The angry whirlwinds, as they rise
The ocean's bosom to the skies,-
The tempests, as they gather wide
In dark'ning glooms, and frowning pride,-
The deaf ning thunders, as they roll,-
May suit the moody temper of thy soul;
May plant, with dæmon guile,

A momentary transport still
Within that heart, that broods on ill,

And on thy cheek perchance may light
a hellish smile.

For Fancy in the hollow wind
May hear the howling of mankind;
The light'ning's flame may still convey
Resemblance faint of earlier day,
When Carnage revell'd on thy frown,
When Murder stalk'd abroad, and call'd thy
deeds her own.

Oh! if the clam'rous blast should bear
The dying murmurs of despair,

From sinking mariner,

What pleasure in thy brow would start!
What joy illume thy savage heart!
Thou'lt pause in breathless hope to hear;
"Twill be to thee a sound more dear
Than Heaven could confer:
Unto thy ravish'd ear 'twill seem
More sweet than soft illusive dream
To lover's mind :-

For, as upon the heaving tide
The rude dismantled fragments ride,-
As o'er the listless sea-beach wild
Broods Desolation, Ruin's child,-
Man's wrecked hopes will then recal
The fate thou once design'd'st for all
Mankind.

The warring elements alone

Can soothe thy bosom's madd'ning groan: The balmy breath of morn, the placid smile

of eve,

MORNING.

461

The lark from its nest is with rapture up springing

To hail the first dawning of day, With fluttering wings he mounts merrily singing,

And exults in the sun's cheering ray.

I hear him-but lo! he is vanish'd from sight,
And soars in the fields of the blest;
But his melody over, he ceases his flight,
And in silence drops into his nest.

So, if from my Emma my steps idly straying,
Her image transfix'd in my heart,
Tho' the Graces themselves were with smiles
round me playing,

Their smiles would no rapture impart

I heed not the beauties of morn's crimson'd

vest,

Ner yet the still whispers of even;

But I long to return to my Emma's fond breast,

For Emma's my hope and my heaven.

ENIGMA,

By FREDERIC BEWLEY.

When Sin her iron reign began,
And guilty Eve had curs'd the earth,
Betokening shame for fallen man,
In Paradise I sprang to birth.

And ever since I've lov'd to flow
When Hope elates, or Griefs destroy,
With guileless alternation glow,

A symbol or of woe or joy:

For still I tremble on the cheek

Where Beauty all her heaven discloses, And Sorrow's melting form bespeak,

Like dew-drops on the budding roses.

Yet, when that cheek is flush'd with Plea sure,

1, too, partake the radiant gleam, Like April show'rs, in softest measure, Which glitter in the golden beam! VOL. II. 3 P

I shall outlive earth's crumbling tomb,Shall bleed o'er unforgiven offences,

Or sparkle 'mid th' empyreal bloom!

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On the tall ash that half way up the steep Looks, pendant, o'er the brook* that flows

beneath :

Or talked in transport of my Delia's charms.
My lovely Delia ! inistress of my heart!
Fairer than hawthorn bush by Mia decked
To crown, full blossoming, Balcarras' meads;
Fresher than living fountains, from the
rocks

That gust of Saline, blooming as Aurora
In all her beauty rising in the east;
More fragrant than the native primrose pale,
That scents with soft perfume Barnboogle
groves;

Than honey sweeter, which the little bee
Industrious, gathers on Benery hill,
And more ingenuous than the blushing rose,
Whose opening bud breathes incense to the

mom.

But who can speak her charms, ineffable
To painter's pencil and to poet's pen ?
Exhaustless, grateful, ever-flowing themel
On which, untir'd, my tongue rejoiced to
dwell,

And, interrupted, still as soon resumed.
Alas! those happy moments now are gont,
Perhaps for ever gone, with thee, my friend.
Who knows but death, or fate inexorable,
Hath made our late, our last, and long fare.
well.

Perhaps thy mangled corpse, in watery grave
Ingulphed, is stretched, inanimate, a prey
To fiercest monsters of the ravenous deep.
Perhaps thy country's wrongs, thy sov'reign's
will,

The charm of liberty, and honour's call,
Thy noble spirit urging, unsustained,
'Mid thickest ranks of britain's foes, to mett
In blood a glorious, but lamented, end,
Have laid thee, lifeless, on the bleeding earth.
Perhaps in far inhospitable clime
The damps nocturnal, and the raging sun
Have, vertical, consumed thy boiling blood,
And weeping friends shall never see ther

more.

1814.]

LOVE.

Tell me not that Love has wings;-
Not on mounted pinions skims,
Not on liqui æther flings

The ruddy god his rosy limbs.
See him slag in a tear

Of crystal down the blushing cheek; Sweetest L ve tay sway is there,

When glistering streams thy prowess
speak.

From the snow-white bosom stealing,
Love assails us in a sign;
Oh! the painful picasing teeling

'Tis when lovers' hearts beat high. In that eye there lurks a smile,

Ellen, can't but captivate us; Ah! it is a cunning wile

Of young Love, to fascinate us.

When hearts sincere as mine he stings,
Ellen, he will ever stay;

Then tell me not that Love has wings,
Since he has none to fly away.

ADRIANO.

