The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-07-17 00:00:00

POETRY.
TO A BUTTERFLY REsTINO ON .1 SKULL

(From the Litrrnnt Gilza h. I
Creature of air and light,
Emblem of that which may rot fade or die !
‘1 dt thou not sliced thy flight.
To chase the south-wind through the sunny sky 't
What lures thee thus to stay
With silraec and decay,
Fis'd on the wreck of dull mortality ?
The thoughts once chambered there
Pave gathered op their treasures, and are gone!
Will the bust tell us where
They that have burst the prison-house have flown?
Rise. nursling of the day.
If thou lanuldat trace their way
Earth has no voice to make the secret »Down.
Who seeks the vanished bird
By the forsaken nest and broken shell ?
Ear thence he sings unheard,
Vet free and joyous 'midst the woods to dwell!
Thou of the sunshine born,
Take the bright wings of morn !
Thy hope calls heavenward from yoo gloomy cell.

THE LATE KING OF THE sAmmicit

ISLANDS.

The leaden coffin containing the remains of his Majesty
was placed in the splendid case that has been furnished by
Mr. Jarvis, in Long-acre, last evening. It is of immense
width, and is lined with rich white satin, fluted very taste-
fully, and the outside is of crimson velvet, and studded
with brass nails and ornaments similar to that of the late
Queen. On the plate is the following inscription :
ICAMFHAMEIIA 2ND
ELII 110 NAIIINA-0. AHAB' MACE
I POLIkABI
MAIAICI lAISt 1
lE•]IAHOE
•
I CEMAIAICE 1821
ALOIA IVO-110 KOMAZOA
ELII JOLANI.
And underneath is engraven—
lAMF.IIAMP.HA 2D.
1150 07 TIIE 1431DWICH ISLANDS,
DIED JILT 11, 1824.
IN THE 28TH YEAS OF HIS AOE.
MAT WE 1131511511 OE/ BELOVED 5150
JO LAW I. _ - .

We Ivyn been favoured with a copy of the following
despatch :o 'ate Prime Minister of the Sandwich Islands,
announcing th demise of his Majesty, and which was on
Thursday nigh: forwarded to Falmouth :

" Oaborne's Hotel, London. July IS, 1824.
" DEAN FRIEND—It is very sorrowful news for you, but being
the will of Heaven we must submit. I mentio-ed in my letter,
dated July 8, the death of our good Queen. foe King, having
lost his consort, was much agitated by the fatal shock, and. unable
to support the weight his manly bosom experienced, he died. my
dear Friend, and lett us to lament the virtues we so often admired
in him. You well know my feelings, and the reason I have to de.
plate the loss of such true trietidsli;p. All the physicians could
do, all we could say by way of consolation. availed nothing ; be
told me. more than once, that all the support the English nation
could give him was in vain. The fatal bargain, my dear Friend,
was made, and he sunk to rise no more. Their bodies will be re-
moved to the tandwieh Islamis, to give you and the whole of our
nation satisfaction, that every thing was done by the English
Oo-
reemnent and private Gentlemen to promote oar comiort, and
assist our unfortunate Monarch. Even the King of England sent
his own physicians, and the noble Dnke of York his surgeon ; and
every thing that England produced was at our command. You
will much regret, with myself, that circumstances prevented his
having an interview with the King of Er,gland, who kindly ex-
praised his hope (through his physicians) that our King would
console himself, and Dot sink under his affliction, and that his Moat
Gracious Majesty would give our King an interview as soon as his
health was restored. I hope you arc well ; and that ye shall be
able to continue to labour for your wafare, is the wish of
"Yours truly, "JOHN 11. RIVE&
" To Mr. Pitt. Prime Minister at the Sandwich
Islands, or Krimaku."

