the Prince of Francavilla, whose principles were as little honourable as those of his adversary, and whose thirst of revenge was no less insatiable, had appointed a band of assassins to waylay and murder him on his way home, had he returned victorious from the conflict.'

ticulars of this event are familiar to the public; and we therefore pass them Court, in the time of his kingly power. over, to quote the description of Murat's

specimens of these preludes, which resemble unconnected pieces of recitative. The sufferer usually rises to some melan. choly melody in a minor key, and slowly follows its movement by her steps; it is then that the musician has an opportunity The splendour of Murat's court, perof displaying his skill, by imperceptibly haps the most brilliant in Europe at the At Brindisi our traveller was mis- accelerating the time till it falls into the period I allude to, as greatly exceeded the taken for the Crown Prince of Bavaria, merry measure of the pizzica, which is, rank he held among other sovereigns, as who was expected there on his way to in fact, that of the tarantellas or national the appointment and numbers of his troops Greece; and, notwithstanding his at- the tarentine air, greater variety and a population of the kingdom; and both were dance, only that, in the composition of were disproportioned to the resources and tempts to undeceive the commandant, as well as the abbess of the convent, observable. She continues dancing to va-fuse disposition which could reward the more polished and even scientific style is characteristic of that indiscriminately pro yet he was reluctantly compelled to rious successions of these tunes as long as merits of an opera dancer upon the same receive the homage they considered her breath and strength allow, occasion-scale of liberality with the services of a gedue to royalty. At the convent he was ally selecting one of the bystanders as néral or a minister of state. shown large cases of relics, which he her partner, and sprinkling her face with 'His wife, with the same high notions of was told had been given by his great-cold water, a large vessel of which is al-magnificence, was by no means so injudigrand-father and others of his progeni-ways placed near at hand. While she tors. He says, rests at times, the guests invited relieve Among the relics which were named of the country; and when, overcome by her by dancing by turns after the fashion to me, I remember some fragments of resistless lassitude and faintness, she dethe veil and shift of the Virgin Mary, a thumb of St. Athanasius, a tooth of the takes the pail or jar of water, and pours termines to give over for the day, she prophet Jeremiah, and some of the coals its contents entirely over her person, from which were used to roast St. Lorenzo. her head downwards. This is the signal Many of these memorials were offered for her friends to undress and convey her me to kiss, and the last-mentioned arti- to bed; after which the rest of the comcles were accompanied by the observation that they had been the means of convert-pany endeavour to further her recovery ing a sceptic by sticking to and blistering is always prepared on the occasion.' by devouring a substantial repast, which his lip; I own I felt a sort of momentary hesitation as they were presented to mine, and withdrew them with a degree of promptitude hardly compatible with a disbelief in their verity.'

While at Brindisi and Taranto, Mr. Craven endeavoured to obtain the most satisfactory information respecting the Tarantula spider, but the Brundusians differed from the Tarentines iu the account of it, both however agreeing as to the existence of the disorder, or rather mania occasioned by the bite of the Tarantula, and the means taken to remedy it. As the latter is curious, we quote it :

The expenditure of money and time attending the ceremonies observed in the cure of a tarantata, which attract the attention and form the diversion of a whole village, will account for the husband's objections to the neighbours' encourage ment of them. These last, as well as the friends and relations of the party, are always apprized in due time, and invited to assist in their holiday clothes at the singular rites which are to be performed. Musicians, expert in the art, are summoned, and the patient, attired in white, and gaudily adorned with various coloured ribands, vine leaves, and trinkets of all kinds, is led out, holding a drawn sword in her hand, on a terrace, in the midst of her sympathizing friends; she sits with her head reclining on her hands, while the musical performers try the dif. ferent chords, keys, tones, and tunes that may arrest her wandering attention, or suit her taste or caprice. I heard some

Among the singular effects of the
earthquake at Terranova and Oppido
in 1783, Mr. Craven, speaking of the
former says,-**

street, containing 700 inhabitants, placed
I found a village formed of one straight
in the midst of ruins, which were those of
a town of 13,000 souls. These present to
the eye masses of masonry of immense
size, scattered in all directions, and fre-
possessed, but inverted or transposed in
quently retaining the forms they originally
the most extraordinary manner. A house
situated 300 paces from a little river that

runs in the ravine under Terranova, was
slipped by the motion of the earth close
to the edge of it, and though the roof and
a portion of its walls fell in by the force
of the shock, two of its inmates crept out
unhurt. Another most singular feature
in the views of Terranova is presented by
one of the watch-towers of the baronial
castle, which was precipitated off its base
down the side of the declivity, and to this
day exists in almost an entire state, with
its battlements downwards. The ground
sunk so much in some places that the cir-
cular shaft of a well, which was once en-
tirely concealed by the soil, now rises to
the height of six feet above the surface;
its im mobility during the universal com
motion is attributed to the rock on which
it is probably founded.'

