THE COWSLIP AND THISTLE. By Miss TREFusis. HE Cowslip by the Thistle's side TH In modest beauty meekly blooms, Shrinks from each blast, and seems to hide Its velvet leaves, its soft perfumes. The sturdy Thistle boldly dares The traveller's foot, the beating rain, Her rugged breast undaunted bares, And scowls defiance o'er the plain! In trembling hope and timid joy The Cowslip counts each flitting hour, Till the rude foot of shepherd boy Crushes at once both weed and flower. Her head th' elastic Thistle rears, Nor seems to suffer from the wound; The Cowslip dies! but Zephyr bears Her dying fragrance wide around. "Dear youth," the blushing Anna said, "The lesson of their fate explain.""Thine heart will tell thee, gentle maid! That heart so prone to nourish pain.""Ah Henry in the Cowslip's doom Perhaps our mutual fate I see! The surest passport to the tomb I feel is-Sensibility. The Thistle pictures the cold breast And fattens e'en on kindred tears! Than live unloving, and unlov'd? STOP by Counting for aye thy coral beads; Thy belly makes for fowl and fish, Large draughts of ale, and spiced wine; Stint not, it cries, to me be true; Be all these welcome blessings mine! 'Tis three long hours by Adam's dole ! And three long days they seem'd at least; The mass detain'd me from the bowl, And pious orgies of the feast. The lazy mass-priest was too long, In penance sharp he made me pine; There was no music in his song; His prayer was naught, it brought no wine. If life be short, as book-men say, It is our duty, well I ween, While shines the sun, to make our hay, And dance in summer o'er the green But, when our Prior he will prate Of shrift, at Lent, and abstinence, Of early mass, and vespers late, I hold his sermons void of sense. For why should we ourselves torment In vain? and with a fretful mind, Eschew the blessings for us sent, And be to present pleasures blind. In revelry be blithe and brave; Then, then would Fame, with liberal I breath, Perform kind Zephyr's friendly part; And tell the world, "Here rests in death The victim of a feeling heart!" ON A VIOLET. WHO erewhile was deemed the lowliest flower [bower, Which Spring ere wak'd to life in April Let me but once on Julia's bosom shine, Then see what pride shall ever equal mine. W. B. LINES, HE subject of these Lines expired at Tiverton, in the 19th year of his age, on the 14th of Dec. 1807, after a long and painful indisposition, the effect of complicated disease, commencing very soon after his birth; from which period, to the hour of his dissolution, he never experienced a single month unembittered by some corporeal affliction: but the almost unparalleled fortitude and resignation with which his unexampled sufferings were horne, have left an impression on the minds of his relatives and friends, which the hand of Time may soften, but cannot efface. "He chasteneth every Son rehom he receiveth." MATURE in grief! and in affliction old, [told; Worn-out by woe ere half thy years were Practis'd in pain, what was this life to thee? One long, uninterrupted malady. Sad prelude to Thy youth, the skill-' directed knife [a Life Preserv'd, what had been better lost, With health and nature one continued scan [man; Thy ways, mysterious Providence, with Yet be this truth by mortals understood, Woe works delight, and ev'ry evil good: By thee at least, we humbly hope 'tis known, [moan; Whose sad distress these artless numbers 'By thee, for whom nor renovating morn, Nor spring amid reviving nature born, Nor health-restoring breath of Western breeze, [disease; Could purchase respite short from long Een balmy night, her pillow to thy pain, Unceasing, restless, offer'd still in vain. *Primitia juvenis misére! In his third year he underwent the operation of Lithotomy, performed by that truly skilful and eminent Surgeon, Sir William Blizard, Knt. to whom the writer of these lines is also indebted for the blessing of sight. If ills unnumber'd, borne without a Thro' years of uncomplaining misery ; Then shall approving Angels, on thy bier Before that Throne, where Resignation, Whom ease, and smiles, and affluence [shall sound. Feel half thy Joy, when the last Trump surround, ODE AU PEUPLE PORTUGAIS. N'entens-tu pas les sombres rives A te couronner de lauriers. Trop N SONG CH. TANCRE. FOR THE SPANISH PATRIOTS. Close their crowded rear in vain. Iberia's triumph, down thy flood. Hasten, Warriors! quick advance Sierra's brown heights, bring ev'ry Son; Keen Vengeance points th' appalling lance Cease not till the battle's won. Gallia yields the palmy wreath. Where the fainting crescent filed. By the noble blood of Spain, Shall our Sovereign's cause be righted, Nor, insulted, call in vain. Hark what Spirits cry for vengeance, Matrons' honour, Daughters' tears, Fly, fly from these, insulting France! Sharper these than hostile spears. Gallia dreads a Tyrant's sway, Rapine leads her hungry van; "Honour's the call that we obey, Honour only prompts the man.' Deep engrav'd on ev'ry heart, be What in fervent shouts we sing: "Patriots know a Patriot's duty, Iberia's honour, and her King." A MODERN. Mets A WAR-SONG, FOR THE SPANIARDS. OURN, Tyrant of Europe, for now sets thy star, [guil'd; Which so long with false splendour,beThe Nations with horror behold it afar, Like a Comet, malignant and wild. Treason, Famine, and Death, glaring red in its train, Still menace with ruin the world; But let Spaniards be true-they shall menace in vain, The star from its sphere shall be hurl'd. Mourn, Tyrant of Europe, our land was not sold, When her Princes low bended the knee, When their hands were too feeble our fet INSCRIPTION, in old English Characters, on a Root Seat at the NURSERY, WEST-FELTON, the Seat of I. F. M. DOVASTON, ESQ. COME not to these peaceful bowres Nor censure here my harmlesse houres For, if ye spurne the ioyes serene From Solitude accruinge, Than marre it in the mendinge. So shall ye walk eche crowded courte, Or pleas'd, like me, to bowres resorte, I. F. M. D. HE following Hendecasyllabic Ode, And, as she lov'd thy