The Sun.
London, England, 1815-08-25 00:00:00

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THis RETREAT OP THB FRENCH FROM Ttii
lIEIGHTS 6F SANTABEg, IN PORTUGAL.*
' On the proud heights which look beer Taves floods
In dread array, the hostile armies stood.
With jealous vigilance, throe day and'night,
This !topes the battle, that prepares for flight,..:
The Gallic Chief and his disheartened host
Feel the sure failure, and their Despot's boast.
Thu' famine urge attack, he dares not try—
He fears to fight, nor fears he less to fly.
Darkness prevails—and silence strange and drear
Adds to the gloom of night, the awe of fear!
Darkness! save that from Sant'riemes tented heights
MASSENA'S watch-fires cast a threatening light :
Save where the moon-beams on:the waters play,
And the streaked wave reflects the trembling ray.
Silence! save where Use guard pursues his round,
And gives the word, and treads the hulloes grouud.
Save where the beating of the distant oar,
In lessening echoes dies along the taore.
But lurk! what-sudden murmurs load the Gale!
What eager tidings clamor throe the Vale!
The gathering Drums now speak the spread alarms,
And the Told breathing clarion sounds to arms— •
The foe is fled! accurst the treacherous flame
That mocked Our watch, and lit bias thro' his shame.
Swift trace his course ! scale the cragged mountains height!
Ra 4: down the precipice and dare the Fight!
Nor let the terrent's rage protect the recreant's
'Tis done—the crimsoned track and scattered dead
Proclaim who follow'd, and how fast they fled.
And what could, Valour morel—when fafetV's near,
Pursuit but wings with speed, the Ilig'nt of fear.
Das,light returns, sad sight of mortal pain
To tir', who seek lost friends among the slain !‘
Huge heaps, alas! of breathless forms Ave there,
And taint with putrid blasts the,balmy air—
AMid the fallen that load the gory ground, •
The piercing groans of living pain resound ;
Or faint from wounds. in horrid trance they lie,
Witlt `heir glazed eye halls fined upon the sky—
While senseless blest-! Return no mom' vain breath:
••.
Lest Sad reinbrance aid the pangs of death :
O. tueinori! spare ta aggravate their doom !
'Apare from theiw fading thoughts their friends and home
'From their loved country turn the ghastly eye,
Nor that way hid them gaze, and gazing die !
But stow again urge on the bold pursuit !
Who first shall reach them be our sole dispute !
'Pont:hal and Coimbra shall attest how well
Our troops obey'd, and where their victims fell. .
But, ah ! what horrors cross the eong'rors way !
Thour, To r es, Novas, Thuums, Purnas, say!
Ye can attest, v;elinis to Gallic faith !
"I"Ottgava:altein shelter, and they gave you death—.
on.lite earth the murdered youth is laid,
Who vainly sought to save a shrieking maid :
Before her cottage door the mother dies,
While on her bleeding breast her infant cries—
These are the boons the Tyrant's oaths afford
To the duped wretch, that dar'd to trust his word—.
nese are the bles3ings he an all bestou..s,
Who hopefor safety, while they arc not foes !
Raise, Lusitania! raise thy drooping bead ' -
.Thy bowls are burst, thy boasting foe is fled!.
Thy patriot bands by British science taught,
With equal valour have endured and fought.
Raise, Lasitania! raise thy thought and see
-What different motives urge thy foe and thee—
'His conscripts, forced to guard a Tyrant's sway,
Fight but because 'ti; death to disobey.
Their hearts with not one noble hope elate'!,
Des, late throe shame and rage, they rush on fate—

de Ter they
Pie in a cause they scorn, and fur a man they hate !
Whilst their poor mangled bodies ne'er shall ptove
One pitying mark of care, of grief, of love.
But you! blest patriot band, tho' Fate deny
Protracted life, and valour bids you die,
nation's woe shalt *ail each Beres
Honottr and Friendship shall support his pall :
And o'er his bier, while flow'rs and laurels waves.
Protected Beauty's tears shah bathe his grave
Raise, Lusitania! raise thy i•aliant arm,
Since taught. by Bensrotto to scorn. alarm :
Where matchless .:u ELLINGToN directs the way,
Trust. that to conquer, is but to obey !
Or if you wish an added •force-to.boast, •
Hope dauntless GRAWtM yet may join your host.
Or seek ye aid front your dead Champion's fame,
Brave At.oti tau es, ask RosiaN's
True to their country, to their honour true,
Tho' not in battle slain, they died fur you. •
'Ti, their lov'd names, iy ranks shall homage
And:their bright spirits seem to guide' the field.
Raise, Lusitania! raise thy pious pray r,
!chat thy insulted land still peace may share.
Yea! that sweet bunt shall come, wheat discord fell, ,
And fraud shall seek in France their native Hell.
Then shall the golden groin ware o'er thy ground;
Again she creaking wine press shall resound; - • •
Again thy-peasants plant the rescued plain,
And thy freed fleets glide proudly o'er the main.
Raise, Lusitania! raise thy grateful eye,
And clasp with firm embrace thy true ally—
Gain not from us the arts of arms alone,
But teeth: to Scorn rt Despot's throne/
Learn that in trust for man all row'r is giv'n;
Learnt° be free, and leave the rest to ea
hv'n.
O. .SHERIDAN.
•

• This Poem, which gained the Author a Gold Medal at
Winchester College, before he had attained the rank of a
Pra2fect, was written by the younger son of the Right Hon.
RICFIAHII BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. Our Readers, we cloßbt.
uot, will recognize the marls of hereditary genius.

