The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-02 00:00:00

Tilt CONGRESS AT TROPPAU.

PRANKVORT, Nov. 23.—The following ac-
.
countithongh containing some repetition of • cir-
cumstances already published, will, perhaps, be
found interesting at the present moment, as ex-
hibiting a getieral'view or what is thought of the
results of the conferences at Troppau .
" All the letters from Vienna agree in saying,
that Russia and Prussia have given their full con-
sent to the military occupation of the kingdom of
Naples -by an Austrian army. The Cabinet of
terlin had already declared beforehand to the
Court of Vienna, that it would observe a strict
neutrality with respect to Italy, without recog-
nizing the legitimacy of the tiew'ordei- of things
established at Naples, but that it would readily
adhere to any thing that the Emperor of. Austria
should concert on this subject with the Emperor
Alexander. The Crown Prince of Isixussia did
not hesitate to,confirm in the first conference this
assurance given by his father, and it Was there-
fOre not necessary to wait for the King's arrival
to take a final resolution on the subjectin the
name of the three great Powers of Eastern Eu-,
Accordingly, on the 2gtil' of October,
after the first formal conferences, orders were'
dispatched from Troppau to General Count
10141regae, President of the Council of,War at
ienna, who has succeeded -Prince Schwartzen-
'erg, to take ineastires that the Austrian Army
stationed in Italy may be ready.to march. This
order must. have 'reached the head-quarters at
r''visasome time ago. •It is known-that General
,sritnon, Commander iu 'Chief of the Army of
observation, had caused some corps to retro-
grade, in order to facilitate the subsistence of
9"! troops, which had revived the hopes of
maintenance of peace ; but by subsequent or-
ders
lers. all the corps axe concentrating on the
left bank of the Po ; and it is even said'
that some of the troops will be 'Stationed on
the
right 'bank.. Nevertheless there is reason
to- believe that the Austrians, will not pass
the frontiers of Lombardy during the month of
November. The:time of their advance will de-
Pend on the duration of the negociations opened
'with the Courts of Rome and- Turin, ,as' well as
on the issue of those which have been carrying
on since the opening of the conferences at Trop-
Pau with the King of Naples.. At Vienna they
Seemed to be persuaded that the occupation of
the kingdom of Naples will not. meet with any
difficultieg, and that the war will. be of. very
shun. duration. They think that on the ap7
Proach of the Austrian army a counter,revolu-
tiou will, put an end to the new order of things,
and:l: at the.ancient Government of Ferdinand
will be.established 'without much bloodshed;
for this reason Prince Ruffo, who enjoys the con-
fidence of Kina FeMinand; will repair to the
head-quarters of the Austrian army, and Will ac-
company it to Naples, to direct the negociations
en this heal.

" At the departure of the last letters from
Vienna, bell-informed persons had knowledge
0r a Note prosentedt,o the Sovereigns assembled
at Troppan, relative to the affairs of Naples, by
Lord Stewart, the British Ambassador ; but it
was• supposed that this Note would make ,no
change in the execution of the measures con-
certed between the Cabinets 'of Vienna, Sr. Pe-
tersburg,h, and Berlin.
--" The war which is on the point of breaking
out in Italy is, however, not the only thing
"vhichengages the public mind. This war seems
to be but a part of the vast and important mea,
sures which will emanate from the 'Congress at
Troppau,. if the 'accounts which are in circula-
tion; and which have no where' been officially
contradicted, merit any confidence. The Minis.
ters of the Diet are hitherto in the same uncer-
tainty on this subject. No delegate of any State
'whatever of the second rank is admitted to the
vonferences at Troppau, or even on the spot to
make his report., The Austrian Police has even•
removed from the town all' strangers who are not
Personally attached to the Congress. Negocia-
lions are said to be on foot between several Ger-
'llan Sovereigns to take measures in common after
the' example of the great Powers, and to form a
!lose alliance for the' protection of their mutual
naterests. Since the. report has been spread
Qt.-a project- to exchange two Hanseatic cities
for the cities of -Dantzlc and Thorn, we, at
Frankfort, are not without alarm for the inde-
pendence of our free city. We, however,
flatter ourselves thatthe re-establishment of the
k-lortlorn, of Poland- in favour of a great Northern
Power 'will meet with so many obstacles; that
Prussia will not be called upon to cede those
two fortresses on Vistula, which are situated
ill the midst of its' territory. As for the forma-
tion of three great Protectorates, on the division
of continental Europe into several great supre,
roacies, it seems difficult to believe the possibility
°f such a plan.
" A Maritime Confederacy of the States ,lying
ort the Baltic, of which Russia would he the head,
said to be in. contemplation. it is, intended to
regulate the commerce and navigation of that sea.
.L.HI such a manner that. the States on its_ coat may
l'enceforward derive .more -advantages from their
geographical situation."
Letters from Milan say, that the Papal Go"
vnl "roeut has acceded to the acquisition of Aur
. Ilia, to allow the Army to pass through the
",€)roan States, on condition - that -a convention
'}tall be concluded.for the maintenance of those
troops during the 'time they may remain in the
I.otnart territory. The conclusion of this conven-
tion is at present neo-,ociating at litome.—(Fiank-
fort Papers,
.Nov. •24.)

