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London, England, 1824-09-13 00:00:00

LITERARY NOTICE.

The AGAMEMNON of fEtiCtIYLUS, translated by J.
SvmsioNs, Esq. M. A. late Student of Christ Church,
Oxford. Coneletded..)
When we last noticed this excellent produe.
don, we were compelled by the straitness of our
limits to omit the larger and the better part of
that citation, with which it was our purpose at
once to gratify our readers, and to evince the
powers of Mr. SirstaioNs's lyric Muse. We la-
mented our inevitable deficiency on this occasion,
and we intended to supply it by inserting in one
of our immediately succeeding papers the whole
of that fine choral ode, of which we .had then ex-
hibited little more than the introduction. Such,
at that time, was our desifn t but many circum.
stances have occoried to disappoint its execution ;
and so long a period has .uovr intervened that
we cannot resume it With its 'first destined effect.
Sorry, therefore, as we may be, to lose the augu.
vial eagles, and the sacrifice of Iphigenia, which
adorn, and give interest to • this opening chorus
of the drama, we must now turn from them, null
produce as theiriUbstitutes some• rich pieces of
poetry, selected frOtti the choruses which follow.
The first extract, which we shall make, will be
short, including only the description of Heleu on
her first arrival at Troy, as we find it in the third
song of the chorus : but the second will be of
greater length, cOmprehending the whole of that
noble lyric effusive poured out by the chorus
under the irresistible effect of instant inspiration—
of inspiration, whitlfcommands their organs with-
out attention to their wills, on the communication
of knowledge-to their minds.
• When first she came to Ilion's towers
• 0 what a glorious sight, I ween, was there!
The tranquil beauty of the gorgeous Queen
flung soft as breathless summer on her cheeks,
Where on the damask sweet the glowing Zephyr slept ;
And like an idol beaming front its shrine,
So o'er the floating gold around her thrown
Her peerless face did shine t
And though sweet softness hung upon their lids,
Yet her young eyes still wounded where they look'd.
She breathed an incense like Love's perfumed flower,
Blushing In sweetness; so she seem 'd in hue, •
And pained mortal eyes with her transcendent view :
E'en so to Paris' bed the lovely Helen came.
But dark Erinnys, in the nuptial hour
Rose in the midst of all that bridal pomp, '
Seated midst the feasting throng, • -
Amidst the revelry and song ;
Erinnys, led by Xenius Jove,
Into the halls of Priam's sons,
Erinnys of the mournful bower, •
'Where youthful brides weep sad in midnight hoar.

