Account of ies 
which he personally bestowed upon the, shade es 
tion of his son, proved | that. he 
aware of the binding. and serious duties simposed 
upon a parent. The best. and only return 
which that son can make to so bgt and ¢ dear. 
a parent is, ever €o act according the prin- 
ciples of'such a father, and t imitate his cor- 
rect canes beth in a 
death. J. 
[ Further particulars of ¢ ‘ae slate ph Cir 
Walker, esq. whose deat 
pege 515 of our last Wunber. ‘Mr. WS 
mind having taken this: véatly. direction, a 
study of Italian literature became his f; vorite: 
pursuit, and to his latest hour continue tob 
his occupation and his solace ; bine, thotgh 
thus attached to the literature of Ttaly, Mr... 
W. was not regardless of his.native land, At” 
a period when it is fashionable to be altoge- 
ther English, this true patriot felt ‘and avow-" 
ed his ardent attachmént to, andidecided pre- 
ference for, the country of his birth. The first 
fruits of his genius were offered on the altar 
of his country ; he devoted the earliest, ‘efforts 
of his‘ comprehensive mind to vindicate the 
injured character, and to enlighten the dis- | 
puted history, of Ireland. He dwelt eae 
light on her wild romantic scenery 5 he loved 
her children: the native language of Ireland, — 
to his ears, was full of harmony and force, 
and the songs of her bards filled bis patriotic. 
soul with fepturous emotion. He was 
indeed an SS a of Treland’s pri times. 
equally Fetnctiaheg: : in his tmasterly, EN nt 
ation of the revival, progress, and perfection © 
of the Italian drama, the muse of Italian tra- 
gedy appears with new grace attired in an 
English dress, As the restorer of this lites 
rary commerce between’ ‘England and Italy, 
aimost closed since the time of Milton, 3 the | 
name of Walker will ‘be added to those of ote 
Roscoe and Mathias. ‘The essays. on the 
customs and institutions of ancient: Ireland, are 
written in the true spirit ot a mative Picton: » 
and, as they are eminently Asetul to the an- [ta 
tiquarian, must be singularly interesting to 
every Irish breast ; these, ‘pis earliest works, 
(ihe ‘offspring of ie’ igorous mind, at a period 
when young men are not yet’ emancipated from 
the tyranny of pupiblage) evince a Me 
of judgment, a soundness of criticism, a 
range of learning, which would not disurace 
the name of the venrrable Vallancy. Mr. 
W. returned from the continent little im-. 
proved in health, but his mind stored with 
the treasures of observation: he soon retired 
aie the turbulence of a city life, to. the 
tranquillity and pure air of his romantic villa, 
under the hills cof Wicklow. In this lovely 
seclusion, where the sublime grandeur of the 
distant view is finely contrasted by the culti- 
vated beayty of the nearer prospect, he found 
a situation at once favourable to his invalid 
state, and in unison with his taste and pure 
suits, still a martyr to his constitutional ma- 
4 i ddenyd Vl 
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was. fully, | 
his solitud was t asiona ok 
“visits oe frie ee nce oa : 
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} throug 
the generous, though eccentric, character of an 
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whose ee. i enj 
and whose memory | ae 
the side of this enlight d patri 
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> patriot. cr Treland 
and. brightest « ornamen 
survive 5 but, after 
_ Bodily: hey and ment 
“age 
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ae 
sigh i 
weet a sorrow sé 
lation. and desceipti 
admirers of Italian ih 
that Mr. WwW. se left t xe 
ours, 
‘Italian Tragedy, and th 
‘of th Irish Bar s 
eas eee 
Back 
a ft ee sake t 
memorials of ve eparted 
quently 
taste of cine 1 
come. In the present int e, h 
Mr. W.’s valuable far ee ne 
a spirit truly } fraternal 5 w w 
votion to the memory’ i al 
has determined to putes 
Viterary)treasure. 7 ~"= eke 
{ To this gentleman (Samuel W req: bi i 
we ditiderstand, the world will be at a future 
day indebted for the publication of the in-  ” 
teresting journal of his travels, and such . 
other writtén ‘remains of the Jateé Mr. W. as 
were ina fit state to meet the public eye. © © 
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