The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-23 00:00:00

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POMMY.

The following Lines are exteaactl from " ORIG I-
NAL PORItI3," by Mrs. ii.tonAßDsoll, Widow ut the
late 4 JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Esq. winch ate adtiliraiAy
calculated to regulkue the temper and form the
morals of the rising generation.

COMPARATIVE AFFLICTIONS.

Om I summer's day a heavy rain
Caus'd young Matilda to complain,
And breathe forth many a sigh;
She watch'd each heavy gathering cloud—
As they grew dark, her griefs grew loud,
And down she sat to cry.

Yielding to peevish discontent,
Much did she her hard fate lament,

And said, 'twas always so :
When things to please her were arrang'd,
The weather then direeily charig'd,
So that ihe could not go.

And on this day 't was worst of all :
She was invited to a ball,

Her dress was new and fine :
The dmices she had pradis'd well ;
And thought sbe many should excell,
And many more outshine.
The Sociable was just prepar'd,
The servants at her dress had star'd,

A PR4yER,

And said how ilice She'd look :
Her high-raissellinpos now tender'd tains,
Thus by the coining on of rain,
Comfort her heart forsook.

Her friends, by turns, to soothe her tried-
4, I knew it would be thus,"
‘she cried,
" I'm an unlucky girl ;
" And, tho"twas fix'd.so long, you know,
" 1 somehow thought I should nor go,
" whilst Imy hair di►d curl." _

Tv B JStD IN THE.SWEDISH cin:ncitas DJnitrG

She up again the window threw,
'When a poor Infiint caught het view
Droich'd by the pou4ng rain :
A wretched woman held the child,
OflooLdistressici and aspea wild,
But scarce could it sustain.

Matilda's costly dress she spied,
And softly thus site said, and sigh'd,
" To some what bliss is given ;
" How diltiaent that young Lady's fate,
"6 From tors, who languish at her gate,
" From every shelter driven."

THE WAR.

•
. Almighty, just, pd eternal God, look mercifully
upon thy people, who put their hope and trust iii
the alone.

The huh: wayward mourner now
I..),icd up her teas, and stuootied her brow,
And sending out relief
To tit .)se whose woes taught her to know,
'•
How happy was her lot below,
Felt no Inure fancied grief.

We implore thy proteetion and defence; for faith-
less enemies have Unjustly made war upon us. Thou
art just, 0 God What an encouraging consolation
this, in our rightful cause. Thou art omnipotent :
what hiVineible aid 'Tay we not then look for. •
Support, guard; strengthen, and endue with thy
special grace and blessing our good and beloved
Sovereign, under all his cares fur the welfare and
defence of his Kingdom. Grant him prosperity and
finticesss in 'all his proceedings :Anti endeavours to
frustrate the wicked plots of our enemies.
Inspire, U Almighty God, all our hearts With one
spirit and one'unnd, so. that %t ith the bravery andcou;
rage of our forefathers we may go forth band in band;
• and with tinited strength for the deti:nce of ail that
dear to us—our beloved native land, and Manfully
resist the insidious foes of its prosperity and indtpeud-
ence drive biick the enemies from our frontiers ;
crown our arms with victory, and restore peace and
quiet to our habitations,
. . . .

_ Be, thou now with us, 0 God ! ,as thou wast with
our forefathers ; they implored thy help in. the hour
of danger, and thou didst hear their prayers ; we
will. theli never forget to give glory to thy name,
thou most High ! We will leant' our children that
thou alone art the lord, mighty to save, in whom
thy people may place their hope and trust.—
Vutiehsafe to hear us, and accept our supplicmtung
for the sake of thy dear Son, our Saviour, Jesus
Christ.--Amen.

