flies

suns,

The mind's prophetic, learn'd, conjecture;
[renity,
Far other suns, amidst the gloom'd se-
Enlighten other worlds, whom minister
Attendant moons revolving with their blaze
Nocturnal, with their setting and their rise.
In far recesses of the dimmest night
Last sullen Saturn rolls the sloth of time,
A planet exile, friendless, yet he hears
The distant charm of harmony; whilst
round,

With secret bond, attraction rules unseen
The golden belt, in native, pois'd, suspense.
In solar font, as yet by sage unseen,
Others their virgin purity will lave †.
Thou star‡, that bear'st our Country's

monarch name,

Remotest on the confines of the gloom, Thou loveliest bud of chaos, gav'stnew life, When seen, to philosophic gaze. In vain, Round darken'd calmness Wisdom casts her learn'd, [view'd Her optic search!-who has not shudd'ring The comet's aspect, looking slaughter fell? Lo! with flam'd speed he sweeps the heav'nly waste,

Perhaps thy destin'd path,§ Eternity! Perhaps uncurb'd, nor with returning might Of ruling law, by starry nature bound ! Further I dare not search-who has not gaz'd,

In icy wonder tranc'd, as he the world, The God reflected, views? I hear th' one God,

And from the storm hestrikes the mortal ear. R. TREVELYAN, M. A.

And still display'd in animated stone, Lives the stern patriot's smile-the hero's frown

Nor less, Lysippus, into fancied speed Kindling with ardour, springs each matchless steed.

Yes, mighty Sculptor! though around thy grave The chafing storms of countless ages rave, Still, with the fire of well-feign'd Nature rife, [life;

The Sun's proud coursers start to mimic Still each curv'd neck impatient spurns the rein,

While spirit struggles through each bloodless vein; Glowing with life's warm energies they stand, A proud memorial of thy Phidian band. What varied grace arrests and charms the eye,

The faultless form of perfect symmetry: The lightning living in each fiery glanceThe mien where boldness vies with elegance

1

The nostril wide, that drinks the morning breeze

ed tress:

The quiv'ring ear, and mane's long braidThese, rich hair'd God of Splendour, these declare The curbless coursers of thy winged car *. Time speeds-but ages o'er each heavenly form

Shed but a hue with mellower lustre warm. Beauteous they tread, as when in gesture proud

They grac'd at once a tyrant and a god; E'en Conquest paus'd + amidst her murd'rous ire,

And dropt the sword, to gaze, and to admire.

Lo, borne on Vict'ry's crimson'd wing they come,

To grace the Christian patriots holy tomb ‡. Types of those viewless steeds that whirl'd on high

His car of glory to th' exulting sky.

Sad rose that morn, when o'er the Adrian tide, The warrior eagle wav'd his wing of pride; Though peace, in seeming, tranquilliz'd his gaze, [embrace §. Yet treach'ry lurk'd in friendship's feign'd With many a ling'ring look of silent pain, Meek child of Heaven, they quit thy holy fane,

To swell the lust of conquest, and record The lawless triumphs of a despot's sword,

* They were harnessed by Nero to the Chariot of the Sun.

† At the taking of Constantinople.
Church of St. Mark at Venice.

§ Invasion of the Venetian States by the French.

And

And grace, where Seine rolls her polluted tide, No saint, no martyr, but a homicide. But list-that shout from subject Gallia's shore

Tells that the scepter'd Murderer's sway is o'er, Venice, exult! condemn'd no more to roam, They spring exulting to their well-known home

And oh! may Freedom's hallowing light be shed, A guardian halo o'er each deathless head.

Mr. URBAN,

Shrewsbury, Jan. 1. ON the 23d Dec. last, the two ladies who performed the female characters in the Play and Farce, acted by private gentlemen at our Theatre last March for the benefit of the Poor, took their benefit with the same Play and Farce before a fall and genteel audience. In the course of the evening, Mrs. Shuter (late Miss Willis) with much and marked propriety, recited the following ADDRESS, written by JOHN F. M. DOVASTON, ESQ. who had on the former occasion written and spoken an appropriate Prologue in the character of PROSPERO. See vol. LXXXVII. i. 255. I trust from the favourable applause with which it was received, and from its connexion with a circumstance our Town is proud to commemorate, you will allow it a corner in your National Chronicle.

