The Sun.
London, England, 1804-03-31 00:00:00

DAtTEL 'MACNAMARA,

SCAN IN THE COONTY OF CLARE, IN TrIE KINGDOM OT

IRELAND, ANNO 1716;
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DIED AT STREATHAM, j NUARY 20, 1800.

AT length, resigning to the gen'ral doom, .
Here M CN AMA R A consecrates the tomb;
All tasks perform'd,• he now is laid at rest, •
Thro' a long life with ev'ry virtue blest : . •
A tender Husband, at fair friendship's call,
Active and warm—benevolent to all ;
Of polisli'd manners, sentiment refin'd, •
High sense of honour, an enlighteu'd mind.
His the gay wit that useful mirth inspied, , •
. Charm chasing charm, still new, •and Stilt at/trued ;
Stranger to faction, and the feuds of state,
Esteeru'd and honour'd by the learn'd and great;
By REDYORD patroniz'd, to MOIR A dear,
And ev'n Tits P :Nes embahn'd him with a tear.
A. M.

COLLEGE MSTIMES.

WRITTEN IN THE DEBTORS' WARD. SOUTHAMPTON.

YE who attend to rig'rous
Tit vhich taught in musty schools :

which.you're taugh
Who dupes commence and finish fools ! •
Would you obtain some useful knowledge, •
p!_
ECCOLTI:: a Member of this College. •
Here deep-learnt S.;ience discern,
And gain the art.by which we learn,
pass the ling'ring hours away,
(Obs!tve then what the• Muse shall say).

What's all your Latin or your Greek, ;
Compar'd to language which we speak ?
Though y'ou may deal in Classic lore,
Have7puhdet'd 1-161,1E1: o'er and o'er,
Though you in RA c —NT! R'G L.:—shine,
Your iliCken cat,. and drink your wine,
You'll not despise,6ur Colltige fare—
To'eat and drink is all our care.' '

No Carchpoles touch, no duns assail;
No caitiffs slink. within a jail
Hereguarded well with walls and bars;
We meddln'ot'Nvith worldly jars ;
No Politics ontsloddles,drench, . -1.1
We fix thedocirn of Dutch and French,
Take snuff—the quid—adrop of short,
And to the shadei send EON A ?RTE.

When Moraing opes.her gladsome wings,
Here whistles one, whilstyother sings ;
;4itch'ci.in the corner of the room,
Where spiders fear nor brush ner broom,
7Vherp"gelid droPslliat spring fight damps,'
~ (Dread harbingers of coughs and cramps),
one'Who, With a horrid yaWn,
_•
Rubs his large eyes, and greets the mOniL...
Asks what's to be.the sport to-day ;
Who'll cribbage or five hundred pfitii
Round goes the laugh, and then the song, ,!;
So glide the circling hours along. 7
Nro wr; sable Goddess, shifts the scene,
v/ lien tI4 small tube and 'magazine
Are handed round the jovial board, .
And puff's and)Okes.alike afford; -
the spariclin.glass and flowing can, ~.
(The gift of sonit Samaritan), .
Swell out each paunch, that soon will cheer
The drowsy voeries of strong beer. ;.• •

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Thick clouds of smoke begin to rise,
Enough to stilled all our eyes. •
With talering speech, and nose:i
And stomachs cram'd, we go to bed.

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Now issue'strains.froni nasal sounds,
That seem to shake the very mounds,
And reeking hides send perfume, /31 ;
,1!;;,
More fragrant far than vernal bloom. '

From scenes like these the Muse revi46
•
No chlrms for her are locks and bolts ; :v.
Oh may she from these walls be, free,
To taste again sweet Liberty ! C. B•

CRIM. CON.—A writ of inquiry was executed.
at the Castle of Exeter, yesterday. se'nnight, before
the Sheriff of the County of Devon, wherein Smnel
Pierce, of that city, Gent. was Plaintiff, and-James
Long.nan, , musical instrument tuner, Defendant,
for the purpose of assessing the amount of damages
to be paid by the Defendant to the Plaintiff, by way
of compensation for seducing his wife, &c: Scc.—‘
The Defendant having acknowledged himself guilty
in the preceding process, it only remained for the
Jury to assess the amount of damages to be awarded.
The Plaintiff's case was stated very ably by his
Counsel, Mr. DAMPfEk and Mr. CoORTENAY,
who called witnesses to prove the happiness which
existed between Mr. Pierce and his wife in the
early period of their marriage, until it was destroy-
ed by the seduaive arts of the Defendant.—On the
other hand, Mr. JENA, nn, as Counsel for the De-
fendant, laboured hard in exculpation, of damages,
by stating the poverty of his client, who gained his
living solely by tuning pianofortes ; that this un-
happy connexion had deprived him of all his busi-
ness; that, if heavy damages were awarded, it
would be equal to a sentence of imprisonment for
life, or drive him from his country for ever; and
further, that Mr. Pierce, though he had married
his wife without any fortune at the time, had, since
her elopement, become possessed of a handsome le-
gacy in' het right, by the demise of her near re-
lation. Mr. TONKIN, as Counsel for the Sheriff,
I summed up the evidence with his usual correa-
ness when the Jury assessed the damages in 2001.
ANECDOTE.—In one Of CoWPER's letters, late-
ly published by HAYLEY, he relates the following
incident :—" A poor man begged food at the Hall
lately. The cook gave him some vermicelli soup.
He ladled it about some tisne with the spoon, and
then returned it .to her, saying—" I am a poor
man, it is t rue, and am very hungry, but yet I can-
not cat broth with maggots in it."