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London, England, 1819-11-18 00:00:00

men.

The best mode of establishing such Libraries
would be by a private subscription amongst seve-
ral individuals who could agree to raise the ne-
cessary funds for the undertaking. A small sum
would be adequate to this purpose, and they
would be amply repaid. by the benefit which they
bestowed on their neighbourhood. In large
towns, I would recommend the collection to be of
a higher order than such as was intended for
country villages. It should contain several of the
most popular works in defence of Christianity,
besides its general assortment of tales, voyages,
and travels, &c. But, in the country, small Tracts
would in general be found sufficient, and these
should be bound together in little volumes. By
this means they would last for several years, and
might each be read by many hun;red
I do not fear to assert, that a shilling laid out in
this manner would do more titan a pound as ex-
pended by our ordinary methods. And hence new
publications might be constantly added, by which
the attraction would be ken: up. I submit these
considerations to all your Readers, but more espe-
cially to the Clergy, who, by this method, may, at
a very small expence, obtain the direction, and
retain the controul, of the major part of their poor
parishioners.

PUBLICOLA.

IMPERIAL PRESENT —HIS Royal Highness the
PRINCE REGENT has lately received from the
Emperor of RUSSIA a very corion% tour-wheeled
Summer Carriage. called a Mose Wei. It consists
of a front and a side seat, con rived in a new, but
very commodious manner, for two persons. It
possesses the moveable axles. whirdi are now very
generally adopted tbtoughout the Continent.
THE LATE KING OF SARDlNlA.—Yesterday
morning, a solemn Requiem )va.) pet formed in the
Chapel of the SARDINIAN AMB A SSADoR in Doke-
street, Lincoln's Inn tiehls,Ou account ()I the death
of his late Sardiniao Majesty CHARLES EMMANUEL
the Fourth, who departed tis lite oil the 4th of
last month at Rome. he Hugh Mass commenced
at twelve o'clock, and was performed in a must
impressive manner. The Chapel on this occa-
sion was put in deep mourning, and the congre-
gation which was of the superior order, was
exceedingly numerous.
ELOPEMENT.—Monday night, about 12 o'clock;
a young Lady, heiress ton very considerable for-
tune, and only daughter of a Member of Parlia-
ment, eloped front her father's house, N: the west-
end of the town, in a post-chaise and tour, with
a young Gentleman, the third son of a Clergy-
man, in Surrey. Neither or the parties have at-
tained the age of 21 ; the young Gentleman had
only recently returned home iron, College.
BETHNAL GREEN AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY.—••
TOCSIN), evening the Fourth Annual Meeting of
this institution took place at Gibraltar Chapel,
Church-street. G. BYNG, Fog 11.13. was unani-
mously called to the Chair The Rev Mr. Platt,
the Treasurer, read the Report, by which it ap-
peared, that 862 Bibles and Testaments had beets
distributed to the poor inhabitants of the parish of
Saint Matthew, Bethnal-green, and 1381. had
been collected by eight Lathes, forming a Commit-
tee since the last meeting. The Chairman ex-
pressed his readiness to go to any part of the
county to promote the interests of the lititish and
Foreign Bible Society. Several other Gentlemen
addressed the Meeting on behalf of the Institu-
tion. The collection was very considerable.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE..—DUIIIII; the
late fair at Collompton, two watches were stolen,
one silver and the other gold, from Mr. William
%Vhitby, watchmaker, of that town. The
usual means were resorted to, as in cases of
that kind for convicting the perpetrators of the
robbery, but to no effect. On Friday a man (a
stranger), who was seen in the fair, chanced
to be again in the town, and called at the
Three Mariners Inn, where, shocking to relate,
after being there but a few minutes, an eruption
of a blood-vessel caused immediate death, when,
on examination, was found upon hint the gold
watch, with a quantity of base coin.
ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning the
wife of a tradesman at Putney attempted to put
a period to her existence by throwing herself into
the Thames, near the wooden bridge ; being seen
by several persons, who instantly rushed to her
assistance, she was prevented from completing
the horrid act, and restored to her friends.

POETRY.

IMPROMPTU.

Pray is it cowardice or faction
Which makes some Officers resign,
Lest that events should lead to ac4on—
Or rather, may not both combine ?

N..8.-=-A Mr. HAMDEN, Deputy Lieutenant, and Com-
mandant of the First Halifax Regiment of Local Militia,
under Lord FITZWILLIAM, has sent hip Resignation of both
Commissions to Lord LASCELLEI.

