Too often doom'd to bear mankind's disdain, Or eat the bread of bitterness and pain! But though Ingratitude may barb the dart To wound-it cannot change the Patriot heart,

Which glows, with fervour, in the manly
breast
[tress'd!

Of the most virtuous, though the most dis-
No better object can the Muse inspire,
Than to promote, and fan that sacred fire,
Which more than armies can a nation shield,
Or make her sons terrific in the field!
The Peasant, born to indigence and toil,
Feels an affection for his native soil,
Which, spite of all the hardships of his fate,
Ranks him, in Reason's eye, among the
great.

[Here were introduced the lines already printed in our p.61 (except the last fourteen), which were written immediately after the intelligence arrived of BUONAPARTE's flight, and the ruin of the French Army.]

Heav'n, for a while, permits the Tyrant's crimes,

As awful judgments on flagitious times! But come there will, or soon or late, the hour [pow'r,

Shall hurl the Despot headlong from his Pluck from his brow the transient plume of fame,

And give to lasting Infamy his name!

II. By Rev. CHARLES SYMMONS, D. D. YES! it was nobly thought, and greatly

done,

[one. To make ourCountry's cause and Learning's Divorc'd from Science, Earth would vainly boast

Her charms, but florid impotence at most. See where, like brilliants, starring Ocean's train, [main. Yon radiant Isles emblaze the Southern In Gold and Ether's finest purple drest, The Sun epamour'd sleeps upon their breast.

At morn and dewy eve, from coral shades Emerging,sea-winds fan the panting glades. The breeze wafts odours o'er th' embroider'd land:

[hand: The grove with pendent fruitage courts the Teems the glad soil unlabour'd of the plough;

And facile Ceres dances on the bough. Ah blest! if Nature's smile alone could bless:

Here the sole want is human happiness. The two-legg'd savage pines in sensual joy: Murder and Lust with rival powers destroy: O'er the gay scene exert their fatal sway; And Man, in ignorance, expires their prey.

Now turn to Britain: see her rugged form, Beat by rude skies,and ruffled by the storm. See Winter's icy mace condense her soil: Her stubborn glebe relent alone to toil. See churlish Nature check her Summer's glow;

And give for fruits the berry,crab,and sloe. Yet see! where wavy harvests float her plains; [her swains: While Law assures, and Freedom cheers Where bright with bloomy life, her gardens shoot; [fruit: Breathe Saba's sweets, and glow with tropic Where, as her hamlets swarm, her cities [of power:

tower,

She lifts her kingly front, and wields her arm Where her proud Navies make the world her own,

And pour the wealth of every realm on one. See this! and if you ask what Power sub

lime

Can thus redeem the soil, redress the clime; Control great Nature, and reform her plan; Know, it is Science in the hand of Man. 'Tis Mind, illumined Mind, that works the whole;

And opens thus an Eden near the Pole.

Small was the realm, where Science,

thron'd by Greece, [peace, Array'd her war, and gemm'd her robe of Yet there th' invader sunk beneath her stroke; [broke. And thence in lustre o'er the world she Her hand drops healing as her battle wounds:

result

And Nature's strong fertilities are quell'd. Nations and countries share an equal tomb: Those cease at once to breathe, and these to bloom. [vey'd Where cities stood, and raptur'd eyes surTh' aspiring column and the bold arcade; No wreck is found to say that man has been: Dumb Desolation broods upon the scene: And Asia's garden, struck with Scythian breath, [heath. Moves in light sand, or glooms in sable O! cherish then the soul of nurtured mind, [kind: The power, the grace, the blessing of our Th' embodied God that calms the storm of man,

Sublimes his action, and dilates its span: Throws him in lengthen'd. good to distant climes ;

And makes him live for man in other times. Heav'n's genial spirits love the Muse's ray; And fiends and goblins fly the Lord of day.

Rise, Britain! be what Greece has been before:

Or rise with loftier science, and be more! By Pallas arm'd, control barbarian force: Dash the dire Gaul in his ensanguined

course!