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Nor more the Spirit of the Storm shall spoil
The produce of fair Gallia's soil;
No more Napoleon's blood-stain'd hand,
Shall wield the sceptre o'er that land,
Whose sons have shed their noblest blood
To please the caprice of the Tyrant's mood,
From all that's dear and sacred torn,
Ere manhood's dawn, have bravely borne
The dangers of the bloody strife,
The hardships of a soldier's life.
-Cursed be that fiend-and may his name
Be branded with eternal shame,
While Gallia's grateful sons their voices join
To praise the virtues of the Bourbon Line.
AN ANTI-CORSICAN,
Berners-street, Aug. 1814.

THE BOURBONS.

See! the mad spirit of the storm
Spreads desolation o'er the earth,
And mighty Death, (with ghastly form)
Grasps his prey with horrid mirth!
The loudly-crashing thunders sound
From Heaven to the how is bound,
Whilst the sulpa'rous lightning, hurl'd
With force resistless on the world,
In flashes of destructive light,
Reveals the havoc of the night.
Affrighted men, by terror driv'n,
In vain elude the wrath of Heav'n,
No pow'r to help, no pow'r to save,
They find no refuge but the grave.
But, see! ah, see!-that distant orm,
Which, through the dense and pitchy
night,

Pours on the earth a balmy light,
And bids defiance to the storm;
And more divinely now it glows,
And nearer comes, and brighter grows!
Hark! the thunders cease to roar,
The furious torrents cease to pour;
Death, dazzled at the growing light,
To murkier regions takes his flight,
Whilst Desolation's hideous form
Retires amid the passing storm,
And tears, and sighs, and Sorrow's train
Give way to Pleasure's mirthful reign.
-So fled the dæmon-tyrant's pow'r

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name, for they consist of three stanzas and two concluding lines, whereas the legitimate sonnet consists of two stanzas, a superior, and a subordinate, the former containing eight lines, and the latter six. See the Eclectic Review of Capel Loft's Dissertation.

GREAT BRITAIN.

On the 8th of November the British parliament assembled with the usual formalities; and the session was opened by His Royal Highness the Prince Regent with the following speech from the throne:

"My Lords and Gentlemen, "It is with deep regret that I am again obliged to announce the continuance of his Majesty's lamented indisposition.

"It would have given me great satisfacfaction to have been enabled to communicate to you the termination of the war between this country and the United States of America. Although this war originated in the most unprovoked aggression on the part of the United States, and was calculated to promote the designs of the common enemy of Europe against the rights and independence of all other nations, I never have ceased to entertain a sincere desire to bring it to a conclusion on just and honourable terms. I am still engaged in negociations for this purpose; the success of them must, however, depend on my disposition being met with corresponding sentiments on the part of the enemy.

"The operations of his Majesty's forces by sea and land in the Chesapeake, in the course of the present year, have been attended with the most brilliant and successful results. The flotilla of the enemy in the Patuxent has bee destroyed. The signal defeat of their land forces enabled a detachent of his Majesty's army to take possession of the city of Washington: and the spirit of enterprize which has characterized all the movements in that quarter, has produced on the inhabitants a deep and sensible impression of the calamities of a war in which they have been so wantonly involved.

"The expedition directed from Halifax to the northern coast of the United States has

terminated in a manner not less satisfactory. The successful course of this operation has been followed by the immediate submission of the extensive and important district, east of the Penobscot river, to his Majesty's

arms.

"In adverting to these events, I am confident you will be disposed to render full justice to the valour and discipline which have distinguished his Majesty's land and sea forces; and you will regret with me the severe loss the country has sustained by the fall of the gallant commander of his Majes

ty's troops in the advance upon Baltimore.

"I availed myself of the earliest opportunity afforded by the state of affairs in Europe, to detach a considerable military force to the river Saint Lawrence; but its

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arrival could not possibly take place till an advanced period of the campaign.

"Notwithstanding the reverse which appears to have occurred on Lake Champling I entertain the most confident expectation, as well from the amount as from the description of the British force now serving in Canada, that the ascendancy of his Majesty's arms throughout that part of North America will be effectually established.

"The opening of the Congress at Vienna has been retarded, from unavoidable causes, to a later period than had been expected. It will be my earnest endeavour, in the nego ciations which are now in progress, to promote such arrangements as may tend to consolidate that peace which, in conjunction with his Majesty's allies, I have had the hap piness of concluding; and to re-establish that just equilibrium amongst the different powers, which will afford the best prospect of permanent tranquillity to Europe.

"Gentlemen of the House of Comment, "I have directed the estimates for the ensuing year to be laid before you.

"I am happy to be able to inform you, that the revenue and commerce of the United Kingdom are in the most flourishing

condition.

penditure which we must be prepared to "I regret the necessity of the large exmeet in the course of the ensuing year; but the circumstances under which the long and arduous contest in Europe has been carried large arrears, for which you will see the ne on and concluded, have unavoidably led to cessity of providing; and the war still subsisting with America renders the continuance of great exertions indispensable.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

"The peculiar character of the late war, as well as the extraordinary length of its du ration, must have materially affected the internal situation of all the countries engaged in it, as well as the commercial relations which Under formerly subsisted between them. these circumstances, I am confident, you will see the expediency of proceeding with tions as may be necessary for the purpose of due caution in the adoption of such regulaextending our trade, and securing our present advantages; and you may rely on my cordial co-operation and assistance in every measure which is calculated to contribute to the prosperity and welfare of his Majesty's dominions."

engaged the attention of the House of The principal business that has since Commons, has been the voting of the supplies. For the sea service of 1815, 70,000 men, including 15,000 marines, have been voted; and for the land ser