The Sun.
London, England, 1816-05-30 00:00:00

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ANSWER TO RECENT CO.UPLET,
IVltich appear, in THE
The Curate live hard .I—what ji coniecture
'lard liv,ng is only the lot of the Reaur.
wftrrrEN FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF BURNS.
By an ENGLosti LADY.

" 'M.

la Thoa, too Carly and too sadly lost,
Enchanting Bind! by fate, by passion tost,
-Whoie hat dy genius forced its tangled way,
Aml would expand, and struggled into day;—
At length we hail thee, cenotaphed, intuited,
At length vie mourn thee, as thou shoul(i'ss be mourned;
Art waits .;tt length neon thy honoured tomb,
And Poesy recording weeps thy doom.

Yet fame was and tearc Thy native plains,
The bills, the rivers, echoed to thy strains.
For bright though changeful, alk his Scottish clime,
The Peasant-minstrel's wild and vigorous rhyme;
Where smiles and tears contest the varying Lour,
Or sweetly blehd like inn sunny shower; .
Where lightsome airs come fresh and fancy-driven,
Like white clouds Whirling o'er the deep blue heaven.
And many a lovely sound thy name has brought,
Many a fair sight awakened thy dear thought.

Oh' who could see the mountain daisy spring,
Or hear high-lwised the early laverock sing,
Or loiteilmg tread the pleasant banlis of Ayr,
Or list,the.millt-maid south her evening care
With some oh!, wild, yet sweetest melody,
Nor inly bit:attic that strain divinely free,
Which gives to each its immortality I

And when, long ages hence, grey moss shall spread
Destructive o'er each column's-trupt►ied head,
And every stone confused and broken lie,
And e'en the 11a►isoleom's ?elf shall die;---
Thep, if perchance some mouldering !Mies tell
Whose reliques in its ruined precincts dwell ;
Thi•li shall that fresh, that unforgottep name , ,
It t pay the arrear of monumental fame,
Ai at the Tiarcller, oft the Poet turns
Ti 'Mule and linger o'er the Tomb of Bum.

PRCIRY-LANS THEATRE.

Bertram perforated for the fifteenth time,
last night.. The Drtiry-lane Managenient is still
puffing some of its Meinbers, and this Tragedy
together It is thus that persons of no .inerit
often obtain the notoriety they covet, by attach-
ing themselves to successful authors or artists.
At the period when Bertram was first performed,
reprehended the ostentatious way in which
several of the rulers of the Theatre paraded their
patronage of the Author. 'We gave an impar-
tial' criticism upon his Play, and though we
hailed it more as a. work of future promise
that of the present excellence ascribed to it by
most of our Contemporaries, we could not en.
ilure the idea of the Writer, a man of talent and
.genius, being placed in the invidious and humi-
liating light in which he Was placed by these vain
egotists.' But if these were. our feelings when we
supposed their representations true, our Readers
will readily believe that they were aggravated
when we learnt- that Mr. MATtiaitt -was not the
poor Cur:tee wh.ose sustenance depended on the
charitable reception of his. play-'—nor the needy
mendicant of littrature,,who would starve if some
generous Lord or liberal :Manager did not nobly
stand torward to relieve and cherish obscure ge-
tints—hut a man of independence, sittlicicot to
shield hint. from all this :degradation—nor to re-
ceive favours from persons winlcan bOast of their.
beneficent acts, is the gt west ut alldegradation.
There,is a Mr. G. Lana, who is mentioned in a
ng Paper, as having the merit of " direct-
tog: and executing alterations' necessary to adapt
this piece to Abe Stage, greatly to the satistaction
of the Author"-»-whontitese liberal. puffers seem
resolved to leave'as little of the actin of tiffs Own
prodnetion as they possibly can.

, .., OBLitoN'S OATH.
Poor THOMPSON, the author ~f this piece, fell
on Sunday last a prey to ante feelings. The
.nrigenerous, and, we may sichl, unmerited at-
tack, which was made on Obcroa on the first
hight, affected him very much, for he had been
led, by favourable reports of the perforniers,
to expect it would be crowned with the most
brilliant success, and had calculated on pro-
ducing a piece annually, which would have
been p little annuity to.him. . The CS:CVSs of his
disappointment could .only be equalled by his
tratibports. of-, joy,
.wlien, on the second represen-
tation, his production was honoured with univer,..
sal.applause. Thus plunged front one extreme to
the other, he was taken alarmingly ill on Satur-
day and died the next, day. lie was at Drury-
lane on Friday night, and said to Mr. PARRY, that
so much was he pleased with the music which he
had adapted to his words., th,itt he would very
shortly wait on hint with another play.
The Managers of Drury-lune intend, it is said,-
to alter and compress Oberon's Oath into one rict,
and to perform .it for the benefit of the Author's
Wits and three Children; who are left totally un-
provided tor.

Tut', FINE ARTS,

cADEm.Y.

ufo. IX.]

. . ,
We have 11.i..rity sliecified several yottrig Artists
vtliose productions this: year afford the most cer-
tain of . Noire greatness, shohld' they
continue their professional exertions ;—'—we 150 w
come. to one of whom- .we cannot say thpt
his victures in this Exhibition add to the expec-
iritions.we'previotoly entertained of but of
who'll kis sufficient praiss to say,, that they fully
confirm the hole of the last.seson.,
No. 40. Portrait of J. Nartitco:c, Eq, R. A. 6y C. H. HAR-
LOW.

Those who remember the excioisite portrait of
the Pres►dent i►i the lost exhibition, from the pal?
let of this Artist, and who have seen the subject
Of this notice, will agteo with us to the full eX-
tent of our introductory remaiks. The present
is, like thepast, atiextra-ordinary
Northcote is in life before our eyes, and whether
considered as a likeness,.or as an effort in the art
of painting, this piece ranges in the very foremost
ra►►k of the class to -which it belongs.

N0..82; Sir H'. Rachel', 41.—by the same,
and another excellent production, with inure of
grace Rnd harmony than the foregoing, but not
so powerful and forcible. This difference arises
prohably out of the different appearances Of the
No. 178. Mrs. Weddell d Children---the
We have of course heard much of ,the " two
minute's," or the " three styles," of such and•
such Artists : in this picture, Mr. Harlow seems
.tietertnined-to convince us that he can excel in at
least two ways. It is a gay, florid, anti beautiful
gronpe. In colouring sweet and pleasing, in
drawing graceful and easy, and in general effect
harmonious and charming. Artists art\ not fond
of being thought imitators, hilt without implying
imitation, we may say that this picture reminds
us of Lawrence in his happiest moods.
376. Mr. Tomkisson-389. Commodore Sir J.
Luca: reo—aad 498. the lion. Miss Rodneys ; all
by the same hand, and of which we have only
mace to say, that they are companions worthy of
those we have more particularized, and of the
Painter who has achieved so high a nitch in this
repository of a nation'stalents.
No. 139. Tuning. F. P. STEPHANOFF.—A hu--
norous and characteristic sketch. The attitudes
of the figures, are natural and entertaining, and
the whale a very clever and inelitorious produc-
tioue---( To be continued:} •