'Twas in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell
And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell:
On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest,
And the depths of the ocean its presence confest ;
"Twill be found in the sphere when 'tis riven asunder,
Be seen in the lightning, and heard in the thunder.
'Twas allotted to man with his earliest breath,
Attends at his birth, and awaits him in death,
Presides o'er his happiness, honour, and health,
Is the prop of his house, and the end of his wealth.
In the heaps of the miser 'tis hoarded with care,
But is sure to be lost on his prodigal heir.
It begins every hope, every wish it must bound,
With the husbandman toils, and with monarchs is crown'd.
Without it the soldier, the seaman may roam,
But wo to the wretch who expels it from home!
In the whispers of conscience its voice will be found,
Nor e'en in the whirlwind of passion be drown'd.
'Twill not soften the heart; but though deaf be the ear,
It will make it acutely and instantly hear.
Yet in shade let it rest like a delicate flower,
Ah breathe on it softly-it dies in an hour.
A Newdigate Prize Poem, recited at the Theatre, Oxford, June 1823. By T. S. SALMON.
WRAPT in the veil of time's unbroken gloom,
Obscure as death, and silent as the tomb,
Where cold oblivion holds her dusky reign,
Frowns the dark pile on Sarum's lonely plain.
Yet think not here with classic eye to trace
Corinthian beauty, or Ionian grace;
No pillar'd lines with sculptured foliage crown'd,
No fluted remnants deck the hallow'd ground;
Firm, as implanted by some Titan's might,
Each rugged stone uprears its giant height,
Whence the poised fragment tottering seems to throw
A trembling shadow on the plain below.
Here oft, when evening sheds her twilight ray,
And gilds with fainter beam departing day,
With breathless gaze, and cheek with terror pale,
The lingering shepherd startles at the tale,
How at deep midnight, by the moon's chill glance,
Unearthly forms prolong the viewless dance;
While on each whisp'ring breeze that murmurs by,
His busied fancy hears the hollow sigh.
Rise from thy haunt, dread genius of the clime,
Rise, magic spirit of forgotten time!
"Tis thine to burst the mantling clouds of age,
And fling new radiance on Tradition's page:
See! at thy call, from Fable's varied store,
In shadowy train the mingled visions pour:
Here the wild Briton, 'mid his wilder reign,
Spurns the proud yoke, and scorns th' oppressor's chain;
Here wizard Merlin, where the mighty fell,*
Waves the dark wand, and chants the thrilling spell.
Hark! 'tis the bardic lyre, whose harrowing strain
Wakes the rude echoes of the slumbering plain;
Lo! 'tis the Druid pomp, whose lengthening line
In lowliest homage bend before the shrine.
He comes the priest-amid the sullen blaze
His snow-white robe in spectral lustre plays;
Dim gleam the torches thro' the circling night,
Dark curl the vapours round the altar's light;
O'er the black scene of death, each conscious star.
In lurid glory, rolls its silent car.
'Tis gone! e'en now the mystic horrors fade
From Sarum's loneliness, and Mona's glade;
Hush'd is each note of Taliesin's† lyre,
Sheath'd the fell blade, and quench'd the fatal fire.
On wings of light Hope's angel form appears,
Smiles on the past, and points to happier years:
Points, with uplifted hand, and raptur'd eye,
To yon pure dawn that floods the opening sky;
And views, at length, the sun of Judah pour
One cloudless noon o'er Albion's rescued shore.
On this spot it is said that the British nobles were slaughtered by Hengist. + Taliesin, president of the bards, flourished in the sixth century.
[N. B. The figures within crotchets refer to the History; those with a • to the
Appendix to Chronicle, &c.; and the others to the Chronicle.]
ABBERVILLERS, ghost at, 104
Accident at the theatre, Newcastle, 20
Acetate of Morphine, 17*
A'Court, sir W., his correspondence
with Mr. Canning, relative to the
affairs of France and Spain, 116,*
&c.
Acts, public general, list of, 235
Admiralty sessions, 53
Advertisement, singular Chinese one,
154
African institution, 17th report of, 80;
circulation of works by, on the con-
tinent, 93* :--see also Slave trade
Agricultural distress: discussion on, in
parliament, [95]; meeting at Nor-
wich respecting, 5; at Hereford, 8;
Somersetshire, ib.
Agriculture, report on the state of, in
New South Wales, 71*
Ale and porter, quantity of, brewed
in London, 86
Alert (packet), loss of the, 39
Ambassador, action to try whether the
property of persons attached to one,
be subject to legal process, 53
America, appointment of British con-
suls in South America, [144]; capt.
Franklin's journey to the Polar Sea,
251*; affairs of South America ;
see Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Co-
lumbia, Mexico, Peru; of North
America,-see Canada, and United
States
American duelling, 68
Angerstein, Mr., death of, 189
Angoulême's, duke of, proclamation to
the Spaniards, [189], 158*—see also
Spain
Antiquities, discovery of, at Rome,
48; tesselated pavement discovered
at Weyhill, 67; painting of the
murder of archbishop Beckett, dis-
covered at Wootton Basset, 118;
the ancient town of Orea discovered,
in Fifeshire, 155
Appeals, writs of error, &c., report of
the House of Lords on, 63*
Arctic Seas, animalcules in, 290* ; re-
fraction of light, 293*
Arracacha, new esculent plant, de-
scription of, 304*
Arts and manufactures, 308*
Auricular organs. 289*
Aurora Borealis, 294*
Assassination of Mr. Horrocks, at-
tempted, 101
Assizes and Sessions: Aylesbury, T.