With hallow'd objects be divinely brave : Fight to unchain, and conquer but to save! In peace, diffuse thy light from shore to shore,

Till India's pagods cease to blush with gore: Till Jumna's banks and Agra's roseate vale,

No more, with matron shriek or infant wail,
Shall sadly ring, as victim hosts expire,
Ingulph'd, or sepulchred alive in fire:
Till the taught Libyan, in his palmy shade,
Shall own thy long arrear of kindness paid:
Till Diemen's land in arts and learning
shine;

And a new Athens beam beneath the Line:
Till fierce Malacca smile with Gospel love;
And China's dragon* crouch as flames the
cross above.

But ah! while nerv'd with conscious force, thy mind

[fin'd;

Feels her wide triumph by a world conThink of the hands that tend the sacred fire: [quire, Whose incense, grateful to th' immortal

Draws down the Muses from their heav'nly bowers, [powers.

To harmonize thy heart, and raise thy O! crown their shrine, and as their votary give:

The Priest should justly by the Altar live. As the fraught cloud, not bigger than a hand, [land: Rain'd copious life on Israel's gasping As from the rivulets of numerous hills His urn gigantic Nile or Ganges fills; To pour upon the plains, and, as it whelms, Swell Nature's breast to nourish mighty realms :

So oft the stores, condensed within a mind, Have spread in affluence to enrich mankind:

So when from many minds the rays unite, The brilliant whole invests the land with light: [gleams;

The land illustrious o'er the nations And a dark world rejoices in its beams; Hail! then, your Country's and the Muse's friends! [ends,

Wise are your means, and glorious are your Cheer Science in her sons: allow their claim

To Man's inheritance, though heirs of Fame:
Not left to starve on dew-drops of the bays;
To shiver in the gossamer of praise:
Or doom'd to feel, by fates yet more severe;
The patron booksellert, or patron peer;
Those meeting ends of little and of great,
The swell mechanick, and the swell of state.
Borne by the people's breath that fills the
sail,

A few may proudly float before the gale. The hapless many prove th' o'erpow'ring [save.

wave;

Vain all their knowledge, vain their toils to Raise these to life! blind Fortune's wrongs redress!

Reclaim her victims! and be great to bless! Feed Learning's labours with your just regard; [reward.

And know, the deed shall bring its sure As your full hands their kindly nurture fling, [spring. The growth of mind in all your fields shall Haply some plants, by partial Nature blest, May rise and glow with pow'r above the

sellers. EDIT.

With fond applause the Patriot Sage shall
Oft as this day, while Time his circle runs,
Shall call the Muse's friends to aid her sons;
TO WILLIAMS then, reposing in his urn,
Awaken'd thought with gratitude shall turn;
And hail the man, who, foe to party rage,
Still'd the harsh discords of a jarring age:
And, zealous to assert fair Learning's
claim,
[the same:

Show'd that her cause and Virtue's were
Bade on her day the factious passions cease;
And hallow'd it to Charity and Peace.

yore,

[rear,

Heroes and kings their specter'd forms upSeek in congratulating throngs the shore, And as they view the parting vessel ride, Applaud their Guardian Chief, and greet him o'er the tide.

On speeds the vessel with her well-earn'd prize,

Till sudden calms arrest her stately sweep; Hush'd is the expanse of ocean, earth, and skies,

And a new firmament appears to sleep
On the smooth mirror of the azure deep,
The wave with splendour glowing as a flame;
And while the crew a breathless silence
keep,

As erst to sage Ulysses, Pallas came

And cheer'd her favour'd Scot, and prophesied his fame.

"Oh, Patron of my Arts, thrice bless'd

the hour, [were giv'n; When Athens' Sculptures to thy charge Trophies rever'd! thine be the envied pow'r To rear for Albion skill deriv'd from Heav'n, Tho'Vandal Turks with impious hand had riv'n

The mould'ring relicks of my hallow'd fane, And Time, with twice one thousand years, had striv'n [ing stain: T'impress those marble heights with cank'rAt length 'twas thine to save what Time would spare in vain.

"Mine was the Temple,

care

and be mine [doom;

To crown the Guardian who arrests its
No intellectual praises will I spare-
Pallas transfers her honours now to Broom*,
Where Hymen's joys restor'd, thy hopes
illume;

For know the fair Eliza thou shalt wed, Eliza, 'neath whose Grecian form shall bloom

Minerva's wit with Attic learning fed, And many a future pledge shall bless thy honour'd bed.

