The Sun.
London, England, 1818-05-08 00:00:00

LI ITHARY FUND.

The Anniversary Dinner of this Society, an In-
stitution dear to Genius and Learning, and one
of the most honourable featu'res- of the present
generation, took place yesterday at Freemasons'.
Hall, and was well attended. The Duke of So-
rdEasET was ill the Chair. The wilal loyal and
constitutional toasts were given, and received with
hearty applause. The health of the 1•13ble Chair-
man was proposed by Sir V6l. CLAYTON, and re-
ceived with the warmest approbation. The Duke
returned his thanks with emphatic brevity. Sir
B. HoanousE, Mr. W. SMITH, Mr. QuIN, Mr.
RowcrtorT, and the Rev. Dr. YATes, severally
addressed the company in behalf of the Institu-
tion. Mr. FITZGFIIALD, whose loyalty and whose
Muse are ever ready on any meritorious occasion,
being desired to favour the company with a reci-
tation, complied with hit usual promptitude and
good humour. The Hiles which lie recited were
highly animated, and after having written so
many on the same subject. show that his imagi-
nation,as well as his humanity,-arc ineXhauSlible.
We shall take an early,opportunity of presenting
them to our Readers. Thu y Were, as usual, well
recited, anti much applauded..

The Rev. Dr'. PATES stated the amount of the
subscriptions, and the benefactions for the last
year, as well as the receipts for the evening. The
911(115 received since the last Anniversary the
Rev. Gentleman stated to amount to 1157/. 3s. Bd.
the benefactions to 820/. 53. 'fire subscriptions
in the course of the evening were, we are happy
to understand, very considet able.

Several Musical Gentl►tnen contril►oted ma-
terially to the entertainment, by several songs,
selected chiefly from the compositions of Mr.
SHIELD.

ARGYLL Rooms.—We were touch gratified in
seeing a very tom:emus and elegant audience last
night attending these Rooms, at' the concert of
Miss SHARPE, Will,SC skill on the harp, though she
is so early in life, has raised her to a high and
well merited rank in the musical world. She per-
formed a concerto in a very beautiful style. She
also accompanied Mrs.SAt_moN in an air of BisnoP,
joined in a duet, for the flute and harp, with Nl-
couLsos, and afterwards performed a solo to
the delightful air Ali Perdona, with variations,
well composed and admirably executed. The
vocal performers,, besides Mrs. SALMON, were Mr.
and Mrs. LACY, BELLAMY, who sung " Father
:William" with great expression, Mr. and Mrs.
VAUGLIAN, and Miss GOODALL, who all ably ex-
erted themselves. BRAHAM, who had been kept
late at the Theatre, arrived just before the Finale,
and sung an English air so well as to be .univer-
sally emoted. The Band was led by Mr. H.
SMART. Sir G. SMART %VHS at the piano-forte.
In course of the evening Signior Puzzt gave a
concerto on the French-horn with extraordinary
skill, and NICHOLSON an air with variations on the
flute, performed with taste and great execution.
The orchestra was well supplied, and the whole
was a very gratifying entertainment.

We are authorized to state, that since the Me-
dical Board has been established at Chit.lmre-
House, Great Charlotte-street, opposite the Rev
Rowland Hill's Chapel, and Woodstock-street,
adjoining New Bond-street, upwards of 'Thirty
Thousand Patients of both sexes have been re-
st.ored to perfect health, many of whom bad
lingered fur years under the most painful and ob-
stinate diseases, were pronounced incurable by
respectable practitioners, and several discharged
from Hospitals—Such is the effects resulting how
combined talents ! !
Messrs. COOPER and Co. of Medical and Sur-
gical celebrity, after forty years experience in this
Metropolis, are consulted daily at both houses
until nine at night, and the poor have advice,
gratis, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday Morn-
ings, until twelve o'clock.

Patients at a distance, describing their case,
immediately attended to.—All iettets to be direct-
ed to Charlotte House, Black friars-road, but untie
are answered which do LIVt contain a consLlt-
ing fee.

POETRY.

rIFTH EPISTLE TO. THE EDINBURGH

REVIEWERS.

Seditio Cirium—hostiotn cst occasio.

Seditious subjects make successfni foes ;
This is a truth no quibbling carvoppose. •
Some, indeed, practice, some sediti•ni preach,
And different shares of blame belong to each ;
nit if that blame be portioned as 'tis due,
not COBBETT'S self will rival you.
Let m't, then, now unmask your factious tricks,
And shen• the dangers of your politics..

Neutral for sonic few years you stood aloof,
As if to truing your ta!ent s to the proof;
Defuse you dar'd a flight to try your wing,
To show how keen Your bite, how sharp your sting;
Those years nut one dita.ct attack you made,
And rarely was the cloven foot display'd ;
Till that ill-omen'd time When at the helm
The self-call'd rill the Talents. the RealM ;
A Constellation thought fix'd firm on high;
Tisey prov'd mere falling Stars that gleam and die.
They rose and vanish'd—not as Pirr had done,
rliglng and setting the radiant Sun ;
They shot athwart the sky a meteor light,
An instant glar'd—then left a darker night ;
Or, rocket-like, they strove aloft to soar,
Then burst, and sparkled—and were seen no more.
Mere men of straw, like straw on fire they hlaz'd,
And whilst the flame rose high, men wondering gaz'd ;
But wills that sunk the light which once allur'd,
And all their brightness was by smoke obscur'de
Such were the Talents—such their rise and fall--.
But, without —, how could they be all ?
You came an,lplac'd, to make that adjunct right,
Your farthing candle by their blaze of light.
The soaring blaze sunk quickly and was gone ;
The farthing candle burnt, and still burns on ;
But could not light again the Talent's blaze,
Nor yet a flame amongst the People raise.
Then, put it out; and hence chagrin
You must endure from disappointed spleen ;
You, Who at Ministers in vain revile,
Spitting each quarter self-defiling bile.
Meanwhile I will attempt a nearer view.
Of what you did and what you strove to do.

