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r n ; 2 L 0111) PYRuN'S NEW POEM OF "MA Z EPP .1." ~nauuc::— " But he wis: most enriso.l Ics: such An accident should chance to touch Cann his fu:ure pedigree; Xurlas awam.d that such a blot. Our reader; doubtless remember a trial of skill between two Poets as to which could write the most i^teresting Poem on the mast trivial subject ; and however accomplished they might be, we have no hesitation in declaring, that had it been a triple test of excellence on such a poinr, his Lordship would have unquestionably borne off the triumphant wreath : but as we mean to give more than our own opinion, as we wish our friends to possess the power of forming their own judgment, we proceed to an analysis of the Poem itself. " The Advertisement" is what Milton and our elder Poets called " The Argument," or an aLssiract of the story, and is compoqed of three extracts from Voltaire's " Ffistoire.de Charles XII. Roi de Suede." Whether the publisher relied upon the general knowledge of the French language, or whether he was short of room (the first eight pages of the book only contain its title) we know not ; but he has not amsidered the convenience of that portion of the community who do not understand French, by giv ing them an English version of this " Advertise ment: We proceed to supply thisdefixt by stating, that Mazrrra was born in the Palatinate of Pa tiolie; was brought up as one of the pages of Prince John Casimir, in whose Court he became attached to the Belles Lritres, but being discmered in an in trigue with the wik of a Polish nobleman, the enraged husband ha .1 him tied in a state of naked ness on the back of a wild horse of Ukraine, and turned adrift ; the horse naturally fled to his native fields, where the superior ability of Mazeppa shone an brilliantly as to obtain from the Czar of Russlu the Principality of Ukraine. The suffering] Nlareppa endured in this perilous journey form the intewst of tke story; which he relates to Charles XII. in a wood (where he was concealed idle:. the memondile and unthrtnnate battle of Pultowa), with a view to alleviate his sorrow. Such is the whole of the subject matter of this now Poem, yet Lord Byron has ma naged to create an interest in its perusal, although no one who has read his other wories will finish this without heaving a sigh prompted by regret that his transcendent abilities should be prostituted on a hubject so contemptible. The Poem commences with a description of the tinfriended state of the defeated Monarch and his friends after the battle, anl describes the soldier-like anxiety of the veteran Cossack Prince, as to his horse and accoutrements, in the following natural Rut first, outspent with this long course, The Cossack prince rubb'd down his horse, And made bir him a loafy bed. And imootri'd his fetlocks and his mane. And s►ack'd hi:igirth, and stripp'd his rein, And joy'd to see how well he fed ; For until now he had the dread Ili. wearied courser might refuse To browee beneath tpe midnight dews;. Rut he was hardy as his lord. A nit little cared for bed and board; spirited and docile too; Whatc'er was to be done, would do. Sham and swift, and strong of limb, All Tartar-like he carried hint Obey'd his yoke, and came at call, And knew him in the midst of all : Tbough thousands were around.—and Night, ithout n star, purstied her tli„:llt. That steed from sunset until dawn 111, chief would billow like a fawn. This done. Mazeppa spread hie And laid his lance tiencath his nak, Fah if his 3171i6 in order good Thc long day's march had well itlistood— If still the powder fiTil the pan. And flints unloostn'l kept their lock— His sabre. hilt and scabbard felt. And whether they had chatitl his belt— Charles then praises him fur his services of that dead day, and alluding to the great exertion he had borne, he asks to be informed " the pithool wherein be learnt to ride." This request leads to the story. Mazeppa describes the husband as rich, foolish, vain; of his wife he says— .. Ili.. junior the by thirty ycars-.