The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-19 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

Since the above was written► we have received
by express the Drapeaa Blanc and Cot:stun-
tionnel of Thursday. The following are the
only articles worth extracting :

(Tram Drapcou Blanco
NCWS FOM SPAIN AND THE FRONTIERS.

,
4ux, JpLY B.—Owing to the little interest
the military operations had, of late on our frontiers,
! did not write, and pat Ocularly since the diyi-
sions of St. Priest and Baron d'Eroles quitted
Seu for Cardona. The blockade of the fort of
Urgel has not been effected ; but it is announced
that a reinforcement of 3 or 400 Frenchmen have
joined the 41ockAing party, and the siege will
be underttilien with %.ig'Our.,
According to the Ministerial Journals, who
now do not seem to be so certain of the surren-
der of Cadiz, it appears that two revolutionary
parties have declared themselves, and a great
difference of opinion prevails. The most mo-
derate party wishes for the safety of the King,
at the head of which are Romero Alpuente and
Gasca, ex-Minister of the Interior : the.other
called the frenetic party, wishing to sacrifice, in
time of danger, the Royal Family, is con-
ducted by Galliano and Arguelles, but the whole
of the military power is invested in the person
of (general Valdes,'Alifitary and Political Chief
of Cadiz, and Commander of the naval force;
Alava, Meg°, and l3ullastras are the Lieutenants.

Our Ministerial Journals have not for several
days announced any thing further of the block-
ade of Seu Urge!, which they led us to believe

would soon surrender. It now appears, on the
contrary, that this operation is for the present
abandoned.

The Expresses from, Paris have brought the
French funds 91f. `2sc.—Spanish 361.—The pri-
vate letters state that MClalLto and SAARSFIELD
have openly gone over to the French with 3,000
men, and that Cardona has surrendered.

Consols opened this morning at 82 to 824 for
the account,—for money, 82, with little doing.—
French Scrip has been done at I e premium.

It is said that two Commissioners from the.
Madrid Regency have given notice to the parties
who are contracting for the new. Spanish Loan)
that the Regency will not consider Itself respon
sible for the transaction.

New Orleans Papers arrived this morning to
the 12th of June.

MEXICO, MAY S.—Upon the subject of the
Convocation of the new Congress, for the pur-
pose of forming a Constitution for .tlie Mexican
nation, there appears to be two parties in. Mexico,
the one contending that the present Congress has
not the necessary powers, and that, aciing without
them, the nation would be without :confidence in
their decision.; the other, of forming, Constitu-
tion, leaving it to the Provincial -Assemblies to
sanction or reject it as they may think prow.

By a ptivate conveyance we yesterday re-
ceived a file of the St. Jago de la Vega Papers
from Sld May to 3(1 June, several days later
than those brought by the last packet from King-
ston. 'They are chiefly filled with European
news ; the advices they contain from Colombbc
have already been anticipated by arrivals from
the United States. Letters had been received
from ilaruptah, stating, that indemnifications
would be made for vessels captured by cruizers
fitted oot of Parts in Cabe, either lawfully or un-
lawfully, and that every disposition wa.s.evincod
by the pew Governor to give satisfaction to Bri-.
tisit subjects, as well as to suppress piracies.
d reaf caution would be hereafter observetlip. the:
issuing of letters of marque.

The Spitalfields Acts Repeal Bill, as imentle4
by the House of Lords, was last night thrown out
by the House of Commons. The old RegUhitiollf
for the Silk 41annfacture in that district, there-
fore, remain force.

