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ELEGY.

'WRITTEN BEFORE FLUSHING THE RIGHT PREVIOV TO
THE BOMBARDMENT.

Slow from the bosom of the silent deep
The Moon, emerging, casts her liquid light :
Stretch'd on the sward the weary soldiers sleep,
Recruiting Nature 'gainst the morning's fight.
Majestic, o'er the level of the main,
Close to the fort, BRITANNIA'S bulwarks rise;
Husli'd are the clamours of the fearless train,
Whose loud huzza but lately rent the skies.
- Cynthia, led by thy silver beam, I trace
The signs of warfare on the sylvan scene;
I gaze, in sorrow, on thy lucid face.
And, daring, ask of ki av'ti—why this has beta ?
• Bay, What is Honour ?—Tell me!! What is Fame?
A glitt'ring bubble, borne upon the flood !
Shall Man, to gain a transitory name,
• Sully the green turf with a brother's blood ?
Who wars but for a name, no better cause
Conjoiri'd, is driven by destructive Pride;
• Humanity denies him her applause,
When Glory's ensign is with slaughter dyed !
Co OT E, 'twas thy Country bade thee lead thy band,
To snatch this Island from a tyrant's sway;
Thy enemies confess a father's hand=
And Mercy well deserves the poet's lay.
But, ah ! tho Co OT r. and Mercy gave the word,
Still ruthless 'War low'rs on th' affrighted ball;
Pity, with tears, beholds the hostile sword,
And mourns the victims who are doom d to fall.
Now all is still and peaceable around,
And carnage ceases till the night is o'er,
When the hoarse cannon, with appalling sound,
Shall bid the active warrior " sleep no more!"
To-morrow's sun shall view, in dread array,
Numbers of Britain's children, gen'rous, brave,
Who. ere it sinks beneath the western sea,
IX ill end their hopes of glory in a grave !
-chaps upon this spot may Virtue fall;
True Love may here resign, in pangs, its breath ;
The child's, the wife's, the pkrenes little all
May sink for ever in the shades of death :
And, hark ! I hear the widoW's plaintiff cry,
Wafted upon the night-breeze, from afar;
I see the tear-drop trembling in her eye—
I view her anguish, and I curse thee—Watt !
A TORE-MAST MAMi
H. M. S. Impetueuz, Cawsand Bay, Jan. 1810.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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marriage which that atmt knew must boa meaty kg won tan's old eatilleakht4firbiatKi havittg a 1.
and to load an unhappy and doating husband midi' cular dish every n 1; , -fon-supper, and other devi.
the shame, Ahe burden, the misery of,a lunatic ,wifei dons from. din! appear of peony, -But those
and propagate a race of unfoytunates, cursed Irith should not ill r '..', ,tbapteciotu rights secured by
the dreadtul visitation of that malady which had -toe laws. M ' ) ' 'ill% toubdess, nunst bive re-
made their mother an object: of mingled conipassinn, tamed the *ago at her corder. Madness left its
.md horror. No ; this was not credible ;it was notv-cleep impression on the countenance-,there was...the
in human nature to believe so weak a fiction ; it was wandering of th4,,,Oes, the paleness, the wild and
not in human artifice to make that fiction strong ;= melancholy look; even when, the Mind had shaken off
the Jury would decide upon the simple question, the weight orstilaslata direst calamity. There could
whether at the time of solemnizing the marriage, the be no feeling for the Defendant ; his case was as
Bth of April, Miss Sarah Ann Daniels was or was weighty and as. dark as ever came before the Court.
not in a sound and perfect mind ? He had but an election of crimes. He had entered
Mr. Munyard sen. his wife, his second son, his into a foul and infaMOns conspiracy with the Aunt
sister, Mr. Gosliii, his partner, at whose house the, to-do an act which drew down the heaviest vengeance
wedding dinner was given, were brought to prove' of the insulted lafvs, to:slolate the order which corn- ,
`the sanity of Miss Daniels at the time of the mat-1 mands that marriage should not be contracted, where
riage. She dined ":tt Mr. Gosling's on the following i this dreadful disease of the mind stood to prohibit its
day also ; and, at dinner, apparently from bashful- celebration ; or he was guilty of the still more foul
ness, she shed tears on seeing the attention of the par- and infamous, trime of consp;eing with that • woman
ty naturally turned ot, her.. Her father advised her to break down a lawful marriage, to. tear a wife from
to retire to compose herself ; and, on her retiring,' her husband, to make` her marriage,an illegitimate
said, that it was merely from not being in the habit rite, and her children bastards before the world. He
of seeing company, and that she would soon recover. ' defied the genius of man to find out any other than
They had heard that Miss Daniels was seized with a the miserable option of one Of those great offences
nervous affection, which had been explained-to them against feeling, against society, against law, and
as merely arising from her esteem for Mr. Munyard, against religion. he Jury, after a short consulta-
and her disappointment in having the marriage pro- don, found a verdict for the Plaintiff.
tracted. At that time she appeared weak, but in .