- Grew daily tired of his dominion; And, at er wi.ther, hopes, and fe a rs, 'Io virtue a few farewell tears. A restleas dream or two, borne glances At Warsaw 'a youth. some songs, and dances.. Ate.sited but tic usual eliar.ces, Thoee happy traidt.nts which render The coldes. dames so very under, To deek her (,unt w:th titles given, "I is said, as pa:sports. into heaven ; But, strange to say. they tartly lama GI these who have deserved them most. After this folio* some of the sweetest descriptions of the attachments, the difficulties, and the enjoy ments of the lovers, that, peril*, cur language can produce. They remind us of Ovi s_but "he (Byron) did it with more true touches of nature." The hus load's rage is well described— THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ilia noble 'seutrlseon should have got, While he was highest of his line • B vas se unto himself he seem : sl The fist of men, nor less he deens'd In others' eyes. and most in mine. 'S death ! with a pore—perchance a Ling Iliul reconciled him with the thing ; But with a stripling of a rage— I felt—but c.uilitit paint hue mgr." The rest of the Poeta is solely occupied with the description of the dangers of Mazeppa's unwilling ride, and closes with— Comraeo. god night!"—The flatman threw Ills length beneath the oak-uee shade. With leafy couch already made, A bed nor comfortless nor new To hint who took hi, rest whene'er The hour :wired. no matter where : is eyes the Inutening slumber steep. And if ye marvel Churls.. forgot To thank his tale. Ire wonder 'd not.— The Lisi , had been an hour asleep. To the Poem are appended " An Ode to Venice" and a prosaic "Fragment," each of which we mean to uouee in a futu►e Paper. 796e1TRIS ROYAL, 11111,71 Y-LASE.. On Situnlae. at two rieloelt.,a Meeting of the Proprie tor: look place in the Grand Se 10.11: it was- expected to have born the last upon the sobject. but Mr. CALCRAFIr lusting been -culled to the Chair, read the Report of the Select C.tinmittee, which slated— That when the Select Committee gave directions to ad vertise the present Meeting they had no anticipation be y nod ,s .I.s , lialge of their rimy, by rendering up to their constdoeiris the power with which they had invested them. and of declaring then failure iii their etrorts to place the Th e ater nure tome on a ground which might justify hope ; irons a meeting of the New Retiters,.however, which took place on Friday. brighter prover:ter had arisen.— those Gentlemen, had not ois;s consented unani ttttttt sly, to give up their arrear of claim, amounting to £16,000, bust lied added the relinquishment of all claims for tour.yeata to come, which to. turd the same sum, making together a sacrifice on the part of the New Renters of !+:2,000; the only boon they a•ked in return fur such liberality was a power to take their Rents alter the expiration of these four years, by levying distress in case of a further defal cation of payment. After 'toying a tribute to this gene rosity on the purl of the New Renters, the Report itated that tile arrangements wills the Bond Hold. us had out been concluded, but that their at:C. 551015 T 4 the propoq lion Width thud been made to them of merit to 101 l of their demands at distant periods, had nut yet tern re ceived, bust was expected : that the Tradesmen of the Theatre haul professed their readiness to join in airy measure for its benefit, and that if the proposed arrange ments could he matured, the concern would at once have the demands upon it reduced from .1.90,922 to .i1e,500.: that in four )calS the New Renters would be its toll re ceipt of their Annuities, and that in 10yea,s a dividend to the Proprietors might be confidently expecteo after (hav ing paid off al the Bond-Holders. After reading the Re polio he Chairman briefly pointed out to hie meeting, that the benefit arising fi um toe redemption of the 'flivatre tiom its present difficulties ought not to be con,islered by the Proprietors as delayed fur ten years, because :bey would receive no dividend during that time, for loom the meat the arrangements were completed and the 'flies tie let, the shares which were now .of only nominal value would become of initinsic worth, and he doubted not they might progressively reach their ostensible price.— After comp( the runcificence of the Mince Re. gent's subset iption, the Chairman sat down, when Roans rose and said. the object of the Misting had been slated by the Chairman with so much precision and perspicuity as to have little to be added by any one else; there were, however, two or tin en points which ap peared to have escaped the Chairman, w hash he should trespass on their time to enfotee. ( Hear, hear.) la the first place, it hail been treated that a new Act of Partin. went might be necessary before any thing comb be legally achieved: the Select Committee had taken an opinion, and were assured that such was not the case, though, sou sequentiv, additional enactments nsight be desirable.