The Sun.
London, England, 1812-03-03 00:00:00

CHARLEMAGNE.

Les tinebres encore enveloppaient la terre :
Le doux sommeil de Charle assoupissait les maux :
Lorsqu'un bruit souterrain reveille les echos,
Et vient porter Pallarme aux murs de Belisaire.
Les dix preux qui veillaient aupi es de ce sejour

Entendent tour a tour
Resonner sous leurs pieds les cavites profondes,
Et leur troupe etonnee &coute avcc effroi :
Lc Payen aurait-il de ces mains furibondes
Creuse sous ces remparts la tombe de leur Roi

Isambard commandait a ces dix chevaliers :
Il epic avec soin la rumeur fugitive :
I l'penche vers les murs son oreille attentive,
Et croft ouir les pas, les accents -des guerriers :
Le bruit s'ayproche, croft, s'C:claircit et redouble :

Les Eranyais clans leur trouble
A rrachent le Monarque a son Leger repos :
Sous les yeux d'lsambard la terre se souleve ;
II apperpit briller des armes, des flambeaux :
II rousse un cri de guerre et s'armes de son glaive.

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A ses yeux aussit6t une croix eclatante
l'arait, et clans les airs s'eleve pat olegres
Un Pontite couvert de ses habits sacrei
Se decouverte, s'avance, et sa main imposante
Bcnit les paladins au nom du Dieu de paix.
Vers 'e Roi des Francais
" Le pasteur Souverain, leur dit-il, nous envbie
" A ppaisez les clameurs de vos soldats epars;
" Dans les flancs de la tore une secrette voie
Deroba noire march& aux profanes regards."

Les preux sont rassures, a l'ordre d'lsambaid
Retablit par tout l'ordre et la confiance
A rrivant pas A pas clans un profond silence,
Les guerriers de Consalve inondent le rempart.
Gonsalve, d'Adrien le compagnon fidele,
Aux murs deToscanelle,*
' Recut de ses ayenx le pouvoir feodal :
Rome cherit sa foi, son zele, et sa vaillance.
Unissant au cluche, le sceptre pastoral, •
11 exerce a la fois une double puissance.

* Toscanella, ville ancienne de I'Etrurie, 5. peu de-dis-
tance de la Mediterrinee, dans les etats du Saint Siege, -est
Ja patrie des Gonsalve famine illustre, dont le chef I:eu est
cncoredans tette vide.

'route la terre est pleine du bruit de son nom et des rim-
numens de S 3 gioire ; ii descen loit des rois d'Argos ; on dit
qu'il etoit fils de Jupiter et d'Alcmene, spouse d'Amphy-
tryon ; qu'il fit tomber sous ses coups et le lion de Neinee
et Ic taureau de Crete, et ►e sanglier d'Erymantlie, et Phydre
de L'erne, itd s rnonstres p'us feroces encore ; tin liusiris,
roi d'Egyp.e, q i trempoit lachement ses mains dmis le sang
des, arrange, ; un Antl:C7e de Lihye, qui ne les (*vomit a
la mort, qu'apres les avoir vaincus a la lutte ; et les geans de
Sicile, et les centaures de Thessilie, et tousles brigands de la
terre, dont it avoit fixe limites a ('occident, comme Bacchus
les avoit fixees a l'orient.-

THE CHACE.—The Surrey fox-bounds
.meet. on
Thursday at Westerham Common ; Saturday, at Godstone
Green. The harriers meet on- Thursday and Saturday at
the Kennel. Sir Thomas De Hatton's hounds meet on Fri-
day at Highfield Spinneys. The Thurlow fox-hounds meet
on Thursday at Costield Park Gate; Saturday at Crouch
Fair Green ; Monday, the 9th, at the Kennel ; and Thurs-
day, tile' izth, at Stretchwortli. The Pytchley hounds meet
on Thursday at Pytchley ; Saturday at Kelmarsh. The
Oakley hounds this day at Cranfield
. Green ; Thursday at.
Pippin Wood; Saturday S wmeshead Wood.

ROBBERY.—On Saturday se'nnight, as Mr. Stan-
den, who resides near Hastings, was returning from
market, he was stopped at. Hollington-lane, about a
quarter of a mile from the town, by two soldiers of
the .1
Gt h dragoons, in white jackets, and armed with
pistols. They demanded his ?honey, and instantly
knocking him from his horse, wounded him severely
in the face. They then robbed him of his pocket-
book, containing 391., and, after much ill usage, at
length permitted him to depart. Instead, however,
of proceeding towards his home, as the villains ima-
gined he would, Mr. Standen, with a degree of re-
solution and presence of mind rarely to be met with,
returned by a circuitous route along the beach by
the sea side into the town.- Thus be was enabled
to give the alarm at the principal inns and public-
houses before the footpads could succeed in reaching
the town or regaining their quarters unobserved. He
then proceeded to give information at the barrackS,
when, under the immediate direCtion of General
Browne, the commanding officer of the'district, and,
the magistrates, a strict and vigilant search was set
on foot, as well in the barracks as throughout the
quarters of the troopS in the town. By -these means
it was soon discovered,. by the orderly men of the
10th regiment on that station, that the robbery had
been committea by two privates of that corps.—
Measures were accordingly taken to intercept them, -
on their return to their quarters, which were preci-
ously locked by the serjeant, and their pistols were
found thrust in through a hole in the window.

On being secured, the offenders were immediately
taken before the magistrates, when it was disco-
vered, that their clothes had been turned, and blood
stains were fresh on the inside of their jackets.—
This circumstance led to their committal to prison,
in order to take their trial at the next Assizes, at
Lewes, The presumptions. were so. strong against.
them, that they found it in vain to deny their guilt,
and accordingly they confessed-the' perpetration of
the crime with which they were charged ; and ad
ded, that the pocket-book, of which they had rob.
bed Mr. Standen, had been secreted by t!.em behind
the shutter of a blacksmith's shop, where, upon
search being made for it, the book and property
were found, and restored to the owner. It was
eminently to the credit of the 37th regiment of foot,
now doing garrison duty. at Hastings Barracks, that
on being mustered, within ten minutes after the
alarm was given, by the drums beating to arms, not
a single man was absent from his post.

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