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Newdigate Prize Poem for 1825.

By RICHARD CLARKE SEWELL, of Magdalen College, Oxford.

THE dark pine waves on Tiber's classic steep,
From rock to rock the headlong waters leap,
Tossing their foam on high, till leaf and flower
Glitter, like emeralds, in the sparkling shower:
Lovely-but lovelier from the charms that glow
Where Latium spreads her purple vales below;
The olive, smiling on the sunny hill,
The golden orchard, and the ductile rill,
the spring clear-bubbling in its rocky font,
The moss-grown cave, the Naiad's fabled haunt,
And, far as eye can strain, yon shadowy dome,
The glory of the earth, Eternal Rome.

This, this was Vesta's seat-sublime, alone,
The mountain crag appear'd her Virgin throne,
In all the majesty of Goddess might,

Fann'd by pure gales, and bathed in cloudless light;
Her's was the dash of Anio's sacred tide,

The flame from Heaven's ethereal fount supplied,
And the young forms that trod the marble shrine,
For earth too fair, for mortal too divine.

And, lo! where still ten circling columns rise
High o'er the arching spray's prismatic dyes,
Touch'd, but not marr'd-as time had paused to spare
The wreaths that bloom in lingering beauty there-
E'en where each mouldering wreck might seem to mourn
Her rifted shaft, her lov'd acanthus torn,

Nature's wild flowers in silent sorrows wave
Their votive sweets o'er Art's neglected grave.

But ye who sleep the calm and dreamless sleep,
Where joy forgets to smile, and woe to weep,
For you, blest maids, a long and last repose,
Has still'd each pulse that throbs, cach vein that glows;
For oft, too oft, the white and spotless vest
Conceal'd a bleeding heart, an aching breast;
Hope, that with cold despair held feeble strife,
And love that parted but with parting life;
Still would the cheek with human passion burn,
Still would the heart to fond remembrance turn,
Vow all itself to Heaven, but vow in vain,
Sigh for its thoughts, yet sigh to think again.

And thou, Immortal Bard, whose sweetest lays
Were hymn'd in rapture to thy Tiber's praise,
What, though no more the listening vales prolong
The playful echoes of thy Sabine song;

Weep not her olive-groves' deserted shade,
Her princely halls, in silent ruin laid,
Her altars mouldering on a nameless hill-
There all is beauty, all is glory still;

Flowers-yet more bright than Roman maiden wreath'd;
Prayers-yet more pure than virgin priestess breathed;
A fane-more noble than the vestal trod-

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INDEX.

[N. B. The figures with crotchets refer to the History; those with a to the Appendix to Chronicle, &c.; and the others to the Chronicle.]

ABOLITION of Slavery, treaty with Brazil for, 72* Accidents explosion of Mr. Brock's firework manufactory, Whitechapel, 123 -breaking of a bridge at the launch of the princess Charlotte, Portsmouth, 129; fall of a rock at Carvalinho, Portugal, 135; fall of a bridge at Nienburg, 169 Adams, Mr., chosen president of the United States, [195]; his inaugural address, 109*

Adultery: case of an offender being shot by the husband, 28; laws against, in Siam, 220*

Africa, see Sierra Leone, Sherbro, Tripoli 226; Clapperton and Denham's account of the interior, 254* Agriculture and Botany, 262* Alexander, Emperor; proclamation to the Polish diet, [156]; his illness, [157]; death, [158]; character, ib.

America, North; dreadful fire at Miramichi, New Brunswick, 135, 173; Rules of the Equity courts, United States, 136; church establishment and missionaries, 47; See Canada, United States.

America, South; Recognition of the independence of Buenos Ayres Colombia, and Mexico, [14]; confederation of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata, [212]; national army, [213]; insurrections at Cordova, San Juan, ib. congress of Panama [214]; letter from Mr. Canning to the Chevalier de los Rios, relative to the conduct of Great Britain toward the Spanish colonies, 51*; mines, 285*; See Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Rio de la Plata. Amiens, a parricide executed at, 64 Anatomical invention 245*

Andrews, Dr., dean of Canterbury, death of, 254

Animal ingrafting, experiments of, 246*
Autique coins, forgery of, 104
Antiquities: excavations at Pompeii, 122;

Roman hoat discovered at Glasgow, 279*

Army; regulation for the sale and pur-
chase of commissions, 57
Army of the United States, 1
Arracan, taken by Gen. Morrison, [136]
Assassination at Chartres, 28
Assassins executed at Naples, 55
Assizes and Sessions: Antrim.-Jones v.
O'Hara, 22*

Bridgewater; Hannah Taunton, kil-
ling her husband, 117
Bucks;

Charles Lynn, murder of Abraham Hogg, 3*

Cork; A. Keefe and Thomas Bourke, murder of the Franks family, 31* Derby; G. Batty, rape, 37

