The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-15 00:00:00

From grateful nations to assenting skies,
While shouts of joy, and hymns of concord rise ;
While worthier bards, and lyres more sweetly strung,
Catch the glad accents from the Patriot's tongue,
In Wellesley's honour wreath the laurell'd verse,
The healing victories of Peace rehearse,
And in the Hero of an hundred plains
Hail the Avenger of his country's chains ;
My unambitious Muse must leave awhile
The pomps that glitter, and the crowds that smite,
And from the honour'd living turn, to shed
One tear above the still remember'd dead.
Lo ! as I speak, a shadowy train appears,
The wise and eloquent of other years ;
They, at whose name our feebler spirits bow,
Their age's wonder once—its worship now :
Not yet unmindful of their earthly home,
In still and solemn jubilee they come,
Pause to acknowledge this auspicious day,
Own the high call, and swell the bright array.
Stateliest and first of all that gifted throng,
With slow and measured tread, Pitt moves along,
Nor yet foregoes the aspect of command
That awed the spirits of a doubting land,
The lofty port, the conscious glance of sway,
While to the patriot baud he points the way,
Accomplish'd views his own defered intent,
Waves bis proud arm, and nods his pleasid assent.
See on his steps a rival shade attend,
In all beside a foe ;. but here a friend.
The Statesman of a vast, but gentle mind,
Champion of Freedom, Patron of Mankind :
Who claim'd for young America the right
For which she bent to sue, and rose to fight,—
Who chas'd Extortion from her Indian plain,
Who riv'd the links of Afric's tort'ring chain,
Who bade the groaning Universe be free :
Speak then, green Erin,—did he feel for thee 7
A step more buoyant, a more sparkling eye,
Arrest the gaze, and Grattan passes by ;
Greet him, thou lovely isle, from whom he brought
The fervid gesture, the impassion'd thought,
The mind, serenely brave, and simply wise,
Rich as thy soil, and tender as thy skies,
The flow of language, and the tide of heart,
That reach'd the heights, but scorn'd the aids of art :
Thine was his midnight care, his morning theme
His patient labour, and his gorgeous dream ;
Thine, in each changing scene of chequered life,
The calm of solitude, the clash of strife,
Thine, when his meditative step would rove
Thro' his romantic Wicklow's mountain grove,
Thine, when aloft his lion spirit rose
Mid the full conclave of his country's foes,
Tore from detected Fraud the flimsy veil,
And bade Corruption's palsied legions quail.
Oh ! that he might, on this bright-omen'd day,
Bask in the promise of its dawning ray,
And bless the younger hands which now restore
To Ireland all that he once gave before.
And thou! whom still regen'rate nations bless,—
Whose worth our love, whose loss our tears confess,—
Leave Canning, leave awhile thy long repose
From stormy greatness, and exalted woes ;
Thou radiant, injur'd, vindicated shade !
Behold the expiating rite is paid ;
Thy fierce assailants check their keen career,
Thy life's last foes heap incense on thy bier :
Then let me pluck from Triumph's gaudy wreath
One cypress branch for thy cold corsa beneath ;
Oft has thy voice my fancy captive led ;
I lov'd thee living ; I adore thee dead ;
And hail with thrilling pride, and added bliss,
Thy fame asserted by an hour like this.
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FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

Lord Chamberlain's-Office, April IS, 1829.

Orders for the Court's change of mourning, on Sunday,
the 26th instant, for his Serene Highness the late
Landgrave of Hesse Hombourg, brother-in-law to his
Majesty, viz.
The Ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen,
white gloves, necklaces andear-rings, black or white shoes,
fans and tippets.
The Gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed
or plain linen, black swords and buckles.
The Court to change the mourning further on Sunday
the 3d of May next, viz.
The Ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured rib-
bons, fans and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold,
or white and silver stuffs with hlack ribbons.

The Gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain
white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waist-
coats, full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles.
And on Sunday the 10th of May next, the Court to go
out of mourning.

Whitehall, April 4.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Waters, of
Carmarthen, Esq. to be one of the Keepers of the Peace
for the said county.
The Lord Chancellor has also appointed John Evans,
of Carmarthen, Clerk, to be one of the Keepers of the
Peace for the said county.

War-Office, April 13.
MEMORANDUM.

His Majesty has been pleased to approve of the 62d Re-
giment of Foot being permitted to retain on its colours
and appointments, the word " Peninsula," in commemo-
ration of the services of the late 2d Battalion of the Re-
giment in the Peninsula and France, from October 1813
to August 1814.

War-office, April 13.
2d Regiment of Life Guards—Captain Hugh William
Barton to be Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase,
vice Macneil, promoted. Dated Dec. 30.
Lieutenant John Davidson to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Barton. Dec. 30.