The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-28 00:00:00

POETRY.

ADDRESS TO THE SUFFOLK PITT.-CLUB,
TIDE ANNIVERSARY MEETING, AUG.
.1823
Bv..rim..REv. W. B. CLARKE, B.A.
(From the Miry Gll.-zette, Ang.27.) •
Time, which sweeps down the temple and the tower,
And plants their ruins with the wild weed's flower,
But serves to spread the true renown of them
Who wore the laurel or the diadem :
And thus the virtuous and the brave receive
Fresh honours, yearly, front the hearts which grievq
That they so soon should fall, and in their prime
Bequeath their names a legacy to.Tline.
And thus, another year, around his bust
Whose deathless fame is England's dearest trust,
We meet to pledge the festive cup, and raise
The grateful voice of undissembling praise
To him whose star upon the land bath set
Amid the clouds of darkness and regret.
And whilst his eulogies are floating round,
And mingling in our ears each varied sound
That tells how dear the memory of the man
Whose course of brightness unto Victory ran,
May-nob this verse a brief attention claim,
Winch owns the passport of his mighty name?-
But ne'er be mine the idle task, to plead
For him whose cause no rude defence can need !
I come not here to urge with weak design
The thousand interests that around it twine ;
But dare to raise amid the shouts which tell
Bow loved. was PITT-L.-how truly, and how well,.
In humble joy, one gratulating strain
To. those who meet upon this day againl
Oh ! whilst we ineet to wake the fl2stive flow
Of faithful hearts,—to rouse the genial glow
Of kindred feeling, and attest the past,-r,
Oh ! let us back our conb.mplation cast,
And glean from annals of full many a year,
Resemblance just of him we reverence here ! _ _

PlTT'ai was the eye that pierced the awful cloud
Which o'er his country hung, her hopes to shroud !
—His was the mind that, when the tempest came
And round us burn'd the devastating flame,
lirith comprehensive and unehaekled pow'r,
Plann'd his wise purpose, in its evil hour,
To save the nation and to whelm the foe
Who aim'd to lay its throne and altars low !,
—His was the soul that, dauntless and serene,
Unaw'd by threats—unnerv'd by mirth obscene—
By heartless foes surrounded, ev'n at home—:
Inspied fresh courage in the darkest gloom !
And his,the arm that,—midst the whelming tide
Of private rancours and conflicting pride,
Of factious councils and ambitious hope,—
Seized flan the helm, as down the giddy slope
The shamed vessel headlong plung'd, and steeed
Her dang'rous course where Freedom's light appear'd,
Proud to have sav'd_rewarded in the deed—
The land whose sons devoted were to bleed !
Oh ! let them rail whose censure is our praise ;,
We need not fear the scoffer's witless phrase,
Secure and conscious that whilst we possess
Remembrance still of PITT'S successfulness
Around our hearts bound as an Eastern charm,
'.elte pointless shafts of Treason cannot harm.
But vain to him we build the sculptur'd pile
In vain, we spread his triumplet o'er the isle ;,
In vain, we rear the monumental stone,
If there his deeds are register'd alone :
In vain, unless within our hearts there be
Recorded sense of his fidelity !
To us he left a proud untarnish'il name,
Nutted in the cradle olciur guardian Fame.
Rcar'd up in toil and peril—tried and true—
Which, as in years, so in it., honours,grew,—
Not that with vain pretence our tongues should speak,
His wise opinions with recital weak *
Not thet our lips should profrer brief applause;
But that-our hearts should pulsate in his cause !
PITT was no wild enthusiast, fierce and hold ;.
Warm to himself—hut to his country cold ; •
Sanguine is all that might his interest provei.
Tyrant in place, yet bond-slave to self-love :
No ! pure in heart, in conscious wisdom right—
Arm'd for deha,te with truth's resistless might,—,
Friend to,the world, in Europe's deadliest need,
lie ciiine to counsel—eed'his counsel freed
Long may we chevish in our ' heart of hearts'.
The rich example such desert imparts ;
Long may we {inn to him and England stand,
And Peace shall nestle o'er our happy land !
And may his spirit, hovering near us. guidei
Protect, and cheer us, Oatitoe7er betide ;
That it' the future to our sons disclose
Another age of wickedness, and woes,
Some new compatriot spay: arise to stem
The flood of crime and anarchy for them :
&Me other genius, like our last, may rise
T o tear away corruption's base disguise,
Who fell, the guardian of his country's weal a
An early victim to too constant zeal ;
. By toil e'eririaster'd, and to care a prey;
The wise.-the good—lamented CAS',N I,EHEAGvi ;),
Some other champion may be found to tight
For Peace, for 'e'reedom, and Britannia's right,
And leaving all may be, at last, for it,
Another STE waive, or another PITT !

