The National Register. — 1811-06-02 (London, England)

THE NATIONAL R  WELLINGTON'S TRIUMPH,'  AND PORTUGAL DELIVERED.  ST A MEMBER 07 THE LONDON GAELIC SOCIETY.  The blow is struck, the awful conflict's o'er, And shouts of triumph reach Britannia's shore, The haffl'd Chief of France in wild dismay, Resigns the honors of his former days ; And with his legions is by Wellesley driven, As clouds of locusts by the winds of Heaven. Unlike the warriors of a nobler age, His flight is mark'd with more than Vandal rage, By peasants murder'd and by towns in flame, Their ashes record Massena's shame; The smocking ruins are descry'd from a far, With all the horrors of his savage war ; The mountain streams run red with blood And mangled bodies choke each river's flood, While Lusitania's ravaged plains declare, The flying Gaul has left a desert there. Long shall the crimes of France in meary stana Recorded with the curse of every land ; But Britain's triumph like her honour pure, Shall to the utmost date of time endure; Loud as the thunder let the cannon sound, Proclaim the tidings to the realms around, Nations enslav'd by Gaul's oppressive power, Shall shake their chains with joy and bless the hour ; The very wretches who in silence wait The despot's nod—and tremble while they hate, Shall feel some pleasure warm the torpid breast To see their tyrant in his turn oppress d, To mark his pallid cheek and haaard eye His stifled anguish and bitter sigh. In the bright temple of immortal fame Glory inscribes her fav'rite Wellesley's name, Amidst the high plum'd champions of the land, In future a; es Wellington shall stand. There too triumphant Graham shall appear Wielding aloft the mighty British spear, d at their feet the shatt er'd flags of France, He r captive Eagles and her broken lance ; Thus shall Britannia's Monarch ever be, Renown'd on ev'ry shore and Lord of every sea.  The Catholic Question was debated on Friday night in the House of Commons—Mr. Grattan's Motion was lost by a majority 146 to 83. The great bulk of the people in Ireland will care little about its rejection. There are other previous paramount duties, which depend neither upon this Minister nor upon that--they depend upon the Irish gentry and great landed proprietors. Dispel the gloom, enrich the penury, cultivate the mind of the peasant. These are what the great bulk (lithe people want. To tell them that Catholic Emancipation will be the specific is to heap mockery upon suit.  We congratulate the Loyal Livery of London e happy triumph of their exertions to frustrate the machinations of those demagogues who would risque the peace of the City, iu order to give to the Radical Reformers the semblance of the sanction of the Corporation of London to their alarming designs, and the eclat of their meetings being permitted to be held in the Guildhall of the metropolis of the Empire. We are sorry to announce that an express arrived in town on Saturday morning from Scotland, with the intelligence of the death of the Right Hon. .Henry Dundas, Lord Viscount Melville. His Lordship's decease, we understand, was sudden.— He was found dead in his bed on Wednesday morning. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his son, the Right Hon. Robert Dundas, President of the Board pf Controul, &c.  .