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UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF ROBERT BURNS.
(Front the Ayr Advertiser.)

;vutlfpping Entelligentr,

From Berns to .Limes IToyes, k:sq., Gordon Castre.-74. L TUESDAY. 29th October.—Noun, Wind E.S.E.—Fair.
Ste,—l will defend my conduct in giving you this trouble, on, Ariatrant.—The George Washington, Ho!dridge, from New York,
the best of Chtistiau principles—" Whatsoever ye would that (sailed 9th inst..--Swiftsure, Wild, Smyrna—Bahia Packet. Williams.
men should du unto you, do ye even so unto them." I shall , Marseilles—Sir Wm. Wallace, Hannah, Quebec—Wakefield. Roberts,
certainly, among my legacies, leave my latest curse to that un- ' Havre—Africaine, Thompson, Odessa.
lucky predicament which hurried—tore me away from Gordon ! SAILTM '—The Splendid, Stafford, for Manilla—Tally Ho, Peabody,
Caste. May that obstinate son of Latin prose be curet to Virginia—George, Bostol, Boston—Lady Combennere, Prod.sham.
Scotch-mile periods, and damn'd to seven-league paragraphs;
wbii-e-dee...lension and conjugation, gender, number, and time, '
under the raged banners of dissonance and uisarrangement,
exzernaliy rank against him in hostile array !!!
Aaow me, sir, to strengthen the small claim I have to your
acquaintance by the following request. An engraver, James
Jonuson, in Edinburgh, has, not from mercenary views, but from
an honest Scotch enthusiasm, set about collecting all our native
songs, and setting them to music; particularly those that have
never been set before. Clarke, time welt-known musician, pre-
sides over the musical arrangement, and Drs. Beattie and
Blacklock, Mr. Tvtler, Woodhouscice, and )our humble ser-
i vant, to the utmost of his 'small power, assist in collecting the
old poetry, or sometimes, for a tine air, to snake a stanza when
it has no words. The brats, too tedious to mention, claim a
parental pang from my hardship. I suppose it will appear in
Johnson's second number—the first was published before my
acquaintance with him. "Cauld Kail in Aberdeen," is one in-
tended for this number; and I beg a copy of his Grace of Gor-
don's words to it, which you were so kind as to repeat to me.
You may be sure we wont prefix the author's name, except you
like, though I look upon it as no small merit to this work that
the names of so many authors of old Scotch songs, names
I almost forgotten, will be inserted. Ido not well know
where to write to you—l rather write at you ; but if you
will be so obliging, Unincdiately on receipt of this, as to write
me a few lines, I shall perhaps pay you in kind, though not in
quality. Johnson's terms are—each number a handsome pocket
volume, to consist of at least a hundred Scotch songs, with
basses for the harpsichord, &c. The price to subscribers five
shillings, to non-subs. :ix shillings. He will have three
numbers, I conjecture.
My directions for two or three weeks will be at Mr. William
Cruickshank's, St. James'-square, Nev Town, Edinburgh.
I am, sir, yours to command,
Edinburgh, 30th Oct., 1787. ROOT. BURNS.

To James 'byes, Esq., of Gordon Castle.—Nu.

. _
DEAR SIR,--I would have wrote you immediately on receipt
of your kind letter, but a mixed impulse of gratitude and esteem
whispered to me that I ought to send you something by way of
return. When a poet owes any thing, particularly when he is
indebted for good offices, the payment that usually recurs to
him—the only coin, indeed, in which he probably' is conversant
—is rhyme. Johnson sends the book by the Fly, as directed,
and begs me to enclose his most grateful thanks; my return, I
intended, should have been one or two poetic bagatelles, which
the world have not seen, or, perhaps, for obvious reasons, cannot
see.. These I shall send you before I leave Edin. They may
make you laugh a little, which, on the whole, is no bad way of
spending one's precious hours and still more precious breath.
At any rate they will be, though a small, yet a very sincere
mark of my respectful esteem fur a gentleman whose farther
acquaintance I should look on as a peculiar obligation.
The Dike's song, independent totally of his Diskeship, charms
me. There is I know not what of wild happiness of thought
and expression peculiarly beautiful in the old Scottish song
style, of which his grace, old venerable Skinner, the author f
Tulloctigorum, &e., and the late Ross at Lochlee, of true Scot-
tish poetic memory, are the only modern instances, that I recol-
lect, since Ramsay with his contemporaries, and poor Bob
Fergusson, went to the world of deathless' existence and truly
immortal song. The mob of mankind, that many-headed beast,
would laugh at so serious a speech about an old song; but, as
Job says, 0 that mine adversary had written a book !"—Those
who think that composing a Scotch song is a trifling business—
let them try.
I wish my lord duke would pay a proper attention to the
Christian admonition, " Hide not your candle under a bushel,"
but "let your light shine before men." I could name half a
dozen dukes that I guess are a devilish deal worse employed ;
nay. I question, if there are half a dozen better. Perhaps there
are not half that scanty number whom Heaven has favoured
with the tuneful, happy, and, I will say, glorious gift.
I am, dear Sir, your obliged humble servant,
Edinburgh, Nov. 6, 1787. ROBERT BURNS.

