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THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND LORD

LYNDHURST.

(Prom an unpublished Poem.)

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From these* th' unvanquished Hero wins applause,
As bold debate's well-temper'd blade he draws—
! where he rides in Truth's triumphant car,
Kindling the strife of Reason's nobler war!
Matchless in valour, and in wit profound,
With civic oak and conquest's laurel crown'd,
He nor iu field, nor senate spares the foe,
But deals on with a like-unerring blow :
Oh ! when 'twas his to guide the helm of State,
Like Atlas, he upheld the glorious weight ;
He gave the word—the Eagle's pinion cow'r'd,
But ne'er the Lion's noble crest was low'r'd ;
Resolved as when he hurl'd th' Usurper down,
He still defends, as once he sav'd, the Crown ;
His mighty hand quell'd Terror's wildest reign,
His civic feats our liberties maintain :
Shall he, by Heav'n's avenging pow'r design'd,
With iron links the tyrant's arm to bind,
The proud oppressor's counsels to o'erthrow,
And rescue Freedom from her deadliest foe---
Shall he whom grateful Kings were proud to own
The great restorer of each prostrate throne—
Shall he who " saw and conquer'd" quit the field,
To Faction's sons, domestic traitors, yield ?
Ah, no !—th' unequal combat soon must cease,
And- War's famed hero be the Chief of Peace !
Lo! Lyndhurst! champion of Britannia's cause
Her rights asserts, and vindicates her laws ;
Th' intrepid leader of a patriot band,
He takes 'gainst lev'lling foes his mighty stand;
He scorns the silent sneer, the menace loud,
The idle echoes of a reckless crowd ;
Unmov'd by senseless taunts, unscar'd by yells,
What truths he deeply feels he boldly tells ;
With grateful action every eye he charms,
With feverish eloquence each bosom warms ;
With blandness wins, with soft persuasion moves,
With wit enlivens, and with sense improves :
Oh ! may his bright example still inspire
Our British youth with emulative fire
May they, like him, pursue their fearless way, j•
And high ambition's noblest calls obey !
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London, August 29, 1839.

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AUGUSTA.

* The Peers.
t " Ultra pergere"—his Lordship's motto.

A LETTER TO THE QUEEN, BY ONE OF THE

PEOPLE.
(From the Times.)

Madam,—The curtain has at length fallen on another
act of that political comedy of which the people of
your kingdom have been so long the painfully-amused
audience, and your Majesty's confidential advisers are
retiring to their several abodes with those feelings of
exultation so natural to their situation—of escape from
the responsibility of office—to shoot partridges and eat
venison for the good of their country. With the ex-
ception of a few minor and unimportant changes among
the dramatis personae, in all probability thus tempora-
rily dropped will rise upon the same actors and the
same lugubrious comedy. In that interval, however,
the patience, the feelings, and judgment of the audience
may have undergone a serious and important change.
Those ministers whose incapacity and lack of public
confidence they themselves so recently confessed, have
no doubt mingled their courtly obeisances, at taking
leave, with assurances of satisfactory security in their
several departments, and indeed, I have no doubt, have
endeavoured to persuade themselves that the recess is
to be ole calm and undisturbed period of courtly quie-
tude. Let not these honied assurances of fancied se-
curity lull your Majesty into a like torpor.
If no evidence of the pressure from without, no con-
viction of danger, no apprehension of insecurity, can
force themselves upon the languid senses of those palled
Sybarites who compose the one portion, or if the small
still voice of truth finds no ear in the selfish hardihood
of the reckless desperadoes who form the other, in de-
spite of their own admission of incompetency, of your
confidential and responsible counsellors—do not, I im-
plore you, Madam, steel your senses against convic-
tion ; throw the film from your eyes, and behold a realm
" rent with heresies and bristling with rebellion." I
am one, Madam, of many thousands of your subjects,
who love, honour, and obey you, as the representative
of Monarchy, and the lineal tenant of the throne of
this country; not as the mistress of a splendid esta-
blishment, or the magnificent hostess of an hospitable
palace. lam too obscure to belong to any individual
party, and have therefore, in common with many
others, the advantage of being disinterested in my ad-
vice—uninfluenced by any hope of reward, for I am
unambitious—unbiassed by fear of the loss of your fa-
vour, for I never enjoyed it. My words may be blunt
and unpalatable, but they are honest and sincere. Be-
fore your ministers meet their country again in the se-
nate, some of your possessions may have been wrested
from you. Ireland, drained of troops by the urgent
call of still more domestic discord, may, when the fa-
vourable moment arrives, obey the dictations of that
sedition, the movers of which appear to meet with such
remarkable deference from your ministers. Canada
will doubtless not be backward during the present win-
ter in testifying the value of that policy which those
same infatuated beings have pursued. And to con-
clude—those disturbers of the public peace, whom you
have thought of sufficient importance to advert to in
your speech to your Lords and Commons, may practi-
cally rebuke the distorted judgment which permitted
the associations they belong to, to spring up and ma-
ture.

LORD LONDONDERRY & HIS LATE DUEL.

(From the Durham Advertiser.)

