The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-13 00:00:00

POETRY.

PALESTINE.
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'Reft of thy Sons, amid thy foei forlorn,
Mourn, widow'd Queen, forgottettSion, mourn ;
Is this thy. place, Sad City, this thy Throne,
Where the wild desart rears-its craggy stone
While suns unblest their angry lustre fling,
And
,way-worn pilgrims seek the scanty spring ;
'Where now thy pomp which Kings with envy yiew'd
Where now thy might which all these Kings subdued ?,
No martial myriads muster at thy gate,
No suppliant Nations at thy Temple wait.,
No prophet Bards, thy glitt'ring courts among
Wake the full lyre and swell the tide of song ;
But lawless might and meagre want are there
And the quick darting eye of restless fear ;
While cold oblivion, 'mid thy ruins laid,
Folds his dark wing beneath the ivy shade.

Ye guardian Saints, ye warrior Sons of Ireav'n
To whose high care Judea's state was giv'n,
0 ! wont of old your nightly watch to keep,
A host of Gods on Sion's tow'ring steep,
If e'er your secret footsteps linger still
By Siloa's fount or Tabor's echoing hill';
If e'er your songS on Salem's glory dwell,
And mourn the captur'd land you lov'd so well ;
(For oft 'tis said in Kedron's palmy vale,
Mysterious harpings swell the midnight gale,
And blest as balmy dews that Hermon cheer,
'l‘lelt in soft cadence on the pilgrim's ear ;)
'Forgive; blest Spirit, if a theme so high
Mock the weak notes of mortal minstrelsy !
Yet might your aid this anxious breast inspire
With one faint spark of Milton's hallow'd fire,
Then should my muse ascend with bolder !fight,
And wave her eagle wing exulting in the light.

O happy once in Heaven's peculiar cove,
Delight of men below, and saints above,
Thro' Salem, now the Spoiler's ruffian hand,
Has loos'd his hell-hounds o'er thy wasted land; -
Tho' weak and whelm'd beneath the storms of fate,
Thy home is left unto thee desolate;
Tho' thy proud stones in cumbrous ruin fall,
And heaps of sand o'er top thy mould'ring
Yet shall the Muse to Fanby's ardent view,
Each shadowin,r trace of faded pomp renew ;
And as the Seer on Pisgah's topmast brow,
With glist'ning eye beheld the plain below,
With prescient ardour drank the sacred gale,
And bade the op'ning glades of Canaan hail ;
Her eagle eye shall scan the prospect. wide
From Carmel's cliffs to Almotana's tide,
The flinty waste, the cedar tufted hill,
The liquid heath of smooth Ardeni's rill,
The grot whereby the watcliflres' evening blaze,
The robber riots or the hermit prays,
Or, when the tempest rives the hoary stone,
The wintry top of Giant Lebanon.

Fierce,. hardy, proud, in conscious freedom bold,
Those stormy seats the warrior Druses hold ;
From Norman blood their lofty line they trace,
Their lion-coUrage proves their gen'rous
They, only they, while all around them kneel
In sullen homage to the Thracian-steel;
Teach their pale Despot's waningmoon to fear
The patriot terrors of the mountain spear.
Yes, valourons Chiefs, while yet your sabres shine,
.The native guards of-hononeil Palestine,
0 ! ever thus, by no vain boast dismay'd,'
Defend the birth-right of the-cedar shade !
What, tho' no more for you the conscious gale
Swells the white bosom of the Tyrian sail ;
Tho' now no more your glittering marts unfold
Sidonian dyes, and Lusitanian gold,
Tho' not for you the pale and sickly slave
Forgets the light in Ophir's wealthy cave,
Yet, yours the lot, in proud contentment blest,
While cheerful labour leads to tranquil rest.
No robber-rage the ripening harvest knows,
And unrestram'd the generous vintage flows :
Nor.less your sons to manliest deeds aspire,
And Asia's mountains glow with Spartan fire.
So when deep sinking in the rosy main,
The Western Sun forsakes the Syrian plain,
His watery rays refracted lustre shed,
And pour the latest light on Cannel's head.
Yet shines your praise amid surrounding gloom,
As the lone lamp that quivers o'er the tomb
For few the souls that spurn the tyrants' chain,
And small the bounds of freedom's scanty reign.
As the poor outcast in the cheerless wild,
Arabian's parent clasped her fainting child,
And wander'd near the roof no more her home,
- Forbid to linger, yet refrain'd to roam,
My roaming fancy quits the happier height,
And southward throws her half-averted light.
For sad the scenes Judea's plainS disclose,
A dreary waste of undistinguish'd woes ;
See War untired his crimson pinions spread
And foul Revenge that tramples on the dead.
Lo' where from far the guarded fountains shine
Thy tents, Nebaioth, rise, and Kedar, thine !
'Tis your's the boast to mark the stranger's way,
And spur your. chargers head-long on the prey,
Or rouse your nightly number from afar
. And o'er the hamlets pour the waste of war ;
Nor spare the hoary head, nor bid your eye
ReVere the sacred smile of infancy.
. Such now the clans whose fiery courser% feed
Where waves on Kishon's bank the whisp'ring reed,
And their's the soil where curling to the skies
Smokes on Gerizim's mount, Samaria's sacrifice.
While Jsrael`x sons, by scorpion curses driven,
Outcasts of Earth and reprobates of Heaven ; . •
Through the wide world in hopeless exile stray,
Remorse and shame sole comrades of their way, .•.
• 10clumb despair their CountrY's wrongs behold,
And dead to glory, only burn forgold.