ENGLISH BLACK AND FRENCH WHITE.—The headland on
the French coast near Calies, called by English seamenßlack-
ness, is in France Blanc Net.
Lord Lindsay, eldest son of the Earl of Balcarras, (Baron
Wigan, is the peerage of Great Britain.) became of age on the
16th instant, when the event was celebrated at Haigh Hall, the
seat of the noble earl, in Lancashire, and at Eastferry Abbey,
in Fifeshire. Lord and Lady Balcarras and family have re-
cently returned from a short continental tour.
AMERICANISM.--A very ingenious friend of Mine, and, cu-
Timis enough, of the same name as myself, a native of Boston,
and a splendid shut, frequently astonished me with the exploits
of American archers. He said, that once when he went into
Kentucky to witness a trial of skill, he stayed by the way at a
public-house, and observing in the room such an amount of
broken ware, and equivocal marks, he was quite convinced,
knowing the savage nature of Kentuckian fighting, that a des-
perate and murderous affray had taken place there. Ile re-
marked the servant sweeping the floor, and putting the con-
tents carefully into a basket. Rather surprised, he asked her
what she was preserving with such care ? "Oh !" said the
girl. "nothing particular, only a few eyes." " Eyes !" inquired
my friend. " You see," she said, " about fourteen gentlemen
went home blind last night, so I was just picking up their eyes,
'cause the gentlemen, when they get sober, may be calling for
'em, I guess."
SINGL LAE CiacusisraNCE.—ln the course of last summer, a
strange circumstance happened to a shepherd, in the service of
a farmer at Lochearnsiue, Perthshire. Having., one morning,
made his usual round to inspect his flock, he laid himself down
in a sleeping posture, to ease his weary limbs. Whilst lying in
this position, with his eyes shut, he was surprised to feel some-
thing alight on his thigh, and opening his eyes, saw, to his no
small astonishment, a carrion crow walking along his body
towards his head, fully determined, as he conceived, to peck out
and feast on his eyes. Our shepherd, more cautious than gentle,
moved his hand so slowly forward, that he succeeded in catching
the crow by the foot, and instantly killed it against a stone
which happened to be near him. Although some of his acquaint-
ances will have it that the visit of the crow was nothing more
than an act of retributive jus'ice, for having, as they allege,
robbed its nest a few days previously, yet there can be little
doubt, that the bird looked upon him as dead, and had actually
perched upon him for the purpose of peckingout his eyes, before
it proceeded to feast on any other part of the body—a peculiarity 1
belonging to all the feathered tribe that feed on carrion.—Stif-
ling paper.
A Pious Sus sit.—ln the reign of Frederick the Great, a
soldier in garrison at Breslaw, entered the cathedral of the
town and robbed the image of the holy virgin of her jewels and
garments. The thief was soon discovered, and taken before a
court-martial. In his defence he declared that the holy Mary
had appeared to him when asleep, and offered the ornaments
and clothes, which he was accused of having stolen, as a remu-
neration for his fervent faith in herrniraculous powers, to which
offer he could not refuse acceding. Notwithstanding, however,
this seemingly plausible excuse, the pious sinner was sentenced
to be shot, and the verdict was laid Ibefore Frederick for con-
firmation. The King, on such an extraordinary occasion,
summoned the bishop and chapter of Bresiaw to give their ad-
vice and opinion—whether the holy virgin could have appeared
tc the prisoner and made him such an offer? The high clergy,
in answer, declared themselves in favour of the possibility of
the mother of Christ appearing in such a manner to one of the
faithful of the holy church. lipou this opiuiou the King par-
doned the prisoner, but forbade him ever again to accept of any
present which either the holy virgin or any other saint by a
miracle might offer him, else he should undergo the penalty
which he had then escaped suffering.—Court Journal.
SPANISH CHIVALRY.—Not lone ago, while the Queen of
Spain, now Queen-Regent, was taking an airing on horseback
