She now had gain'd th' ætherial realm of light; He turn'd to gaze; and all to her was night." what remains but misery? Convulsive throes thrice shook the trembling ground; [Hell's profound. And thrice deep murmurs roll'd through Oh wretched Orpheus, I am lost, she cries. Eternal sleep dissolves my swimming eyes. Farewell! I sink, yet panting to entwine These arms around theeah! no longer thine. [flees, Lo! from his sight the pallid Spectre Like smoke dispersed upon the viewless breeze. In vain he follows: o'er the lake no more Will Charon waft him to th' infernal shore. What now his course? Will supplications gam The unrelenting Manes? Oh! 'twere vain To breathe the prayer, or wake the dulcet [boat. She, cold, and muté, moves on in that dim Through seven long months, uncheer'd note: by summer-beam, (So legends' tell) atStrymon's desert stream, Beneath aerial rocks, in freezing caves, He pour'd his sorrows o'er the charmed Hawaves, [love, And oft was wont, with strains of hapless To tame the tiger, and enchant the grove. Wrapt in the poplar's gloom, with tune ful tongue, Thus Philomela mourns herravish'd young; Whom, yet unfledged, unfeeling handshave borne, [forlorn, Borne from the nest: she, on some bough Weeps through the night, renews her piteous tale, [muring vale. And fills with melting notes the murFor him no Venus smiled: no tender mate [solate, Charm'd that cold breast: alone, disconO'er Hyperborean ice, where Winter throws His mantle hoar of everlasting snows On Tanais, o'er deserts yet uncross'd, Fields ever wedded to Riphæan frost, Madd'ning he roved, and wept his ravish'd mate, In vain recovered from relenting Fate. Fired with resentment, the Ciconian #fix Dames, Who came to celebrate with mystie Bames, And hymns, the nightly orgies of their God, Infuriate scatter'd o'er th' empurpled sod, The beauteous youth, all mangled, bathed gore. But while his head Eagrian Hebrus bore Adown his stream; that soft melodious tongue, [sung. Her name beloved, tho' cold and quivering, Margate, Nov. 2, 1815. HOR. CAR. Lib. I. Ode XXII, imitated. THE Man who guiltless lives, and fi [name; Unsullied keeps through life a spotless Whether in distant climes unarm'd he roam, Or braves uncertain dangers nearer home; Will need no arms, no deadly weapons wield, [shield. From hostile swords his honour'd head to Thus I, as late unarm'd alone I stray'd, And sang in strains of love my favourite maid; [den, Dauntless approach'd the lion's yawning And heard, unmoved, the tiger's roar in vain. [mer breeze, Place me in climes where blows no sumWhere fields are bare, and leafless are the trees; [sky, Where constant snows, and an unwholsonie The charms of life, and all its joys deny.) -Place me in climes beneath the Torrid [known; Where never yet the name of man was Still will. Emma love; her angel-smile Shall still my heart of every care beguile; And as I pass down life's quick-ebbing tide, [guide. Her voice shall cheer me, and her wisdom SONNET Farewell to Love.. FAREWELL, sweet Love! Yet blame [Child, More fondly ne'er did Mother eye her Than I your form: yours were my hopes, of youth, [or smiled. And as you shaped my thoughts, I sigh'd While most were wooing wealth, or gaily swerving [apart To Pleasure's secret haunts; and some Stood strong in pride, self-conscious of deserving; [heart. To you I gave my whole weak wishing And when I met the Maid that realized Your fair creations, and had won her Say, but for her if-aught on earth I prized, Your dreams alone I dreamt, and caught your blindness. O grief!-but farewell Love! I will go play [betray me! With thoughts that please me less, and less S. T. COLERIDGE. A LOVER'S TRIBUTE. THERE is an eye, whose shaded light To deck rustick's face. But 'tis not there that Love must seek For Feeling's favourite shrine; Oh no! 