DEvts has sent a very fine equestrian portrait of
ALEXANDER DAvisow, Esq. to the ensuing Exhibi-
tion. The likeness is faithful. The horse is a fine
Arabian, and is painted with admirable spirit. :ThiS
picture was painted by order of the.Offieers of the
Loyal ?tritons, in order to be' presented to Mr: DA.,
visom.as a testimony of their Taped and esteem.
.
•
HULL, 3itae ACTOtt.—x esteraay afternoon, at his
house, near Dean's Yard, Westminster, this respea-
able naor and truly estimable man closed his earthly
career, after a long and painful illness, which he
-Supported with Christian patience and fortitude.—
He was in the eightieth year of his age, and had

Lona FESTIVAL.—The great festival of the an-
niversary commemoration Of our Saviour's rebut.-
redion, which, NELSON says, challenges, for its
antiquity and excellency, the precedence of all
other Festivals, commenced on Sunday. It is in
English called Easter, from the Goddess Easter,
worshipped by the Saxons, with peculiar ceremo-
nies, in the month of April. The time of kteping
Easter, was, in the 2d century, in great dispute, be-
tween the Eastern and Western Churches. The
former celebrated it on the 14,th day of the moon,
according to the law of Moses, on whatever day it
fell, pretending that St. John kept Easier so. The.
latter observed the Sunday after the 14th day of
the March moon, asserting, tthat St. Peter and
St. Paul always did so. At length the WeStern
mode prevailed, and ,the Council of Arles, iu 314,
decreed, that churches should celebrate Easter,
an the Sunday after the fourteenth of the March
moon; when the moon happened,. after the Vernal
Equinox, in the 6th century, °sway, one of our
petty Kings, decided in favour .of St:Peter, and
Easter Day has on • a Sunday, in England,
ever since.
' -Friday se'nniglit;about twelve o'clock, a gang
of robbers; nine •iu number, attacked time house of
JOHN Bemut, of Ross, near O'lrien's-Bridge, in
the County of Clare, Esq. 'They entered by break-
. ihg in the kitchen door, and, leaving one to-watch
the -servant man; who lay .near the kitchen, were
:prbceediag up the stairs, when the harking of 'a
. dog, in the roam with Mr. BLAKE, alarmed him
and the Rev. Mr. M'CoamActs, parish priest of
Killidoe; they immediately arose, and, went to the
stair-head with guns ; perceiving them stealing
up, Mr. B. threatened to if they, advanced a
step further, when the fellows instantly retired.--
After leavieg the house, .theylired several shuts
ihr -.) the window, but without any Material in-
. ou,
Jury. - ,The intrepidity of those two Gentlemen de-
serves much cOrnmendation,Jo whose spirited 'con-