Why do these portents flit before my eyes,
Sights which the ancient soothsayer saw ?
Why does the voice of prophecy arise,
And fill my soul with awe ? .
Why sudden chants within my soul
That song which ne'er is bought for gold,
Unorder'd, uncontroull'd,
And like a prophet speaks, so loud and clear within ?
Nor will Assurance mount his
throne,
And make his sov'ran way,
Like the morn's sun the dreams of night
Scatters before his orient light,
When mystery's shadows fade in empty air.
Why is it so ? long time is past •
Since on the sandy shore
The armed ships their cables cast,
Waiting to waft the soldiers e'er
From hence to Ilion's strand.
And now I sec them safe at home,
• My own eyes witness they are come;
And yet, I know not how, within
114 ill-presaging soul,,
Of its own free accord,
:Not to the lyre or tuneful chord,
But to the notes of an Erinnys, sings
The dirge that round the deadman rings ;
Nor will my lab'ring heart find rest
In hope or sweet assurance blest.
'Tis not for nought my bowels yearn,
'Tis not for nought within me burn •
Thoughts whose bodings will not fail,
Whilst my deep-eddying soul
Hoes ins giddy whirlpool round.
For surely, Health in the extreme
. lain on a dangerous boundary ground, •
. For her near neighbour stands Disease,
And both the party-walls against each other lean.
And many a time the gallant Argosie,
That hears man's destiny with outspread sails
In full career before the prosp'rous gales,
Strikes on altidden rock,
And founders with a hideous shock.
The wealthy house on shipwreck's brim
With measured sling may overboard
Some of its precious hurden fling,
But sinks not down itself brimful of woe;
For Men the gift of Jove two-handed tills
The yearly furrows,
Joverrr
icolwi
sests,i
ifairnowtmlalitkrhi
tevieltese
teeming
eternalmi ni ngeg
Too f fu- round,n .
• ANnatducraeltinnde
But 0 ! upon the earth, when once is shed
Black deadly blood of man,
Who will call up the black blood from the ground
With moving incantation's charm ?
Cheek'd not Jove Jiimself the man,
• The mighty leech, who knew so well the art
To raise the silent dead ?
I pause 1 some Fate from heaven forbids
The Fate within me utter more,
Else had my heart outrun my tongts.,
And pour'd the torrent o'er.
Silence and darkness close upon my soul,
She roars within, immured,
And in the melancholy gloom
To liOnf dying embersel:oftilis away. fades
extract,
" Why is it so? long time is past," &c.
is appended a note, in which the critical sagacity
of the learned translator is admirably displayed.
We cannot transcribe the entire note ; but we
will remark, that the substitution of frapsa-qo-sv for
the usual reading of Traprit'-r)o-ke is most happy ;
and of the some character with many of the pre-
ceding corrections 'of the corrupt text by the pen
of our very able annotator. We have, indeed, been
every where most forcibly struck with the stores of
erudition, which he has scattered, with apparently
a cureless hand, over his Preface and his notes;
and we have every where admired the acuteness
of mind, and the rectitude of judgment with
which he has illustrated the obscure and has ree-
.
tified the vitiated passages in his author. We
cannot now enter into that detail which might be
necessary to support the large praise which we
here assign to Mr. S. But if. the scholar will
attend to the emendations suggested by our Critic
through the course of this work, and will weigh
the merit of such substitutions as those of
caryvvy for cao%wy in the fragment of arm-

mon, of Eeeturicgoy for 'lEquo-av way in the pas•
sage which is preserved to -Us of the Phineus of
lEsculrf.us, of reorrivvriy (p.i9) for rfos 7,3ovvy,
and of xffio; (p. 73) for xEtp9,-, he will not ob-
ject to our placing Mr..'S. at the head of the
Greek critics of the present age, or of our class-
ing him with the most illustrious of his predeces.
sors M. the- ages which are gone by.- Rich as he
is in literary affluence of his own; Mr. S., as we
are persuaded, would never condescend to the
offence of literary larceny ; or would ever seek
to deck himself with a plume which had waved
on the heed of a preceding scholar.. We feel
assured, therefore, that he had not read Mr.
Kim's gleanings of the memorabilia of PORSON,
when he proposed "Exp.' 'Airc.).;%wy as an emen-
dation of the corrupt fragment of Ilermesianax
preserved in Athenams. In this instance, how-
ever, of accidental. (as we are convinced) coind.
deuce, Mr. S. SPetlIS to us to be more accurately
correct than Porson in his conjectural emenda-
tion, for the "sxfccs of the former is more just
in its dialect than the attic 'Exs of_the latter.
We must here take our leave of Mr. S YM.
MOMS, and submitting his Agamemnon to the
judgment of our poetic and our learned readers,
express our thanks to him for the entertainment
and the instruction with which he has supplied
us.

From the 140 NI) ON GA Z ETT E, Sept. 1.1.

Foreign Office, Sept. 10.

The King has been graciously' pleased to nominate and ap-
point the Right lion. Sir William A'Court, Bart. and 1C.8.,
now his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary to his Catholic Majesty, to be his ;Majesty's Am-
bassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Most Faith-
ful Majesty.

The King has also been graciously pleased to nominate and
appoint the Hon. Francis Reginald Forbes, now Secretary to
his Majesty's Legation at Lisbon,
.to be Secretary to his Ma-
jesty's Embassy at that Court.
The King has been graciously pleased to nominate and ap-
point the Right Hon. William Noel Hill, now his Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King
of Sardinia, to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Mi.
nititer Plenipotentiary within King of Naples. • -
The King has also been graciously pleased to nominate and
appoint the Right Lion., Augustus John Foster, now his Ma-
jesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
the King of Denmark, to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraor-
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Sardinia.
The King has also been graciously pleased to nominate and
appoint Henry Watkins Williams Wynn, Esq. now his Ma-
jesty's Envoy Extraordinary anti Minister Plenipotentiary to
the King of Wurtemberg, to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraor-
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Denmark.
The King has'also been graciously pleased to nominate and
appoint the Right Hon. Lord Erskine to be his Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King
of Wu rtemberg.