When Fox was gone, the Party's boast and ptide,
(Sad for his fame he had not sooner died I.
Then had posterity, still undeceiv'd,
All that his fond admirers told, believ'd ;
Ere he gave proof that speeches may delight
Front one who has•not equal powers to write;
That he who eloquently blames, may fail
Himself to guide the State when storms assail :
But to his ashes peace ! around his tomb,
With all his faults, a deathless wreath will bloom.)
Fox gone ; the party lost its poise and spring;
They would at once be Ministers and King;
Till as they struggled to impose their yoke
The Monarch from their toils indignant broke;
Took other Counsellors, who rul'd the land
With a more steady, tho' less grasping hand;
Who deem'd not putting in and turning out
Were the sole objects woi thy of their thought;
Who plann'd no senseless Dardanelles attacks :
Did not on rough materials Tay a tax;
Nor play'd at. PAUL and PETER in Finance;
Nor; tilt her power was crush% sought.peace with France.
Actions, not words, were theirs; they did, not talk'd ;
Firm in the course which PITT had trae'd they walled,
Till, glad event be did not live to see,
They set the nations from their thraldom free.
Allied or single; in success or crosses ;
Thro' every change of fate : in gains or losses ;
This one grand alas they steadily pursued.
Yet all their deeds with jaundic'd eyes you view'd;
This the sole burden of your critic song;
1)o what. they would the Ministers were wrong.
Attack howe'er they might—succeed or fail— • ,
Still, —, would you like THERM Es rail.
If they succeeded, then they did no good—
'Twas courage misapplied—mere waste of blood :
Btst if they fail'd—who could not have foreseen
What of such plans the issue must have been ?
Employ'd on projects without aid or aim
Their Generals must e'en Britons lead to shame.
It seems as if desirous of defeat,
Like Russian wives they gloried to be beat.
Whilst. BUONAPARTE, hero, man of might,
Was always splendid, always in the light.
Tito' by a stroke of his apostate pen
He made hinisi:lf and army Mussulmen
Tho' by a British Knight in war excell'd,
From Acre's ancient walls he was rercll'd;
Tho' to his own sick troops he poison gave;
And tho' he massacred the captive hrare;
Tho' in the Council, when he felt dismay,
By LUCIAN 'sav't.l, in battle by DEsAtx ;
Tho' he cut short the haple,s d' ENGII I EN'S life,
And liv'd incestuous with his brother's wife; .
Thu' lavish of all blood except his own ;
ito' he as meanly won as lost the throne:
Yet for this ruthless tyrant. this apostate,
This vile assassin, in the dust 11(4 prostrate,
You pleaded ; you felt pity far his fate,
And bade us not insult the fallen great.
The fallen great ! Yes--great indeed in evil; .
Great as his ghurious prototype the Devil;.
And fallen too like him—llC er may he rise
But on the rock where he imprisoned lies
Instead of war's loud din, hear ocean's roar,
Repent, make peace with God and plot no more.
For even now it tills the soil with dread •
To think how near all liberty had tied;
Yet in those times of terror and disunity,
When Britain stood, and stood alone at bay,
E'en then you, —, joining with her foes,
Did all you could to par.tlvze her blows;
With views and motives like that viper laud,
Which strove to ,trike, with parricidal hand,
(When on a thread her fate suspended hung)
The mother soil from which herself haul sprung.
Both saw her worn by wars and faction'. broils;
And both were eager to partake her spoils;
She o'er America's vast space to rule;
You to become a BUoNAPARTE tool ;
To wear his princely titles, court his smile,
And he the TA LLEYRAND of Britain's isle.
‘Vere she suhdued,•you might such honours
claim—
And were she not, vote had another aim ;
Perverting facts and straining argument,
You nourished faction and rais'd discontent ;
And when the State most tabooed in the storm,
Then was the time you chose to cry—Reform.
By which was meant—change measores and change men—
Replace the Talents at the helm again.
Thus will success be ours; for be it known,
The reign of talents is ill fact my own.
Nov, having plac'd von on your fancied throne,
I hid adieu—hut what I stand your Debtor
Shall soon be paid in my succeeding letter,

PAR LTA MENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, TnunsnAY, MAN, 7,

A Local Bill was brought np from the House
01 Conimons by Mr. S‘vann, and other Members,
and read a first time.
The Spirit Intercourse Bill, the House of CON
reetion Clivia'ns' Bill, the Workmens' Wages
Bill, and the Pardon tinder the Great Seal Bill,
passed through Committees.

The Loan Bill «•as read a 3d time and passed.
Sykes's Hydrometer Bill, and the Vest India
Trade Bill, were read a second time, and com-
mitted for to-morrow.