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r e . lir. lit. Vil refs IT, rtf .Cl4, e of 70K, rto; Doi; pEic, sich US A left min h of low In bich roke row. Ann live my eing ODE TO WINTER. l y TMOMAI CAMPBELL, ESQ : AUTHOR Of !Hz PLEASURES OF HOPE. When firft the fiery mantled Sox His heav'nly race began to run, Round the Earth and Ocean blue His Children four (the Sadism) flew : firß, in green apparel dancing, Smil'd the SIMI ma With angel face; Rofy SUMMER next advancing Rufb'd into her Sire's embrace— tier bright-bair'd Sire, who bade her keep _ For ever near& to Ma (miles-- On CALPIet ofive-(hided Beep, Or Indla's eitron-cover'd Iflet, Mort remote and br.aom brown The %nem of VI se TAG' bow'd before his throne A. rich Pomegranate gemmed her crown, A ripe Sheaf bound her zone. Rut howling WTNTEII Bed afar To bills that prop the Polar Star, And loves on Deer-born Car to ride With barren Daau Wass by his fide, Round the more where loud Lofoden Whirls to death the roaring Whale, Round the hall where Runic Oden Howls his war-fong to the Gale ; Save when down the mooed globe He travels nn his native Storm, Denow'ring Nature's gray robe, And trampling on her faded form; 'Tin Light's returning Lord alfume The waft that drives him to his Northern field, Of power to pierce his raven plume And chryftal-eover'd thield ! 0 Sire of Storms, Whore favage ear The Lapland Drum delights to hear, When Fat nal with her blood-fhot eye Implores thy dreadful Deity— Arthangel Power of Defolation, Faft defeending as thou art, Say, bath Mortal Invocation Spells to tooth thy Rony heart? Then, fuller Warne,. bear my pray'r, . . And gently rule the ruin'd Year; Nor chill the Wand'rer's bofom bare, No freeze the Wretch's falling tear; To alluring Want's tmsnantled bed Thy horror-breathing agues craft to lend, And mildly on the Orphan head Of iNNOCINCI defcend! But chiefly (pare, 0 Kiwi; of Cr-tient, The Sailor on his airy &muds— When Wrecks and Beacons Brew the Steep, And Spedtra walk along the Deep; Milder yet thpinowy breezes Breathe on yonder tented (bores, Where the Rhine's bright billow freezes, Where the dark-brown Danube roan! Oh, Winds of Winter, lilt ye there To many a deep and dying groan? Or !tart ye, Demons of the Midnight Air, At &ricks and thunders louder than yout awl Alas, e'en your unhallow'd breath May (pare the Vietim fallen low But Man will ail no truce to Deaths:. No bound to Harem Wee I THEATRES. covairr-iaaania. On Tudday, the Stranger was performed, for , the firft time at this Theatre, for Mr. Cooee's benefit. A houfe, undually crowded, muft have been highly gratifying to that diftinguithed alor. We expelled to be pleated with Mr. Coons; but we expelled to fee him fall that of Mr KF.IIBI.C. In this charader, a different fpecies of aging was required : he was not here called upon to pourtray the malignant pafflons of a Richard, the guilt and remorfe of a Macbeth, the jealoufy of a Kitely, or the revenge of an logo, but to depia the penfive grief and the mifanthropic morofenefs of a man, naturally benevolent, but loured by un merited fuffering, and affeCied by difappointment in what is deereft to a feeling heart. In his ge neral conception of the charatter he was excellent ; he was frequently tender in his tones, and fome times animated and interaing in his countenance. On the whole, he was ftrong and imprellive. But he certainly fell fhort of Mr. KIMBLII. The latter, we think, excels in Potreekka, and in the Stranger; becaufe his features are belt adapted to a fettled rnifanthropie gloom ; and we wonder that he hat never thought pf reviving . Tinos of althea:. The former, on the contrary, inflead of a frown, ap• pears to wear a (mile. 'That (mile may be adapted to Richard, to logo, to Glosalows, to IdeAhree; but mull fail in the prefent inftance. If, in fome inflames, we allow him to be the bcft aelor on the London Stage, our applaufe in general charatters mull be guarded and qualified. Sometimes we are aftonilhed by his beauties, fomctimes by his failings. It mull, however, be obferved, that he laboured under a violent cold, which, after the et •rrions of the fourth all, rendered him (carcely in telligible. He certainly might perform the Stranger better than he did on Tuefday. Mr. MURRAY'S performance of the fhort part of 'robs: was as correl, as affetting a perform. awe as we have ever Peen. Here Covent-Garda ekc.:l6 Drury- Lane. Simmons too has the advantage o•+er Lat. His defeription of the accident of bit I.vrdjko was highly finifhed. H. JONNSTOM were leis Riff in the neck, he a..:id play better. Had not Mrs. LITCHTIRLD to contend with Mrs. S‘Dootts, the would be more admired ; though the R 3, upon the whole,very defervedly applauded. To the general plot of