such spirits as might be expected. In aiew weeks Saturday, the Lady of Dr. Yelloly, of Finsbury-square, of a
after, she had an attack of insanity, but recovered daughter.
in a month, and continuedperfectly sane ever since. i Thursday last, at Reigate, Lady Georgians Barnes,of a sou.
The Rev. Mr. White was Rector of Hampstead.-- ' la Dublin, the Lady of Sir Thos. Chapman, of a son.
He married the parties in uestion on the Bth of A t Audtterhouse, on the 6th Instatati the Viseanntess of Ar-
q buthtios, of a daughter. , 4 . , -
April, between eight and nine in the Atmorning.-t
h'
Gra num, on the 7th instant, Lady Charlotte Hope, of a
Though he observed a carelessness and levity of man- 4aughtet.
The Lady of Capt Matthew Buckle, R. N. of a daughter.
ner in the lady, which made him feel it his duty to
impress her with a sense of the importance of the-ce- ; ' MARRIED.
remony, she gazed round at the organ and galleries, ' On the 15th instant, at Kirby Hall, Yorkshire, the Rev. Dr.
and seemed unconscious of the great responsibility Claudius Buchanan, to Mary, youngest daughter of Henry
under which the ceremony must place any one. He Thm"Ps°D, Esq. of kirby HAM
had known hut feW instances of lightness on such an
occasion. He recommended to the parties the receiv-
ing the Holy Sacrament, by the direction of the Ru-
bric, as soon as possible after their marriage, but per- ' eldienstajdlgPahtuell.orfththeeßP7:lNNVomrtillenkins
Gloucester Militia, to Mary,
Waterford, Capt. Phillips, *of Dartmouth, to Anne, daugh-
ter of Surgeon Bettor, R. N.
theAt Dangore church, the Rev. Samuel Adams, of Creg, in
ceived no insanity. He would not have solemnized . count of, S. °rick,
rteoe,Frandcesttesecr
of
fnd
Michael
lhyAof Wallace
ceived
a marriage when such a suspicion hung upon his High Shetifof the-county Cork. Esq.
mind. He should hive thought himself guilty of a ' George Day, Esq. B.A. of Merton College, Oxford, to Miss
Holy Sacrament to per- Jones, eldest days tof the Rev. Robert Jones, of Souldern, in
great crime in advising the that county. z• '
On the part of the Defendant, the ATTORNEY-GE..
NER A L stated, that his object was to release an unfor-
tunate woman from hands which could now only
ill-treat her, and restore her to the protection and •
fondness of a father, who had consented to this dis-
advantageous match, merely as a forlorn hope, to re-
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` cover the hurt mind of his daughter, and now was
only anxious to have the power of protecting and
cherishing her.
COURT 0) KING'S BENCH, FEBRUARY 21. Several witnesses were called to prove, that she had I
MUNTARD V. GILBEE. been seized with attacks of violent madness in 1805
This was a trial on an issue from the Court of and 1806, and that a few weeks before her marriage,
Chancery to try the validity of a marriage. she had a strait waistcoat on, and was strapped down
Mr. PARK stated the case. The defendant already in her bed. I
named was a nominal one, and named only as con. Drs. Reynolds, Monro, Symmonds, and Walker,
nected with the deed on which this cause was origi- were called, with the apothecaries who attended her,
nally moved in Chancery. The real defendant was to prove her returns of insanity.
Mr. Daniels, lately a stockbroker, and now residing Mrs. Newman, aunt to Miss Daniels, deposed that ,
at Hampstead. The plaintiffs was also a stockbroker. her niece was seized with insanity in the year 1803 or
Some months before the Bth of April, 1809, the plain- 6, at Reading, while on a journey to Bath, and she
tiff, going to the defendant's house on business of his , was mad for some time ; she was again seized in
father's, a wholesale ironmonger in Castle-street, saw March last, and continued so until the 17th, when she ;
the defendant's daughter. "His connexion with the left her. She came to Hampstead again on the 7th,
Exchange enabled him to serve Mr. Daniels on some the day previous to the intended manage; she found I
occasions in his business. This produced an intimacy, her niece better, but in her apprehension she was then
in the course of which the plaintiff paid his addresses insane, and was so at the time of the marriage. In i
to Miss Daniels, and was desired to wait till she was the morning she would not be dressed, but flew about
a few months older. One evening at supper, Mr. like a mad thing.
Daniels suddenly announced to his daughter his con- Cross-examined by Mr. TOPPING.--r" You are, of
sent that she should be married to the ob:iect of her course, greatly interested for your niece ?-46 Yes," I
declared regard. She was a delicate girl ; aid the [observing her fanning herself.]—" Pray, Ma'am,
intelligence produced such an immediate nervous agi- are you incommoded by the heat ?"—" Yes, Sir ; it
tation, that medical aid was necessary. She recovered is very warm."—" You saw Miss Daniels on the
soon after, and from her strong attachment, and her 15th ; was she then mad ?" [Here the witness ap-
habitual irritability of frame, her friends advised that peared to grow faint, and unable to proceed.
the marriage should not he delayed. If it were nos. 1 By the Court." Madam, did you, knowing the
sible that a verdict should go against him. this day, state of your niece's mind, allow her, to go on ; or
