The Sun. — London, England, 1822-10-23 00:00:00

THE THEATRES. N utt L . l "- y LINE.—The recovery of MUNDEN en b_r nun last night to resume the part of Old p : rt ford i n The Road to Ruin, which he sup firsted with a ll that judgment and feeling that' o la ,gave Popularity to the character, and we I ,, e ' say to th e C omedy also. Thi s c h aracter, as on ssaiatd, Was admi ra bly p er formed by DOWTON sus urd ay, so that the comedy need not be t t ilen ded for want o f a first-rate Actor.— bo ta s To agai n gave f u ll an i ma ti on t o Young 1) 4 7.71146 ; and Pa u l an d Virginia amply contri ced to th e pleasure of the audience. ZI, ° 7 LENT•GA RDEN .—Th e pl easan t Comedy of to t - b " ° 7 zder last night introduced Miss CHESTER s h e " Public in the part of Violante, in which tr es dis Played the powers of a very skilful Ac tites."---She will now rank among the chief favou fro,",f the audience.—ln all the anxieties arising v i C k t ae jealousy of Felix,all the resentful feeling sl ie ‘ c ,", it excited, and all the sportive sallies which to il rected towards him, she manifested a just `iva s e ,,i )t ioa of the character, and her deportment 'war m arked by spirit, ease, and grace. She was C. c i - 1 applauded.—The Don Felix of Mr. lI Q nz BLE is well-known and justly admired. ler `vas last night fully equal to himself, and de dur!,edlY received warm and repeated applause .i i n g the Whol e o f hi s p er f or mance. The rest The ch aracters call for no particular notice. ti iitl e " tl ew splendid me ve lodrarne of Ali Pashaw con to be attracti. THE MERMAID. inktOlerrnaid, if we are to place implicit credit exbi h e : Present appearance of the figure, is now th e 7 t ing in St. James's-street. The head is Ititb stz , e of a baboon's, and is thinly coverred s i ` r °ng black hair ; the nose bears a closer the ,"lante to the human form, so likewise do 3r e C .") lips, fingers, nails, and teeth, which th e L ' 4ll and perfect. The resemblance to b r man form cea s e s immediately under the L o e- : st s, and beneath them are placed two x r izont a i f i ns ; then comes the Mermaid's tail, e f ac t t lY that of the salmon species—this part body is quite scaly, and furnished tatt i l oi Sll fills. The height of the animal is dri 'flore than two feet; it is shrivelled and tic:4 V like a mummy, and the mode of preserva if i iB t on that account not so well calculated as ad been kept in spirits to satisfy by the te rt , - ." c i e of external appearances. There . is °E . P L Y no perceptible addition or juncture cept.lscordant parts for any purpose of de tine 4 ; and undoubtedly if there be any get fors'ailiP in the figure, it is not of recent date, la 1 . ," e whole appearance of the surface is worn, dri':rts worm-eaten, and exactly that of a bea r s ' and long shrivelled mummy. The head troa l s " proportion to the rest of the body : of 0, t he deep furrows and collapsed appearance fl es b' e muscles, the cheeks must have been very degree the s ame o b servat i on, b ut not i n an equa l li7 a 7 v , applies to th e b reasts. Th ere i s on l y one or 4 th e ' r effectually demonstrating the real character tha t a nimal, and that is by dissection ;.bow far ' L est or ?„ be accomplish e d c o nsistently with the u itioCrn of the figure for the purpose of exbi t° sp 5 e "other question. It is for anatomists is 'otly a- s„ o Por t the internal appearances of the 411 4:G s :" formation of the back-bone is palpable a ppear e : 4 Thies that of the human figure. There a sif th a peculiarity about the shoulders, and so r e i nsertion were in the manner of a ball we and not like the human scapula; but 1) tete repeats dissection can alone furnish a com bat b -14.1 s atisfactory solution of a subject which lectu r e : ll s ° long deemed the theme of idle con !?riet~omor °l' f abulous invention. The present pro ':tis said, obtained the animal in Batavia 'Llas e t d - i ‘ - 'aptain of a Dutch vessel, who had pur. eoad. ' t in China—it was then in its presen }l ave Sl'Lltwix, the comedian, who is said to I) 3' t l s :,just a co ncep ti on o f th e c h arac t er s played tta tldJ ,' la te Mr. E MERY, i s engage d ( we under °l) th e a t Drury - l ane. H e h as never a pp eare d r kD "ndon board s.—(Morning Paper.) l'N't *M i t TilEws.—Mr. INIATHEws is engaged heto ttill orr o se _ en L v nights at Baltimore, where s l ettb rna tke his first appearance'this evening ( York A kr * 0 ' ll ll • `-'4ARLEs DIBDIN has taken ASTLEY'S MiThitheatre for the winter. 0 tit t ,, **.lhe eath it B AGGs.