The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-16 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

PAPISTRY STORM'D. By W. TENNANT. pp. 224.
This is a serio-comic poem, written in the
old Scottish dialect by an author well known
for his quaint and spirited publication of
" Anst'er Fair." When we call it serio-comic,
we call it so from Mr. Tennant's own ac-
knowledgment in the preface ; for we must
candidly confess, that out of the 224 pages of
which it consists, we have only been able to
comprehend the first half page, consisting
of just three lines, the very first of which delay-
ed us nearly as long as the most sententious pas-
sage in Thucydides—
" I sing the steir, stra bush, and streefe."
Adopting, however, as we said above, the
author's own opinion of his poem, we have no
hesitation in saying that it is exceedingly serio-
comic, and still more, that it is worthy of being
honoured, like Doctor Percy, of Rochester,
with a translation.
Upon a closer inspection we find the. book
strewed with many sweet flowers of poetry, but
their beauty is much dimmed by the antique mist
which overhangs the scene.. The title bespeaks
at once that religious fervour is the moving
spirit of the poem, and the demolition of the
strong hold of Papistry is the main object of the
enthusiasts. That some of our readers, more
versed than ourselves in the social mystery of the
" broad dialect of auld tang syne," may fore] r
an opinion of the original, we give an extract or
two for their enjoyment : i
..... -- .
- 0 Muse, that frae Parnassus' crown,
Cam in thy multi-spanglet shoon,
• ~ , :s..l
Lampin' slang in joyeus glee ''k, '7,
Frae jawato jaw athort the sea, • '''- - ' -.
To meet the Chian king o' sang, 1.. ~- -
That in his cave the lee day lang, *,-;,,'.:,
Sat culyieing thee beside the shore
Whairon th' Aegean's lappet's roar ;
There sat he, on lone bink reclin'd,
‘ Deep musin' in his 'nightie mind,
Some famous argument to find ;
Thou at his elbuck stood unseen,
And wi thy glamour giaik'd his een,
Bewitchin' them to joy.
• Than, than, by him was brightlie seen
The bitter collieshangie keen
That wrocht the Greeks annoy ;
llk bluidy brulziement and battle
Wi swords, and stanes, and chariots' !wattle,
That never blindit nor did sattle,
Till erthlins wi' a dunderin' rattle
Tuinnilet the tow'rs o"froy ;
0 come down free thy cloud on hie,
Whair thou art singin' merrilie,
And wi' thy, wings owrshadow me.
And fan my spreit to joy ;
And up thy magic lantern hold,
That in its lookin'-glass o' gold,
Dry glaikit ce may well behold
The Papists and their faes comminglit
In monie a fecht and tulzie-mulzie,
Herryin' o' kirks, and image-spulzie,
. Whairwi' nae ear as yet hath tinglet ;
Thou kenn'st it a' ; for thou wert there,
Pitch't on the steeple's tap in air,
Markin' the faces, everilk one,
0' them by wham the wark was done,
• And notin' down within thy book
Ilk motion, gesture, speik, and look,
Aibline to use on future time,
And blazon them abraid in rhime :
Till, underneath thy feet, I trow,
Dinnelin' "Deaf Meg and Crookit Mon*" •
Begoud wi' ane terrifick blatter
At the great steeple's found to batter,
Garrin' the stanes to dance ;
' The steeple rock't at ilka swack ;
Thou saw'st the comin' crash and wrack ;
And flaff't thy wings, and in a crack
Flew frae th' unsicker stance!
The following is a beautiful and very spirited
description of morning :
Dan Phcebus in his eastland bow'r
Startit frae sleep 'tween three and four,
And busk't him in his dandiest duds,
For his Lang journey thro' the duds ;
• His velvet breeks, as red as tire,
,
The snoddest pairt o' his attire,
i.* Whilk a' the nations do admire,
He drew up on his galliard thies :
His spanglet glairy-flairy vest,
The Ethiops' wonder east and west,
..,
He button'd bonny round his waist,
Settin' his belly in a bleis;
His coat, wi' gowden sleeves bedicht;
I Whase fiery neck gleams out sae bricht,
The sterns are blinded wi' the licht,
Apparyll'd his braid showthers weil ;
His cockit-hat wi' canny care
1 He clapt upon his roscat hair ;
, His jewell'd shoon, (a bonny pair !)
'• He strappit fast round ilka heel ;
Svn to the Hours he cry'd, My staff,
i.
My staff, ye jads, and let me aff!
'l'is time o day by Anster clock
• That I was over India's rock !
And, swith ! they bring his staff,
And throu' Aurora's gildet gate,
Whistlin', he took his gladsoMe gait,
And up the per.d at furious rate
Gaed spielin', spankin', aff!
* Names of two cannons employed on that oci