FOURTH, VMS
- —.Nu..---
The ConoxaTioN.—This is the Anniversary d
of the
--4 Y °I) w*hich his MAJEsTr, GEORait• the
in due form invested with the
British CroWn, find symbolically confirmed in
the possession of all the rights, titles, anti pre-
rogatives which are entailed with it on the Was.
triOni person of Our IiANG. The usual demon-
strations took place oh the occasion. The morn.
ing was ushered in with the ringing of bens;
and the Park. an 4 Tower Guns Were fired at
one o'clock.
WINUSON, JULY 18.—ft is said, that his MA.
JEST? is expected to return in a day or two to
WI residence in the Great Park, but it is not.
known how long he is to stay. Siuce his WA-
pllcsaTyeytris ildienpiattkrtig
unres,onseleveariatlertanten
ilshainvetheire
grounds
o u enildl;
belonging to the Royal Lodge ; an additional
piece of ground has been enclosed from the Park,
and the approach to the Lodge ceasiderablY
improved.
been

Yesterday the Duke of .Yoltif. transacted mail
tart' business with his MAJESTY.
On Thursday the Duke of CumacittaND vi"
sited the KING.

The Duke of CUMBVRLAND 11011011 red
THOMAS STEPNEY With his company to, dinner 00
Thursday.

Yesterday the Duke of GVlff DER LAND had a.
select party to dinner.
The Duke of GLatycssutt arrived at Brussels'
on the 9th lest., went on the following evening.
to the Theatre with her Majesty the (4""*"
Prince FREDERICK, and thePrincessainwl"'"
Ilia Royal Highness landed on the sth' at Calais,
under the name of Earl CONNAUGHT: he is Ong
to Spa, and n ill pass some weeks
on. the Con-
fluent.
Wednesday evening Prince LEOOOI.D. left
town for Claremont. His Royal Iligintess re-
turned to London on Thursday evening, and .
afterwards honoured the. Airgyll'Hoot4s.with his
presence, accempanie&by the Duchess:o.'f rs.
Prince itiSTERIIAgY gives: a grand tt.".
morrow evening to the- !Juke of CtistnEul..lSW
and a large party of distinguished Nehioten.-.--
Hia EKee.lo.ney nistrgiVes-a. Krand-dittnei'lnllls;
Iloyul Highness the Duke of YORK on theist
August; previous to leaving this cotter Tor ac
'
few months, on a visit to his.father4n-IoV, Pritire
'Fowls TAXES, and his own family, in Vienna*,-
The Masquerade and Ball given at, the A'rgY,,j
Rooms on Thursday evening, by the fanourable
Marquis of HERTFORD and a few of his fri°llll.'.
was the most splendid and tlegaet assemblage 91.
fashion and beauty that has been congregated for
many years. The superior dancing of the Mat-,
quis of EXETER, and Madame Karat VEs'ros'Y
was particularly admired.
LADY OxroaD.—The,political opinions of this
Lady are well known, and while they remain
quietly or turbulently in her own bosomy. her
opinions are of little importance to mankind, but
if she .brings them into action, it is no wonder if
she at the same time brings herself intodifficultY"
Hence it appears that she has been ordered to
qnit Paris, where, according to a Morning Papers
her" taste for the Arts had induced her. to fix
her residence." Perhips,. however, her tutu
inclined her to such arts as. are not likely to bo
patronized by the French Onyerutnent.

TILE MASQUERADE FETE'at theARGYLL ROOMS.
This was a splendid scene-got up by Noblemen and Gentle-
men of fashion, highly gifted. with talent. It was a Fete to
which the Annalt of high life scarcely affordit a parallel.
There were two doors of entrance, namely :—The great door
in the Regent-street, and the one in Little Argyll-place. The
latter was solely appropriated for the Royal. Family. Both
these opposite entrances led to one centre—the great staircase.
The passages, halls, and corridor, at the top of the flight, were
profusely deComted with plants, lighted, by, globes and lus-
tre*. Arriving, here the stream flowed into the Cube room,
an apartment so called, wherein the eye was struck with a
superb American aloe, towering over every other object, and
amid a pyiamid .of flowers. The aloe itself will be in flower
in a week.