Qh thou their guide, theirlather and their Lord,
"Lord for thy mercies, far iffy- power adored !
. If at thy name the waves forget their force,
`And relluent Jordan sought its trembling source.
4f at thy name like-sheep the mountains fled,
And haughty Sion bow'd its marble head.
,To Israel's woes a pitying ear incline,
And raise from earth thy long neglected vine.;
Her rifled fruits behold the heathen hear,
And wild Wood bears her mangled clusters tear. •
Vas it for this she stretched her purpled reign,
From far Euphrates to the distant main ?
For this o'er many a bill her boughs she threw,
And her wide arms like goodly Cedars grew.
For this proud Edom slept beneath her shade,
And o'er the Arabian deep her branches play'd.

O feeble boast of transitory poWer,
Vain fruitless trust of Judah's happier hour. .
Not such their, hope when through the parted main,
The cloudy, wonder led the warrior train. .
Not such their hope when through the fields of night,
The lamp of Heaven diffus'd its friendly
Not when tierce conquest ured the onward war,
And hurl'd stern Canaan from his haughty car.
Nor when five Monarchs led to Gibeon's fight,
In rude array, the harmless Arnorite.
Yes—in that hour by. mortal accents stay'd,
The ling'ring Sun his fiery_ wheels delay'd.
The moon obedient trembled at the sound,-
Curb'd her pale car, and cbeck'd her mazy round !

Let Sinai tell—for he beheld his might,
And God's own darkness veil'd her conscious height.
He cherub home upon the whirlwind rode,
And the red mountain like a furnace glow'd.
Let Sinai tell—but who shall dare recite,
His praise his power eternal, infinite ?
Awe-struck I cease, nor bid my strains aspire,
Nor serve his altar with unhallow'd fire.
(To be coacluded.)

GREAT PUGILISTIC BATTLE.

GRAND 'TOURNAMENT BETWEEN NEATE, THE BRIS-

TOL MAN, AND THE' CELEBRATED HICKMAN,
COMMONLY CALLED GAS, FOR TWO lIUUDRED

GUINEAS ASIDE.
This great battle was for the honorary title. of
" Champion of England." It , took place. 65
miles. from Londonicon the Downs On one side
of Hungerford, Berlss, on the.vergecrf Hants and
Wilts. - The pugilistic informant. calculates the
assemblage of persons present at twenty-five
thousand, hundreds of whom had a mere limited
sight of the ,ring. Newbury, was• all bustle on
Monday, and' many who left their dOwny dabs,
were content with repose in a hay-loft. The
backer of Gas sported a new yellow bounder
upon this occasion ; his entry into Newbury,
with his favourite man, was hailed with acclama-
tions, and the Teneriffe was put about for Sherry
in gallons. Even the populous town` of Readint,
was full ; the cavalcade on the road presentea
a scene quite new to the natives. - The Coinnzis-
sary,in the wriggling drag, wedged-in with the
ropes, and stakes, left (Newbury on Monday af-
ternoon, after taking a drain of blur ruin, with
a stiell pall, and the tvunty-four feet square was
roped in good style. At twelve -o'clock, the
Commanfier-in-Chici,,of all- the 'milling forces ar-
rived ; his entree into the ring was- hailed with
enthusiasm. The ring was .admirably kept, and
-good order prevailed on all 'sides. Neate enter-
ed first with Belcher. Gas followed soon after-
wards with his backer, and both-set to at peeling.
The seconds were Belcher and Harmer for their
countryman, and Sprinc, end' Shelton for Gas.
Betting was even, but Neate for choice. Ile was
up to the mark at 14 stone ; 'Gas was about 12
stone. When stripped the di'sparagement in size
was apparent. They. 'shook hands together on
their first meeting.