the play we have firong ehjaliong. Theli: might be edity removed by a little alteration. Mrs. Wailer may forfake her huf band, but her honour ought to remain inviolate. He r remorfe would be as arong, and the cata- Arophe more affeding. becaufe more within the bounds of probability and decency. Let us add a hint to the MANAIIIR. In one of 'he moll interelling (cones, while the char:teen Si the Stage were endeavouring to excite teats in the audience, a phy-houcc lonner, from behind the fcenes, opened the door of t he Stranger's cot- - tage, difplayed his thicknefs of neck, a nd t hi nne f s of head, and exhibited the flare of a vacant laugh. It was not till after a long hifs from the Pit, that the fellow ceafed to difturb the audience, by 'hut ting the door, and excluding himfelf. The pro bability and the Million of the fcene thould never be violated unneceffanly : and we are fuse that the man of front would not have dared to intuit the audience of Drury Lane, had Mr. Rs. st tit s been on the Stage. " Something too much of this." Cathanine and Paruebio changed the tears into laughter. It was excellently performed. Mr. Lewis, notwithftanding his indillinetnefs, and Mrs. MATTOCKS, notwithftanding her years; com manded our mirth. GARRICK'S Ode on SILAKBSPIARK was, in con• clufton, forcibly fpoken by Mr.COOKE, and Tung by the vocal powers of the theatre. Mr. COOKE had reafon to thank the boufe for their crouded attendance ; and the honk had no lefs reafim to be pleafed with the entertainment of the evening. DRURY-.LANE. LaD night a new Operatical After-piece, in titled The Veteran Tar, the produtlion of the two ARNOLDS, father and fon, was performed for the firft time ; and, upon the whole, rather favourably received. The principal part of the fable confills in the fhipwreck of an Englifh veffel on the coati, the e fcape of the Captain's fon, his love for Cicely, a pretty village girl of the place, the difcovery of the reD of the crew's fafety, and alto that of his father, whofe content to his marriage he obtains by gallantly boarding a French privateer, with the aid of his companions. The illnefs of Cicely's father affords an opportunity of introducing a ri diculous old apothecary, who is the rival of the young tar; and the main plot is further embellifhed with the union of the filler of Cady with a rullic lover ; but it; chief meriti is its adaptation to the (late of the Country at the prefent moment, and its tendenCy to animate the patriotic feelings of Eng= lifhmen; for there is but very little novelty in any of the charaders, the moll prominent of which is that of a hardy tailor, admirably fulbined by BANN as- TER, the Captain of the privateer, which has been wrecked upon the coati. The dialogue, with the exception of certain pal - - rages complimentary to the heroifm of feamen, &c. is languid and common place. The mufic, however, is very pleafing, and the principal Songs were delightfully executed by Mrs. MouwraiN and Mill STEVENS : the piece, however, wants a more prominent fi nging man than either Mr. TR u spear.: Or Mr. DECAMr.--Strur and WEWITZER had two Dale parts, an hypochondriacal Patient and a foppifh Village Dottor, but neither of them told. On accoutt of the mufic, however, The Veteran Tar is likely to have a fhort run, though tome oppofi tion voices were heard at the time of giving it out for a fecond renefentation. The Overture, in which is introduced the movement of 4 , Hearts of Oak." is a very unified compofition. The fcenery is confined nearly to two views i village on the coat!, and a Dorm at tea, in which the young tar is teen making his efcape to fhore. The beauty of thefe, however, compenfates fir their tisanes. The hcnife was full, and brilliantly attended. The following Songs were . all encored : SONO;—Ccez Yee, diem old maid, if a man I can't RM. That my fancy has planed as quite to my mind; His heart Ihall be open, his countenance too, And his hand, or he never will do : In theft, to convince me he's this thing and that, My heart, when I fee him, malt bounce—pit-alat. care not for earn, or for acres in Rote, With a man that I love I can sever be peer; Nor with one I deteft can I happy be made, Tho' I flaunted in fattbts, in Albs, and brocade. In Mort, I'll neer wed in this world, and that's flat, Till my heart faysm that's he," with a bounce—pit. DUET.—Ltsevra and CICZLT Hark, hark ! the village bells delightful found, In cadence fweet they die along the vale ; Now lowly murmuring o'er the broken ground, Now loudly (welling on the travelling plc ! Hark, how they echo round the rocky (bore; Now, fort they Real refponfive on the ear; Now, caverns deep rebellow to the rear, In founds harmonious, audible and clear. SONG.