"To hail th' avenger of their native seat, The Grecian Deities already join. Venus secure to Albion shall retreat, Where beam her graces and her form divine, Where reigns Apollo, and th' inspiring Nine: Lo! Caledonia's heroes + Mars shall greet, And crown her warlike sons: the God of wine,

His honours while you quaff, pure balm of life, [Fife. Shall find his own Citharon on the hills of "Tho' Ocean's King engulph one hap.

less bark,

Thetis, to quell his rage and malice dark, Still, jealous of my peaceful Olive's reign, Points to his fav'rite Isles i'th' Western

main,

[fane) (There are his trophies, there his loftiest Pallas for them shall save the precious

freight,

The adverse tempest and the foe restrain, Fair Science rescu'd from impending fate, Shall bless the hallow'd hand uprear'd to

consecrate.

HISTO.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 8.

In a Committee of the whole House, Lord Palmerston stated that the Army Estimates for this year amounted to twentynine millions sterling. He then went through the different items, and pointed out where there was an increase. The additional men would be found to be 12,141; and 390,000l. the charge; in the embodied militia there was an increase of 17,000l.; in the miscellaneous charges there was an increase, for barracks, of 151,000l.; but there were several deductions, which would reduce the actual excess to about 80,000l. on the British, and 70007. on the Irish Establishment. The Regimen tal Establishment was higher this than it was last year. In the Commander in Chief's office, an increase in the Widows' Pensions of 12004.; in the Foreign Corps an increase of 90,0007.; in the Commissariat Department, on account of the addition to the numbers, there was an increase of expence amounting to 39,000. The recruiting service had been extremely productive: the officers employed being of approved ability and some rank; the consequence was, that the ordinary recruiting had last year produced 14,413 men; and it had for the last three or four years increased to that amount from 9000. Last year, including militia, we had added 24,270 men to the army by voluntary enlistment. It was highly satisfactory to see the military ardour of the country rise in proportion to the circumstances of the times. He concluded by stating, that the whole of the men obtained last year, including militia, recovered deserters, foreigners, and 400 Spaniards, might be taken at 39,762. The casualties he would reckon at 29,000. He then moved his first resolution for granting 6,000,000l. to the land forces; which, after some discussion, in which Capt. Bennett, Messrs. Huskisson, Freemantle, Creevey, and Whitbread, urged objections to many of the items, was carried; as were the others subsequently.

HOUSE OF LORDS, March 9.

In a Committee on the Banbury Peerage, Lord Erskine spoke in reply for the claimant at considerable length. The Committee then divided-for the Claimant 13; against him 21.

In the Commous, the same day, on Sir Stapleton Cotton taking his seat, the SPEAKER, in very handsome terins, complimented the gallant General on having, at the battle of Salamanca, laid open the road to the splendid victory that was the

result of it, and returned him thanks in the name of the Commons for his heroic exploits on that memorable day.

The House having resolved itself into a Committee on the Catholic Claims, Mr. Grattan concluded a long speech by moving the following Resolution:-" That the House would take measures for restoring to the Catholics the privileges of the Constitution; subject, however, to certain exceptions, and under such regulations as might be deemed necessary to support the Protestant Establishment in Church and State. He added, that if this was agreed to, he should then move for leave to bring in a Bill; but he was not desirous of precipitating the measure. He thought that time ought to be given for the spirits to cool that they should not legislate without consulting the feelings of the people; and that in the mean time they should repose upon the good sense of both countries, and not take any step that should deprive the cause of the benefit of that good sense.

The SPEAKER said he was willing that the range of Catholic privileges should be extended in such a way, that all objects of honour, distinct from political power, should be opened to them. He would lay open to them all Military situations, even the Staff appointments, with the exception,. however, of the highest situation in the profession, that of Commander in Chief in England, Scotland, and Ireland. He would likewise admit the Catholics to all the honours of the Bar-protect the Soldier in the exercise of his religion in this countryand protect Mass-houses in the same manner as other places of worship; but, as long as the Roman Catholicks acknowledged the foreign influence of the Pope, he could not consent to arm them with political power.

