The Sun.
London, England, 1813-01-28 00:00:00

AM. LEE'S PAMPHLET.

POET'R'Y

EPILOGUE TO THE NEW TRAGEDY, ENTITLED

WRIAEN UV AuTuou.

!TOKEN BY MISS SMITH, IN THE CHARACTER

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Oh I the prnerastimiting idle rogue
'l'4o poet has just sent his Epilogue;
,Aye, just like him I.—and the hand /
(1-'oarteig over the. nutmocript)---Tha stick !
I could as soon decipher Arahic!
But hark ! My- wizards" own poetic elf
Bids me take courage, and make one myself!
An heiress, and with sighing swains in plenty,
From blooming nineteen to full blown five-and-twenty,
Life heating high, and youth upon the wing, s
" A six years absence was a heavy thing!"
Heavy l—nny let's describe things as, they are,
With sense and nature Itwas at open war—
Mere affectation to be singular.
Yet ere you overflow in condemnation,
Think first on poor Teresq's education;
Mid mountain wilds, near billow-beaten moats,.
Where sea gales play'd with her dishevelled locks,
Bred in the spot where first to light she.sprung,
With no academies for Ladies
Acatlemie4—(sweet phrase!) that well may claim
Front Plato's sacred grove th' appropriate mane!
No morning visits, no sweet waltzing dances,—
Then fur tending—what but bilge rounmees,
With as still' murals, leasing earth behind 'cm
At, the brass-elinip'd, brass-corner'd boards tliat, bind 'em.
Knights, eitaste as brave, who strange adventures seek,
And faithful' loves' of Ladies, fi,ir as meek;
Or saintly. hermits' wonder-raisingaets,
hist 'tad 01—psivelsjw.ietlid lipase facts
Which decently immoral have the Oa
To spare the Mash, and undersap the heart!
Oh,•think Of these, mid 'hundreds worse titan these,
(141 improving disadvantagiis •
• And grounds for pity—not for blame you'll see,
E'en in Tere,w's six year's constancy;
(1,00 ins. at the Maanscript)
fl t, strap ! whif's this:'---Out' Poet bids toe say,
1.11.5 t your leelingti in this Piny.;
111 ,t/ woes, that snake you groan,.
.r!.irts, perhaps your own,
Y•t.: with im imag, compensate the in;tni,
Nor leave one joy foe memory behind.
IWO wish no loud laugh, from the sly, shrew'd sneer,
T' unsettle front your eyes the quiet tear,
Tbat Pity hied brought, and Wisdom would. leave
there.. ,
Now calm be waits yonr ;lodgment ! (win or miss),
fly no loud plandits.sav'tl, donned by no factious hiss.

FROM VIZ LoNiJON GAZE l'E, J.N. 26.

DIVIDENDS—At Guildhall.

_ .
.Feb. 15. W. 'Frock, Ilunover-screet, Long-acre, ship-owner,

at ten.
Feb. 20. S. grown and T. flobbes Sott, of St. Mary-hill,
merehani 4, at twelve.
Fel). In. h. T. Thompson, Cannon-street, Owe-tanker, at one.
F4l). 21. L. Thomas, Denmari.-court, Gulden-laue, printer,

sst elevto.
Veb. t 6. J. Kirk, Little '1 wet-bill, wine-nierelt.int, at one.
Veit. 23. K. Kettchill,(„:brapside, waveltotigtoiab,ta, ten.
Feb. 17. IL ll4ulger, )4te nt Dory, innkeeper, a twelve:, at
the Now tctn, piadinirn.
Feb. 20. E. Shaw, late of On Cock and tlotlle Lambeth-walk,
at twelve,
Vet). G, W. hen, NI atm, Dent, eottl-nterebant, lit twelve.
vo, 10. S, yug-metehunt at twelve.
Feb. 16. T. llyketo, late of Gust Easteltettp, c.bocoloto-

'maker, at ten.
Feb. 27. N. (iibborn,Judd-btreet,Bruuswick-square,

sex, gvocci., ut
Feb. IS. J. Stvpinip, Downhom-Marlia, Norfolk, botcher,
ut the Crown Inn, I:Sownlutru-"Sfurket.,
Fe). Crittent late,of ikulesivortli, Suffolk, pluintir, at
uleven, ut thu Angel Inn; Iluicsworth.
F 0). 17. IL Thurslttltl, Liver soul, tle4fer in eurtbknware,
at one,, at tbtt Mice Of Tnoinas Morrow, Ciitic-street,