--.Toss STURDY. Odds life! when a War gets bother'd with love, He's all one as a Ibip without rudder or fails ; That the roaring of buffeting billows malt prove. And mart drive at the mercy of thuricFring gales. His cargo's afloat, all his mails by the board, ' A them hulk without ballaft the heavily moves; " Helm a weather," he whimpers; he fighs his awl ; " Belay, boys '—S lubber, he pipes out, he lons." But fce him tight rigged, sad far duty agog ; A light-hearted Jolly briar crew man the Wands; He fps ings upon deck, he diftributes his grog, Pipes all bands from below, and his light canvas crowds ; No thoughts crofs his mind but of drubbing oar fees, The proud flag of Britain in triumph unfurl's'; A fignal,a brccze, boys, three cheers, and he goer. Takes his pr.zos—and is pried by a woed'ring world. The Monfeers love to dance, let 'ens dance o'er the main, With Minheer and the Don ; tho they 'kw a fah dip, Why the French well (eon teach how to dance hock again. And the eothcrs can't ante, we'll loon teach 'cm toil*. Let eur navy be ready with canvas unfurl'd, For w 9kn England b threaten'd we always are ready, And our dear little England defies all the world. To oar King and our Country Bill (heady boys, Ready. On Saturday tail, the 24th init. an elegant Ball and Supper were given by Mrs. Csav, of Torr Abbey, to above 150 of the Nobility and Gentry of the neighbourhood, in honour of the birth-day i of Earl Sr. Viscitur, who on Tuefday the sods attained to his 66th ycar. The Entertainment was particularly fplendid, and new rooms with ap propriate decorations were fitted up for the occa. lion. In the coutfe of the evening, a tang, written by a Gentleman relent, was lung in honour of the day. LAW INTELLIGE4VCE. COURT OF RING'S BENCH, JANVARY 39. THE HMG 17. NEAL. The Defendan unrierconvietion for a libel, in the nature of a caricature, on Mr. W. Keate, the Surgeon-General of the army, and was permitted to Rand exculed upon the payment of the colts of this profeeution, and a nominal fine, by the con tent of Mr. Keate. CRIMINAL INFORMATION. Mr. Gums moved for leave to file a criminal in formation againd Samuel Baker, Efq. Mayor, as we understood, of the Borough of Yarmouth, for having given to a party a copy of an incorred con viaion, by means of which the party who had the copy moved for a certiorari, and then the Magif trate made out a correu convidion ' by means of which again the party who moved for the certio rari had all the coils to pay. This was the fault of the Magittrate, for had the first form of the conviftion been the fame as the lait was, this party never would have moved the cafe by certiorari at all, whereas by this mistake he was led into error. If a Magiltrate had this power, he might invite par ties to move for Certiorari writs on the ground of defeaive conviaion, whenever he pleated, and then afterwards make out a corred conviOion, by which all the expense would fall on the party fuing out the certiorari, by which all fecurity for the pay ment of cods was entirely loft ; for the certiorari could not be had in thefe cafes, without fecurity for the payment of cods, and thefe coils mud al ways fall on the party fuing out the writ, if it ap peared ultimately that the convklion, when re turned, was regular, which it might be, although the firft draft of it, of which the copy was given, as in this cafe, was irregular ; this motion was therefore intended to putMagiftrates a little more on their guard. The Court held, that in the find place, the giv ing of any copy of the convidion in this cafe, was mere matter of favour, for that the Magiftrate was not bound to give it at all ; that it frequently , happens to Magiftrates, after hearing evidence, to , draw out the form or the minutes of - a conviaion, ' and the whole is afterwards, fometimes, fettled by Connie' before it comes to maturity, and is re corded as a conviction ; and that, therefore, it would be the greateft of all hardfhips to make a Magiftrate liable to an information for the inaccu- ' racy of a draft of which he had good-naturedly given a copy.—There would be no end to this, if applications of this fort were to be encouraged : it might go to all the minutes of Courts upon which the mod folemn ads are done : for inflance, a perfon might be convided for a capital offence, and even executed upon a verdid of guilty, and the folemn record of the order, to be banged by the neck until he be dead, &c. was made up in due form of record afterwards. There things were too plain to be difputed. The Magilirate bete had done nothing that was corrupt, and there was ' no pretence for this motion.