be could not conceive a man more hardly treated think that the marriage ritual was like a burial ser-
than his client ; his addresses sanctioned, his mar. vice, to be read over inanimate beings ? Did you per-
riage
solemnized by consent of both families, and this nit her to go into that situation, where she could not
without any hope of emolument, excepting the distant have the rights of a wife, or her infants the claims oft
one of a very moderate fortune, from the precarious and children? Gon bless me, cm such things be done ?" 1
capricious bounty, or rather from the inveterateandun. After the case had closed on both sides, Lord EL-
accountable enmity ofhis father-in-law. On the 27th of I LENnottruon recapitulated the evidence. The issue .
March, Daniels, his daughter, and a Mrs. Newman, of which the Lord Chancellor had directed to be tried I
her aunt, came to town from Hampstead, to buy was, whether Sarah Ann Daniels was of competent
. clothes and trinkets for the wedding. On her return, 'mind on the Bth of April? It was recognised by the I
Miss Daniels went on a visit to the plaintiff's father, wisest principles of law, that the acts of a lunatic,
who lives aI
t Camden Town. She remained there done in the lucid intervals of hii disorder, were valid.
from the Ist to the 7th of March, without any ap- Whatever they had a right to do in the most entire
pearance of the insanity which was now alledged as possession of their faculties, they had the same right
the cause of.breaking oil' a marriage contracted in the when the lucid intervals restored even the temporary
face of the church, according to the forms of law.— and inferior possession of the mind. It was not ne-
- On the 3d of April, a dinner was given at Mr. Da- cessary for rights that the mind should be of ..it pre-
niels's house ; to which the entire of the Munyard fa- eminent rank, or that it should be even equalled to
roily were invited. Mr. Daniels was laid up in bed itself. Sickness, accident, and mysterious connexion,
with the gout ; but the females of the party were ad- by.which the mind is forced to bend under the '
mitted to his apartment, and he expressed himself in calamities of the body, may reduce the intellec-1
terms of the warmest affection for his intended son- tual power of man to the verge of idiotism. Pro- t
In-law ; said that nothing should now delay the vidence had not allowed that continuing and support-
match,
and that he might have taken a horse, and ed vigour to any thing human ; but where the mind ;
rode from one end of London to the other before he still retained enough of that discrimination, by which '
could have net a man in every way so eligible. He 'it could guide itself in the ordinary courses of expedi-
afterwards went with his daughter to Doctors Com- ency, jt was competent to the possession of all the legal ,
mons, to execute the necessary papers for the mar- rights to which it could be entitled in the exercise of I
riage ; in short went evrry where with her but to the ! the highest genius, and the most subtle discrimina- •
altar. If he saw her insane before that, why not for-Ition. He remembered a case before the Delegates
bid the marriage ? if at the altar, why not stop her relative to a gentleman, whose house in Portman-square
here ? He attests the marriage, he signs the regis- had been burned down, and his understanding de-
ter, and yet now comes forward to invalidate the ce- ranged, as it was supposed, in consequence. His
remony to which he had given his full sanction. I madness grew so violent, that he was sent to an asp-
can believe nothing low or insulting of the church ; hum for 'lunatics, Mr. Windthrop, a Governor of the
there was a clergyman officiating—would he not Bank, called on him' in the course of his illness ; he
have refused to go through the rite if he had seen in- found him calm, received directions, with another
sanity in either of the parties ? The exhortation of I person, for a will, and had it executed. The lunatic
the form of marriage was among the most solemn in . grew outrageous immediately after, and died. In
the entire rubric. The clergyman read it so that it j the suit to invalidate die will, a host of witnesses were
was heard by the parties ; it was heard by the aunt, ready' to prove the violent phrenzy of this unfortunate
who was now to be brought forward full of testimony man. Lord Ellenborough was himself a Counsel
to the insanity of her niece, and acknowledging, with against the will, but it wits established on the most
a base and 1301 d defiance of the feelings of a relative, incontrovertible grounds of the lucid interval, and the
and the faith of a virtuous woman, that she allowed rights of which he was of course in possession. Par-i'
her niece to go a sacrifice to the altar, to swear to the \tient:n-4y of conduct could not defeat those rights so
performance of duties of which she could not know i sacred in the eye of the law. There was the late case'
the nature ; to vow obedience to a husband, while her of a Noble Lord, who distinguished himself hi thet:
brain was distorted with madness ; so contract a most eccentric oddities, sitting during tilt day in .a

