The Sun.
London, England, 1818-05-11 00:00:00

I:TNERSI-1 IPS DISSOLVED.

J. Barker and B; Feieday, Bermingham, platers —W.
Billing.and IL Bagebot. Plymouth bock, linen-drapers—
IL. Sherwood and J. Sherwood, Narrow Wall, Landreth,
bricklayers and plasterers—J. Edmondson, It: Leach, and 'l'.
Heskin, Blackburn, Lancashire,. cotton manufacturers—(}.
Fournier, R. Gore, and J. Gore, Che.apside, warehousemen—
P. Shipper and Z. Senier, Shoreditch, linen-drapers—
C. Banes and G. Bangs, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, carpen-
ters —E. Briggs, E. Hayes, and S. Briggs, London,
Turkey merchants—F. Yonng and 1.. Tritton, Whit echapel,
coppersmiths and worm-milk e ocock,sen.T.Golden;uud
ell,a
NI Pocockjun. Bouverie-street. Fleet• street iron-masters—
G. Nelson atll). Bannister, Halifax, Yorkshire, woolstaplers
Appleton and S. :Ippleton, Resale, linwston upon-Hull,
corn and coalmerchant—T: Appell4 arid H. Langdale,
Ripon. Yorkshire, surgeons—J. Ellis, . 1). Tres'osso and .1.
Cornish, Falmouth, tallow;chandlers—J. Webb. J. W. WOO),
and .1. Webb, Portsea,_ Hants, gardenerS and seedsmea--,
W. Traer, W. Hninphr4, and 1. J uldr, -Retinal], Cornwall,
manta:tourers of black lead pots—S. Pollard a d W. Pollard,
Bristol, linen-drapers—T. Nieholsiniand R. Dodd,?ewcastle-
npon-•i'yne. plasterers—E. Rhodes, 'P. Champion .1. Craw-
shaw, and M llot;ers. jun. Sheffield, rucrchauts—:J. Thorne
and J. Marker, Brist,f, silk-mercers. •

AN ADDRESS*
FOR THE ANNIVE.ItSARY OF THE LITERARY FUND,
AT FREEMA.'ONS' HALL, MAY 7, 1818.
• WRITTFIN AND RECITED.DY
WILLIAM THOMAS FITZGERALD, Esq.

Mien thunders ceaScd, and tempests raged no more,
Still did the swelling billirws lash the shore ;
For thottgli tremendous hurricanes subside,
Time must elapse to calm the angry tide :
And when, at last, the Dove of Peace had rest
To plume the ruffled feathers on her breast,
O'er Claremont's bowers she RlC:rued, with trembling

wings,
The wish'd-for Mother- of a Line of Kings!
She saw the Rose oiE,gland Lute away, •
Blighted in butl—swe,it vision of a ilay! •
One common sorrow, and one general tear, .
From three great nations Charlotte's bier:
Cong shall her virtues be the theme of all,
When tombs decay, and mouldering temple's fall !

Then let OD Bard another snbject chose,
Morc cheering,.but not dearer to his Muse; •
Let him, uncharged with vanity, impart . •
The honest pride that warms a patriot heart,
To see each nation's eager eyes appear,
In friendship, or in envy. cent.cr'd here :
IVliere Great Britannia, clad in tumour's robe.
Stands, laurel-crowned, the Umpire of the Globe!
ln Europe's battle foremost of the van.;
In peace, the advocate of sotlcring,•- man ;
Cohtent, with native majesty, she shines;
Her conquests, fair the general good, reSigns ;
And for tier triumphs on the land, or wave,
Only demands his freedom for the slave !
With her no Muse can ever plead in vain •
For secret sorrow., poverty, and pain : •
Go seek where pining waut and misery dwell,
The dehter's prison, or the felon's cell;
The last. abode of anguish and despair,
- And British Charity's- conspicuous there!
His debts discharged, she bids the insolvent go,
And e'en death .itself of half its woe;
For when stern Law demands the culprit's life, -
She finds a refeige for his child anti wife :
And while the felon yields his forfeit breath,
Brings comfmt to hint in the hour of death.
But,of all wants, with which mankind is curst,
• 'l'h' accomplisti'd Scholar's are,„ by far, the worst;
For generous pritk compels him to control
And hide the WOllll that. g naws his very soul :
'Though Fortune, in her gifts to him, is blindi
•Nature bestows nobility of millet,
That makes him rattier endless ills endure,
Than seek from meanness a degraded cure!
Yet from his . •requited labours flow •
Half we enjoy, and altuost ail we losow ;
All that enatibles an enlightened age, • ,
And marks, at oltvhe Savage front the Sage. . •
The Studious Mau directs more active souls
To steer th'- adventurous vessel to the Pules.;
'1" explore-the regions of eternal frost,
‘l:here, ages past, a peopled laird was lost ;
By realms of ice to polar skies confroe,d, '-
Four hundred winters banished from mankind !
Yet there may Hope anticipate,And
.t race,
PerhaFs, a happy, anti a hardy race,
That neither poverty, nor splendour" know,
Exempt from Europe's luxury and wo.
In War what Science, or in Peace what Art,
In which the Sous of Genius hear no part?
And Commerce,- with her " busy hum of men,"
Owes to the Sword less homage than the PCI3 j
That powerful engine of the mighty mind,
As used-41.1e bane, or blessing of mankind !
• Freedeim's main sprint; ! The Tyrant's deadly hate!
Shield (lithe poor, and bulwark 'uf the State
Neer may it be, in some malignant hour, -
By factious tainted; or oppressed by power;
Nor, dipp'd in malice, aid the assassins blow,
And prove to Liberty her bitterest foe':
'Twas Heaven's great gift !—to inelior;.te and save,
Freedom's first cradle !—and perhaps her gra.ve !
Ti, starve with Canmens, or with Spenser yi•lie,
Were _better that; to write one servile line
To. flatter Vice—ur what more lease,
To wound, in secret, those we dare not face;
For Vice and Virtue, with the Pen and Press,
-Wive power to tort-are, or haul power to'blessl. -
Tbus.the mire strea:n for man impartial springs,,
For rich and poor ; for subjects, and for Kings ;
But if dark nightshade minglo as it flows,
The squree of health becomes the sink-of woes;
Yet, a-. the spots that in the Sun appear,
Viewed with alarm, are magnified by fear, •
So may. ''.;e Bard's forebodings all be vain,.
Nor England's grand palladium prove her bane !• . ,
YOur's be the task to foster, and protect
Genins in rags, and Learning from neglect;
Morals improved will soon reward your care,
Fur-libel's want engendered by despr'r!
And half the licence which the Good 'deplore,
Digress relieved, would plague mankind no mote
* Being the 42d Anniversary Poem written by Mr. Fitz-
Gerald fur the Society.