The Sun.
London, England, 1810-01-18 00:00:00

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FOR THE NEW YEAR ISto.

BY h, J. ESQ. POET-LAUREAT.

Ere yet, mid Ritedecylia's irviers,
humbly culi'd the Muses' flowers
By silver Isis sedgy-side,
Not rolling there a classic tide
My native nu•ads and groves ainong,
As blythe I tun'd my artless song, •
My fancy hail'd the halcyon day.
Crown'd with our Sovereign's opening sway,
And pourd the vet to that auspicious morn
Which plac'd on Britain's throne a Monarch Britain-born.
Raptur'd I pour the verse again

To hail the British Monarch's leingthenici reign;
To celebrate the rising Year,
In which a King to Britain dear
Bids every British breast with grateful lay
Bless the tenth lustte of his lenient sway;
For while I strike the votive lyre;
The thrillings of the trembling wire
Are lost amid the swelling notes of praise,
Which with accordant voice a grateful people pays.

From Thule's hyperborean reign,
To where upon the southern main
Bellerus frowns•-to where the Atlantic roars,
0 verdant Erin, 'gainst thy western shores,
The pans loud of exultation rise,
Wafting a Nation's plaudits to the skies:
And while the hallow'd rites of prayer and praise
To Heaven's high throne their grateful incense raise,
Mild Charity with liberal hand
Spreads her best influence o'er the smiling land ;
• With genial current far and wide,
Flows of benevolence the copious tide,
Grateful the boon, while shouting myriads see,
That dries Affliction's tear, and sets the Captive free,

Though looking back through many an age
Since Egbert first our Saxon sires obey'd,
No King recorded stands on History's page
So long, who England's golden 'sceptre sway 'd.*
0 yet, through many a rolling year,
Long ! long! may Albion's joyful race
Behold a crown to Freedom sa,.md, grace
The iMan•they lOve—the Soverign they revere.
Tho' seated on her rocky th tone,
Girt by her Navy's adamantine zone.
Britannia rears sublime her dauntless head,
Amid the storms of war that round her spread ;.
Yet by a generous Monarch be posscss'd,
The first great olljeet of his patriot breast,
May every baleful vapouf fly ' . •
That hangs malignant nokv o'er Europe's sky,
Infernal Discord's iron trmpest cease,
And G EORG is sun decline in• Glory and in Peace.

* Though to reckon from the accession to the demise, Henry
11l reigned nominally 56, and Edward 111 so years ; yet, as
the first acceded at Nine years of age, and- the last at
Fourtun, they did not,.either of them, in fad, reign so long
as Ins prcsait I:lJjesty.has now reigned.

Notwithstanding the confident rumours circu-
lated by some of the relatives.of Arthiir O'Connor,
that he was appointed by Buonapatte Grand Duke
of Hanover, and howeVei disposed that upstart Mo-.
uarch might hi, ti. adopt any measure he conceived
most galling to the feelings of our beloved Sovereign,
it is still true that no such-arrangement has taken
place, but thaLlOti the contrary, Mr. O'Connor is
out in the confidence nor favour of Buonaparte, but
lives retired at some short distance from Paris, with
no other support from the French Government than
the half-pay of General of Division. He never. was
entrusted in France with the actual command of any
force, and even his countrymen and fellow exiles,
M‘Niven and others,'decidedly objected to hold any
confidence or
.intercourse with .him, because they
considered him equ.tliy a traitor to their cause as he
was to that of his native Government, O'Connor
is married to a be:tutifui French woman, and his
conduti in connubial life has been equally repre-'
hensible as in his political relations. It may not be
amiss to add, which we do upon the authority of
those who were once the idolators of the Corsican,
who flew to France as an happy asylum from Bri-

SHEERNESS, JAN 10.—Sailed his Majesty's brigs
Basilisk and Redbreast.

JAN. 17.—Came into harbour his Majesty's ship

Ardent.

• MAi., JAN. 17.—The American frigate John
Adams has proceeded on her voyage for the' Texel
again, in consequence of the wind becoming fair.
The statements in many of the Papers, of the
causes of this Vessel's returning to the Downs the
13th inst. are entirely fabulous. The feet is, she
was forced back by the strong easterly winds, which
prevented her reaching the. Texel, and by that only.

