The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-26 00:00:00

ALFRED.

THE folltv.ving EXtraet frotirthe Poem of ALT A ft),
written by the POEI LAUREAI',IS particularly al).-
plicable at the present moment. The Work is. highly
honourable to the Author considered in a political
'as well as poetical light.' Viewing it as" the chief
PATRIOTIC EPIC of THE BRITISH 101.74 E, it-ought,
as a matte; of duty as 'well as taste, to adorn the..
Library of every English Gentleman. •

MY faithful Subjeas„ and my brave Allies,
-An equal Heirs of ALBIL/NIS fostering skies,
Nor Peace, nor Liberty, can Bn IT AIN know,
Bat from the fall of your,injurious foe. •
The paths through yon embattled barrier lie,
That lead to freedom and to V i6tory.—
On civil strife what horrid ills await;
Of foreign servitude the grievous stare '
No words of mine need paint—for lo it stood,
Dravrn in the red charaitery of blood
Full in your sight—what time the hapless Maid,*
Sad.viaim ! fell, selflmurder'd, on the'glade.—
I s there a Father, Lover, Husband, heij,
Holds Feniale charms, and Female honour dear?
Let indignation urge each fatal blow,.
With more than mortal vengeance on the Foe.
Is there a-Warrior 'mid this valiant train,
Who mourns a Parent, Son, or Brother slain?
O ! let him speak the sorrows of his breait
In strokes of thunder on the Danish Crest.
I f there be one, by guilty Wiles misled, -
Who 'gainst his Native Land his force has'sped,
! let him expiate the dire disgrace, -
By tenfold vengeance on yon hostile race ; , ,
And, in the blood. of Scandinavia's horde,
Wash offthe stain from his polluted sword.

And ye, from Cambria's hills who join our band,
From Caledonia's rocks, and Erin's strand,
Generous and brave Compeers ! 0, now be shown
The only strife that futute times shall own.
A glorious strife, of Britain's Isles the pride,
The friendly contest ne'er may Time decide ;
/terra! be the donflici which shall fight,
FIRST IN. THEIR 'MONARCH'S, AND THEIR COUN-
TRY'S RIGHT.

• This passage refers to a very interesting Episode beauti—
fully related, and there would doubtless be numerous in-
Standes of the same alfeeting kind, if the execrable Monsters
of France could ever have an opportunity of gratifying their
brutal passions in th.s Country by a successful invasion.

VIE FOLLOWING INTEREsTING EFFUSION OF

MATERNAL TENDERNESS WAS WRITTEN BY MRS.
JOHN HUNTER.

TO MY SON, AGED zs, AT CAMBRIDGE.

NOW twice the Spring, with flowrets gay,
Hath Igoider'dcier her mantle green,- -
And twice the merry month of May
With hawthorn d,ick'd the vernal scene,
Since I in tuneful numbers hail'd the morn
When thou, my heart's dear boy, in happy hour wast born.

4 Nor halt 1 miss'd the annual song,
When June return'd with roses crown'd ;
But rising borrow cheLk'd my tongue,
And cloudy care hung low'ring round,
While in the gloomy sltades of threat'ning death ..
j watch'd thy liutt'ring pulse, and fear'd thy parting breath.

6 How exquisite the anxious woe,
The agoniiing bitter grief,.
Maternal love alone can I:now,,
. 'Midst glim'ring hopes of slow relief;
The cruel Ititylness of the healing art,
And those dim joyless smiles which tend the bursting heart!.

Dear be those cares, to mcm'ry dear,
Which sav'd thee from an early grave ;
And ever bless'd the genial year,
The milder sky, the briny wave,
The healthful gale, wl>ich fading life restores,
Where the smooth swelling tide laves Ilamptonie happy
shores.

-4 Nor sav'd in ,vain ; 0, still pursue
•I he path where Truth unerring leads,
"Where Reass,n early may subdue -
The wild desires which Fancy feeds;
Circean charms, that with a magic force
impel the feble mind through Youth's insensate course.
•
Co on, dear Boy, exert each pow'r

On times rich treasures to improve;
And may the slowly ripening hour, • •
l'ass'ci in the academic grove,
Strength to thy mind with antient lore impart,
And judgment firm to guide a warm and feeling heart.'