ciously generous; and had they not both too blindly followed a system of deceit, adapted to subordinate political negociations which, though sometimes successfully cannot be applied with equal advantage to haps have preserved some remnants of that all times and exigencies, they might perstation to which fortune had exalted them, or at least have descended to the level of mediocrity by less perilous gradations.

'A celebrated statesman said of some'

intriguing diplomast, Il croit qu'il trompe parcequ'il ment;" and this conviction seemed nowhere so strongly rooted as in the ha bits of these individuals.

of Joachim from the walls of Naples, which On the evening that saw the departure he was destined never again to behold, he ordered the publication of a constitution he was entering the carriage of one of his dated six weeks before; and at the moment attendants, for the purpose of secret escape, Madame Murat was gravely announcing to his confidential friends and advisers his determination to collect a few scattered last effort to arrest the progress of the enetroops still left in the capital, and make one my the defeat of the Neapolitan troops at MaWhen, a fortnight previous to this, cerata was already known in the metropolis, a bulletin, said to be written with a pencil by Murat's own hand on the field of battle, announced a complete victory, and the capture of several pieces of cannon.

At the time that the Austrians were already in full march towards Naples, the queen regent, as she was called, reviewed the civic guard with extraordinary grace and spirit, and assured them that a few more days would liberate them from all the hardships and dangers attached to the discharge of their functions; and the last minutes she passed in the palace were employed in graciously requesting some favourites to attend her breakfast the fol lowing morning, an injunction which was followed by her immediate removal to the ship from which she never again stepped on the Neapolitan shore.

In passing from Monteleone to Nicastro, our author deviated from the of the royal residence on this day was as The aspect presented by the interior road to visit II Pizzo, to visit the spot extraordinary as it was novel to a spectawhere the unfortunate Joachim Murat tor, accustomed to see it only in its gala termmated his eventful life. The par-trim. The courts were full of servants.

tumultuously demanding the arrears of their wages, and taking earnest of future payment in the seizure of the horses belonging to the establishment. The long corridors and galleries, untenanted by guards and liveried menials, presented no obstacles to the few visitors whom interest or curiosity attracted towards the closing scene of this drama. The kingly apartment itself, still adorned with the ponderous spoils of Herculaneum and Pompeii, relieved by Lyons' embroidery and India muslins, was obstructed by large packing cases, and its mosaic pavements soiled by the dirty footsteps of porters and carriers, and strewed with wisps of hay or paper shavings. The ladies in waiting, accoutred in the usual costly garb of attendance, were gnawing a few chicken bones, the scanty remains of the day's single meal; and, lastly, the indefatigable occupier of the tenement, decked out in all the elegance and recherche of the last Parisian fashions, and preserving the careless smile of assumed compla cency, strangely contrasted with haggard eyes and care-worn cheeks, was variously employed in packing up jewels, distributing money, dictating letters, and receiving or dismissing visitors with all the minute distinction of courtly etiquette.'

This association may be compared to a destroy them, carried them with her as vouchers for the authenticity of her inforchain, the links of which are so constructed, and well-fitted to each other, mation. The justice of peace admitted that, however totally they might be sepa- her in private, and having heard the comrated in their junction by accidental cir-plaint, and received the fatal papers, told cumstances, re-union may be produced her that he would give her husband so saamongst any of their number. The seve- lutary a remonstrance, that he would anral portions need only be brought in con- swer for his breaking off all future contact to insure adhesion, and a continuation nexion with the hateful and impious sect of those energies inherent to its original to which he had so imprudently attached The mode in which these himself: and that he would moreover formation. joints are connected may be exemplified pursue the miscreants with all the severity in the following anecdote, the authenticity their conduct deserved. This satisfied the wife, who having left the diploma and caof which I can vouch for. techism in the hands of the justice, sent her husband to receive the promised admonition; but this consisted in a serious caution with regard to future discretion,' and an offer to preserve the papers in his own possession, as himself holding one of the highest distinctions among the ranks of the society in question, sur sc

