The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1852-06-05
Lord Jeffrey and Dickens.

poses to appoplexy. RAMBLER.
Lord Jeffrey and Dickens.
The following letter from Lord JEFF
frey to Charles Dickens, is one Of the
many epistles of the late reviewer,
which have been lately published in his
Memors:-
EDINBuRGn, 31st January, 1S47.-
Oh, my dear, dear Dickens! what
number five you have now given us!
| have so cried and sobbed over it last
night, and again this morning; and felt
my heart purified by those tears, and
blessed and loved you for making me
shed them; and | never can bless and
love you enough. Since that divine
Nelly was found dead on her humble
couch, beneath the snow and the ivy,
there has been nothing like the actual
dying of that sweet Paul, in the summer
sunshine of that lofty room. And the
long vista that leads us so gently and
sadly, and yet so gracefully and winn-
ingly, to that plain consummation!
Every trait so true, and so touching
and yet lightened by that fearless inno-
cence which goes ploWully to the brink
Of the grave, and that pure affection
which bears the unstained spirit, on its
soft and lambert flash, at once to its
source in etc nifty. But | for
get to thank you for your most kind
and interesting letter of December 9Th.
| certainly did not mean to ask you for
the full and clear, if not every way sat-
sfactory, statement of Dickens,s pecu-
mary position you have trusted me
with. But do terl the full value of
that confidence, and wish had any bet
ter return to make to it than mere
thanks, and idle, because general,
advice. | am rather disappointed, |
must own at finding your enbarkment
still so small. But it ii great thing to
have made a beginning, and laid a
foundation; and you are young enough
to reckon on living many years under
the proud roof of the completed struc-
ture, which even expect to see ascend
ing in ITS splendour. But you
are wiser now; and, with Fosters kind
aud judieious help, will soon redeem
the effects of your not ungenerous err
rors. am as far as possible from
gludging you the elegances and indul-
G noes which are suitable to your taste
full and liberal nature, and which you
have SO fully earned; and should indeed
be grleved not to see you surrounded,
and your children growing up in the
midst of refinement which not only
crafty the relishes but improve the ca
pacities of cultivated mind. All |
venture to press on you is the infinite
importance, and unspeakable comfort,
of an achieved and secure independence;
taking away all anxiety about decay Of
health or mental alacrity, or even that
impatience Of taskwork which is apt to
steal upon free spirits who would work
harder and better, if redeemed from the
the yoke Of necessity. y n And so
God bless you, and your dear Kate, and
my charming boy, and all his brot hers
and sisters, and all whom you love, and
love you-with you or at distance"
JOHNSON AT THE TEA TABLE.-'sAt
the tea-table," says Mr.. Cumberland.
johnson had considerable demands
upon his favorite beverage, and remem-
Der when Sir Joshua Reynolds, at my
house, reminded him that he had drank
eleven cups he replied, "Sir, did not
count your glasses of wine; why should
you number my cups of teaF And
then laughing in perfect good humor, he
added, "Sir, | should have released the
lady from any further trouble, if it had
not been for your remarks, but you have
reminded me that want one of dozen,
and l must request Mrs. Cumberland
to round up my number" When he
saw the readiness and complaccncy with
which my wife obeyed his call, he turn
ed kind and cheerful look upon her,
and said, "Madam must tell you tor
your comfort, you have escaped much
better than certain lady did while
ago, upon whose patience | intruded
greatly more than have on yours; but
the lady asked me for no other purpose
than to make zany OF me, and set me
Cabling to parcel of people 1 knew
nothing of; so, Madam, had my revenge
Of her, for swallowed fve.and-twenty
cups of the tea, and did not treat her
with as many words"
When is lighted candle like tomb
stone When it is set up for late husband