THE DEVIL'S OWN HUNT.

SATAN, Who felt himself so, so,
itesolv'd lie would a hunting goo
To cute his fit of spleen
"I'was settled soon ; for, at his back)
The Devil always has a pack
Of sad dogs, gaunt and keen.

He chose a Huntsman; stout and bold,
Who, when the scent was rather cold,
Would loudly chide the Hounds ,
You might this clamorous Huntsman hear,
With vicei of thunder, far and near,
On other people's grounds.
He soon let slip these dogs of war,
Fatn'd fur their stomach's ample maw;
To them all prey was game.
Unqualified, unlicenc'd, too,
Satan maiutain'd this rebel crew—
The Devil's Hunt their name.

Then came two Doctor Demagogues,
And they would physic these poor dogs,

To make them all give tongue;
Loquacious Jos es brought izelltbore,
WATSON, to make them bellow more,
Pruduc'd his Devil'* dung.

PEARSON the Grim his wit applied,
To prove the pack was qualified
To /feint all suits of prey.
The Huntsman, at the sound of law,
Held up his stout Herculean pasv,
And thunder'd, " Hark away."

The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty,
Exclaim'd, at once, to hush the cry,
(And dauntless was her form,)
" This Huntsman bold no man shall fear,
Though once he brew'd the Devil's beer,
And now would brew a storm."

FOR 11-1 E SUN.

Ma. EDITOR—In the Advertisement which ap-
pears in your Paper of this day, concerning the
proposed Cenotaph of Doctor IVoLcoT, 1 observe
a strange ambiguity—an unintentional one, I am
sute.

Take the trouble, Sir, of reading it once more,
and you will perceive that it leaves the matter
quite uncertain, whether it is to he erected to the
Poe' distinguished under the name of PETER PIN-
DAR, of to Doctor JOHN WoLcoT's Memory,
under that natne,—The former, I presume, but the
latter may be equally inferred frotn the advertise-
ment.— _ _ _

You bare readers, perhaps, who would sub-
.
straw, when they know exactly for what.
NQD 19,. QUERY.

THE THEATRR.—After the representation of the
Tragedy of Fazio last night at Covent-Garden
Theatre, in which Mr. C. KEMBLE and Mrs.
BURN exerted themselves much to their credit,
and obviously to the satisfaction of the audience,
ladg:ng from the applause which they excit•
ed, a new Musical Interlude was brought
forward, under the title of Helpless Animals. It
seems to be intended as a parody on the trans-
lated pieces brought forward last season at the
Haymarket Theatre and the English Opera
House, the characters of which consisted entirely
of Women, who, however, found in the end that
they could not do without Men. The piece of
last night, on the other hand, was to sbew that
men are hut poor forlorn creatures without
women. The idea was apposite, and it has
beets catried into effect with diverting hu-
mour. Mrs. DAVISON, under the disguise
of a kshire Lad, named Robin, contrives to
become the Cook to this society of helpless Cele-
bates, one of whom is her Lover, and of whose
atlection she convinces herself by adroit manage-
ment. Her blunders in cookery plainly proved
that she had not studied, or rather intentionally
violated, the precepts of the " MODERN Aricsus."
A sucking pig, boiled instead of roasted; petit-toes
smothered with snuff, tripe boiled in vinegar, and
Other dishes equally loxut ions, con situted the feast
prepared for this Society of Helpless Animals. At
length the scheme succeeds, and the Lovers are
rendered happy. The piece was well supported
by ABBOTT, BLANCHARD, and RUSSELL, as well as
by Mts. DAVISON, 11 is enlivened by some pleas-
ing and. appropriate music. Report assigns
this 'interlude to Mr. PARRY, whose musical
talents are well, known, and who is the au-
thor of High Notions, a farce successfully
brought forward last season at Drury-Lane
Theatre, and represented with not less success
during the present. There was some chur-
lish opposition
_to the piece of last night, but the
ludictuus character of the whole, and the merit
of the acting, enabled it to triumph over its
splenetic opponents. Richard ectur de Lion con-
cluded the entertainments of the night, and vu-
aided Miss TEBE to appear to increased advan-
tage in Matilda, which she supported with good
acting, as well as with musical excellence.

WINDSOR, Nay. 16.—0 n Friday their Royal
Highnesses the Princess AUGUSTA and the Do-
chess of GLOUCRSI ER went to Bagsbot Palk, and
in the evening returned to the Castle to dinner.---
Saturday morning the Duke of York arrived at the
Palace from London, and after visiting the King
and the Princesses, his Royal Highness proceed-
ed to his seat at Oatlands.—On Monday morning
the Princess Augusta lett here for London, to pay
a congratulatory visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Clarence upun their return to England. Her
Royal Highness, after breakfasting with the Duke
and -Duchess, returned here in the evening.