'tis on thy pure pale cheek; 'Tis in such eyes as thine. eyes as thin J. C. C. HISTO HISTORICAL CHRONICLE, 1815. INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Whitehall, Sept. 16. A Dispatch, dated Fort William, February 20, together with its inclosures, have been received at the East India-house from the Vice-President in Council. The skill, judgment, perseverance, and patience, which have distinguished the conduct of Col. Ochterlony in the arduous service in which he is employed, cannot fail to attract the particular notice of your Hon. Court. The exertions of that able officer still continued to be directed against the Enemy's supplies, and such of his new positions as might be found to be as sailable. tachment in general. It would, however, be unjust, not to mention, that the reports. received from Lieut. Lawtle, engineer, of the very great labour and fatigue subtained with cheerfulness by the pioneers, induced me to express to Capt. Baines, Lieut. Armstrong, and their Officers, who set them the meritorious example, my particular thanks, and to send a pecuniary donation to the men.-Lieut. Lawtie, with his accustomed zeal, accompanied the detachment, and on this, as on every occasion, deserves my highest consideration: from him I have the honour to transmit a slight sketch of the ground and point of attack-It remains only to add, that the Enemy no sooner perceived the movement to the right, and contemplated its obvious object, than they evacuated all their stockades but the two small redoubts imme [Here follows a Letter from J. Adam, Esq. Secretary to Government, inclosing another from the Adjutant General; and both introducing the following dispatch from Sir D. Ochterlony; and commend. ing his judgment and ability:] wwhdiately under the fort, and risked the atCamp Nehn, Dec. 31. tempt which Lieut.-col. Thompson has detailed; and on its unsuccessful issue, retired to Munghooka Dbar, where he is now assembled with his whole force, the right covered by the stockades, which I had intended to attack, and their left resting on or towards the fort of Tarragurh.— Apprehending that the Enemy might venture a second time, I directed Lieut..col. Lyons and the second battalion of the 7th, with two 6-pounders, to reinforce Lieut. col. Thompson, in the hope of preventing it, or rendering it ineffectual. They have, however, remained stationary since their repulse. D. OCHTERLONY, Major-gen. Report from Lieut. col. Thompson to Gen. Ochterlony, inclosed in the preceding. Sir-On the 27th I had the honour to report to you the arrival of the 2d battalion of the 7th Native Infantry and the 18-pounders in this camp. Our position in view of the fort had compelled the Enemy to bring their supplies from the Eastward by circuitous routes; but my information led me to hope that the possession of three points in front of our right would entirely cut off their supplies from Billaspore, and generally from the interior. In consequence, I directed Lieut.-col. Thompson to march as soon as it was dark on the night of the 27th, and dislodge the Enemy from the stockades they had erected on two of those points, and occupy and maintain a third which they had erected.Lieut.-colonel Thompson had with him 14 companies, two six-pounders, and two howitzers of the mountain-train, and a force of irregulars amounting at least to 1000, but calculated at 1200 matchlocks. From the badness of the road, or rather foot-paths, and the great difficulties, encountered, it was not till a late hour in the morning of the 28th that Lieut.-col. Thompson reached the first point he was instructed to attack; and that was found so inaccessible, and so very much stronger than my information had given me reason to expect, that he very judiciously determined not to risk the chance of an instantaneous assault, but to make use of his artillery. His l letter, which I have the honour to inclose, together with a copy of my instructions, details his proceedings from that date, and renders it only necessary for me to express my approbation of Lieut.-col. Thompson's conduct, and entire satisfaction with that of the de-proceeded up the heights. On our gainGENT. MAG. November, 1815. Sir Agreeably to your instructions, It have the honour to report, that after dusk` on the evening of the 27th I commenced my march towards these heights with the light battalion and eight companies of the 2d battalion 3d regiment, Native infantry, two 6-pounders, and a mountain train of two light howitzers. Although the night was extremely favourable, the whole of the artillery did not reach the opposite side of the ridge of hills, about one coss below Debooka-Tebba, until past eight o'clock in the morning of the 28th. I then advanced up the face of the hill with the light battalion and four companies of the 2d battalion 3d regiment, to gain possession of the ridge on my left, immediately opposite to the Enemy's stone stockade; from this ridge the stockade is about 700 yards, with four different heights intervening.