The Sun.
London, England, 1819-07-10 00:00:00

RE6l.7,lEit OF FAsi-lIJN.

The Marquess anil Marchioness of Bath have left town on
a visit to Lord and Lady Grenville, at their seat, Dropinure.

The Marquess of Salisbury I►as left Lis seat, Hatfield, fur
Bath.

'nit Earl and Countess Vernlam and family hare left tom
for their seat, Gorliambnry, Herts.

Lord and Lady G-enville hare left town for their seat,

Dropmore.

Earl and Countess Spencer have left town, for their seat at
Wimbledon.

Countess de Grey has left her house in St. James's-square,
for her beat at Pane) Heath.

Lady Castlereagh has left town, for her seat, North Cray,
Kent.

BATH ARIL;VALS, JULY 9.—Marquess d'Herrecourt, Hon.
Mr. Blaney, Sir R. and Lady Williams, General Gore, Gene-
ral ,Morrison, Colonel and Mrs. Vibart, Lieutenant-Colonel
Lainsden, Major and Mrs. Hanies; Captains, Barker, Camp-
bell, Hawkins, Jones, Kitsoni Patten, Ripon, Stephenson,
Wilmot, &c. &c.

CONIBT.—This celestial puenomenon is
now visible every night at an early hour. It
rises as soon as the fixed -stars, and may be ob-
served to advantage-tor a considerable time before
the Moon has d tuned its blaze by the superior
volume of her light. 'file tail seemed last night
once more perpendicular, and, together with the
nucleus, Bushed torch at times with very unequal
brilliancy. At one moment it grew very pale and
faint, and at, the next emitted vivid corruscations.
These alternations are no doubt produced by the
accidents of our atmosphere, and not by nny pe-
cnliarities of this Comet. From certain indica-
tions, connected with an apparent alteration in
its course, we rather suspect that it will remain
longer within our hemisphere than had been ori•
ginaily anticipated.

PRIVY COUNCIL.—Lately a Privy Council was
held at the Treasitry Chambers, at which Lord
1-lArtaowuv presided : It "consisted •of the Lord
Chief Justices of the Courts of King's Bench and
Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron of the
Exchequer, Sir William Scott, and Sir William
Grant, and was attended by the Attorney General,
&c. &c. to investigate the circumstances attending
th• death of a Maltese at Athens, who was
shot by Mr. William Kinnaird in January last;
It will be recollected by our readers, that Mr. K.
had presented himself at Malta for trial, and was
sent home a prisoner to England. After a full
investigation Mr. Kinnaird was discharged, being
honourably acquitted of any charge against him.
It appeared,' by the evidence transmitted by the
Consuls of the Levant, that the event of firing
on the deceased was in absolute self•defencs.

Yesterday Viscount CASTLERRAOH had W 1 aU.
dience of the PHINce REGENT, at Carlton-house
The Duke of YORK visited the PRINCe Re
GENT yesterday.
Prince LF.OPOLD returned to town from Wind,

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tor, on Thursday night. Yesterday his Royal
Highness visited the Dnke and Duchess of heNT,
at Kensington Palace. lu the evening his Royal
Highness had a numerous party to dinner, at
Marlborough House.
The Prince ROYAL of PRUSSIA MOCECCIS to
Italy, to pass the summer and autumn, and per-
haps a part of the winter.
Letters have been received at Frankfort from
Colonel MASSENBACH, dated from the Sate Prison
at Custrin, in which he himself announces' his
condemnation to imprisonment for lite,. He is
now 65 years of age.
The Emperor of Moaocco (according to a let-
ter from Gibraltar, June 19), is about to take the
field with an immense army against a large tribe
of Arabi who lately defeated and wounded one of
his sons, nod succeeded in making one of his
wives a prisoner. Trade at Gibraltar continues
in a most distressed state, and no demand for any
kind of produce.
Dun BEENAKDINO RIVADAVIA, who has resided
some lime at Paris, as Deputy from the Govern-
ment of Baenos Ayres, is arrived in Londun. He
is appoiiiieS by his Government to reside in this
country ; and Don VALIINTIN GOMEZ, who lately
arrived from Buenos Ayres, has succeeded him at