(From the Carlow Morning Post.)
MR. CANNING.—True it is that—hail the moss
splendid fame—first-rate dignity—universal admira-
tion—the love of his fellow-countrymen—and his
Sovereign's most especial and accumulated favours
mo glori-
ously. b
it Edloeqetrni ebnicnee,d
to —been the objects of George Canning's ambition,
he had earned them laboriously, he' had obtained
them, almost beyond parallel, triumphantly, glori-
genipulse,ee him aboveandeveryacrciovmalprylishin-
public as in private life ; full of enterprise, decision,
and vigour in his statesmanlike measures, he had
e exalted the British character abroad—liberal and
• patriotic, he had been creating new resonrces for his
own country's welfare and power, in the apProxima-
tion of her own political and religious distractions to
a close. If hated, it was for his virtues—if feared,
it was because his power was founded on honour,
' justice, and truth. But lamented, it is noebecause
't.' he has lived Vic) briefly for his own renown—it is not,
merely because he ceases to be the boast and orna-
i ment of British Senate, the darling of the Bri-
tish people and the pride of his King—but because,
having been a witness of six Administrations, having
to leisure to develope the gangrenous principles of mis-
government with which the country was infected
3), to the core and determined upon their utter extir- • k
pation—he has been removed too prematurely for' MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LEICESTER, Ace. 13. ,her ardently expected and necessary amelioration. Robert Wigginton, aged 46, was indicted for sheep-1
It is quite probable that ',the Tories so lately, stealing. The prisoner was found Guilty, and,
Aso triumphantly flung from power—that the factions . sentence of death was recorded against him.
~,,.
which they pampered—tht the oligarchists and the At three o'clock, his LORDSHIP -having cleared
A PUN.—A retired dealer in tallow shewinalmonopolists will, endeavour. to repossess themselves
~ the county calendar, preeceded to try the prisoners
t:, lof the avenue which the demise of Mr. Canning ii in the borough. - 1
a friend a villa he had recently erected in the country, re- vSeems to have opened before them to the Royal ear. 5 Maria Power, Mary Yeomans, arid Mau
marked, that in the erection and fitting up of it he had ;The Clergy, above all, will make a " long pull, al. Spencer, were severally convicted of shop-lifting.
exclusively employed English workmen and English ma- ; strong pull, and a pull altogether." There is, in- it Lord TENTERDEN sentenced each of the prisoners
terials. " Nay," said his friend, " the workmen may ;' deed, no doubt of this. " Angry and acrimonious to be transported for seven years.
have been English, but you must allow that the materials . discussions," says the Sun, " are already in full
hi
- TUESDAY, AUGUST 14.
came from Greece" (grease.) ( progress on this subject." Thomas Porter, aged 17, was charged with haying,
- fsa
. •

John Palmer, convicted of bigamy at the last
assizes, was brought up to receive judgment. His
sentence was, to be imprisoned ten months, and kept
to hard labour.

William Johnson, aged 25, was indicted for assault-
ing David Small on the highway, and stealing froin
him his watch.—Guilty—Transportation for life.

