Star.
London, England, 1822-04-17 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

CATIIANI:
A TRAOZDY, ilf TIVZ ADM

By the Rev. GEORGE CROLY. A.M.

Mr. CIIOLY, who is so favourably known to the
Public by his Poems of " Paris" and " The Angel of
the World," has, with a just confidence of the powers
he possessad, not only ventured on writing what is
ranked among the highest efforts of genius--a Tra-
gedy, but be has selected a subject which has already
been adorned by the pens of Bart Josisovi, VOLTAIRE,
and Calistu.ox, all of whom have made CATILINZ
the subject of tragedy. The
_ conspiracy of CATMINT.,
which gave birth to one of the finest orations of
CICERO, and which is recorded by SALLUST, is well
known in all its details; but the character of CATI-
LINZ has not been so clearly defined. Cwoto says,
" he had a multitude not so much of virtues as of
approaches to virtues ;" that he was " austere with
the rigid, gay with the gay, grave with the grave,
animated with the young,. bold with the bold, and
sumptuous with the prodigal!' The.cliftracter drawn
of him by SALINST is altogether ambitious, making
him start up at once into a vast embodied iniquity.
MT. Canty views CATILINE in the poim of view, sug-
gested by eicsno, 64 that of a man of conscious abi-
lity and violent passions, doubly stricken down by
poverty and public defeat ; lingering for awhile on
the depression natural to a proud mind, shocked and
benumbed by its fall, but gradually lifting himself
into resistance, and finally.girding up his strength
for one grand effort of ambition and despair."
Such is CATILINE as pourtrayed by Mr. CROLT, in
a Tragedy which possesses great poetic vigour, with
several touches of peculiar beauty and delicacy. From
a Tragedy, one great merit of which essentially con-
sists in the connection and bearing of all its parts on
one great point, it is difficult to detach any portion
that can give even a tolerable view of the whole: we
shall, however, make an extract from the Scene in
which CATILINE receives the sentence of banishment,
pronounced by Crczno
Cart nts (indignersdy.)
Bauish'd from Rome ! What's ha:dated, but set free
From daily contact of the things I loathe?
4 Tried and convicted traitor !' Who says this?
[With growing violence.
Who'll prove it, at his peril, on my head?
Banish'd?—l thank you for't. It breaks my chain!
I held some slack allegiance till this hour—
But raw my sword's my own. Smile on, my Lords ;
I scorn to count what feelings, wither'd hopes,
Strong provocations, bitter, burning wrongs,
I have within my heart's hot cells shut up,
To leave you in your lazy dignities.
But here I stand and scoff you :--here .1 Sing
Mitred and full defiance in your face.
Your Consul's mercifuL—For this all thanks.
Ise dares not touch a hair of Catiline.
(The COMA rinds)—" Lucius Sergio, Catilincs by the decree
of the Senate, you are declared an enemy and an alien to the
ecue,and banished from the territory of theComsnunwealth.”
Tees Comm
Liam, Mee. the traitor from the Temple!
Cimisa Vous).
• Traitor r go—but I reaps. s—trial
torot I devote your Senate! I've bad wrongs,
stir a fever in the blood of age,
make the infant's sinew strong as steel.
This day's the birth of sorrows!—This hour's work
Will breed proscriptions.—Look to your hearths, my Lards!
For there henceforth shall sit, for household gods,
Shapes hot from Tartarus shames and crimes;—
Wan Treachery, with his thirsty dagger drawn;
Suspicion, poisoning the brother's cup;
*flaked Rebellion, with the torch and are,
Making his wild sport of your blazing thrones;
Till Anarchy comes down on you like Night,
And Massacre seals Rome's eternal grave!
THE SWAMIS rise in nintidt, and cry out,
Go, enemy and parricide, from Rome!
CATiLDIC (isdipaleily).
It shall be so!—( Coin. He amide* retenui.—When Catiline
comes again,
Your grandeur shall be base, and clowns shall sit
In scorn upon those chairs ;—your Palaces
Shall see the soldier's revels, and your wealth
Shall go to deck his harlot and his horse.
Then Cicero, and his tools, shall pay me blood—
Vengeance for every drop of my boy's veins
And such of you, as cannot find the grace
To die with swords in your right bands, shall feel
The life, life worse than death, of trampled slaves !
Tan Sexaroas cry rot,
Go, enemy and parricide, from Rome !
Cam°.
lapel hint, Liston! Clear the senate-house!
[They surround him.
C.a.m.prz (struggling through gen.)
I go,—but not to leap the gulf alone:
I go;—bus when I come—''twill be the burst
Of Ocean in the earthquake—rolling back
In swift and mountainous ruin. Fare you well
!
You build my funeral pile, but your best blood
Shall quench its flame. Back, slaves !—(To the lictors)—l will
return [He rushes lluvagh the portal; the &ene closest

There are now living in the cottage of a bbouring man, named
Richardson, near the Turnpike Gate, at Brownsgrove Wor-
cestershire, four children, daughters of the above labourer,
named Maria, Mary, Swab, and Eliza, all born at one birth
awl each three years old an the 1.3 d of March last : they are in
perfect health, and strong and hale in appearance, the mother
of them having another infant* the breast.
Monday evening last, Mrs. MARGARET HOSIER, of
Bream's-row, Lambeth, had been with her sister and
a juvenile party to a place of amusement, and, on her
return home, her clothes caught fire, and she was so
much burnt that she is not expected to survive. Her
sister was in the room with her, but she was too much
overdowered to assist.
Monday sennight, a dreadful accident happened to
Mrs. BROMISM', of Portland, near Peterborough.—
Emile pitch having been put on the fire in an iron pot,
and ••covingit to be sufficiently hot, she attempted
Wtake it off, in doing which some of the pitch spilt
over the pot, and set fire to her clothes, and burnt her
in so dreadful a manner, that she lingered until the
Wednesday following in the
.greatest agony, when
death put an end to her sufferings.
An Inquest was on Monday held at the Red Lion,
Houghton-street, on the body of Mrs. Milleret, whose.
- clothes caught fire on Sunday morning, while sitting
in her apartment at the house of her nephew, Mr.
Machlin, in Clare-street. Verdict—Accidental eaM.
An Oicial Return to an Order of the House of
Commons of the Establishment for the Collection of
the Customs in Ireland, states the annual amount of
salaries at the Port of. Dublin at £64,585. ls. lOd.
this includes five Commissioners, whose total salary
£s3oo;is one of these cffices, annual salary 4:1000,
is now vacant. A like Return for England, for the
Port of London, includes nine Commissioners at
£l4OO a year each, with £SOQ additional to the Chair.,
=an, and £5OO additional to the Deputy Chairman.