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THE SUN REVIEW. (No. xxxv/r.) LIRA, a Tale; pp. 93.--JACQUELINE, a Tale; pp. 31,- 3. MURRAY, Byo. trice 7s. Gd. [COtinacd from Tin. Sus of Yesterday.] ; NOTICE. [We thank " A Corrector" for his pdrtive assurance that tiara is the erffsprin !Arid tkitoss ling-richlen Muse, and Jacquelhic the puny bantling of Mr. Ronea's coy - tress. We believe he is tigkt cannot depart' from our own mode of treating, the Subject, adopted from a de termination to reuiew ,Lara which we could not hare done, had we considered it as the production of a liritish Peer, who labours under the imputation of being the foremost and most adept .. .libeller and slanderer of • his . - I'xince !1 We broke off with the notice of the coincidence between Lard and CoLraftmes Ordonio: a -few parallel passages will serve to bear us out in the opinion that this is more than an accidental re semblance, lather, however in sentiment than in language : Sic was a man different from other men, , • And be despised them; yet rever e d hiinself.—Colerielge. . • there was io him a vital scorn of all: ' As -if the worst had fallen which could befall.—Lora. N 'attire had made hint for some other planet, And pressed his soul into a human shape By accident Or malic.—Colcrigge. . lle stood a stranger in the hreathin:r world; Ah erring spirit from another limn, He walked alone.—Lark. And phantom thoughts, unsought for, troubled him; SOmethint; within would still be shadowing out . All possibilities; and with these shadows His mind held dalliance.ii/crictge... -A thing of dark imaginings, that shap'd • By choice the perils he by chance escaped; But 'scaped in vain, fur in their memory y e t His mind would half exult and half regret.—Lora. • Surveying all things with a quiet scorn, Tatted himself down to living purposes, The occupations and the semhlances Of ordinary men—and such Le seem4.—Coleridge. So much he soar'd beyond, or sunk beneath The men with whom he felt ethidemned to breath, And longed by-good or ill to seperate Himself from all who shared- his mortal state : Thus coldly passing all that passed below, • His blood intemperate seeming now would flow. But; we need not multiply examples—these are enow to Show that the pictures are of very nearly the same"brigin, though differently touched, ac cording to the panner of 'the two Artists both unnaturally metaphysical, abstract, personages who have a strange -facility of confounding good with ill, and that perversity of intellect which inclines them to prefer the latter. We have little desire to swell the catalogue of faults upon which we have already touched—they arc, in truth, too numerous for those bounds of criticism which we have prescribed for ourselves. Dipping, therefore, into any - dozen of consecu tive lines, we may copy them as a sample of the entire poem. The account of- Lara's contempla tion of a- dance runs thus (v.:21. Canto I.) And Lara gazed on these sedately glad, I-lis brow belied him if his soul was sad, AS his glance followed fast Aach fluttering fair Whose' steps of lightness woke no echo there: • lie leaned against the lofty pillar nigh . With folded arms and long attentive e . se; ;for marked a glance So sternly fixed nu his, 11l brooked high Lara scrutiny like this i At length he caught it, 'tis a face unknown, But seems as searching his, and his alone; • Prying and dark, a stranger's by his mein, Who still till now had gazed on him unseen : Theu jam satist " This is'the very false gallop of verSes ; why do you infect 'yourself with thetu? I'll'rhyme you se, eight years together ; dinners, and suppers, and sleeping hours excepted : it is the right butterwomatt'sTate to tnarIiet."