Li verpoOl.
Fe'). 24, I. Aslitoss, late of Salford, Lancaishirc, roper, at
t'irce, at tha Doi and l'artridgitTavern, 'Alatichester,
Fvh 17. W. Baker, York, confectiOner,rit eleven, at Clarku's
Coney-street, York.•
FeU. 17. O. Abhotts, Staffordshire, earn-deal zr, at twelve, at
the Talbot. Inn, Hugely, Stafford. •
Feb. 17. G. Gregory; put. Liverpool, druggist, at one, at the
'Globe l'avernolohn-street, Liverpool.. • .
Feb. 17, IL Coolie, Nlauelicster, merchant, at the Dog Tavern,
I)cansgate, Manchester.
CEIITIFICATES—Fru. 16.
A. Walker, ten.. aud NI, Wall.er, Birmingham, merchants.
J. Crandall, South Lumboth, Surrey, timber-inerehant.
J. Charley, Ileer,lake, London, merchant.
H. Hunt, South-street, Finsbury-square, London, merchant.
W. Gonda ir, Stepney, dyer.
J. l'ortsea, Southampton, mercer.

Liatitenaut I NNItY FtTZct.ARENCE it removed
from the ith loot to the 15th Light Dragoons,
'commanded by his Royal Highness the Duke of
CV NMI, LAND, DOW under orders for Portugal,

'on, Friday at, a large .Meeting of 'Noble-
ni(„l " and other Gentlemen, at the Belli
I
Maidstone, a Motion was made by the lion.
Colonel Stratford, and seconded by .Sir Henry
Hawley, Bart. to request the High Sheriff of this
County to call a Meeting of the County, for the
purpOtte of.cmisidering the propriety of. presenting
a Petition to Parliinnent against the.preseut claims
of the Itonlan Catholics. 'The Motion Was irnme.
diatcly adopted, and the Requisition to the She-
riff higned.
A trotting match took place yesterday on the
Ashford road for :2000, between Cara, Swaim's
gr. tn. and a horse belonging to Mr. Riddle,
of Orchard-street. The distance. *as nine miles,
and the horse iyon the race by two lengths, in 3'..1
Minutes,

On Wednesday a wottan was committed to
Sandwich Gaol, kom the Isle.of Thanct, where
alts was apprehended by the father Of a, child
which she hird stOlen, front near Battle, in Sussex,
front whence she had been traced by the anxious
iiirrent, who is a labouring titan, and who was as-
s;lted in his pursuit by the charitaide donations
o'f the inhabitants,of the places through which he
passed. The circumstance ti the winnan who
stole the child, having been recently acquitted of
a charge of nuirdering an infant of her owl),
elused a lively interest to be felt for the Ike of
this little one, along the whole line of coast which
the parties had passed, The motive of the thief
appeared to be to impose herself on the pu4lic as
an object of charity, assenting the character of a
wjte.
IxQuEsT.—A Corner's Inquest .was held in
Thrirso.;-street, Spital-fields,, on the body of T.
Mosley, who war found dead in his bed,. After
coming home at a late hour at night, he contiatt.
ed speechless, unit, unable to account, for his hubs.
position, till he, died. Violent bruises k ppeared
to have been recently sustained by thelleteaseil
but whether ,froin the effects of his falling, or
Uoni- violence oft the part of ethers,. itraS not
uscertained. A. surgeon having opened' his he'ad,
declared it his decided opinion, that the deceased
bad' come by his death,- in consequence of having
been violently assaulted and beaten. The jury
returned a verdict of kfrigui dirties, against some
p, sot of persont unknown. :

We resume our Extract from the above intel-
ligent Work, entitled " The night of every
British Merchant to trade within the Geographi-
cal lithits, defined by. the Charter of the Last
India Company, vindicated." •
"The is a period at which a Government may
acquire the salutary knowledge,—that to govern
well is the way to govern long ; and with the
impression upon the mind, that the government
in British India is highly beneficial to the subject
there, it cannot rationally he contended, that the
annihilatian of the Company is necessary, or that
so decided a measure wonlci be attended with
commensarafe utility. Fortunate is the Com
pany.l happy are the inhabitants of its territorial
possessions ! that, a wise and impartihl adminis-
tration of justice, and thar a spirit of useful re-
gulations in the internal economy in Indii,
have resulted trom their ostensible sovereignty
there. _ _ _

