THE POET CLARE
... Some of the papers have been repeating an announce. ment which had erroneously found its way into the Hatfaez Express, stating that the poet Clare had died some months ago, in the Lunatic Asylum, at York. It is not true that Clare is dead, or was ever an inmate of the York Asylum ; though the more melancholy. portion of the intelligence which the paragraph suggests is, unhappily, too well ...