The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-18 00:00:00

TEARS OF BRITAIN.

Sweet Liberty, ones guardian of our Isle.
On what new country dost thon deign to smile,
Whlist we deplore thy absence from our sly.
With heart-felt sorrow and with many a sigh:
Say. cross the Atlantic Ocean hest thou fled,
Disgusted wide us whom thy spirit fed.
To other lands to impart the sacred dame.
And task, proud tyrthets tremble at thy name?
Fraud tenet Oppression non stalk hand in hand,
Aid lordly Imola:nee assails the land.
Alas! *Hat for the poor man now remain:.
lint }aiming dungeons and tyrannic chains
Tit. keenest force of hunger doomed to feel,
Yet -nest Ms miseries and woes eoneeal.
There was a time when Independence reign'd;
The peasant tor Ms labour was maintain'd
tontentwrent birse'd the cottage of the hind,
And homebred joys of most endearing kind:
Ambition ue'er disturb'd his peaceful breast.
Round were his slumbers, and Ms soul at rest.
Remote from town-, be led a peace:fill life,
Far from the scenes of riot and of strife.
How changed. ales? is now the poor man's Int,
Famine and misery dire assail his cot ;
To asides anti lordly pride he yields
Tice lord-earn'd produce of the fruitful fields.
In deep distress his wife and children pine.
And eactl tad dly but sans Melt health decline;
'Till pluug'd uut;tuely In an early grave.
No ey o to pity. and no hand to save.
Farewell to rural mirth and pastimes, now
No rosy smile illuraires twenty '1 brow :
Rut sad dejection In emelt look eppesr4.
And esery fare the mark of sorrow nears.
While some prepare to bare their native shore,
And part front friends, perhaps to meet no more;
Still shedding tees and sorrowing as Caey en,
'Till England's shores re-echo with their woe.
To distant climes they take their destin'd way ;
Some to despair and madness fall a prey ;
Others are landed in a savage clime,
There doomed to languish out their youthful prime :
Where the hot sun. ascessitng o'er their heeds,
Oisesses dire and fell contagion sheds ;
While furious monsters roans the woodland shade,
And death in MI his terrors stands artay'd.
There noxious plants and hissin/ snakes abound,
And freely sbed their poisonous 'Pomo round:
The travelitir treads the faithless grass with fear,
Lest some apernum'd reptile harbours there.
Oh! hadiperirst ; where 'Zephyr never strays,
Thy vend & blaa:ed by the noon-tide rays.
In vainlhplithappy wanderer looks around
For meant where no comfort's to hr found;
'Till daft In pity seals at length his doom,
And buries all his sufferings in the tomb. 3. 5.0.

We learn that there is not to be a Cuurt held
at Carlton-house on Monday nest. His Majesty
will come to town, but he means to go to Windsor
to pay a visit to her Royal Highness the Princest
Augusta. The Nobility and Gentry will leave
their names at the Palace ; and the King means to
open the new Parliament in person. It is sup-
posed this may take place on Tuesday next, the
2fith instant.
Blast peesutraliun is making in lhe department
of the Master of the Horse for lilt Majesty's going
in state to open the new Parliament. In onitie-
fluent* of the Court Mourning, the state horses
*ill not be decorated with ribbons as they gene-
rally have been upon these occasions.
It is reported in the Court circles, that her R wal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester will hold a
drawing-room at the palace of Buckingham-helium
on the 27th instant.

The anniversary Meeting of the City of Londe°
School fur Adults was held yesterday evening, al
the Friends' Meeting-house, White hart-court,
Gracechureh-street. At seven o'clock Alderman
Wood took the Chair, and opened the business of
the Meeting in a short speech, by pressing the in-
terests of the Society, and moving, that the Re-
port of the Committee fair the last year be read
The Report was read accordingly. Alderman
Wood, have Welshman, Esq., Mr. S. West, and
other Gentlemen, advocated the claims of tb6
society in speeches of considerable length ; after
which thanks were voted to the Chairman, and
the Meeting adjourned.
MIK'FROPOLITAN LAW SOCIETY.—This society,
which wits instituted for the [addable purpose of
promoting fair and honourable Practice in the pro-
fession of the law, held their annivenary dinner
yesterday, at the Preemasons"lavern, William
Leake, Esq. in the Chair. Between sixty and
seventy members sat down to table. After dinner,
" Now Nobio Domine" was given in excellent style
by some first-rate performers. The toast of " The
king" was, followed by that of " The Lord Chian
eellor," " The Judges,'' " The 'Master of the Rolls,"
1" The Vice-Chancellor," &c. Some eloquent

speeches were made in reference to the object and
progress oft Sm4lety, which. we are clad to firnl,
is gaining a considerable accession of strength.
Several new members were present; and Mr. Bick-
nell, the Solicitor to the Actin:J.4lly, attended, and
was proposed as a member.
A new Drama was brought out with success at
the Norwich Theatre, on Thursday last. It is the
production of a gentleman of that city. The story
is founded on Mrs. Opie's Tale of the Ruffian Boy.
The coincidence may be regarded as riot incu-
rious, that the place of Lieutenant of the Yeo-
men of the Guard, recently couferred on Mr.
Coleman, the dramatist, was loag held by Natha-
niel Garrick, Esq., nephew and partly heir to the
immortal Roscias of the British stage.
Lord Bolingbroke, who is extremely fond of
angling, caught last week, in the river Avon, near
Christchurch, in a short time after he tad thrown
is his lines, two salmon, one of which weighed
IRO pounds—a remarkable circumstance so early in
the season.

As Mr. Miles, of Southfield, near Malswesbery,
was walking lately by the side of the river with
a favourite Newfoundland dog. the animal sud-
denly jumped into the water and caught a fine
jack, weighing three pounds, which be Lrought to
his ;Easter.

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