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f suppose will not object to its insertion in your 

 magazine. 



V. V. V. 



Princess Square, March, 1833. 



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CARRINGTON. 



A committee has been established in Plymouth to 

 assist in the means of doing 1 due honor to the literary 

 merits of the great Scottish novelist. Any opposi- 

 tion to their exertions might justly be treated as 

 tmamiable : but, surely, it is left us freely to ask, why 

 this zeal in behalf of a writer who, while living, enjoyed 

 an unprecedented popularity, and whose memory needs 

 no assistant measures of perpetuation? Why this 

 ardour in behalf of the author of " Waverly," from 

 men who are dull to the pride of copatriotism with the 

 author of " Dartmoor ?" 



Should it be asked, in turn, "why this jealousy 

 concerning an urmeeded memorial ?" or, " why desire 

 for your favorite Devonian that which you think super- 

 fluous to the undying fame of Sir Walter Scott?" 

 this is the brief answer : . 



Carrington has been so purely local in the exercise 

 of his warmest sympathies and in the choice of his 

 several subjects, that he cannot be expected to interest 

 poetical readers at large ; and should therefore be the 

 more cherished by those readers to whom he has parti- 

 cularly addressed himself : or rather, to the natives of 

 that "sweetest, dearest, noblest spot " which "long 

 wore a charm unbroken," and the name of which was 

 " fondly breathed with his last, lingering sigh !" In 

 the apology which Carrington makes for his own par- 

 tialities, every enlightened Danmonian ought to see, 

 at least, some cause for attachment to the poet : 



" I own the power 



Of Local Sympathy, that o'er the fair 

 Throws more divine allurement, and o'er all 

 The great more grandeur ; and my kindling muse, 

 Fired by the universal passion, pours 

 Haply a partial lay." 



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