➡ The Enemy, having come out so far as the nearest hill to the ridge, began to open a fire of matchlocks upon our party as they ing ing possession of a high part of the ridge, the Enemy evacuated their position upon the opposite hill, and being instantaneously pursued by our troops, they fled suc. cessively over the whole of the hills between the ridge and their stockade, which appearing to me too strong to attempt without the assistance of our guns, I resolved to wait until the artillery came up. -The 6-pounders opened upon the place about four o'clock P. M. and I was in hopes that as the wall appeared to be composed only of loose stones, it might have been laid open before dusk; but, af ter firing for about an hour, from a distance of about 500 yards, only a small part of the wall came down.-Having resolved to move the battery to a nearer distance the following morning, the pioneers were employed during the day in making fascines and gabions for that purpose. About a quarter of an hour, however, before sunrise the following morning (the 29th), the Enemy came down in great numbers from the Mungoo ka Dhar, with an apparent intention of forcing my position on the ridge, and also turning my left, so as to surround it. I am happy to add, that, in consequence of the warm reception they received from our troops, they were soon obliged to retire with loss. Having now, however, every reason to believe that Mungoo-ka-Dhar had been strongly, reinforced, I thought it adviseable to throw up a slight entrenchment on my position on the ridge and first bill, which was effected about dusk,-During the night the Enemy evacuated the stockade on Deboo-ka-Tibba, which was immediately occupied by the picquets of the light battalion. The stockade is situated on a steep rocky eminence, very difficult. of access on all sides, but particularly so in front, where it is almost perpendicular. The wall is ten feet high on the outside, and four feet thick, composed of loose stones, extremely well built, and three sides of it are surrounded by a high bamboo fence, at the distance of two feet from the outside of the wall; within it is a Pucka Mhut. The position of the Enemy at Mungoo-ka-Dhar appears to be nearly two miles from my post, and the road to it very difficult, as well from unevenness as from ascent. I have also been informed that the Enemy have thrown up stone breast-works and other obstacles at different parts of the road. I have the honour to inclose a correct return of our casualties: those of the Enemy, from the best intelligence I have been able to procure, amount to 150 in killed, and about 250 wounded... I had the pleasure yesterday to send in two prisoners from Debooka-Tibba, and this day another, who was wounded in the affair of the 29th. The conduct of the Officers and men compos To be Commanders of the Order of Maria Theresa.-Lieut.-gen. Marquis of Anglesea, G.C.B.; Lieut.-gen. Lord Hill, G. C. B. To be Knights of the Order of Theresa → Lieut,-gen. Sir H. Clinton, G. C. B.—Major-gens. Sir J. Kempt, K. C. B.; Sir E. Barnes, K.C.B.; Lord E. Somerset, K.C.B. -Colonels-Sir J. Elley, K. C. B. royal horse gds.-T. Reynell, 71st reg.; Sir A. Bernard, K. C. B. 95th reg., Hon. A. Abercromby, Cold. gds.; Sir G. Wood, roy. art. Sir C. Campbell, Cold. gds.; Sir J. Colborne, K. C. B. 52d reg.; A. Wood ford, Cold. gds.; Hon, F. Ponsonby, 12th light dr., F. B. Harvey, 14th light dr.; C. Smith, royal eng. Lieuts.-cols.-J. M'Donnel, Cold. gds.; Sir R. Hill, knt. roy. horse gds.; Lord F. Somerset, K.C.B. 1st gds.; R. Dick, 42d reg.; N. Douglas, 79th reg. Lord Saltoun, 1st gds. Paris, August 21. List of Officers upon whom His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia has conferred decorations of different classes of the Orders of St. George, Anne, and Wladimir respectively, &c. WELLINGTON. Second Class St. George.-Lieut. Gen. the Marquis of Anglesea; Lieut.-gen. Lord, Hill, Third Class St. George.-Lieut.-gen. Sir H. Clinton; Major-gens. Cook and Kempt. Second Class St. Wladimir.