—SLIAKESPEARE. , Leaving, however, to- their own merits the four first expletives in the first .fire • lines, of which two stand for rhymes, we would fain know the intent and meaning of the three last verses—;• as for grammatical construction, that is out of the question. Let us try: them in plain prose, And then we shall see what loose kind of rambling this is which is miscalled poetry. The two lines preceding the six are introductory—" With arms' folded and long-attentive eye he leaned against the lofty, pillar (nigh, unnecessary in prose), nor marked a glance sternly fixed on his ; ill brooked high Lara scrutiny like this (which he did not mark) ; at length be caught It (the glance)—'tis (the glanFe. ia). a face -unknown, but (this face) seems as searching his (face), - and his -(facc) alone ; prying. and dark, (this •fac'e is) a stranger's by his mien, who (who or what this who belongs to, who can tell) still (an expletive) till now had gazed unseen on him." This is no exaggeration, - any more than were we to observe-that the stranger himself was so struck • with it, that in the next verse'he " cried" a " whis pered word," Which was re-echoed fast and f ar by those that heard this whisp e r' cry ! ! • Lara is unmoved by the disorder around him, though (page 36.)-- Time words of many, and the-eyes of all That there were gathered„seetned on him to fall; But hi 4 were silent,- Iris appeared to stnty - - In far forgetfulness au'ay—away— How sweet would' have been the effect of this - repetition in the last line, had we been carried to -so delightful a poetical ornament by co►umon -sense ! But the preceding lines are incontestible' no meaning, for what idea can we attach to the descrirtion of the words of many (the eyes as a -figure of speech we can conceive) falling upon an individual ? and then, " his were silent"—bis what ? his words or his eyes ? no matter ! there tiettned to be a confused image in the passage, iand,your sublime Poet never stickles for trifles Alter pointing out these often recurring hientisl►es, it would he invidious to prolong lu►►ch lurther our strictures on the minor defects which t►re 6-cry where so obvious. Of the many faulty rhymes, we shall particularize only one " known" And " unknown,.. (page 23) ; and of the Ire cluent inadmissible change of person and • tense, would require a page to ellitnierate, WC * A t. pag , 89 , this here' 'r there" of which the Author ap pears to he as fond as the most wu!gare a t ~ ceocu, ) cuts wi egJa ollieNs . spieuous figure in helping out an extraordinary vo:. , e. lie is telling of Lartt's gatherwg stuues, ari d Say s.... f 'these the heaviest thevrc he gathered there, Aad slung them with 3aaurc that; commun cart ! ! ! tacitict, tzteprtitt subsli tution of " otir " for .“..his." at page 41, spoiling the passage for no other purpose, but 'that the Author way appear like Illastd Stephen, omit all " me- !Am.:holy - and - _gentlemanlike." In ninrality and 'religion, or rather in immorality 'and the Author of Lava has been it most successful Copyist of Lord liYgo.s. - Ills spirit, like his Lordships, "rises with the subject, and he breathes all his energy - into a - aenial of the immortality 'of the soul, or a Sneer against .those-solaces which religion bestows ;—and which, however ridiculous in the eyes of such philosophers ; have often soothed the agonies of death in offenders less hardened in crime, than those whose borrible : catastrophes they delight to paint. An example of the former closes the Ist. Canto ; the following•in Canto 2d, (page 83), is an instance of the latter. - It is the•disso littion of Lars► : Yet Sense secn►ertleft, though better were its loss; .For when one near displayed the absolving cross, And profferred to his touch the holy bead Of which his parting soul might own the need; • He looked upon it with an eye profane, And smil'd—Heaven pardon ! if 'twere with disdain ; And Kaled, though he spoke not, nor withdrew From Lara's face his fixed' despairing view, With brow repulsive, and with gesture swift,. Flung back the hand which held the sacred gift, As if such but disturbed the man, Nor seemed to know that life but Wu began, -The life immortal, infinite, secure, To all for who►n that cross bath made it sure ! .The mark of admiration at the end, and the word" ''theta" in italics, - as in the poem, are a sufficient continent upon the Author's meaning. But the whole tendency of the volume, where it at all i►p= proaches that theme, is to make a moekcry!uf ligion. Having concluded all the animadversions which we could not help making oil this work, it is• hut justice to say something of its merits. The Writer is evidently capable of better things TiteVe is'a