The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-04 00:00:00

POETRY.

ON RETURNING TO MY BIRTH-PLACE.
Sweet EDEN of my childish hours,
From the wide world's tumultuous sea;
Escap'd, I seek thy tranquil bowers,
And feel at length that I am free.
Here, as my shatter'd bark returns,
Hope brightly looks on future years,
The torch of health, relumin'd, burns,
And memory smiles thro' all her tears.
Thy long arcades,of woven leaves,
Thy beechen bowers, o'erarching dark,
The shadow of whose foliage waves
Light o'er the silver, sunny bark.
The murmur of thy soft cascades,
Thy waters greenly, clearly bright,
Thy thymy banks, thy lawns, and glades ;
All—all are full of deep delight !
When shalli love a spot like thee ?
Or, what can ever break a bond
So twin'd by love and memory,
So sweetly strong, so firmly fond ?
Yet, 'tis not ev'n thy sweetest gales,
That bear away my inward woe ;
'Tis not the fragrance of thy vales,
That in its stead, can bliss below :
It is, that thy belov'd retreat,
Far from life's toilings, beaten road,
Gives peaceful hours, and leisure sweet,
To hold blest commune with my Gon !

• POACIIING.—" Stine weeks ago," says The Bury Gazette,
a man, of the name of Crannis, was convicted in the sum
of 151., for having been found on the bin& of Mr. Newton, of
Elden, with three pheasants in his pockets, he being a person
not qualified to kill game ; and for non-payment of the penalty,
was committed to the gaol here for three months ; on his arrival
at the prison, he was put into the receiving ward to be examin-
ed, as is the usual mode before admitted into the interior of the
gaol ; he was left there alone nearly half an hour ; during the
time he amused himself by drawing three pheasants upon the
walls with a piece of charcoal, and writing under them the fol-
lowing lines ' : _

" I am a carpenter by trade, I never was encroaching,
I had no work, no money, which made me go a poaching,
Three hen pheasants I had got, and homeward I was m4king,
Two fellows stopp'd me on the, road, so poor Joe was taken ;
Then to the Justice they did bring me,with him I could not prevail,
For my mittimus he did sign, and sent me off to gaol.
The pheasants I should have caught, I have now left for store,
And this summer, if they have luck, they'll breed plenty more,
And as soon as ever the next season do come in,
If I am alive, and not confined, I shall be ready to begin,
And if that I am taken again, the money I will pay,
For I shall never stand for money, while pheasants look so gay.
" JOSEPH CRANNIS, March, 1822. '

A GENUINE WIIIG.—The following anecdotes of the proud
Duke of • SOMERSET, who lived in the reigns of Anne and'
George 1., and,was one of the members of the Kit Kat Club,
are truly characteristic of that heterogeneous compound of
meanness and pride ; and the frequent union of domestic
tyranny with the most high-flown notions of public liberty,
so often exemplified in that most despicable of all poli-
tical characters—a thorough-paced Whig :--" On a quar-
rel with George I. the Duke threw up his appointment
of Master of the Horse in a manner which sufficiently
evinces the littleness of pride. Having commanded his ser-
vants to strip off the Royal and put on the family livery, he
sent for a common dust-cart, and directed that all the badges of
his office should he thrown into it; he then, followed by his re-
tinue and the aforesaid vehicle, proceeded to the court-yard of
St. James's palace, and, after ordering the driver to shoot the rub-
bish, he stalked back indignantly to Northumberland House, ac-
companied by the same cavalcade in which he had left it. This
petty and petulent spitefulness would have accorded far better
with the spirit of some retail demagogue of the city, than a noble-
man, the lustre of whose aristocratical honours depended solely
upon the preservation of the Majesty of that throne which he de-
graded himself by insulting. That his pride had little accord-
ance with English humour we need not be told. " Get out of
the way," said one of his people to a countryman who was dri-
ving a hog along the path by which the Duke had to pass.
Why ?' inquired the boor; 4 because my. Lord Duke is coming,
'and he does not like to be looked at,' rejoined the man. The
clown enraged at the imperious manner in which the mandate
was urged, exclaimed, but I will see him, and my pig shall
see him too :' and seizing the animal by the ears, held it up be-
fore him till his Grace and retinue were gone by. Lady Char-
lotte Finch, his second wife, once tapped him playfully on the
shoulder with her fan ; he turned to her with marked displea-
sure, and observed, " my first wife, Madame, never took that
liberty, and she was a Percy." His two youngest daughters
were accustomed to watch him, standing while he slept in the
afternoon : one of them, overcome with fatigue, sat down ; the
Duke awoke unexpectedly—he assured her that he should re-
member her disobedience, and accordingly left her 20,0001. less
than her sister.