along with her husband Ferdinand, beatee memorise, she was
suddenly attacked by a bull, and would have been gored on the
spot but for the timely interposition of a soldier, who rescued
her Majesty from the infuriated animal, and thus saved her life.
The uxorious King, filled with admiration and gratitude,
desired the intrepid soldier, who had come so seasonably to the
aid of royalty in a moment of extreme peril, to name the favour
which he would wish to be conferred upon him, at the same time
intimating no reward could be too high for the signal service
he had rendered. Instead of taxing his Majesty's benefi„n„,
however, the soldier, with the true Castillian spirit, replied that
all he wished for was another opportunity to risk his life in his
Majesty's service. Any where but in Spain this answer would
be thought hyperbolical, and would be set clown merely as a
scrap of sentimental affectation. In that country, however, it
expressed, in a forcible manner, the innate feeling of generous
and manly pride by which the Castillian, in particular, is hon-
ourably characterised; a feeling which, in former times, dis-
tinguished the whole nation, and rendered " Spanish honour"
Proverbial wherever Spaniards were to be found. But now it is
only in the class of the people, or in the ranks of the army,
that such sentiments prevail. Corruption has defaced the
Corinthian capitals of society, but the base of the columns re-
mains as sound as ever. If the nobility and gentry have been
debased, the people are still noble, and the high sentiments
which they cherish afford a better ground of hope for the future
than all the speculations of political optimists, or the labours
of codyfying jurists, who propose to regenerate mankind by
the rule and the square, and sometimes to change their habits
and observances, as it were, by tuckaf drum.—Caledonian Mere,
THE TURKISH LADIES.—Every person who has been iu
Turkey, and is not afraid of speaking out his real sentiments,
instead of timidly acquiescing in the loose reports of ignorant
or prejudiced travellers who have preceded him, will agree with
us when we state, that women in Turkey actually enjoy more
liberty than in the other counti ies of Europe or in America. We
do not speak of the higher classes, for we know nothing about
them, although our opportunities have been equal to those of
most of our predecessors, and in many cases superior. We
allude to the middling classes, by which alone every country is
to be judged, if judged fairly or correctly. No stronger proof
of the liberty they enjoy is necessary than the numerous par-
ties of ladies which one meets with in the environs of Constan-
tinople, which excursions, from their frequency, appear to form
almost the sole business of their lives. It is, in fact, a plea-
sant way of passing time, and resembles our own practices,
except that it differs in its details. instead of a formal card
from Mrs. White to Mrs. Green and the Misses Green, the
Turkish lady sends her servant to a friend, and asks her com-
pany to a ride out to Belgrade, or to an excursion on the Bos-
phorus. Instead of being bored to death like Mrs. White,
who hopes half her dear friends will stay away, and, between
the grumbling of husband and remissness of servants, is in a
feverish flutter for a week or a fortnight, the Turkish lady man-
ages the business in a different manner. The fair Fatimah
orders provisions to be put up for a day's excursion, and leav-
ing enough for her complaisant husband, steps into her calls
and calls upon her friend the Lady Zayliia.b. From' thence the
party proceed up the Golden Horn, or breasting the Bospho-
rus, selecting some lovely valley bordering upon that ocean
stream.' Here the friends spend the day, surrounded by their
household, and continuing. their customary avocations, while
the young people are sporting under the shade of the lofty trees,
and the party return home in the evening in high spirits, and
with their health improved by exercise in the open air. It may
be doubted whether our young women are equally benefited by
spending an evening in a heated and crowded room, and vitiated
atmosphere ; but we fear the comparison may be thought Go-
, thic."—Sketches of Turkey.

