The Sun.
London, England, 1821-07-30 00:00:00

POETRY.

ODE TO ERIN.
BY JOHN TAYLOR, ESQ.
HAIL, ERIN, hail, time-honour'd Isle,
Soon to partaq thy Sov'rcign's
Who lcaves his' native land for thee,
Glad to behold thee firm and free ;
Receive then, with thy wonted fire,
A loyal People's patriot Sire.
The SOLEMN COMPACT now has past,
Long, long, may all its blessings last,
The Compact, all rejoicing own,
That binds the PEOPLE and the THRONE ;
And now he takes his patriot way,
In fulness of imperial sway,
To cheer his subject Isles around,
And honours first thy verdant ground. I

Yes, Enter, not for thee alone
lie quits the splendour of. a Throne,
But all its pomp resigns awhile,
To spread around th' impartial smile ;
For rumour says he next will speed
Across the liquid bounds of Tweed,'
With equal joy the realm to see
Of Valour and of Poetry.
Where BitucE and WALLACE, Scom's pride,
In glory liv'd, in honour died ;
Where THOMSON'S vivid flow'rs shall glow
Through SUMMER'S heat and WINTER'S snow,
Unfailing still in AUTUMN'S sere,
Still in perennial SPRING appear,
And bloom 'till Nature's final year.

SCOTIA may also justly claim
Due honours of poetic fame,
For other Bards of later days
Who wear the wreaths of native bays,
And well adorn her classic spot,
Her sportive BunNs and fertile SCOTT.

Nor less may SCOTIA well demand
The fame of Painting's magic hand,
Whose WILKIE genuine humour chews,
Whose RAr.ntrux's faithful canvass glows.

Stich honours, En]v, tco, are thine,
The Sister Arts for thee combine,
Lo ! SHEE, whom kindred Muses fire,
Or with the Pencil or the Lyre,
While Genius animates his .Art,
And Freedom warms his manly heart.

Lo ! too thine own Anacreon, IlloonE,
'Who, deeply skill'd in Grecian lore,
Has taught the Teian Bard to shine
With nobler gm:. on Love and Wine. •

Perchance, no longer led astray,
He now may hail the new-born sway ;
Not like the fawning Courtier run
With incence to the rising Sun,
But rouse his Muse to loyal lays,
And greet his King with honest praise,
While o'er all heedless errors past
Oblivion shall her mantle cast.

But ere we close the:votive strain,
Reason and Justice might complain,
If we neglected here to pay
To LEES* a tributary lay. -
Firm Champion of the gicrious cause,
An Empire's liberties and laWs,
Whose lofty mind and patriot heart
Disdain the cold reserves of art,
Alike as prompt to write or bleed,
When call'd to guard our HOLY CREED
Thus high amid thy patriot band,
None make for TRUTH a nobler stand, Ic
None more adorn their native land.

Then, ERIN, hail ! with zeal prepare
A gracious Monarch's smile to share,
R:ceive with all thy wonted fire
A loyal People' patriot Sire :

So may the SHAMROCK, THISTLE, ROSE,
While each in zsting vigour grows,
Prove SYMEOLS of a wortr.p's REPOSE.

* SIR HARCOURT LEES.—This learned, eloquent, and
patriotic Baronet, has manifested such zeal for the preservation
of our Establishments in Church and State, and has so power-
fully supported them in his various writings that they form
a treasure of political and ecclesiastical knowledge which will
render his name for ewer dear to the friends of their Country,
and of its pure OnTlioDox FAITH.

REGISTER OF FASHION.

DUKE DE GRAMMONT'S FETE IN HONOUR OF

HIS MAJESTY'S CORONATION.

The. Duke DE G RAMIRO NT, Ambassador Extraordinary from
his Majesty the King of FRANCE, gave a magnificent ball arid
supper in honour of the Coronation, on Friday evening, at
AL MACK'S Rooms. The hall and staircase were decorated with
shrubs and flowers; the ball room displayed uncommon splen-
dour, the floor was beautifully chalked ; the orchestra was en-
twined with laurel, shrubs and flowers, round the room, were
placed a profusion of pots of the choicest flowers and evergnens;
&c. There were five superb rich cut diaMond lustres with wax
lights round the room, to the number of nearly 1100. His .IIA
JE STY arrived about 11 o'clock, when dancing conimenced.
He was in great spirits, and conversed with most of the distin.
giiished foreigners, as well as with a great part of the com-
pany. The anti-chamber adjoining the Ball-room was s A apart
for supper, for his MAJEST r, the Royal Family, and th e Foreign
Ambassadors, and where covers were laid for 44 ; the table
displayed great magnificence, in the- centre was a very long
silver cruet plateau, with figures, vases of flowers and branches,
with numerous wax-lights ; in the two supper rooms below
stairs, covers were laid for upwards of 409. The supper, which
consisted of every luxury and delicacy of the season, was an-
rounced about two o'clock, when his MAJESTY, with his usual
afilibility, took his leave and retired. Dancing recomineneed
soon after three, and continued until past six on Saturday morn-
ing. There were between 6 and 700 distinguished fashionables
present. Of the Royal Family there were the Duke of YORK,
the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, the Duchess of KENT,
the Princess Au all STA, the Princess SOPHIA of G LOZICEST ER,
and the Duke of CAMBRIDGE.

Prince Nico Lits ESTHERITAZY gaye a magnificent enter-
tainment yesterday, at his residence at Greillion's Hotel, Albe-
marle-street, to a numerous party of distinction.
The Duke of DEVONSHIRE gave an elegant entertainment
on Saturday at Devonshire House, to a numerous and distin-
guished party.
On Saturday Count STACKLEBERG entertained a party of
distinguished personages with a sumptuous dinner, at his re-
sidence in Langham-place.

DEP/kit TURES.—The Duke of Norfolk, for his seat, Farn-
ham, Suffolk ; the Duchess of Portland and family, for their
seat, Welbcck, Notts ; the Earl ;of Blesinton and fan i'y, for
Tunbridge Wells ; Lord Boyne, for his seat in Shropshire ;
the Marquess of Lothian from 'Warren's Hotel, Regent-street,
for his scat, Battle Abbey, North Britain; Sir William and
Lady Jane Houston, and Miss'Lor%, from ditto, for their re t,
Avlsforil, Sussex; Sir John and Lau), Maclean, from ditto, for
Cheltenham; Lore Kilmorey and the Hon. Misses Ntelliam,
from the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, for their seat
in Shropshire ; Earl Shannon, from ditto, for his scat in Ire-
land ; fhe Marchioness of Salisbury, for her seat, Hatfield.