-Major-gens. Sir O. Vandeleur, Sir J. Byng, and Sir D. Pack. Third Class St. Wladimir.-Major-gens. -Lord E. Somerset, Sir J. Lambert, Sir C. Grant, Maitland, Sir H. Vivian, and Colonel Mitchell. Fourth Class St. George. Colonels SirJ. Elley, Assistant Adj. gen. ; Reynell, 71st reg.; Sir A. Barnard, 95th reg.; Hon. A. Abercromby, Assistant Quarter-mast.gen.; Sir C. Campbell, Assistant Quartermast, gen.; J. Colborne, 52d reg.; Woodford, Cold. gds.; Hon. F. Ponsonby, 12th light dg.; Hervey, Acting Mil. Sec.Lieut.-cols. Sir R. Hill, roy. horse gds.; Lord F, Somerset, Mil, Sec.; Lord Saltoun, 1st gds. Fourth Class St. Wladimir.-ColonelsHepburn, 3d gds.; Sir G. Wood, roy. art. Muter, 6th dr.; Smyth, roy.eng.-Lieut. cols.-Macdonnell, gds; Sir H. Bradford, 1st gds.; Lord Greenock, Assistant Quarter-master gen.; Cooke, 1st gds; Sir C. Broke, Assistant Quarter-mast. gen.; Sir H. G. Berkeley, Assistant Quarter Mastergen; Ross, 95th reg.; Sir G. Scovell, Assistant Quart-mast.-gen.; Dick, 42d reg. ; Douglas, 79th reg; Nixon, 28th reg.; Lygon, 2d life gds; Hare, 27th reg. First Class St. Anne. — Lieut.-gen; C. Count Alten.-Major-gen. Sir E. Barnes, Adjt.-gen.; Major-gen. Adam.f Downing-street, Oct. 3. Dispatch from the Duke of Wellington. Paris, Sept. 24. List of Officers upon whom His Majesty the King of Bavaria has conferred devorations of different classes of the Order of Maximilian Joseph, &c. Wellington, Commanders-Major-gens. Sirs C. Halkett, J. Lambert. J. Lyon, and J. Vandeleur, K. C. B.'s. Knights-Cols. Lord F. Somerset, Sir C; Campbell, K. C. B.'s, and F. B. Hervey; Lieut. Cols. Sir N. Hill, K. C. B., Norcott, and Freemantle; Major Hon. G. Dawson. Downing-street, Oct. 28. Dispatches from the Duke of Wellington. Head-quarters, Paris, Oct. 8. List of Officers upon whom His Majesty the King of the Low Countries had conferred decorations of different classes of the Wilhelm's Order, &c. WELLINGTON. Third Class, Wilhelm's Order.—Lieut.gen. Sir Henry Clinton, G. C. B.; Majorgens. Sirs C. Grant, C. Halkett, G. Cooke, J. Kempt, W. Dornberg, and P. Maitland; and Lt.-gen. C. Count Alten, K. C. B.'s. Fourth Class Wilhelm's Order.-Hon. Col. Stewart, 1st Gds; Cols. F. Hepburn, 3d Gds.; F. Arentscheildt, 3d Huss.; and A. B. Clifton, 1st Drag.; Hon. Lieut.. col. W. Elphinstone, 33d Ft.; Lieut.-cols. E. O. Tripp; Sirs C. Broke, K. C. B. H. Bradford, K. C. B. and G. Berkeley, K. C. B. Lord Greenock, R. Nixon, 1st Ft.; G. Mattlebury, 69th Ft.; Harris; J. Ross, 95th Ft.; Busche, 1st Light Batt. K. G. L.; and G. Baring, 2d ditto ditto. Head-quarters, Paris, Oct. 8. List of Officers, upon whom his Majesty the Emperor of Russia has conferred decorations of the Order of St. Anne, &c. WELLINGTON. I have, &c. Second Class of St. Anne.-Col. F. von Arentscheildt, 3d Hus, K. G. L.; Lieut.cols. R. Torrens, West India reg.; J. Waters, A. A.G.; C. Beckwith, 95th F.; W. Campbell, A Q. M. G.; C. Campbell, Roy. Scots; A. Clifton, 1st Drag.; J. Hicks, 32d Ft.; W. Elphinstone, 33d Ft.; H. Mitchell, 51st Ft.; A. G. Norcott and A. Cameron, 95th Ft.; J. B. Clarke, 2d Drag.; Sirs J. May. H. Ross, R. Gardiner, and W. Gomm, K. C. B.'s Roy. Art.; J. Bull, Roy. Art. ; and Majors E. Kelly, 2d Life Gas.; and A. M'Donald, Roy. Art. Head quarters, Puris, Oct. 8: List of General Officers, upon whom the Emperor of Austria has conferred the Order of Maria Theresa, &c. Wellington. Knights of the Order of Theresa.-Majorgens. Sirs J. Byng, F. Adam, D. Pack, and H. Vivian, ABSTRACT ABSTRACT OF FOREIGN OCCURRENCES. FRANCE. TERMINATION OF WAR. The several Treaties and Conventions for the restoration and maintenance of Peace between his Britannic Majesty and his Allies on the one part, and his most Christian Majesty Louis XVIII. on the other, were signed at Paris on Monday the 20th inst. by Lord Viscount Castlereagh and Field Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington, as Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic Majesty, and by the Duke de Richelieu as Plenipotentiary of the King of France. The Military duties of the capital were from that day to be transferred from the Allied troops to those of the first military division; and the 10th regiment of French infantry of the line, which has so eminently distinguished itself by its fidelity and attachment to the Royal cause, had already reached