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A entillior having been. announced, we, with our ris q ris, contrived 10 squeeze ourselves into as small space as possible for the purpose of motion. Two daughters of Mir. Rilchie, of the Union, were in the adjoining figure to us, and ] had a eurosily to notice shen as the ac- knowledged sars Of the season. They are certainly both rery beantiful; great bellies in- deed,--but without any of the worst charac- terlsiies of belle-ship; apparently without the slightest consciousness of it--and very un- affected. One of them particularly, appeared to me, from her thoughtful, intellectual cast ot counienance, as if her heart were in high CT pursuits; and afterwards discovered that she was the author of some very elegant ar ticles for the Southern journals, and young person of no mean promise as poet

 While threading my way thro' the dance, and keeping as close watch on my partner as possible for fear of losing him in the maze, I was assaiiet by very violent kick ou the ancles, from gentleman in the adjoining quadFille. ssWho Is that awkward peisonin l inquired, afies he had begged very proper and polite pardon. "None other than Mir Nathaniel F. Willis, whose awkwardness is no less celebrated than his poe,ry.n So this then, is Mir. Willis, thought l; the exquisite, the man of fashion--him whom l had bee accustomed to regard, from his writings and from the portraits, as the nc plus Hiira of lii- erary foppery. He was a gentleman of mid dle size, about seven or eight and thirty, with slouching blue coat and gilt buttons 1; nose refroasse, air rustic, head small, l,--in all outraging your preconceiyed ideas except the eyes, which, though small, were full of im- agination, and appeared, while they looked al you, to be gazing from the depths of his bfain Celebrated as he is, we confess how ever to have no great respect for NIT. Willis Originally gifted with passion and imagina- ton, evinced so coplously in his earlier poems, he has friitefed away his brilliant talents in the details of meIe fashionable gossip; and in such works us the '.Dashings' and the sPencillings,n whose scenes, as every body knows, are laid in the atmos- phere of what is called .'Iiigh Life chosen to prostitute the skilfulness of his pencil in the delineation of characters the shallowest and the feast interesting in the whole range of human nature. We can have little sympathy with one who, having received divine gift neglecis its cultivation for the sake of profitable and rapid celebri- ty, whose extinction may be as sudden as its rise. nothing if the destiny of the poet is less lucrative and more slowly makes itself con- spicuous to the eyes of the world, it has been and is now. in spite of all we say 10 the contrary. hoRored as the most excellent and delightful to which Heaven has apPoin- ted men-.MorHiag Post