The Concerts at Sheffield, ou Thursday and
Friday last, at which Madame CATALANi performed, were
well attended. We know not that a higher complinient could
have been paid to her unrivalled talents, than was simply ex-
pressed by a blind musician in the gallery on Thursday night.
While singing the beautiful air of" Angels ever bright and
fair," when she had uttered the line, " Take, 0 take, me to
your care," " Aye,"` exclaimed the humble son of Apollo,
" that they will, for they'll never let a voice like that go to the
d—v-1."

AN EASY AND EFFECTUAL RECEIPT FOR THE HEAL-
! ING OF BURNS.—After being scalded or burnt in any way,
apply cotton wool (prepared for spinning), as soon as possible,
to the sore. Put it on thick, and so close as to exclude the
air, and do not take it off till the burn is healed. If the cotton
gets wet, more must be put above it; but none taken off.
Should there be a blister, the water may be let out, by opening
it at the under side, before putting on the wool.
OR Saturday last, a smuggling lugger, named the Flying
Fish, laden with about 1300 tubs geneva and brandy, and a
considerable quantity of tea, tobacco, and snuff, was brought
into Leith harbour. She was captured off Fair Isle, after a
chase of three hours, by his Majesty's revenue cruizers Prince
of Wales and Royal Charlotte, during which much nautical
skill was displayed by Captain Oliver, of the Prince of Wales,
and Mr. Henderson, of the Royal Charlotte, to prevent the
escape of the lugger, which the crew endeavoured to effect
by various inanamvres; but owing to the constant fire kept up
by the cruizers, and they having closed upon her, she was
compelled to surrender. It appears she was fitted out from i
Flushing, was on her first trip, is perfectly new, and had on
board a crew of 20 men, who did not surrender until nearly 40
shot had struck their vessel.—(Edinburgh Courant, April 1.)

MARLBOROLTOWSTREET...-.-CURIOITS ASSAULT.--Yes-
terday Mrs. Armstrong., the wife of a person,in most respecta-
ble circumstances, appeared on a warrant before Mr. CONANT,
charging her with assaulting a young female acting under an
assumed name at the West London Theatre.
The young woman stated that a few evenings since she was
reciting publicly, and the defendant, who had stationed herself
in the stage box, occasionally took opportunities of hissing the
complainant, who, however, took no notice. On her quitting'the
theatre, the defendant met her in the street, and immediately
exclaimed aloud, " You hussey, how dare you attempt to
assume my name ?" Sz..c. The young woman begged her ad-
versary not to make a noise in the street, and to call, if she
had any thing to say, at her lodgings ; but the defendant ap-
pearing inclined to settle the business then,commenced a very
energetic argument, and violently pinched the complainant's
arms. This was the assault complained of. The young wo-
man concluded by observing, that she had lost a very lucrative
theatrical situation through the defendant's absurd conduct. '
The Solicitor for the young woman said, that the origin of
this affair was, that the plaintiff had taken the name of Arm-
strong, from having accepted the protection of the defendant's
husband; but now she was earning her bread in an honest
way, and had not retained the name of " Armstrong" with any
intention of offending the defendant.
The Magistrate ordered Mr. Armstrong to enter into his
own recognisance of 501. for the appearance of Mrs. Armstrong
at the Sessions.

Suffolk _Agricultural Report for March.—We
have been favoured with very fine and suitable
weather for the various spring operations of the
husbandman, and a good deal of coil' has been
already sown in excellent order ; the earliest of
which is up, and thriving as fast as the mildness
of the season will enable it. The young plants
of wheat are also growing well, and in general
look strong and healthy. Turnips (where not
removed) are doing harm to the land ; they are
for the most part in blossom, and the best are
worthless compared with MangelWurzel. Well-
stored Swedes are nevertheless extremely valu-
able at this season, and are a tolerable substitute
for Mangel Wurzel,