—(From an American Paper.) m '4ll t 4 t the o f this Gentleman was occasioned by a cold ' f gt. James, when he and many 414114ter° er e r h ind e r wt e l I tir eb(ifi. his s' 01: -rere carried ;le ° r u e se b o y Justice Hyde, from the gaming Lieutenant. pan he obtained, George Robert my As soon as he got the rank of l'ette v s4 ever aft up9n half-pay, and devoting himself to deep co l , lti eratce beyond er, h e tA ll4 4l ll t. ° t 'et out example.. pursued it with an eagerness and When he was so ill that he h he has been brought to the at tisevi--hite whi e t n o : ' he hi r s at e tlL a n i g r, of the dice seemed suddenly ti. Vaztt4"`B,_• He once was winner of seven thousand pounds l‘'lls. 1i °Y "throwing on," as it is called, 11 c A le ll • e went to the East Indies in 1700, on a gaming su sPecii- Alt o' bot! not 4 1,,. tr it i finding it answer, he returned home Over-land . , kieliti g h ;air° he narrowly escaped death by retreating in el 'lent ur ess to Smyrna A companion of his was . seiz o e , d 4,l. rii .ea k se cf bt ris° ,, n er to COnstaiitino , ple, w . here he was at ten b tn 34_assacro...ine interference of Sir R. Ainsley, the English the 44 ag o % He won six thousand pounds of Mr. 0. some tit' Zetiev / f t : 8 1 3 a and immediately came to England to get ,ette,cortizo. od..z o LOrd 0., the father of the young ma*. _T r en r i e is . 14 ,1 413 r 1 / 1 , 1. • • lithwere ropos? b his Lordship, p 4 1: 1- a e ti a L Well b. - Wnole to kno e w b u a . nker, r ly co o y respectablility and conse- Lo d 1 ! c offered him 1,000 guineas 4,, t td il l : efiband for the remainer at a distant period.. Baggs "'' then obs be pawl' down. , Some altercation ensued. 441tiery3roth.11abdsonleervted' h t at " , h , e s t i h n o u ni„lit his Lordship had offer h (said Baggs in a passion), W'ith,At°llgue, the laws of commerce you may be aquailit.t,; t e ire h he ' f it the laws of honour you know nothing about." itt t : bat vitught Fitzgerald he was wounded in the le g, i e ,, hie " e ll down he returned the fire, which struck the 16444 hear 4 0 1 1.4, .onist, and made him lame . ever after. He never tt liti- Winin g lin zgerld's unhappy fate without visible delight, k n." 41 )., Yb horribly a bastl smile." He is supposed have g li° ft s 414 la ab out 40 pe g • !Atone time of his life was worth d l i - 4110,,olvilei",Mti• sterling. n . s He had . fought eleven duels ; an gt era,,! 4 detpZ.Ue very skilful with the . sword. He was a 4 3te.. -n lre ; a',,., i ned Inind, great penetration, and considerable ° 'l3le. sand when play was out of the case, could be an Deo ) and • tlectete Wh o Instructive companion. He was very generous agoheutrin.he liked ; and a certain . naval Lord, highly re ti Zetsik l l'ofo und rather a distressed situation at Paris, some e t i i te ri ll:v7 ec r a a t ne er-failing resource in the purse of th Pa;is several years in the greatest splendour. inau Ztlehtete gentle was terrible, though his appearance and itih " /' I ''' "111111 :Ike. While he lived at Avignon he fre the,T.tlrhave splendid pp sto the Duke and Duchess of V t4P 4l O, 7a-,,,,a11a their frie u riirs er Be went to Naples at the time "91e1—`1 Ot i ntroduced . to the King's private parties of t.sg t ig to have Won 1,500/. 1 E• as yesterd': se :' Oct. /9. ffice, . 0 _ o aissi Delefeteo ps, r !ry savagi e : i pc o f the D' e " ee 4 :ion f th e 1" ;cer jAf ned Ti jy ships 1181e 1, 0 1: that the //' g 1. 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Earl Spencer, at his house in St. James's-place, froth his s - at, Althorpe, Northamptonshire ; Viscount and Viscountess Cran borne, from their father's (the Marquis of Salisbury) seat, Hat field; Sir Henry and Lady Georgina Wellesley, at their house in Bolton-street, from the Marquis of Salisbury's seat, Hat field ; Captain Cloete, at Warren's Hotel, from the Cape of Good Hope ; Mr. and Lady Mary Singleton, at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from their seat in Surrey ; Captain Rich, R.N., at ditto, from his seat in Berks ; Miss Sydney, at Nerot's Hotel, from Norfolk ; Mrs. and the Misses Willoughby, at ditto ; Colonel and Mrs. Searl and family, at ditto. DEPARTURES.—The Earl and Countess of Pembroke and family, for Wilton-house, Wilts ; Colonel and Mrs. Campbell, from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for Kent ; the Hon. Mr. Vane, for Oxford ; Chas. Marjoribanks, Esq. from the Water loo Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Cheltenham ; Sir Thomas and Lady Farquhar, for Roehampton ; the Misses Protheroe, from Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-street, on a tour; Mr. and Mrs. Champion, from ditto, for Sussex ; Lord Charles Fitzroy, for Suffolk. CHANGES.—EarI and Countess of Arran, from Brighton, for their seat, Bognor, Sussex ; Lord and Lady Selsey, on a visit to Lord Boston, at his seat, Hedson Lodge, Berks, from a tour ; Lord Foley, from Newmarket, on a tour ; Sir G. and Lady Nugent, from their seat near Aylesbury, for Stowe, on a visit to the Duke of Buckingham. On Tuesday, was christened at Dean House, by the name of Peorgina Augusta Frederica, the infant daughter of Major- General Sir Thomas Bradford. His Majesty was graciously pleased to be Godfathr:r upon this accasion, and was represent ed by Admiral Sir John Beresford. After the ceremony, which was performed by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Sandiford, the company partook of an elegant dejune, during which, the band of the Scots Greys, after playing " God save the King," executed several martial airs in their best style.