The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-11-06 00:00:00

POETRY.

ELEGIAC STANZAS
ON un-. DEATH OF TILE PRINCESS CHAR( °Tn.

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Yea! 'l!e the alOn't the r, ul reimoing morn,
cast o'er of WI-whoa gloom
Which gave for a wretched hope for!uin,
And sen:'d in death our Royal Chartutte's down

Yes! 'tis the day, the 5:..1 and mournful day,
IVhich opes afresh our tears, but half sit purest ;
For her whose spirit burst the hood+ of clay,
Aud Anted to joiu the Liegdom of the blest.

Twelve silver ovals" have blazed in ether blur,
Theo Mid their brains in evcilaqliite night;
Lark Lure a fair, though sail retetutiliiisce irur,
Of her who shined with pure eekaial light.

Each settin: slot, which with ■ crimson dye,
Tined with such spleinlour all the glowing wt.bi ;
Argued saes, each fond pathetic sigh
Fur her who sleeps in sweet eternal mat.

Charlotte! if from thy WO, !walk throne,
Thou ileigu'fit to view thY people 'a anouruing
Accept their tears, their pure affection uwn,
And mod them rays of comfort Gum above.

Oft as ibis annual monitor of woe,
Old Time's revolving axis shall present ;
England shall bid her choicest sorrows flow,
And weeping Britons Charlotte's loss lament!
HENRY.

TIIE UGLY WIFE.
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Torn tipe4 a il'ei hag that would frighten a hotw,
Repentance soon tortures his mind ;
But vain are the team that eatiresa tai. retuu,aq
Unless he eau iCri, himself Druid !

wo.:s

The Duchess of Yonx spent Tuesday evening,
with the Princess SOPHIA and Princess SOPHIA of.
GLOUCESTER, at Windsor Castle. The Royal
Duchess slept at her apartments in tilt. Upi.er Lodge.
Windsor, and, remained there dining Werintsday
morning, and in the afternoon her Itiyal fliginitat
drove herself in a curricle to Outlands.,
Mr. Pascua Gitauircu.'s newly-tieviired cap::-
cious mansion, in Charles-street, St. .lanies'4-.
square, long the residence of the GALLOWAY fa-
mily, is at present undergoing a thoroagii
as well as recuiving some embellishments id front,
previously to Mr. GILENVELL'S personal occupation
of it.

Miss STEPttEeS commenced an engageiceLt at
the Cork Theatre on Monday last.
Mr. T. PHILIPPS. at the moment when li.
mraliged every thing for his departure from Am.
rics. bas been prevailed upon by Mr. 1; ELFOIVI
the inn-in-law and successor of Mr. llui.st AN, i 6•.
Manager of the Charleston theatre, to enter :too
engageinent at that and the Savannah tlteatr•. I
will open in Charle%toti for six nights,. at.
instant, play eight mere at Saivism's!' in Deceia ,
return toCharleston in Februs►y, thence proc: ell ;,,
New York, and there take shipping fur England
or Ireland in the beginning of March.

The account of Lady ROMIILLY and her fimily,
which hag appeared in all the Pausera, is erroi,euu..
Her maidvii name was GARBETT, Cs will appear
from the announcement of her marriage, with Sir
SAMUEL RoMILLY, in the Gentleman's Magazine,
fur Jan. 1798, vol. 68. p. 83.
" January 3.—Married, at Kali, in the County of flerr.
ford. Sanwa Runiilly, Eq. of Lineoltea.lon. to Miss G4T.
belt, eldtst daughter of Francis Garbitt, Esq. of Kwli
Court."
The funeral of the late Sir SANtuat. Romtwir
will, it is said, be a private one, and that his re.
mains will be interred in the vault of the church
of St. Anne's. Soho, the parish in which he
born.

It is a singular circumstance, that, in the
chinch of St. Bride, Fleet-street, there is a simple
undecorated tablet placed against the wall, on w had i
there is au inscription to the memory of an elier,i(ar
of Sir SAMUEL RUMMY, who died of a barn
heart, seven days after the decease ot'a beloved wife.
The inscription is a follows:-..

Near this place
are deposited the remains of
Mr. ISAAC ROMILLY, F RS.
Obiit 19th December 1759, Etat 49,
whose affable and humane temper of mind,
joyaed to his goodacu of heart,
justly endeared him to all hie frienda,
a. did his great ingenuity and labour
in forming his coteusive and valuable
collection of natural cstriosi ties
to the esteem of the learned,
iu
the same grave with the remains
of MARY, his beloved wife,
whose sudden and unexpected death,
041 the 11th of December, 1759,
io the 48th year of her age,
greatly contributed to shorten
the thread of his life;
for they were an example
of conjugal
affection.

On Saturday night, the 24th ult. as Mr. Tows-
END. • gentleman engaged in the Elm
Drainage, was returning home from Peter'Jor.vol
market, he was accidentally thrown from file 11,..•k•
near Whittlege% and, melancholy to relate, ktAd
on the spot. Mr. Towtansy was engineer fur s"
sera! of the public works executed within tlice
few years in Lincolnshire.

On the ht instant a shocking accident liappenci
in the New Town, Edinburgh. Au Engler IZe"
tteman reeiding in one of the hotels, happening. es
is supposed, to stumble on the pavement, fell
the roiling of an area, one of the pikes of which
entered below his left jaw, and the point came out
near the eye. Although quickly relieved, end car-
ried to the Infirmary, the unfortunate gcolleu"
died a short time after.