—Rule refuted. RIOT AT YORK. Mr. Serjeant Cocest.having taken his place within the Bar as King's Serjeant, faid, He ap peared there to move ter a criminal information againft the Honourable Charles Stewart, and fe veral other officers of the i9th regiment of dra goons. On the tit of January, they had been guilty of the molt improper conduit, and had thrown the whole city of York into confufion. Early in the morning, without any notice being given to the magiftrates, they had diftributed the whole corps, conlifting of near ;Soo men, over the town, and had given orders to the different parties to allow no one to pats through the Areas which they guarded. All communication among the in habitants was thus cut off, the (hops were obliged to be Phut up, and every one was (truck with con- Rernation. About mid-day, the different parties fired feveral vollies in fuch a manner that many of the bye-handers were feverely wounded; and all were greatly alarmed. But it WAS at night that the condua of the Colonel and the Officers had been moil reprehenfible. Having paired the day in conviviality, they fallied forth to the principal Rivet, and made the band play a great variety of favourite airs. In this there certainly would have been no great harm, confidering the importance of the event which they pretended to celebrate ; but at the fame time they drew their fwords, and infult. ed, threatened, and outraged the peaceable citi. zens. Every one who pa id they obliged to take off his bat and huzra ; and many who were will. ing to obey them in every thing, they treated with the molt unwarrantable violence. A great num ber were feverely hurt, and feveral were obliged to be carried to the Hofpital in confequence of the wounds they had received. This fcene of difor der, violence, and uproar, continued to a late • hour; the efforts of the agiftrates were unable to put a flop to it ; and through the whole night, the city was kept in a !late of the moil painful anxiety. Of fuch wantonnefs and cruelty it was not poffible to fpeak in fufficiently itrong terms ; but he hoped thefe gentlemen would be flown, that they could not behave thus with impunity. Officers mull be taught to refped the Civil Autho rity ; they mull learn, that they are not juftified at any time to draw out their men, except in mi. litary array. The learned Serjeant dwelt with great warmth upon the enormity of the mikon dud he had defcribed, and the neceffity of pu tithing it feverely. Lord Kairros however faid, he law no reafon whatever for granting the motion. If particular alts could be brought home to particular perfons, then againft thefe perhaps a criminal information might be granted. But becanfe, on a day of fef tivity and national rejoicing, a few (,fficeri of a re giment had behaved rather imprudently, it would be a very violent meafure indeed to profecute them all in the grofs. Mr. Law then obferved, that Colonel Stewart and the other officers had behaved in the moll ho nourable manner. They had next morning ex preffed great forrow for what had happened ; and they had waited on the Mayor; they had fub fcribed fevcral hundred pounds to the hofpital ; and they had made every effort to booth the minds of thF inhabitants. I Lord 'Capron again pointed out the itnpro priew of the motion; and the otter judges con curring ip opinion with him, a rule to thew caul*: was rcinfucl. SABRA! CORPUS. Mr. PEILCIVA: f.iid, in the cafe of the Naha Corps, that ilTued on the motion of :MT. East:as, on the fix ft day of the 'Vein:, to bring up Letitia Fletcher, be was to move fur a Rule to thew catrfe why that Writ fhould not be quathed ,• aad that Mr. Denton, who was an Attorney, and a volun• tary Proticutor in this cafe, Mr. Morelle and Mr. Munton, or fuch of them as might be affected by the fa&s, might anfwer the matters of the affi davit. This teemed to be a moil fcandalous con fpiracy—firli of all to take away and confine the perfon of this poor young woman, and then to rob her of her property. This Mifs Letitia Fletcher was a young Lady of Fg years of age : the had not. in the 3 per cent. reduced, 1 tool. in the 3 per cent. confols. She had a demand on her hpather.in-nw for tool. and likewife an expec tancy—an interett in reverlion of 3001. at her mother's deccafe ; fo that this young lady poffelled confiderable property, and had refpe&able con. nations in the neighbourhood of Northampton. She became acquainted with a Mr. Munton, and he elandellinely paid his addieffes to her. She had 'employed Mr. Howe, who was her Attorney, to receive her dividends, &c. She had propofed to fell fome part of this (tuck. He advifed her by no 'means to do that—that the dividends would be due; and having been long acquainted with the family, he undertook to advance any more money that might be wanted out of his own pocket. He prevailed on her not to fell out. He gave her di vidends to