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black passion, threatening horsewhips and we
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s. If t

:entleman will aspire to a

ridiculous notoriety we shall oblige him ; and for this pur-

pose we

s)—together with two other communications

a curiosity it

which have reached us

on the subject. Here they are :

6th .1

sy here, is valua-
e trouble of calling on
author of " A
He did not present his poem to
of it to distribute as I liked. I
others, and therefore considered
what I did, as you would never,
,ork presented to you. The respon-
Af of laying it out (!) with the press,
s at all times unpleasant, especially in

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, as it has proved. However, as you nave
a different view [of what ?] , I take he opportunity,
is [previously ?1 to Inv leaving town, of sending

.ked, and would -thank you to return
which I left you, as I do not wish

my autograph, (!) as your vanity would
... lam gratified, as far as the notice of the work is con-
cerned; and having performed my promise to the author,
and given you a substitute for the volume I left, I find no
cause to look with disatisfaction on my part in the affair,
and take leave of you with merely stating, so far as my own
impression goes, that it is unworthy of an editor, provided
he possess gentlemanly feelings, or good taste (to which you
appear not to have the least pretensions) to make public
what is scarcely worthy of private notice. If you were short
of matter to fill up your paper, you should have extracted
4- have put forth such trash as you
named to take up the pen to reply
d this much, I, with the most per-

from the book sent, and r
did. I feel almost

; but having

fect good feeling, am willing to make every allowance for
your apparent ignorance of the amenities of life, too often
owing to a deficiency in a polite education, or to a want of
having mixed in good society, which, in justice, I must own,
has not been your fault, but your misfortune.—Your's, &c.,

R. ROSE

;nce, where you got

P.S.—lf you will tell me, in confi
your education, I promise you it shall go no further

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD

" Genus irritabile" is the epithet applied to the whole tribe
of poets, and, aware of this, it was an act of much impru-
dence certainly to stir up R. Rose, Esquire, for, strange to
say, the smaller the poet, the more intense the irritability !
I have only to warn you be is in a most immense and tower-
ing passion ! and, instead of the " bard of colour," may
large pair of scissors, now more properly be called the " bard of choler," at least
a sors, I

as regards you ! I send this by way of caveto, and recom-
mend a sharp look-out, as I suppose you would not wish the
infliction of a horsewhip from that most tuneful and har-
monious swain. Should he foolishly have recourse to this
mode of venting his fury, you have your remedy by getting
him into a cage if you can ; such a fine blackbird will sing as
well there as at large.

Poets of all hues have we seen,
A black one only lacking,
Who now a lustre sheds I ween,
Like Day and Martin's blacking!
White mice, white foxes, and white crows
All curious are and rare,
But a black poet and black rose
Must make the nations stare!!
The ladies call him quite " a love,"
Who'll sing'and never tire.
A perfect blackbird of the grove
Is Robert Rose, Esquire.

CYGNUS NIGER

gy for ob-

We really have to offer our readers some apolo,
truding before their notice a silly communication from that
very silly and vain person, Robert Rose, Esq• (the bard of
colour) ; but as our contemporary, the Albion, in the absence
of his usual rubbish, has found room for Robert Rose, Esq.
(the bard of colour), we feel bound to admit that we
intended giving the letter in our last, and it was actually
in type, but thrown out by important matter. As Robert
Rose, Esq. (the bard of colour), it will be seen in the

4Thion, has omitted the gracfful and elegant postscript
)f his letter, we have no objection to give it, because
►s we enjoy a good laugh, we fancy our readers participate
Ln the same sort of jokery. We said his letter was funny;
and we appeal to anybody if we did not., say rightly. All this

poetry, in the STANDARD. We do not choose to be dictated
to, and "show him up," as Mr. Smalt said of the Times.
Robert Rose, Esq. (the bard of colour), now takes up a
great deal of space in our paper, and we hope he is satisfied.
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