Messrs. Ponsonby and Wilberforce, Sir J. Cox Hippisley, Sir J. Newport, and Lords Dysart and Milton, spoke shortly in favour of the motion; as did Lord Castlereagh, reserving to himself the right of opposing the Bill.

Dr. Duigenan, in an elaborate speech, contended that the concessions would be altogether detrimental to the happiness and security of the Establishment in Church and State,

Mr. Canning remarked that it had been imputed, as a novel mode of accusation, that all the impracticable parts of the scheme had been abandoned; that all its attackable points had been removed, and that it was loaded with no convenient extravagance. This absence of fault had been imputed to the plan as culpable,

though

Lord Cochrane complained of the difficulty which many petty officers and seamen, who had been invalided, met with to obtain their discharge. He mentioned two cases where so large a sum as 80%. and 901. had been given. He likewise observed that it was difficult to obtain relief for seamen from the fund at Greenwich Hospital. He thought a portion of the Droits of Admiralty might be applied for the relief of these men, and for the widows of Naval Officers. He would shortly bring in a Bill for restricting the time of Service in the Navy.

A Committee was appointed, on the motion of Mr. Giddy, to examine the Acts respecting Copy-right, and to report whether any and what alterations are requisite to be made therein.

Mr. M. A. Taylor, after urging various objections against the creation of a ViceChancellor, the principal of which was, that the Lord Chancellor would be too much of a political officer, moved for the appointment of a Committee, to consider the propriety of relieving the Lord Chancellor from the cognizance of bankruptcy

cases.

Mr. Leach said, that these cases did not occupy more than 36 days in a year, and it would not be right to go to the expence of a separate establishment for this purpose.

After some discussion, the motion was negatived without a division. The ViceChancellor's Bill was read the third time after a division, when the numbers were 127 to 89.

Mr. Canning's Clause, that the office should last seven years, was negatived by 145 to 114.

HOUSE OF LORDS, March 12. Marquis Wellesley complained, in a very long and animated speech, of the little advantages which had resulted from the victory of Salamanca; contended that a reinforcement of 15,000 men, including 3000 cavalry, which it was practicable to send out, would have brought the contest to a favourable close; and concluded by moving for a Committee of Inquiry.

Earl Grey supported the motion, though he was not very sanguine in his expectations respecting the war in Spain,

In the Commons the same day, in a Committee of the whole House, Mr. Dundas moved the grant of 1,255,9631. for the dock-yards, out-ports, and marines.

Mr. Creevey moved an amendment, that the Salary of the Paymaster of the Marines ought to be omitted, which was negatived by 56 to 35.-The estimates were agreed to.

Lord Castlereagh disavowed any know ledge of the Manifesto of Louis XVIII. He admitted that proposals for a nego ciation for an exchange of prisoners had been made from France, but said that the terms were inadmissible.

HOUSE OF LORDS, March 15.

The Report of the Committee of Privileges on the Banbury Peerage being read, declaring that the claimant had not made good his claim, and the Duke of Norfolk moving that the House agree with the Committee, Lord Erskine said he would enter his dissent on the Journals.

In the Commons, the same day, Mr. Whitbread, after strong censure of the Morning Herald and Morning Post, for having first published the indecent and condemned testimony taken on the inquiry against the Princess of Wales, inquired of Lord Castlereagh, if any prosecution had been instituted against Lady Douglas for perjury; whether she had been examined, between the 12th Feb. and 5th March, as a credible witness; and whether any inquiry or examination was going on.

Lord Castlereagh said, the taunts of the Hon. Gentleman should not provoke him to answer.

HOUSE OF LORDS, March 16. On a Petition from the City of London being presented, in favour of the East India Company's Charter, Lord Grenville declared that he approved the views of Ministers in throwing the trade open, and would support them.

The Earl of Liverpool said the Resolutions would be submitted to the other House in a few days by Lord Castlereagh.

In the Commons, the same day, the Bill for compelling Manufacturers to engrave their names on fire-arms was thrown out, as an incipient attempt at monopoly, by 78 to 18.

March 17.

Mr. Whitbread presented a Petition from Sir John and Lady Douglas, requesting to be permitted to re-swear their depositions before such a tribunal as would subject them to a prosecution if they proved

to