kindred form to trace, [face. The slow smile wander'd o'er her pallid For never yet did mortal voice impart Tones more congenial to the sadden'd heart; Whether, to rouse the sympathetic glow, Thou pourest lone Monimia's tale of woe; Or haply cloathest with funereal vest, The bridal loves, that wept in Juliet's breast: The fold om The Baltimore North O'er our chill limbs the thrilling terrors American), not more distinguished for the pure and graceful Latinity of its style, than the delicacy and beauty of the conceptions, was addressed to the late Mrs. Warren*, then Miss Brunton, by Mr. Francis Wrangham. It speaks more than volumes could in her praise; and will be read with fond regret by every admirer of that accomplished Actress, who, alas! is now no Yours, &c. more. AD BRUNTONAM, E GRANTA EXITURAM. C. NOSTRI præsidium et decus theatri; Mox divinior enitescis, altrix O Bruntona, citò exitura virgo, *Sister to the Countess Craven. creep, [keep; Th' entranced passions their still vigils Whilst the deep sighs, responsive to the song, [throng. Sound through the silence of the trembling But purer raptures lighten'd from thy [grace; face, And spread o'er all thy form an holier When from the Daughter's breast's the fa ther drew fdew. PROCEEDINGS IN THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FOURTH PARLIAMENT OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 23. General Mathew presented a similar Petition from Tipperary. In a Committee of Supply, the following sums were voted, viz.-For Arrears of Army Extraordinaries from December 1806 to December 1807, 147,1797. 15s. 2d.For Army Extraordinaries for the year 1808 for Great Britain, 2,850,000/-For the like for Ireland, 500,000/-For repairing the Chapel of Henry VII. 10007. On the question for the House going into a Committee to consider of the propriety of preventing distillation except from sugar and molasses, a long debate again ensued, in which the arguments on both sides were renewed and enforced. division, the numbers were-For Mr. Speaker's leaving the Chair, 163, against it, 127-Majority 36. On a The House having then gone into a Committee, the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved three Resolutions conformable to the Report of the private Committee. The necessity of postponing the debate on these at that advanced hour (two o'clock) was strongly insisted on; and, on a suggestion of the Speaker, the resolutions were pro formâ agreed to, on an understanding that the two first should be re-committed. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 24. On the question for the House going into a Committee on the Indictment Bill, Lord Erskine, in a speech of impressive argument and great eloquence, opposed it, as a measure uncalled for, and trenching on the vital principles of our Constitution. After considerable intervals, first, Earl Stanhope, and afterwards Lord Holland, followed on the same side, each of them expressing their astonishment, that the arguments of their Noble and Learned Friend, if they were not admitted to be unanswerable, and of course destructive of the Bill, did not receive some reply. Ministers chose, however, to allow the measure to pass, on their part, sub silentio. On a division on the question for going into a Committee, the numbers were→→→ Contents 15, Non-Contents 6-Majority 9, Immediately on the division taking place, Lords Erskine and Holland left the House. Earl Stanhope, though he commended the conduct of his Noble Friends who would not be present while such a pernicious Bill went through a Committee, staid himself GENT. MAG. August, 1808. for the purpose of seeing what would be done in it. He submitted several Amend❤ ments in the Committee, all of which were negatived, without a word being adduced in opposition to them. His Lordship then hastily quitted the House, exclaiming that he would leave their Lordships to account for their conduct, to God, their consciences, and their country! HOUSE OF LORDS, May 25. In a Committee on the Assesed Taxes Bill, Earl Darnley suggested, that, instead of continued trifling alterations on the Game Laws, they might be much improved, by making Game property on the land where it was found, and legalizing its sale. Lord Hawkesbury observed, that this plan had formerly been in contemplation; but was given up, as leading to harshness and inconvenience. In the Commons, the same day, Sir S. Romilly brought in a Bill for mitigating the Criminal Law in certain cases. Sir F. Burdett informed the House, that the practical consequence, in the event of which he had been directed by the Chair again to apply to them, on the breach of their privileges in his person, had now occurred. A conversation then ensued, in which Sir A. Piggott and Messrs. Perceval, Leicester, and Bathurst, declared their opinion, that the House could not interfere, there being nothing on the record, as to the direction given by the Judge, on which to ground any proceeding. Mr. Tierney, on the other hand, thought it a question well worthy of the most serious consideration. The Speaker stated the modes of proceeding; two instances of which had occur red in the reign of Charles the Second, in the one of which the proceeding was by Impeachment against the Judge; and in the other, the discussion was allowed to drop. It was for the House to say whether the more or less serious mode ought here to be adopted. The matter dropped. Mr. Grattan, in a speech equally distin guished for its eloquence and moderation, brought forward the Claims of the Catho lics of Ireland to a community of rights with their fellow subjects. He shewed that the Catholics of Ireland did not ac knowledge the supremacy of the Pope in civil matters, his right to depose Kings, or to absolve subjects from their allegi ance. We confided so far in Catholic Powers, as to form alliances with them. We even planted Catholic States in differeat quarters of the world. We had formed a Catholic Establishment in Canada, and had assisted in planting that Religion, along |