—(Edinburgh Courant, Oct. 17.) GARRICK'S HOUSE IN THE ADELPHI. The buildings, termed the Adelphi, form an extensive and and noble assemblage of streets, planned by the well-knwn fraternal architects the Messrs. Adams. The prindipal range of domestic structures in the Adelphi faces the river Thames, and consists of dwellings which are at once convenient and orna mental; are retired, and yet easy of access, from the chief marts of business and pleasure. One of the central of these eligible houses was purchased by Garrick about the year 1771, and was ever after inhabited by' him as a town residence. By his will he bequeathed it to his widow for her life. His house, says Davies, was a rendezvous for excellence of every kind; " for lights of the church and guardians of the laws; for the learned, the elegant, the polite, and the accomplished in all arts and sciences." The buildings, al. though commodious rather than large and superb, was deco rated by him in a style of elegance becoming the rank and fine taste of his visitors. One of the ceilings is adorned with a representation of Venus attired by the Graces, from the pencil of Zucchi ; and, in the same apartment, is a chimney-piece, finely sculptured, which is said to have cost 300/. His collection of books and pictures were very valua ble, and many of these remain nearly in the same state as when he inhabited the mansion. The libraries here and at Hampton, notwithstanding his bequests to the British Mu seum, Mrs. Garrick, and his nephew Carrington Garrick, are stored with good and useful books ; many of which are enrich ed with autographic and manuscript notes, by the wits and dis tinguished writers of the day. These will prove a source of the greatest attraction to Biblio',naniacs when they shall be put up to auction, which they assuredly will, he having in his will ex pressly directed that they should be so disposed of after Mrs. G.'s decease. A topographical joke of Garrick, respecting these premises, is recorded in the European Magazine. " When he first took his house in the Adelphi, he was one morning speaking to a gentleman respecting its situation and conveniences. But," said the gentleman, " although the house is elegant, there is not, I believe, any yard behind it ?" " No," returned Gar rick. " there is not absolutely a yard, but, I think, the space behind is thirty-five inches !" It was here that Garrick experienced the felicity of compe tence ; here that he received men of genius, and persons of elevated rank; and it was within these walls that he lan guished under the pressure of an irremediable malady ; it was in this house that he died on the 20th January, 1779. On Monday, the Ist of February, his remains were attended to the Abbey Church of Wesminster by a long extended train of friends, " who truly mourned," says Cumberland, " a man so perfect in his art, that nature bath not yet produced an actor worthy to be called his second. I saw old Samuel Johnson standing beside his grave at the foot of Shakspeare's monument, bathed in tears." The expenses of Mr. Garrick's funeral, one of the most splendid ever seen in this country, were, it is said, never paid. The undertaker was ruined by the job, and died a beggar. The acting executor. Mr. Al bany Wallis, was always tardy in paying Garrick's debts. Mrs. Garrick has often been reproached for tier want of respect to the memory' of her husband, in not erecting a monument to his fame in Westminster Abbey, which was afterwards done by Mr. Wallis. The fact is, she had not the means, and be sides, she always thought Garrick belonged to the public.— (Morning Herald.) HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. MEETINGS OF HOUNDS IN THE PRESENT WEEK. The Chester Harriers, on Friday, at Little Saughhall. The Macclesfield Harriers, on Friday, at Swanscoe. Earl Fitzwilliam's Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at Edlington. The Earl of ll4rewood's Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Byram. The York and Ainsty Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Red House Wood. The Sinnington Fox-bounds, on Friday, at Lingmoor. The Roxby and Cleveland Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Hazel Grove. The Boroughhridge Harriers, on Friday, at Great Ouseburn. Sir M. M. Sykes's Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Dalby Bush. MRS. GARRICK.—This venerable Lady, it seems, visited Westminster Abbey about a month ago, and, addressing the Clergyman who attended her, she said, " I suppose there is not room enough for me to be laid by the side of my dear DAVID." The Clergyman assured her that there would be room enough. She then said, " I wish to know, not that I think I am likely soon to require it, for I am yet a mere girl, but only for the satisfaction of my feelings against the time when I must submit to the will of Heaven." PUBLIC BUILDINGS.