The Sun.
London, England, 1809-11-11 00:00:00

We are indebted to THE iNioNTaLY Miartoi, for
the following humourous Parody, which comos
from a pen distinguished for classical taste and ori-
ginal spirit :

HORACE IN LONDON.
BOOK 11.-ODE I.

TO MR. KEMBLE.

Macon ex Metelle censule civic;em, mac.
In battles provok'd by the blood-taintdd Thane,
When tempests assail aged Lear,
W hen fortune deserts the poor lunatic Dane,
In Richard the cruel, or Hotspur the vain,
0 when shall your equal appear ?
The wreath of applause what philosopher scorns ?
'Tis a crown of the sweetest moss roses :
I at when it the brow of an actor adorns,
The public. oft mix a few good-nat ur'd thorns,
• To tickle his ears when he doses.

Awhile to your theatre now bid adieu !
Fly, fly trom the tumult and riot !
Attempt not your truncheon and stalcto renew,
but give them to Townsend to help to subdue
The foes to new prices and quiet.
For, hark ! what a discord of bugles and bells,
What whistling and ;:pringirw, of rattles,
What 6c:earning, and groaning, and hissing, and yells,
Till mad headed Mammon his victims compels
To scuffles, rows, riots, and battles I

And now from the barracks of Bow-street, good lack!
A band under Townsend and Sayers,
Way,- high their gilt stall's,
.while the dull sounding twack
Falls frequent and thick on the enctnies' back,
Or visits their pate with a merry-ton'd crack,
to aid of King lohn and the Players.
The Billingsgate Muses indiknant to find
Catalani, and titliers trout Paris,
Usurping their place ; in revenge have combin'd,
To k►ck up tins dust in the popular mind,
So fatal to Kenible and Harris.

What surly Brown Bear has not gladly receiy'd
The misers who old prices stick to I
At Bow street what knight is not sorely aggriev'd,
%V here Christians are cross'd, unbelievers 'd,
0 story cirabile diau !

To mix in this warfare, regardless of fear,
W hat 'prentice or clerk is unwilling ;
From Smithfield and Wapping what heroes appear,
Who tiOt, 1 acknowledge, for all they hold dear,
‘Vlieu the object of war's the last shilling ?

What fists of defiance the pugilists wield ;
What hews have not had bloody noses ?
What vietim of law, who to Mainwarmg yields,
but gladly for ever would leave Cold-Bath.fields,
To limit here pro AR is el focisi)
But gently, my Muse: hush your angry-ton'd lyre,
From rows so disgraceful remove,
And seated at home by your own parlour fire,
Let beauty and claret your numbers inspire
To melody, laughter, and love.

*** This Ode is one of a series of imitations of HOR 'ter,
written by two Gentlemen, who are brothers in genius and
corisanAuinity. We hope they will collect and publish them
together, as it is hardly • a compliment to them to say, that
they have iucceeded as well in adapting the OnEs of HOR ACE
to Modern Characters and Manners, as POPE has in several
of the I: ISTLES Of the celebrated Roman Poet.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KlNG's BENCH, Nov. so.

CARRINGTON V. TAYLOR.

Mr. GARROW applied for a Rule to shew cause
why a new Trial should not be granted in this case.
The cause had been tried before the Lord Chief
Baron, and the ground of the action was, the De-
feydant had disturbed the Plaintiff's decoy, by dis-
charging guns in its neighbourhood. • •

The lad was, that both the Plaintiff and Defen-
dant made their living by killing of sea wild-fowl ;
and the at of aggression on the Plaintiff's decoy
was, not that he had made an actual inroad or' tres-_
pass on the decoy, by destroying any of the tame
birds used on, such occasions, but that, by tiring in
the neighbourhood of the decoy, he had frightened
those birdl ferce naturce, which might 'accidentally
have gone into the Plaintiff's decoy, but Which the
Defendant and all .his Majesty's subjects were en-
titled to kill, and appropriate to their own use,
wherever they could be found beyond the bounds of
any such legal, decoy,
.from entering the Plaintiff's
decoy, and partaking of the good cheer there to be
found.

Mr. Justice LE BLANC asked, within what dis-
tance of the decoy the fit ing had taken place, and it
any birth at the decoy had aCtually .been frightened
away ?
Mr. GARROW said, the evidence bore that the
firing had advanced to within three or four hundred
yards of the decoy, and that in consequence of it a
number.of birds hid been frightened from the Plain-
tiirs pond. He contended that this was not a suffi •
cient disturbance of the Plaintiff's right of decoy to
support an action like the present.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, the present, it .appear-
ed, was an ancient decoy.--:Having a right to an
ancient decoy, the Plaintiff was entitled to an un-
disturbed possession and enjoyment of it. The rest
of the Court concurred; and the Rule was of course
refused.