THE BATTLE.
Round-1. Not a voice was heard whilst the men were in at
titude. Gas made the first play and was returned upon. Some
blows were exchanged, but both were too eager. Gas was
thrown.
'. 2. Neate placed a counter hit upon his adversary's throat, and
the right hand of Gas told upon the body. Both fell from a
struggle, to the advantage of Gas.
3. A game. fighting round,
-and many blows were exchanged
rather in favour of Gas ; he placed his favourite right-handed
hit upon the throat, and Neate seemed rather abrOad, but both
stood to each other like real bred ones, and Neate was under in
the fall-5 and 6 to 4 on Gas. •
4. A terrible fighting round. Gas making play, received a
tremendous counter hit with the left hand upon the eye, which
chanceried• the, head, and caused . a sort of paralytic affection.
• Gas seemed to disregard it, and fought very manfully, hut his
adversary out-fought him, and set the claret flying in all direr-
, dons. Gas received another left-handed facer on the mouth;
• which nearly dropped him, but his goodness refused trifles, and
he was at length thrown against his will. •
5.• Gas was cleanly floored at going in, and making play-2
to lon Neate. • '
• 6. This. was in favour of Neate, and it was evident, togood
judges, that the tremendous rush of Gas, whit h had put his for--
mer. adversaries to ibroe, would not be received by Neate.—
After a manly rally, Neate was under in the fall.
7. Neate plrced hits very heavy left and right upon the con-
tdsed eye of his adversary, and also under the log. Gas had -
all the worst of the round, and he was floored by a left-handed
facer-5 to 2on Neate.
8. Gas was much! distressed from the hitting he got in the
last round, but undismayed, he turned to at his work, and
-threw his. adversary in a struggle.
9., Neate, taking the advantage of his lead. flew in upon the
out and out system, and having missed his hit, Gas floored him
with the right hand.
0.. Gas bled profusely from the eye,which was nearly closed,
and
.Neate dropped him, by nearly staving in his breast bone-
-4 to't on Neate. ". • • -
U. Gas was in great distress from severe hits received, and
Neate was piping too. Neate was dropped in a rally by a right
handed body blow.
12: A manly fighting round, and Gas had none the worst of
it ; but he was thrown.
13. Gas was bit cleanly down with the left hand, and barring
an accident, he had no chance-of winning. •It was not more
than two to one that he did not come again.
14. Neate was very tired, and Gas spewed goodness in an ex-
traordinary manner, by hard fighting ; and in falling, Neate
was under.
15. Neate hit his adversary down by another blow over the
Contused eye, and it was all up.
16. This was the last effort of Gas, whose lion heart was yet
unsubdued. He placed several blows, and at last he fell, na-
ture having turned. him up.
17 and 18. In these rounds Gas stood up to be slaughtered,
• for had Neate been exercising his calling as a butcher, be- could
not have served a west,country heifer worse. Gas was sense-
less to the call of time, after having been, knocked down in
the 13th round, and Neate was, declared the victor without
lOsing blood. Gas should have been taken away in the lath
round.
REMARKS.—Thus was the invulnerability.of .Gas put on
one side in twenty four minutes and a few seconds, and now
the cognoscenti begin to find out that 14 stone must win with
'l2 stone at equal fighting. Neate proved himself decidedly the
best boxer of the two, and he aid his .business chiefly with his
left hand, measuring his distance like an able tactician: Gas
could not get at him, as Neate was always ready to make cairn-,
ter-bits with him. Neate is the hardest hitter our informant
has seen in the ring, and the nursery of Bristol never produced
a more formidable boxer. Gas showed himself one of the best
of game, and is miserably punished.
The tight between Josh. Iludson and the Suffolk Champion
did not take, place. The stake was drawn.

ACCIDENT.—A part of the building intended
for the Office of the Duchy of Lancaster fell in
last night, caused, as we understand, by the
beams, formed of cast-iron, having been over-
loaded. We are glad to state .that no injury was
sustained.
ADVENTURES OF A COUNTRY CONSTABLE IN
LONDON.—A warrant,,of bastardy having been
granted to the overseers. of, a parish about 100
miles from London, against a young man who
had absconded, the gentlemen of the parish de-
puted an individual, whom they considered to
be the sharpest of their constables, to proceed
to London in order to t xecute it, and for this
purpose 201. was granted him to pay his expel).
ces. This the vigilant officer concealed snugly
in his pocket-book, together with his warrant,
and putting it in his breast-pocket, he arrived
in London on Tuesday last for the first
time in his life. 'On his arrival, above all
places, he sought Charles-street, Drury-lane,
to take up his quarters, having heard that the ob-
ject of his mission was a resident in that direction.
He went into the Coach and Horses, and there sat
down with some gentlemen, who, with all the
dexterity of versed thieves, contrived to cut out
the pocket-book from his coat unknown to him,
whilst he was intent in conversation. He at length
discovered, his loss and immediately quitted the
place in search of a man whom he suspected,
he having left the house. He thoughtlessly left
his great coat behind -him, and that was also
taken off during his absence. The enraged officer
instantly proceeded to Queen-square office, in
order to ascertain whether they could grant him a
fresh warrant to apprehend the man he had come
after, that likewise being stolen., lie was re-
fused a warrant, and was advised to go back to
his own parish for one, which he was compelled
- to do.