The Sun.
London, England, 1813-01-27 00:00:00

POETRY.

PRQLOGVE.
TO THE NEW COMEDY OF !dm strIWNITS OF SAL.MiIi.NCA.

SPOREN 13Y MR, EGERTON.

Hard' Is his ta4l: whe undertsltes to please,
pa4sion to rouse, and teMper to appease 4
With cheinic power dissOlve each varied tone,
And inch a thonsaml humours into one!
Each bas a tute—a prejtidice to lull,
gity, sane grave, some witty, and some Ault
How thin can Poets ever hope to pleate
At once such adverse sentiments 4-eti hese ?
By painting Nature is the cry around,
But let ow t514.,---41.74eee'.. Satan; is be'iotind 7
Close.veil',d with art, On 'feature slte'6Closes,
ilea's characters are stuccoed like their houses.
So delicately nice—so rigid grown,
In this pure age no untied hearts .itre *hewn.
The forest raec of man, which liv'd of yore,
Iteelaim'd from Natorr, now fis seen no more; t
Art's livery o'er all a Rewit res% throws,
•
And character in chi**, not pellant i 10476. .
we try iletion, rule and role is brought
To prune the wild exuberance of tttuth ht;
Each plies the shears to Shape the quiCkset waste,
And lihe. a rural cit cottreive it taste..
O'er Fancy's wilds all claim u. right to swuy,
And, as the humour leads, mark out a way.
The tree of knowledge .every. critic clips, '
And proyagatesW ne sttplitig, with llae slips ;
Itang'd auto groves ;an avenue they (mute,. •
And point it as the siirest road to, fame.
tiome on this measur'd I all Way Move., and field
Unfetter'd genius leases that-144*r behind ; .
futile he urges on, cacti mound,
And clears the critics hedges at a bound::
'To nightathr bard—hdttio,..l will not r.ue, •
You're Etilish judges, and will judge us true.;
Nut more I'll :day to temper your decrees
Than that Lies tali: is hard who tries to please.

LONDON SESSIONS.

The Adjourned London Seisions was held yes-
terday, at Giiilclh.ill, before the' ,H-licoanert, and
Aldermen SMITki, FARCU, and GooneentßE, %%len
in consequence of an omission' to summons the
traversed Jury, the Court were necessitated to lig-
jow) until twelve o'clock.,
They then proceeded to hear two indictments
for petty assaults, and three indictments preferred
egainst Thomas Proctor, who formerly kept the
Bell Savage inn, Ludgate7-hill, by the Assignees
under a Commission of Bankrupt wined again,t
hint ; and by another person for violent proceed-
ings to dispossess them of the premises in Mandl.,
1812. Wall in:lict Incas he was found guilty, and
sentenced to imprisonment for I'2 months in New-
gate.
Several Insolvent Debtors were also brought up
for liberation ; among others, a person who re-
presented himself as Sir Frederick Augustus 'She-
ridan, Bart, His liberation was resisted, on be- .
half of his creditors; by Mr. Gurney, who stated,
that he had obtained credit under false pretences,
by assuming a title which be was not warrente
' in claiming, and by representing himself as enti-
' tied to property, which he did not possess.
The,Court, after the examination of witnesses,
allowed the objection, and remanded the primlyr
to the Fleet.
Among the appeals then beard, was an appeal
Stocks against the. Poor Rates of the Parish of St.
Botolph, Aldersgate.
GUlttifiY, and Mr. BoLLAND appeared as
Counsel for the Appellant, and Messrs, Kstarr,
MACY,. and ADOLPIIIIS for the Parish thlicers,
Respondents.
Mr. GURWC stated, that this appeal had been
depending two yeati, nud that the • appeal have
beet before disallowed by the Sessions, -it was
now set down by virtue of a Mandainue granted
by the Court of liing's Bench, alter solemn orgy-
ment, Laster Term last. He then eXpliiined
the reasons for the laxidable perseverance whielt
his client displayed, and 'which he attributed
to poblic principle, and to his desire to pre-
vent the continuance of parochial abuse...
His objections,, lie ,Said, were numerous., and
Mr. Wilks, the Attorney for : the uppellant, had
wisely introduced equally those which were for-
mat, as those which which were more substantial,
in his notice of appeal, As an unanswerable objec-
tions to the rate, be mentioned the 'appointment
of five overseers, contrary to the provisions of 4134
Elizabeth the assessment of inhabitants and not
of occupiers within the parish ; the charge on per-
sonal properirto sanction the gross inequality, by
which the present and past bikers of , the p wish'
sought to elude the payment of the public taxes
the ward rates, and 'various' impositions
,depend-
- ing ell assessment to the poor ; and lie was pro-
ceeditigle enumerate other objections, when
The Counsel for the respondents interposed,
and professing their• anxiety to save' the time of
the Court., acknowledged that the objections could
not he resisted, and that the appeal must be com-
pletely
The RkCoaDPa then expressed his concurrence
in that adinissioo, and ordered that the rate
should be 'quashed.
This appeal terminated the business of tlae Sus-
sions, . which immedintely adjourned,

Per,ons desirous of particular or I:•vonr:te
Numbers for the ensuing Lottery,,(which begins
Drawing on the 17th of February) must he early
in their application at either of iilyrON's Offices,
3, Corttbili, or 18, Coventry-street, flaymartet,
as•the Lottery consists of only 7,000 Tickets, and
no doubt, as all the Capital Prizes in last Lottery
were sold in Shares, and part of them at the abok
OfliCes, there will be a scarcity of Tickets previ-
ous to the drawing, indeed, so confident is EVTON,
that he thinks` there will tact be any left for sate
three days previous to the dra4rin.
Cons-ExenANGE, JAN. 27.---The Wheat market
to-day was very heavy, and rather disposed to
look,downwards, but, no specific alteration can be
noted further supplies of Oats having arrived
front Yorkshire, they may be considered 2s, per
quart or lower ; Barley and Malt maintained the
last-quoted prices, though but little done •
lug Peioc continue as last day ; Hard Tick' Deans
being much wanted for seed, and the quantity at
warket small, advanced 2s, per 9uarter ; iu other
kinds of grain there is no altAration from oar last
later.

Wheat -78 s. 88s. 04s.
Flue ditto -
Rye
Barley - - 483. 441,1 s.
-
New Ditto -
Malt - - - hs. 1014.
Eine ditto • II4s.
White Pt3iie UM, Ms.
New ditto
Gni ditto - Eh. 326. 84''
New ktitto

T 4,114111- - 715,47.1.
Om ditto
sindu ditto - 82s.'-w.
rvittl Oats 254. 44
Vint ditto 40,, 4t*.
Poland date
Floe ditto -41 K
l'otAt or ditto 7 r):.t
Rape (per lamt)
,ruveyloor fo:51. io,.
61440 e 1401. 144,