It lint been thought strange that Lord .BYnoN
should have taken three helmets with him to
Greece. Perhaps he means two. fax the two
chief heroes, and reserves the other far himself,
on. the idea of .a modern tragic writer, that he
could compose more terrific scenes if he wore a
helmet during his poetic inspirations.
On Friday the materials of that portion of the
old buildings of the College, which is yet standing, and which
was formerly occupied by the library, &c. were sold by auction,
for the sum of HU, the carved stones and other curiosities,
which may be found in taking down the building, not included.
This remnant of the ancient edifice is to be immediately pulled
down, and the foundation of the new buildings, intended to
contain the library, will be laid early in the ensuing spring.--
•( Edinburgh Courant, Aug. 25.) .
NEW KYSTEM OF Rollll.Elty IN TUE VICINITY
or 1114 'ow .—For the last ten days a new ana successful
mode of plunder has been carried on in the neighbourhood
of London, by tiro or three fellows, who pretend to belong
to the Bow-street patrole, and who are dressed in red waist-
coasts, and produce constables' staves. The plan of these
villains • appears to be perfectly arranged; they never go
to a house until they ascertain that the
.proprietor happens
to be fro% home, and not then until after nine o'clock at night.
They pr,etend to come in search of a suspected character, or to
look for stolen' or contraband goods. Easy access is found
by assuming the authority, of police-officers, and upon being
shewn through the different apartments, they never fall to,
carry away whatever is valuable and portable that conies
within their reach. A few evenings since, about ten o'clock,
they went to the Red Lion, public-house, near Wimbledon,
common. The landlord wee not at home, and they proceeded
to search the house for an ideal suspicious character In doing
so they contrived to carry tiff from the diffkrent apartments
property to a considerahle Oro.lint. The same night they went
to a tradesman's house in th,e neighbourhood, and he being
from home, they searched the house under the pretence of look-
ing for stolen goods. The villains succeeded in plundering the
house of some valuable property, with which they got clear off,
' before any discovery of the robbery took place. The same ne-
farious plan has also succeeded in a public-house in the neigh-
bourhood of Acton.
About three o'clock on Thursday morning the
house of Broompark, west of Trinity Pier, in the possession of
Mr. Stevenson, was entered by robbers, who succeeded in car-
rying away a great 9uarnity of articles. Next day one of Mr.
Stevenson's domestics discovered a number of bottles which
had been removed concealed under a hedge at sonic little dis-
tance from the house, information of which circumstance was
conveyed to the tlinburgh police. Serjeant Wright was
in consequence, dispatched to Broompark, where he lay perdu
at some little distance from the bottles, ontil a fellow made his
appearance and proceeded to remove them, when Wright
started from his concealment, and laid hold of him. The man
then confessed that he hadhe,en engaged in the robbery, and
gave the name of his assoctate, who, the sanse shy, was ap-
prehended in his lodgings in Leith, where, upon the approach
of the officers, he had concealed himself between the joists and
the slates of the house. In the lodgings 0 both prisoners the
whole of the stolen property, and snore than Mr. Stevenson
was aware of, was discovered and brought to the. Police-oflice.
The prisoners are footmen out place; and one of them has been
previously In ilridewell.--(Rdstsburgis Courant, Aug. 25t)
melancholy accident happened in the early
part of last week on board the ship Friends,
CHOATE, then about to sail from Greenock for
New York with passengers. When getting the
long boat on hoard, a spar accidentally gave way,
and killed a little girl, five years of age, 011 Ow
spot.