Literature.—ln the course of the last year, the
number of works published in London, was as
f,liows :—Voyages and Travels-26, Theology 7r,
History 18, General. Politics, t, European Politics
5, .Domestic and Colonial Pclitids, 28, Political
Economy and Trade 6, Statistics 4, Geography 4,
British Topography 19, Ancient Classics, &c. zz,
IVlociern Languages 3, 'Education and School Books
2, Biography 16, Belles Lettres, Miscellanies, and
Poems, 43, Plays 19, Miscellanies 36, Romances
and Novels Y 5, Law 21, *Commerce Military
Taffies 13, Rural Economy and Gardening 9, Do-
mestic Economy r, Medicine, &c. 69, -General
Science 4., Mathematics 6, Experimental Philo-
sophy 7, Mineralogy 3, Natural.liistory r t, Archi-
teaure and the Fine Arts' 4., and Bibliography 3.—
in all, 482 different publications.
• CHARITY SCHOOLS.—In the UnitedlKindom
of Great Britain and Ireland there are 1842 Schools
supported by public Charity—in them there;are
regularly instruded 33,24 boys; 9650 girls
total 42,874. •

Early on Wednesday morning:last, the drying.
house belonging,to' EDWARD SH E Pk' AR D, Esq. of
Uley, in the. County of Gioucestei, was discovered
to be on fire. When first seen, tJe building was
enveloped in flames, presenting a spettacle equally
awful and terrific, and rendering every effort to ex.
tinguish it, or preserve any part of the property
therein, ineffetual. The whole range of buildings,
70 yards in length, together with a great quantity
of cloth then drying, were entirely consumed. The
above accident, it is supposed, was occasioned by
the flues being overheated, one of which bursting,
communicated the fire to the timber. The cloth
destroyed is estimated at 15e01. value, but the
whole of it was insured.

The regiment marched from the church to Col.
Bolton's house, in Duke_street, to lodge the Colours,
and were dismissed. The. Colonel gave a grand
dinner on the occasion, the next day, at the Royal
Hotel, at which his -Royal Highness and Suite, the
Officers in Garrison, and many other Gentlemen,
were present.
The following toasts were given by his Royal
Highness : Bolton, and the Royal Liverpool
Volunteers ;" " Prosperity to the County.of Lancas-
ter ;" " The Mayor and Corporation ;" " Prospe-
rity to the Town and Trade of Liverpool ;" The
Lancashirt, Witches."

A respeaable Correspondent informs us, that hay-
-IVALKER, of Bassenthwaite
ing heard that Mr. Jets
Chapel, in the county of Cumberlarol, had, by way
experiment, buried a toad, so long ago as the months
of November, 18oz, he was induced, a few days
ago, to attend to the result of the experiment,
which he describ;:s as follows; The reptile was pot
into.a bason, the bason covered with a slate, and de-
posittd about a foot beneath the surface of the earth,
on the sth of November, 18oz. The bason was
carefully dug up on the Bth of the present month,
when its inhabitant was found alive, though much
smaller after its confinement of fifteen months.—
It is unnecessary to observe, that during that long
period, it is not known that any nutriment could
be obtained by the prisoner, whose situation seems
to have utterly precluded every means of subsistence.
Naturalists tell us, that the lungs of this species of
rana (in common with others) are " different from
those of all other animals ; that they are only a sort
of membranaceaus bladders, with several tubicles,
which being once inflated, do not become flaccid,
as in other animals ;" but, however they might
exist for some time, under a total seclusion from air,
the existence of the animal, for so long a time,
without nutriment, -seems yet unaccounted for. -
On Friday morning, about one o'clock, a fire
broke out in the workshop of Messrs. fli.srwooo
and..l3ELsHAw, machine-makers, in Tib-lane, Man-
chester, which was totally consumed, together with
a large quantity of machinery, &c. The weather
being extremely tempestuous, the flames threatened
destruftion to the whole neighbourhood ; but by the
wive assistance which was rendered, the damage
was confined to the premises where the fire began.
The building was insured, as was also about one-
third of the property within.

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