The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-12-30 00:00:00

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That7retas4mealeibrile emi WIRY
Ursa wings meet& be drives.
Jitinit dAar satttests Ilhowdowl
thoOkits is to,lboq,
illarkimin ewe anti to ber.
wok set tail-wand weer be
decreed to oughts/meats—
reittterness of teen.
*Eternity is in thine
.years,
tinhorn, undying beauty en thine eyes ;
Frith no thou cant nut sympathise,
Bleep! in love, and there thou mast
dekeowledge that more loving duet
.Nelirr wept beneath the skies.
Thou walk'st thy many worlds, thou see'st
The face of him who made thee greet,
she hafts made me of the least
Of those cast out from Eden's gets
`Yet, Seraph dear !
Oh hear!
Porlhos bast lured me, and I woolld ant die
Until I knew what I must die in knowing,
forgrt'st in thine eternity
dlererimee Wart death could sot keepirola (Aw-
es-lag
Fur thee, imiportal essence as thou art!
Greet lathe* love who lire in sin and Tear ;
And such,l hol, ere waging in my beat
A war unworthy : to an Adantite
Forgive, my Seraph! that such thoughts appear,
For sorrow is our element ;
Delight
An Eden kept afar from sight,
Though sometimes with our visions blent.
The hour is sear
Whieb tells me we are out abaadooed ands.—

Appear! Appear!
Seraph!
My own Azaziel ! be hut here,
And leave the step to their awn light-
The address of Abotibamah, a more genuine descendant
frosatheensepus Cain, partakes of his character—haughty,
bat devaded. We can Daly find roam for the conchesisia :
Tips art isamertal—so am I: I feel—
IL feel my immortality o'ersweep
1111.peine, dl Magi, ell time, Ml fears ; and peal,
iiw gienternal t sunders of the deer,
eats this truth—" thou liv'st for ever!"
Mull If it he in joy
I bare not, nor would knew
Thatsecret rests with the Almighty giver
Wire folds in clouds the fouls of bliss and woe.
ant (bee and me be never can destroy ;
es be sang, bet mot o'erwhelm ; WO are
as eternal essence, and must war
With him if he will war with us: with tkee
I COO share all thaws, even immortal sorrow;
For thou bast ventured to share life with see,
And shall I shrink from thine eternity?
No ! though the serpent's sting should pierce me thorough,
died thou Myself siert like the serpent, veil
Around me still ! and I will smile
And curse thee not; but bold
Thee in as warm a fold
As--but ilaseead ; and prove
A mortal's hive
or an immortal. If the skies contain
' Wore joy than thou canat give and take, remain '
SCENE 111.
The niountaina.—A cavern, and the rocks of Caueessis.
Joph. (solos). Ye wilds, that look eternal; and thou cave,
Which seem'st unfathomable ; tnd 7e mountains,
So varied and so terrible in beauty ;
Here, in your rugged majesty of rocks
And toppling trees that twine their roots with stone
In perpendicular places, where the foot
Of man would tremble, could be reach them—yes,
Ye look eternal! Yet, in a few days,
Perhaps eveQgeurs, ye will bo changed, rent, hurled
Before the retie of waters ; and yon cave,
Which seems to lead into a lower world,
Shall have its depths march'd by the sweeping wave,
And dolphins pmbol In the lion's den !
And man--Oho, men! my fellow beings! who
Shall weep above your mover."' grave,
Save I ? Who shall be left to weep My kinsmen,
Alas ! what am I better than ye are,
That I must live beyond ye > Where shall be
'lvall' easent places where I thought of Ana
I had hope ? or the more savage haunts,
Sean. less beloved, where I despair d fur her?
And am it be?—Shall you exulting peak,
Whose glitlerieg top is like a distant star,
Lie loinimeath the 'soiling of the deep ?
Ne more to have the morning sun break forth,
*id scatter heck the raise an bombe( folds
Front its tremendous brew? no more to have
Day's broad orb drop behind la head at even,
Leering it with a Grommet assay bees ?
No more to be the beacon of the world,
For angels to-alight on, as the *pot
Nearest the stars ? And can those words "no more
De meant for thee, fee all things, save form,
Aid the predestieedieseepiag thiegs reserved
By my sire to Jehovah's bidding ? May
He preserve thews, and I net have the power
To saateh the loveliest of earth's daeghters MEW '
A doom which even some serpent, with Ina ;•.
Shall 'scope to save his kind to be prolung'd,
To lase and sing thrones some emerging world,
Beehive sad dank from out the slime, ukase was !
• Shall slumber aim the wreck of this until
The salt morass subside into a sphere
Beneath the sun, and be the monument,
The sole and andistingsiish'd isispalebre,
Of yet quick myriads of all life ? How much •
Breath will be still'd at once! All beauteous world !
So young, so mark'd out for destruction, I
With a cleft heart look on thee day by day, ,
And night by night, thy numbered days and night
I illlttiot save tWe, cannot save even her
Whose lure bad made me love thee more ; but as
A portion of tby dust, I comet think
Upon thy coming doom without a feeling
Saab as—Oh 0•41! and coast thou— [ ileposam.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
--.walinee--
Tbe Duke of Bedford is entertaining &distinguished partyl
as, his seat Wooburn Abbey.
' .The Dowager Duchess of Rutland has left Belvoir Cad&
iterr. and Lady Elisabeth Norman's seat, Milton, Letceo;
ire.
l .iles Marquis and Marchioness of Cholreondelev, and Lord
Zkryi Cholmoodoley, left town on Saturday for-Brigiston.
e Earl of St.Ciermaina has a large party of distinguished
s at his seat, Part Eliot, Cornwall.
'Tbe Bari of Rases bad a large party at dinner yesterday at
blame, Cashiobury Park, Herts.
The Earl of Harrington gave a grand dinner yesterday to
Geaseral Gorden, Colossi end Lady F. Stanhope, Colonel C.
Hill, Colonel Shaw, Ise., at his house, in the Stable-yard, St.
.180103'6.
Lord Holland entertained a select party of friends at din-
ner yesterday, in Old Burlington-street
is Herts.
Lord Charles Fitzroy has arrived at his seat in fln.
Baron and Baroness Senfenborg, and William 1-.
F.sq., left Oroillon's Hotel, AAbomarle-etreet, yesterday,
Bath.
Lady Anne Coke was safely delivered of a son and heir, to
the great to of the family, on Christmas Day, at her seat in
Norfolk. Ws ate hippy to hear that her Ladyship and bee
infant son are both in a fair way of doing well.
The Honourable John Coventry and the Misses Coventry
have left Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for North Cray,
Went.
Major Bulkeley, of the Guards, has arrived at Thous'''.
litit kc4Berk•ley-square, from a tour. Departures:—Lady
h Smith and family for Northamptonshire • Mr. and
Lady Elizabeth HeaUmaute for their seat in Staffordshire.
Captain Hyde Parker, R.N., has arrived at Feelon's
Motel, St. James's-street, from Sir William Parker, Bart.'s
seat in Suffolk. Sir Jammu Mackintosh, Bert. hastelkditte
fear Scotland.
John White, Esq. has arrived at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-
street, from his seat in Derbyshire.
Arrivals at tbo Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street:--Hon. Mrs.
'.eeson, and Mrs. William Haile and family from their seat
The remains of the Countess D'Aglie were removed yester •
ty morning from his Excellency's house in Charles-street,
i--1..,..-ansare, for Interment in the family vault at Ayles.