Yours, &c.

SALOPIENSIS.

WHEN Hydra POVERTY, with chilly stings, Darken'd our Land on demon-pointed wings,

And strove awhile to earth her loathsome lair

Within these Severn-circled walls so fair, 'Twas here YE crowding met last Winter's night, [bright, All-all-in virtues warm, and vestures Call'd by your youthful Heralds to this stage, For the sad Poor the noble war to wage.

Scar'd by your pow'r, and at your presence aw'd,

(Not by our arts, or PROSPERO'S rhymes and rod,) The lanky Fiend her vampire-pennons spread, [fled; Slung up her slacken'd length, and yelling While poor-men shouting, peal'd their

blessings true,

And poor-men's hearts by thousands

pray'd for you.

ralds wore,

Asking your alms again, to aid

cere,

LINES

J. F. M. D.

Written at Melksham in October 1817.

MELKSHAM! thy healing waters claim

No secondary meed of fame;

Where rival qualities combine
The tonic steel, and soft saline:
Bathonia-(boast of elder days,
Eliciting e'en Roman praise)
Bathonia, views with glad surprize
Thy health-restoring springs arise;
Nor deems their properties outdone,
By Tunbridge, or by Leamington.-
Ne'er may their salutary powers
Be check'd by insalubrious hours!
Ne'er may thy smiling precincts be
Haunts of the sons of chance and glee,
And scenes of midnight revelry!
So shall the sober-minded share
Thy uncontaminated air;
And quaff secure, with potent spell,
The liquid treasure of the well;
Returning to their lov'd compeers
With life renew'd, and added years.
D. CABANEL.

GENUFLEXION;

OR, A HINT TO THE LADIFS.

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Let Fashion's influence on your mind To worldly matters be confin'd. THERE was a time, when every maid, And wife, and widow, kneeling pray'd, And (spite of irreligious men) I hope such times may come again, But now, as if in box, or pit, For one that kneels, a hundred sit. In vain the Esculapian tribe Their soothing unguents may prescribe, The parts affected to anoint, And lubricate each stubborn joint; For here, alas! I grieve to find The cause is seated in the mind;

Which,

Which, ere the patient is restor'd,
Must be, with careful eye, explor'd.

Say then, ye Fair, have flattering swains
Pronounc'd you free from mortal stains?
Have you, in courtly phrase, been told,
That creatures of celestial mould,

Who of devotion feel a sensé,
With forms and rubrick may dispense ?
You say, "The question is absurd;
What Swain to us vouchsafes a word?
So far from flattering, Swains require
That Nymphs advance, while they retire.
By Burke so truly was it said

The age of chivalry is fled.""”
Where, then, good Ladies, must be sought
The cause, which such a change hath

wrought?

Is your Religion in the wane?

Then watch'd to see a bubble rise, As proof of heat imparted; And on the surface fix'd his eyes Until his eye-balls smarted.

No bubble rose. The sun was setting, To close the anxious scene;

And, spite of watching and of fretting, His appetite grew keen.

His theory is at an end,

Which makes him sorely smart;
And his Philosophy must bend
To cookmaid's vulgar art.

And must he condescend at last
To dine like vulgar folk;
And deign to eat of a repast
Drest over coals and smoke?

fane?

say,

You answer, "No; we still adore,
And worship God, as heretofore."
Yet, one more question,-frankly
Doth Fashion lead you thus astray?
What!-no reply! -the case is plain :
You heedless join her giddy train,
Nor e'er reflect, as down you glide,
That thus your Maker is defied.
Have then my strains conviction wrought?
(I see you shudder at the thought ;)
Then, lowly bending, as of yore,
Forgiveness, on your knees, implore:
Nor ever but with rev'rence due
Dare your Petitions to renew;
So may, when you invoke the skies,
Your prayers in grateful incense rise !
So may you gain that blest abode,
You now aspire to a-la-mode.

