The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-06 00:00:00

POETRY.

VIRTUE. NOT PERISHABLE.
( Written in the reign of Queen.ELizaßETO.)
The sturdy rock, for all his strength,
By raging seas blunt in twain ;
The marble stone is piered, at length,
With little drops of drizzling rain ;
The ox doth yield under the yoke,
The steel obeyeth the hammer stroke.

The stately stag, that seems so stout,
By yelping hounds at bay is set ;
The swiftest bird that flies about,

At length is caught in fowler's net;
The greatest fish in deepest brook,
Is soon deceived by subtle hook.

Yea, man himself, unto whose will
All things are bounden to obey,
For all his wit and worthy skill,
Doth fade at length, and fall away :
There is nothing but time doth waste,
The heavens, the earth, consume at last.

But virtue sits triumphing still
Upon the throne of glorious fame ;
Though spiteful death man's body kill,

Yet hurts he not his virtuous name :
By life or death, whateier betides,
The state of virtue never slides.

AMOUNT of DUTY paid by the LONDON FIRE OF.
FICES for the LADY-DAY QUARTER, 1823.
Sun - - £32,877 17 6
. 19,302 7 3
12,432 17 5
- 11,728 18 6
- 9,306 16 11
0,405 4 7
4,566 14 11
4,385 19 9
3,647 10 9
4,450 8 11
3,527 5 11
4,720, 2 1
3.752 9 3
3,040 18 8
2,101 14 10
5,713 11 1
469 1 7

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DEATH o• YOUNG WATSON.—The Colombian
Oblerver, a Philadelphia paper, of the lid of September, in Its
obituary gives the account of the decease of this young man:—
" At Mount Vernon, Bullit county, Kentucky, on the 9d Aug.,
of a bilious fever, Dr, Jas. Watson, jun. a native of England,
aged 27 years. On account of a speech he made some years
since at a meeting at Spa-fields, Dr. Watson, his father, and
Thistlewood and others, were arrested and committed to prison,
charged with treason. Thistlewood and two or three others
were executed, the elder Watson was acquitted, and Dr. Wat-
son made his escape to this country. He eventually settled in
Tennessee, and about two years since was arrested in Nashville,
charged with breaking open a store, was tried and sentenced to
he hanged, but was pardoned by Governor Carroll, who, it is
said, was convinced of his innocence. After his misfortune in
Tennessee, Dr. Watson wandered from place to place, until
within a few weeks of his death, when he settled in Mount
Vernon, with a view of commencing the practice of physic. lle
was an eccentric character, and as eloquent and persuasive as
he was eccentric."

Our charming little Theatre, once the centre
of fashion and the attraction of all the beauty, gaiety and gran.
deur of Ireland, has been coverted into a hay-market and
corn-store. The grand saloon, or green-room, is fitted up as a
butter-crane, and the colonade fronting the Parade, is, we are
told, to be laid out in huxters' shops and cobblers' bulks.. For
the latter purpose the upper lot is said to be already set. Whe-
ther the great revolution which has taken place in our Southern
Theatricals be owing to the lack of money or a change of taste
we shall not pretend to determine. But no 'Theatre m Ireland
was ever so famed or so honoured as that of Kilkenny, and, in
the revolution to which we refer, none has suffered with such a
fall. The Patrick-street Theatre in Cork is converted into the
uses of the Society of Arts. The Limerick Theatre has been trans.
formed into Catholic Chapel, and that of Wexford in to is Dissen t-
ing Meeting /louse. But the Theatre of Kilkenny—Oh, what
a falling off is there 1 That stage where Peers and Parliamen-
tarians, and all the genius of rank, " strutted their hour"
before the charms that might warm the bosom of an anchorite
is now covered with sacks of corn, while, in the space filled with
those charms, more dazzling than the blaze of wealth which
encompassed them, you may buy a hundred weight of bay ;
the passages through which Pecreses sailed in all the pride and
splendour of nobility, is to be filled with the retailers of pigs'
offal and the menders of soles; and the noble saloon, which
has been trod by thousands in the mazy dance and tranquil
promenade, is now to exhibit scales where the magnificent
lustre once sparkled, and the new master of the ceremonies is
to be a taster of butter. Such are the revolutions in all things
sublunary. We have seen Princes turned into paupers, and
Monarchs made the laquies of a military adventurer—but, oh,
wonderful, wonderful. and still more wonderful, we have seen
the Senate-house of Rome, the banquetting-hall of Macbeth,
transformed into a corn-scare--the Theatre of Kilkenny' where
lovers have been made happy, anti Kings have been murdered
turned into a hay-loft l—( Lein:ler Journal.)
The foundations of the building at the British
Museum, for the reception of the library lately presented by
his Majesty, are now laid. They are very_ extensive, and of
immense thickness in particular parts. The edifice will be
completed in about five years.
A number of men are daily employed in Hyde
Park for the purpose of fanning the ride upon Mr. M'Adam'a
principle, by breaking Kentish rag stones. It will be thus im-
proved from the entrance, to Kensington-gate.
OsnonNE, the bookseller, bought the whole of
Lord Oxronn's library for 13,000!. His Lordship gave
18,0001. for the binding of only the smaller part of it.
FUSEL', the painter, whose life was for some
time in the greatest danger, is removed from his apartments in
Somerset-house, to the house of his friend the Countess of
Murmurs.
Mr. War. Cox holds a bet with Lord KIEXWF.DY that he
kills more partridges in two days in England than his Lordship
in the same time in Scotland. Friday the 20th ult, was fixed for
the first day. In the sporting circles it is said that Mr. C. is the
sturdiest walker, Lord Kennedy the better shot, and that his
Lordship will win by taking the second day at a distant in-
terval, whereas had the clays been successive the victory
would be on the side of Mr. Coke. Lord Kennedy and
Lieutenant-Colonel Austin passed through Dumfries on
Thursday evening the Nth ult., on their way to Monreith,
where his Lordship's shooting-match was to commence.—
( Edinburgh Courant, Oct. 3.
'louver BlJaNti.--FLAXMAN is employed at
present in designing a statue for a monument to
the memory of ROBERT BURN'S, which, when
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sculptured, is intended to be erected in a conspi-
cuous situation in the Northern Metropolis.
A thermometer exposed to the sun on Satur-
day was, between one and two o'clock, at 04
degrees.
A little girl, named Prangnell, was on Satur-
day fined 1001. for being concerned in conveying
smuggled liquor at Newport, Isle of Wright.
,
Bow-STILT—(IMS DATO—Mairy Galley, a
loose fish, was put to the bar, charged with steal-
ing from the shop of a Mr. MAYNARD, of Drury-
lane, an ornamental stone cup, containing a con-
siderable sum in silver. The prisoner got away
at. first, and some time after an Officer was sent
to her lodgings, where he actually found her
lying on rags, her apparel serving for bed-clothes.
The father-in-law.was present, and expressed a
wish that the prisoner should have the benefit of a
Jury, to which Sir RICHARD DIRNIE replied that
she certainly should, and she was fully commit-
ted to the Sessions, and the parties bound over.
After the prisoner was taken ,to the watch-house
the cup was found in the gutter before his mi.
dence.