1)1W.•
On Saturday last, the Rev. John Lloyd, Rector of Tothill, in
I..incenshire, ;And one of the oldest Lecturers y:2 the City of

London.
On the 14th instant, at Edinburgh, Mrs. Ch. Manias, Sister of
Viscount &Wyllie.
On the 9th instant, at Witham Lodge, Esser, Anne, youngest
daughter of the Hon. Francis 'ralbot.
Friday last, Mrs. Peacock, wife of Mr. Wm. Peacock, of Salis-
bury-square, Fleet-street.
In the East Indies, I.ieut. Mich. B.:rue, 59th Regiment.
In Gardiner-street, Dublin, the wife of the Rev. H. Johnston.
At Belhaven, near Dunbar, on the 7th instant, Lieutenant-
Colonel Was. Stiell, formerly of the 60th regiment of foot, at the
advanced age of 104.
On the 9th instant, after a long illness, aged 73 years, Richard
Chandler, D.D.

At Shinness, _
Matheson.
On the 6th instant, at Northaw, Herts, the Rev. John Heath-
field, aged 75.

en the ith inst. Captain Donald

Wednesday, the 14th inst, of a Paralytic, after a confinement
of 12 months, Mrs. Sarah Horland, wife of Mr. E. Holland,
bookseller, Plymouth-Dock.

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