The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-07-24 00:00:00

t

. 110110 D r, .
ON THE DEATH OF THE MOST NOBLE
MARQW COBNWALLI3. •
Flit% rift liNS webis feetnesur, tretis, eiteaweis View
igirelogne INN rose curd yolt. TACITUSe
Great Cincimustu—from his rural seat,
Where Fame repris'il MR:flour's bright retreat,
Where his own laurels for:ii'd the hero's. crown,
At once the shade and trophy of renown—
Imperial Rome, when inenac'd by her foes,
Call'd to tier aid, from slignift id repose :
The summons hearde-to fame the Vt,t'laii sprung,
Thu old in years, in patriot ardour young ;
Of self regardless, when his country call'd,
No pleasure surd him, and no dread a ppall'd !
Cornwallis thus obey') Britannia's chniCee-
Her Citicinnatus by the public voice !
slot his mere great the sacrifice, from ease,
i)ppreeed with age, to traverse ili.tant seas;
T. quit again his cherisli'll, native Isle;
Ifni grateful country, sad his Monarch's smile!
More b.ight his fame, to whose ca:xicious mied,
A double true Britannia had censign'il ;
Studious of pe ice—orepar'd fur war's alarms—.
Het faith in Councilee.lier renown in Arms!
ktberie PriCO ! soon may thy rays expand
Bloasings o'er India's war-distracted land;
Cornwallis C•Alef to won thee from thy sphere,
And Ind, thee, fusels stranger, linger here!
Itue'd by the warmth, may Piety reign;
And socsit her copious harvests our the plain ;
May repine cease, may discoid sheath tba sward,
. Ann thin' the East be thy mild sway restart;
itintor'd by hina to Indra's detant shore,
Who to his country gave the hone befbre!
Hut if no faith can awe, no treatima bind,
dark Chiefs, to peace and justice blind,
lees the dread charge, t' asset he country% cams.
And gaol, by war, the rated propaed by late!
Ah ! here the Muse her plessingedrales meg teas%
Nor rues`d by war, eon spoiled by Itahtyao poses;
Deep SOITCW/ claims the vows, ye anew' Sow
Un strains respoosive to the public meat
For, on, this Ganges' emesuatad ittosel,
W nen on the Chin( Peace shod her went beam.
Carnes fie sieka—eisith Messrs, years, coppetat'd..
In the caiaajalveat of SMsal mat !
Cornwallis seemed ! intiteriarai Chief;
Entoll'd in hem. ellthltleed is public grief,
If mortal loather reach imasortal sphonra,
If seraph smiles absorb ant patnet's trete,
Hence shall the Hose watt sorrow% steed sigh,
Hence bear the pearly blinds a the eye!
F., titre, at Granted.% imperious ea,
Bottom memonst, to oaesomote toy
A n 4, though aillitlicm (Auras oast fading haws
Vines arid fawns impulsive ractiama dart;
As froth words ea le:ers% bonniest page,
"Thus fell the &noon Belton of i is age,
in whose bright character at once Celailift,
s caaarat, and the ban% Are ;

The fire• defender of his country's throne ;
Goirling his life by •ittuel sieved plaa,

Ne menl worth dignity.% ;
Sulkhrog «t pulphe *Nies. Nome tam*,

- - - -
Nis sod lirleassii% glory Wen dos sous"

• fu Idorterty wee .scud at s Sdratieg of the arklish
lohabdants of Bombay, held et the Cmert-House, en the
rill of November, ISVb, .11T the t wet,' d deWeeteling ea
tie best mode el pay'rea a mbutr m respect to We SS 4y of
the hue Matloi.C•rwer.44 It Wee Colayolllll by Mr. Wm.
kuwitlid Wake, and denswed with emesh aniatetasa end
*Bad, by Mr Dasstaumlle, • Cedat foe eh* Celine at
Mahan.
-igessmseasemee