Two itinerant traders in cattle were returning from the province of Abruzzo with the successful fruits of their speculations, and, within a few hours of their home, were stopped by a comitiva of five brigands; in the course of the short parley that preceded the delivery of their money, one of them happened by some . It is evident from this narrative, that, fortunate signal, to betray himself as a Carbonaro to the captain of the gang, who notwithstanding the circumspection usualimmediately taking him aside, asked if his ly observed by the order, respecting the companion belonged to the sect, and be- admission of fresh members, it is impossiing answered in the negative, thought ble that they should all prove as unexhimself at liberty to despoil the one of his ceptionable in point of character, as the gains, while, out of sympathy to the other, general rule enjoins; but, though the he limited his depredations to the sum of recommendation of an initiated Carbonaro ten ducats. They parted; and the suf- in favour of a proselyte cannot be rejected, Our limits will only permit us to ferer having observed the secret confer- unless upon objections the most unequigive one more extract: it is the authors ence, which had ended so favourably for vocal, a singular minuteness of investigahis fellow traveller, suspected the truth; tion is followed with regard to the habits account of the much talked of, and it and, after obtaining an avowal of it, deter- and dispositions of those whose merits would appear much abused Carbonari.mined on becoming a Carbonaro the mo- point them out no valuable additions to The late revolution has been ascribed ment an opportunity should present itself. the community. The arts practised to to the persevering efforts of this sect; and This occurred that very evening. The obtain the accession of such individuals, their avowed co-operation towards pro- sectarian easily found a sufficient number testify the importance attached to it; and moting this ephemeral event, has been of initiated to form an assembly, possessed bespeak a system of ingenious perseverworth recording. Should any one of the principal arguments laid hold in number and rank with the authority ance of by its opponents for the necessity of competent to admit the proselyte accord- young man distinguish himself by reguresisting its progress. That the efforts of ing to the established rules of the body.larity of conduct, sobriety of temperathis society have been directed to the He returned to his own house, so elated ment, but more especially by superiority attainment of a representative system of with what he deemed an unfailing badge of understanding, he is as sure to attract government, can no more be denied than of security against all future attacks from the notice and call forth the attention of that they have been eminently successful; robbers, that, in the moment of surprise the Carbonari, as they are certain to sucbut that in so doing they assumed an ex- and exultation, he heedlessly informed his ceed in the final attainment of their object. The nameless, but numerous, offices of clusive agency in the affairs of state, and wife of the occurrences of the day. Full must, therefore, be regarded in the light of the prejudices purposely disseminated good fellowship, which, in a life of early of a faction, is not admissible. It should, among the lower orders against this sect, labour, are frequently required to smooth therefore, be observed, that if the Carbo- the woman returned this mark of confi- its difficulties and assist its progress, will nari do not constitute the positive nume-dence with a volley of reproaches and la never be withheld from such an indivirical majority of the Neapolitan nation, mentations, accusing him of having enter dual. He will at all times readily find which is a matter of some doubt, they ined into a compact with the infernal new implements to supply the place of clude in their ranks that portion of the powers, of having forsaken his God, and those his industry has rendered no longer population which, from their acquirements, thereby subjected himself to excommuni- serviceable, assistance to complete his property, habits, and relative situation in cation in this world, and eternal punish-unfinished tasks, and protection, and even the body politic of the country, must ever ment in the world to come. His endea- pecuniary aid, when he is in need of The hand of friendship and corgive a decided ed preponderance to what-yours to pacify her were for a long time either. ever part they assume.' The classes ineffectual, nor would she be restored to diality will be extended to him, and wherein this sect has made the least ad- tolerable composure, till, in expiation of every ear will become the depository of vancement are the higher divisions of his criminal imprudence, she had with his confidence, as readily as every lip will nobility, and the most abject among the horror thrown his breeches, containing the convey the consolations of sympathy, or populace.' The description of indivi-diploma of his reception, and a catechism the precepts of salutary counsel. Someduals filling up the vast chasm between enumerating the duties of his new profes-times a different, but as efficacious a systhese two extremes, must be admitted to $ sion, into the fire. The next morning she tem is followed by purposely leading the rank as a body, whose employments, determined to go to the justice of peace, object into temporary difficulties, and imlabours, and local knowledge, contribute and inform him of what had passed.posing everlasting obligation by extricatmore largely to the welfare of the com- Having found the fatal documents in the ing him from them.' munity; and of these I should not hesitate chimney, where she had probably caused to affirm that the great portion are Car-them to fall from the pocket in which they bonari.! ; were deposited before the flames could

The work contains several well executed engravings by Heath, from designs by the author.

