Ode On The Burial Of Sir ...
'Liie follOwing letter i8 from an Evening paper:_ " Sir,-Pernnit me,, through ihe Inedimt of Your highly rempect- able journal (which I hiave chosen as t6e channel of this conmmunica. tion from my havingbeen a'subscriber to it for the last 15 years)to observe, that the statement latels published iri the Morning CL'fo. nzicle, the writer of whichb aseribe;s the lines on the burial ofbir Johin Mloore to Woolf, is fase, and as barefaiced -a fatbrication as ever wa.s foistel on the public. Thie lI' ines in question are n6t- written by *Voolf, ttor by Hialey, nor is Deacoll the aullior * but they were composed by re. I publishe( them originally, some years ago, in the Duzrlant County Advertiacr, ajournal in which 1 hiave at dif- ferent times inserted several poetucal trifles, as " the Prisoner's Praver to Sleep"-" Lines on the lamentedl Deathl of Benjamin Galley, Es." and some other little effilsions. I 1sbould not, Sir, have thouglht the lines on Sir John Moore's funeral worth owning, had not the false statement of the CLtroniCle net mv eye. I ctin prove, by the most incontestable-evidence, the truth of what!- have as.serted. The first copy of mv lines was given by tr to my friend and rela'tibna Claptain Bell, and it is in his pos- session at present; it agrces per?ectly with the copy now in'cireula- tion, with this exception-ftdosntotanhetaascm mencing with " Few ard chart"or which I add afterwards ctth suggestion of the Rev. Dr. Aiderson, of Butterby. " I am, Sir, yours, &c., . ADr m N 1 1 RSHALL, DI. D. South-street, Durham, Nov ,12. ODE OAo TUE - g JoMOoR.