-For a number of years so many Government buildings have not been known to be erecting or under repair as at present. Windsor Castle, Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Park, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and a new Mews at the back thereof ; St. -Ames's Palace ; Pavilion, Brighton ; new Courts of Law, Royal Entrance, House of Lords, and many other public buildings, which undoubtedly occasions many workmen to be employed, and will likewise engage them the whole, or most of the winter. Died on the 4th current, at Grahamston, by Glasgow, War. GORDON, aged ninety-seven, who was buried on Thursday following in the Anderston burying-ground. This singular individual, who had for ten years past worn the same coat, patched and mended, and who is said for seven years never to have used soap in washing himself, left behind him an immense quantity of keys, old and new highly burnished; a hatful of pins ; fifteen large screws ; from 90 to. 100 ham mers, adzes, and gimblets ; a great quantity a bottles and jars ; and, what may appear most singular, a roomful of hoy's tops, peeries, whips, &c. His collection of sticks is curious.— These, with gold and silver watches, are in the possession of his executor. For many years he wore a polished key on his thumb, and a gold watch in one pocket, and a silver one In the other.—( Glasgow C'ourier.) • • rs /1 - t;` ' 4 • 141 • ' .. 7 , 4T01 400 • ' le° •-tz- s ‘ cz., ..„ 1 V‘ t OE c? 3(l' • POETRY. PALMYRA :—A POEM, Which obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the late Cambridge Commencement, 1822. By J ()RN HENRY BRIGHT, St. John's College. __,......_ TIME, like a mighty river, deep and strong, In sullen silence rolls his tide along ; And all that now upborne upon the wave Ride swiftly on—the monarch and the slave, Shall sink at last beneath the whelming stream, And all that once was life become a dream! Go—look on Greece ! her glories long have fled, Her ancient spirit slumbers with the dead; Deaf to the call of freedom and of fame Her sons are Greeks in nothing but the name !* On Tiber's banks beneath their native sky The sad remains of Roman greatness lie; No longer there the lisening crowds admire The swelling tones of Virgil's epic lyre. Nor conq'ring Cwsar holds resistless sway O'er realms extended to the rising day. Yet still to these shall fancy fondly turn; Still bid the laurel bloom on Maro's urn ; From Brutus' dagger sweep the gath'ring rust, And call his spirit from it's aged dust ; What tho' each busy scene has ceas'd to live, It has the charms poetic numbers give ; And ever fresh asages roll along, Revives and brightens in the light of song— At summer eve when every sound is still, And day-light fades upon the western hill, And o'er the blue unfathomable way Heav'n's starry host in cloudless beauty stray ; What holy joys enamour'd fancy feels As all the past upon the mem'ry steals ! How soft the tints, how pensive, how sublime, Each image borrows from the touch of time ! Such winning grace the beauteous vision wears Seen through the twilight of a thousand years ! Then welcome thou, the subject of my song, Since to the past such heav'nly charms belong ; Won by the scenes, from all that now appears My Muse shall turn, and dream of other years Turn from the sad realities of fate, The past revive, the present uncreate, And from thy modern learn thine ancient state. What boundless charms thy lovely features grace, O thou the mother of the human race, Majestic Asia! to the straining eye Ten thousand prospects far extended lie ; Thine ample plains with varied beauty please, Once the bright seats of opulence and ease; Thy mountain-heights with striking grandeur rise, Veiled in dark clouds or lost in amber skies, While bursting floods from, thund'ring caverns pour Their foaming tides with loud and angry roar ; Then lost in distance l ave th e sunn y plains IVhere beauty smiles, and peaceful pleasure reigns. Full in the centre, tow'ring through the storm, See cloudy Taurus lift his rugged form, Monarch of mountains ! nature's awful throne, Where grandeur frowns in terrors all his own; Deep-rooted there unnumber'd cedars throw Their giant shadows on the plains below; There loudly gushing from the mountain's side Euphrates rolls his dark and rapid tide, Then tar beneath glides silently away Through groves of p a l m an d champaigns everigay. But as these scenes of sunny calm delight Recede at length and v a ni s h f rom th e sight, What barren solitudes of scorching sand Deform and desolate the fainting land ! No fresh'ning breeze revives the lifeless air, No living waters sweetly murmur there, Dry fevers kindle pestilential tires All nature droops, and with'ring life expires ! But deep embosoin'd in that sandy plain, Like distant isles emerging from the main, A radiant spot with loveliest beauty crown'd Once blouni'd in contrast with the scenes around, By nature's lavish hand profusely grac'd, The blessed Eden of the joyless waste. On ev'ry side luxuriant palm-trees grew, And hence it's name the rising city drew, And tho' their loveliness has pass'd away, The name still lives, and triumphs o'er decay. Two shelt'ring hills precipitously swell On either hand, and form a narrow dell : Thence to the east ? with undulating bend, Wide and more wide their spreading arms extend, Then sink at last with slow retiring sweep, Like distant head-lands sloping to the deep.