\s!S\ '
Th."`• ‘i •
•
'on the sth day ofJune last, in thifliorough, feloni-
ously tittered fr.! ~:','fished as true a certain forged
and counterfeited bill of exchange, purporting to be
drawn by one Edward Addison upon one William
Rawson, for the sum of 401., well knowing the same
to be forged and counterfeited, with intent to de-
fraud the said Edward Addison, There were other
counts in the indictment laying the crime to have
been committed with intent to, defraud William
klawson, and alio Messrs. Clarke and Phillips.
I The Jury found the prisoner. Guilty, but recom-
mended him to the merciful consideration of tha
Court, on the ground of his youth, and the very good
character which he had hitherto borne, as proved by
the witnesses called on his behalf. In this recom-
mendation they were joined by the prosecutor.
John Corah, aged 18, was then put to the bar,
charged with forging the above, note. Two wit-
nesses declared it to be all in the prisoner's hand-
writing. One of them, however, said, he had not
seen him write for the last two years, but the other,
who was an auctioneer, on being called back by the
Jury to describe more particularly from what he had
derived his knowledge of the, prisoner's handwriting,
stated, that he had forged two bills of exchange upon
him (the witness) which he subsequently acknow-
ledged to be his handwriting. It appeared that the
prisoner had occasionally lived with his father, who
is a gardener in Leicester, and sometimes with his
grandmother, who does not reside within this
borough. •
The Jury returned a verdict of " Guilty."
Lord TENTERDEN, in afterwards addressing the
prisoner, said he was not quite satisfied that he had
acted rightly in leaving it to the jury to decide whe-
ther or not, upon the evidence, they were of opinion
that the offence had been committed within the bo-
rough ; and therefore he would forbear pronouncing
any judgment upon him until he should take , the
opinion of the twelve Judges on that point. But
his Lordship warned the prisoner, that eveng the
decision of the Judges should be in his favour on the
present indictment; he -was still open to .anoilier in-
dictment of an equally serious nature, under a recent
act of Parliament.

The prisoner Porter being brought up to receive
judgment,

His LORDSHIP forcibly pointed out the dreadful
consequences to which persons, even of good cha-
racter and conduct, as seemed to have been the case
with this young man down to the present occasion,
were exposed from falling into bad company. As
Ithe jury and the prosecutor had recommended him
to mercy, he (Lord Tenterden) would venture to
assure him that that recommendation would have
effect with his Majesty to the extent of saving his
life, but no farther. Sentence of death was then re-
corded.
John Simmons and William Simmons were indict-
ed for feloniously assaulting George Baker, on the
24th of February last, aid violently and feloniously
stealing and carrying away from a• boat then in the
charge of the said George Baker, a piece of velve-
teen, two pair of breeches, and divers other articles,
the goods of Edward Thomson.
The prisoners were found guilty of the larceny,
and sentenced to be transported for seven years.

John Simpson, a married man, and a father, was
indicted for assaulting Jane Wittering, a child just
turned of 12 years, with intent to violate her person,
on the 10th of October last. _ _

The Jury found the defendant guilty; and the
Court sentenced him to six months' additional im-
prisonment and hard labour, and to be once pri-
vately whipped. This was the last of the cases in
the borough calendar.

THE EARL OF HARBOROUGH V. WARTNABY AND OTHERS.

The question ,in this case, which was a remanet
from the last Assizes, was, whether the manor of
Great Bowden, in this county, was'held in ancient
demesne or in . frank-fee. A great quantity of evi-
dence, both documentary and parole, was adduced
on the part of the plaintiff to prove that the lands
in question were held in ancient demesne, and were

therefore under the jurisdiction of the Lord's Manor
Court. But the defendants produced the copy g a
fine levied of these lands in the King's Court, in
the reign of Charles 1., whereby the lands came to
be holden in frank-fee, and all pleas respecting them
were thenceforth pleaded in the King's Courts of
Law, and not in the Manor Coint. On the pro-
duction of this document the plaintiff was nonsuited,