The New York, Hozle, hence, at New York, Bth instant.
William Brown. -, hence, at Philadelphia.
Annawon, Hudson, hence, at New York, 3d instant.
Hermitage, Churchill, hence, at ditto. sth instant.
The James Perkins, Crowell, hence for Batavia, passed Anjer 26th
June.
Virginia, Turner, hence, at Alexandria, 30th ult:
llehe, Ester, hence, at Smyrna, 24th ult.
William Shand, Purss, hence, at Lisbon.
Jane, Ellis.; and Snarling, Derbyshire, hence, at Dublin.
Ugoni, Pickance, from St John's, N B, at Dublin.
Grace, Tinnison, hence, at Limerick.
Perseverance, !gannet, hence for Ostend, at Holyhead.
The Anna Sophia, Butcher, hence for Trieste, was driven on the
east pier, Kingstown, on Saturday. She was got off with loss of rud-
der, and part of the copper stripped. It is expected she will be re-
paired without discharging.
The Three Sisters, Thomas, hence for Cardigan, ran upon her an-
chor in entering Holyhead 27th inst., and immediately sunk.
The John, Russell, hence for St John, N B, was spoken 26th ult.,
in lat. 43 30, long. 58 40.

WEDNESDAY, 30th October.—Noon, Wind S.—Fair.
The Frederick Huth, Turner, hence, at Valparaiso, in 91 days.
John, Davy, hence, at do, in 108 days.
Niagara, Rigby, from Bahia at Pernamhueo.
Integrity, Johnstone, hence, at Norfolk, Ist instant.
Victoria, Perry ; and Dryope, Hamilton, hence. at Montreal, 2d
instant.
Cicely, Sewell, from London, at Montreal.
Doncaster. Foster, hence, at Quebec, 28th ult.
St John, Nichol, hence at do, 29th.
Margaret, Snmpton, hence, at do, Ist instaa.
Margery, Wheatley. hence, at do, do.
John Welch, Woodhouse ; Elizabeth, Reed ; and Abeona, Garbutt,
hence, at Quebec, Ist instant.
William Pitt, Rait.; and Belle, Campbell, from Newfoundland, at
Quebec.
Henrietta, , from Demerara, at St Andrew's, N. B.
Pandora, Cobb; New Jane. Pomeroy; and Mary. Harvey, hence,
at Lisbon.
Lima, Manion ; George the Fourth, Hellyer ; St Ringwood, Smith,
from Newfoundland, at Oporto.
Maria Brandt, Grotian, hence, at Archangel.
.Vietoria, Voss ; Industrie; Sosath ; and Flora, Weydeman, hence,
at Bremen.
Fortuna, Spohn ; Ville de Cherbourg. Lemeke; and Ida Maria,
Behrends, hence, at Danzig,
Albion, Brown, from Bahia, at Elsinenr.
Little Mary. George, hence, at Gluckstadt.
Spring, Brock, hence, at Hamburgh.
Cashmere, Dawson, from Sincapore, at do.
Bedford, Campbell, hence, at Leer.
Charlotte, Sievert, hence, at Pillau.
Paul, Maas, hence, at Travemunde.
Rosalie, Agrel, hence, at Wismar.
Sisters, Todd ; Christina Cornelia, Mik ; and Zealous, Anderson,
hence, at Riga.
Calmar, Peterson, hence, at Samlhamn.
Atlas, Tate ; and St Harlampy, Kruger, hence, at St Petersburgh.
Solon, Shaw, from Laguna, at do.
Hotspur, Wishart, from Matanzas, at do.
Maria Cornelia, Voss, hence off Warnemunde.
Active, Latter; Maria, Merrian ; and Alnwick, Booth, hence, at
Belfast.
Zebulon, Foster, from Pietou, at the Cove of Cork.
Mary, Chicken ; Hope, Rose ; and Cambrian, Roper, from Quebec
at Dublin.
Priscilla, Peaenck, from Quebec, nt Limerick.
William, Lantin, from St John, N B, at Londonderry.
Molly Moore, Healy, from Pugwash, at Waterford, with part of
her cargo thrown overboard,
Ocean, Hearn, from Quebec, at Waterford.
Weser, Grave, from Baltimore, at Deal.
Hereford, Freer, from Bahia, at London.
The Rose, Harris. hence for New South Wales, at Warren Point,
with loss of main boom.
The Sarah, Ham, from Bristol for St John, N B, was spoken 14th
ult., in long. 53 30, out 28 days.
The Concordia, Nagel, hence for Harlingen, which was stranded
in the Texel, has been got off, after being abandoned by the crew.
About one-third of the cargo (salt) expected to be saved.
The Resolution, Gardner. from Quebec, in the river Thames, fell
in with the Blagdon, from Virginia to Leith, 30th ult., in Ist. 45, lon.
43, with her head to the southward, lying to under double-reefed
maintopsail, foretopsail loose, and the foresail blown out of the bolt
rope—no person on hoard—one hemp and one chain cable on deck,
with the end out of the hawse hole; but night coming on, with a high
sea and increasing breeze, could not board her.
The Earl of Ezremont, , from Quebec, got on shore near
the entrance of Wexford harbour, 27th instant ; her rudder is unship.
ped, and she has upwards of eight feet water in her hold.
The Margaret, of Newport, was driven on the east pier, Kingstown,
but got off with damage.
The Mary, Morton, for Bombay, which sailed on Wednesday the
234 instant, has put hack leaky, having experienced a gale of wind
from the southward on Thursday, which continued to blow hard all
that day, and was struck with many heavy seas, and on Saturday
night had a perfect hurricane,•which caused other damage.