— Outstretcht within upon the silent plains Lies the sad wreck of Tadmor's last remains, Outliving still through each succeeding age The tempest's fury, and the bigot's rage. He wants no written record who surveys But one short hour this scene of other days. These mould'ring piles that sink in slow decay, In stronger characters the tale convey, Than e'er were trac'd by man's divinest art, These speak in simple language to the heart. Far to the south what scenes of ruin lie, What sad confusion opens on the eye ! There shatter'd columns swell, a giant train, Line after line along the crowded plain, 'The loosen'd arch, the roofless colonnade Where mil-day crowds iinbib'd the cooling shade. "Pis sweet at eve to climb some rocky steep Around whose base the peaceful billows sleep, And view a summer's sun sink down to rest Behind the mountains of the gorgeous west, One maze of dazzling glory ; while below The ocean-waves with trembling radiance glow. But sweeter far at ev'ning's solemn hour From the dun battlements of yon rude tow'r To see his parting splendours sadly blaze Around this grave of long-forgotten days ! Mark those bright beams ! how mourntblly they shine Through the still courts of yon deserted shrine, The sun's proud temple once, whose aged piles Still fondly catch his first and latest smiles ! Here Desolation cease—thy task is done Palmyra yields--thy triumph is begun. O'er prostrate sculpture raise thy giant throne, Build here at length an empire all thine own. Swept by the might of thy destroying arm Her noblest work is reft of ev'ry charm, Save that alone whose transitory gleam Gilds the soft scenes of Fancy's pictur'd dream. At her command from dark oblivion's gloom Past scenes return and brighter shapes assume ; Things that have ceas'd to be she moulds anew And pours her own creation on the view ; In rapid train her fleeting visions rise, As lights that gleam in Hyperborean skies, E'en as she dwells on this deserted fane It's pomp revives, it's glories live again ; The victim bleeds, the golden altars blaze, Symphonious voices swell the note of praise; Hark ! what loud tumult rends the echoing skies ? " Awake--awake, lead up the sacrifice ; " The hour is come—the dim nocturnal fires " Are fading in the blue—lo, night expires ! " The morning star with pale and dewy ray " Proclaims the triumph of the King of Day. " Awake—away—ye slumb'ring crowds; arise, " Come forth, and join the pomp of sacrifice." And 10, he comes ! triumphant in his might One blazing orb of unexhausted light. Ten thousand glories all around him wait, His ever-flaming Ministers of State; ' This elegant and animated Poem was obviously written before the present race of Greeks had so nobly endeavoured to throw off the chains of Turkish Despotism, and risen in a cause which the civilized world must anxiously hope to see finally rewarded with triumphant success. We sincerely re gret, that we had not an e a rlier opportunity of`mating this beautiful and interesting effusion of taste, learning, and genius. Reading this admirable Poem, we cannot but tkel . surprize, that the nam e of th e A u th or has not arisen high4r.tliari that of many modern Bards, who have attained an eXtraeaixiary share of extraordinary popularity. Ten thousand nations hail him with delight Bath'd in the golden tide of ever-flowing light. Hark ! as he rises o'er the middle way Thron'd in the fulness of unclouded day, What sounds of joy, what echoing clamours rise Peal after peal, and rattle in the skies ! " Give way, ye crowds—unbar the gates of brass— " Give way, ye crowds, and let the triumph pass." So when around some bold and rocky shore Old Ocean beats with unrelenting roar ; Onward, and onward roll the length'ning waves, Then swelling dash upon the yawning caves, Far, far away the cavern'd cliffs resound, And mountain-echoes thunder back the sound.— The day moves on ;—as ev'ning shades advance Some weave the song, while others lead the dance; From hill and vale resounding through the sky Breaks the full chorus of harmonious joy. Those thrilling notes ! they seem to linger still— Then sweetly die away o'er yon deserted hill ! It could not be ! those accents long have fled, • Joy, feeling, language dwell not with the dead, Here undisturb'd upon the voiceless plains The long dull calm of desolation reigns. Here ruin builds her adamantine throne, And silence slumbers on each mould'ring stone. Where once the hum of thronging nations rose, No sound disturbs the solemn deep repose, Save the lone Arab idly passing by With reckless soul and unregarding eye; Save when at intervals sonic falling block Sinks on the plain with harsh-resounding shock, The slumb'ring desart feels the hollow sound And startled echoes answer all around. _ Is this the scene, so desolate and wild, Where noblest arts in bright perfection smil'd ! Where Commerce emptied all her richest stores The nameless treasures of a thousand shores? Is this the scene where Freedom's purest flame