The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-28 00:00:00

POETRY.

ODE
on thelhliTu-DAY
.qf the Right Ilenouratle
WILLIAM PITT,
Celebrated at Merchant Taylor's Hall, May 28, 1823.

BYE JQHN TAYLOR, ESQ.

A Linos, rejoice ! though PITT no more
Survives to guard thy rocky shore,
Thy freedom, and thy Laws ;
Ili! spirit hovers o'er the place,
His Counsels still thine Empire grace,
And prop the glorious cause.
And well mayst thou rejoice again,
Beholding here a patriot train,:
IVith grateful zeal combine,
To honour him whose life was pure,
Whose wisdom made thy realm secure,
And will in History shine.

And, lo ! in CAarwlNG's lofty mind,
The true Inheritor we find

Of PITT'S intrepid soul ;
Declining Eastern pomp and poser,
That thou, ill EUROPE'S awful hour,
.11light'st arbitrate the whole.

For, ALBION, thou, 30 nobly free,
Couldist ne'er with tame indiff'rence see
INVASION pounce on SPAIN ;
Not for wild ANARCHY to stand,
Or aid OPPRESSION'S iron hand,
But PURLIC RIGHTS maintain.

3iARES Or PITT;! of MAN the Friend •
Oh ! let thy Spirit still descend,
Tosuard thy fav'rite State !
So may that Spirit hence be found
To animate THE WORLD around,
Until o'erwhelied by Fate.

Mr. ITALIA)/ BANDIT.—[From the Notes of a Traveller
in /tdgy.]—The following, is an aeixunt of an Italian bandit,
who was shot in Italy by the order of General Church.
" The most astonishing bandit, whose exploits somewhat
resemble the celebrated ones or the famous Rinaldo Rinal-
dini, wits a priest, named Cyro Anichiarico, born in the small
town of Grotagil, on the road from Tarento to Lecee. His first
achievement was the murder of a whole family in the town of
Trancavilla. He had, at the time of his death, been a bandit
tiir more than twenty years; and, from' his daring and success,
the country people believed him to be a devil or magician, and
scoffed at the soldiers who were sent to pursue him. When
the French General Ottavio, a CorsiCan by birth, commanded
in this province, a man one day presented himself before him,
and said, with a fierce air, "I'liebandit whom you have so long
hunted know before you, but if he is molested, you will be assas-
sinated before night-fall.' Anichiarico turned and disappeared,
and from that time General Ottavio doubtless hail faith in the
belief of the people, for the bandit was not taken until he was,
pursued by a body of troops under Gen. Church. When this
General was one day in pursuit of the banditti and their leader,
he was accosted by a peasant, who drew him aside and gave
him some intelligence concerning Anichiarico. On the very next
day this peasant was found dead in his village, with a paper
pinned on his breast with these terrible words inscribed.—
This is the fate of all those • who. betray Anichiarice—
The last band' which this leader commanded, was called
. the .' decided .' each Man possessed a certificate, bearing
two death's he;tds, with bloody eroblems, and the great words
of ' Justice, liberty, or death,' signed 4 Anichiarico.' I saw
one of the certificates 'in General Church's possession,
' which was written with' human blood. At last, in Ja.
nuary, 1810, this astonishing bandit, finding himself' be:.
set on 'all • points by the soldiers under the command
of the General, threw himself at about sunset, in an
old tower, in the midst of a farm yard, near the small town
of Casuba,hoping probably that in the dead of the night he should
be able to escape through the soldiers, many of whom were his
friends, and all of whom believed him to he the devil. But in the
course of.one hour after, it was perceived that he had taken this
position, acloseline of light troops was drawn round the tower by
.ortlgi of the General, out of Tooth of musqUet.sheto anti after a
siekeof 3f; bears, hewas forced .to surrender himself, and the
remnant of his band having fired 'ayeity all their cartridges, and
killed and wounded eleven of theenenly. Ile was carried to
Trameuvilla, the scene of the first murder, and there shot. It
was on a Sunday, when he was sentenced to be executed; and
General Church sent to.ask the priests of the town, if it was
according to their religion to shoot 4 map on that day. Their
answer was—' the better the day the better deed.' Anichiarico
died like a madman. Front eight to ten thousand persona
actually treated with
were assembled to Ilee-lti°l shot, find to the last moment they
Perfect scorn the notion that bullets would
pierce such a man."