smoothness in his style, an impressiveness in his language, - and a keeping in his descriptions,-which often powerfully lay hold of the imagination Engl agitate the feelings with 'genuine emotion. Of these passages, even after having gone at so great length into critical remarks, we shall make no apology for selecting several wherewith to close our task, and, we trust, compensate our Rea►lers for the tediousness of the - way, by the beauty and interest-of its termination. NIGHT. It was the night—and. Lara's glassy stream The stars are studding, each with imaged beam So calm, the waters scarcely seem to stray, And yet they glide like happiness airay;*" Iteilecting far and fairy-like from high The immortal lights that live along the sky. THE SPECTRE. He turned within his solitary hail, Aid his high shadow shot along the wall ; There was`the painted forms or Other times, 'Twas all they left of virtues or of crimes, Save vague tradition ; and the glOomy vaults That hid their dust, their foibles, and their faults; And half a column of the pompous page, That speeds the specious tale from age to ag e ; Where history's pen its praise or blame supplies, And lies like truth, and still most truly lies. He wandering mused, and as the moonbeam shone Through the dim lattice o'er the floor of stone, And tlic high fretted roof, and saints, that there O'er Gothic windows knelt in pictUred prayer, Reflected in fantastic figures grew, Like life, but not like mortal life; to:View ; His bristling locks of sable, brow of gloom, . • And the wide waving of his shaken plume Glanced like a spectre'S attrihutes,and gave His aspect all that terror gives the grave. 'Twas midnight—all was slumber; the lone light Dition'd in the lamp, as loth to break the night. Hark ! there be murmurs beard in Lara's hall— A sound---a voice—a shriek—a fearful call! A long, loud shriek—and silence—did they hear That frantic echo burst the sleeping ear ? They heard and rose, and tremulonsly brave Rush where the sound invoked their aid to save; They come with half-lit taperS,in their bands, And snatched in startled haste unbelted brands. • ('old as the marble where his length was laid, Pale as the beam that o'er his features played, Was Lara stretch'd ; his half drawn sahre•ncar. Dropp'd it should seem in more than nature's fear;. Yet he was arm, or had been firm till now, And still dt,fiance.knit his gathered brow; Though mix'd with terror, senseless as he lay, There lived upon his lip the wish to slay ; Sonic hallLforin'd threat in utterance there had died, Nome imprecation of despairing pvide ; his eye was almost scald, but not forsook,. .Even in its trance the gladiator's look, That oft awake his aspect could disclose, ,And now was tix'd ifi horrible repo4e.' They raise hint—hear ! he breathes, he speaks, The swarthy blade recolours in his_ cheeks; lii lip resumes its red,' his eye; though Rolls wide and wild, each'slow•ly quivering limb Recalls its function, hut his words are strun In terms that seen not of his native torigne ; Distinct, but stratige,' enough they uis.aerstancl To deem them accents of another land, And such they were, and meant to meet an ear That hears him not,--alas ! that cannot hear ! THE BATTLE AND'MORTAL WOUND. Commanding, aiding,•apilnating all, 'here foe appeared to press, or friend to fill, Cheers Lara 's voice, and Waves or strikes his iteo, Inspiring hope, himself had ceased to feel. None fled; for well they ktiew that flight was vain, But those that waver turn to smite again Whileyet they find the firmest of the foe , Recoil before their leader's look:and blew; _ Now girt with numbers, now almost alone, lie foils their ranks, or re-unites his•own ; Himself he spared not e they seemed to liy— NOw was the time, he Waved his baud on higb, And shook—why suddeuirroops that plumed crest? The shaft is sped—the arrow's in his breast That - fatal gesture left the unguarded side, And Death had stricken down yon arm of pride. The word of triumph fainted, from his tongue; • That hand, so raised, how droopingly it bung But yet the sword instinctively retains, Though from its fellow slirnk the tailing reins; These Rated snatch es; d, zzy w i th the blow, And senseless hendina; o'er his saddle-bow, Perceives not Lara that his anxious page Beguiles his charger front the combat's rage : Meantime his followers charge, and charge again; Too Inix'd the slayers now to heed the slain! 