Led toiling nations in the path of fame ? Their strife has ceas'd, their noise has died away, Their very tombs are sinking in decay : The sculptur'd monument, the marble butt Descend and mingle with their native dust ; No half-disfigured line remains to tell How much lamented merit liv'd and felt! Once lovely scene ! along thy mould'ring piles Though ruin frowns, yet beauty sadly smiles ; Some rays of former glory linger yet In twilight radiance, though thy sun is set ! But say, 0 say, who rightly may disclose From what first cause thine infant greatness rose ; Who first begun, by what contrivance plac'd These splendid piles amid a desart waste ? One little stream, around whose bubbling head Umbrageous palms refreshing coolness shed, First gave thd cause from which their glory came, Palmyra's strength, magnificence, and fame. A thousand tribes by distant commerce led Soon pour'd their treasures round that fountain-head, Pass'd and repass'd through all the sandy plain From broad Euphrates to the western main,— The rising mart to strength and splendour came Tho' small at first, and grew a mighty name. Thence o'er the Roman world with swelling sail Proud commerce sprung before the fresh'ning gale, And Tyrian ships to ev'ry port convey'd The boundless treasures of Assyrian trade. E'en Rome herself at sight of Eastern gold Forget the lessons taught her sons of old - Plung'd in the gulph of ostentatious pride She deeply drank th' intoxicating tide ; Through ev'ry nerve the vital poison ran, And 'Goths achiev'd, what luxury began. Thou Eden of the desert ! lovely smil'd Thy matchless beauty o'er the lonely wild ; 'Mid barren solitudes securely plac'd, Thy native bulwark the surrounding waste, Tho' loud and harsh the tumult roar'd without Of Rome triumphant and the Parthian rout, Peace o'er thy plains her downy pinions spread, And twin'd the olive for thy blooming head ; Taste, learning, genius, triumph'd in her reign, And guardian Freedom bless'd the sister train. Thrice glorious Freedom ! on whose hallow'd shrine Burns ever bright the patriot flame divine ! She, great preceptress, warm with li. av'nly fire, Bade thy free sons to worthiest hopes aspire, Live unsubdued, and equally disdain To wear the victor's as the despot's chain. Such were the souls that o'er the proud array Of banner'd Persia scatter'd wild dismay. Far in the East with loud redoubled roll The tumult burst upon the tyrant's soul. Confusion seiz'd his host, and pallid fright Mark'd with disgrace his ignominious flight. Then, lovely city, what rejoicing roves, What songs of triumph from thy palmy groves— What altar's blaz'd—what clouds of incense roll'd Their rich perfume around thy shrines of gold-- What bursts of rapture echoed from the throng As the proud triumph slowly moved along ! ! Such was thy glory once ! a transient gleam Of brightest sunshine—a delusive dream ! Most like the pageant of thy festal day It charmed a little while ; then pass'd away ! Or like those varying tints of living light That gild at eve the portals of the night ; Alps pil'd on Alps, a glorious prospect rise Ten thouiand phantoms skirt the glowing skies, But as we gaze the splendid vision fades, Lost in the gloom of night's obscurer shades— () doom'd to fall ! while yet indulgent fate A few bright years prolongs thy fleeting date, Thy name shall triumph, and thy laurels bloom Ere yet they languish in sepulchral gloom. And as the breathless pause that oft portends The rising tempest, ere the storm descends, Thus at the close shall glory's loveliest light Gild the dark clouds of thine approaching night. For tho' the beams of truth's historic page But faintly gleam through each successive age ; Though her recording annals briefly tell How Tadnior rose, by what disaster fell, One name at least survives the wreck of time From a g e to age extends, from clime to clime. Oh if departed glory claims a tear Let mem'ry pause and kindly drop it here ! If fond reflection ever loves to dwell On those last scenes where royal greatness fell, Thy reign, Zenobia, and thy deathless name Shall live emblazon'd on the roll of fame ! Adorn the poet's most romantic dream, • Fire all his soul, and be his moral theme ! At length drew nigh th' inexorable hour Charg'd with the stroke of Rome's destroying pow'r; In dread array along the Syrian coast Mov'd the full strength of her invading host, Wide o'er the champaign, like a baleful star, Blaz'd the proud standard of imperial war ; Perch'd on the top the bird of conquest shone With glittering wings expanded to the Sun. Yet all undaunted stood the warrior-queen Foremost and bravest in the battle-scene. Quick at her word fast binding man with man. Through ev'ry rank electric vigour ran. Not such the valour of the beauteous maid Whose conq'ring steel proud Ilion's fate delay'd ; Not such in arms the virgin warriors shone Who drank thy waters limpid Thermodon ! Fair idol of the virtuous and the brave Great were thine efforts—but they could not save ! Twice on the plain the dubious conflict burn'd, Twice to the charge' the struggling hosts return'd, Till at the close where open valour fail'd Art won the day, and stratagem prevailed. Thus the proud seat of science and of arms, In the full promise of her rip'ning charms, Palmyra fell :—art, glory, freedom shed Their dying splendours round her sinking head. Where was Zenobia then ?