American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-04-23

forth az great rate against those who accuse hiT
OF plagiarism. One Of these accusations is found
ed on the shpwreck in Don Juan. in which he ha
followed the details given in the official accounts
the loss of the Hercules, Abergavenny East India
man, Canton man Of war, Pandora frigate, SC TIL
accusation is no doubt we'll founded, for the compa
rative quotations given by the writer show clearl
the TACT. One of these will serve as a specimen c
the rest; and considerable number are given
At one O'Clock the wind with sudden shift
Threw the ship right into the trough of the sea,
Which struck her alt and made an awkward dri II
Started the stern post also shattered the
Whole of her stern frame, ere she could lift
Herself from out her present jeopardy.
The rudder tore away, twas time to sound
The pumps and there were four feet water
found.
"Night came on worse than the day had been
and sudden shift OF wind about midnight threy
the ship into the trough of the sea, which struc
her aft tore away the rud6er, started the stern pos
and shattered the whole of her stern Frame Tn
pumps were Immediately sounded ; and in the cours
of few minutes, the water had increased to fou
feet deep Loss Of the Shit Hercules.
Ills lordship does not deny the fact, but remarks
-" Cibhon makes ii merit in Tasso, TO have Co
pied the minutes details of the siege of Jerusalem
from the Chronicles" and adds, s In me it may b,
dement,, presume let it remain SOY Lord BY
IONS tame is founded upon too solid foundation tC
De shaken by such All accusation ; and indeed If his
poetlcal description has been collected from the tale
o! actual events but heightened and dressed in the
charms OF poesy, it must be so much the more in
ierestng, because more true TO reality The utmost
praise which can be afforded the accuser in this, is
the industry which he has exhibited in searching
for the condolences and contrasting them The
principal attack in the Two Foscari, is against Mr..
oouthey, in consequence of some observations con
tanned IN preface TO Of his late poems, in which
ne calls upon the legislature to look 10 it. as the to-
iefation OF such writings as those Of the Satanic
ocAoot,' led TO the French Revolution. This position
lord Byron denies-and after citing the Punishment
OF Noltaire and Rosseau and the imprisonment of
iMarmontcl and Diderot in the Bastile, adds" acts
--acts- the part OF the government and not
writing against them, have caused the past convu.
sions and are tending to the future" This contro-
Fersy IS curious /; and we make the following ex.
tracts Tor the amusement of our readers
: look upon such as inevitable, though no re-
Vo!uilonist; wish TO see the English constitution
restored and not destroyed Born an arstrocrat and
ns'ualy one by temper, with the greater part Of
my present property in the funds, what have to
gain by revolution Perhaps have more to lose
10 every way than Mr. Southey, with all his places
and presents TOR panegyric and abuse into the bar
gam But that revolution is inevitable repeat.
lhe government may exult over the repression of
waves
fepulsed and broken for a moment on the shore
while the great tide is still rolling on and gaining
ground with every breaker,
Mr oouthey accuses lord b. of attacking the es-
taoiished religion oil his country-to which his lord.
snP replies that no country ever has been or ever
Will be without religion; and that the established
rehgion, II overthrown, will be swept away bv the
sec'ariahs' 10 whom he insinuates MIR S. has lent
us assistance IN his life of Wesley. He proceeds
- {.
snucpated death bed repentance" Of the Officers If
his dislike; and INDUCES himself in pleasant . VI
SION OF Judgment in prose as well as verse. fnI or
inpious inpudence. What Mr. SIS sensations or
ours may De IN the awful moment of LEAVING This
e'a'e u eXlStence' neither he nor we can nreendl
70 deciue. In common, presume, with The o,os,
men oil any reflection, have not waited for a d.a,b
pea 70 repent OF many of my actions notwithstand.
ing The "dlaoocal pride which this pitifuI rene.
Sauo III ms rancor would mpute to those who scorn
ann whether upon the whole, the rood or evil n
my deeds may preponderae, is not for me TO ascer.
sain out. as my means and opportunities have been
~ e', | snai' limit my present defence to an as
ser'oh Seasiiy proved if necessary that in INV
ues'ee, nave done more real good in any one oiven
year. since was twenty, than Mr. Southev in The
Wnole course OF his shifting and turn coat exisanc
we must close our extracts from this SINGULAR
Production oil this star amid the constellation of
.oya' ana NOBLE authors with the following elepant
e"tract--"l am not ignorant Of Mr. Soutbev's ca
iuhnies on different occasion, knowing them to be
sucn which ne scattered abroad on his return from
switzerland, against me and others thew have done
no good In this world and if his creed be The rob,
one they will do him less in the next What I;s
death oed may be, it is not my province to nreS
IlcaIe; let him settle it with his maker, as must
20 wisn mine. There is something at once ludc
I0us and olasphemous in this arrogant scribher If
all work sitting down to deal domination and d. 81
.ruc.lon upon his fellow creatures with wat TvIer
ule Apotheosis OF George the third and the Flerv
W. Msrn me Regcde, all shuflled together in his