11, This fine idea is, however, borrowed from Lopez de Vega. (JACQULL.t NE in our next) EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM TUE Carpenter OF TUE CI:YRACOA, To M S FATHE R IN MONTROSE. " I hare been at Elba; it is a very tine island. nuosAPARTE was on hoard the Curaco:i at a Bali. He visited every part of the veslel, which, at the time,.wa; in complete fighting trim : Made many inquiries, and paid Inuit particular attention to the information given him. lie is a fine (milt : man, motes his legs- very actively, and has a quick piercing evej stands übf.v:t fire feet six inches high,'stont made, ,rind hi s nose in clining a little to the Roman. He is always in motion very early in the morning; I have seen hiin frequently by live o'clock, with his Otficer , , planning out new roads, and con structing furtifications. His uncommon activity and ;WI -Se verance surmount every obstacle. •He seems en4inoured with his new scene of life, and meets his fate with great furti jude." • rnE NC 11 PAl'Ell7. PAras, SEPT. s.—For smite days past a great number of ‘vorktUen have been employed on 111 e Castle of Mention, which is to be prepared fol. the reception of the Duchess d'Angottleme, who passes September thcie. The departure of Talleyrand for Vienna is-fired for the 10th of September. A Grand Mass is about to be etablished by the Master Bakers of Bourdeaux, for the preservation of the King and Royal Family. Piedmont is entirely evacuated by the Austrian troops, and the Civil Authorities restored. It is said that the English want to obtain some situations in the. Gulp(' of Spezzia, from, which great advantages were expected to their Alediter- ranean commerce. • The Crosses given to the Austrian Civil FMK.. tionavies by the Emperor, for their conduct during the war of 1813 and 14, bear the inscription, • . Europm libcrtate asscrta, grati Princeps et Patria. Fran ciscus Imp. August." General Vandamme was, on the 25th of Au gust, still at Copenhagen ; he amused himself with visiting the . public establishments. The garrisons of all the Alsatian fortresses have been "lately reviewed, and immediately after a great nuthher of furloughs given: The soldiers on leave have been replaced by the' returned prison- A great number of the latter have. also re ceived permission to return to their- homes. • French Sensibility.—The unhappy bell-ringer of Saint Lanveur (Thonlonse), who nitelv went into his, belfry,, nOtwithstanding the coming on of a violent Storm,. rung his peal, and drew the light- ping on the Church, could not survive the stroke which fell upon hii». He died the - victim of his zeal and his imprudence.—Let this dep/orab/e event be a lesson to all future bell-ringeKs„who persist in ringing' in the midst of storthi, in spite of the terrible examples which•soioiig since ought to have taught them better.---'Gizzette de France. CIS. PARIS, SEPT 5.---The ceremony of the distribn . tion and consecration of the colours of the Na tional Guards of Paris will take place on Wed . nesday next, the 7th in the Champ de Mars. The King will leave the Palace of.the Thuille ries nt It) o'clock. , At six in.the morning salutes of artillery will announce the ceremony. Accounts from Switzerland mention, that the Archduchess Maria Louisa will leave Aix. about the Bth instant, on her return to Vienna'. • • The Duke of Wellington, the Hero of England, has taken a lease, it is said, of the .fine estate of Morfontaine, and means to give some fine fetes there. The Gazette de France says, " We learn that the harvest has totally failed in Englimd !" The same paper reports, on the 'authority of some nameless persons who left Port-au-Prince about the 2.5 th of July, that Petion bad acknow ledged the authority of Louis XVIII. had hoisted the white flag, and was preparing to send a de putation to his Majesty. • The following anecdote Is 'given as authentic " When the allied troops-occupied the Bressan, five of their Officers entered a chateau, the owner of Which was absent. His servants gave them some refreshments. In' the.mean time the master - of the house arrived, and after apologising to his guests for their not having met with a reception suitable to their rank, invited - them to a splendid dinner. Some excellent wine was served ipn— one of the Officers asked the master of the house whcalier that was really the best in his cellar ? the latter replied, without hesitation, it . was.