The Sun.
London, England, 1807-08-18 00:00:00

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THE BRITISII SOLDIER.

AS SUNG BY Ma. DIGNUNI.)

The Soldier,knows that ev'ry ball
taut billet bears;
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hetivir doom'd to rise or fall,
honour.% all be fears.
e his Country 'a all his plan :
naw'd and undismay'd.
He fights her battles like a man,
And by her thanks is paid.

To foreign Climes he cheerly goes,
By duty only driven ;
And when he falls his Country knows
For whom his life was given. •
Recorded on the front of day,
The Warrior's deeds appear ;
for him the Poet breathes his lay,
The Virgin sheds her tear.

Regardless of each hostile aim,
Thus NELSON'S godlike mind,
Absorb'd, and full of England's fame,
To England was confin'd.

No selfish views could steal a part,
Or add one private care,
The bill that rush'd up ni his heart
Found ANGLAND seated there.

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TIIE DUKE OF YORK'S BIRTII-DAK

His Royal Highness's Tradesmen had yesterday
a grand entertainmeot at the Thatched House, St.
jaromi's-street, in honour of the occasion. Upwards
of 80 persons partook of a sumptuous dinner -about
six o'clock. After the cloth was removed Min nobis
Dontine was sung in very tine style by Messrs.
TAYLOR, MASON, &C. ticc. Mr. CKANBOURNZ was
the Pre.ideut. Among the toasts were,

The King, the Queen, and Princesses; the PrinceOf Wales.
the Duke of York, and the Army ; with three times three
the latter wasarink Arun enthusiasm. The Dukc of Clarence,
and the Navy, &e. &c.

The evening was passed with much harmony and
conviviality. At night the Theatres, the Opera-
house, the Subscription-houses, aril the residences
of the principal Trades-people, were all illuminated.
Mr. TAYLOR'S, in Bond-strett, was fancifully n bat
and elegant ; D V, a crown, star, and festoons, were
the principal devices.

THE TusATRE.--i-The new Comedy of Errors
4,xcepted wept off last night with great spirit. The
parts are admirably adapted to the . powers of the
respective Pertbriners, and they continue to exert
themselves with great zeal and spirit. The charac-
ter of the Landlady, which was performed by the
late Mrs. PowELL, was last night. assigned ro Mrs.
Gaovs, a new addition to the Haymarket Company.
Mrs. GROVE is a young woman, but her talents have
generally been exercised in the performance of anti-
quated females. She is a good aetress, but a little too
venement, hasty, and loud. She has, however, merit
sufficient to recommend her to the Winter stage.—
The afterpiece was Catharine andPetrucltio, in which
YOUNG and Mrs. GI !IBS performed Rowell as to detain
the audience till the dropping of the curtain, though
at a latd hour.

Madame CcrAtAtit arrived in Dublin on Wed.
'nesday last, but she Nwas too mach fatigued by her
yoyagetto appear on the Saturday following, as had
been announced. She is to visit Edinburgh in Sep-
tember, where the will be accompanied by YANIE•
VaCZ.

•
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The 'Cork Theatre opened for the season on the
10th inst. with the tragedy of Jane Shore. The part
4sf Hastings was represented by Mr. Pops, who was
received with the warmest applause, which, ac-
cording to report, his performance amply. deserved.
Mrs. Powst..t., of Drury Lane Theatre, performed
the charader of lllicia, and made a very favourable
impression on the audience. This aeiress has, in-
deed, become very popular in Ireldnd. Miss WAL•
STEIN was the unfortunate heroine of the piece, and
report speaks so well of her aging, that we won-
^' dr.shos.bas not been-invited to the 'London -Stage.

• The return of Mrs. JORDAN to Drury Lane Thea-
tre is likely, according to report in theatrical circles,
to produce some high ' feuds, as Miss DUNCAN now
considers herself as•the rightful claimant of the range
of parts which belonged to the former, and many
of which the latter has often represented.
46 When Greek rnet Greek then was the tug of War."

It may be expeeted that the University of Lelpsie
will not be contented with the simple change of
t)xtos into NAPOLEON, but in compliment to France,
will proceed to confer new titles on all the Heavenly
Bodies. It is, however;surprising that they did not
rather give the name of the French Emperor to the
planet MAas, on account of his military triumphs,
ar.d particularly as ttie planet VENUS would have
,been found so appropriate an appellation in the Im-
perial JOSEPHINE.

Yesterday the Gentlemen composing the follow-
ing lists waited upon the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, in order to prepare preliminaries for the bid-
ding for a Lottery on Thursday , next :

MOM. Rtcn iinso1, SWIFT, and Co.
- Co P and Co.
HANLZYs PULLILY, and Co.
Bisa anti Co.
- WA LSII, N66s tTg and Co.
TOW 40011) and Co.

A new Lottery Scheme, of a novel nature, which
bad been presented to the Minister for his approba-
tion, was laid before the Contra tors yesterday.' To
each of the Lotteries within the year, this Scheme
proposes to attach a Supplementary Lottery ; and a
certain proportion of tickets in the former were to
be entitled to tickets in the latter by way of prize.
Some of the Contraaors declared that the new
..Scheme was so intricate and incomprehensible, that
they did not immediately see the advantages it pos-
sessed ; others, again, professed to understand it ex-
tremely well. A great deal of conversation took
place whether the new scheme should be adopted'
or not. A length it was agreed upon, that the Getf-.
demon should give in their proposals at eleven (*lock
00 Thursday ilex', for, a. Lottery to consist of ep,oco
ti,:keti, and the P9ntraBors to be at liberty to adopt
Supplementary Lottery or net, iii:therMight"
to it expeciient.