While, looking upon weapons black with
gore,

Its silent finger beckon'd Love and Hate
To come and take from the red muddy floor
A dagger to fulfil the bitter fate.'

If, after this, our readers wish to see
what has been made of such a sub-
ject, let them turn to the Para-
dise Lost; they will then think less
of Eve's weakness, when they see
the matchless art by which Milton has
made her assailed. The stanzas we
have quoted are a fair specimen of the
poem; we could have selected many
worse, and we are not aware that there
are many better.

Original Communications.

BARRY CORNWALL.
To the Editor of the Literary Chronicle.
SIR,-As a correspondent in a con-
temporary journal has lately favoured
the public with some animadversions
upon the writings of Lord Byron, and
accused him of being guilty of plagia-
rism to a great extent, I trust I shall
be excused in claiming the attention of
your readers to a poet, if not of equal
celebrity in point of talent, yet quite so
in public attraction,-I mean Mr. Bar-

And seeks to pierce the hidden cause's flow?ry Cornwall. I have persused his trage-
Then change at once your darkness into

dy of Mirandola within these few days,
and herewith send you a few, out of the
many similar instances of Plagiarism
he has been guilty of.

In act 1, sc. 3, the duke says to Isi-
dora,-

'But we must play our part, my sweet one, in
this silly world.'

And in Shakespeare's Merchant of
Venice, act 1, we have-

'I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
A stage where every man must play a part.'

Isidora:

Of day or dreaming night, but I am with thee.' giarism, surely Mr. Barry Cornwall,

being likewise an author and a poet,
cannot complain of appearing in a si-
milar character in the present instance.
'Let my disclaiming from a purpos'd evil,
Free me in his most generous thought."
A. G.

PORTRAITS OF LIVING

Dissenting Ministers,

FROM SHAKESPEARE.
No. III.

Lov. They are set here for examples.
Cham. True, they are so.
Each hath his place and function to attend.

Hen. 8.

Hen. 6.
REV. J. P. SMITH, D. D. HOMERTON COLLEGE.
From his cradle he was a scholar, and a ripe
and good one; fair spoken and prevailing.
Hen. 8. act 4.

rit.

Hen. 6.

REV. T. LEWIS, HIGHBURY.
An honourable conduct let him have,
This union promiseth a mighty fruit.
King John, act 1. sc. 1.

REV. JOHN LEIFchild, KensingTON.
The force of his own merit makes his way.
Much attribute he hath; and much the reason
Why we ascribe it to him.-Troilus & Cress.

REV. J. GRIFFIN, PORTSEA..

One that in all obedience makes the church

The chief aim of his honour; and to strengthen
That holy duty out of dear respect.

Hen. 8, act 5, s. 1.

REV. E. J. JONES, SILVER STRERT.
Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,
And tell me truly what thou think'st of him.
Such men as he be never at heart's ease
While they behold a greater than themselves.
Julius Cæsar, act 1, s. 2.

Vio. Art thou a churchman?

REV. ROWLAND HILL, A. M. SURREY CHAPEL.
Witty and courteous;-liberal and full of spi-house doth stand by the church.
I know my places well.
Twelfth Night, act 3, s. 1.
But let desert in pure election shine.
All's Well.
The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing.
Sonnet, 87,

Clo. No such matter, sir; I do live by the
church: for I do live at my house, and my

REV. T. SMITH, PENZANCE, CORNWALL. Boats. Heigh, my hearts; cheerly, cheerly, my hearts; yare, yare,

Yare; take in the top-yard; tend to the master's whistle.

This gallant which thou seest

REV. MR. COX, A. M. HACKNEY.

Was in the wreck; and but he's something If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall

stain'd

With grief, thou might'st call him a goodly

suffice.

Pass. Pilgr. v. 3.
REV. ALEX. FLEtcher, MoorfiELDS.
Tempest, sc. 2. I'll wrestle with thee in the strength of love.

Ibid.

Troilus, act 4, s. 4.

REV. J. M. INNES, CAMBERWELL.
O! he sits high in all the people's hearts!
Julius Cesar, act 1, s. 3.
IO SONO.

Fine Arts.

PAINTINGS IN WATER COLOURS.
With many fair and princely qualities,
That in his clear morn no attention drew;
Now

all men look to him.'

JOANNA BAILLIE.

