Mark, as you o'er your garden tread,
The modest lily droop its head :
And, as you view the painted ground,
See York's pale ensign wave around.
Then let your vivid fancy stray
Thro' the ethereal, milky way.
Think of an angel's lucid dress,
Or let a ghost your thoughts possess,
And let your fancy rest upon
The downy plumage of a swan.
Think of a fair and artless maid,
In robes of innocence array'd,

Her friends' best hope and dearest care,
Who joy to think her good as fair.
And would you give the trump of fame
Loudly to sound her mystic name;
Behold, in this poor scrawl of mine
To form each word of every line
That word and its reverse combine.

Or

Take the pale sheet on which I write,
And fix thereon the name of

LXIII. Dreams.

LONDON, Oct. 10, 1835. Some few days ago DYCE said that he had been to a ball, and returned home about three in the morning, went to bed, and dreamt that his father had had a paralytic stroke; nothing had occurred during the day to put him in mind of father or mother, and he should have thought his father a very unlikely man to be so affected; he is no believer in dreams, and no speculator in such matters. However, when the post arrived, a Letter came from his mother to inform him that his father had been so seized.

DYCE's friend, the REV. ARTHUR JOHNSON, told him that MR ANDREW KNIGHT dreamt that his son, an only son by who se death large estates would pass away, would be accidentally shot or was shot, and in the morning told his son of the dream, and begged him not to go out with his gun; the son smiled, and said that he would certainly not go out with his gun, if his father wished him to remain at home " But," said he, " do you object to my going out with the hounds?" "No," said the father. The son set out, and proceeding along a laurel bush or hedge, near some friends who were shooting, and did not perceive him, all on a sudden a gun was discharged, he exclaimed, "Oh Kinnersley, I am shot; " the friends came up and expressed their concern, and offered to send for assistance, but Knight said that it was all over, and expired.

MR STEWART, the EDINBURGH bookseller, was saying to me Oct. 9th at PICKERING'S that HOGG, the SCOTCH Poet, who is editing an edition of BURNS, would not admit that the COTTER'S SATURDAY-NIGHT by BURNS was so very fine a Poem; I told to him that I would not undertake to dispute a point of taste with a HOG!

LXIV. PORSON.

LONDON, Oct. 10, 1835. Drank tea at PICKERING's, where I met BASIL MONTAGU. He spoke of GEORGE DAWE the Artist as a very mean fellow. He intimated that he had done something queer in the disposal of his property. A friend of MR MONTAGU was represented to be dying; GEO. D. manifested uncommon eagerness to be permitted to sit by his bedside, MR M. thought that this was a gleam of light shooting across the desert of his heart, but he found that his real object was to watch the variations of countenance, and note the expressions of agony. The DUKE of GLOUCESTER manifested a desire to SIR GEORGE TUTHILL to be taken over a lunatic asylum; SIR GEORGE

assented, and the DUKE questioned one of the patients; the man said that he did not like to be questioned, and above all he did not like to be questioned by SILLY BILLY.

A few days ago (Thursday the 8th) I breakfasted with MR STEWART, (of the Firm, MACHLACHLAN and STEWART of EDINBURGH) and he said that once, when he was looking at some prints in the shop-window of MOON of THREADNEEDLE ST. he heard an ENGLISHMAN say, "A damned fine girl that;" "IRISHMAN, "Let us buy something to get a near sight of her;" SCOTCHMAN, "No, it will do to ask change for half a crown.

The book, which THOS. TAYLOR wanted to borrow from DR BURNEY, was SIMPLICIUS " on the Categories." DYCE mentioned to him a passage in DIONYSIUS PERIEGETES, when he repeated from memory a considerable number of lines.

LXV. MEMORY.

LONDON, Oct. 13, 1835. BASIL MONTAGUE says that there is a chapter on memory in FULLER's Holy and Profane State. PORSON once in his presence read a page or two of a book, and repeated it from memory. Some one in the company said that was very well, but it would be wonderful to repeat it backwards. PORSON began, and got through, omitting only two words.