ONE OF THE OLD SCHOOL.

FABLE.

A MAN of fancy and of wit,

With more of these than sense,

Thought on a method he had hit,
With fuel to dispense.
What was more vulgar than a grate,
Cramm'd full of blocks and coal?

It was a thing at any rate
Unworthy of his soul.

Behold the glorious orb of day,
Pure source of light and heat!
Would he not lend a gracious ray
To dress a joint of meat?
With this idea in his brain,
He every thought collected,
Till reason told him it was plain
That rays might be reflected.
Full of the thought he took his pot,
And plac'd it on the ground;
A dozen mirrors free from spot
Were all arrang'd around.

Of each, he mark'd with care the focus,
As round they stood in file;

There plac'd the pot, and, hocus pocus, Expected it to boil.

And make the kettle boil; Or I of hunger shall expire,

And all the meat will spoil."

PROCEEDINGS

HOUSE OF LORDS, Jan. 27.

At 3 o'clock the Abp. of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Mon trose, the Earl of Westmoreland, and the Earl of Harrowby, took their seats as Commissioners, for the opening of the present Session. A Message by Sir T. Tyrwhitt being sent to the Commons, Mr. Speaker, attended by a number of members, appeared accordingly, when the Lord Chancellor delivered the following Speech:

My Lords, and Gentlemen, We are commanded by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to inform you, that it is with great concern that he is obliged to announce to you the continuance of his Majesty's lamented indisposition.

The Prince Regent is persuaded that you will deeply participate in the affliction with which his Royal Highness has been visited, by the calamitous and untimely Death of his beloved and only child the Princess Charlotte.

Under this awful dispensation of Providence, it has been a soothing consolation to the Prince Regent's heart, to receive from all descriptions of his Majesty's Subjects the most cordial assurances, both of their just sense of the loss which they have sustained, and of their sympathy with his paternal sorrow: and, amidst his own sufferings, his Royal Highness has not been unmindful of the effect which this sad event must have on the interests and future prospects of the Kingdom.

We are commanded to acquaint you, that the Prince Regent continues to receive from Foreign Powers the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards this Country, and of their desire to maintain the general tranquillity.

IN

PARLIAMENT.

of discontent, which unhappily led to acts of insurrection and treason: And his Royal Highness entertains the most confident expectation, that the state of peace and tranquillity to which the Country is now restored, will be maintained against all attempts to disturb it, by the persevering vigilance of the magistracy, and by the loyalty and good sense of the people. Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

The Prince Regent has directed the Estimates for the current year to be laid before you.

His Royal Highness recommends to your continued attention the state of the Public Income and Expenditure; and he is most happy in being able to acquaint you, that, since you were last assembled in Parliament, the Revenue has been in a state of progressive improvement in its most important branches.

My Lords, and Gentlemen, We are commanded by the Prince Regent to inform you, that he has concluded Treaties with the Courts of Spain and Portugal, on the important subject of the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

His Royal Highness has directed that a Copy of the former Treaty should be immediately laid before you; and he will order a similar communication to be made of the latter Treaty, as soon as the ratification of it shall have been exchanged.

In these Negociations it has been his Royal Highness's endeavour, as far as circumstances would permit, to give effect to the recommendations contained in the joint Addresses of the two Houses of Parliament: And his Royal Highness has a full reliance on your readiness to adopt such measures as may be necessary for fulfilling the engagement into which he has entered for that purpose.

The Prince Regent has commanded us to direct your particular attention to the

tional prosperity has not been disappointed.

The improvement which has taken place in the course of the last year, in almost every branch of our Domestic Industry, and the present state of Public Credit, afford abundant proof that the difficulties under which the Country was labouring were chiefly to be ascribed to temporary

causes.

So important a change could not fail to withdraw from the disaffected the principal means of which they had availed themselves for the purpose of fomenting a spirit

number of places of Public Worship belonging to the Established Church, when compared with the increased and increasing population of the Country.