VESSELS ENTER ED FOR LOADING.

EAST INDIES AND CAPE OP GOOD HOPF..
Sir John Tobin, 378 Gipsy. P. Bombay
D Gibb, 671 Aliquis, B. Do

AFRICA.

J Frankland,

316 Frankland, P, Mauritius

(Entered 24th Oct. for Demerara
A M'Gregor & co, 135 Maria, G, St Mary's, Gambia
Croft, 180 Little Catherine, Q, Africa

SOUTH AMERICA.

ENCOURAGEMENT Op IRISH INDUSTRY.—_There is a very
pleasant interchange of favours going on Letween this and the
sister country. We burn her coals—she in return burns our
tobacco. Kilkenny has now to boast of another miracle. Hi-
therto it was famous for.fire without smoke; henceforth it will be
celebrated for sni..ke without fire. The following will explain the
paradox :—`• Burning Tubacco.—On Monday the commissioners,
Messrs. Logic and Pa'grave, proceeded to the city, to superin-
tend the work of burning the Irish tobacco. A greater quantity
cannot be consumed daily than in or about ten tons; and hence
that they are likely to be occupied in this city for, perhaps,
nearly a fortnight -longer. It is impossible to say exactly to
what amount the quantity to be consumed here will reach, but it
may be set down in a general way at 100 tons.M_Kilke►u,y
Jtatersia/,—Duillin Evening Mail.

Kers, Imrie & co, 276 l!apil, P, Valparaiso. Interme.
dios, Lima & Guayaquil
C Tavleur, Sons & co, IN llenrietta, G, Lima
C L Bahr. 169 Cl,ortriana, G. Port-au-Prince
W Sc J Tyrer, 26i Europa, P, Bahia
C Tayleur, Sons & co, 207 Portensia, K, Vera Cruz

UNITED STATES.
A Taylor & co, 469 Nimrod, G, Charleston
Kers, Imrie & co, 314 Rowena, P. Mobile
Bold & Fussell, 311 Northumberland, B, New Orleans
Crooner, Benson & co, 694 Great Britain, P, New York
.1 N Wood & co, 296 Robert Burns, Q, Savannah

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
.1 Martin, or Cotesworth, 59 Catherine, —, Lisbon
W H Wood. 9G Nuestra Senora del Carmen, 1;. Malaza,
Valencia, and Barcelona

EUROPE.
C L Bahr, 103 Perseverance, S, Havre
Do, 153 Eleanora Charlotte, Q, Elsineur
Do, Vigilante, K, Do
Do, 176 Eleanore, Q, Lubeck
Do, 1221 Salvatorium, Q, Danzig
P Christinson, 141 Betsy Susannah, Q, Nvhorg
C G Weber it co, 300 Achilles, Q, Elsineur
Do, 302 Ostsee, B, Do
Do, 431 Fried Wilhelm 111, B Da

Imports.

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 80.

Richard Walker,Gill, fm Bombay, with 2259 bales 145 hf bales cot-
ton, 300 bgs rice, 1100 bgs pepper, 20 cks cocoa nut oil, Order—PZDk

AFRICA. •
Hector, Scott, fm Africa, with abt 1300 cks palm oil, 30 t barwood,
1 c elephants' teeth, 6 fms dunnage wood, 7 pkgs 11 goods retd, 1 bx
tortoise shell, W Rotherham, and W A and G Maxwell Dk