— " I am, however, convinced," replied.. the Offi cer,. " that von have still, better." This incredu lity displeased; he was invited to visit the cellar, and accepted the offer. The Officer asked for a pick-axe, removed some casks, struck against the wall, and an opening soon appeared which led - into a small secret cellar, where were 'concealed several casks of wine of the highest value. " Did Inot tell you, Sir," said the Officer, " that there was better wine in your cellar than that which you gave us at dinner ?" Sir," replied the owner of the cellar, " I give ,you my word and honopr that I had no knowledge of 'this secret place. I purchased'this chateau without having any suspi cion of such a vault." " I can readily believe s you," said the Officer," because it was I myself who caused it to be constructed in order to secrete my most valuable property from thosewho sess my chateau dilring my emigration ; and to prove it to you, you have only to dig in the cellar, and you Will there find gold, silver, plate, and - other valuables which, belong to me, and which you. have not purchased. I hope you will permit me to take them away." " Nothing can •be more . replied. :the- existing. owner of the cellar ; that property had no existence for me. The Of-, ficer loaded two baggage carts with them, and de parted, after thanking the host for his honest en- tertainment." -We are assured that some•Prtissian and German ladies propose to introduce a national - dress, very simple and very modest. It- is believed that they. will not resort to the Parisian fashions to find' their model. ROme, AUG. 2 0.—Cardinal Pacca, Pro-secre at published a n Edict which . pro hibitst of taaSllsetec;el;arsneetings, and especially t h ose at Freemasons. The following are its principal ar ticles t. In conformity to the edicts of Clement XII. and Bene dict. XIV.• winch pronounce excommunication, ipso pad, against all memb ers o f secret societies, and particularly of that of Freemasons, every inhabitant of Rome, or any other part of the Roman States, is forbidd en t o cont i nue, to re establish, or to institute, whatl are called Freemason's Socie ties, or any similar meetings, under whatever name. 2. They are forbidden to he even once present at any of these meetings, or to indacq any persons to join then. This prohibition extends to all Roman subjects holding any con ' nection, immediate ur remote, with such societies out of the States of the Sovereign Pontiff. ' • .3. No one is permitted to have or retain in .his possession any deeds, seals, emblems, .statut e s, p a t en ts, or an y thi ng else relating to ie acts of such assemblies ; 4. Whoever shall Ishow that any such societies still continue form be held, shall be under ablikatiot in11141P;r10; ation thereof to the Go weriT.or of of ProvinceS, or the Apostolic I.) e leatit e , 9 t ,.sce r '",4L' assured thei r names shalt be hilt inviolat'!'flo,f.:p.ll, natties they rimy have incurred as acconirneco;ilf..l..o beshalt remitted, and they shall receive s,r, 11 , e/ j at the 'expence of the delinquents, vitt e ; : e fitli i , l !, e ic:.,‘' , a'ace sufficient proof of their charie • ",: t i l ir.Cott li l that all should be aware that ther:i s corning or 'aishotrourable in such deollo,: it hfir"., 0 , itnyortant equally to the interests of .die f a OOP" o r g' In ".e"cilfie",:e, "bevy oath ()lan orit i ; t :b Ig# considered Only ' hund of inipity, 11 " - • t.. 1 -4 trary . dufy full foiTe. ;0 •9 1 ,,, 5. The penalties againq the •trancgr c.ss- . n tif according to the nature and circunistavidit, shall he corporal, and even reiy '§everet even entire' confiscation of propertY, able, of which the judge?! and other agetl;'„,ol" may hare eireCtually .co nt r ibuted to the 01,.. ''' 09 cutton of the guilty shall