Randall and J. Croker, for murder
of Mr. and Mrs. Needle, 36*
Chelmsford; Felix Reynolds, rape,
Croydon; P. Stoffel and C. Keppel,
murder of Mrs. Richards, 44*
Ely; J. Rolfe, murder, 21
Enniskillen; J. Keys, murder of
his father, 36
Lincoln; W. Arden, B. Chandeler,
and J. Doughty, unnatural crime,
30
Maidstone; W. Donallan, murder of
his wife, 103
Manchester; Shore, &c. robbery ;
outrage committed by them in
court, 140
Middlesex; Jas. Wilson, assault on
his own daughter, 128
Staffordshire; Sir G. Jerningham,
v. Beech, action of trover, to re-
cover the value of trees cut down,
31; Jas. Roxborough and wife,
fraud and robbery, 139
Taunton; E. Bryant, &c. maiming,
Waterford; H. Delap, murder, 93
Austria: causes the press to be re-
stricted in Bavaria, [176]; and in
Switzerland, [177]; and refugees
to be expelled from the latter coun-
try, [178]; interview between the
emperors of Austria and Russia,
[179]
Appellate jurisdiction, [93]; report Azzolari, M., case of seduction by, 89
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Becard, Jos., prize awarded to, for his
virtuous conduct, 112
Beckett, archbishop, painting discover-
ed representing his murder, 118
Begu and Lafforçade, trial of, for
murder, 98
Belzoni, G., death of, 211
Bettera, count de, committed to prison
for violence towards prince Ester.
hazy, 27
Bills in the House of Commons, form
of engrossing, 66*
of mortality, table of, 250
Bingley, rev. W., death of, 192
Birmingham, nest of coiners discover-
ed at, 90
Bloomfield, the poet, death of, 202
Blucher, count, wounds an actor, 146
Bolivar, pension to, [247]; placed at
the head of affairs, in Peru, [250];
letter to Aguera, [251]; note
Bond, rt. hon. Nath. death of, 209
Bordwine, Mr., instrument for finding
the latitude, 308*
Bourdeaux, case of the vicar of St.
Eloi, and M. Barthes, 115
Boursier, Madame, trial of, for the
murder of her husband, [166] 19*
Bowring, Mr., motion in parliament,
respecting his imprisonment, [139]
Brazil: separation from Portugal,
[217]; commercial regulations indi-
cative of a hostile spirit, [ib.]; politi-
cal dissensions, [218]; meeting of
the congress, [ib.]; emperor's speech,
[219]; change of ministry, [220];
emperor's proclamation, [ib.] note;
violent proceedings of the congress,
[222]; congress dissolved by mili
tary force, [223]; another change of
ministry, [224]; emperor's procla-
mation, respecting a new constitu-
tion, [ib.]; murder of the Portuguese
at Para, [226]; horrible destruction
of some of the rioters, [227]; note.
military operations at Bahia, [228];
San Salvador evacuated by the
Portuguese, [229]; lord Cochrane's
operations by sea, [ib.]; Monte Video
surrenders to the Brazilians, [230];
Portuguese commissioners not al-
lowed to treat, [ib.]; Finances, [.]:
emperor's manifesto, after dissolving
congress, 169; project of the con-
stitution, 172; the legislative
power, 173; the executive ditto,
176; of the succession, &c. 1777;
of the ministry, 178*; of the mili
tary force, 179*; of the judicial
power, ib.; administration of the
provinces, 180; civil and political
rights of the people, ib.
Brewster, Dr., fluid discovered by, in
minerals, 297*; experiments for
forming artificial haloes round the
sun, &c. ib.
Bridgewater, earl of, death of, 209
Brougham, Mr., speech on the affairs
of Spain, [8]; unsuccessful reply to
Mr. Canning's vindication of the po-
licy of Great Britain towards Spain,
[45]; motion relative to the admi-
nistration of justice in Ireland, [63];
invective against Mr. Canning, [76]
Brownlow, Mr., motions by, respecting
the riot at the Dublin theatre, [52)
[53]
Budget, [113]; French, [157]
Buckinghamshire, Van Dieman's
Land, 77*
Buenos Ayres, prosperity under Riva
divia, [253]; preliminary conven-
tion with Spain, [ib.], 196*; misun.
derstanding between the govern
ment and capt. Willis, ib.
Burdett, sir F., speech on the Spanish
affairs, [34]; motion for inquiry
into the conduct of the sheriff of
Dublin, [56]
Byron, lord, letter from, to the Greek
committee, 63
Cadiz, operations before, [204]; sur-
renders to the French, [208]
Cahuac and Beeman, trial of, for steal.
ing books, 125
Canada, fire on board the De Salaberry
steam-boat, 71; steam navigation,
72; three boys upset in a cance
near the Chêne Rapids, 74.
Canning, Mr., takes his seat in par-
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