REMiRK.IBLE DE/TB.
Yesterday, at three o'clock, p. n,. dvarted this
life, Mr. SessioN, fourth son of Mrs. PAaLJAstemT,
of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
On Monday he became motionless and spesehli4,
and at the above hour yesterday, the Loan Cu asp.
C ELLOR, in the most solemn and impressive manner,
declared the vital spark entirely extinguished. Mr.
SESSION, in his infancy, sustained a heavy loss in the
death of a favourite Steward, who hid been in the
service of thefamily above twenty years, and had
the entire management of all their affairs.--lie was
'the second son of the great Earl of Cu ATHAu, and
being a very clever fellow, transacted all the business
with his own hands. The consequence was, on the
moment of his decease, the whole ceconomy of the
House fell into disorder and confusion ; all the Un-
der-Servants having been selected and hired merely
as his creatures and dependants, and not for their
industry and talents. They all knew the way to the
pantry and the kitchen, but not one of them could

bake the bread, bre* the beer. keep the accounts,
or plough and sow the land. Aware that they must
be turned of, and expelling every moment their dis-
charge, to the pantry and the kitchen they ran, to
fill tlwrie ponehes, and make the most of their short
time. One made an attempt to carry off a pie, an-
ether a peck loaf. The Butler seized a fine fat
goose, which belonged to the deceased, and had
been fed at the Cinque Ports, at which place•be now
feasts upon it. The Scullion and the Turn-spit, more
prudent than their fellow-servants, did not. trust to
the chance of a scramble. They had made a lob
eons, time back. which they secured under patent
locks. by Royal Authority, and now boast they can
live like:Winter, upon their savings. The whole
eonntry.became now alarmed for the safety of the
Pertinent Family. Not only all the domestic af-
fairs of Mr. Season steed still, or were at saes and
sevens, bat it was feared that a Corsican Pretender,
iTrittt whom the family had been some years at earl-
met, and who bad been long threatening to issue a
writ of classless fregit, and to eject Mr. SiSSION Out
of the premises. would seize this opportunity to
I carry his threats into execution.
At this critical juncture, Mr. Fox, the uncle of
Lord Hot LA no, was declared, by public opinion,
to be the only man in the country capalole of filling
the place of the late Steward, and retrieving the
affairs of the family. Mr. Fox was accordingly
appointed to the place. and he soon set the lemma
of the old establishment a.packing, bag and bag-
gage; and men. who had imposed upon the world
their flippancy for wit. their garrulity for eloquence,
and their gravity Ihrfirlmlent, now gave way to
a new set of sober, honest, iadastriuus, and orderly
Servants. The discarded mop-twirlers and lacqueys
were not. hmeever, to be got completely rid of, all
at ones.—Night after night they mustered about
the House of Mr. Sento*, jabbering and railing,
and abasing the new domestics. One of them, a
prating Irish footman. contrived to strew burs and
thorns between the sheets is the bed of the new
Steward, and then tauntingly reproached him with
sleeping upon a "ha of rwes."—Nothing that
malice and ingenuity could devise or seam to
make the service unpleasant, and to get them-
Iselves into place &g» is, was omitted. Ose time
they said that the mew Steward was gene to make
a scandalous and dishonorable composition of the
law-suit which we have meationd, and to surrender
up the right of the Parliament Family to their op-
ponent. Another time they reported. that he
meant to discharge all the liberal men who had
volosieved in the cause. and to squander money
unnecessarily in raising the fees of the hired Advo-
cates and Agents, Serjeents and all.—ln short, the
new Servants could do nothing that was right
about the House. The very dishes which bad been
cooked by the Es-Servants themselves, and which
they had., boasted as the greaten delicacies ever
tasted. were now represented as poisonous and
destrative to the constitution ; although the new
Servants bad no finger in the pies, and did nothing
more than serve them up to table. By this species
of persecution. Mr. Sisstom's rest was disturbed.
and his life made miserable. The constant clamour
brought on angry motions and windy cholic,
and be became suhjeft at night to flatulent and
offensive eruetations, which induced a rapid de-
cay, and ended in death.—The moral charalter
of Mr. Seaport was unexceptionable. If he had
any fault, it was that of a too sedentary habit,
being known to sit up night after night. until
three or four in the morning. The time, however,
was all spent in reading and conversation. and we
have never seen him introduce at these notiernal
orgies, cards or dice, or even a touts of wine open
t.:e table. —His company was also oh the first class;
consisting, exclusively, oh' the Lords, spiritual and
temporal, and Members of the House of Caen-
mons.k—Tbe Irish Commoners used to be excluded
from the society of the British Sessions; but threats
t," Mr. s&sslos, is imitation of his three last predeces-
S
sots, admitted them to the honour of a sitting. The