obtain a tiOrt iati :• , , 31)°, 1 ; ` . ] 1 ° G. All the palaces, town ur country in which these assemblies or /edges lea as soon as legal proof is thercw, 5 1 i p1 1 : 0 41r confiscated, saving to proprietors who 513 , 10 , - j' a c meetings took place without their 1030",e''',Ifelor-dor, the 'expellee of the aggregate property of t ' i l l re iare -The re-asons for this severe e ul s teri al 'A signed in the preamble : "'The nij the c. e` rations which accompany the fornis,tot flies, rites, and oaths tia keep a seer s ta te Picions, and especially the iudiseriul l • 0, • . Kling of persons of every class alo i l i j ) l cse - 1, ever be their moralS or religion, r , , $ must excite fair grounds . of 'susP lc i l ;•4 sll° ,,s'i members of such associations, of (le- I . l° e ligi °- ; t : i against thrones, hut erect a gainsl Chi l i , especially against the Church of ies, coin. the ea which t d h.e a ß ni o l in g a u l acr P li ( a m a tiff b ' y ha it s s himself." • The Jesuits have been replaced in iitolici iv i 4 the three houses which they period•of their apprehension: - 200 of.them in Rome, and as i st acv. TURIN, AUzo. 27.—The Emperor root:" wishing to give our Sovereign a Ile tv o P iejl ,1' 31 ; friendship, and at the . sam e dal e t b e to l old friendly relations which exist" ~ .113 11( ;(' two States, ,has ordered the•entite the Provinces of Savoy which werc stilt IV; by . troops. Our King has resolved to re-est 3 ' Senate-of Savoy. . 2gcl, g if te, GENEVA, Aun. 28.—0 n the the citizens of GeneYa a s se mbled , di ee l on the new Constitution submitted to,ed,le Provisional Council. .it was ag r°ll ; voters; and rejected by 334. s .b,c . BASLE, AUG. 28.—The.aceountss,,aiiret, ceive from various Cantons are ve r) f : 50 1141 '0;i', It would appear that. the Deputies, ° „ f Zurich have induced the Councils 'l i d • v tons to adopt the new Federal Aels;s‘fol'il't9li Cautons of Berne and Solenre sr/ 1 0e,1 11 saute course. Th e sma ll c ant ons vi e l fre at. ri iil scessary to follow this general 10°`; or the that. ,staid that the Dutch capitulation 1 , on Swiss•regiments is farther advancea lir , France. vcil t of f o . C4 i r n e E t s e N t t o r r t A i t n , C g A o t i u i n l e G m . ;i 3 t 2 a t ' n e l e k .— f( o ) O r t. digesting Genric,a dish agent at this p o rt b as reeci" re el°, ;•./ that as soon as the s hip convey itig i ) 4 Regency-of Algiers arrived there , l 3 ' den was re-established. cortlion ell's-' CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 30.----4cn Yellers who arc believed to be w c i " e extraordinary activity prevails in lJ o ar ,. Grand Seigutir. The fall of ‘ tr i , "s il ks which it has neces sardY P r° . trY• Nio s DMA occupation, to the Turkisiltii ir iater,l!octfyil respect to 'the tranquillity of --e 4l, nearly re-established in the Carallit'iler comic:6st of Satalia ; but, O il 0 0 (ictirji i S c e , progress of the. Turks against die ot i a or l ,iio ,re'', considerable as the Court of CoUst3",o ri leave- it believed. The Curds arc otc` o ,ll`: a boti t , to Ille iso , and too well secured by their mountains, to -h e an eas y e 014(1 0e /o b i te 6 ilsllV,, of the Grand Seignor. The 11 '" e spite of the-defeats.which they ha'f or tic ay j e v its experienced, are still prepare d t to the It would be a great misfortune oil ta i y ea they should penetrate to SYri: s re lgio'' dogmas among the Curds, wilt's, b it .i• the same with that of the Wecl i-1 100 •Ue t" BERLIN, Au0•.22.—1t no- r licl ~t 1 tv. certain, that the Itingdoin -e u oc ate l , t , stot.ed; - and • that AuStkia has c° Gallicia., AUGSBURG, AUG. c°l % Ple a te r ll: s ll4-1' 1 1 1; has taken place . in -the Austria,_ f o rm' e A c , The greater part of-the tro o ps Stin te ~ it. have returned into the Attstoll,"_. "i l rol t of Italiian troops for • the -s-cr,"' that ) 0 , forming. Some persons•asso:„„,rlfltlo meat prevails in some parts of - 0' thought .that one of the Arehda',..`dri,gt • pointed Governor of Lom b a rdy a" liellegarde will return to • ' p 4 _ Ti ce Fr' a ji ARM En— .. l Waterforl. T u l e ' rns ei a° 1 Guttcliburgil, 1 lioliand, flank Stuck, 3 per Cent. 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