The follou'ing address has been forwarded by the
clergymen whose names are affixed to it to the Marquis
of Londonderry. No true Christian can dissent from
the sentiments it expresses, and we feel assured that
the noble lord will respond to the eloquent yet simple
appeal in a strain which cannot fail to give satisfaction
to those who have deemed it their duty to expostulate
with the noble lord on the subject referred to :
" To the Most Hon. the Marquis of Londonderry, &c.
" We, the undersigned clergy of Ripon, Thirsk, and the
neighbourhood, as we could address your Lordship with every
feeling and expression of respect befitting your exalted rank
and station, so would we entreat you to receive this our re-
presentation with that deference which is due to the God and
Saviour whose word we minister, and whose authority we
assert.

" We cannot forbear thus to state our sincere and deep re-
gret, that by the part which your Lordship, in compliance
with the unchristian usages of the upper classes of society,
took in a duel with Mr. H. Grattan, you should have given
the unction of your high rank and station to a practice which
so grievously violates the law of God and the spirit of Chris-
tianity, no less than the interests of the community.
"We are fully sensible that, even in this Christian land,
however 'anamolons it be, if any one shall insist upon the
word of clod as paramount to the sanctions of public opinion,
or upon the spirit of Christianity as more worthy of our re-
gard and deference than the spirit of the age, he must expose
himself both to obloquy and to treatment which nothing less
than the highest degree of Christian courage, and a sincere
attachment to the Divine word can enable him alike with
meekness and with constancy to bear ; and we readily, though
with much sorrow, admit that upon one in your Lordship's
high station that obloquy and treatment would bear with its
utmost power; but we would, at the same time, beg your
Lordship to consider how, in the same degree, the example
would have been influential for good instead of evil, and the
benefit great to society at large, and how it would have con-
tributed to the ascendancy of Christian principles, if your
Lordship, instead of bowing to the evil requirements of a
worldly code, had simply, but courageously, asserted, from
the high vantage ground which your exalted station gives you,
those Christian principles which ought to.regulate the con-
duct of every rank ; and if your Lordship hid availed your-
self of the late occasion, both as a Christian senator and no-
bleman, of applying those principles to social and public life,
and of substituting them for ti.at pernicious rule by which
society, and especially its tr„)per classes, bath hitherto been
governed.

" We would humbly submit that we are compelled to view
this transaction in connexion with that church for whose ex-
cellencies and privileges your lordship is a strenuous advo-
cate, and to exhibit it as detrimental to the spread of spiritual
influence, without which religion is but an empty name, a
thing unsanctioned and unblessed by God, and as calculated
to draw down the wrath of God no less upon an acquiescing
Church and people than on the actual offenders.
"We cannot but express our hope that this our humble
representation, which a regard for society, your lordship, and
our holy calling forbids us to withhold, may be received with
your wonted candour, and we lay before your lordship with
the earnest prayer that you may be endued with the grace,
wisdom, and understanding which shall enable you to see
and to repair your error, and that it may be so blessed by
God, that it may be subservient to your Lordship's good, and
through your instrumentality to that of society, and to the
ascendancy of those holy and blessed principles which your
Lordship has been counselled so fearfully to violate, and by
which alone as a Christian people we ought to be guided and
governed.

" We hare the honour to subscribe ourselves,
"Your Lordship's most humble and faithful servants,
[Here follow the signatures of thirty-one clergymen.]

A TALE FOR THE LOVERS OF THE MARVELLOUS.-At
tow-street police-office on Thursday morning, an elderly
woman, said to be a bad character, was brought before the
magistrates, charged by a police-constable with being drunk
and creating a disturbance the previous night, in Portugal-
street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. The constable stated that the
prisoner was found by the side of the railing of the burial-
ground in Portugal-street, expressing great alarm, and loudly
asserting that she had seen a man, or some unearthly object
having the appearance of a man, digging with a spade in the
burial-ground. The policeman looked in the direction
pointed out by the prisoner, and there sure enough was
somebody or something apparently digging up plants. This
object the prisoner declared to be a visitant from the other
world. The policeman being of opinion that the ghost, if
ghost it was, had no more right than a mortal, under the pro-,
visions of tho new police act, to disturb the peace of her ma-
jesty's subjects, endeavoured to take him into custody ; but
his ghostship, having no desire for a night's lodging in the
station-house, very coolly placed his spade over his shoulder
and stalked solemnly away. The guardian of the night,
albeit stricken with fear and apprehension, pursued the noc-
turnal visitor at a more respectful distance, until at length he
heard him strike his spade on the pavement, and immediately
afterwards the ghost, marvellous to relate. instantaneously
vanished. On returning to the burial-ground, the police-
man, his cheeks blanched with fear, his hair " like quills on
the fretful porcupine," could not discover that the earth had
been at all touched, notwithstanding the holes which the
ghost had been so plainly seen to dig. Not being at all able
to account for this most true yet most strange and unaccount-
able circumstance, he thought that the best thing that could
be done would be to take the woman to whom the ghost first
made himself visible into custody, and she was accordingly
locked up for the night. After hearing the statement of the
policeman and of the prisoner, the magistrate declared he
could not make any thing out about the incorporeal being
who had made night hideous by his pranks ; but as the pri-
soner appeared to be merely a spectator of, not a participator
in, the strange proceedings, he would discharge her. The
prisoner and the policeman then left the office, evidently not ,
quite recovered from On farm they 11,4 9 recently
ex.
porienced.—Mosch