An esteemed correspondent, with a view to the Supplement which
accompanies this week's Spectator, informs us that in our first account of the Civil List Pensions, RICHARD AIREY should have been Ricataana AIREY ; the lady being the wife of the Astronomer Royal, to whom the pension was offered, but he preferred having it in the name of his wife, in ease she should survive him. Our correspondent will see in the Supplement that we had made a change on the name of AIREY, though not the right one. His correction arrived too late for the first edition of the Supplement, but it shall be incorporated in the second.
Another correspondent sends us a smart remark on that part of our Pension-paper which settled the proportional values of men of letters and the old ladies— "Let not philosophy and literature absolutely despond. If philosophers and authors kick the beam when weighed with old ladies, the scales are turned when they compete with young ones. Jean, Charlotte, and Elizabeth Chris. tian Anstruther, even when two Misses Burleighs and three Misses Bowen are added, do not outweigh either Dalton or Southey ; it would take three Misses Burnets to equal Mr. Millengen in ponderosity ; three Misses Cuthbertsons, three MissesCleghoras, even with the addition of three Misses Cartrights, would but just make Tom Moore reach the skies—one poet to nine houris—who after this can complain of the national estimation of the Bard of Love?"
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