, A Meeting of the Corporation and principa
"ihabitants'of Newcastte-under=Lyyne was held
in the Guildhall of that town on Tuesday last,
vben it was resolved to present a .dutifulutiful and
I
ieyal Address to his MAJESTY. The itecoisition
!or calling the Meeting was signed by nearly one
hundred of the mist respectable residents in that
11'-eloughe

POETRY.

CARNIINA WICCAMICA.—(No.

THE FALL OF BABYLON,
A POEM.

BY J- /I -LI..

" Rise Mede and conquer, o'er, Assyria's
" With sword of vengeance, and an out-stretch'd hand,
" Jehovah guides thee! Spread thy banners bright,
" Like a red meteor on the mountain's height ;
" Sound the lintel clarion ; from ten thousand bows,
" Pour the dark stornt of battle on thy foes.
" The Lord bath said, and shall it nut be done ?
" No remnant shall remain of haughty Babylon.
" Thron'd in the tempest, whirlwind's his attire,
Whose voice :s thunder, and whose breath is bre •
" His vengeful spirit shall before thee pass,
" And break thy iron bolts, and bow thy gates of brass !"

The Prophet spike; but Israel's harp, unstrung,
By Babel's stream, on willow's dank is hung;
Nor deigns to sound beneath a captive band,
The S,mg of Sion in a stranger land !
Ye warrior spirits, who, iu days of yore,
(Ere Israel.turit'd her idols to adore),
With helms of flame, and adamantine shields, •
Kept the night=watch in Jordan's palmy fields;
Whose spears of lightning blasted the proud boast
Of Egypt's squadrons, and Assyria's host,
With mournitil sighing, if ye linger still
By Kedron's brook, or Sion's holy bill :
If still ye_ sit on tabor's lofty brow, •
Tuning your wild harps to the dirge of woe :
With louder impulse strike the awful lyre,

Let indignation every chord inspire;
Insulting Victor, dust thou,smile to see
God's chosen'. race the,prey pf misery ?
Son of the Morning, though thy soul bath said
" On Isravl's neck in triumph will frread,"
The glory of her God shall be reveald,
And nations know JeluiVah is he; shield'.

Lordly the banquet, stately was the cheer ; '
The minstrel's fliat'ry sooth'd the Monarch's ear :
"O King, for thee yon glitt'ring planets roll,
" Thy footitool earth, thy eanopylhe pole :
For thee, the spirits of the ocean tread
" The oozy deep, and search the pearly bed :
" Beauty for thee, in Ophir's treasure glows,
" Beams in the sun, and blushes in the rose :
" Thy regal nod yon vaulted skies shall bow, ,
" A king-of Gads, a Deity below !"

" A God, a God," the-servile crowds reply, ,
,And ecbo back the harper's minstrelsy!
From golden bowls they quaff the spackling wine, ,
Tb' utt‘balloWd spoils of Israel's plunder'd shryfe!

" Fill high the•bowls,," the daring Monarch cries,
(Pride swells his soul, and flashes in his eyes),
" For snrely•these a. nobler use afford, ,
" To deck our banquet, and adorn our board :
" Than vainly-bright the trampl'd shrine to grace,
"-Of Israel's God, and Israel's feeble race ;
" How vain his might ! Their gold his votaries gave,
" To deck those Altars, which he could not tare :"
He sPake! but horror chill'd each trembling gnect,
Their hair grew stiff, their hearts sunk in their breasts,
Dim kurn'd the lamps; till suddenly a light.
Flam'd like the bright-hair'd Meteor of the night;
Amid the fire &band wakseen to gleam,
Then ranisted quicker than a midnight dteam
bloodiscpll, the lurid dame display'd,
But all around was smoke and murky shade !

Mysterious warnings shake the monarch's soul,
His cheeks are bloodless, and his eye balls roll:
Fain would he' fly—where'er.he turns his eyes
The burning characters before him rise :
He hears a VOiCii, which,nOne but he can hear;
In sounds terrific, thund'ring in his car:

" J,uslice and might to Israel's God belong !"
And " mercy, mercy,"-faulters on his tongue !

