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written for some years. The names of all who are disposed to assist, in 

 what must be desired by hundreds of the lovers of poetry, (to say 

 nothing of those who may have gentle hearts, without having music in 

 their souls), will be received by Mr. Moxon, New Bond-street Mr. 

 Tilt, Fleet-street and Mr. Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. 



It is with real delight that we see, in sanction of the undertaking, 

 such a brilliant list of names as the following : 



Dover F. Leveson Gower Vassall Holland Mulgrave John Russell 

 John Edward Swinburne Edward Lytton Bulwer John H. Hawkins Tho- 

 mas Babington Macaulay Richard L. Sheil Thomas Barnes John Bowring 

 Thomas Campbell Samuel Taylor Coleridge Walter Coulson Allan Cun- 

 ningham Charles Wentworth Dilke William Godwin Joseph Hine James 

 Hogg, Thomas Hood J. D'Israeli Joseph Jekyll William Jerdan James 

 Sheridan Knowles Charles Lamb Walter Savage Landor Henry Luttrell 

 Frederick Marryat Thomas Pringle Bryan Waller Proctor Leitch Ritchie 

 Samuel Rogers Thomas Roscoe Horatio Smith Robert Southey Sharon 

 Turner William Wordsworth. 



If no more permanent good should arise to Mr. Hunt from the step 

 thus taken, than the pleasure of seeing so many illustrious persons, 

 political foes, as well as literary friends, combining to honour and aid 

 him, he may still congratulate himself, even on the ill-fortune that has 

 led to such an acknowledgment of his genius and worth. There are 

 few, even in this rich list, that are richer in any thing except health 

 and worldly advantages than Leigh Hunt ; and we may add, that there 

 are not many of them wealthier, even in this last particular, than Leigh 

 Hunt might have been, had he walked in a more worldly way. But 

 he has been the victim of more persecutions than one ; his talents have 

 been as much reviled as his love of truth. He wrote the most liberal 

 and elegant criticisms on other men, and was therefore written down 

 without mercy or meaning ; he called the most contemptible of all 

 court- coxcombs an elderly Adonis, and was condemned to a two years' 

 residence in a receptacle for felons, at the yearly rent of five hundred 

 pounds ! Is it wonderful that Mr. Hunt, with no prop but his pen, 

 never recovered the sacrifice of a thousand pounds, and the effects of 

 an incarceration, which it is difficult to contemplate, even at this dis- 

 tance of time, with feelings of patience. How deeply may we rejoice, 

 for his sake as well as for society's, that Castlereagh, in a fit of tem- 

 porary " sanity," (the preceding acts of his life may be charitably attri- 

 buted to " insanity"), put an end to himself and the system together. 

 Mr. Hunt has outlived his oppressors ; he has survived to see the prin- 

 ciples, for which he has sacrificed so much, triumphant to a degree, 

 that even his enduring spirit of hope could never have anticipated ; 

 and we trust that he will yet live, to see the tide of his fame and for- 

 tunes flow more pleasantly and smilingly on that life may grow more 

 green and tranquil to him as he proceeds, and that his 'chequered day 

 may have a golden sunset. 



FAVOURITISM AT THE BRITISH GALLERY. The Athenceum has some 

 comments upon a system, so prejudicial to art, and so often complained 

 of, both with reference to this and other institutions, that we extract 

 them, in the hope that they may elicit inquiry. Varley's " Saul" is 

 the subject of criticism : 



" We cannot take leave of this subject without inquiring, at the request of 

 more than one artist, why it is that this fine original picture is placed, at the 



