The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-23 00:00:00

THE RETURN OF THE EMPEROR.

Take back the mighty dust I
France, 'tis thine own once more 1
The treasure guard with jealous trust—
Thine unquenched love outpour :
The wondrous chief returns ;
Not with a circling crown;
Not as of yore, when Victory
Showered all her laurels down ;
But with cheek unflushed by triumph, with no conquerors's
eagle glance
He comes 1 a slumbering warrior 1 comes Napoleon back
to France 1
From his ocean-circled grave
The awful chief they took :
They gazed on his remembered face
As on a solemn book :
They gazed—and briny tears
By grey old men were shed,
As their hearts went back to other yeare,
When that discrowned head
Was girt, like Jove's, with might, when Napoleon 1 on the
gale
Was breathed, and the " lire thunder" turned half the
nations pale.
Marene-o's bloody battle,
And Wagram's savage fight,
Red Austerlitz', and Moskwa's
Wild elemental flight;
And the blood that upon Friedland
Fell, like warm human dew;
A ed the thunder storm whose iron shower
Rained down on Waterloo !
All glared on memory's faithful page, as midnight flam-
beaux shone
With a strange intrusive light on him, the dead Napoleon.
But He 1 his hand was powerless ;
His brain was crushed to rest ;
In scarce decaying pomp he lay
On earth's maternal breast :
The Imperial Eagles glittered,
But he opened not his eye ;
His chosen genesals passed him,
But they went unnoted by :
Cold and calm he lay, as they took him from his grave,
Waking him for new renown in the land far o'er the wave.
Shouting, on old ocean !
Across the panting main
The cannon, deeply booming,
Tells--" He is free again 1"
Helena's gloomy barriers
The far clouds darken round
As a monarch's son bears proudly on
The loved--the lost—the found.
Bravely sweeps the frigate on, free waves round her dance,
As they bear the noble exile home—Napeleon home to
France.
4, ~ _ Oa the clear horizon,
0 • Just at set of sun,
i A ase Looms a faint land shadow :—...
-45,A tad Wake 1 Napoleon !
boa
.m: 'Tis, 'tis France—What I sleepest
eleiet is, Still, Imperial Clay?
,eszts le eOn that land enthusiast bands
--'s :- - Wait thy word—Away !
strong and deep which can chain thee down 1
'lluisrn a
besiep
reest thou, 0 ! dauntless one—up, and grasp a crown I
„..
1.. Vain !--ahe call, unheeded now,
7., Floateth on the air :
' Glory cannot wake him...
1,./ ~
Mute he lieth there.
4 'Y' ' Up the river glideth,
With its kingly freight,
A bark, upon whose deck the CHIEF
Reclines in solemn stite.
His Marshals are around him,—rriestly vestments wave,
And prayer* are said for the mighty dead, as he travels to
his grave.
Could those legions waken,
Who at their General's name,
Once with shout exulting,
Earned ever-during tame;
Could they but see his bones
Borne to his own heart's home,
And mark his latest obsequies
Beneath the gilded dome ;
How would they welcome back their chief, as Gliebirs
greet the sun,
Mid march to high and daring deeds, with bins, Napoleon 1
E'en now my fancy sees
Their ranks—a ghostly band
Surround the blazoned pall--
Awaiting his command
The silent shadowy chief
Appears, and every eye
Kindles with lambent fire to view
The vision stalking by
But, ph antore-fool'd, the cheated eye turns mournfully away,
And only marks the coffin, which contains the mystic clay.
ThDeioersgiannt'shewbavueoinrdingg
vast; tone
Slowly the bier descends,
Napoleon rests at last I
There, o'er his new-made grave,
Let Peace with bloodless hand
Two mighty monarchies unite,
And quench the smouldering brand.
By the ashes of The Emperor, then, shall nobler work he
done,
Than when o'er fields of carnage swept the scourge, Nape-
leen 1

JOHN DIX.

CHURCH-RAI-;-E liISTEESSES.

In the course of the lust week the goods of Mr. Francis
surgeon, and of Mr. Simon Payne, both residing in tl.e
parish of St. Peter, have been distrained for Church-rates,
levied upon them by the Town Council for the support of
the incumbent, Ito/. I-I. G. Lumsden. The notice to
Mr. Francis runs thus :
" To Mr. James Oughan Francis.
" Sir,—Take notice, that I have this day distrained, on
the premises occupied by you, situated in the parish of
St. Peter, in the borough of Ipswich, two =brands,
being for the sum of 11. ss. 9d., due from you fur the
totes granted and made by the council of the said borough,
on the 2d day of April, 1838, and the 2d day of December,
1839 ; and that, unless you pay the same within five days
from the date hereof, the same will be disposed of accord-
ing to law.

" Dated this 15th day of December, 1840.
" C. COLCHESTER, Churchwarden."
Mr. Francis then wrote the following letter to Mr.
Lurnsden :
" Reverend Sir—Yesterday Mr. C. Colchester, the
Churchwarden, I believe, of our parish, made a distraint
'Tea my goods for the sum of 11. 51. 9d., the amount
claimed of me by virtue of two rates made by the
Town Council, for the stipend of the incumbent of St.
Peter's parish. I cannot, I will not, suppose that this
Ninirt.
was done by your authority or consent, and as the affair
will most likely be noticed in next week's paper, I
should like to have it in my power to say that the dis-
tra
wLausrnmidadene
replied
dt
tyhouusr:_
" Sir,.—
know ledge or sanction.
" I am, Sir your's very respectfully,
"To the Rev H. Lumsden." J. 0. FRANCIS."
nothing
In reply to your note, I beg to state that I have
pend of the incumbent, or with enforcing its paymet.
whatever to do with making the rate for the sti-
" I am, Sir, your's faithfully,
" H. G. LUMSDEN.
" J. Francis, Esq., Brook-street."
From Mr.
Payne, a work-table was carried off ; and in
Lis case the notice was as follows :
'• To Mr. Simon Payne.
Sir,—Take notice, that I have this day distrained, on
the premises occupied by you, situated in St. Peter's-
street, in the parish of St. Peter, in the borough of Ipg-
wick], a work-table being for the sum of 1/. 171. 6d., due
from you for the rates granted and made by the Council of
the said borough on the 24th of April, 1838, and the 2d
of December, 1839 ;
and that unless you pay the same
within five days from the date hereof, the same will be dis-
posed of according to law.
, this •C. COLCHESTER, Churchwarden.
" Dated this 15th Dee.. 1840."
Two
}eats since Mr. Charles Silburn, who was then
churchwarden of St. Mary Tower, seized the goods of sever al
parishioners of that
would be sold parish, under the same Act of Parlia-
ment, and delivered a similar no stating
that the goods
if not redeemed in five days. The goods
have not been redeemed, nor have they been sold ; and as
would be liable to an action for tresp2s4,
osed of the goods thus seized,
two eminent counsel have coincided in the opinions +ha
any churchwarden who diqi
it is not probable
that Mr. Colchester will venture to sell the umbrellas and
tAble taken for the maintenance of the wealthy incumbent
of St. Paer's_lpswich Express.

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