which young lawyers are doomed, who have many seniors before them, he projected a monthly miscellany, entitled "Select Reviews and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines." This work was published under his direction about three years, during which time it amply rewarded his attention; and after the publication of a few volumes, he disposed of his interest for a considerable sum.

Professional business, which will admit of no rival, at length began to reward his studies, and his devotion to it was almost exclusive, for he was surpassed by no one in zeal for his clients. Hence his success at the bar was considerable. He still continued to display his regard for learning, by the active part he took in the establishment of the Athenæum of Philadelphia, and by the support and attention which he afterwards bestowed on that useful institution. He was early elected, and annually re-elected, unanimously, a director, and by the board, the vicepresident of this society. The utility of his labours, and the estimation in which he was regarded by his associates, are emphatically commemorated in the minute entered upon their records on the occasion of his demise; and his loss was again adverted to, in impressive terms, at the conclusion of the address which is made annually to the stockholders. The minute is in these words:

"RESOLVED: that the directors of the Athenæum, are deeply sensible of the loss which they, in common with the rest of their fellow citizens, have sustained, by the lamented death of their late vice-president, Mr. Ewing, whose zealous exertions materially aided the foundation of the institution, and to whose intelligence and activity its' present prosperous condition is greatly owing."

It is not in consequence of indifference or negligence that the incidents of this memorial are so meagre. No one has more reason to dwell with affectionate regret upon every circumstance connected with the name to which it is devoted, than the writer of these pages to whom Mr. Ewing was always a judicious adviser and a cordial friend. His brief career, was diversified by no events to which biography could impart any interest: but as his professional practice was attended with no moderate reward, he may be mentioned as another instance of industry, struggling successfully against the blandishments of the muse.

In private life, the manners and conversation of Mr. Ewing, were highly attractive, combining social feeling and frankness of temper with sallies of playful wit. He was, moreover, truly charitable and generous. These qualities secured to him the love of numerous personal friends; and his integrity as a man, and usefulness as a citizen, acquired the confidence of the

community. He suffered much during the last five months of his life from the delusive disease which terminated his days, and, though occasionally flattered with the hope of restoration to health, he met death on the 8th of February, 1825, with firmness and christian resignation.

NOTE ON PAGE 27.

This was made known to the American public at that time, but I think proper, for several reasons, to introduce in this place, a few extracts from letters which I received from Mr. Moore after his return to Great Britain.

-"I wish you would tell Mr. Dennie and Mr. Ewing, that nothing could give me greater happiness than to hear from them."-" It gives me great pleasure to find that you remember me so kindly, and I would very willingly make my peace with those of your countrymen who think other. wise of me. This life, however, is just long enough to commit errors in, but too short to allow us time to repair them; and there are few of my errors I regret more sincerely than the rashness I was guilty of, in publishing those crude and boyish tirades against the Americans. My sentiments, both with a respect to their national and individual character, are much changed since then, and I should blush, as a lover of liberty, if I allowed the hasty prejudices

of my youth to blind me now to the bright promise which America affords of a better and happier order of things than the world has, perhaps, ever yet witnessed. If you but continue to be as good republicans as we of Europe seem determined to be good royalists, the new and the old world need soon have no other designations, than the hemisphere of freemen, and the hemisphere of slaves.".

"My note about Washington, to which I allude, and which I had forgot, with all the other nonsense of that book, has, I find in recurring to the editions of my epistles, been omitted in every one since the first; which was as speedy an admission, as I could well make of the inconsiderateness and falsehood of the accusation.".

In another letter, he promises to take "some opportunity, (most probably in the life of Sheridan I am [July 1818,] preparing,) of letting the few to whom my opinions can be of any importance, know how much I regret, and how sincerely I retract every syllable, injurious to the great cause of liberty, which my hasty view of America and her society, provoked me into uttering."

REFLECTIONS IN SOLITUDE.

EWING.

How sweet the south-wind plays around my brow!

How merciful in God, to temper thus,

The burning sun-beam, with the cooling breeze!
Man marks, ungrateful, with a frowning eye
The transitory storm, where Mercy rides,
To dissipate the idle dreams of life,

While skies unclouded and the dewy breeze,
Nor warm his heart, nor bend his stubborn knee!
He notes with scowling and with angry eye,
The man, who holds a pittance from his kind,
Yet censures not himself, while he denies
His thanks to God, that but increase his stores.
Oh! my heart saddens, when it thinks on man.
How gay yon plough-boy whistling to his team,
As slowly plodding o'er the broken earth,
He tells to air, the furrows he has made!
The morn of life, is thine! poor, simple, lad!
And mild and sweet the breeze, that fans thy
locks!-

Yet ere another moon, the storm may howl,
And rudely beat on thy unsheltered head.

To day the pine-clad mountains bound thy hopes,