Kilkenny; Farley v. J. T. Haydon, libel, 20*

Lancaster; W. Cherry, rape, 39
Leicester; Hannah Read, murder of
her husband, 112

Limerick; Patrick Cusack, Eleanor
Ryan, &c., murder, 23

Lincoln; R. Maydwell, murder, 37
Maidstone; Poolly v. Pybus, for a mali-

cious commission of bankruptcy, 46 Old Bailey; C. Wood, rape, 5; John Palin, stealing four £1000 bank notes, 151

Sussex; G. and E. Daw, murder, 41; C. Holder and D. Gardiner, threatening letter, 5*

Westminster Sessions, J. G. Muirhead, misdemeanor, 139; Robert Charles, assault and attempt to violate, 145 Astronomy, &c. 251* Avalanche, fortunate escape from, 1; five men killed by, near Morsine, 53 Aurora Borealis, 258* Australia, new settlement in, 83 Austria: emperor's speech to the Hungarian diet, 92*

Autographs, at sale of Boswell's Library, 81 Ayr Steam-boat, Comet run down by, 142; trial of the master, &c. 174; liberation of ditto, 184

Baden, speech of the Grand duke to the

degree to which the produce of the mines fell off, has been thus given in a recent publication, "Tooke on High and Low Prices."

Annual produce of American Mines in

dollars.

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47,061,000 24,501,000

106,000, Versailles 40,000, and Amiens 40,000. In the royal library at Paris there are several uncollated MSS. of the Scriptures.

Prison Discipline.-The state of crime in Sweden is less than in most other countries. The whole

After 1810. number of persons committed to
12,000,000
prison for offences does not exceed
2,740,000
866,000 1,500 viz., about 800 convicted
1,820,000 of various crimes, and 700 impri-
4,340,000 soned for vagrancy and other of-
2,735,000 fences of police. A royal commis-
sion has been appointed to super-
intend all the prisons and houses
of correction, so as to place their
discipline and administration on a
common footing. A house of cor-
rection is building at Stockholm,
in which the prisoners will be al-
lowed part of the gains made by
their work, and may lay it up to
form a sum against the time of
their liberation. Similar measures
are also in progress at Christiana,
in Norway.

Thus the quantity of the precious metals derived yearly from these sources was reduced one-half in consequence of the war.

Public Libraries in France, In Paris the royal library has above 700,000 printed volumes, and 70,000 MSS. The library of Monsieur 150,000 printed volumes, and 5,000 MSS. The library of St. Genevieve 110,000 printed volumes, and 2,000 MSS. The Mazarine library 92,000 printed volumes, and 3,000 MSS. The library of the city of Paris 20,000 volumes. All these are daily open to the public. In the departments there are 25 public libraries, with above 1,700,000 volumes, of which Aix has 72,670, Marseilles 31,500, Toulouse 30,000, Bordeaux 105,000, Tours 30,000, Lyons

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Wolves in Russia. The following is the official account of the devastations committed by the wolves in the government of Làvonia only, in the year 1823: they devoured-horses, 1,841; foals, 1,243; horned cattle, 1,807; calves, 733; sheep, 15,182; lambs, 726; goats, 2,545; kids, 183; swine, 4,190; sucking pigs, 312; dogs, 703; geese, 673.

POETRY.

STANZAS

TO THE MEMORY OF THE SPANISH PATRIOTS

LATEST KILLED IN RESISTING THE REGENCY AND THE DUKE OF ANGOULEME.

By THOMAS CAMPBELL, ESQ.

BRAVE men who at the Trocadero fell-
Beside your cannons conquer'd not, though slain,
There is a victory in dying well

For Freedom, and ye have not died in vain;
For come what may, there shall be hearts in Spain
To honour, aye embrace your martyr'd lot,
Cursing the Bigot's and the Bourbon's chain,

And looking on your graves, though trophied not,

As holier, hallow'd ground, than priests could make the spot!

What though your cause be baffled-freemen cast

In dungeons-dragg'd to death, or forced to flee;

Hope is not wither'd in affliction's blast

The patriot's blood's the seed of Freedom's tree;
And short your orgies of revenge shall be,
Cowl'd Demons of the Inquisitorial cell!
Earth shudders at your victory,-for ye

Are worse than common fiends from Heaven that fell,
The baser, ranker sprung, Autochthones of hell!

Go to your bloody rites again-bring back
The hall of horrors and the assessor's pen,
Recording answers shriek'd upon the rack;
Smile o'er the gaspings of spine-broken men ;-
Preach, perpetrate damnation in your den ;--
Then let your altars, ye blasphemers! peal
With thanks to Heaven, that let you loose again,
To practise deeds with torturing fire and steel

No eye may search-no tongue may challenge or reveal!

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