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    White I epurt her gently charms , Woo the flatterer to my arms ; , ' While each momerit she beguiles With her sweet enlivening smiles , While she softly whispers me , " Lycidas a grain is free , "

    While I gaze on Pleasure ' s gleam , Say not thou , " 'Tis all a dream . " Hence—nor darken Joy ' s soft bloom With thy pale and sickly gloom : Nought have I to do with thee—Hence—begone—Anxiety ! Nessy Heywood .

    • Isle of Man , September 10 th . Gently should i the biographer have touched , if he touched at all , the fact that such lines were ever written ; but what shall we say to his statement , that they were indited by a fond sister , after she had been informed that her brother was condemned to the

    yard-arm , and while expecting the letters and newspapers which were to communicate the full particulars ? It is strange that Mr . Tagart did not feel the incongruity . Surely no one of our readers would like a sister of his own to have written so , if he were going to be hanged . Happily there is a misrepresentation here , or rather a mistake ; and the * charming Nessy' can be

    vindicated , though at the expense of the biographer . He unconsciously corrects himself by the dates . The lines are dated September 10 th , when the sittings of the court-martial , instead of being terminated , had not commenced . This makes them much more excusable . Instead of being , as he states , the composition of one who was harrassed by agonies of mind which no language can express , ' they were written while ' Mrs . Heywood and her daughters were fondly flattering themselves with everything being most happily concluded . ' That makes all the difference ; - thanks to chronology .

    In p . 174 , a disgusting anecdote is very properly put on record : — * It was on board the Dedaigneuse , too , that he ( Captain Heywood ) had the mortification of discovering , among the very first things which came into his hands belonging to a younger brother , whom he had taken out with him , and who died ou board , a paper containing a discussion of the question , * ' Whether Captain Heywood , after all the circumstances of his trial and condemnation , could possibly succeed to the family property ? " A singular instance of that ingratitude and

    unaccountable baseness of feeling , which appearing , as in this case , in a family distinguished by so muph of an opposite character , seems to render human nature a strange and dark enigma ! ' With submission , it does no such thing . Human nature is a very good nature , when human art does not interpose for its perversion . Was there anything strange or dark ; base or ungrateful

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 808, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/16/