—what inward pow'r Rul'd all her spirit in that awful hour? Could Rome, tithe Rome the fire of valour tame Shake the firm soul, or quench the patriot-flame ? Say, when destruction black'ning all the air Let loose the vulture-demons of despair, When Rome and havock swept the sadd'ning plain, And Tadmor fell, when valour toil'd in vain, Did she not then the gath'ring tempest brave, And with her country share one common grave ? Oh sad reverse ! what future fate befel The captive queen—let deepest silence tell ! ! Ye who the faults of others mildly scan, Who know perfection was not made for man, In pity pause-0 be not too severe, But o'er Zenobia's wgakness drop a tear. Turn from the scene of her disastrous fate, The wrongs that mark'd her last embitter'd state, Anti see Longinus in his dying hour Spurn the fierce Roman, and defy his pow'r. In vain the tyrant roll'd his redd'ning eye It aw'd not him Who trembled not to die. To his sad friends he breath'd a last farewell, And Freedom triumph'd as her martyr fell. His daring soul in death serenely great Smil'd on the scene and glory'd in her fate, Spread her glad wings, and steer'd her flight sublime Beyond the storms of nature and of time. THE ARMY. MILITARY RECORD OE LIEUTENANT -GENERAL WILLIAM T. LEGER. Late Lieut.-Colonel of the 24th Dragoon:. This Officer entered the service in 1775, at the age of 16, and sailed soon after in the Triton frigate, for Boston, which, after encountering very tempestuous weather for several weeks, and losing 40 seamen, by a putrid fever, was obliged to put back, with the loss of all her masts, to Plymouth. He sailed a second time in 1776, for America, joined the 17th Light Dragoons as Cornet,. and served with his regiment t he five following campaigns, under the commanl of Sir IV. Howe and Sir H. Clinton. After serving in the expedition to Danbury, in New Eng land, under the command of Major-General Tyron and Sir W. Erskine, whose joint approbation he received ; having re peatedly charged the enemy with the small detachment which, as Cornet, he commanded,--he obtained, by purchase, on 13th April, 1779, a Lieutenantcy in the 17th Light Dragoons. He was promoted, in 1780, to a Company in the 86th (or Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot, and proceeded im mediately to join his Regiment in the West Indies, where he remained for three years. When peace with France was con cluded, he then returned to England, and purchased a Troop in his former Regiment, the 17th Light Dragoons. Captain St. Leger purchased, in 1789, a Majority in the 6th Dragoon Guards, which had been so converted from one of the Regiments of Horse then in Ireland. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 93d (Highland) Regiment in 1793; and, in 1794, the Earl of Westmoreland, then Lord lieutenant of Ireland, who had witnessed the exer tions of Major St. Leger with the 6th Dragoon Guards, granted him a letter of service, under which he raised a Dragoon Regi ment (the late 31st), in little more than three months, without levy money; and, on the reduction of that Regiment, he was appointed to the) Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 2,th (now 24th) Light Dragoons, which he joined eight maths after, in the East Indies. The public records in that country speak highly of his ser vices, particularly under the command of the late Lord Lake, where he commanded the British and Native Cavalry for a con siderable length of time—in the affairs of Coel and Allyghur, and at the taking of Agra. After the battle of Delhi, Colonel St. Leger received the particular thanks, in public orders, of the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Lake, in consequence of having repeatedly charged the enemy at the head of his own brigade, and lost in killed and wounded 100 men, and 200 horses.— The loss, however, of the enemy by our cavalry was very con siderable. Colonel St. Leger commanded the cavalry at the sieges of Sarsney, Cachoura, and Bidgaghur and remained in the coni mand of it till his ret urn t o England in 1804. He was appointed a Major-General on the 25th September, 1803, and placed on the Staff in this country in 1804. In 1307 he returned to India, where he also served on the Staff as Major-General, and remained in that situation till his return to Europe in 1811 as Lieutenant-General (which Com mission was dated 25th Oct:. 