The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-07 00:00:00

POETRY.

ELEGY.

A shadow on my spirit fell

When my hush'd footstep from thee pass'd;
And sad to me thy mild farewell,
To me, who feared it was thy last;
And when I saw thee next, a veil
Was drawn upon thy features pale.
They strew'd thee, in thy narrow bed,
With roses from thy own loved bowers;
In melting auguish Memory fled
Back to thy valued rural hours ;
And saw thee gentle gliding round,
Wherep to thee was Eden ground.
The God whose presence met thee there,
Was with thee in thy slow decays;
He answered to her dying prayer,
Whose life had been a hymn of praise;
Thy God was nigh—thy Shepherd God,
With comfort of his staff and rod.

I lay thee where the lov'd are laid,
Rest till their change and thine shall come;
Still voices whisper through the shade;
A light is glimmering round the tomb;
The temple rends ! the sleep is ended—
The dead are gone, the pure ascended I

A Cu:emus CAuTtox,The following notice
is copied from the Carlow Newspappr :
" A CatiTi ow TO THE PUBLIC.—We caution to the inha-
bitants of this town how they expose themselves to any sort of
contact with persons labouring under contagious distempers--
such as fevers, plagues, or consumptions-:--and that they care.
fully avoid taking colds, rheumatism, catarrhs, gouts, head-
aches, belly-aches, and back-aches, as well as all sorts of acute
or chronic diseases, which may require the attendance of a phy-
sician ; there being now no less than twelve doctors, surgeons,
men-midwives, and apothecaries, practising in the small town
of Carlow !"

The celebrated anatomist and chemical lec-
turer, Dr. GEORGE FORDYCE, dined every day, for more
than twenty years, at Dolly's Chop-house. His researches in
Comparative Anatomy had led him to conclude, that man,
through custom, eats oftener than nature requires, one meal a
day being sufficient for that noble animal the lion. At four
o'clock, his accustomed hourof dining, the Doctor regularly took
the seat at a table always reserved for him, on which were placed
a silver tankard full of strong ale, a bottle of port wino, and a
measure containing a quarter of a pint of brandy. The mo-
ment the waiter announced him, the cook put a pound and
a half of rump steak on the gridiron, and on the table some
delicate trifle as a bonne bouche, to serve until the steak
was ready. This was sometimes half a broiled chicken! some-
times a plate of fish : when he had eaten this, he took one glass of
brandy, and then proceeded to devour his steak. We say de-
vour,; because he always eat so rapidly, that one might have
imagined he was hurrying away to a patient to deprive death of
a dinner. When he had finished his meal, he took the remain-
der of his brandy, having, during his dinner, drank the tankard
of ale, and afterwards the bottle of port. He thus daily spent
an hour and a half of his time, and then returned to his house
in Essex-street, to give his six o'clock Lecture on Chemistry._
He made no edict meal until his return next day, at 4 o'clock,
to Dolly's.
An unpleasant occurrence has taken place at
Kilkee, in which two professional gentlemen of this city were
concerned. One of them, Mr. I)—, proposed the health of
Lord G—t, which was accordingly drank, without observation,
by the company • when it came to the other gentleman, Mr.
O'B—, to give die individual of his choice, he mentioned Mr.
which was refused by Mr. 1).; this produced an
altercation, in which strong language was, we understand, used
on both sides. Next morning Mr. D. sent his friend (a Mr. L.)
with a hostile message to his opponent, who candidly acknow.
lodged, that, not considering his antagonist a gentleman, he
would not meet him. The consequence of this language was,
we understand, a horsewhipping on one side, antra flogging
with a stout oak stick on the other. Some of the parties have
been since bound over to keep the peace.—( Linierick Ob-
server.)