"Let the local history of the people which
nont obeys their rule be referred tp, and let the
simple fact be impressed on our recollection, that:
the Indian peasant, heretofore exposed to the un-
mitigated cruelty and never-sated rapacity of
every Man
,who called himself his rajah, his cone
queror,.or his chief; of 'every man invested with
the character of a Company's agent, officer, or re-
sident; is now protected in the enjoyment of life,
liberty, and property, tinder the ostensible rule
of the East India Company,---hut really and sub-
stantially under the controlling power, and
through salutary ititerference of the British Le-
gislature : With willing homage History will as-
sign unwithering honour to a Goetirinficitt, who,
to fill the benches of jurisprudence, sought out
men of the most exalted talent, of the most Vll-
larged acquirements, anti of the Most untainted
integrity:
" It.may be observed, that if Sir 'William Jones
and'Sir James Mackintosh were chosen to fill the
seats of supreme justice in their respective pro-
vince's, those who chose them must have looked
Oita the seeds of time ; they must have heen.com-
petent to say, that good grain would grow, alai
must have gratefully anticipated that bad would
not spring up to chock it. The political princi-
ples of these able juges were known : Sir
Inn Jones had Written a suppoSed libel on the
Government, which a Reverend :Churchman had
published, and (Or doing so he was ineffectually
prosecuted. The freedom and ability with which
Sir James Mackintosh had, indeed sanguinely,
discOssed, and even excused the French
were equally public,; yet to these men was
administration of 3ustice in British India most
honourably and wisely .confieed.
" India, it should be 'II/membered, is grmind
on which the local government had been watch- •
ed ; it is here, on Indian ground, that there were
found Men willing to track , the ravages of the
plunderer, and the footsteps of the assassin to
caution the unwary ugaiust the insidious net, and
attempt to shield the weak from the violence of
the strong. 'were not eager Cabe' distinguish-
ed only'for the commission of sonic enormity or
other,—the suggestion of avarice, or the perpe-
tration of cruelty., Some there were, whose eyes
were not shot to peculation which they did not
share, and whose hearts commiserated tthe crimi-
nality by which no benefit to them resulted. The
machinery in India itself was to vast and compli-
.cated to be worked or adjusted only by bad agents;
in the commingled race; and in the order of na-
ture, some better spirit would be found; and as
,the movements of the machinery became snore nu-
merous, the chances of slamliering virtue and hu-
manity being aroused and awakened, were multi-:
plied; the public delinquent was cram ped ,or at large
in executing his predatory plans, in propbrtion as
his power was limited within a less or a greater cir-
cle : what could be designed or accomplished at
Calcutta, with the assistance' Only of as few cho-
sen participators, would lie liable to be defeated
where many Might become acquainted with the
secret, and who, from their numbers, must. ne-
cessarily, r he overlooked in. the division of the
old) Paradoxical as the assumption may
appear, it was perhaps because the empireAn
laa-
'dtaa has• at length ceased, to he distinguished by
barefaced and frequent flagitiousness. To trait
ut magnitudine sun biboret

" Could the policy of that Government have re-
mained impenetrably shrouded behind the tonic
columns of Leadenhall-street, or have been cir-
cumscribed by the imnicdiate lints that surround
its Eastern Presidencies, .ong ere this the only
monument of the British .name traceable hi India
would be an execrable remembrance, aiike
siu-
pendous and immortal; for in the defvdating -and
rapacions talons of the Company, it was truly
said, with relation to that country, that there
was nothing before the eyes of the'mitives but an
egtfloss prospect of new flight, of birds of prey and
passage. witivtppetites. continually renewing for
a food that was constantly wasting; Of such
miscreants might the miserable inhabitants have
exclaimed—

Ledissinut yenttis
Prolovies mica:tine ininus et pnllida s emper
Ora fme.
dimes contactintue amnia fmdant
linnitindo tillr) VON tett-Mil din/ inter udorcui.
And that, winging their flight to Iviropti,
vestigia relinquonti
(To be continued.)

At the Boy County Sessions last week,. Sir
\Vin. Rowley, Bart. and General Elwes, were res.:
pectively nominated to be qUarterly 'Chairman,;, In
the room of James num, Esq., deceased ; when
Sir William was' chosen by a great majorityof the
Magistrates present.
Fires.--4 fire. broke out on' Monday morning,
at eleven o'clock, in the tallow chandlery ware
house belonging to. Mr. Christian, corner Of
Br e:al-street' and Basing-lane, Chia side, which
burnt the lower part of the premises before it was
extinguished, An alarm of fire was given on
'-l'ilesdayinurning, at three o'clock, by, the watch
man going his rounds, in Holborn, who observed
the flames issuing front t 4! Punch Bowl publie';
house. Several engines were: soon on the Spot,.
and the fire was, after doing considerable damage,
got out,