been so long a member of the theatrical comma- dt,c-t She retreat 61.41i0,-.0 ititii:ins was wholly owing;
nity, that he had become the father of the Stage,— end we cannot pic-is over the fidelity of one of the
se He was originally in the medical profession, and doesties,_ who assaulted the fellows with a cane
among those who knew him long was generally j sword, and Wounded one et them in the back.
styled Dr fict.c. He was a good scholar, and pus- . Whet' the new King of WesTreacts was, a few
sensed literary talents, which; he frequently exercised, months since, abotittfto 'take possession of the Eke-
many years ago, with credit to his character. His , tore! Palace, of Weissenstein, near Cassel, as his
compositions were invariably, intended to promote priepipal residence, he gave orders that k should be
the interests of virtue and excite the benevolent at.- superbly furnished, with especial diredions that in
fections. But what must for ever render his name all cases English manufactory should be preferretb
dear to the friends of humanity, and particularly the ThiS may seem a tale invented only to illustrate, the
theatrical world, he was the Fueeder of that lnsti- inefficacy of the French Laws of Blockade ; .but,
tution which provides subsistence for decayed Ac- it is a real occurrence. When Btroe‘Ventere matte
tors and Actresses when they are no longer qua- I his tour along the Northern frontier of France, just
lifted for the duties of their profession. If this In- before his coronation, the laws against English goods
stitution had been properly supported by the Pro. had been enforced with great spew of tigour. A‘
prietors of the Theatres and the principal Wrformers, strict watch was kept at Mayence, to prevent the
it would have been much more prosperoits than it introduction of such goods which the Frankfort
has been, and would, of course, have afforded a lair had brought into the eeighliourhood; yet the
more comfortable support for Those who are not in Imperial Suite were exempt from search, and it was
general much disposed to provide for the decline of
_notorious *left the Empress JOSartilNa and her Court
life, who 'often delight the public, but of whom the were adorned with nothing but articles of English
. public think little when their power of delighting is manufactory. It was, said that in one. day twelve
er an end. To the eternal honour of the immortalt carriages, with blinds up, crossed the bridge at May-
.GAnxiczt,' whose character was often slandered by ence, notoriously stetted fell of English wares,
.atel,
the .imputation of avarice, though he was alwaya free front all dangers of visitation, being protedted
ready to assist distress, that great actor constamlyper- by Ihe Imperial livery.
~ . .
i formed for the benefit of theTheatrieal Fund, tilt lie CiuTmsr. TO SuEEP-oEALalts.—At the Assizes
found it necessary to retire wholly hum the stage. for. Becks, held. at Aylesbury, an anion .was tried,
°11:4;n Morris v. Williatti,: to recover datnagea fur some on-
Mr. Htii.t. wrote a tragedy upon the subjed
RosAMoNb, whose story will always iv ii'ilinguisheci sound sheep, sold by the Defend:sot to the ;Plaintiff'.
in the tinnals of thiscountry. If there Were no touchea it appeared, from the evidence of Mr. ltd. llyinill;
OtSeblirne poes)k in this work, it was marked with ia sheep-dealer, that these "sheep vitae bought by
Food senses and natural feeling ; the charatters were him of Mr. Kimble, of New Barn, in Oxfordshire,
)udiciouslY contrasted, and the feble was properly whence he drove theta, in a day or two afterwards,
cohdeeted.. M. H u Lt. dedicated the play to. the tne- T.,:
to e'ieester market, and sold and re/arra/Ord them
mry oof SnacrsToNtt, the Poet, of whose friendship sound. to• the Defendant, The Detendaat drove
he was reasonably proud, and ut whom he, had an them from nicer:ter to Adstocke near.
,Winslow, .
original portrait, which lie held in great Veneration, where he kept them abeet a week, and sold thetalsilr...Huu, lost a very amiable wife a few years no, to the pherttitr with „0 any warranty
at
all
at ow
lime q.srde, het efain condition t hat /Pie (the Plain.
who had formerly been his pupil. Their affeelion
for each other never stayerecraoyahaternent throdgh tit}) did not like thew, he nth! k
.1, return them ; but it 1
along intercourse, and their attention to each other was proved that she Defeatism t (ji,rwa,ds wuraffied
was the evident result of respeo and esteem, as well them sound. The Plaintiff also preVed, by three or
as.of regard
.end duty. Upon the whole, it May be foui„Wittiesses, that in the course' of a few ‘veeks
fairly said, that while he was highly respeelable itt aster he had bought them, several of theni.diederty
the theatrical calling, no man eser acted
ed his part rotten i dial they died of an ohi . m., crud
t that they
upon,ahe atage of life, with,tuore,uniform propriety, we-re ' very rotten long lefoiT the Defendant bad
or left ilatt stage with more apprehattenfrom those. b6oght them of Ry,Ail. hytmil, however-; La.
who had WitneSed: his eopdlita, and' li:tie wt he tiferit a with this positil;e evidence, swore, that they
of his charaper...:Tpe Principals of the Theatrical' were Wand when he sold thena to the Defendant ;
Fund, we understand, have, umeh to their hon Our; fiat he then warranted' them sound, and never sold_
requested permission to be at •the expence of 1u
, Which *Are doubt, riot will be attended by, atl' without so \varranfieg,
,the But the Jury,
funeral., wheal;
he Mernbers of tille profession to which be VwerYl juitly appreciating the mci its of the ease, and
most of t
t le satisfaction of the Court,' gaW a verdid for
did so much credit, anti rendered' so mtith bervit,e, than II:1.416a; wit!; 1 61: tfaMages.
BlXTHle,tertfai morning, April its; in \Vel- . . On. Wedll'esday a servant girl belonging to Mr.
Veck-street, the Lady ut Room' Itiv`t,WsTobr, miff: or Edmund Dent,' ' D T j
of ra7c, near horse, .lout an once
a Son. . . ito leer lifer by banging herself.
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