" Arise, ye Priests, Chaldean Sages say,
(Whose spells the powers of earth and air obey),
Whose was the hand, that wrote upon the wall,
" When blaz'd the red light streaming thro' the hall ?"
" What voice shall tell ? What mortal pow'c reveal ?
"The deed-of Fate, those mystic signs conceal ?
" His he the prize► (that awful' secret told,)
•
" A robe of purple, and a chain of gold :
" Exalted o'er his Peers, on Min shall wait
" The pride of Empire and the pomp 9f State."
The white-rob"d Magi titutter!d many a rhyme ;
And thrice they turn'd them to the eastern clime:
They tried each charm, they tried eaelt potent spell,
To read the wond'ring stars, and call'd the aid of l3el!

No spirit ans-wer'd from the mountain's brow,
Spake in the blast, or mutter'd from below !

Despised Israel, from thy tribe shall_rise,
A man of God, a prophet of the skies!
Elijah's spirit o'er his holy head,
Like dews from Hearn, her'dove-like wings bath spread,
Daniel shall spiali, to hiM alone 'tie Oen
To read the awful characters of Heaen ;

" Thy gifts I heed not, King ; do chain of gold ,
" My neck shall grace, no robe my limbs enfold;
" Yet will I speak ! hest thou so soon forgot
...I,ehovall'i vengeance, and thy father's lot?
" A savage, amid savages he lies,
"• The earth his ked, his coverlet the skies,
Till'meek he bends beneath the chasening rod,
" And owns. the righteous judgment of his God ;
" In contrite grif, the Lord beheld I►im bow:
" The arm Of mercy warded off the blow.
" Rut thou bast lifted up thy soul in pride,
"'Pity voice the God of Israel bath defied,
" Profan'd his vessels, and his shrines o'erthrown,
" And how'd to idol forms and gods of stone ;
" Knots then, the Lord bath weigi►'d and found thee light,
" Destruction rides upon the wings of night ! _
"The storm of vengeance o'er thy head tleseitids,
" 'file God of Justice wills, and Isfael's cause defends;
" Thy sway is gone, thy iron sceptre broke;
1. Thy golden city stoops beneath thy yoke;
" The Median foe ber glories shall confui►nd,
" And htirf her Mond-capt turrets to the ground "'

He slake—that warning voice was liCard in vain,
The eer of kings lists buj•to flattery'i strain :
So with tho-murpwr of each transient blast,
Fonlilattily think the rittltt.ring.tempest. Ea lit 1 •

Till on the bosom of the night it sweep,
And whet's) the shatter'd vessel in Me deep.—

Hosted is the night, o'er Babylon's high towirs,
Bells golden spirts, and lines' regal bow'rs',
The pallid Moon, her splendor half conceard,
Dun mid the rolling clouds displays her shield;
O'er terrac'd groves with dubious radiance plays, •
And pendant gardens glimmer in the rays.
'Tis silence all, save where they still prolong,
In frantic revelry the midnight song:
Regardless still, while wrapt in murky Blooms
Destruction broods, and spreads her sable. plumes !

Lo ! where the silent Ministers of Fate,
Move in dark pomp of military state :
No voice ! Nnsound ! So nature seems to pause
'Ere gaping earth extend her rav'niug jaws,
The grave of nations, Hush'd the'pregnant gloom,
The calm of Death, the silence of the Tomb

• " Roll hack thy floods, Euphrates backwards fly,"
The Lord bath spoken " Be thy channels dry'."

Down the•deep be 4 they move with measur'd stride -
The, quirer'd squadrons through the arch-way glide;
" Sound an alarm, up, arm thy regal brow,
" Grasp the strong buckler, draw the twanging bow:
" They come, they come ! Hark to their braztri wheels-
" Hark to their cymbals' clash, their clarions' peals."
How shall this Son of Dalliance take the field ?
How shall his nerveless arm the talchion wield ?
He falls, the pageant fades and melts away,
Like a thin vision at the breath of day !