Extra& of a letter from Capt. WORTH, of his Ma- tish oppression, and who fOi years enjoyed the
jesty's ship
Leveret, to the Trinity-house, New- countenance and confidence of Brionaparte's Go-
castle : YernMent, of which we generally take our opinion
" There is a brig, the Creon, of Liverpool, appar- from the French and Dutch, Papers under his con-
ently run down or upset, as she is lying with her troul, that he is regarded throughout France as a
stern about six feet above water, and appears as if capricious tyrant, uncontrouled by any principle of
her anchor was gone. She has all sail set, without reaitude, religious, moral, or political, and to whom
being reefed—was lying in about forty fathoms, in Robespierre, with all his bloody attributes, was
lat by observation 54. 39. N. Huntly Fort W. by 'comparatively -a babe in leading-strings. In Paris
N. by compass nine or ten leagues distant. I was Last and throughout France, the system of espionage is
to her upwards of four hours, and the Leveret hav- tarried on with a rigour and subtlety int.intely be-
ing all her sails set, but could not move her in the yond any thing under the old regime No man can
least, and by which I judge her anchor gone—:-her entertain at his table halt a dozen guests, without
sails acting with an immense body of water over 1 the moral certainty, that 'one or two ot them are
them, makes it dangerous for any vessel striking i spies of the Government ; or .cOnver'se, at a coffee-
against her. flashed a long spar, with a Danish flag house without having his Words repottLd to
fast to it, in order that any vessel may see her by day ; ' Chief ot Police. Alls the servants., even of private
but she should be removed from where she is, families, are' in the pay of Fouche, I:nd every
being direCtly in the track of vessels working either i apartment in every house is like the famous ear *of
way." I Diunysius of Syracuse, where the most confidential
! sentiments, uttered in the secresy ot domestic re-

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At half past two o'clock on Tuesday, the corn- fi tiretnent, are heard by the tyrant almost as soon as
Mg-house, No. 4, in the King's powder mills at ; they are spoken. Such is the man who has declar-
Faversham, blew up with a most tremendous explo- ed, that, although he will make all Europe weep,
sion. Of the six men employed in the building at no tears are to. be shed at Paris; and who holds
the time, four were blown to pieces, and their bo- himself up, through the medium of his venal press,
dies and -limbs were scattered to a distance of up- as the pacificator of Eur4e, and the trend of man-
wards of a bandied yards from the site of the kind.
building. One of the arms was found on the top t. Mrs. Seymour, wife of the keeper of Hyde-park,
of a high elm tree. The fifth man was taken up was burned in so shocking a manner on Monday
alive, but no hopes of his recovery arc entertained. night, at her house, near the gate at Hyde_ park
The sixth man, George Holmes, the foreman of house, that she has since laic in the most excru-
the work, singular to relate, was found alive also, ciating agOny at St. George's hospital. She was
sitting in the midst of the smoking ruins, with his alone in rt.e house when the- accident happened,
clothes burning ; btit he was otherwise not much and her shrieks brought the toll taker to her assist-
injured, and is likely to do well. At the door of ance. The poor woman was just enabled to ti-
the corning-house was standing a tumbril, or co- culate that her apron had .taken fire, whilst in the
vered waggon, with two horses, and a driver. The i act of taking an iron from the fire with it. Nut the
waggon was blown to pieces, and the driver and t slightest hopes were entertained of her recovery yes-
horses were killed. Of three horses employed with- terday Morning.
its the building, two have periShed, but the third is J A lire broke out at three o'clock yesterday morn-
living. The scattered remains of two of the men ing, at a lodging-house in Old Gravel-lane,, Black-
were collected On Wednesday evening for inter- friars-road, which communicated to the White !fart
trent those of the other three had not'been found. public-house, the corner of George-street,' and en-
No, circumstances have transpired from which an tirely consumed the same, except part of the bar,
opinion can he formed with respect to the cause of which was saved by the activity of toe firemen. 'The
the accident : it is the third of the kind that has cause of the accideut has trotascertained.No
happened at these mills within these seven years. lives were lost-