must be held to be legitimate. The Vice-Chancel-
lor (Sir J. Leach) had held that " the child of it
married woman must be taken to be the child of her
husband, unless it were shown that her husband
ould not have been the father of the child, and the
videnee to show that must be such as to put the
matter beyond all doubt;" and in that opinion Lord
Eldon had concurred. Such being the law, he
should show that Mr. Morris and his wife passed days
and even nights together, one of them being forty
years of age, and the other under thirty, and Mrs.
Morris being, as it would appear, very clearly, a
lady who was not likely to be very backward in her
conduct, and if' he succeeded in satisfying the
Jury that Mr. Morris might have been the
father 'of the child, it signified nothing that
Mrs. Morris might have had an illicit intercourse
also with any number of other persons. The law
was general, and universal, and if it was not so, the
greatest difficulty would ensue, as the consequence
would be, that Juries in all cases where any married
woman had a paramour, would have to decide which
of the two, the husband or the paramour, was the
father of the offspring of the wife. It was a great
injury to the plaintiff, that this case had not been in-
vestigated several years ago. However, as soon as
he was of age to know anything of his own history,
he was assured that he was the legitimate son of Mr.
Morris, and he immediately asserted his . rights as
such, by commencing a suit in the Court of Chancery ;
but that suit was met by the present defendant's
keeping a most important witness out of thaway ;
and that witness who was the person who was, pre-
sent at the birth of the plaintiff, as it would be dis-
tinctly shown, was kept out of the way for more
than ten years, and sent from Wales to England, and
from England to Scotland, and she was finally (after
ten orders had been given by the Lord Chancellor
for her production) taken into custody at Liverpool,
as she was on her departure to America. This was
moss cogent evidence of the rind merits of the de-
fendant's case ; and he would close his address, by
citing the words of Lard Eldon,. who said, " Ihat
she greatest caution should be used, and that no one
should be declared illegitimate, except on the most
clear and satisfactory evidence."
Elizabeth Evans said—l am the daughter of Ann'
Evans, who is dead. _ I knew Mrs. Morris when she
ived at Llanfair. My mother was an occasional
servant to her. My mother left Llanfair about 20
years ago. My mother was served with a paper to
attend Commissioners to examine witnesses, and she
immediately left the country altogether, and I did
not see her till I met her in London, where • she
stayed ; and she was absent about ten years. I went
to London by desire of the defendant, to see my mo-
ther, and to pay 201. to Mrs. Morris. Mr. Davies
told me where I should find my mother, and he was
to pay the expense of my journey. I swore an affi-
;davit in Chancery to try to find my mother.
Cross-examined—I do not recollect saying that I
would swear for those that would pay me best, or
that I would swear what would do. Ido not recol-
lect ever saying that Mr. and Mrs. Davies were,
poor devils. It is possible that if people said foolish
things to me I might have returned a foolish answer.
Mr. Blackstock proved that repeated orders were
made by the Lord Chancellor for the attendance of
Ann Evans, who was finally committed to the Fleet,
and that he had made offers to try the -cause seve-
ral years ago, if the defendants would prnduce Ann
Evans.
The deposition of Ann Evans was read—lt statEl
she was-present at the birth' of the plaintiff, who was
born in the house of Mrs. Morris, who was the
mother of the plaintiff, and that William Austin and
herself (Ann Evans) conveyed the child in the night
it was born to a town called Wem, many miles off,
and that she delivered him to the mother of Wm.
Austin, where the plaintiff was brought up. It also
stated, that Mrs. Morris supplied the plaintiff with
clothes while he was a boy.
The deposition of Thomas Ebury stated that he,
was the apprentice of Edward Austin, the father of
William Austin, and that the plaintiff was brought
in the night to his master's house, the plaintiff then
being a baby. It is also stated that Mrs. Morris
came to see him frequently, and supplied him with
clothes.
Mr. Hassan, the Deputy Governor of Coldbath
fields, said—l was born at Llanfair: I knew Mrs.
)lorris when she lived there. Before I went, to
school at Shrewsbury, which was in the year 1792,
I saw Mr. Morris frequently go in and out of Mrs.
Morris's house. lam quite sure that Mr. Morris
was the person. I knew it because it was buzzed
about whenever Mr. Morris was gone to his wife's.
—(A laugh.)
Cross-examined—l think the plaintiff very like
William Austin, who lived at Mrs. Morris's. Mr.
Morris used generally to stay a quarter of an hour,
but sometimes I don't know how long he stayed.
Mary Evans said lam now forty-eight. I knew
Mr. and Mrs. Morris. I saw them together at our
cottage.
John Evans said—l was a servant boy at Mrs.
Morris's. I knew Mr. Morris. I have seen them
walking together, and I have seen him go into her
house.
William Hughes was examined in the Welch lan-
guage through the medium of an interpreter, he
said—l have seen Mr. Mottis at Llanfair. ,He
was walking in Mrs.- Morris's garden with her. I
saw him at her:house several years before. He
went into her house, but I don't know how long he

