Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-06-02
deemed an object Of sufficient importance TO
attract the abuse Of these same dons and all
their satellites.
VARIETIES.
From English papers received at the Office of the
York American.

eiiium vidi tantum was lad Of Is in I7S6
: when he came fist to Edinburgh, but had
sense and feeling enough To be much interest
ed in his poetry, and would nave given the
world TO know HIM; but had very little &C
uuainIance with any literary people, and Sill
les, with rhr gentry IF the west county, The
two sets that he most ireq"eIud.. M. no
mas Griersrn was at that time clerk OF my
fatacr's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask
him to his lodgings O dinner, but had no OPP
portunity to keep his word, otherwise might
have seen more of this Distinguished man. AS
II was, saw him one day IL, .hr laIe venerable
Professor Fr-gu sons, where there wese sever
al gentlemen Of literary rrpu'a'ion, among
whom Irm"mber he celebrated MIR. Duga'd
Stewart. OF course we Young ters sal silent,
l,okeA aid listened The only thing remem'
Der which was remarkable in Burns m amer,
was the Fl {, produced unon hun by print OF
Banbur,s, representing soldier lying dead on
the snow, his dog sitting IN misery on one SIDE
ON the other, his wido ~, WIN child in her
arms. These lir"s were written ben a'h-
"CoI on Canadian hills, or Mnaen's plain,
Perhaps that parent wept her soldier slain
Bent Ger her babe, her eye dissolved IN dew,
The big drops, mnglins with the milk he drew
Gave the sad presaSe OF his future years
The child of misery baTtised IN tears"
"Burrs seemed mach affected with the print,
or rather the ideas which il suggested o his
mind. He actually shed tears. He asked whose
the lines were, and il CHANGED that nobody but
myself remembered that they occur in half
forgotten poem Of Lsnghornr's called by the
unprom,sng title of The JUS ice of Peacc.-
| whispered my information to friend pre-
sent, who mentioned i, to Burns, who reward
ed me with look and word, which though
If mere civilily, then received, and still recoI-
Ieci, with very great pleasure.
ellis person was strong and robust; his man
ners rustic, not clownish; sort OF dignlfed
Dlainness and simplicity, which received part
If lis effects, perhaps from ones knowl-
edge Of his extraordinary talents. His features
are represented III Mr.. Nasmyth's picture, but
TO me ii conveys the idea That they are dImln-
ishcd as ii seen in perspective. l lhlnk his
coun lenance was more massive Than II looks IN
anv Of the portraits. would have taken TIE
poet, had not known what hr was, Tor very
>aedcious county farmer tho old Scots school
| l. C. none of your modern agllcuIturalls's
who keep laborers Tor their diudgery, out The
douce gudeman who held his own plough
here was strong expression OF sense and
shire wdness in all his ineamentS; the eye alone,
| think, indicated the polite character and tenn
Which sqTeae E o4 nesg owfd hs Mefn sa hs
such another eye in a human head, though
have seen the most distinguished men Of my
! time His ver5alion expressed perfect self
confidence, without The slightest presump ton.
Among the men who were most learned of their
time and country, he expressed himself with
perfeci frmness, but without the least intru.
si.e forward ne SIS; and when hr Offered in opin-
ion, he did not hesitate - express il firmly yet
al the same time with modesty. | do not re-
member any part Of his onversa,ion distinctly
enough 10 be quoted, nor did ever sre him a
gam except in the street, where he did not re
cogniZe me-, as | could not ex pect he should
He was much caressed in Edinburgh, but (con>
siderlng what literary emolumenls have been
since his day) the .Hor:s made for his relief
were extremely tritlng.
81 remember on this occasion | mention,
tho't. Burns acquaintance with English poetry
was rather limited, and also, that having twenty
times the Abilities of Ian Ramsay ard Of Fer.
guson,he talked of ,hrp with o. mach ,um, ity
as his models; there WAS, doubtless, national
prediction in his estimate.
"!his is all | can tell you about Burns. !
have only TO ado, tina, his dress cores pouded
with his manner. He was like farmer Dress
ed in his best 10 dine with The l.ird. | do not
speak in malam pArlem, when say, l. never
saw man in company with his suberiors in
station aud information, more perfectly free
from either the reality or :he afFrota,lon ofem-
barrassment. | was told; but did not observe
it, that his address TO females was extremely |
dettrential, and always with a turn either 10
The pathetic or hume. Gus, which enga. ,ed their
attention particularly. | have heard the late
Duchess Of Gordon remark this-I do MOI know
any thing can add to these recollections of
forty YEARS ice"
SWiss Custom - The horn OF The Alps is en-
plnyeG, in the mountaInou, districts Of Swltz>
erland, not solely 20 sound the COW call (hun.
reihn RAM DIES VachesJ, but for another pur-
pose, solemn and religious. As soon as The
sun has disappeared in the valleys, and lis lost
rays are jus, gimm,rn on 'he snowy summit
of the mountains, then the aherdsman who
dwes on the lritlest takes his horn and trum.
pets forth, "Praise God the Lord" All the
herds i'm the neiphbourhood on hearing This |