BANKRUPTS.
D. Hazard, Hackney, merchant. to surrender Sept. 18, 28,
Oct. 23, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basingliall.street. Solicitors,
Messrs, Tottle, Richardson, anti Gaunt, Poultry.
L. Boughton, Noble-street, Foster-lane, wholesale druggist,
Sept. 13, 25, Oct. 23, at the ltankntpis' Court, Basinghall.
street. Solicitors, illessnt. Vandercom and Comm Bush-lane,
Canon-street.

M. Wooding, DuckettAttreet, Stepney, baker, Sept. 18, 25,
Oct. 23, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitor,
111 r. Argill, Whitechapehroad.
J. M Cormack, Jubilee-place, Commercialrroad, victualler,
Sept- 18, Oct. 2, 23, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street.
Solicitor, 111 r. I3enton, Union-street, Southwark.
Scrivener, sen., H. Scrivener, jun.,'and .1. Wilson, Ken-
tish-buildings, Southwark, hop-factori, Sept. Hi, 25, Oct:2s, at
the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Solicitors, Messrs.
'Ware and Young, Blackman-street, Borough.
N. Hyde, Nassau-street, Soho, jeweller, Set. 10, Oct. 2, 23,
at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghull-street. boliciters, Messrs.
Cockayne and 'rowne, Lyon's-inn.
G. Hopkins and J. Hopkins, St. Philip and Jacob, Olo-
cestershiro, and Tintern-abbey, Monmouthshire, timber-mer-
chants, Sept. 22, 29, Oct. 23, at the White Lion Inn, Bristol.
Solicitors,. Messrs. Poole, Greenfield, and Gamlin, Oray's-
inn. • •

W. Hatfield and J. Morton, Sheffield, cutlers, Sept. 17, 18,
Oct. 23, at the Commercial Inn, Sheffield. Solicitor, Mr.
Blakclock, Serjcant's.inn.
E. Jackson, Uley, (ilocestershire, clothier. Sept. 14, Oct. 16.
23, at the'Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-strect. Solicitor, Mr.
Fisher,, Bucklersbury. _

DIVIDENDS.
Nov. 13; J. Metcalfe and J. Jeyes, Upper East Smithfield.
Oilmen—Oct. 5, C. Messenger, Oxford, cabinet-maker—Nov.
20, C. S. Dotl/ey,',Graeachurch-street, merchant—Oct. 6, O.
Chartres, Seynw rlstreet, Euston-square, confectioner' Oct.
30, S. Moline, Miter-lane. Merchant—Sept, 18, T. Reed and
J. 3liddlemas, Newcastle.tipon-Tyne, merchants.

CERTIFICATE, OCT. 2.
J. White, North.street, City-road; silversmith.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Quait and 1., Clapperton, Sevenoaks, drapers.;--R. and
N. Roe, Nonlife!), grocers— T. Faisos and D. Xlann, diems.
ford, Sufrolk, soap. mantifacturenie-r--a. Ellis and J. Veal.
Abingtion-stress.. -Westminster, atiorrilea—S. SMith and W.
Alaberley. ViiYies-st r eet, Ilerkeley-square-R. 3lising and S.
Sprague, Knightsbridge-terrace, child-bed linen inaksis,—,7.
, a tar an wv
ilo
Inanneut ....
Arnold and J. Evans, Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk-throwsters—
B. H. Somerville and W. Cotter, Liverpool, lacemen--31.
Laws and 31. Smith, Bishop-Wearmouth, Durham, attornies_
J. 31urray and T. Bullion, Upper East Smithfield, pawn-brokers
T. Mullins and E. Mare, Bristol, groeerti,--E. Drinkwater
Atkinson, Lamb's-passage, Cbissicii.,
itinnailkeErs..Aixi.
stl;elnl,errp:nrsd:tailrea.s,:olnuytregumirices:
51c:ernorsiiktsihrleleist,:e
r,
commiasion
agents—S. Black and J. L. herby, illonte.Video— S. Hoskins
anti W. Broadbent;
and R. Beach. II igh-street, Shadwell, linen-drupers—E. Bur-
ufti4terckeetiuntireacreinr:derJsß.L.l:n'itti.iidrmlifa,.7:in.
Kingston.upon-
Hull, wharlingers. .
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•
ECCLESIASTICAL • 111PERMENT:—•.•011 Wednes-
day, the Ist inst. the Bev. ,JOhn ilateltartl,' M.A., was insti-
tuted by the Lord BishOp'otExeter to the Vicarage of st. An.
drew% Plymouth, on the preientation of his father, Mr.
liatchatd, of London,' void by the death' of the Rev. John
()Andy. On Saturday, the 4th inst. he 'Wait inductedto the
Vicarage. It was singular that the lamented predecessor went
throug a similar ceremony exactly that day 55 years.