Airs. i\lownwn, the mother of the child, who
a short time since was stolen in Soho-square, by
a decently dressed young woman, in consegnence
of not having received any tidines of the infant,
waited upon Lord Viscount Slur:ova-Ir, with 3
petition to request his Lotdship's assistance in the
recovery of the child ; and in consequence every
exertion has been made by Sir B. Hoenouse
and Mr. STAFFORD, Chief Clerk or Bow-street.
A letter tea, received from Horrebridge, in Surrey,
stating that a lady was seen there with a child,
answering in every respect the description of that
stolen ; she was accompanied by a female servant,
who it is supposed stole the child, ‘vho occa-
sionally carried it about, and having been
seen by a neighbour, whose suspicions arose, she
examined the child, and finding it to answer the
description, she made them known to the proper
authority, anti sent word to the par;:uts, Who ii .
tend going thither.

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POET 11 '1".

EXTRAC. 1t FitoNl PONIPEII, A POEM,
obtainelthe Chancellor's .Venn! at the Cambrillke

COMllieleVriiieili, I 19.

BY THOMAS ia ARINGTON MACAULAY;

Of College.

The mirth and music thro' Pompeii rung;
Then verdant wreathes on all her portals hung;
Her sons with solemn rite and jocund lay
Hail'd the glad splendours of that festal day.
With fillets bound the hoary priests sidvande?
And rosy virgins Vraid the choral dance.
The rugged wart ior here unbendi awhile
irOn front, and deigns a tt•:tnsient stale t
There, frantic with delight, the ruddy buy
S..aree treads on earth, and !wands and laughs with joy.
From ev'ry crowded altar perfumes rise
In billowy'clouds of fragrance to the skies.
The mills-White 111,J1):11.ch of the herd they lead,
With gilded horns, at yonder shfine to bleed;
And while the victlin crops the bruider'd plain,
And frisks and gambols tnw'rds the destin'd fane, •
They little deem that like hintself they-stray
To death, unconSeions, o'er a tiw!ry Way,
Heedless, like, him, tit' iutpendin,; stroke await,
And spurt and wanton oh the hi-ink of fate.
a► a► a► a► a 'a •
But see, the op'ning theatre invite's
The fated myriads to its gay delights.
In, in, they swarm, tumultnous as the iiidr
Of foaming breakers on a rocky shore.
Th' enraptur'd throng in breathless transport views
The gorgeous temple of the Tonle Muse.
There, while her wand in shadowy pump arrays
Ideal scenes, and forms of other days,
Fair as the hopes of youth, a radiant band,
The sister arts around her footstool
.stand,
To deck their Queen, and lend a milder• grace
To the stern beauty of that awful face.
Far, far, around the ras•ish'd eye surreys
The sculptur'd forms of Gods and Heroes blaze.
Above, the echoing roofs the peal prolong
•Of lofty converses or melodious song- •. •
While, as the tones of passion Sink or swell,
Admiring thousands own the moral spell.
Melt with the tueltiny, strains of iancy'd woe,
With terror sicken, or with transport

Oh ! fur a voice like that. which peal'd of 014
Thro' Salem's cedar courts and shrines of gold.
And in wild accents round the trembling dome
Proclahn'd the havoc of avenging Rome,
While ev'ry palmy arch and sculptur'd tow'r
Shook with the footsteps of the parting pow'r.
such voice might check your tears which idly stream
For the vain phantoms of the poet's dream—
blight bid those terrors rise, those sorrows flow,
Fur other perils, and for nearer woe.

