The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-17 00:00:00

INCOGNITO.

Malin, May 19,1919.

The expence to the Papal Government, cured by
the residence of the Emperor of AUSTRIA at Rowse,
is estimated at 500,000 piastres. It is reported, that
the Pon borrowed the SRO of LOUIS BONAPARTR.
On Monday, upwards of 800 men, belonging to
the 56th Regiment, disembarked at Chatham free
St. Helens.
In addition to the Civil Power within the City led
its jurisdiction, it is said that the Sheriffs lotted to
call in the assistance of the Parish Constables at
IMiddiesex.

There is a steses.boot lo America of 21:00 toes
burden. The epee, is of 1000 horse power. It it
called the Felton the First.
Ilia Majesty's ship Hardy, Captain suited
et the Copt el' Good Hope ou the 24 et May frees St.
Helena.

Ilia Majesty's ship Ontario, Captain Gamma, sr•
rived at Jamaica on the 15'h May from Barbadoes
sea Martinique, and sailed on the 19th for Cam-
peachy and Vera Cruz.
Ms Majesty's ship Sapphire, Capt. Mar, arrived
at Jamaica ow the 17th May; and on the (Wooing
day his Majesty's ship Conflate', Captain Mon-
omania, both fro■ Porto Bello.
The Emperor CUARLIALIGNE has for many years
performed the elevated duties of a weathercock for
the good people of Utrecht, bet daring a tieweriooss
storm which occurred on the sth inst. his Majesty was
deprived of his sword and sword-arm. Ilia tittle*
was on she (leech of St. Mary. St. Michael, the
Archangel, is employed for a similar purpose on the
summit of the llotel de Ville. of Brussels. ," To
what hose uses we may come, fiords')."
After the 28th inst. ehis London and Yarmouth
mails will be conreyed in a patent mail.cosch, which
will travel se much quicker then the •seal ■ode of
conveyance, as to enable that town to answer Whets
one day earlier than heretofore. The mail leaving Lon-
, don at the usual time, will arrive at Vermouth at
1 11h. 40m. t►e nest messing, and depart at three On
, same afternoon. Yarmouth is 124 miles from Los.
j leo, and it will be the wily town in the kingdom
at so greet a distance enjoying such accommodaties.

LITERARY STRICTURES.

DON JU4N-A POEM.