1809), having commanded the army in the field during the time of his stay, and the army of Ben gal for ten months, during the absence of the Commander-in- Chief. He died in 1818. The Ist division of the 26th (Cameronian) Re giment of Foot, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel H. Og lander, arrived on the 17th instant at the Cove of Cork, on board the Success transport, from Gibraltar. The 43d (or Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot, General J. F. Lord Howden, G. C. B. and K.C. Colonel, sailed lately from Cork for Gibraltar, for the purpose of relieving the 26th Regiment. The Zephyr transport has been ordered to convey the DepOt of the 26th Regiment from Cowes to C or k, an d t o b r i ng back the DepOt of the 43d Regiment from Cork to the Isle of Wight. _ _ _ Asquadron of the Ist Regiment of Life Guards will arrive to-day at Brighton, from Windsor, from which latter place it marched on Monday last, the 21st instant. Two squadrons and the Head-quarters of the 3d Light Dra goons will arrive to-day and to-morrow, at Chichester Barracks from Brighton. The above two squadrons will be replaced at Brighton by two squadrons of the Ist Regiment of Life Guards. One troop of the 14th Light Dragoons arrived at Coventry from Loughborough, on Saturday last, the 19th instant. Commissions in the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Leicester. Cornet John Sherrard Coleman, to be Lieutenant. Edward Basil Farnham, Gent. to be Cornet. MERCANTILE SRI PPING. DEAL, OCT. 2.2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the River the St. Vincent, Gilperson, from Demerara ; Ilindostan, Williamson, from Madras ; Grenville Bay, Williams, Quebec; Bull-dog. Graham, New Orleans; Two Brothers, Woodcott, from Lisbon. Came down from the River the Wil liam Parker, Brown, for Trieste ; Albion, Colville, for. Corfu, and remain with the outward-bound. . PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 22.—Wind Southerly.—Arrived the Comely, Gray, from Dundee for New Orleans ; Brothers, M'Ewen, from the Downs for Demerara. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Stock holm, Cholor, from London for Cadiz, wind-bound. FALMOUTH, OCT. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Wood ford, Chapman, from London for Madras and Bengal; Manly, Sayers, from ditto for St. Vincent's ; and Lady Mary Pelham. Packet, from the Brazils--sailed from Rio the 20th August, Bahia the 30th, and Pernambuco the 7th September. Put back the Marquis of Queensberry Packet, for Jamaica, under jury masts, having, when off Cape Finisterre, the 16th instant, carried away her bowsprit, fore-mast, main-mast head, top mast, &c. in a heavy gale from N.W. The Lady Mary Pelham boarded a wreck laden with timber in lat. 33. 6. long. 37. 31., with United Kingdom, of St. John's, N.B. on her stern. The Hon. Company's ship Ganges, Chivers, from Bengal, has arrived off Hastings--sailed abdut 20th April. The Hope, Harvey, from Youghall to Portimouth, corn laden, was abandoned the 19th instant off St. Ives, being water logged. The Britannia, Barclay, from Clyde to Newfoundland, was towed into Cork the 18th instant, dismasted, and all her cargo thrown overboard. CORN EXCHANGE, OCT. 22. There was not much Wheat or Barley fresh up for this day's market; but the quantity of Oats left over from Monday's market is considerable. Prime samples of Wheat fully sup ported last market-day's prices. Barley maintains its value. Beans and Peas remain unaltered in price. Oats are heavy at Monday's prices. Importations—Wheat, 4,00; Barley, 3,100 ; Oats, 10,500; Flour. 4,200; Irish Oats, 450. HOP INTELLIGENCE. SOUTHWARK, OCT. 21.—We have no variation in our Market this week, except in Middle Kent Bags, and those may be bought on lower terms, unless they are of the very first rat , : quality and management. Weald of Kent Bags are l arucu larly difficult to sell. ROBBERY.—On Sunday morning last an ex tensive robbery was committed in the house of R. Horsley, Esq., No. 26, Connaught-terrace, Edgware-road. The roc - bers succeeded in carrying off twenty-four silver forks, silver spoons of different descriptions, a silver snuff-box with crystal top, many other articles of plate, some gold watches, and some hankerchiefs, and 31. in money. The villains in their retreat left behind them a 30s. Cork Bank note. One evening this week, as a Gentleman was passing a close in the High-street, a fellow rushed out and at tempted to take his hat and watch, which he resisted. In the struggle, the fellow, whilst endeavouring to get his hand in the Gentleman's neckcloth, thrust his fingers into his mouth, where they were firmly held till the Police arrived, The case was heard at the Police-office, but dismissed fur want of sufficient evidence.—( Caledonian Mercury.) The recent heavy winds and rain caused some damage in the interior of the country. There are now lying in the Bird-cage-walk, St. James's Park, five trees blown down by the wind. On Saturday the Thames was very rough ; the oldest watermen did not recollect any such storm. At Hungerford-stairs the floods and over-swoln drains rushed to those stairs with terrific fury,and broke down a portion of the caw e way. At Battersea, and in that direction, the like severe storms and gales were experienced. The windmills could not be stopped. Few boats ventured on the Thames. A stack of chimnies fell down in the neighbourhood of " The Ddchess of York," Battersea-fields ; fortunately no per son was near.