THE LATE MELANCHOLY EVENT.—The body
of one of the unfortunate sufferers in the lamentable catastrophe
which occurred on Sunday week, in consequence of one boat
running down another, at Chelsea, was found on Friday last
near Putney-bridge, and conveyed on shore, where an inquisi-
tion writhe "(may held on the body, when the Jury after
hearing
adduced on the occasion, returned a ver-
dict of " Accidental beagle.. but lolled a deodand of 20s. upon
the boat. It appears from varionsreports that three individuals
steibLeillence
lost their lives, two of whom are still missing.
THOHAs BRINOLEY, a Confec-
tioner, residing in Hackney, and very generally respected, on
aboutevening,
discovered
after he been hanging about an
hour, when every attempt which surgical skill could suggest
stable. Sunday
e was
was made to recover him, but without success. Mr. Brind-
le), was about 50 years of age ; he has left behind him a widow
and a young family. For several h
nont s previous to his com-
mitting the melancholy act he manifested symptoms of n die.
ordered mind. On Saturday he was particularly wild in his
language and manner. On Sunday he went up stairs, request-
ing-he might not be disturbed, as he wished to sleep. He came
down afterwards without his shoes, and shortly was found as
we have stated. An inquest will be held on his body this day.
SUICIDE.---(PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 4.)--Yester-
day morning Mrs. Harding, of the Blue Anchor, at Horndean,
put a period to her existence, by throwing herself into a well,
at the back of the house, of 142 feet deep. The deceased had
for some months past been in a low desponding state of mind,
and had excited the care and almost constant watchfulness of
her husband ; but unfortunately, on her awaking early yester-
day morning, and finding him fast asleep, site, without die.
turbing him, got up, half dressed herself, and went to the well;
thought
the husband was soon awoke by the noise which he
was the shutting of the well-lid, and missing his wife, he
hastened down stairs and ran to the well, when be heard the
deceased in it faintly crying out for help, and begging that the
bucket might be let down, which was immediately done, and a
man went down to her assistance, but before he could get down
she was dead, and had sunk to the bottom of the water. The
body was soon got up, and medical assistance called in, but the
. vital spark hail fled. A Coroner's inquest was held on the
body, the same day, before Sir. LONGCROFT, and the follow-
ing verdict returned—" The deceased, in a fit of temporary de-
rangement, destroyed hersel f."—( mpsh ire Chronicle.)
A shocking accident occurred on Saturday, in
Great Marlborough-street, at the house of Mr. Butcher, whose
son (a fine child of three years old) was playing in the kitchen,
whilst the cook was preparing dinner, when the child by some
means upset a frying pan of boiling fat, the whole of which
went over him, and scalded him in a most dreadful manner.
Mr. Leech, surgeon, of Poland-street, was immediately sent
for, as also Dr. Gordon, of Hanover-street. The child is not
yet considered out of danger.
A serious accident happened yesterday after-
noon to a fine little boy, about live years of age, the son of Mr.
Buck, Pulteney.terrace, Islington : he was looking nut of a
window on the second floor, and overbalancing himself, tell
into the street. A tree, on which he fell, in some measure
checked the violence of his descent, but we are sorry to say the
injuries he received were so severe, that little hope is enter.
tained of his recovery. He was conveyed to st. Bartholomew's
Hospital.
A forgery, a very close imitation of the notes
issued by the Commercial Bank of Scotland, is in circulation.
The public cannot be too much on their guard against decep-
tion on this score, as more than one knowing person has been
taken in by the forgeries in circulation. The most material
difference between the forged notes and the genuine is, that in
the former the names of the cashier and accountant are eng-rav-
ed in imitation of writing, in place of being actually written.
The Government stamps, both according to the improved and
the old method, are as well done upon the forgeries as upon
the genuine notes.
THEATRICALS.—In a small town on the south
coast of Fife, an itinerant band of players have
been performing for the last ten days. Finding
their success not very great, they resolved to de-
camp, and in order to obtain a full house on the
last night of acting (which was the Tragedy of
Macbeth), they caused the bellman, who went
through the town to announce the play, to state,
that those who were not pleased with the per-
formance, would get back their money after it
was over. The bellman, however, was a bit of a
wag, for after calling out what we have stated, in
an audible voice, he added, in an under tone, by
way of caution to his fellow-citizens, " But, sirs,
it's ill takin alts frae geese."—.(Edinburgh
Courant)