The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-10 00:00:00

ANTHEM

Sung by the CHILDREN of that excellent Institution the BLUE
COAT &mom., 'Westminster, on Sunday last, at St. John's
Church.

FATHER of Mercies, GOD of Grace,
Each perfect gift is thine;
By various channels flows the stream ;
The source is still divine.

Through Friends, whose Charity provides
This noble Refuge, we

From want, from ignorance, and vice,
.Are sheltered here by Thee.

To Thee we owe the full supply
Which by their hands is given,
To make us useful here below,
Apd train our souls for Heaven.

May health and peace attend them here,
And ev'ry joy above,
While we attempt, with grateful hearts,
To bless their bounteous love.

TO THE CRICKET'.
Sprightly Cricket, chirkiug still
Merry music, short and shrill ;
In my kitchen take thy rest
As a truly welcome guest;
For no evils shall betide
Those with whom thou dost reside.
Nor shall thy good-omen'd strain
Ee'r salute my eai in vain,
With the best 1 can invent
I'll requite the compliment ;
Like thy sonnets, I'll repay
Little sonnets, quick and gay.

Thou, a harmless inmate deeni'd,.
And by housewives much esteem/A,
Wilt not pillage for thy diet,
Not deprive us of our quiet;
Like the horrid rat voracious.
Or the lick'rish mouse sagacious ;
Like The herd of vermin base,
Or the pilf 'ring reptile race :
But content art thou to dwell
In thy chininey.ccirner cell ;
There, unseen, we, hear thee greet
Safe and snug, thy native heat.
Thou art happier, happier far,
Than the happy grasshopper,
Who, by nature, doth partake
Something of thy voice and make ;
Skipping lightly o'er the grass,
As her sunny minutes pass ;
For a Summer month or two
She can sing and sip the dew :
But at Christmas, as in May,
Thou art ever brisk and gay,
Thy continued song we hear,
Trilling, thrilling, all the year.
Every day and every night
Bring to thee the same delight ;
Winter, Summer, cold or hot,
Late or early, matters not ;
Mirth and,music still declare
Thou art ever void of care :
Whilst with sorrows and with fears,
We destroy our days and years ;
Thou, with constant joy and song,
Ev'ry minute dost prolong,
Making thus thy little span
Longer than the age of Man.

• The Cricket has often afforded the Poet an opportunity of
celebrating his praises. Vincent Bourne's Latin Anacreontic
is perhaps one of the best modern poems on this subject. It is
here translated by the Rev. Thomas Cole, author of the " Life
of Hubert," and other pleasing poems.

MELANCHOLY EFrECTS of PUGILISM.-OH
Wednesday morning last (the 2d instant) John Roberts and
Charles Matthews, the former a tanners's labourer, and the
latter a stocking-maker, both of Tewkesbury, met in the
Miami Leys, near that town, to decide by their fists a quar-
rel which originated in a public-house on the preceding
evening; when, after several rounds of hard fighting, a heavy
blow from Roberts upon the ear of his adversary, caused a
concussion of the brain, and killed him on the spot. An
Inquest was held on the body on the following day, before
Mr. BEST, one of the Coroner's for Worcestershire, and a
verdict of Manslaughter was returned, not only against Roberts,
but against Samuel Feathers, one of the seconds, and both
of them have been committed to Worcester gaol. Roberts
being a young man of very good character, the melancholy
situation in which he is now placed has elicited a general
feeling of pity among all classes of his neighbours; and it
will doubtless weigh much in his favour, when brought to
trial, that it was with very great reluctance he was prevailed
upon to engage in this affra.;., Feathers was not only one
of the seconds in this unfortunate transaction, but was fore-
most in promoting the battle, and almost dragged Roberts
from his work to undertake it. Matthews's course of life
for many years has been such as, it is to be dreaded,
little fitted him for so sudden an appearance before the tribu-
nal of his Maker : he has left a young wife, who is very near
the time of her confinement; and upon this poor creature's
earnestly begging hint not to persist in his resolution of fight-
ing, when he got up in the morning, and hinting her inten-
tion of following hint, in order to endeavour to prevent
it, he threatened to murder her if she quitted her be ; and
those dreadful words were the last she was destined ever to
hear hint utter ! If parental feeling is not too much blunted
in the breast of the Amazonian mother of the deceased--
who was an eye-witness to this fatal combat, and has herself
not unfrequently been a principal actor in similar rencounters—
poignant indeed must be the reflection, that it was in a great
measure through her instrumentality that the challenge was
given, and that the fight afterwards took place.. (Giourester
Journal.)

AFFECTING CASE OP SUICIDE.--On Wednes-
day last, Harriet Gough, house-keeper to Mr. Roberts, of lie-
inerton, near Tewkesbury, put a period to her existence, during
the absence from home of her master, by hanging herself to
the bed-post with a shawl. An Inquest was held on the body
on Friday, before JoirN COOKE Esq., one of our County.
Coroners, and a verdict given of "'lnsanity." The.poor unfor-
tunate girl was a native of Newport, Monmouthshire, and
had lived as servant a great number of years in a family
of the highest respectability in the neighbourhood where she
committed this dreadful act. She had always conducted her-
self with the strictest propriety, until she became acquainted,
during the last winter, with an Irishman, who had for a long
period hawked linen around the country, and who, under a
promise of marriage, induced her clandestinely to quit a coin-
fortable situation, in which she was much esteemed. This
unsuspecting creature, it appears, confided in a villain, who,
as soon as he could obtain from her all her money, and the best
of her Clothes.; abandoned her, and left her destitute even of
that good character which she had. justly possessed before she
became acquainted with him. Her former conduct, however,
was a sufficient recommendation to obtain for her the sftution
she filled at the time of her death ; but her mind was not strong
enough to enable her to contend with the bitter reflections
caused by the error into which she had wickedly been enticed.
--.,The conscience of her seducer, unfortunately, is the only
punishment which awaits him in this world, though it is to be
regretted that the weighty arm of the law cannot visit him with
a punishment adequate to the enormity of his guilt.---(Gioceskr
Journal.)

Last week in consequence of an alarm given,
several of the,watchmen, with the Superintend-
ant of Police, entered a house in Park-street,
Aberdeen, where there was reason to apprehend
there had been some disorder, and found the
body of a widow woman, Margaret Strrtchan or
Duncan, lying on the stair, with the neck dis-
located and other marks of violence. Suspicion
having attached to the son of the deceased, a
pensioner, named Wm. Duncan, he, along with a
man of the name of Keith, was after breaking
into a bed-room adjoining where they had been
sleeping together,
.secured with some difficulty,
and both conveyed, the former in irons, to the
watch-house. The parties have since undergone
different examinations.