The masks and others then proceeded to, the Grand Saloon,
which' was lately the French Theatre, and was More brilliantly
illuminated than it had ever been heretofore seen, by lustres of
peculiar form and beauty. But the chief coup d'iril was the
stage, which represented an amphitheatre of flowers, reaching
to the roof; in the midst was an orchestra, and in the centre
appeared the military band Of the Coldstream guards in full
uniform, play.ing martial airs on the entre-of the company ;
but when their -Royal Highnesses the Canchenti of Kent and
Prince Leopold, appeared, they performed " God rave the
Kist :" Alternately with these, CAlinet's band of French
musicians also struck up their enlivening strains.
In the centre was a square, marked out by silk cords, in
which eight of the first-rate dancers, front the Opera House,
figured away. IValtzing.; at both ends of the room, at the
hour of one. At this period there were present 726 persons of
the tirst fashion in the kingdom.
At various periodsof the evening the following professional
Gentlemen, habitat in dominoes, sang catches sad glees
Messrs. C. Taylor, Terrell, Hawes, Mullinex, ,l. Smith and
Welsh, with Masters Smith and Wesley, in fancy dresses;
Master Smith, as a Ballad Singer, particularly delighted the
company with " We're a' Noddin," and a Chorus by all the
Party.lmmediately preceding the announcement of supper,
a union of all the musical talent, Vocal and Instrumental,
took place, and " God save the King" was performed
the Jut stanza was encored.—ln the front hall a third
Land, conducted by Mr. Payne, consisting of twenty per-
formera, played every description of dance, front the Cos-
sack waltzes to the Highland reel. These changesl excited so
great an interest, that the company were kept continually on
the move. There was no ennui—nor a single moment without
same kind of excellent entertainment. We say nothing of the
little theatrical jest d'esprits played off, but proceed to the
masks.---Amoug those most conspicuous were :
Lord 31olynenx, as a French Postillion; a beautiful and
chaste delineation of that non &script kind of animal so pecu-
liar to the Gallic shores. Lord Olengall (to whom the Fete
owed so much) personated many characters; but the particu-
lar one of a testy old Woman, In company with two others,
shone most conspicuously. We did think that Mr. Foic Latta
rind Mr. Charles Mills enacted the latter. A pindigious burst
ref merriment was frequently produced by ' the remarks on mo-
dern fashions and forms. It was difficult to say which person!.
iiestion was the most.excellent.
Laid Brudenell so effectually, disguised himself, three se-
veral times, as to be wholly unknown to his nearest friends;
rind not until supper was he recognized by the removal of the
mask. When a Pile; ring, on the way to Mecca, he accosted
a young Lady, and inquired' when the Grand Scignor meant to
throw the handkerchief, evidently alluding to a certain. rich
sod patriotic Duke. As a Hussar, he accosted the Prince
Paul Esterhazy, and volunteered his service in the German
Legion, now about to embark for the Morea; and as a Tartur,.
lie told the representative of a potent northern Monarch, that
the cause of the Greeks was his own: The Mariris of Hest-
thrd was admirably well dressed as Lord Stanley, from the ce-
lebrated picture painted by Vandyke.
Mr. Fox Lane was more superbly. dressed, as a Spanish
(47-randse, in the time of Philip 11., than we could have had
an idea of. Mr. Williams in a superb Turkish dritss. Count
St. Antonio in a similar dress. alai very rich. The blaze of
beauty exceeded all description. The mixed quadrilles. addod
to the mirth, for there were those of all nations.