•
Ilis,Majesty has been graciously pleased io grant unto the
i
Hon. Robert 14saulk Murray Greetlle° anti to his sisters the
Right Hon. the Ladies °earwax% and Louisa Murray
his Royal'license anti authority to relinquish the surname of
Murray, heretofore used by them, and to use and continue to
be called by their paternal' surname of OreviHo only ; and also
to command that such concession should be registered in his
Majesty's College of Arms.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(from the Rtolk, dateq_Sept.ll.).

PARTS, SEPT. 10.—The King, after mass,
which he heard in his apartments, transacted
business with Baron de Damns, Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs.—The Count de V;Help, Presiden(
of the Council of Ministers, came to transact
business with his Majesty.
We have received our correspondence from the
islands of the Archipelago. Many facts have al.
ready been published. We shall extract all that
is not yet known, and that seems to be worthy of
notice.

MILo, JULY 15.—Fifty-two Greek vessels,
.viz. thirty IT....ydriots and twenty.two Spezziots,
sailed, -on the 7th of this month, to the aid of the
Ipsariots. One part ofthis 'bet is said to be at
Samos, the other at Tino and Muconi.
Captain Gouras, Commandant at Athens, is
gone with 4,000 men to Thebes, against a
Turkish column of 12,000 men that threatened
.the first city. Odysseus is at present employed
in the Senate. lie has quitted the military ca.
reer for that of diplomacy.
At "poll di'llomania the people say openly
that unless the money mishit( from the loan ar.
rives, the Mole° is lost. Not a suldier will
march without being paid his. arrears. Several
changes have taken place in the Ministry of the
G rev k Government. Dimitri ltomaras is Minister
of 'War, Papa Flaichas of Justice, and Captain
Cristo, at present Governor of Napoli di Ito.
mania, is Generalissimo of all the armies of the
Peloponnesus.
•Svas JULY, 15.—1 t is said that Gouras, with
a small force, has beaten, Omer Paella, who com-
rnauded a corps of 15,000 men in Attica.
SCALA N UQVA, JULY IQ.—To-day a Turkish'
frigate' has cast anchor in this port. It is to as-
sure then troops, who are assembling in great nem.
beis in the environs of this city, of the speedy
arrival of the Ottoman fleet with the Cupitan
Pacha.

Myrvi.Ext, jut.-Y 29.—After the taking of
Ipsara the Turkish Army retired to this port.
—Several Greek ,ships, profiting by this fa-
vourable opportunity, landed some troops on fp-
care, •who, after having taken the cannon and a
large stun of money which had been hurled, em-
barked about '2OO families who had concealed
themselves for a week among the rocks, near thy
sea. The garrison left by tint Capital' Perim, at
psara, consisted of 1,5(X) men ; only '238 have
escaped. The Capitan Paella 1111 d left nothing
but ga4leys in the port of 'para. Seven only
were saved ; all the .rest were taken by the

