteness. But the meekness and charities of
his nature, withheld him from such a field; and his
time was chielly devoted to study, and the disch-rge of
his pastoral duties. His discourses were distinguished
for nervous c ,mmon sense, and also for uncommon
gut-nee—elm; uence truly simple, always affecting, some-
times overpowering. In gen• ral. when he preached, he
shunned all controverted or debateable points of faith ;
and was content toenforte the grand truths as to which
all sec's of Christians are agreed, .nd the sublime I re-
ceists of morality es ith which the Ss:rip:us-es e.punet ; and
this he did by addressing the understanding and ap-
pealing to the best affections of the human heart.—
It is n..t too much to say, that no man of his day w.s
mire respected and esteemed than he was by all classes,
n.t only of hi. own tick,or of his own e:uliar faith, but
of the people at large. We rec Ilect an instance of that
re-pect and esteem, as it was entertained for him by the
learned and dignified classes. On the occasion of a trial
in the Jiro y C, nit,* few years ago, of a cause in which a
Catholic priest was the pursuer, BishoTr Cameron hed
to appear as a witness ; and after he had delivered his
evid nce, he was invited by the three Judges present to
take his seat alut with them on the belch. This instance
we are afraid may appear trivial to those who beet the
Bishop's peat worth and reputation among all,although
it is in point. The bode of the venerable Bishop lay in
sate three days, with his sandals and ring on, and his
mine, crook, crosier, Etc. beside him. A numerous and
respectable congregation, which attended his chapel on
Sunday, were admitted to the room where the body
lay, to take their last look and farewell of him.