.
WAra'ACE.— —Ttie entertainment that Mr.
WALLACK has Selected for his benefit this even-
ing seems to have been made with a proper re-
gard for the taste of the public, and u just view
of his professional powers. in the wide and
successful .range of his
performance, perhaps he
has never better pleased than in Hanact. Much
of that deservedly popular reputation which be
possesses here he gained some years past by the
judicious and elegant representation of this
character. Since then public anxiety has
been constantly alive to see its repetition. Mr.
IVAILACK'S Hamlet is so chaste in conception,
and so powerful in representation, that we see
the rich beauties of the author and the full
strength of the actor. We admire both, and
unite them in the full measure of applause. His
" imitations of several distinguished actors" are
close and, faithful. Many of then, will be re.
cognized here as the echo of times gone by. His
Dick Dashall,in " Afs And," is an inimitable spe.
cimen of comic acting, that has never failed, at
home or abroad, to please, and to give him repute.
tion. Mr. WALLACE'S professional pre-eminence
Constitutes but apart:of his recommendation. llis
whole deportment is guided by the most Gen.
ilemanly circumspection, and in private life he
is tks much respected as he is admired in'pobliC.
With.these strong clitms, most' cordially, we do
wish him success
,comMensurate to his merit.-.--
(Franklin Gazette, Jammu 29.)

Staiturxo.—There were two benefits yesterday. The assn.
iiiitiOns were natural. Spring and Cribb at the-, Fives-eciurt ;
Nedte and Belcher at the Tennis-court.' The day's play
was.till at the Fives-court.' Cribb was treasurer under the int.
mediate Protection of Mr. Jackson, and the sports Weve'lliversi-
tied. The best .:sets.to were as follows t---.loch. liudseo, the
.bull.dog fighter, set to with Carter. All the men worked
their way. Their likk at the 'Tennis-court Was a failure, with
all the tickets given away in the present of Neat's people,
laughing at him as a prototype of Bristol.,

The first vessel that ever entered the River
Thames direct from Colombia arrived yester-
day,—the John Catto, Captain Dollar NG•llex
cargo consists of cotlee, hides, and sarsaparilla.
She left this country with a cargo of Bri.
tish manufactures in November. This arrival,
we hope, is the forerunner of an extensive
and mutually beneficial intercourse between
the two countries. The John Catto left La
Guiyra the Bth April, under convoy of his Ma.
jesty's ship Helicon, which saw her safe through
the Mona Passage. She brings no intelligence
of any great importance from the Main. Up to
the latest accounts from Bogota, the Colombia')
Congress had not met.

COURT OF KING'S BENCII.—(Tnis DAY.)
44A

CULVERWELL b. EAIVES.

This`ivas;an action 4rOught by the above plain-
tiff, a master tailor, residing in London, against Messrs..
Eames, the proprietorsof the Portsmouth mail, for injuries
which the plaintiff sustained, occasioned by the overturning of
the mail, and of which ie was an outside passenger.
Prom the evidence called on the part of the plaintiff; it ap.
peered that when the mail was overturned, and plaintiff's leg
was broken, the proprietors °tottered every care to be taken of
the plaintiff, and even paid his bill 'for the surgeon's attend.
ance, and also the expences at the Inn,- amounting to upwards
of 160/.

On the part of the defendant several witnesses were called,
and among them the guard and coachman of the mail, these
proved that on the night of the accident, the mail came up
with the Nelson coach from Portsmouth, that the guard blew
his horn, when the Nelson started and went on, they however
slackened their pace, and the mail again came up, when oti the
guard sounding his horn, the coachman of the Nelson broke
the ground, allowing the mail to pass, in so doing the coach-
man of the Nelson flogged his horses, whereby his lash cached
the eye of one of the leaders of the mail, and starting forward
run on a bank, when the mail was overturned. It was also
proved that the mail allowed 10 hours to perform the journey,
and the Nelson 13.

Witnesses also proved that the plaintiff' acknowledged the
e.
accident was occasioned by the coachman of the Nelson flogging
his horses, and that no blame whatever was attributable to the
coachman oetthe mall.

The SotittTou-GErtEnAr., on the part of the plaintiff,
considered such acknowledgnients might have been made at
the time the plaintiff was suffering under great agony and'
the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages .101.