The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-16 00:00:00

POETRY.

THE CATHOLIC PETITION IN METRE.
We condole with you, Sire I and approach you with tenr",
That your excellent Father has finish'd his years.
'Twas He first lent an car to our humble request,
When at length we had been for two ages opprest ;
And that now in the State we can hold any place,
We must solely impute to his MAJESTY'S Grace.
We were worthy the Gifts he was pleased to bestow,
For we always were ready to fight with his Foe;
Such allegiance we swore as the POPE thought his due,
And now such allegiance we proffer to you,
Still indulging a confident hope in the end
We shall find in the Throne a Protector and Friend.
Then grata us hut power, and the World shall soon kart,
How the Catholics make a most grateful return.

•
OBSEUVATIO N.
If their gratitude's such as it has been before,
They will make that return by demanding still more.

VIRGINIA.—A new tragedy with this title it
forthcoming at Covent Garden Theatre. The fol'
lowing is a list of those already mitten by Englisli
Ainhors, in one of which GARRICK, was the Hero,
and of course rendeted the piece very popular ad
attractive :
Appius and Virginia, a Tragi-Comedy, Anon, 1575.
Appius and Virginia, a 'fragedy, by .101 in. Webster, 1659.
Unjust Judge; or Appius and Virginia", id. Thomas BO'
tenon, 1694.
Appius and Virginia, id John Dennis, 170 g.
Virginia, id, Crisp, 1754.
Appius, id. John Moncri,f, 1756.
Virginia, Brookes, 1756.
'lit re is also stiother tragray on the same sub,
feet in Italian, written by C.unt ALFIBIII, of
which the new Piece is said to be a translation.

THE Arrb........1; is calif by tll,- Net, that
" Genius is of so country, tier insre ray
Spreads all abroad as gen'ral as the day ;."
and we are ready ,o pay tribute o foreign talent,
as well as to our own. 'h'it' Gallery openen yestcr#
day by the Chevalier IssEtey exhibits a variety 01
Drawings of very extraordinary merit, consisting
of Scenes and Portraits ot a very interesting de'
scrip lion. Among the Scents that ot Bti,,naparfi
reviewing the Guards in the Court ot tile l'oile"c
ries, the Staircase ot the Museum in Parii,
the 'Members holding the Congress at Vie ~f d'e
are most conspiciloits: ',there are also abitodi.d
of Portraits of distinguished Characttss in Ettrof (."
and the whole presents so much spirit, with jistivAl
cious arrangement; and mecii3nical dextetity,o"/
is seldom found united its the same Artist.

We are sorry to say rbat M. N. it- ,TFfsCH
Esq. lies dangerously ai his couu.ry tyuwe
Stamford Hill.

Sir JOSEPH BANKS resigns the Presidency''
the Royal Society immediately, and Earl
_ speNtsai
is to be appointed in his place. ---(Moining Paper.)
A manufacturer at Warwick has sate ,koed *a
invention to render the smoke of steam engisie,
consumable without any part of it escaping.
The Ist of August, the day appointed for tb
Coronation, is rather remark.ible in th, ant
the country :—On the Ist of August, 1689, Kill
WlLLimq defeated King James at the crossing
the Boyne, in Ireland on the Ist of efiNeo,t
present Royal Family ascended the Itlione
these kingdoms; by the death of Queen Astir, IS
1714 the battle of Minden was fouetit in .170,
and the total defeat of the French fleet, at the .
month of the Nile, in 1798, by the great Lora
NELSON, also took place on that flat.
The casts of the Elgin marbles, so munificeedi
presented to our A the:lmm by his present Mosti'
TY, and consigned to this port free of all expencelf
were teinoVed on Monday, the Bth iustant, fret/
the dociolard to their des; toed. v« positovy. Thelf
occupy tuurtee«: large cases, and the Venioval
them to this town required to,r carts.—(PlY
mouth Telegraph,)
DolgeUy, in Wales, was nearly the whole of last
week one continued scene of iesivity, on accost
of the coming of tee of Low OWEN, jun. la. Ail
son of the late High Sheriff of Alerione:hsh:re-1
The mornings were udiered in by the ringing °)
and the evenings by immense ho..fires
the centre at the town, while old mit was li°,
berally dish United 10 the populace, nit Os
houses were illmninated, and ut.uy appropriatft
transparencies displayed at the hosidtabie seas e
Mr. OWEN all the, neighbouring persou• of dire
tinction were superbly euirrttlioed, anc; bells tea
initiated the fesiivi« y of each flay.
A Prebendary stall in Winchester Catliedti
the Vicarage of Wherw.elt, and Revery of
John's, become vacant by the death' of the 0
F. InEMONGER, who died almost suddenly °
Thursday last, at Winchester.
The servant of Captain DAVIS, who, as Of
readers may recollect, enabled his master to escalil
front Giltspur-street Compeer,. was yesterday trt
at the London Sessions, and sentenced to ii'"
months imprisonment.

On the 11th inst. at Kettotk, the Lady of Thomas CO°
Esq. of a son.
Kip(
Sunday last, the wife of Al r. gamuel Hayes, jun. of
street, Cotent-garden, of a dan,-ILter:

MARRIED..
Yesterday, Charles Crokat, of South Lanthetk, Esq'
Miss Louisa Ann Vandiest, of Stockwell Coatuunt. Svf
On Saturday last, at Mary-le-hone New Church, John if
ton, Esq. (surgeon), of Montague-street, Portman-squareP.
Miss Prior, of George-street, Montague-square.

DIED..

506 al

Yestei day morning, at the Admiralty, Spencer, only
Mr. and Mrs. CrokiJ.
On Frid;:y, the sth of May, at Paris, Parr liulkeley,
late of Gloucester-place.
jeSM
On Sunday, the 14th inst., after a few days' serious
Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Orrell, Solicitor, of Winslerst'f de
Oxford-street, aged 70, after a ntarriaga of upwards o
years. v
On Sunday last, at the house of her niece, Mrs. M3Clict of
Blackheath, in the 94th year of tier age, Mrs. Bell, re.;;00-r
John Bell, Esq., late Governor of the Royal Exchange
ance °thee. cOIIV
On the 12th inst. at his scat at Scrivelsby Han,
shire, Lewis Dymoke, Esq. the Hon. the King's Chill., os
aged 57, who is succeeded in his honours and estates Jao6l
brother, the Rev. John Dyniolie, Rector of ScrirclslM
Prebendary o Lincoln.•
In the Islanf dof Nevis, on the id of March, in .rite p 1 b
year of his age, Edward Parris, Esq one of the oltie,9:4o.gli
prietors in the West Indies, and for many years Sr`Adol
the House of Assembly there, as well as Judge of the
_c kW'
ralty. He is succeeded in his estates by his son, ti'
James Parris, Member of the Council, ac,

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