2o6 EULOGY OF THOMSON. Ocl:. Ip, 



friendfliip. Pettie * came here two or three days ago ; 

 1 have not yet feen the round man of God, to be. He 

 is to be parfonificd a few days hence. How a gown 

 and coflack will become him, and with what a holy 

 leer he luill edify the devout females ! 



" There is no doubt of his having a call, for he is 

 immediately to enter upon a tolerable living. God 

 grant him more, and as fat as himfelf. 



" It rejoices me to fee one worthy, honeft, excel- 

 lent man raifed, at lead to an independency. Pray 

 make my compliments to my Lord Prefident f and all 

 friends. I fliall be glad to hear more at large from 

 you. Juft now I am with the Alderman, who wiflies 

 you all happinefs, and defires his fervice to Joe. Be- 

 lieve me to be ever 



" Moft afFe£lionately your's, 



James Thoutfoii." 



In thefe letters you fee exhibited the gentleman, the 

 man of elegant tafte, the kind relation, and the aft'ec- 

 tionate friend. 



In his poems, thofe who are happy enough to be 

 able to t:ilte and relifli that divine art which raifes the 

 man of clay from the dirty foil on which he vegetates, 

 to the heaven of fentiment, where he can roam atplea- 

 fure in the regions of fancy, v. ill delight in feeing the 

 beautiful pictures of nature prcfcnted to their eyes as 

 fpe<Siators, and not readers : and after thefe delightful 

 impreffions are over they v.-ill find themfclves happier 

 and better than they were before. 



They will behold none of tlie enervating beauties of 

 the Saccntaia of the Hindoos, or of the dry meditations 

 of our modern poetafters, but they will every where find 

 what conies home to the heart, and to the enlightened 

 underftanding of the admirers of Nature, and the lovers 

 of Virtue.' I have in my hands a copy of the Ser.fons, 



* The Rev. Patrick Murdoch, the oily mar., charaitcrifcd can amorr, 

 ill the Caftle of Indolence. 

 •}■ Duncan Forbes. 



