fFrom the Philadelphia Courier. ]

 HORACE SMITH.
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Hany of our readers will no doubt recognize ir the name that heads this article that of the gifted author of the celebrated "Reiected Addresses" | work which has passed through more than twenty. five editions. and which is scarcely less populaI now than 1t was when first presented to the public thirty years since. We know scarcely anything oi Mir. Smith, apart from his works, except that he was born in London about the year l73o. where his father was an eminent solicitor. "Reieeted Ad- dresses" written in conjunction with his brother, James Smith. was followed by "Horace in London" nFirst Impressions" 1.-The Runaway" "Treya. nion, or Matrimonial Erors," &e.: and in lst2. after the death of his brother he published his last work, "Adam Browne, the Merchant n We need scarcely remind our friends that Horace Smith was the author of the .Address to an Egyptian Mum- my" still so great fAvorte with the admirers of good poetry, and which commences with the fol- lowing startling and beautiful lines:

 And thou hast walk about--how strange story!

 h Thebe's streets, three thousand years ago. When the Memnonium was in all its glory,

 And time had not begun 10 overthrow

 Those temples. palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous!

 In the "Hymn ,o the Flowers" which we have selteied a. appropriate to the season. the judieious reader will readily perceive the truthaness of the remark make by an impartial critic, that Mir Smith is not only an amiabie versher, but possessor of the sense of beauty and a most poetical fancy.