— Mr. Robins, then, with much delicacy cad feeling, touched upon the ribd ttttt s of those employed in the Theatie,: which, lie Una, were to such an extent that he would not excite the feelings-of the Meeting by going into the parti culars of.. These palsies were wholly guiltless of the present poverty. of the Concern, for to the Committees, and to then only, were altsibutable all the difficulties, poverty, and disgraces which hail been heaped impost it eve r since thr it unfoi filtrate, arid, he believed, bow ge nerally irgietted appuindnent, " Now," said Mr. R. " e.aetitri Ilion their domination, tinder a Legitimate Ina nageno lit of the Proprietors, Drury-lane may once mote ',tooth, hold tip he r head, nor be forced to shrink !torn comparison with her brilliant rival : but to dirndls all most aid—it trea.e , to become a evocation of ebutee;it locum(' one of necessity, and is neither more nor less as proposed to each Proprietor than whether he wdl possess apiece of waste paper ore good positive vendible ps opts ty." lie wished I. remind die Me ...flog that these subsea iptiuns were tun donations, but inertly wed secured loans, and be looked confidently to the tilling the list of Subscribers to the required amount in the next fourteen days, to which time it was intended to exteiid the labours of the Select Committee. Much must be done before dist Theatre could open—nut only decorations were nulling, but h was wri t -oiled to snake great afire ntions, and lin time was to be lust, as it ought to open or tier lOth of Septendier, to avoid giving an advantage to Covent Garden. Mr. Rubins sat flown solid peal. of applause, alter which . . Mr, P.AIR Y Addressed the Clsgarsisrri, bat was entirely A resolntion was then moved, seconded, and azrecil to nneninteasly, 11141 the rowers of the Select Committee be cor.liiisteil to the 1 7111 Inetant, on which day, at '2 o'clock, onoilart tiettesel Meeting of Proprietors be tit the Theatre. Thanks were then moved lo the Chairman. tt lin retained Ws adman Irdgmento, and the Met tie% broke sap. Belore we left the nuns, the total of the subscription was •C10,22n. JULY lb. We sincerely hope that the future prosperity of the Theatre may be firmly established by the fillinttup the Loan-subscription list, and howeve♦ violently we may have opposed the procradings of the Sitirerminitters throughout, those who know us will credit our assertion, Gila it was ail opposition to the idiocy of their plans, and not oue of milignitv towards au establishment, the Stleetilll of which must lie a matter of anxiety.to ever" one Oi LtSit. I:'iiic; "KI'ION. " At a numerous ;tinting of the late Tenants on the estate of ri 7 Itlarquis and Martilitute,4 Stattind, in the county of Suther land, and their friends. held at the Meildt-ft try-inn, Sutlitr. landshire, on the 14th J ung. 1819 • '•• It was unanimously Resolved,—t. Ttst from the peculiar and hard situation of the •enants, win have been removed front tlenr farms on the estate of Sutherland, they have felt themseln: under the grievous neemity of binning a reradittion to abandoii their native country, and to emigrate to America. " -.?„ That bring in-general destitute of twoey to support them at home, even for a share period, they are compelled to hasten their departure, in•order to save the small remnant of their et.; teas, us enable thent.to encounter the many difficulties and hard ships which they clearly toes ee await them.; and that numbers of thenamill not he able to muster as much money as sill pay. their passarto America. In these eircumetanoes many of the m• will find it impracticable to get a. variety of matters settled unsr ceelent ao their depaitura. For this purpse. and also for the general benefit of their ill-fated brethren. themselves, and their relation: in Sutherland, and in firreign countries, they shall, and. do now. font themselves into a society, to be called the Sullar land 5 , k1 7'rals...lllamiee Frionlly .I,sociatioo." VROM SATURDAY NIGLI7"S GAZETTE. MNKRUPTCY ENLARGED. J. Strafford. Sorooby. Nottingham. from July la, to Aug. U. BA NK RC Pl'C I LS- SUPERSEDED. J. Snow, Swarkestone. Derby, and R. Staunton. Harold, Leicester, Timber merchants. BANKRUPTS. J. Lewis. jun, Manley, Wor:ester, hone deslcr. J. Marshall, York