The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-27 00:00:00

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I-Terc licsfor scorn an object fit,
Who gkiry'd in his hate of-PITT ;
I-T,:tice,:iteaderiyou may say, this.grave
f.:(.,..itairp what once was fool or knave.

THE STORY OF ARETHIJSA AND CERES, FROM
ORGLIt'S TRANSLATION OF OVID'S METAMOR-

Ttiosaa'.. •
Now from the tide soft Arethuaa rears
Her head,airid shaking backward to her ears
Her dewy locks, to vengeful Ceres said,
"0 genial-Goddess! parent of the maid .• • ,
saaght.all nations through, fur ;ear thy toil;
Nor pony thy vengeance on a faithful soil;
'Phis isle is innocent, 'twas riv'n aside
Ey force resistless as the rape it eyed.
Think not I sue thee for my native earth,
Pisa's my loud, and Ells give me birth ; •
Yet dear to me all other realats,before_
Is this this:' which a foreign urn I pour; . ,
My household Gods, sweet objects of antycare,
While here I sojourn; gricious Goddeis ! spare.
Why braving distant earth and ocean's swell, .
Here in Ortygia In stranger dwell,,
Fit seaman may arrive to speak, when thou • .
Shall clitiae thy grief, and-smootlf thy I-tidied brow.
Tfrro' coral rocks' beneath old• Ocean's waves, •
Me pervious Earth drawS darkling thro' her caves,
Tills hither borne, my upward fountains spy
N'e'vs- 'Planes glitter in a foreign sky :
As rate I murmuring lav'd the Stygitin shrine,
These eyes beheld thy long,loat Proserpine ;
Pale tho' her looks, and ting'd. with wild affright,
Yet, mighty etuprela„isk•the shades of night,
She waves her ebst. wand o'er realms unknown, •
And aharei with Pluto hell's tremendous throne."
The hapless mother at the dreadful tale
Stood like a statue, thunderstruck and pale;
But wisest a flood of tears reliev'd her pain) •
She mounts her car, ascends tit' ethereal plain;
And .thus with clouded-brow; dishevell'd hair,
And streaming eyes,•tnJove prefers her prayer:
" Beare thy throne, great monarch ! I recline
AFn pliant pleader for my bloodand
If i.;Cres fail to raise the lover's fire,
The child's oppression may arouse the sire; •
Nor be Jore's heart regardless of her doom,
'Ev'n tho' the victim sp.aing front Ceres' womb,
If certainty of loss indeed be gain,
Or if io trace the captive snaps the chain,..
She whims so long I sought the world arOund; • •
My child, my darling Proserpin is found.
'Tie wrong I pardon, !jot still claim the fair
Tamely to brook a tyrant robber's snare, •
.nd "' leave our child in Stygian caves to rove,
11l suits great Ceres and immortal Jove.
' Pledge of oar matnal joy, thy daughter shares
(Thus ans)vered Jave).our fondness add our cafes;
ToThito's act apprdpriate terms affix,
'Twas love, not rapine, snatch'd our girl to Styx
And could'st thow,,Goddass, thy resentment rein,
Ne'er should T deem so proud a match a stain;
Were ail else wantina, why should'stthou repine?
'Tis Jove's 0;; ii biaaiier joins hiSblood• to thine.
.But say what elseas wanting? chance alone
Debarr'd our brother from our, heavenly throne.
Yet, if so great thy wish, go bid her rise
To earth; and view again her native skies;
On one.aonditign she may yetelude
Her spouse, her lips must ne'er have tasted food;
SOvill the Fates.' The parents part hi peace,
And Ceres hastens to 'ter child's release; ,
But destiny, forbids; the simple bride, • •
Late wandering in her tytatit'a orchard., spied
A ripe pothegranate,•from whose pallid core
To her red-lips seven seeds the dannael bore,
A scalaplius alone beheld the deed,
Him Orphne vilest of rite Stygiau breed,
Naiad obscure, on Phlegethon'a dark shore;
To Acheron in murky caverns bore;
He saw, and tele. ;- this barest her upward flight,
And bound her captive in the shades of night,
Deep groan'd Hell's 'Empress on her throne below,
, And to a bird traitsforned her babbling foe.
Immers'd in Phlagethon, his face asstunea
Huge eyes, a blunted beak, and starting plumes;
No more himself, his bulbous head expands,
Wings brace his shoulders, corlini claws his hands'
His lazy arms heave nagging thro the air, •
Andastaree uphold the dusky aviogs they bear;
A filthy owl lie hoots discordant still, •
To fear-struck mortals harbinger of ill.
Fitly th' offence. here justice seem'd to reach,
Meet retribution for unlicens'd speech.
But why should Fate, ye Sirens ! bid you sweep,
Half birds, half women, o'er Siciliti's deep ?'
Say, was it nut that, lateon Pergus' shore,
You cull'd with Proserpine the tiow'ry store ?
When o'er the earth you sought in fain the flir,
That conscious Neptune might attest your care,-
You pray'd for plumes, solicitous to spread
Your fond research o'er ocean's azure bed;
Thc Geds propitious listeted to the strain,
Light yellow pinion's Sraft•yoti o'er the main;
Yet still your dulcet carols to prolong,
Still' to out-warble Philomela's sung,
Our eves and ears you rivet amid rejoice
With virgin fates and a human voice. •

,BONAR larnde.—This great work, executed
jointly by Government and the, public 'spirited
land owners of the county of Sutherland, over
the Dornoch Firth, on the great road leading
from London through the northern counties to
Wick and Thurso, at the extremity of our island,
has been 'officially reported to the bridge commit-
tee, assembled at .Dornoch Firth, on the 12th
Current; " finished and Complete," and the bridge
open for travellers. The bridge consists of one
stupendous arch constructed of cast iron, of. 150
feet span, bending over the rapid and deepeSt
part of the gulph, and two handsoMe tone arches
at the south end, where the stream is not so rapid
and deep. The small arches span, one GO and the
other 50 feet. The road-Way on the bridge is 1.5
feet Wide, and the whole length, between the
newels at the ends of. the bridge is exactly 440
feet ; the parapets are .compol,,ed,of cast iron hal-
lustrade along the whole length of the bridge,
with the hand rail fixed into eight handsome
stone pedestals, created for that purpose. The
crubinkment on the low 'shore at the south 'end
of the -bridge is 13 feet high, and declines with
a gentle slope to the level ground, where a beauti-
ful piece of new road, a mile in length, has been
opened to join that now making from Dingwall
to Kincardine ; this piece of road was executed
under the bridge contract.

To the intelligent traveller, the design and exe-
cution of Bonar Bridge may he sa►'ely entrusted
to. speak for itself ; it was built ❑nder very difficult
circumstances, the whole of the foundations, ex-.
cept the north abutment, • being sunk' in caissons,
in a rapid tide, 21 feet deep ; and it is only jus-
tice to say, that, under all these unavoidable dif-
ficulties, the Contractors, Messrs. SIMPSON and
CARGILL, have executed the whole of this gre.,-it
work in a masterly and workmanlike manner,
and, for the permanent security of the 'bridge,
they have extended the water-wry of the two
stone arches 10 feet each; without the expecta-
tio❑ of the smallest remuneration. '

Front the north end of the bridge to the church
of Creich, at the termination of the Dunrobin
and Skibo road, a distance of two miles and a
quarter, over very difficult ground, along a rocky
shore, the new road has been contracted for and
begun by Messrs. SIMPSON. and CARGILL, and'
will, there is every reason "to believe, from the
Ivell-known zeal and activity of the contractors,
be opened to tLe public some time next season.