•,----Athalf-past two the supper was announced, and a more
quruptuous entertainment never was provided by Messrs. Gun-
ter. Nothing was forgotten or omitted. Every dish, and every
sort of fruit, in which marinated chickens and pine apples were
abundant. The excellent Champagne and other-wines were
aupplied by .Mr, Wright of the Haymarket. -
In high trim, the spirit of the scene re-commenced,- with a
peculiar source for drollery ; the meeting of the Rival Kings
of Beentford, in other words, Punch and, his doulde, both ini-
mitable performers, in their way ; but what excited the most
interest was a talent of a cabalistic nature. Many a true for-
tune-they told; and many a fair one fled from the" minor of
truth."
At the supper table great mirth was excited by Mr. Yates,
addressing a Noble Lord as a brother Frenchman. But what
was a peculiar source of gratification was to see the great rood
humour with which the Noble Lord received the rallies of his
witty rival. This Mr. Yates made the best possible display of
his talent in the imitations of the leading comedians of the day,
and particularly Mathews.
'Arnong the -fancy dresses, that of the Hon.-Mrs.' Hope was
remarkably brilliant; the whole of that Lady's dress was
trimmed to the. bottom with diamonds and pearls. Lady Em-
meline Manners wore a superb costume of-the reign of Louis
the Fourteenth. There were character-dresses of every country •
and it was quite delightful to witnette the greacgood taste witl;
which the Ladies, who were unmasked, received the badinage
of those who were masked.
The Hon. Mrs. Bradshaw7s waltzing was inimitable ; the
Duke of Argyll, Lord Sheflield,'and Earl of Uxbridge were'
well dressed. There were several of the Ministers present. Mr..
Secretary Canning wore the uniform of a Spanish General ;
31rs. Henry Baring presented a galaxy—her diamonds rivalled
those of any other Lady:
Those Noblemen -and Gentlemen who so ably supported
their assumed characters, by day and night, stationed them-
selves, at the commencement of the evening, at the various
doors to receive the visitants and presented each Lady with
an elegantbouquet of the choicest flowers, which frond thefeir
buds of the finest collection of splendid beauty, scattered tie.
licious odour the rooms, rivalling—
!'The perfum'd gales of Araby the blest."
The !ttietest order was preserved in the regulation of the
carriages 'by #n immense party of the Police, and a sergeant's
guard of ioldters.
The Duke of York was indisposed from-a cold caught at the
'ate Review. The Royal Party sat in the King's box.
Tice Dultb and Duchess of San Lorenzo and the Spanish
,Minister Were agreeably surprised at meeting with so many of
their own }countrymen and women.
The felloWing wore character masks or fancy dresses
Tide Dukes of NVellfinrion, Duke, Duchess, and Dowager
Duchess of Rutland the Marchioness of Waterford and Inc
Liaditia Beregford ; -Earls and Countesses of Aboyne, Easton,
Jersey, Uxbridge, Grey, Belinore, Tankerville, Bathurst,
Aberdeen, Clonmell, Falmotith, Morley Warwick ; Earls
Wincidisea, Sheffield, Westmorland ; Lords Kinnairtl,
Loughborough. r. Conytigharn, I.,owther, J. Thynne, J. Boo-
tinck, Ellenborough, Foley, A. Hamilton, A. liill, Gwydyr,
o... Somerset- Granville, Bingham, Tullamore, HoWard of
Walden ; Ladies Owydyr, Shelley, Rowley, M. Petre, Grey,
Pelham, Paget, M. Ross, Bathurst, C. Peglet, 'rullarnore,
Pane,' lay and Sele, C. Manners, Fitzroy, Stanhope, de Roos,
Maryborough, F. Somerset, llMitchell, itydar, St. Clair,
Peyton, Cawdor, Forrester, M. Sturt, Barnard, Ponaonby,
Elphinstone, H. Wynn, C. Gordon, E. Lowther, H. Fit;ge-
rald, Robinson; Greville, D'Ameland ; Sirs John Shelley,
Watkin William Wynne ;—also, Duke of Grafton, .Marquis
braliam, the Vice-Chancellor Prince Gortchakoff, Prince de
CAUVoir.—[rurther particulars on Monday.]