G reeks.
The Turkish fleet has 'returned to Mityletie,
and has anchored in these seas—it has pur-
sued by the Greek vessels, which %sere seen from
the shore of Plomazi. The Capitan Pachn is ill;
he has given-orders to his tromps to re-embark.
JULY 24.---To.day the Ottoman fleet has,
sailed. It is said that it is going to Tschesme
tared Scala Ntiova to ...visit-the, troops. .Those which
it had embarked remain Its ; they will be gone
in three days.
Att English ship coming from Samos, brings
the news that the inhabitants of that island have
declared to nil strangers that they might depart
if they feared (kw.. Th«, aged, women, and
children have retired to a high mountain, having
carried away all they had in their houses and
magazines. It is said that the Greek fleet is ac-
tually off psarn.
.AUGUST 3.—The corvette of his Majesty
the King of France, La Chevrette, has arrived
in these roads ; she has brought hither the
.Archbishop of Smyrna, who immediattay went on
board the Cupitan Pacha's ship, where he re.
mained two hours.

The Creek fleet is nt present near 'restocks,
It has captured several Turkish boats, which it
met on its way to that island. The Capital;
.Pasha being informed of this, on the 30th July,
put his fleet under sail to pursue that of the
Greeks, and to protect the passage of the Otto-
man ships which escort the Ipsariot prizes on the
way to Constantinople. It is said that, after
that, he will proceed to Samos.
Yesterday there was a gnarrel between the
Albanians and t 1 Asiatics. One Asiatic was
killed and two Albanians wounded. The guard
of the police came up its time to stop the effusion
of blood.

The troops continue to insult the inhabitants;
happily, however, they do not Commit any mur-
ders. The country in the. environs of Mitylene
has beets laid. Waste by them.
(Prom.t,'!: Augshuret Gaxettr.)
CONSTAN'III.I6I.I.E, AUG. to.—Tlie views of a
naval battle' is • not contiroied. The. Capitau
Pachu is still preparing for the attack• of Samos.
'lt was to Jal:e Wuxi, actor Vie feat. Of 'the Kour-
.ban Beirams, that is to say, b*tween thi.,711) and
wo, of this in'onth. The
,Ottoinait force is stated
at 46,000 trwtt,.r.hich seems to be ex3gge'rated...
'rite Egyptiau fleet havarrived off the lst.itid
of Rhodes., It is said to consist of 180 sAil, With
20,000 troops: on ' board. fit.is believed,ttrat- it
will
,proceed direr,tly to the Vorea, and then,
say the,TurksiColocotroui will declare for them.
The Turkish Govertiment,it is insinwit*.(l; has a
horrible project77-irtin(jy, to carry,aw ay from the
Moron ,the rebels, of thvdhristiatt poPulation,
and settle them in Egy'l)torld' to bring FigYPllims,
to inhabit that beautiful Peninsula. Will it be
• • ,
believed that many unworthy Christiuns in • 1 era
:linve expressed the must inhuman joy at this
shocking report ?
( From the. Constitutionnel, Sept. It).)
The. King of Hanover is ahout to allow. 411unicipal Institu-
tions to many of OF! cities of the kingdom, and particularly at
HaqOver, the capi;al of the country, and at Hameln. The dispo.
actions of this ordnance-ore, that Advocates and Jews shall fur
ever he excluded Om tias aduibtiatration, and from the mini-
. cipal councils of thine
At the same mointnt that • the Senate of Frankfort pub-
-Halted a law relative to ttie Israelitnt of Frankfort, the Emperor
of Russia put forth cut ukase, according to which the Polish
Jean, if they are ntitlier
(lofted to renounce phisicians nor contractors, are re-
before the he JanuarY lON their hiwking
trade, and to become what their fathers were, 'that is to say,
hushandnicti and sheplierda., Fo.# this Mr )os:: Government
ha* assigned to them, in different parts.o this wnpire, lands
if
with every thing that is necoggoy. to cultivate them; In MC
condition*, they Ilona quit Russia altogether
they refuse these
nib:Kett Fttains l'avtia.tigeT.lo. Five per() ,J "
du rid `111e:1:ed ati• 83-; closed at 011. 90en;tsLo°"14
of
1823, 13. ; Bank Stock, 1,900; Neapolitan 5 Per. Vents., in
swish. ; Itentes d'Espagne, 19. ; Rord j-,;(1,a
,4823, :50,-4ixcliange on London, one month, 25f. 15.1; tlire—e'l'
iraonths, 95.-,( Court duthentiltie)