Paris. The Treaties or Conventions, we understand, are four in number, and appropriated to distinct objects. One establishes à state of Peace between the Allied Powers and France; a second relates to the occupation of the fortresses, and the subsistence of the Allied troops within the French frontier; a third regulates the mode of raising and paying the contributions; and a fourth provides for the liquidation of the Foreign claims on the French Exchequer. Marshal Ney having been put upon his trial before a Court Martial, the Members composing it, after two days' proceedings, voted themselves incompetent to sit as his Paris; and after some equivocation, he also acknowledged that he had kissed the King's hand. On the same occasion he maintained, that he was totally ignorant of the conspiracy; and that, after assuming the command of the troops, he remained for several days faithful to the King. The evidence partly corroborated this statement. His subsequent conduct, however, destroyed any claim he might have, from this circumstance, to indulgence; as a Proclamation was published in his name, soon after he joined the standard of the Usurpe er, beginning with the words" The of the Bourbons is lost for ever." Ney states in his defence, that this Proclamation was written by Buonaparte, and had appeared in Switzerland before he had seen it himself that it was a customary manoeuvre of the Ex-Emperor to forge letters and other documents, bearing the names of his Generals, and to publish them without asking their consent. He also pretends that it was the conduct his troops that hurried him along to defec tion; and that he deserted the Royal cause,& merely to prevent a Civil war-that Buonaparte had transmitted to him the strongest assurances that Austria was his Ally, and that England favoured his designs. However, it is proved that the Marshal, if he evinced any reluctance at first to betray his duty, manifested the most ardent zeal as soon as he took a decision; and even caressed, with a kind of frantic joy, the very drummers and fifers of his army, the moment they expressed themselves unm Judges; and his fate is in consequence to equivocally in favour of the Rebel cause, be decided on by the Chamber of Peers. The Court Martial met in the Great Hall of Assize, at the Palace of Justice, and consisted of Marshal Count Jourdan, President; Marshal Massena, Prince of Essling; Marshal Augereau, Duke of Cas tiglione; Marshal Mortier, A memorial has been presented by Marshal Soult, in justification of his conduct. This document is of very great length; and though it does not serve to justify his con duct, it goes a little way in palliation of his offence. He states, that after Buonaparte landed, and he had resigned the War De viso Lieut.-gen. Count re- partment, the King wrote him a letter ap Lieut. gen. Count Claparede; Lieut.-gen. Count Gazan; Baron Joinville, Commissary Or donnateur of the First Military Division, King's Commissary; Count Grundler, Marechal-de-Camp, Judge Advocate. It appears by the evidence, that Ney affected to be ignorant on the 7th of March, of the landing of Buonaparte, though the official account had appeared in the Moniteur. On the 9th he received instructions from the Minister at War; and before he proceeded to his destination, he waited on the King. In the interrogatory he underwent soon after his arrest, in the presence of the Prefect of Police, he confessed that he used to the King expressions, that Buonaparte, should he be taken, would deserve to be conducted in an iron cage to proving of his conduct. He appeals too his efforts, when Minister, to meliorate all parts of his administration for the advantage of the King he enters into a view of the military state of Antibes, the Var, and Grenoble, when Buonaparte landed. When Buonaparte arrived at Paris, he (Soult) retired to his country-seat; and did not leave it till after two orders from Buonaparte. He confesses that he fought at Waterloo; but he insists that he was justified in taking up arms to defend his country against foreign invasion; and he instances Admiral Blake's conduct in the time of Cromwell. The Projet of a Law of Amnesty, proposed on the 11th inst. to the Chamber of Deputies, has been printed. Its articles make the following exceptions: Those who |
