at Kilmarnock? For instance, unless it was meant to illustrate a fact more suited to the metropolis, is not there more dignity in exalting the Supreme Power in capitals than in degrading the words to mean italicks, not to mention my Davie or my Jean and a thousand other instances? Even the great Ben Lomond sinks to a molehill when taken to town and put into the press. I trust, however, the great soul of the Bard, like that of the hero you are studying, shall always retain the faculty of expanding itself to its original elevation on getting clear out of Pandemonium, even supposing it has been a little deprest by the crowd and confinement of the city. Now, allow me to ask, is "Legislation placed beneath the monarch's feet," a sentiment, or a literal description of the situation of the Throne in the Parliament House during the reign of the Stuarts? because, if the first, I am glad you did not write it till you went to Edr.; if the last, it seems to me beautifully taken the advantage of to strengthen a contrast every heart not steeled by prejudice, I think, must feel, and which you have hit off very pathetically. Farewell. I forgot to tell you that you had inspired a shoemaker [Campbell] at Kilmarnock, if not with the capability, at least with the idea of becoming poet. This to vanity, but it will be welcome intelligence to benevolence that you had put the public in so good humour that they gave a poor creature fourty pound to put him to school, for, I think, blacking paper. I would have given more for blacking shoes, had he made me a pair of good ones, than I would for his poem, though there is much goodness in it, as there may also be hereafter in his sermons. If they are decreed to save souls, you will have part in the merit, but it will go no length in settling my accompt. Adieu. I won't rob you of another

groat while you stay in town, so forgive this long scrawl if ever you read this length, which I half doubt. Is your whole impression disposed of? A gentleman asked me last day if I thought he could get a few copies. I told him I did not know, but I should ask and tell him.

While they abuse me I will force them to esteem me with all my faults. J. J. Rousseau, I think, says this.

(1) Where once, beneath a monarch's feet,

Sat Legislation's sov'reign pow'rs.

Address to Edinburgh.

He

In May Burns toured in the south, as the numerous addresses on the foregoing letter show. reached Mauchline on his "éclatant return" on 9th June, and thereafter saw Mrs. Dunlop for the first time and became intimate with her circle.

In a previous letter Mrs. Dunlop wrote: "I meant to return my thanks, which, as you like it better, shall rhyme, and probably not be worth the groat they will cost you in postage; but no matter." Rhyme she did accordingly. And now, having met the poet face to face, she must needs relate in rhyme the incidents and impressions of that long-expected, wished-for visit. Her lines are very interesting as a rough picture, with a touch of caricature, and a tinge of satire, of the poet's appearance and manner. Disturbed by a rumor that the poet had been "seized with a fever," she added a short letter in prose and sent it off in haste by one of her servants; a proceeding which called forth the characteristic letter in reply, now first published.

groat while you stay in town, so for if ever you read this length, which I' whole impression disposed of? A ge: day if I thought he could get a few did not know, but I should ask and While they abuse me I will force with all my faults. J. J. Rousseau,

(1) Where once, beneath a monar Sat Legislation's sov❜reign pow

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