FASHIONABLE ARR1V4149.•
..,Viscount and Viscountess Hampden, from their seat in Sus-
sex ; Lady Harriet Paget and her Children, in Great Cumber-
hind.kreet, from Calcutta ; Lord George Lennox, at Long's
Claremont Hotel ; Lady Louisa Erskine, at Nerot's Hotel ;
Hon. Mr. and Airs. Chevalier and Ladies, xt ditto; Mrs. and
Miss Iliddulph, at ditto.
DEpAaTu REE....-The Earl and Countess of Caledon, for Ire-
land., Mn and Lady Harriet Baring, for their seat, Bucking-
barn-bill, Norfolk; A. Atkyns, Esq. from Albany House, tor
Waltham Place, Berkshire; their Serene Highnesses the
Prince and Princiss Supieha and suite, from the York Hotel,
Albemarle-street, for their seat in Cheshire; his Grace the
Bishop of Cashel, from. Nerot's Hotel; the Hon. Miss Lxw-
rence,.from ditto; the Right Hon. Lord Gon, from ditto; S.
Grady, Esq. 41. P. from ditte,

POETRY:

(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)
AUSTRALASIA.

____________
A. Poem which obtained tho Chancellor's,Medal at. time Cam.
bridge Commencement 1823.
By WINTHORP, MACKWORTH PILLED, of Trinity College.
The Sun is high in• Heaven : a favouring breeze
Fills the white sail, and sweeps the ripplingseas,
And the tall vessel walks her dcstin'd way,
And rocks and glitters in the curling spray.
Among the shrouds, all happiness and hope,
The busy Seaman coils the rattling rope,
Antftells his jest, and carols out his song,
And laughs his laughter, vehement and long;
Or pauses on the deck, to dream awhile
Of his Babes' prattle, and their Mother's smile,.
And nods the head, and' waves the welcome handy.
To those who weep-utern the lessening strand.
His is the roving step and humour dry,
His the light laugh, and his the jocund eye
And his the feeling, which, in guilt or grief,
Makes the sin venial, and the sorrow brief:
But there Are hearts, that merry deck belbw,
Of darker error, and of deeper woe,
Children of wrath and wretchedness, who grieve
• Not forthe Country, but the crimes, they leave,
Who, while for them on many a sleepless bed
The prayer is munnue'd, and the tear Is shed,
In exile and in misery, lock. within
Their dread despair; their unrepented sin,—
And in their matinees dare to gaze on Heaven,
Sullen and cold, unaw'd and unforgiven !
There the gaunt robber, stern in sin and shame,.
Shows his dull features and his iron frame;
And tenderer pilferers creep in silence by,
With-quivering lip, flushed brow, and vacant eye:
And some there are who, in theirclose of day,
With dropping jasv, weak step, and temples grey,
'Go tottering forth, to find, across the wave,
A short sad sojourn, and a foreign grave;
And some who look their long and last,auliett
To the white cliffit that vanish from the view,
While youth still blooms, and vigour nerves the arm,
The blood flows freely, and the pulse beats warm.
The hapless female stands in silence there,
So 'weak, so wan, and yet so sadly fair,
That those who game, a rude netutorei tribe,
Check the coarse question, and the wounding gibe,
And look, and long to strike the fetter off,
And stay to pity, though they came to scoff.
Then o'er her cheek there runs a burning blush,
And the hot tears of shame begin to rush
Forth from their swelling orbs e.--she turns away,
And her white fingers o'er her eye.htts stray,
And still the tears through those white fingers glide,
Which strive to check them, or at least to hide t
And there the stripling, led to Plunder's school,
Ere Passion slept, or Reason learned to rule,
Clasps his younghands, and beats hia throbbing brain,
And looks with marvel on his galling chain.
Oh !. you may guess from that unconscious gaze
His souk bath dreamed of those far fading days,
When, rudely niuturetlon. the mountain's brow,
He tended, day by day, his fathers's. ploUgh
Blest in hii day of toil, his night of ease,
His life of purity, his soul of peace.
Oh yes ! to-day his soul hash backward been,
To many a tender face, and beauteous scene
The verdant valley, and the dark brown hill,
The small fair garden, and its tinkling rill,
His (irandame's tale, believed at twilight hour,.
Hii Sister singing in her myrtle bower,
And she, the Matt, of every hope bereft,
So fondly loved, alas ! so falsely, left,
The winding path, the dwelling in the- grave,
The look of welcome, and the kiss of rove-
