The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-09 00:00:00

TIIE DEVIL'S DYKE.

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To tempt mankind wu Satan's chirp,
Allow'd by Heaven to roam at large ;
Nor could there be an end of sin,
Till power was given to hem him in.
This the sly tempter knew full well,
And seldom was at home in Hell';
tat stoned the earth from Pole to Pole,
Hunting for man's immortal soul.
'Till ono day, as he dew o'er Brighton,
Its highest bill he chased to light on.
Whence, lookiag down on Poyaing's charel4
Tnought himself fairly In the lurch ;
For still he fears the Eternal rod,
And trembles at the House of Ood.
Nearer to go he did sot like,
The hill became the Devil's Dyke.
And this bless'd hour had say'd es all;
But Po)aing's church was much too small.
That useless trap I set to catch him ;
TM fault was iala•—we still must wateh him.
Yet far less sin would now be seen,
If Poynlng'e Rector were a Dean.
And if a Bishop he should he.
TM Devil would be driven to set;
Where. as his last sad surest chance,
No passport he would want for Franae.
There, quite at home, at Fort Aimaible.
In eery mouth he'd bear Diable.
'1 al the foot of DerCe Dyke.

The Duke de Bt Rat gave a splendid ball at Paris,
two days after the intelligence of the death of the
Duke of KFNT reached that capital.

The Earl Whitworth and the Du'chess of Dorset
and family, who arc still at Naples, are expected
home the latter end of April.
The Countess of Mornington, the mother of his,
Grace the Duke of Wellington, walked at his Isle
Majesty's Coronation. She was then reckoned!
amongst the newest of the Irish Nobility, Lord
Mortingten being only advanced in 1700. to the
Earldom : and of those who were present at the
former, she is possibly the only Peeress now re-
maining who may appear at the new Coronation.
The Queen's Crown, which is now in the Rega-
lia (Mice in the Tower, and which was made for
James the Second's Consort, cost 111,900/. Its wei,ght
is nineteen ounces only, exclusive of the velvet. %ery
little, if any, of the gold can he seen, it is so profusel,•
cowered with jewels. Our readers will Imagine this,
when they find, that although its diameter at the rim is
only fire inches, and its entire height, to the top of the
cross, only seven inches, it contains. 605 diamonds, and
nearly 190 pearls.
We are told by the Editor of the Journal des
Modes, that tea parties are becoming almost as common
in Paris as in England, hut he says they are much more
elegant—fur in England the cups are set out on the
table, and each guest helps himself, whereas in Paris,
the Lily of the house fills out the tea, and gracefully
hands the cups to her guests. Indeed! Now the Editor
is misinformed as to England. At the antiquated par-
ties, called Tea and turn out," the cups were handed
round on silver trays by the d stirs. %Ve did not im-
pose on our ladies such fatigue. It is only in polished
France that all manner of drudgery is left to the sex.
A Frenchman, who hail made the tour of England, re-
marked with surprise, that he had not seen one woinaa
at the plough nor carrying manure on her back.
Dr. B.SRNETT, the late Bishop of Clovne, died a
few days ago at his palace, County Cori, at a very
advanced age. His Lordship was the senior Bishop
of Ireland ever since the death of the late Arch-
bishop of Tuam.
More pigs of silver and French crowns arrived
in town on Monday. Messrs. Itotiisciiila and Cu. have
received upwards of eight tons of the former and 200,000
of the latter, the whole of which were sent to the Bank
and deposited in the Bullion other.
Wednesday, the second division of the 33d Re-
giment of Foot arrived at Durham, from the south,
and two other divisiu.ns are expected to follow them very
soon. It is reported that this Regiment will be disposed
of as follows:—Two companies are to be stationed at
Carlisle, two at Tynetuouth, three at Newcastle, and
three at Durham.

At Florence the snow was two feet deep ; the
Arno was partly frozen ; at Parma the market was with-
out provisions for several days, the peasants being unable
to travel there; and Venice was completely blockaded
by ire.
Spain was not exempt from the late severe cold-
ness which was felt in all the Northern climates. At
Iron. the Itirlassoa was entirely frozen over; at Sara-
gossa, the Ebro was in several parts of it congealed ; the
canal at Arragon was frozen: at Medina del Campo, in
the kincdoni of Leon, the wine wit. frozen in the caves.
A great deal of snow fell in Eatraniailitra, where snow
had not been seen for sixteen years before ; at Cartba-
getia and Murcia, snow fell to the depth of two feet, a
phenomenon which had not previously been witnessed
by the oldest people of those places; at Valencia the
thermonseter fell to four degrees below zero, and snow
continued to fall there for twenty hours.
There was a great fall of snow at Rome on the
15th ult. which covered thr streets and all the country
round, for threedays. During this time, the Tribunals
and all the Colleges were closed, according to an antient
custom, and the bells of the Capitol and of the Collogio
Romano were sliest. Several winters are recollected,
in which the same thing happened. In 1789, snow co-
vered the streets for twelve days; and i■ 1812. some
Germans, who were then at Route, were seer skating*.
the little lake of the Villa Bortrhese.