the amount of 171. and the let out, as the !'aid, for her brother's, at Norfolk, but in fait went, according to appointment, and met Mr. Munton at an Inn at Cambridge, from whence they came to London. The next morning the defired that he would confider her fituation and marry her. He raid he would marry her, but that the thing cculd not be done in a hur ry. They took a lodging. She PreiTed the marriage. He raid they mutt have a licence, which would coil gel. Let it colt vol. laid the, only marry.mc, and you than have money for the licence. They went to the houfe of Mr. Denton, and he fent for a broker, who fold the agol. in th: 3 per cent. reduced annuities, and that money the gave Munton for the purpole of procuring this liCence t after he got the money he went away, and the expeded lie would have returned with the licence. He told her they mull be Aced in church, and that the bufinefs would neceffarily take up fome time, but marry her he would. During all this time her relations thoughtfhe was at Mr. Den ny's, her brother-in-law. Mr. Howe received a letter from her, defiring him not to trouble himfelf about the 3 per cents. reduced. It appeared to him to be lirange that the had gone to Norfolk ; but the next day her aunt received a letter from Mrs. Denny, haling that they had received a let ter from a Mr. Denton in London, whofe name they had never heard before, defiring their to pay the tool. they owed to this Lady, and that if it was not remitted, he would atm procefs. They i.now inir the terms on which this young Lady was living with her brothers, this excited confiderable fufpi cions ; and one of her brothers (the other being fo ill that he could not go), accompanied by a Mr. Smith, who had married another i;fier, came to town, and naturally called on her relations. They could give them no intelligence of her. This in creafed their fufpicions. Before they made any application to Mr. Denton, they thought it would be as well to fee what had become of her pro perty at the Bank. They found the agol. in the 3 per cent. reduced had been fold out, but that the 1 tool. was Rill (landing on the books ; and Mr. Howe with great prudence immediately exercifed his power to transfer this flock of itool. out of her name into the names of her two brothers, and took the precaution to make them execute a trull in favour of their fitter. They then called on Mr. Denton, and by his means procured a fight of this Lady, and had f:vcral niters . wws with her. She was accompanied by a peifon of the name of Morelle, who was to talc care of her and to guard her. Being under the influence of Morelle, they could not get from her that the had any difpolition to return back. There was alfo a communication between Mr. Howe and Mr. Munton. Mr. Howe told him he had profeffed an intention to marry this young lady. He knew no objection to it bull one—that he was married already. Munton de clared he never had been married in.his life. Mo relic had Rated that he had been married, and that be had been a witr.efs to it, but that his wife was dead. That contraditiory account rather led the friends of Mifs Fletcher to believe, not only that he had been married, but that his wife was (till in esiftence. If Mr. Munton's objeet was marriage, he ought to clear away thole converfe with her brothers on the lubjeft, and 1 . ,. t:le a part of this property on the lady, and there would be no objeftions to the marriage. Munton Lid he would make no fettlement; and that I.e would many when he pleated; and as he had gained her affeaions, he would continue to live with her. There ciretunftances palled in various interviews. The brother feting the (tate in which his lifter was, and the dettruCtion the was about to plunge berfelf into, rcfolved by force to take her out of the cuftody of Munton and Morale, and then leave her to exerctfe her own difcretion, and do what (he pleated. But they thought they could do nothing with her while the was within the grafp of thele two perfons. Upon that, Mr. Howe and her brother certainly forced her into a carriage and took her away. His affidavits Rated, that as thou as they had got her into the carriage. and bad • gone a very little way, her brother told her (be was under his prote*tion, that (he was of the age of difcretion, and might go on or not as (he pleated. That was merely to fee what was her obje6t. She flung her arms about their necks, and raid they were her belt guardians and friends, and had ex tricated her from a Rate of mifery and deftmaion; and that The was afraid, on her coming beck. that they would not receive bee; but if they would for give her mircondua— Lord Kasroa interpofing, abed what the fail , about coercion ? • - . Mr. Pumas. obfervad o &Kt after Ow found