THE quotation, (from perhaps the se-
cond dramatic writer that this country
ever produced,) with which we have
headed this paper, was suggested by
the consideration of the rapid progress
which the art of painting in water co-
lours has, within these few last years,
made in the estimation of the lovers of
British talent-a progress which, urged,
as it has been, by the most forcible
principles of truth, is by no means to
be considered in after ages as the evan-
escent blaze of fashionable enthusiasm,
or the smoky embodying of popular de-

lusion. Of the obstructing prejudices which were necessarily to be cut away before the march of this new or newly rising system, of the ill-will which it was forced to encounter, before that victory could be obtained, which has placed it so high among the handmaids of the arts of design,-the public is already fully aware. It remains but to state, that an exhibition was, perhaps, never presented to the public, concentrating, in so bright a focus, the various excellencies of which this branch of painting is capable. An additional circumstance may also be adduced, which we are confident our readers will learn with pleasure; we allude to the resumption of the original intention of the society, in confining the exhibition to works executed in water colours alone. After premising thus much, we shall not any longer delay offering our opinions on some few of the pieces now laid before the public eye. Among the few productions of his pencil, with which Mr. Pugin has favoured us in the present exhibition, there are some of particular merit, especially his Guildhall,' No. 2; his Library, at Cashiobury,' No. 48; and his view from the 'Quai de Louvre,' No. 26; in the last of which, however, we observed a want of solidity in the shadows, which may be met with, in a slighter degree, in the generality of this artist's works, though, in this instance, it probably arose from its intended publication through the means of the graver, We would not willingly pass over Miss Byrne's exquisite studies of Flowers and Fruits,' Nos. 49, 52, 56, and 167, which are fine specimens of colouring, shadowing, and tasteful arrangement. There are several pieces by Christall, some of which, the figures, display great talent; ineffective style; indeed, his system the landscapes are in his usual hard, yet seems to us to be fundamentally defective, bold without force, and rapid without effect, uniting the opposite extremes of hardness and washiness, of daring and insipidity, and soaring from the common track only to sink into puerility. In figure drawing, he certainly possesses great powers of excellence, and we think that his Unloading Peat,' No. 79; and his Second Study from Crabbe's Parish Register, No. 128, would be of infinite service in the world of taste, if their success could induce him to adopt subjects of that nature in his future works. Several views, by Prout, pleased us highly, as they display, in a very favourable light, his rich and artist-like execution, as well

as great discrimination in his choice of subjects fitted to his peculiar genius. We would, however, wish to see a greater attention paid to the äerial perspective, as well as a modification of that peculiar love for certain principles of the picturesque, which is too apt to lead him into exaggeration and a speeies of pictorial bombast. We allude to his excessive use of rich browns, and to the unmerciful breaking up of his objects to give them an air of ruin. These licenses must not be too frequent; and, like the use of antiquated words in poetry, their employment should be confined to what Burns, speaking of his Scottish Dialect, used to call a ten der sprinkling, and, on no account, to he scattered with such profusion as is observable in the performances of Mr. Prouty and a remarkable example of which, occurs in his Blore Church', No. 19. Varley's composition from the "Bride of Abydos,' No. 72, the picture which received the premium, is a performance highly creditable both to the talents of the artist and to the imaginative powers of poesy, with which he has entered Dupon his subjects, and by which he has been guided in this picture, where we find the embodied essence which he has extracted from the impalpable, yet delicious breathings of the lovely garden of poetic creation, which blooms in the concluding canto of Lord Byron's poem.

Original Poetry.

