The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-12 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

I have just seen that the worthy Dean of 'West-
minster, in accordance with the tolerant spirit of
Florentine bigotry in the 14th century, will not allow
Byron's name to pollute the sanctuary of his Abbey,
—.I say his, as he and his followers make money by
making a raree-show of their sancted Church,--and
his it must surely be, when, with unabashed in-
solence he dares deny a place to the memory of
Byron beside the mighty names of the country he
too has honoured. Does the " Quarterly Review"
Critic forget the Poet's own address te—
Ungrateful Florence ! Dante sleep; afar,
Like Scipio buried by the upbraiding shore;
Thy factions, in their worse than civil war,
Proscribed the Bard, who, for ever more
Thy chlidren's children would in rain adore
With the remorse of ages ; and the crown
Which Petrarch's laureate brow supremely wore
Upon a far and foreign soil bath grown ;
His life, his fame; his grave, tho' rifled—not thine own.
Boccaccio to his parent earth bequeathed
His dust—and lies, if not her great among,
With many a sweet and solemn requiem breathed.
No--even his tomb
Upborn, must bear the hytena bigot's wrong,
And Santa Croce wants their mighty dust,
Yet for this want more noted, as of yore
The Ca is pageant, shorn of Brutus' bust,
Did but of Rome's best son remind her more ;
Happier Ravenna! on thy hoary shore,
Fortress of falling empire ! honoured sleeps
The immortal exile; Arqua, too, her shore
Of tuneful relics proudly claims and keeps,
While Florence vainly begs her banished dead and weeps.
" Shall we but weep"--No, thanks to the strains
of Byron, and of Milton, and Addison, and Burns;
and of Hooker, and Locke, and Paley ; and of Chat-
ham, Fox, and Canning; and of many and many
other glorious names, far deeper graven in our hearts
than on the permitted slabs of Westminster Abbey ;
there lives a spirit amongst us shall spurn the
monkish time-serving insult offered to the brightest
genius of modern days, and, in vindication of the
wrong, wreathe a brighter crown around his brow.
It is well that the dark cloisters of Westminster
Abbey are forbidden--he himself has told us, speak-
ing to his adopted Greece—
While kings in dusky darkness hid,
Have left behind a nameless pyramid,
Thy heroes, tho' the general doom
Math swept the column from their tomb,
A mightier monument command,
The mountains of their native land ;
There points the muse to stranger's eye,
The graves of those who cannot die.
Let us then, in accordance with, his own spirit,
place his monument in the open air, free to the
public view, there to be seen and to be admired, and
to wake a kindred feeling amongst his Countrymen,
without the payment of a Westminster admission
fee. Surely the Dean's bigotry has overstepped his
selfishness.--But enough of this ; let the Cekna-
mittee, let Mr. Hobhouse, who was his friendiA
life, now vindicate his judgment, and by proposing
a public site and an appropria4 monument, testify
the gratitude and admiration of England to the
memory of Byron. The Duke of Wellington has
too well earned the noble monument erected to
him in the Park, not to feel proud at the prospect of
having such an associate as Byron beside him. Idere
let them stand, the Achilles and Apollo, the greatest
Warrior and the greatest Poet of modern days;
and then we may thank the liberal Dean for having
excluded the one from Westminster, as we sincerely
hope the other may long remain without a cause for
being carried there. Honour then to Byron, let us
bury all angry feelings in his premature grave, and
say with him—

Peace to Torquato's injured shade—'twes kis
In life and death to be the mark where wrong
Aimed with her poison'd &news; but to miss.—.
Oh victor unsurpassed in modern song !
Each year h,lags forth its millions; but how long
The tide of generations shall roll on,
ALEI not the whole combined and countless throng,
Compose a mind like thine? though all in one,
Condensed their scattered rays, they would not form thy
sun.

SECOND EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZE'VFE

OF THIS EVENING.

Dowiag-stres, August 9.

The King has bgen pleasod to appoint the Earl of Bel-
mone to he Captain-General and Governo in Chief of the
Island of Jamaica, and its dependencies,

Downing-street, Aug. 9.
The King has bull pleased to app.'nt Major-General
Lewis Grant to be Governor and Commander in Chief
of the Island of Trinidad.