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.

2`A AL IYESVS.►o

LAST &trIA

The Sar•ey Chartered ship, from china, attived,
at the Cape the 12th Jane : she parted two days
before rforti e !sate Todd and Cambridge; -also
from. China. The Company's ships Marchioness
of Ely, Phainix, Lady Castlereagh, and Cold=
Stream; 'had left- the Cape for St. Helena the 1 1 di
June.

,Pot4sNtoit•it, Avo. 24.—Arilved the Victor
man :from the East indiet and the Cape,
with di§patehes; Abotikir man of war, froth the
Mediterranean, and is tinder quarantine ; hii Ma-
jesty's ship Sophia, from .Guernsey ; and Tyrion
from cruise; and, sailed again-. Sailed his Ma-
jesty's Alp Ulysses, to be paid ofi".,:--Wind W.
PLyStouni, Ave. 13.—Came in the Spy, Esit
Cephalus, Haughty, and Snake (sloop, of war),
from cruises.---The Goad Intent (lighter), Moa,.
'MS, is Sunk near the Shag Stone: Crew itast.-
Wind S. W.

FALMOUTH, Ana. 2.2;—Arrived the Danish
ship Four sisters, from Croker ; Danish galliot
Four Friends, from Ivica for North Bergen
Ann, from London for Malaga ; Sally, frorn
Chathain; Princess Elizabeth:. packet, with a
from Lisbon, in ten days. Sailed the
french brig Normoutier, for Normoutier.
Wind S.W. '

The Surinam packet, homeward-hound, ar-
rived at 11.-irbadoeS the 12th 'Lily, but was ex-
pected to be detained till after the sailing of the
ENpetlition against Gnailaloupe.
The Queen'Chariotte is to he kept in corn nth -
lion, anti intended to be stationed at Spithead, as
the flagship of Admiral Lord ExmouTti. The
Prince, the present flag-ship, is to,be laid up at
Portsnwoh.,

A new floating light vas on Tuesday. the Bth-
inst. inc:ored off Lowestoft, near the sand called
the Ncwcome.
The following ships and vessels are now in har-
bour at Portsmouth, principally returning stores,
Ste: and are preparing co go into a state of ordi-
nary—

17;irk, Duncan,
,Vengenr, Istcr, Scaliorse, Pique, Tagus,
Briton, Fosver, Nyrniii.e,Antelope, Contest, Satellite, Driver,
1-farrier, Cherub, Rifleman, Echo, Volcano, and Childers.

(CIRCULAR.)
The following are to be obssrved as the Regu-
lations fur Midshipmen on the Peace E4tablish-

ment':--

1. The Captains of the respective ships will enter the usual
nurnlsr of " Mates," " Midshipmen,"' and " First Class
Boys," of their own selection, whenever there may he va-
cancies in the can:l-dement, observing, however, that no per-
son is to be rated as Mate' of a line of battle ship, or sth
rate, who shall not have passed the usual exawinatiou for
Lieutenant, and that previo.usly to the first entry iota the
service of any young gentleman, tiro approbation of the
Lords C,ommi,lsiorscrs of the Admiralty shall be obtained on
a statement by the Captain of his age, family, arid education.
2. 4 certain number of sapernurnerary Mates and Mid-
shipmen will be appointed by their Lordships, and are to be
hurne by their order only. •
3• Nil Captain shall, discliarge :or disrate any Mate or Mid.
shiptuan, or Ist class Boy, wittroot an order from their Lord.
ships, on a home stator::' or, if toe ship he oir a foreign sta-
tion., without the order Of the Cnonander-in-Chief, who is to
report the case and the cause of the discharge or disratiug fur
their Lordships' in format inn.
4. The Captains are to report the names of all Mates,
Midshipmen, and hog s of the IsL Class, as they join the ship,
and are carefully to report all deaths, Invalidings, discharges,
or other changes.
5, The Captains are to be very .partiettlar in attending to
the instructions relative to the ratings of the several classes,
and to take care that on no amount whatsoever are any
Youll,: Gentlemen kept on !maid the ships ondur any other
ratingslhan ".late' " Mipshiuman," or " let Class Boy."
By command, &c. •

PLUNDEdING A Wit ecK.—The Alexander and
Mary, BEATSON, from Liverpool to Quebec, was.
lately lost pear Belfast, and'l‘s is too often the
practice, in inch cases, much of the cargo and
materials were plundered by the people on the
cohst. consequence of the activity of Mr.
CANti;ant.t. SwCENV, the agent for Lloyd's, at Bel-
fast, two of the depredators were apprehended,
and at ,the Downpatriek Assizes convicted. One
of them, named ill'rulloch, part owner of the
smack Vanguard, employed to receive some of
the goods on board, opened a bale of stuffi, and
took one 37 pieces, which be concealed under the
cabin floor ;
he was sentenced) to 'be transpot tea
for-seven years. The other man, of the nafne of
Dempster, having stolen only a piece of rope, was
sentenced to be imprisoned a month.