The National Register. — London, England, 1812-10-18 00:00:00

THE .I;ATIONA.I4 REGISTER. -The arching . wave, that beats the blazing tide, .And bids tit' unruly rage of fire sulisi•le. But vain your toils ! the Dames triumphant rise, . Now roar and tow'r resistless to the skies— /Vow sudden check'd—what ti tourring fall What deep red cloud mounts trIMI the er•thlting Wide, wider still—its ample wines i•peck'd by ten thousand slinks with stars of gold, -And hov'ring o'er the prostrate ruin form A mimic sky, above the fiery storm. Friends to the Muse's sp•111! repress the sigh ! No longer dues their gam , lie No longer, :.s ye paot, mottritiog cast A glance, reprt,,,cliful, at the frownitie waste, Whilst stung with tam !egret, yew natant recalls, The happy h vc spent witlitti its w•Ws, • Wiwi: gay Tim Al.l t spread t;i✓ c cheer, A n .; compter'd vie..• and wall se-er; I)rs.ii M row os; 's heart owl ilia 11 4)l*, • Drew lion) your eyes the syn . :patine flow. • What kand has rcar'd th' uprooted tr mple's base Bevis's& the fallen glOries t.f tlie place? Itec•ill'd the lii sto their f'•'r te stage On' e more to please. reprove, inform the age - 2 his pt.hi.c spirit, ardent, 'Witt tu toti rebuke could check, no care could bind, 'Who, 'ere he prd.stri.te ruin felt his power, Thru' clashing iaresistoil'd full 1114041; nit hour, Woke in each breast the zeal utfl..9l'd his own Aa d rais'd at last tht . Dranni's anzient rune. Behold! whilst the wand'ring, Aluses came, 11'e, too, shall find an hospitable home; Fur who would not, where late the wind of night :Thin' dreary ruins roar'd, w'eli keen d light ;tear Sit•hi.sersitt pour the variegated strain, :Now raise the broad. loud laugh, now wake the tragic pain Or bask. where ft noes late 'cast their horrid glare, . In the ,bri : .ltt glances of a thousand fait ? And with successise peals of rapt ore Iry To shake ow lune, new-risen to the sky ? Thus, if a loftier strain can please yout ear And innEtal, with immortal, m..y compare —, Thus, when dissolving are bilrist•abA:iy, And man reviving hails tit' eternal day. Assembled round th' Almighty Pew'r we'll stand, And watch the wonders of his plastic . tsee new creations isur-t from Nature's iamb. Where Chaos fr.'wn'd, inflow tal glories bloom. Then view his work• complete; whilst peals of joy Frutu sainted millions, shake immensity. • his poem would excite, it is the less , . wonderful that it should evince, as-it indisputably does, marks of obscat iiy, hat shne , s, and mediocrity. Certain it is, by hisl,ordship:s own ex .. • plicit tptimotty, that at the pet iod limited .1.):t the advertise ment for the icception of Addresses, he ,had declined writing. Why he %yds applied to afterwards, and why he depatted from b i previous resolutioit, I do not pretend to kiiow ; but what I have stated, may pet hapi serve to extenuate his faults; and diminish the disappointment of the public. W roe not so aristocratical as our forefathers in literary matters. A I.oid has owned " the .happy lines," but we *do not *find th:u" the wit hitt:Mem," or, " the sense refines;" on the contrary, we are dis . posvd to criticise them with additional !eyerity, and it is to counteract this undue rigour, that I have (Ken induced to ;_routile Vent with this explanatory cone. munication. I an, sir, your's, &c. Oct. 13. !812. CANDIDUS. OCCAIONAI. ADDRE;S. 10 11E $1 ,0 i10 , 7 41 8T A 015AV•INTTI ) POUT AT A PI7I3LIC DINYFAL • • ; OIVEN TO TUL ussuccvs6vui carinit)Arrs FOR TUE DItIRY LANG - • I • PRIZEI . In , one dread night our city caw, and w.tht• dust. the Muse's hope mid wide, Ili one short hour, triou livntnea tines ' , was plum, That poesy fled Writ t RIO , 1 D's new raised fane. Ye uho them heard, uh sound, admired and scorned, Wh sc smoothness mocked the icinsense they adorned,. Through clouds of thought, son.r bright ideas whisk, Me rockets tited f Surrey's Obeii.k.. Heard the tong columns ut fatiguing verse. Wave o'er the pit,— phones on the Muse's !terse, While thousands, who had s o ught the new rai s ed dome, Shrunk back', with 'empty tubs, to seek their home; • ' A, glared the latups on those who had got in, Th , y. glaring back, returned it with a grin. ELI ircoN, Lord BYRON'S verse to drawl, • Usarp'd the :use's realm, and marked her fait:" Say —sh .11 this new, nor less aspiring strait,. Sp .kr, Where .once Joutssoses was—ain Drury-lane, Know the same favour which the former knew, A poem fit kir Drury, and for you Yes—it shall ive —the magic of that natne•••••• A Lord, shall bald t it the torch of tame, Bid the Committee all their honours shed, And give it praise o'er all they have not read ; That its pretered, attests the potent spell, Indulze his Lordship's pride, and 5ay...." how well!" As this Address far short falls of the last, Oh I must we sink contrasted with the past, 011 Drury first your %Vane otrro N'e grunt and start, Verpouered the softest, moved the sternest heatt ; On Drury, Want ek'S latest laurels grew, Here (with the subject, it has much to do), Ile sighed his thanks, and wept his last adieu ; But still forlliving wits. the wreath may bloom, That only waste their odours on the tomb, Such Bvitor claimed and claims,--nor you refuse One tribute to revive his slumbering muse, With garlands deck your own Mrs: A al DER% head I Nor hoard your houuurs idly for the dead ! Friends of the men, who prologues write, and i)tys i Our yon we call your voice unit ours to raise, - It e'er a Lurdlitig's Hanle has led to fame. And made us blush that you forbore to blames If e'er the sinking stage could condescend To soothe the sickly taste, it dare nut mend, All re reproach may , present scenes refute, And censure, wisely ioud, no more be mute !..-w Oh I since your fiat stamps the Drama's laws, Forbear to muck our woes, by your applause — So pride shall doubly nerve young BUSBY'S powers, Mtd his Address you'll hear,—perhaps all ours 1 And though we cannot, hope fur twenty guineas, At leash we shall nut all be :scorned as arnica. TO TEIE t[)ITOR. SlR—Though I am not one of those who famed some undefined noti;,n of a faultless Monster in the Drury-lane Address, - nor •a. dislippointed competitor ready to decry a successful rival, vet I confess, I should participate in the -public disappointment and surprizc which it has excited, were I not able to account, in some degree. for the inferio rity it unquestionably exhibits. It is a hurried performance, and therefore inferior to the other productions Of its noble author; it is not a selected one, and therefore inferior to the reasonable expectations of the public. 1 believe it will be found, that •t 4 Triumvirate who were to decide discovered something objectionable in every one of the• Addresses regu larly transmitted; many were probably condemned by an over-scrupulous delicacy on the - part of Mr. W HiTIIIIEAD, in prohibiting all prai , es :of himself; many weic unques tionably appropriate without being poetical, and as many were poetical without being appropriate. In this emergen-. cy, I have reason to believe, that his Lordship was applied to, subsequently to the Mk of September, with some incl ination of the wishes of the acting persons of the Committee as to :the tendency of the productions required. Thus re stricted in 'the range of his muse, hurried in the execution, and perhaps a little agitated by the' aniversAl attention which OCT. .11.1. 641 ~~ ~ i