The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-20 00:00:00

P 0 E 'f R Y.

VIE DYING MAIDEN TO REEL LOVER.
They tell me, Love, that I must die,
That soon this faint and quivering breath
lust fail, e'en thy dear name to sigh,
And pause in death.
Oh ! joy to think a spirit
And bruis'd like mine, shall pass to peace,
Then let thy sorrows all he hush'd,
Thy murmurs cease.
The ball which strikes the wounded bird,
The storm which fells the blighted tree,
Are blows dealt forth by Mercy's word,
Lo ! Death to thee.
Heed not the idle tongues, which tell
"I' was thou that form'd an early tomb,
'Twas lov'd for life too well,

And wrought my doom!!
Be gay—forget—task pleasure's pow'r
To furniSh days of sunny glee,
I would not shade one passing hour,
With thoughts of Thee.
And yet to be forgotten quite ?
No, no !--thy poor, fond girl, would fain
Be sometimes summon'd to-thy sight,
And love again.
Let Memory's glass give back my form,
Such as when firsti pledg'd my truth,
With health and joy and feeling warm,
And fresh with youth.'
I would not now that Thou should'st see,
My hollow eve, and faded cheek,
Nay chide not 'Woman's vanity,
Nor call me weak.
Your Picture, and the ring you gave,
Close 'gainst my heart are firmly clasp'd ;
The Miser yields but to the grave,
The gold lie gratp`ti.
Because I wildly o'er them wept,
They hid my treasures from my eyes,
But I had mark'd the spot and crept,
And found my prize.
I bore my idols quick away,
They since have slept upon my breast,
And never from that home shall stray,
Till all's at rest.

Remember that my dying kiss
Upon thy pictur'd semblance fell,
My sight grows dim, my all of bliss,
Farewell—farewell!
GERTRUDE.

Mrs. WEBSTER, the unfortunate gentlewoman
whose grandfather had married into the family of
the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, and had de-
clined a legacy of 00,0001. in favour of that
family, called at THE Sux Office this days to
assure us that we were misinformed by the author
of the paragraph that appeared in our Paper
of Saturday last, which stated that the present
Duke had settled a provision on her, as she is
still in the same pitiable condition as when her
case was first presented to the Public. She speaks
of the Duke and his family with all possible re-
spect, and requests we will add, that, far from
wishing that her case should be known to the
Public, she stated her unfortunate condition in a
private letter to the Lotto MAyon, that it might
net be communicated by the Gentlemen who re-
port for the Newspapers. Her persuasion is
that her applications to his Grace have never
reached the hands of the illustrious Nobleman,
as, from his well-known benignity, she might
otherwise reasonably have hoped that his Grace
would have felt an interest in her misfortunes.
Having inserted the paragraph alluded to, we
feel bound to contradict it, upon the authority of
Mrs. WEBSTER, and as the Duke is highly and
justly esteemed for his kind offices in the neigh-
bourhod of his princely residence in the North,
and for his general benevolence, we are inclined
to infer that his Grace cannot have been fully
apprised of the melancholy state of this unfortu-
nate Gentlewoman, who,from what we have ob-
served of her, seems to be deserving of a better
fate.

THE MINT::—The officers of the Mint, who
have been idle for a length of time, are now in a state of the
greatest bustle, as very extensive supplies of gold and silver
have been sent for immediate coinage.