The hour is come. Ev'n now the sulph'rous cloud
Involves title city' in its fon'ral shroud,
And far along Canapania's azure sky
Expands its dark and boundless-canopy.
The Sun, tho' thron'd on heav'e's meridian height,
Burns red and rayless thin' that sickly night.
Each bosom felt at once the shudirring thrill.
At once the music st.opp'd. The song was still.
None in that cloud's portentous shade might trace
The fearful changes of another's face :
But thro' that horrid stillness each could hear
His neighbour's throbbing heart beat high with fear.
A moment's pause succeeds. Then wildly rise
Grief's sobbing plaints and terror's frantic cries.
The gates recoil : and tow'rds the narrow pass, .
wild confusicn rolls the living mass,
Death,—when thy shadowy sceptre waves away
From his sad couch the pris'ner of decay.
Tho' friendship view the close with glisening eye,
And love's fond lips imbibe the parting sigh.
By torture rack'd, by kindness sooth'd in vain,
The soul still clings to being and to pain.
But when have wilder terrors clotted thy brow,
Or keener torments edg'd thy dart than now.
When with thy regal horrors vainly strove
The laws of Nature, and the power of Love ?
On mothers babes in vain for mercy call,
Beneath the feet of brothers, brothers fall.
Behold the dying wretch in vain upraise
Tow'rds yonder well-known face the accusing gaze.
See trampril to the earth, th' expiring maid
Clings round her lover's feet, end shrieks for aid.
- Vain is tle, imploring glance, the frenzy'd cry
All, all is fear :—To succour is to die.—
Saw ye how wild, how red, how broad a light
Burst on the darkness of that midday night,
As fierce Vesuvius scatter'd o'er the vale
His drifted dames and sheets of burning hail,
Shook hell's wan light'nings from his blazing cone,
And gilded heav'n with meteors not its own
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Oh ! who mayssing that hour of mortal strife
When Nature calls on Death, yet clings to life?
Who paint the wretch that draws sepulchral breath,
A living pris'ner in the house of Death ?
Pale as the corpse which loads the n'r:ll pile,
With face tionvals'd that writhes a ghastly smile,
Behold bins speechless move with hurry'd pace,
Incessant, round his dune:eon's caverned space,
Now shriek in terror, and now groawin
Gnaw his white lips, and sti ike his burning brain,
Till Fear u'erstrain'd in stupor dies away,
And Madness wrests her victim from dismay.
His arms sink down ; Isis wild and stony eye
Glares without sight on blackest vacancy..
He feels not, sees not ; wrapp'd in senseless trance,
Ills soul is still and listless as his glance.
One cheerless blank, one rayless mist is there,
Thoughts, senses, passions, live hot with despair.
* w a a *
Inimortal spirits, in whose deathless song
Latium and Athens xet their reign prolong.
And from their thrones of tame and empire barrel,
Still sway the sceptre of the mental world. •
You, in whose breasts the flames of Pindus beatn'd,
Whose copious lips with rich persuasion stream'd, - •
Whose minds unravell'd nature's mystic plan,
Or trac'd the mazy labyrinth of man
Bend, glorious spirits, front your blissful bow'rs,
And broider'cl couches of unfailing How'rs.
While round your locks th' Elysian garlands blow,
With sweeter odours, and-with brighter glow,
Once more, immortal shades, atoning Fame
Repairs the hollows of each glorious name.
Behold Pompeii's op'ning vaults restore •
The long-lost treasures of your ancient lure,
The vestal radiance of poetic fire,
The stately buskin, and the tuneful lyre,
The wand of eloquence, whose magic sway
The sceptres and the swords of earth obey,
And eV ry mighty spell, whose strong controul
Could nerve or melt, could fire or snothe the soul.

...1,;,...•:ate.tt
Anti thou, said city, raise thy drooping head,.
And share the honour of the glorious dead.
Had Fate repriev'd her till the frozen North
Pout'd iu wild SWitrlll.s its.boartied niiiliuns forth.
Till blazing cities ‘N here Aloion
Or Europe quak'd beneath 1/arse::urge cif GO4.
No lasting wreath had gtac'ti thy fou'ral pall,
No Fame redevni'd the horrors of thy fall.
low shall thy deathless inem'ry live eniwin'd
With all that conquers; rules, or charms the mind.
Each laity thought of Poet or of Sage,
,h,ach grace of Virgil's lyre, or Tully's page.
Like their's whose ticnius consecrates thy tomb,
Thy tame shall snatch from time a greener bloom.
Shall spirad where'cr the Muse has teav'd her t
And live renown'd io accents yet ui;lsunaii
Earth's utmost bound 7, shall join the glad acciaituf
ALAI distaut Cau.lus bless Youlpe4'.s