in Kent.

Miss Prros has been annouaemi. fir several days. past to re-
appear on Thursday next at Covsmt-iyardeu, as .Mande e, is Dr.
Ases's favourite Opera of Arfcrerser. We far, however, as
she was unable to attend the kit missarsal of the piece yester-
day. in cousequenee of renewed indisposition, that the public may
be deprived for some time longer of as opportunity of again appre-
eiatigg this lady's vocal talents. It was reported a few weeks
back. that Mr. Stoop, who played Mariana at the Haymarket
Theatre last season, and has been slice engaged at Omens-
garden, was to make his debut av Arbiters, on the first representa-
tion of Ariamessum at Covent-garden, bat it seems, from eireina-
stances which.wadealioe at present to notice, thatthis alT1111.111•
spent win not take place.
being, on a visit in a certain couutry
Ire, was tattby his friend: who knew that he *es a great ad-
mirer of ompologlost bewailed hossia rich treat on Noaday, as
their Rector Ay snowed by all to be an excellent premium. Mr.
attended, and sat close to the pulpit. The Hey. Oratle-
nusa.bad sot held forth may minutes, before Mr. began
011i!ake• bits at Intervals, as lbws *--"Bstreisia"—" Heath"—
"CU rke"—"Tillotems"—"Allitir"—fted no ea. which Joe dig in ae
audible a tone, .that tbefelergyman nettled' at those eufamats,
at length learnt over, •nd in an tinder tone observed, " Arta sae
swery impertinent fellow"—" Thai's your !" said the Den-

