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THE SPANISH PATRIOTS SONG.
Mark l hear ye those sounds that the winds on theirpinions s
Exultingly roll from the shore to the aea ; -
With a voice that resounds through her boundless dominions,
' cis Columbia calls on her suns to be free!
Behold on yon summits where Ilsaves has tnron'd her,
Ilow she starts from her proud inaccessible seat.;
• With Nature's impregnable ramparts around her,
And the cataracts thunder and foam at her feet!
In the breeze of the mountain her loose locks are shaken,
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While the soul-stirring notes of her warrior song,
From the rock to the valley, re-echo " Awaken ! •
" Awaken ye hearts who have slumber's' two lung !"
Yes, Despots! too long did your tyranny hold us,
" In a vassalage vile e'er its weakness was known ;
Till we learn'd that the links of the chain that controul'd us,
. Were forg'd by the fears of its captives alone !
That spell is destroy'd, and no longer availing, •
Desids'd as detested—pause well e'er ye dare,
I /To cope with a people whose spirit and feeling,
Is rous'd by remembrance and steel'd by despair 1
) Go tame the wild torrent—or stem with a straw
The proud surges that sweep o'er the strands that confine them;
But presume not again to give Freemen a law,
Nor think with the chains they have broken to bind them!
*To hearts that the spirit of Liberty flushes,
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9 Resistance is idle, and numbers a dream ;
1 They burst from controul as the mountain-stream rushes,
From its fetters of ice in the warmth of the beam !
Walbrook, March Ide 1818. G. C .
Wednesday se'nnight, as a labonring man was
driving a cart with three horses at Bishops Stortford,
i the horses took fright, and, on his attempting to stop
• them, he fell, when the wheel going over his head,
, i . literally crushed it to atoms. He has left a wife and
eight children.
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Thursday, as a soldier just discharged from the
i 100th Regiment, was walking in Rochester, in a state
of inebriety, he fell from the pavement, at the mo-
, mein a wagon was passing by, when the wheels
i went over his legs, one of which was fractured.
Sitoccucti Amnr-vr.—Saturday morning as a
1 young man named Ham Schodner, a foreigner, in the
I employ of Major Rhodes, a sugar baker, of Church-
lane, Whitechapel, was in the act of assisting some
other men in drawing up a heavy cask of sugar by a
1 crane, he himself standing underneath, when it had
I been drawn up to about the height of the second
story, by some means the cask fell from its hold, and
came with great force on the young man's leg, which
smashed it to pieces ; he lay on the ground for some
time in a state of insensibility. He was conveyed to
the London Hospital, where every assistance was ren-
dered, but he died shortly afterwards in the most ex-
. cruciating pain. He was 18 years of age.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—EXTRAORDINA AY CASE,-.
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Friday evening an Inquest was held at the Britannia
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1 Tavern, Camden Town, on the body of a man un-
known, who was drowned in endeavouring to escape
from his pursuers after committing .a burglary, and
i ' was drowned-in the Regent's Canal, as appeared in
our Paper of Saturday. The Jury returned a ver-
I dict of Accidental death from drowsing.
MARLBORODRII•STREET.-.-EXAMTNATION op FlN-
NLY.—Finnew was brought to this Office to undergo
an examination, but it appears that no person has yet
identifiett him as the utterer of forged notes, and he
no* asserts that he never passed smy with his own
hands, although he admits having been with Kelly
at the time he uttered. Hr also denies getting the
notes for Kelly and
Spicer, but says he has been with
them when they purchased them, and that the man
is now in custody from whom they bought the forged
notes ; and as to his connection with Limbrick, he
gives the following account ;—,, That he knew no-
thing of that Officer till he was taken to Bow-street
for ansassault, when he interfered to procure his dis-
• charge ; that he some time afterwards me tLimbrick,
who accused him with being concerned with Kelly
and Spicer in passing forged notes, which he denied
' as to himself, but admitted he knew the others were
• so engaged, on which Limbrick desired he would
give him information when they were going to utter
notes, which he did accordingly, without having any
interest or advantage whatever for so doing."—No-
thing farther transpired.
COURT MARTIAL.—On Tuesday a Court Martial
was held at Portsmouth on Thomas Hook, a seaman
belonging to his Majesty's ship CADMUS, for offences
mentioned in the 2d and 20th Articles of War. The
breach of the 2d article was proved, and he was en-
tenced to receive 200 lashes, to be mulcted of all his
pay and right of pension, to be imprisoned one year
in the Marshalsea, and to be dismissed from the ser-
vice.—George Reptacts, a witness, was sentenced to
three months imprisonment in the Marshalsea, for
gross prevarication in his evidence.
BURGLARY.—Friday se'nnight, three armed men,
• broke into Brazier Hall, the residence of Mrs. Ed-
. n wards, in Cresting St. Peter, and proceeding to the
bed-room of Mrs. Warren, the housekeeper, deman-
i ded the keys, threatening her life if she refused and
did not inform them where they could find money.
Observing a bunch of keys lying on a table in the
• room, they proceeded to ransack the house, after
which they lighted a fire in the kitchen and regaled
i themselves, and between one and two o'clock they
left the premises, taking with them property to a
R considerable amount. The triumph of these delin-
quents was however short, as two of them, Charles
Wink and Samuel Smith, were apprehended next day,
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CASTLEBAR, (I REL AND) MARCH 16.—Yesterday an
officer of Excise, at Westport, having received infor-
mation that a private still was working at Partree,
within about nine or ten miles of this town, proceed-
ed from Westport, with a party of the 96th regiment,
under the orders of Ensign M•Carthy, for the purpose
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of seizing the still and destroying its contents. Upon
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arriving at the place of their destination, the party,
we understand, were surrounded and furiously at,
• tacked.by a great mob. We have at this moment no
, particulars to be depended upon, of the progress of
' the affray ; its lamentable conclusion is however too
truly, we fear, represented to us. The military were
iiordered by the Excise Officer to fire upon the oppos-
ing party, and the dreadful consequence was, that
four of them were killed, and three were made pri-
Iser.ers and lodged in the County Jafi. Ensign
0, ibt,k;art.by, we are informed, has received some mi-
lltusiuns.
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