This is a very large book, offecting'klany =yeta
ties, bet poasessine very few ; sisseming much oil.
ginality, " though It bath it not." There is one
„wises of judgment, however, which the Ae-
thor has displayed themes he has imitated all
the irregularities of e'er were ,shoot, he has di,.
claimed any participation of feeling with its admirers
or votaries. This is still a very dreary acquittance,
while he has embarked in that which he considers to
be a business of doubtfol propriety. We agree with
him to his scepticism about the infallibility of the
new poetical prelacy; and for that a we die.
spree, of his adoption of its practices, while be
abjures its precepts. That we may not subject our-
selves to the charge of stupidity or fastidictesnew on
account of t►is confession, we shall quote authority.
The Ediabergh Reviewers, in one of their latter ca-
liche,. on Lord Blimps, while they admitted that
our present poets lad certainly developed new
sauces of imaginesion, or what t►e French cell
materiel, professed to dosht the lastingness of
eny of the living models, his Lordship himself being
included. New, by the grace and mercy of modern
Rhyming, and begging especial forb o f its en.
raptured orivecates, we would cantioesly submit whe-
ther or not these tame new sources are not exactly
those which the rigid end healthy taste of the an.
dents would have refused, sod did, in a great men.
sere, reject. For it occurs to es, that, abating some
few degrees of science, in which experience has given
es the advertiser., and which haves( necessity yielded
many embellishments wanting to their erudition, our
poets are doing very little else than pursuing con.
catenstions in those digressive links, which antiquity
considered too minute to merit development. Do not
we getter ourselves, when assume superior discern.
meet, because our poetry porsues the ramifications of
Omagh' to their lent and almost sightless Wrestles,
sod bream we mingle poetry and the utmost Wools,.
nessof Wm, in a carped which, it is very likely,
the ancients declined from the dictates of pore na.
feral taste? We will oot be pallid', until the (pan-
ties is better argued. Bet it certainly does seer
that the det►rmination of the ancients differed sewn.
daily from that which at present prevails amongst us,
sad that all sebsermot ages km adepted theirsj stem.
11 is evident also, that the very power by which the
moderns have twee enabled to set up their own do-
minion. has been derived from the skill and discipline
of the Grecians. It further appears that the present
modes are not altogether sew ; that in principle at
least they have 'skied before; that they are not a
sew experiment in English literature; and that bar.
lag been tried, they have also, by the unerring de.
claion of the Nom of time, been laid aside. The
writers before the age of ELIZABETH did jest what
the majority of the present poets are doing ; they
compounded metaphysics sod poetry so ingeniously
as their means would allow : they exhausted
every quaintness and " quiddity" of their invention ;1
they laboured like landscape painters, who should
put in the very grubs sod butterflies to show thei►
skill in eaters, history, and in their society for mi.
muteness sacrifice or neglect the nobler parts of dial
composition. What was the consequence ? Their II
successors found the permit of their labours so pro.'
filers, that they app►aled to the more remote stood.
suds, fashioned themselves by models which ages bad
esectifird, and imparted that enduring importance to
literature which has not left es one superior among
the nations. Is it possible, then, that these " time.
bellowed" precepts and proved •samples are delusions,
which most give way to the philosophy of the (~tee
school ? Shall we be brought, very readily, to admit
that the ARISTOTELIAN rules have DO principle
bet holden, which most now give way to other
Mashies+, and that 11 they had been soy thing else,
their dominion would have been as absolute? De
the labour and polish, the power and the simplicity
of Hoaxer redly fail in comparison with WORDS.
WORTH, whom beast is, that his poems are destitute
of metal dignity and elaborate composition, and
whose verse is a loose, fere.right t of prose,
just falling foto rhymes, and no snore? Does Sou.
7111tVe lazy sad p►esomptuoss resolution 14 to sing
just as he pleases" make him, as he pretends, a lope.
tier epic writer to HOMER or VIRGIL? Bet welled
almost forgot our author. Ile has d►iven straight for.
ward in the posing course, running, upon the whole,
rather glibly from one line into soother, without
delaying at the corners; and sometimes (as well be
might, in a first soloist of 227 pages) lighting upon
11011111 apt conceits which are admirably fitted to the
metre. He carries with him a great deal of sensible
observation, bat his remarks display very little edgi-
est perception. The ►ook discovers merle's, is
the tricks of the seeders sc►ool, but shows no hint of
morel adaptation, nor any of that acumen which sur-
prises us with information, such as we wonder at
Ourselves for not having fund oat before.
The style and character (luckily for the length of
the foregoing remarks) may be given in a few words
—the Poem is a mere extension of subject on the plan
of Berra. The author is wrong, whoever he is, to
pursue so eccentric a Might—it is too artificial—it Is
too much like the enterprise of Icsaus; and his de-
clination, or, at any rate, that of his book, will be

as rapid, if not as disastrous, as the fabled tumble of
that lll.starred youth; because his wit and good
sewn, which ere nevertheless considerable, are less
than the presumptuous manner, in which the present
work has been cell would lead or to suppose.
The hero is sees as the title denotes him, and the
poet professes to gather all the particulars of his
lineage, birth, breeding, esploits, and catastrophe,
from history sod the stage, and invest him with epic
digeity. His history being commonly known, we
suppose the author has merely selected him es s mean
foe oirgociating his own sentiments, which are amply
showered open the work in curious mends of gaiety,
melancholy, suite, and dissertation, as characters
sad opportunities admit.
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Sir II Deese', lantern. by • hirb reale
Are rarely lamed far, i 4 Ike mode a.
Tameterlet4 ifaVfie. VaPiril "4 he
Arr ways as anent aurlicer. e. free.
Ferber, a, mooting at Watc.loo.