- These are his dreams; but these are dreama.of bliss
Why do they blend with such a lot as this ?
And is there nought for him but grief and gloom,
A lone existence, and an.early tomb?
Is there no hope of comfort and of rest
To the sear'd conscience, and the troubled breast? •
.Oh say not so ! In, some far distant clime •
Where lives no witness of his early crime
Benignant Penitence may haply muse
On purer pleasures, and on brighter views;
And slumbering Virtue wake at last to charm
Another Being, and a fairer Fame.
Beautiful Land, within whose quiet shore
Lost Spirits may forget the stain they bore,
Ikauttiful Land, with all thy blended shades •
Of waste and wood, rude rot!ks, and level glades,.
On thee, on thee 1 gaze, as Moslems look
To the blest Islands of the*. Ptophet's Book,
And oft I deem that, linked by nragit'
Pardon and Peace upon thy valleys dwell.
Like two sweet Ilouris beckoning o'er the deep.
The souls that tremble, and the eyes that weep.
Therefore on thee undying sunbeams throw
Their clearest radiance, and their warmest glow,
And tranquil nights, cool gales, and gentle showers
Make bloom eternal in thy sinless bowers.
Green is thy turf; stern Winter sloth not dare
. To breathe his blast, and leave 'et ruin there.
And the cherm'd Ocean roams thy rocks around,
With softer motion, and witiviweeter sound :
Among thy blomningflowers and blushingfruit
The whispering of young birds is never mute,
And never Both the Streamlet cease to well
Through its old channel in the hidden dell.
.0h ! if the Muse of Greece had ever stray'd,
In solemn twilight„ through thy forest shade,
And swept her lyrc, and walked thy meads along
Thy liquid echo of her ancient song
Her fabling Fancy in that hour hard
Voices of music, shapes of grace, around „.
Among thy trees, with merry step anti glance,
The Dyrad then had wound her wayward dance,
And the cold Naiad in thy waters fair
Bath'd her white breast, and wrung her dripping hair.
Bautiful land ! upon sointre a plain
Shall Superstition hold ger hated reign ?
Must Bigotry build up her cheerless shrine
In such an air, in such an Earth as thine ?
Alas ! Religion from thy placed Isles
Veils the warm splendour of her heavenly smiles,
And the wrapt gazer in the beauteous plan
Sees nothing dark except the soul of Man.
Sweet are the links that bind us to our kind,
Meek, but unyielding, felt, but undefined ;
Sweet is the love-of Brethren, sweet the joy
Of a young Mother in her cradled toy,
And sweet is ChildhoOd'i deep and earnest glow
Of reverence'for a Father's head of snow
Sweeter than all, ero our young hoees depart,
The quickening throb of an impassion'd heart,
Beating in silence, eloquently still,
For one lov'd soul that answers to its thrill.
But where thy. smile, Religion, heat not shgne,
The chain is riven, and the charm is gene,
And, unawaken'd by thy wondrous spell,
The Feelings slumber In their silent cell.
Hush'd is the voice of Labour and of Mirth,
The light of day is sinking &Om the earth,
And Evening mantles in her dewy calm
The couch of one who.cannot heed Its balms.
Lo! where the Chieftain on his matted bed,
Leans the faint form, and hang.the.feverish head;
There is no lustre in his wandering rye,
His forehead hath no show of majesty,
His gasping lip, tno weak for wail or prayer,
Scarce stirs the breeze, and leaves no echo there,
And his strong arm, so nobly wont to rear
The featherld target, or the ashen spear,
Drops powerless and cold ! the pang of death
Locks the set teeth, and chokes the struggling breath ;
And the last glimmering of departing day
Lingers.around to herald life away.
Is there no duteous youth to sprinkle now
One drop of water on his lip and brow ?
No dark-eyed Maid to bring with soundless foot
The lulling potion, or the healing root?
No tender look to meet his wandering gaze ?
Np tone of fondness, heard in happier days,
To tooth the terrors of ;the Spirits flight,
And speak of mercy and of hope tonight ?
All love, all leave him I—terrible and slow
Along the crond the whispered inunnura grow.
" The bend of Heaven is on him ! is it our's
" To check time fleeting of his number'd hours ?
" Oh not to us, oh not to us Is given
" To read the Book, or thwart the will, of Heaven
" Away, away !" and each familiar face
Recoils in horror from his sad embrace ;

