and a thousand times have I trembled at the idea of the degrading epithets that malice or misrepresentation may affix to my name. Often in blasting anticipation, have I listened to some future hackney scribbler, with the heavy malice of savage stupidity exultingly asserting that Burns, notwithstanding the fanfaronade of independence to be found in his works, and after having been held up to public view, and to public estimation, as a man of some genius, yet, quite destitute of resources within himself to support his borrowed dignity, dwindled into a paltry exciseman, and slunk out the rest of his insignificant existence in the meanest of pursuits, and among the lowest of mankind.' And, in continuation he says 'Burns was a poor man from his birth, and an exciseman by necessity; but—I will say it!-the sterling of his honest worth poverty could not debase, and his independent British spirit oppression might bend, but could not subdue.' Thus, it is evident, this customhouse investigation embittered his peace, and aggravated those excesses which were soon to conduct him to an untimely grave!

We now come to the conclusion of the life of this illustrious poet. In Burns, upwards

of a year before his death, there was an evident decline in his personal appearance; and though his appetite continued unimpaired, he was himself sensible that his constitution was sinking. From October, 1795, to the January following, an accidental complaint confined him to the house. A few days after he began to go abroad, he dined at a tavern, and returning home late one cold night from one of those scenes of unrestrained enjoyment, became benumbed: this was followed by an attack of rheumatism. His appetite now began to fail; his hands shook, and his voice faltered. In the month of June, 1796, he removed to Brow, in Annandale, to try the effects of sea-bathing. His anxiety for his family hung heavy upon him; the more, perhaps, from reflecting that he had not done them all the justice he was qualified to do; and when he alluded to their approaching desolation, his heart was touched with pure and unmingled sorrow. He returned to his house in Dumfries, on the 18th of July, 1796, and was no longer able to stand upright. On the second and third day after his arrival, his fever increased, and his strength diminished.

On the fourth, the sufferings of this great genius were terminated.

A costly monument has been erected in the church-yard at Dumfries, over the remains of Burns; and another, in a style of much greater magnificence, was, on the 25th of January, 1820, the anniversary of his birth, founded near Alloway Kirk. If his countrymen had but applied half of the money which these trophies of his talent and his genius must have cost, to have snatched him from the fallen state of a Custom-house officer, they would probably have prolonged his invaluable life for some years hence.-Scotland may have abundance of excisemen, but they will never again possess another BURNS.

THE MOST NOBLE, HIGH AND PUISSANT PRINCE,

ARTHUR,

DUKE, MARQUIS AND EARL OF WELLINGTON ;

Marquis Douro; Viscount Wellington of Talavera and of Wellington, and Baron Douro of Wellesley; Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter; Field Marshal of His Majesty's Forces; Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards (Blue); one of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council; Colonel in Chief of the Rifle Brigade; Master General of the Ordnance; Governor of Plymouth; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath; Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order; Knight of the Order of St Esprit of France; Prince of Waterloo; Grandee of Spain of the first class; Duke of Cindad Rodrigo; Marquis of Torres Vedras, and Conda de Vimiera in Portugal; Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, of the Royal Spanish Military Order of St Ferdinand; Knight Grand Cross

of the Imperial Military Order of Maria Theresa, of the Imperial Russian Military Order of St George, of the Royal Portuguese Military Order of the Tower and Sword; Knight of the Grand Order of the Black Eagle of Prussia; Knight Grand Cross of the Royal and Military Order of Sweden, of the Sword; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Elephant of Denmark, of William of the Low Countries, of the Annunciade of Sardinia, of Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, and of several others; Commander of the Forces of His Majesty the King of the Low Countries, and His Majesty the King of France and Navarre,

&c. &c.

THIS celebrated Commander was born at Dengan Castle, in Ireland, on the 1st of May, 1769. He was the third son of Garret, Earl of Mornington. His mother was Anne, daughter of Viscount Duncannon. His Grace is brother to the present Marquis Wellesley, and Lord Maryborough. His Grace has two sons, Arthur, Marquis of Douro, born February 3d, 1807; and Charles, born January 16, 1808. The Wellesley family emigrated to Ireland