exhibition. We would particularly re-half a dozen, are from the prolific penfer to his Scene in Greenwich Park,' cil of Mr. Glover, whose talents as a No. 83, which, with a little too much landscape painter, place him in the profusion of browns in the foreground, first rank of living artists. Mr. Ward may be ranked among the highest of has a large Allegorical Painting of the water-colour paintings. We would battle of Waterloo, thirty-five feet by also refer (our limits will not allow us twenty-one. It has been painted by more) to the Mill at Dolgelly,' No. order of the Directors of the British 77; The Ground-swell in the Sea,' Institution, and is intended for ChelNo. 86; Eastwere Bay, with Shake-sea College. The Exhibition of the speare's Cliff,' No. 170, as fine speci- Royal Academy opens on Monday, mens of Mr. Fielding's talents, and no- with a larger collection than in any ble examples of the pitch of perfection preceding year; and including some to which this species of painting may of the productions of our most eminent be wrought. Many beautiful architec- painters. Mr. Hofland will also open tural drawings of C. Wild, form a pro- his gallery next week, in which, among minent feature in the exhibition, and it other pictures, is a large view of Richis with sorrow we find that our limits at mond.-All these will have due notice, present will not permit us to do other in our ensuing numbers. than speak in general terms of their chasteness of colouring, their fidelity of perspective, their accuracy of detail, and their grand composition taken generally. No. 21, The Arrival of the Steam-Packet at Southampton,' by Gastineau, struck us as a beautiful and natural delineation of a common but seldom-attempted moonlight effect. A View at Stratford, and of the Church by Moonlight,' we find without a name in the catalogue of the exhibition; it is No. 183, and from its superior softness and delicacy, strengthened as it is by a proper admixture of the vigorous, as well as from its general execution, we conclude that it is by Robson. wish, that the future opportunities we We will now conclude, with the may have of marking the this society, may be as much superior progress of to the present in themes for admiration, as the present is to those exhibitions which preceded it. Let the ciety, successful as they have already

SO

That the lofty point which does appear
To him who stands below the mountain's top,
Is, to the daring climber who hath reach'd it,
The real summit bright and heav'n illum'd,
Only a breathing place, from whence he sees
Towering majestic grand above him, far
As is the lofty spot on which he stands,
To the dull plain below." W. H. PARRY.

There are a considerable number of fine pieces by G. F. Robson, in his very best style, and executed with all that brilliancy, yet chasteness of colour, that breadth, yet transparency of shade, that minuteness of detail, yet general effect, that spirited delineation of the near objects, accompanied as it is by the most receding softness of the off-been, recollect— skip, which will ever place him among the first water-colour painters that this country has produced: A favourite misty effect has often been objected to him, but we confess we are not aware of any instance in which it has been improperly introduced, and we think that the instantaneous recognition of his works, which we invariably feel, arises London was never so rich in Exhinot from any mannerism or objection-bitions, as at the present moment; and able peculiarity of style, but solely many of them present attractions, well from his superior nature and fidelity in worthy the notice and patronage of the each branch of scientific delineation. public. Independent of Mr. Belzoni's His Lated Traveller,' from Shake- curious facsimiles of ancient art, we speare, No. 5, is, in our estimation, have numerous splendid displays of very superior to the same subject, by living genius. Mr. Glover's exhibition Copley Fielding, No. 158, both in of Oil and Water Colour Paintings, conception and in execution, which we which opened on Monday, contains no do not think is in an equal style to fewer than ninety one pictures; the many of his other paintings in this year's whole of these, with the exception of

tired

NAPLES.

'Tis done-the struggle's past-the slaves re-
Into their lurking holes, and o'er their hills
The tinkling toscin of their chains resound,
And echo tells it to the weeping world.
Oh Heaven! on what a proud, an envied height
Of awful grandeur stood the patriot band,
While Freedom o'er them spread her parent

wings,

And Europe in the breathless silence stood
To guard them from the pouncing eagle's rage;
Of panting Hope, her lance half pois'd in air,
Ready to strike Oppression's plundering hordes,
And lay them in the dust. But they retired,
Base trembling dastards, from the bloodless fight;
Is there a cheek that boasts the beard of man-
Retired the laugh, the scorn, e'en of slaves,

And left their names a mock-word to mankind.

hood,

But reddens into shame? Is there a heart
That feels the vital current warm its core,
But freezes at the thought? Is there an ear
But turns with horror from the sick'ning tale?
Spread one wide waste of desolation round,
Rise, Etna disembogue your hottest fires,
And make them perish; let no vestige stand
Of the base race, who, to preserve an hour

Of worthless life, slunk from the glorious war
Of freedom, and resigned their necks to chains.
Oh, had they stood-but one poor effort stood,
Their's was the praise of ages, and mankind
To latest times, the dread necessity
Which made them yield would curse. The glo-
rious sparks,

Electric playing round the sacred brow
Of Freedom's goddess, on the smiling bills
Which bound the Tagus, would, with double
lustre,

graves,

Blume their sky, and o'er their green sward
The future patriot would, with holy zeal,
Sigh at their fate.

G.A. N.

TO ELIZÀ,
With a Rose, on the First of May, the Sixteenth
Anniversary of her Birth Day.

THE beauties of sixteen display
Of fleeting life the flowery May,
When roses bloom on beauty's cheek,
1 And smiling lilies clothe her neck,-