• This sketch of the death of a New Zealander, and of the
Superstition which prevents the offering of any consolation or
assistance, under the idea that a sick man is under the lame-
diate influence of the Deity, is taken from the narrative of the
death of Duaterra, a friendly chieftain, recorded by Mr. Ni-
cholas, Vol. 11. p. 181.

The turf on which belies iiliallowed ground;
The sullen Priest stalks gloomily around,
And shuddering friends, that dare not soothe or Saves
Hear the last groan and dig the destin'd grave..
The frantic Widow folds upon her breast
Her glittering trinkets, and her gorgeous Vest,
"Circles her neck with many a mystic charm, •
Clasps the rich bracelet on her desperate artu,
Binds her black hair, and stains her eye-lid's fringe
Withthe Jet lustre of the Henow'e tinge :
- Then on die spot where those dear ashes lie,
In bigot transport sits he down to die.
Her swarthy Brothers Mark the wasted cheek,
The straining eye-ball, anti the stifled shriek,
And sing the praises of her deathless name,
As the last flutter racks her tortued frame.
They sleep together o'er the natural tomb
The lichen'd pine rears up its-fotm of gloom, •
And lorn accacias shed their sitadow.grett •
Blomnless and leafless, o'er the Intriedclny, •.7
And often-there, When, calmly, coldly bright,
The midnight Moon flings down her ghastly light,.
With solemn murmur, and with silenttreati.
The dahce is ordered, end the Verieis said,
And sights of wonder, soundit.of spectral fear
Scare the quick glance anti chill the startled car.
Yet direr visions e'en than thew, remain ;
k fiercer guiltiness, a fouler stain! •
Oh ! who shall sing tilt" scene of itivaAre strife,.
Where Hatred glories in the Wastelt ?
The hurried march, the looks of grini delight.
The yell, the rush,•the slaughter, and the flight,
The arms unwearied in the cruel 01, • .'
The hoarded vengeance and the rifled Spoil,
And, last of all, the revel in die wood,
The feast of death, the banquetting of blood, -
When the wild warrior gases. on his foe *- -
Convuls'd beneath him in him.painful throe,
And lifts the knife, and kneels him deign to drain.
The purple current from the quivering vein ?
Cease cease the tale; and letahibeean's rein
Shut the dark horror from my wildered soul !
And are there norterto soceonfq none toriPeed'
it fairer feeling;and a holier creed?
Alas! for thiS, upon the Ocean blue,
Lamented Cook, thy pennon hither flew ; ' -
For • this, undaunted o'er the raging brine,
The venturous Frank upheld his Saviour's sign. •
Unhappy. Chief ! while Fancy thus surveys;
The scattered islets, anti the sparkling bays, , '
• ftenenth whose cloudless sky and gorgeous Sun
Thy life was ended, and thy voyage done,
In shadowy mist thy form appears trrglide. -
Haunting the grove, or floating on the tide ;.•
Oh ! there was.grief for thee, and bitter. tears,
And racking dnubts through Iting and joyless years
And tender tongues that babbled of the theme, "
And lonely hearts that Boated on the dream. '
Pale Memory deem'd she saw thy cheri,di'd form,
Snatch'd from the fbe, or rescued front the storm ; •
And faithful Love, unfailing and untied;
Clung to each hope, and sigliq as each expir'd.
On the bleak desart,. or the tombless sea,
No prayer was said, noßequiem sung for tlte,
Affixtion knows not, whether O'er thy grave • '
The Ocean inttruitlY, or the willow Wtr,e'i •
chit still the beacon of thy sacred name.
Lights. ardent souls to irtue and to_Vante,
