The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-10 00:00:00

POETRY.

ORIGINAL VERSES BY LORD BYRON.
The following verses are stated to have been written by the late
Lord BYxoN in the Album of the Union Hotel, at Cha-
mouni, near Geneva :
All hail, Mont Blanc Mont en Vert, hail !.
With thee I can associate still ;
And, should all other pleasures fail,
I'll stretch me by the murnfring
Or into solitude I'll fly,
And commune with the DEITY !
Far from the pride and scorn of Man,
The worthless objects of their care,
The works of nature I can scan,
And sometimes bold, yet fearful, dare
Express those feelings kindly given
By the benevolence of Heaven !
Alone I come ! alone I go !
Alike unnoticed and unknown !
Press'd by a weight of lasting woe,
From East to West by tempest blown ;
No rest ! no peace ! until I fly
From Time into Eternity !

Yet why— why should I complain ?
Are not some other joys my own,
Joys which the multitude disdain,
To duller, happier souls unknown ?
Yes, 1 will bravely dare my lot
Until I die and be forgot !
No need to add my humble name,
Ne'er mentioned yet by babbling Fame !
Few will demand to whom belong
These transports of a Child of Song•
One who would wish, with Poet's fire
And daring hand, to sweep the Lyre !

EPITAPH.—in a village church-yard, near Thornton, in
Yorkshire, is to be seen a plain stone, close to the church, raved
to the memory of JOHN TaoLLor, who appears to haze been
the builder of the church; and the epitaph runs quaintly in
these words :
" Here lies Jonw Titor.r.or,
Who made these stones to roll up ;
When God Almighty took his soule up,
And his bodie went to fill this hole up."

Ilacnxttn S ESQ.-011 Friday last, the
4th instant, died at his seat at Aloor Park, near
Ludlow, in the fifty-first year of his age,
RICHARD SA LWEY, Esq. He was of very ancient
Norman origin, his fatuity being descended from
Humphrey de Salwey of Kanke, in the County of
Stafford,and himself maternally from the Lords Fol-
liott, of Stonehouse,in the county of Salop. In 1795
he married Isabella, daughter of Job Walker
Baugh, Esq. of Stone-house, and is succeeded
in his estate by John Salwey, Esq. his only son.
He was a Gentleman universally beloved and

respected, for his high principles, conciliating
and amiable disposition, and polished manners.—
By this deeply afflicting event, his family have
to deplore the irreparable loss of the kindest
and most affectionate husband and father,
and his friends, by whom his private worth
could be best appreciated, a most excellent
man, kind-hearted, benevolent, and humane ;
his charities were extensive, but unostentatious,
and his memory will be long cherished in the
grateful recollections of the poor of his immediate
neighbourhood and the surrounding country.—
lie was High Sheriff of the County of Hereford
'in the year 1807, and in the beginning of the war
with France served on the Continent in the 11th
Regiment of Light Dragoons, and was afterwards
Colonel Commandant of the Ludlow Volunteers,
which, from the great respect and regard he was
held in by that corps, he was enabled to bring to
the highest state of military discipline and per-

fection.
FRAUDS OY THE FRENCH PRIESTS.—A dispute,
which as yet has only occupied the_ Clergy of
the capital, is engaging the attention of the
whole world, now that sacrilege is the order
of the day. A pretended historical fragment,
beautifully printed, on handsome paper, ac-
companied by an engraving, informs us, under
the title of Marie Antoinette a la Concicr-
gei'ie, of incredible, and almost miraculous
cirumstances. The Royal victim, who has always
been supposed to have been so strictly guarded in
her prison, received, according to the pamphlet,
the visit of a charitable and devout woman,
and likewise that of a priest. This is not all.
Mass was celebrated in her presence, and she
received the sacrament. This pious and affecting
though unfortunately improbable scene, is accom-
panied with details not less romantic. Another
historian has made his appearance, and has
stoutly contradicted the narrator at the same
time supporting his denial by proof and argument.
His refutation is entitled La fausse communion de
la geine soutenue uu moyen d'unfaux. The anecdote
is pronounced apocrypha I,and its inventor honour-
ed with epithets which we will not repeat. What
is most deplorable is, that the man taxed with
so interested an imposture, is 'a minister of the
religion of . the State. A speculation so bold
and so sacrilegious, at the moment when it
is in contemplation to
.arm the Catholic re-
ligion with capital punishment against those
who profane it, gives rise to many reflec-
tions. It appears to us, that we have already
arrived at that point at which the legislation
should rather adopt measures for repressing the
abuses which have crept in under the mask of
religion, than by creating a new theory of
crimes and delinquencies. If they are desirous
of reviving ancient customs, let them at least seek
their models in our Parliarnen s, and• not in the
annals of the Inquisition.—(Le Consitutionnel.)
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.-ADOUt eleven o'clock
this forenoon a very distressing occurrence happened in the
house of Mr. D. Morris, Grafton-street, Saint James's: the
housemaid, a girl of 17 years of age, was cleaning the drawing-
room window, and 111 r. Morris's youngest son, a child of nine
years of age, happening by some means to get possession
of a fowling-piece, which was loaded, and, unconsciously
raising it parallel with the girl, it went off, and the contents
lodged in her back, neck, and right shoulder. Her shrieks
attracted the attention of some persons passing, and they
rushed into the house. The alarm of the family may be
imagined. Instant medical aid was procured, and Mr.
Young, the surgeon, having examined the wounds, declared
his opinion to be that she could not survive many hours ; how-
ever, every medical attention has been adopted, and she was
alive at 12 o'clock. The shock it is feared will prove very in-
jurious to Mrs. Morris, who is in a very delicate state of health.
A man having business with a Magistrate who
was an auctioneer, gave much offence by neglecting to call him
his Worship; for which he received a severe rebuke. Soon
after he constantly attended the Justice's sales, bidding for al-
most every lot; " three-pence, your Worship—sixpence, your
Worship," which caused such scenes of laughter at the auc-
tioneer's expence, that he was glad to give him ten guineas
never to attend his sales any more.
JARNOWICK, the composer, being in the music-
shop of Railleux, accidentally broke a pane of
glass. 64 Those who break windows must pay
for them," said Bailleux. 44 Right," replied the
64 How
_much it it ?" " Thirty sous."—
's a three-franc piece." 44 But I have no
Coscmt hTaelelrile ; r c
hange." " Never mind that," replied
jarnowick, U we are- now quits," and imtne-
diately dashed his cane through a second square.