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tame ,ospochilly mating the 'Whales. If, 'entr—
e sermon, 'its sentiments had proceeded from a poor
eurite, in ordinary times, it would, no dotibt, have
sonequietly on to Oblivion,without being either greeted
-orgroaned at ;by a sink voice awit passed. But it
proceeds from a PRIMA,., and at a very turbulent
,twisis of public feeling andpublic opinion ; and hence
4he interest and animadversion it has excited. None
can reprobate more strongly than we do the principles
and proceedings of the Orange faction ; they are il-
liberal, intolerant, unmanly, and unjust ; but we
would censure with discrimination. The active de-.
linguents, we may be assured, art not the real -movers..
The zealots before the curtain are merely the puppets
of those behind. But more df this hereafter ; —our
concern, at present, is with the Archbishops charge,
Which is subject enough. We have heard it con-
demned in very violent terms, as unfit either for St.
Patrick'sor any other cathedral, and we have read the.
sough upbreidings which it has drawn down upon the
metropolitan Bishop himself. As far as the charge
itself is concerned, we are far, very lin front approving
it; but, with respect to the Ardibistop, we feel in-
clined, in common candour, to separate the indis-
cretion of the Nigh CAttedesons from the general
character of the Man. We have kompo nosy mem-
bers of the establishment who were kind, affectionate,
and exemplary in private life, bat where tempers
were, nevertheless, not to be trusted on subjects con-
nected with orthodoxy—men, the whole stock of
whose benevolence seemed to evaporate like gas at the
approach of any thing heretical. In our opinion, mat-
ters of faith sod of conscience hate nothing in them*
that should inspire either resentment or malignity.
At present we have neither leisure nor inclination to
enter on any topics connected with religious contro-
versy. We have no wish to canvass the relative ex-
cellence of the Protestant and Catholic church of
Ireland. CHARITY is, or should be, a member of
every church. Whatever public institutions existed
the influence of moral virtue, are well-founded and
useful. It is well that there should be a periodical
day of repose set apart for the moral improvement of
the people ; and whatever course of public instruction
tends to subject their passions to their reason, and to
make them better citizens and better men, deserves to
be cherished by all classes as a common good. But
we must not hope too much from ecclesiastical super-
intendence. We think that in this respect it has bees
always the error of those who have had " the cure of
souls" to create unreasonable expectations. The con-
fines of a newspaper do not permit us to discourse at
much length on this point, but we will illustrate our
meaning as concisely as we are able, from the oppor-
tunity afforded us by the present CHARGE.
Adverting to such of his reverend brethren as in hie
opinion have been heedless and lukewarm in the dis-
charge of their sacred functions, " I must sound in
their ears," says the Archbishop, " the duties which
they have disregarded. I mast warn them, that if
they persevere in such neglect, the day will come when
they will be called upon to render the tremendous ac-
count of an unfaithful stewardship."
To us, the duty of a clergyman seems very sionista,
and to be captyble of very easy and intelligible exphri
nation. To entOrce the precepts of rational piety, to
inculcate the principles of practical duty as it concerns
our retadin to God and to our fellow-creatures, and
to teach us that to contribute to their happiness is the
best means of securing our own. This we apprehend
to be its sum and substance. The Archbishop, we
think, in his instruction to his clerical brethren, deals
more in the confused scholastic phraseology of the
"olden time," than the more reflective common sense
of this advanced period is likely to approve.
" What is the description" says be, " which our ordinatioe
service preaseta of the character, duties, and obligations
those who are adaiitted to the Christian ministry in our
church') Are they not there expressly represented as the
messengers, watchmen, and dowsed, of the Lard,' who ars
' to teach sod le premonisti, to feed, and to provide for the
Lord's fatuity C"
Now, without meaning any particular disrespect to
the ordination service, we have a strong objection to this
sort of technical puritanism in an address which, were
it meant to answer any useful purpose, should have
conveyed impressive and affecting truths, in plain and
perspicnouslanguage. la the concerns of real religion,
where any vital effect is to be produced, this sort of
rebus-writing, for it is nothing better, is quite mis-
placed ; it is even worse than misplaced, for while it
puzzles the ignorant, it perplexes even the better in-
formed, and obstructs the practice of moral duly, be-
cause it prevents it from being understood. While
this sort of phraseology passes through the ear, it
leaves no meaning behind, and strive as you will to
interpret it, you can gain nothing. If we are speak-
ing of the establishment* of our modern nobility, we
are perfectly understood when we talk of the =amen-
gets, watchmen, and stewards, who make a part of
it ; but when the younger sons of these nobility,
through the purchase of advowsons, or through the
less expensive and more compendious channel of par-
liamentary interest, " are admitted to the Christian
ministry in our church," to address them as " the
messengers, watchmen, and stewards of the Lord," is
really little better than profanation. Our modern
evangelists appear to fancy that if they introduce the
name of the Loan, it sanctifies all the jargon they
couple with it. With persons of a certain rank of its-
telkct this may pass for " the mystery of godliness,"
'Lod from persons of a certain rank of intellect- most
)srgon may be expected. They may represent those,
Delves as appointed " to feed and to provide for the
:pord's table," while they are solely intent on providing.
Ifle their own table, and feeding themselves at the cost'
isf other people's labour. But an Ancuatsuor•ougbt
not to consecrate this sort of style. Anadosonitiowit is
useless; as instruction, it is worse than contemptible.
There is- moreover another strong objection to this I
perverted and puritanic phraseology. Sentimenti are
conveyed and doctrines insinuated under it, which,