Still Science mourns thee, anti the grateful Muse
Wreathes the green cypress fer her own Peyrouse.
But not thy death shall mar the gracious plan,
Nor check the task thy Omni toil began.; .
O'er the wide waters of the bounding man
/he Book of Life shall win its way again,
And, in the regions by thy fate endeaed, •
The Cross be lifted, and the Altar rear'd.
With furrow'd bitty andtcheek serenely fair,
_ The cairn wind wandering all. his silierair,
His arm uplifted, and his mnisten'd eye
Fled in deep rapture on the golden sk.y-- •
Upon the shore, through many a billow
ile kneels at last,' the Illessenger of Heaven !
Long years, that rank the mighty with the weak,
!lave Ahmed the flush upon his faded cheek,
And many a dew, and many a noxious dairiP,
The daily labour, and the nightly lamp:
Have reft away, for ever reft, from hitn.
The liquid accent, and the buoyant limb:
Yet still within him aspirations swell
Which time corrupts not, sorrow cannotqueil,
The changeless Zeal, which on, from land to land,'
Speeds the faint foot, and nerves the witheetl hand,
And the mild Charity which, day by (11134
Il'eeps every wound, andevery stem away,
Beare the young hnd on every blighted stem,
And longs to comfort, where. she must condemn-
With these, through storms, And bitternese; and wrath,.
In peace and power he holds his onward path,
Curbs the Keret) sold, and sheathes the tuurirrous steel,
And calms the passions he bad ceased to fee/.
• Yes! he bads triamphed t—:-while his tips. relate
The sacred story of his Saviour's fate,
While to the search-of that tumultuous horde
lie opens wide the Everlasting Word,
And bids the Soul drink deep of Wisdom..there,
In fond Devotion and in fervent prayer, .
In speechless awe the wonder.striking throng
Check their rude feasting and their barbarous song =,
Around his steps the gathering myriads crowd,
The chief, the slave, the timid and the proud ;
Of various features, and of various dress, :7
Like their own forest-leares, confus'd and numberless-
Where shall your temp/es, where your worship be, •
Hods of the air, and Hiders of the sea ?
In the glad dawning of a kinder light,
• Your blind Adorer (Nits your gloomy rite,
And kneels in gladness on his native plain,
A happier votary at a holier fare.
Beautiful Land ! farewell !...when toil atnl striks•
And all the sighs, and an the sins of Ilfe
Shall come about me, when the light of Truth •
Shall scatter the bright mists that dazzled youth;
And Memory muse in sadness on the past.
And mourn for pleacurft far too sweet to last,
How often shall I long for some green spot. .
Where, not remembering, and remember d
With no false verse to deck my lying bust,,
With no fond tear to vex my mouldering 400) •
This busy brain may find its grassy shrine,
And sleep, untroubled, in a shade like thine !
* Frum the coast of Australasia the last dispatches of La
Peyrouse were dated. And. Quarterly Bev. for Feb. 11110.
~` We feel great' pleasure in presenting to our Readers this
admirable Poem, which is et once sublime,. pathetic, and
beautiful. It is characterized by momlithreti, Wan, and a phi-
losoplifc spirit. It is highly gratifying to hint that this writer
is untainted by the fantastic testy of -modern poets, if they may
be so styled, and we feel as the late !Manes: IVALPOLE did
when he first read The Raniail:—" It is refreihistg, said he, to
a friend, to meet with such a poem amidst the sickening trash
of the present times."

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