Place, Walworth, merchant. J. Collman, Chelsea, coal.nterehara. J. Phillips, Littleton, Worcester, paper maker. J. Leslie, Lower Thames Street, nurchant. IL J. Reynolds. Peterborough. dealer, K. Fentitnan, Peterborough, haberdasher. J. Mart, Bolton, Lancaster, cotton manufacturer. .1. Smith. Parliament Street, tailor. It. Crombie, Chelsea, victualler. K. Boot, Artillery Place, merchant. G. Southern, Streatham, Surrey. baker, T. IL Hirst, Dean Street, Canterbury Square, oil merchanti W. Lore, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucester, grocer. T. and W. Ile:int...all, Worksop. dealers. T. Waller, Trentham, Satfthrd, potseller. C. Mann, Wakefield, York. grocer. .1. Gandy. Liverpool, merchant. R. Dodd, Oxford Street. engineer DIVIDENDS. July i 4, J. Masters, Dartford, Kent. grocer —W. T. Harman, WiAietich. Cambridge, linendraper-30, J. Johnson, Liverpool, merchant-24, IL Mackey, Manchester, stationer -27, S. Broom and T. 11. 5....0tt, St. Mary at 11111, ineuthants-27. S. White, Turnham Green, Middlesex, victualler-27, S. Smith. Saint artin'. 1.p.0 shoemaker—J6, J. Watson, Brooke. Norfolk. jobber-26, J. Sash, Wotton under Edge, Gloucester, currier— s, T. Tay hyr, OxfortL.grocer-24, W. A. Bragge, Rotherhithe Waa, shipwright -24. W. Hasidim, Clement's iLane, Lombard Street, tea dealer-24. T. Chapman. Littlebury Mills, Essex„ 'mailmen—it, W. Handley. Stretton en le Field. Derby, miller —24. J. Huskies , . NVillow Street, liankside. coal merchant-24. J Ansell, Caryhalton, Surrey, paper maker.-27, J. Tayler. verpoul,,merchant-24, E. Collinyon, ('reeked lane, oil mar— nierchant-24. G. Ar,sell..Carshalton, Surrey. ca:leo printer -24, E. Ehrensumn. Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, merchant -24, B. and.E. Adams, Bucklershard, Southampton, ship builders: —24. J. Reay, Mark Lane. wine merchant-24, M. and M•Donnell and J. Bushell, •Broad Street, merchant... 24, S. Lord. Sutton, Surrey, innleeper-29. W. Burn, Exeter, draper —3l. J. and E. H. Tuckett, Bristol, grocers ...2e, J. 8a1i... Wading Street.straw hat manufacturer. CERTIFICATES to be granted July 24. J. TUbOn. Cannon Street Road, builder—B. - Pierce, Exeter, stone mason—J. Read and J. liellyer, St. Mary Nill. Eastcheap. merchants—W. Clancy, Old Broad Street, provision merchent— T. Turk. Newgzite Market, Lurches—E. W , hitcomb, St. Nichos las. Worcester, baker—J. It. Saxby. Ilawkhurst. Kent, hop merchant—G. A. Cohen, St. Switben's Lane, merchant—J. Whitton, Kingston upon Hull, merchant—B. Fletcher, Burnley, Lancashire, plumber—T. Taylor, Bristol. tobacco dealer—J. Foulerton. Upper Bedford Place, Bloomsbury Square. merchant —F. Election. Berwick Street, Soho. jeweller-s-G. Channe.r, Sutton, Middlesex. merchant--J. Kitehingtnan. Cateston Street. merchant—J. and H. IL Owens, Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgiste Street. merchants. If •torks. Bank Stock Otuntuoi f. V per Cent. 614 limp. 3 per Cent. 3. per Cent Cows. IN India.&dais Os. dia. 4 per Cello. 734 lndia Sum k 4 per (..eut. 83 Exchequer Bills 4s. die. 5 per Cent. Navy Cutts. for Ac. 69i Lung Ann. is 1-I[6 Lottery Tickets £19.186. I;.acue THE. NATIONAL REGISTER. X OribOlT. MONDAY, ICLY 5. DEI.E./F1 OF GLAERAL 1114CGREGOR. " PORT ROYAL, JANIAICA, MAY 19. - - " Porto Bello is retaken, and sloes force destroy. ed. On the Ist of hay.early in the morning, the Spani.lt General. Fiore made a general attack on Polio Bello, anJ succeeded on eel ry ;point, to the utmost extent, without loss, and almost without Opposition ; the whole of M Gn got's people bring killed, wounded, or made prisoners, with the exception of oboist t weir', who, wills M'Gregor, swans naked to the ships iu the olhitg, and escaped." [From the Jamaira Courant of May la.] rlv the arrival of the Sapphire we learn, that a force, consi.ting of from 1,000 to lam men. commanded by Gen. Dore, proceeded from Panama to Porto-llello on the tnth ult. the tile morning of the lst inst. they suddenly assailed the town, while the lardepsndent (erects were in their beds. Cen. grew, with oonsidemble difficulty eseapad out of a window KO fart in height, with nothing on but his Shirt; and Mr the preser vation of his lift proceeded to the beach and plunged into the sea and swam to a schooner, from whence he was coneeval to the brig Hero. During the contest about 100 men were tilled and wounded. and General Lopez and Colonel O'Hara lust their lives, the tomer Won he win out of bed. About 3(0 wok,