The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-30 00:00:00

P 0 E T It Y.

BALLAD.—THE DYING CHIEF.
The stars looked down on the battle-plain,
Where night-winds were deeply sighing,
And with shattered lance, by his war-steed, slain,
Lay a youthful Chieftain 'dying.
He had folded round his gallant breast
The banner, once o'er him streaming,
For a noble shroud, as he sunk to rest
On the couch that knows no dreaming.
Proudly he lay on his broken shield,
By the rushing Gaudalquivir,
While, dark with the blood of his last red field,

Swept on the majestic river.
There were hands which came to hind his wound,
There were eyes o'er the warrior weeping ;
But he raised his head from the dewy ground,
Where the land's high hearts were sleeping !
And " Away !" he cried. " your aid is vain„
My soul may not brook recalling,
I have seen the stately flower of Spain
As the Autumn vine-leaves falling !
" I have seen the Moorish banners wave
O'er the halls where my youth was cherish'd ;
I have drawn a sword that could not save,
I have stood where my King hath perish'd !
" Leave me to die with the free and brave,
On the banks of my own bright river !
Ye can give me nought but a warrior's grave
By the chainleas Gaudalquivir."

TO DRUNKARDS.

If you wish to be always thirsty, be a
drunkard, for the oftener and more you drink,
the oftener and more_ thirsty you will be.
If you seek to prevent your friends raising you in the world,
be a drunkard, for that will defeat all their efforts.
if you would effectually counteract your own attempts to do
yell, be a drunkard, and you will not he disappointed.
If you wish to repel the endeavours of the wholehuman race
to raise you to character, credit, and prosperity, be a drunkard,
and you will most assuredly triumph.
If you are determined to be poor, be a drunkard, and you will
soon be ragged and pennyless.
If you wish to starve your family, be a drunkard, for that
will consume the means of their support.
If you would be, spunged on by knaves, be a drunkard, for
that will make their task easy.
If you wish to be robbed, be a drunkard, which will enable
the thief to do it with more safety.
If you wish to blunt your senses, be a drunkard, and you will
soon be more stupid than an ass.
If you would become a fool, be a drunkard, and you will soon
lose your understanding.
If you wish to incapacitate yourself for rational intercourse,
be a drunkard, for that will render you wholly unfit for it.
If you wish all your prospects in life to be clouded, be a
drunkard, and they will soon be dark enough.
If you would destroy your body, be a drunkard, as drunken-
ness is the mother of disease.
If you mean to ruin your soul, be a drunkard, that you may
be excluded from Heaven.
If you are resolved on suicide, be a drunkard, that being a
sure mode of destruction.
If you would expose both your folly and your secrets, be
a drunkard, and they will run out, while the liquor runs in.
If you are plagued with great bodily strength, be a drunkard,
and it will soon be subdued by so powerful an antagonist.
If you would. get rid of your money without knowing how,
be a drunkard, and it will vanish insensibly.
If you would have no resource when past labour but a
workehouse, be a drunkard, and you will be unable to provide
anlfy.
you are determined to expel all domestic harmony from
your house, be a drunkard, and Discord, with all her evil
train, will soon enter.
If you would be always under strong suspicion, be a drunk-
ard, for little as 'you think it, all agree that those who steal
from themselves and families, will rob others.
If you would be reduced to the necessity of shunning your
creditors, be a drunkard, and you will soon have reason to pre-
fer the bye-paths to the public streets.
If you like the amusements of a court of conscience, be a
drunkard, and you may be often gratified.
If you would be a dead weight on the community, and cum-
ber the ground,' be a drunkard, for that will render you use-
less, helpless, burthensome, and expensive.
If you would be a nuisance, be a drunkard, for the approach
of a drunkard is like that of a dung-hill.
If you would be odious to your family and friends, be a
drunkard, and you will soon be more than disagreeable.
If you would be a pest to society, be a drunkard, and you
will be avoided as infectious.
If you dread reformation of your faults, be a
_drunkard, and
you will be impervious to all admonition.
If you would smash windows, break the peace, get your
bones broken, tumble under carts and horses, and be locked up
in watch-houses, be a drunkard, and it will be strange if you
do not succeed.
Finally, if you are determined to be utterly destroyed, in
estate, body, and soul, be a drunkard, and you will soon know
hat it is impossible to adopt a more effectual means to accom-
lish your—END.

A new Independent Chapel, built on the site
of the old one, in Week-street, in this town, was opened for
Divine Worship on Tuesday se'nnight. Three appropriate
sermons were preached on the occasion, by the Rev. John Clay-
ton, of the Poultry Chapel, London ; the Rev. Alexander
Fletcher, of Albion Chapel, London ; and the Reverend John
Liefchild, of Kensington. The congregation each service was
numerous and respectable, and the collections liberal.—On
Tuesday last the new Baptist Chapel, erected in King-street, in
this town, was opened for the like purpose. The Revds. Jen-
kin Thomas, of. Oxford, and J. H. Cox, of Hackney, preached
on the occasion to large congregations, who generously sub-
Fcribed tom ads the new building.—These chapels are both of
them commodious and neatly built ; the former will seat one
thJusand persons, and the latter about six hundrtd and fifty.—
( Maidstone Journal, Oct. 29.)