In his latter moments a schoolmaster came in and was talking to PERRY about some Greek passage, when PORSON said, 'You are wrong, Sir.' The Schoolmaster, looking at PORSON'S shabby attire and meagre appearance, was surprised, and looked up and quietly asked PERRY who he was? PERRY told him, when he took his hat and departed, without encountering the discussion of the subject.

The Ordinary in Newgate, intrusted with the distribution of Bibles, always gave a bible to a condemned felon, calculating on receiving it back, and making a profit by the sale.

LXVI. Jekyll — Pryme - Cumberland — &c.

[March 6, 1836. PRYME mentioned to me this day that JEKYLL in 1806 wrote a series of humorous papers in the Morn. Chron. on LORD MELVILLE, Sportively assuming that he was dead; he thinks that they are not in the Spirit of the Public Journals.]

MR M. was well acquainted with PARR. He says that he is a great admirer of the Preface and Dedication to the WARBURTONIAN TRACTS, which he can almost repeat by heart. He once told PARR that he was going to dine with three great Tories, possibly Bishops, when PARR said, 'Tell to them that their insignificance protects them from my vengeance.' He desired MR M. to say to CUMBERLAND, the Dramatist, that his ignorance was only excelled by his impudence, and his impudence was only excelled by his malice. He accompanied Queen Caroline to the House of Lords, and when they entered, and the House rose to receive her, PARR made three bows, as if in acknowledgment of an honour done to himself. When he was once at BP PRETYMAN'S Palace at BUCKDEN, the BISHOP was throwing out some strong language against GODWIN, which PARR stopped by dexterously saying, He is my particular friend! BENNETT thought PARR the most eloquent man he ever heard. MR M. certainly understood from DR RAINE that PORSON had prepared an edition of the Hippolytus for the press, but it was not found on his death; MR M. has conversed with DR RAINE on the subject. He seemed to know who was suspected, and from his manner I should suspect that UPCOTT or SAVAGE was meant.

PARR said of BURKE's second book on the FRENCH Revolution that it was the sediment of malice, as the first was the efflorescence of rage.

MR M. thinks highly of BP WATSON for integrity and ability, he told him that he wished his fame to rest on his Speech in the House about......, and referring to the Sermon on the Revolution of 1688, he said that, though it might have obstructed his

preferment, he thanked GOD that he had had the courage to deliver it. He [MR M.] condemned the son for suppressing passages, and DR HEBERDEN for destroying the MS. left by DR CON YERS MID.

MR M. spoke with great approbation of BP HORSLEY'S speech on the appointment of SiR Jos. BANKS (who was considered as a mere herbalist,) to the Presidency of the Royal Society, and if I understood him rightly, it is inserted in MATY's Review.

He considers the statement of HOPTON HAYNES about the theological opinions of SIR ISAAC NEWTON to be very important; MR HAYNES is an unimpeachable witness; THEOPH. LINDSEY published an edition: [perhaps it is the third.]

When some remark was made about WARBURTON's promotion, as if he ought not to have been promoted, and he was told of it, he said that it was [or might have been] well for the Church that he had not continued in another profession:

He thinks that it was DR BALGUY, who had his joke with WARBURTON about the phrase, Between you and me, my wife is with child. GIBBON alludes to it in his edition of the 6th Eneid. In the LONDON INSTITUTION there is a copy of the Critical Zeview with the names attached to each Article.

LXVII. "THE KING OF CLUBS.

This was a dinner-club, originating in a small party at SIR JAS MACKINTOSH'S. The original members were, ROGERS the POET, SHARP, SCARLETT, MR ROBT SMITH, and MR JOHN ALLEN. Additions were soon made of some of the most distinguished men of the day; amongst others were, Lords Lansdown, Holland, Brougham, Cowper, King and Selkirk, Messrs Romilly, Porson, Payne Knight, Horner, Bryan Edwards, Sidney Smith, Dumont, Jeffrey, Smithson, Tennant, Wisher, Alexander Bar ing Luttrell, Blake, Hallam, Ricardo, and Hoppner Mr Wyndham was to be balloted for on the Saturday succeeding his lamented death." The Globe, March 10, 1834.

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