, it will surmount these obstacles, and if

not

, it deserves its fate.

[Your]

friend's Ode

[3]

I have read—it is no great compliment to pronounce it far superior to Smythe's on the same subject, or to the merits of the new Chancellor. It is evidently the production of a man of taste, and a poet,

[though]

I should not be willing to say it was fully equal to what might be expected from the author of "

Horæ Ionicæ