" Take up thy Harp 0 Israel'. wake the strain,
" With songs of I rinmph sweep the strings again:
" How art thou fall'n thou radiant Son of Light
" Whose arm hath hurl'd thee flaming from thy height,
" And queneli'd thy beams in darkness ne'er again,
" To lift the blazing terrors of thy reign
" O'er haughty Babylon ? Proud Queen, thy foe,
" Kxultinglsrael,.smiles upon thy woe;
No more her sons shall crouch beneath thy feet,
" And half the work of vengeance is complete.
" The day shall come, when desolate, alone,
" Deserts thy Kingdom, Solitude thy Throne,
" Thou sitestin 'sullen grandeur of decay,
" .And hear'st the tiger bowling for his prey;
" The rank grass waves along thy'tott'ring walls;
". The fox looks out amid thy desert halls ; •
" For there no. way-worn pilgriM rests his head,.
" Nt, wand'eing Arab there his tent shall spread
" But fell Hyaenas-on the traveller scowl,
" And grimly pacing to the pale moon hoWl;
" Thy-sedge-ebnak'd floods rotted trending ruins creep,
" With sounding wing %xliere Heens and Bitterns sweep
" And still as time with silent pace steals hy,
" Crumbled in dust, thy cunt mocks the eye : •
" 'Tis gone, 'tis nothing! On tire desert land
" In curious search I see the trar'ller stand,
" He muses long, " And is each vestige gone,
" No remnant left (he cries) of mighty Babylon ?"

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.

•
Oxroan, Dec. -I.—The Rev. J. Brewster, to the Vicarage
of Lawton, Lincolnshire. '
UThe Hon. and Rev. George Pellew, to the Vicarage of
Sutton (4aWes, alias Sutton in the Forest.
• The Ilev. George Williams, of Martin Hussingtree, has
been appointed a Minor Canon of Worcester Cathedral, in
the room of the Rev. Win. Stafford, deceased.
On Thursday last the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop
of Glocester, admitted the Rev. I. 1. Lates, M. A. Visar of
Winchcomb, to the Perpetual Curacy of Charlton Ahbotts,
on the nomination of Francis Pyni, Esq. M. P. fur the county
of Bedford, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Wallett. •
CAMBRIDGE. Nov. 28,—The subject of the English Poem
for the Chancellot's third gold medal fur the ensuing year is
" Evening." •
Mr. David Williams has this week been admitted Fellow of
New college, in this University.

We learn from good authority that there is no
foundation for the report that her MAJESTY has
been invitiAl to pass the Christmas at Shug-
borough, the seat of Lord EissoN.—(Alorning

Post.j
The Earl of LONSDALE having recovered from
his indisposition, yesterday paid his respects to
the KING, at his Palace in Pall-mall.
On Wednesday his Royal Highness the Duke
of York passed through this city in his way to
the seat of Lord SUFFIELD. It being understood
that his Royal Highness would. arrive about
,twelve o'clock, by that hour the market was
nearly filled with people. The egpectants were
however cooled by waiting till half-past four,
when the Duke was drawn in by a party of the
populace, who had gone out with that design.
His Royal Highness was greeted with very va-
rious testimonials, some shouting " king," others
" Queen," together with different exclamations
of gratulation and disgust. This circumstance
afforded the calm observer only another oppor-
tunity of estimating the complete division with
which this unhappy country is split and separated.
St. Peter's bells tired during the- day, and his
Royal Highness left a handsome donation for the
ringers.. On Thursday the Duke of Wellington
also passed through, in his way to visit the same
Noble Lord.—(.iVorwich illereurN, Dec.].)
The following is from an authentic source :
" On Tuesday night last, between ten and ele-
-yen o'clock, the family of Alderman Woon;
whilst sitting in their dining-room, was disturbed
by something being violently, thrown' against the
window. Alderman Wood immediately ran out
into the street, when a man, who was passing by
at the time, said, " that tie persons who had
byoken the window were going up the street, one
dressed in a white great coat." Alderman Wood
pursued the two persons—one ran away ; he
brought back the person in thy white great coat,
who said, " You know me, Sir ; my name is
Captain W. ; I am a Member of Parlia-
ment ; I reside -With my father in Portman-
square." Alderman Wood asked for his card ;
he said he had none. He then pressed him to

give the name of his friend who had run away,
which he refused to do. There being no positive

evidence that ho was the person who' had broken
the window, he was all Owed to go away. Upon
examining the window an old penny-piece was
foulld."--7(Morning Herald.)
It is generally the custom in Denbighshire, to
let the tithes annually by public auction : a sin-
gular instance of departure from this mode has
lately occurred in the parish of Efenechtyd. The
Rector, the Rev. Euw. TuEt.wki.r., desirous to
promote agricultural improvement, offered to each
occupier" his tithes, for a term of three years, at
a valuation. The proposal was gratefully ac-
cepted. To show their sense of the obligation,
the parishioners have'very generously and unani-
mously presented him with a piece of plate, bear-
ing a. suitable-Inscription.—(Shrercsbury Chro-
nick, December 1.)
The Middlesex Meeting which was to bave
taken place yesterday, was postponed, by what
authority we do not know. Many persons were
disappointed, and amongst others Mr, S. Wrirt,'
DREAD, who had travelled a considerable dis-
L tance to be present.