AHE BEE, 
LITERARY WEERLY INTELLIGENCER, 
FOR 
Wepwnespayr, Mar-16.-1792. 
' REMARKS ON THE CHARACTER AND WRITINGS 
aie OF 
WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAW THORNDEN. 
Sir, To the Ed:tor of the Bee. 
Pixxertox, a man whom the Scots are pleased te 
dislike because he tells them truths disagreeably, has 
judiciously proposed that the poems of solid ix ge 
fhould be reprinted with due selections. 
I’ beg leave to second Mr Pinkerton’s motion. I 
greatly and fondly cherifh the memory of Hawthorn- 
den. I like his character, his muse, and his residence ; 
moreover I like his companions ; for I doat upon Bea 
Johnson, and I esteem Drayton. There are few lords 
now like lord Stirling. He admired and honoured 
Drummond, and cherifhed his friendfhip and corres- 
pondence in the depth of retirement, when the peer 
‘was batking in the sun-thine of Whitehall, and warm’ 
in the prosecution of his trans-Atlantic projects. 
_- Among all the poets of the beginning of the last 
century, (writes the author of-the Cursory Remarks 
f VOL. ix. ¥ + 
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