•ALEXANDER WILSON. 
XXXUl 
“ addicted tn 
that, beinrr nf , of verses, and to music ; and 
those Sed° ' ** turn of mind,, he had given way to 
the count "'h‘eh the charming scenery of 
An anp Y’ ■‘'“^'^''I'tihle heart, never fails to awaken.” 
ail accin Y t'^^'^ted of his narrowly escaping from 
he had ''“""g a famhle which 
thoucltlf'u- ‘'‘^>'=tcd mind; and at the 
subifctP,! himself shuddered, lest it should have 
frie Ids ” . t” the imputation of suicide. “ His 
the daiiirer " f American Biographer, “perceiving 
of potrv and o the rLiouncing 
merit of draui substitution of tlie amuse- 
re or tl e Se"’ n -‘T'’ “tely to 
the Imm m fi “nd sketches of 
Ms Smnt ■' " l-rovided him ; hut 
arfde S V ‘"■promising, that he threw them 
a de with disgust. Mr Bartriim now advised a trial at 
portfour .k"i'® ‘^‘thibited his 
his omi Iv" i"^ 'mf "‘th many specimens from 
bevond th™'*’ attempt was made, and succeeded 
friLds ®-’'P''‘=t«tion of Mr Wilson or that of his 
aroused all '"“Sic m the employment which 
trd ,t as it were, 
humldp f Ti'”® creation ; and from being the 
to lea 1 tl^ “"'ot of his instructors, he was soon qualified 
,, ,, "■ " ^’y hi the charming art of imitating the works 
ot Uie Giieat Outginal.” 
^ oil, we will admit, that tliis is a very pretty specimen 
accnra”^ifi'*"*‘‘‘ 'oaguiMipmnee : and we are ready to 
their L * ^ Alessrs Bartram and Lawson for 
We d T Ti attentions to our gifted countryman. But 
than t L ^Mlson to have been made of sterner stuff 
thab meurred any hazard of falling a victim to 
oonceive"!! '"“"Is-” We farther 
being wj , ‘ was to be apprehended from his 
“dieted to “ poetry, that loftiest mood of mind,’* 