KING AND QUEEN OF THE SANDWICH 151 AND3.—The
wet weather was, in all probability, the cause of this
Royal couples' death ; the damp atmosphere acting upon
the lungs, alrea3y pte-disposed to inflammation by the
change of temperature, exerted a strong degree of action in
the blood-vessels, and nothing but copious bleeding and
blisters could have saved their lives ; but white the damp-
ness of the atmosphere continued, no medical treatment
could avail.—Medicol

Some remains of James 11. have been discovered in three
leaden boxes, in the course of excavations for a foundation
of a steeple of a church of St. Germain, at Paris, with
this inscription :—" Here is a portion of the flesh and
noble parts of the body of the most high, puissant, and
illustrious, and most excellent Prince James Stuart. second
'of the name, King of Great Britnin, born 23d October,
1633, deceased in Fence, at St. Germain-en-Lsye, Sep-
tember 16, 1/01."—The boxes are removed to the chief
altar.
The remains of the late Earl of Tyrone were removed
from the house of the Marquis of Waterford, in Mans-
field-street, at an early hour on Wednesday morning, to
be interred in the family vault r.t Curraehmore. Lord
• George Beresford, and George Meara, Esq. attend the
mournful procession to Ireland.
A passenger in the Asia, arrived id the Downs from
Bengal, reports, that previous to leaving St. Helena, an
(American vessel, from Bencoolen, touched there, and
stated, that the Fame, Young, of London, with Sir S.
Raffles on board, caught fire shortly after leaving Bencoo-
len, and was destroyed, and that the Captain, crew, and
• passengers, had returned to Bencuolen.
CAM it I 134; r, J 13.—An officer of Excise has been
engaged part of this day in weighing the paper on which
the late discovered work of Milton is to be printed. The
manuscript has been taken back to London, but is ex-
pected to be returned to C abridge this evening. We
understand Mr. Walker, NI.A. of Trinity College, is one
of the gentlemen appoimed to superintend the work. A
p,:enUar mode has been adopted for the preservation and
security of the original during its progress.
Du few days ago, a meeting took place at liam-
stead, between (diehard J. llowky,Esq., of Ella, in the
county of Mayo, and J. W. Williams, Esq. when, we r:-
gret to seam, Mr. Williams was severely wounded; but,
from the skilful exertions of his medical friend, every hope
is entertained of his ecoverv.—Burina linpartial.
By a correspondi nee published in the Irca:lbril Herald,
it appears that Lord S:opfot d had politer, and with gratitude
fa. jriend.,Np at the la:,/ tie:Nag, OcciintAlyipporthq the
petition of the County Wexford Catholics for Emancipa-
Erenihg Ihratd.
REw Aim or INT orrionv.—We last week (says the
Limes-pod Caarier)briefly stated the melancholy fact of se-
veral people having been drowned in the Printer's Dock, by
being precipitated from a stage. The young man who was
mainly instrumental in raving the lives of so many indivi-
duals, by his undaunted and highly meritorions conduct
on that melancholy occasion, is a carpenter, named Ed-
wards, a native of the United States, and belongs to the
ship Haleyea. Considtrin,, the small space in which the
unfortunate individuals, about thirty in number, were con-
fined, it being little inure than an area of a few yards, it is
wonderful that many more did not lose their lives. The
cung man threw himself into the midst of them, and suc-
leteded in plating ropes round the bodi, s of the major part
!of those who were saved. At ene time, we arc infonmd,
five persons had hold of, or were upon hini ; he, however,
fortunately sue ereded in disentengling himself from their
grasp, and continued his praiseworthy exertions in resent
ing his fellow-creatures from a premature death. It is bu-
i
Justice to state, that all the assistance that could be ren-
dered was given by the crews of the surrounding vessels,
and by persons on the quay, by the lowering of ropes. Fee.
:.11 this would, however, have been of cemparatively little
use, had not seine one been in the water to render such
assistance available. Such conduct a, that of Edwards
was not to be overlooked ; and a subeciiprion hal he, n Fei
on foot by the Coroner, cur late worthy Cli'et. Magieteve,
for the purchase of a gold medal, and by him pie sent; d to
this intrepid young man, as an ar!:nov•lttigtumnt of his
great exertions on the perilous and trying occasion. phi
one side is inscr,bell—

" IX commrmOltATlON 01
SIGNAL INTREPIDITY OF IS

;lir.

47'11 J I' I.V, WV.

On the obverse--
.• SEVERAL PERSONS nnscurn ran!' Drtowxixa,
IY TIIF. PRINCE'S DOLE,
BY THE LINDAENTEII EIE!ITIONS OF A NATIVE OF THE
UNITED STATES."

We oinittell to state, in onr last, that several of the bodies
were carried to the house of Mr. Peter Stubbs, Robert-
street North, as well as to that of far. Owen Roberts, who
were both active in rendering every asssistance iu their
power.