STATE OF POETS.

A FRAGMENT.

We know not where among the same number
of men, occupied in the same pursuit, so many
instances of unhappiness could be discovered
Some, indeed, have been the merited victims of
their own intemperate follies; but to the lovers of
good old times who shriek hack when they hear
Of a modern Bard receiving 3000 guineas for the
copy-right of a modish poem, it may afford soma
consolation to review those who have been tenants
of the cell or the garret, and whose stomachs have
kept an inverted Sabbath of six days wit of the
seven. Greene, it is true, died of a 3tirfeit of
pickled herrings and old Rhenish ; Marlowe and
Motteaux were killed in drunken quarrels at a
brothel ; Fenton drank two bottles of Port every
afternoon, in his easy chair, an:l died by attempt-
ing a reduction ; Randolph, Somerville, Parnell,
fell sactifices to Bacchus ; Geo. Etheridge broke
his neck down stairs, while bowing his ft lends out
after dinner; and May was so delighted with the
success of his " Breviary," that he went to bed
one night atter having drank freely in apparent
health, and was found dead in the morning. Some
indeed assert, that his night cap was tied too
tightly tinder his chin, hut Andrew Marvell attri-
butes his death to an equally probable cause of
suffocation. Look now on the shadow site of
the picture : Denham, Nat. Lee, Collins, Cowper,
Smart, Brook, G. A. Stephens, liampfylde, and
Ferguson, all died in idiotcy or madness; of the
last a most touching incident is related :—" When
committed to the receptacle of the insane, a con-
sciousness of his dreadful fate seemed to come
over hint. At the moment of his entrance, he
uttered a wild cry of despair, which was re-echoed
front all the inmates of the dreadful mansion, and
left an impression of inexpressible horror on the
friends who attended." In a few days his po.
verty-striken mother,' who had reluctantly coin.
tnited her son to a public hospital, from her ina-
bility to support hint, received remittances suffi-
cient to defray the expellee of his attendance at
home; but they arrived too late ; the poor maniac
was already dead. Otway was suffocated from
the rapacity of hunger; John Brown (the author
of Barbarossa), and Chatterton, were suicides.
George Wither, Dekker, Cotton, Savage, and
Lloyd,- breathed their last in jails. Lovelace,
once the pride of courts, atter losing his mistress,
like. Biron in Isabella, escaped a prison only by
concealment, and died in a miserable lodging near
Shoe-lane.—Butler and Ben Jonson each expe-
rienced the worst extremes of poverty. Andrew
Marvell is supposed to have been poisoned.—
Quarles died heart-broken at the destruction of
his whole possessions (among which he most re-
gretted leis books and MSS.) by the Puritans.
Drummond is said never to have recovered his
shock on hearing of the murder of Charles I.
Shirty and his wife died of fright, at the fire of
London ; and poor George Sewell, after writing
in the Spectator, and living in a polished circle,
had not a single friend to close his eyes. He
was buried meanly under a hollow tree in the
boundary of Hampstead Church-yard, and how-
ever courted in his lifetime, has not now even a

turf hillock to point out the spot of his repose.
The laborious antiquary, John Stowe, after dedi-
cating the greatest part of a life, extended far
beyond the usual period of existence, to researches
in which the publ!c were essentially interested,
when suffering under the tortures of an excru-
ciating disease, and upon the very verge of the
grave, was obliged to ask alms of his fellow-citi-
zens and countrymen. However strange this
may seem, it is nevertheless true, that in the year
1604, this worthy citizen obtained from that learn-
ed Monarch, and great encourager of. learn-
ing, James 1., a license to collect " the charitable
benevolence of well-disposed people" for his sub-
sistence. Its this brief his various labours for
forty-five years spent in composing his Annals,
and also eight years dedicated to his Survey of
London, his merit and his age, are mentioned,
and power was given to him or his deputies, to
ask charily at the different churches through a
considerable number of counties and cities in
Eng-
land, with an exhortation and persuasion to per-
sons to contribute their mites. This was in the
second .year of the King. A letter from the King
on the same subject is ato extant, on the back of
which seven shillings and sixpence are set down as
the subscription of the parish of St. Mary Wool.
'loth, with the churchwarden's name endorsed.