remained.
Evan Evans said—l am 74. I was in the ser-
vice of Mrs. Morris; I was hired at Nollontide,
which is a month "before Christmas: Mrs. Morris
looked rather stouter than another woman ought to,
be, but she was much less in a fortnight or three'
weeks after, during which time I did not see her.
I saw Mr. Morris' in 'the parlour with her, and I saw
him again in March, when he came to Mrs. Morris
on a visit ; I can't say whether he stayed more than
a day and night; I am not sure. •
Richard Ellis said—l am a carpenter. In 1792
1 wits doing repairs at Mrs. Morris's house at Llan-
fair ; Morns, set us to work; I saw him go into
.house; this was about July or
August ; 2 . know that Mrs. Morris was at home ;
They came together to look at the work repeatedly;
They walked together'; I am now 49; I was then
14. years of age.
Cross-examined.--I Amid perceive that Mrs.
Morris was enceinte as early as the month of Sep-
tember, 1792.
Examined by the, Learned BAROII,—I saw Mr.
llorris in company with Mrs. Morris in the spring
of 1702, and also in the previous year.
Oliver 'Williams said—ln the_ year 1792, I was
sent to Mr., Morris by Mrs. Morris, and I brought
back two hams and three strikes of corn, which Mr.
Morris sent to his wife.
Elizabeth Wellings said—I was a servant of Mrs.
Morris for a short time, while Jler cook was gone
away. This was 34/ or 35 years ago. Mr. Morris
used to come. I did not sleep in the house, but I
left Mr. Morris there at between two and three
,o'clock in the morning. There had been company
there that night. The company were gone, hut Mr.l
Morris was left there. I went again at about seven
in the morning to get breakfast, and Mr.
,Morris was
there still. He went
orris's at about elevenbrought some;
o'clock, and'
the next day Mr...M
wheat, two hams, and a cheese. This visit was,
before I observed Mrs. Morris to be enceinte. Mr, :
and Mrs. Morris behaved kindly towards each other.
Cross-examined—Mrs, Morris directed me to
make up a bed, and said that Mr. Morris was going'
to sleep with her. I stayed up so late because I
had work to do after the company were gone. The
company left at ten or eleven. I remember Wij-
ham Austin. He was called a servant, but he dined
in the parlour with Mrs. Morris. He used to go
out shooting,Mrs. Arthur said—l lived in the service of Mr,l
Morris's brother. Mr. and Mrs. Morris visited there
between May 1792:and May 1793. They came to
dine. They stayed till the evening, and then they
,vent to Mr. Morris's, at Argoed.
Mrs. Williams said saw Mr. Morris standing
in the parlour-windowt at Mrs. Morris's house. I
;vas balysiyiltdOW, Mtn, *Ws was standing neat