His Royal Highness most earnestly recommends this important subject to your early consideration, deeply impressed, as he has no doubt you are, with a just sense of the many blessings which this Country by the favour of Divine Providence has enjoyed; and with the conviction, that the religious and moral habits of the people are the most sure and firm foundation of National Prosperity.

FOREIGN FRANCE.

By a projet de loi, adopted on the 22d ult. the Finance Minister has obtained a provisional credit for 200,000,000 francs, (8,300,000/.) granted in anticipation of 6-12ths of the taxes of 1818, which are to be assessed on the scale of the present year. This scheme is both a consequence and a proof of the immediate pressure on the French treasury.

The Moniteur lately contained two Royal Ordinances; the one, for reducing the number of Officers of the Royal Corps of Engineers; the other, for establishing a preparatory Military School in France. In this school, the pupils are to consist of two classes-the sons of meritorious officers in indigent circumstances, and those of persons who wish to have their children educated for the army; the former to be instructed at the public charge, the latter at the expence of their relatives.

The long-debated law upon the Liberty of the Press has been carried; but by a very small majority-only eleven votes; the numbers being 122 to 111. The great question of Trial by Jury, which was contained in the 12th article, gave rise to an animated discussion; the result was, that the trial by the Correctional Police was established, and that by Jury set aside.

The King has warned, within these few days, persons of the Court, and principally those who sit in the Chamber of Peers, to take care how they vote against projects of laws or measures of his Ministers, on peril of being disgraced!

The Duke de Fitzjames has been prohibited by Louis XVIII. from appearing at Court, in consequence of his having published an intended speech on the law respecting the Journals, full of abuse against the Ministers.

The rumours are still reiterated, of application from the French Government to be relieved, in the ensuing spring, from the burden of the Army of Occupation. The Allied Powers, it is added, have signified their disposition to yield to these entreaties, when France has fulfilled all her engagements, and when they are satisfied that tranquillity and order are firmly re-established.

Maubreuil, whose case has excited much of the public attention, is stated to have made his escape from the prison at Douay, where he was confined,

The Quotidienne French paper contains the following amusing paragraph:-"The Archdukes John and Lewis have given permission to a German journalist to publish some extracts from a journal which they kept during their stay in England.

These Princes examined with care the English manufactures and agriculture: they give also some details as to the style of living in the upper classes, which are not within the reach of all travellers. The magnificent interior of the country seats, the taste of the furniture, the amiable and decorous freedom of their conversations, the interest which the women excite, as much by their cultivated minds as by their charms-these are the points which struck these illustrious travellers during their abode in the country. It is there, say they, that you should study the high society of England, and even the character of all its gentlemen. London is merely a large inn; it is at his country-house that the Englishman is hospitable and amiable. The Archdukes describe the manner of dining at the Marqius of Anglesea's. It presents a novelty for our gourmands; after * soup they took cold punch. A celebrated agriculturist, the Chevalier Sebright, had the Princes for his guests, and showed them his numerous machines. Miss Sebright is a savante (a scientific lady); she made an experiment in galvanism before the Archdukes, with a litthe galvanic battery. The Chevalier Sebright grows such enormous turnips, that one day he sent to his sister 19 partridges in the hollow of one of these roots."

NETHERLANDS.

It

The Dutch papers lately announced some intended regulations in the tea-trade. The plan is now matured; and when we reflect how much that beverage is in use, may be considered as likely to have a great effect upon general commerce. is proposed to throw open the trade from China, and the Dutch East Indies; thus abolishing all exclusive rights and monopolies, and leaving every subject of the King of the Netherlands at liberty to import this article. The projet of the law for this purpose is now under discussion in the Dutch Legislative Body, and is likely to be carried by a great majority. In this arrangement, the Dutch appear anxious to profit by our experience, and to adopt our policy. The duties on importation proposed by the Dutch projet are so low, as to afford a violent temptation to smuggling in this country, should our present high rate of duties continue.

It appears, that the Prince of Orange has been re-invested with all the places

* However new this may be to foreign gourmands, it is a very old custom in England, to take cold punch with turtle soup; and that, we suppose, is the soup here spoken of.

and