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It appears that he has been in the habits of correspondence with an incognita with whom he became acquainted at a private masquerade, but to whose person he has been kept a stranger. The jealous apprehensions of Lady Gayland are relieved by the unexpected arrival of Caroline Sedley, an old friend and schoolfellow. Caroline declares herself to be the cause of Sir Damon's alienation, relates their meeting at the masquerade, and that accidentally discovering in the person of her gallant, the husband of her quondam friend, she had been induced to humour the intrigue in the hope of avenging the wrongs of Lady Gayland, and effecting Sir Damon's reformation. To promote this design, she has obtained a letter of introduction to Sir Damon,

under the disguise and character of Captain

mirthful Caroline finds a deserving and successful suitor in the brave and honest M'Lary.

In this Opera, which contains much more business and bustle than we have for some time been accustomed to in dramas of the same genus, we find how possible it is to give plot, interest, and humour, to a sort of entertainment that of late years has seldom claimed to be more than a vehicle for music. The plot is as carefully connected and combined in incident and character as if it had not the aid of music. The latter, however, has the character of pleasing simplicity; and we think that many of the airs will become popular. overture and the chief part of the songs, &c, are by King; Braham, we believe, composed his own songs; some of them, we think, with less than his usual success. We annex the most admired of them, in which he accompanied himself terly stile, and was unanimously enon a grand piano forte in a most mas

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Bronze; and in this character she affects such an easy, impudent freedom with Sir Damon's house, his servants, and, above all, his wife, that the man of gallantry is confounded, his indignation is roused, his jealousy is alarmed, and, under pretence of sudden indisposition, he determines immediately to hurry away his wife from so dangerous an intruder. This is the signal for Lady Gayland; she refuses to accompany him, accuses Sir Damon of infidelity, abashes him by producing the correspondence with his incognita, and peremptorily insists upon a separation. To increase Sir Damon's confusion, a billet arrives from the fictitions Rosalinda, staing that she is at hand, and can no longer endure suspense. The false Captain, to whom Lady Gayland appeals, affects to recognize the hand-writing of the fair Rosalinda to be that of his cousin, and demands instant satisfaction from Sir Damon for the indignity offered to his family. Sir Damon is overpowered with shame and penitence, To and pleads for forgiveness.-In the mean time Edgar, the son of Sir Damon, has arrived in pursuit of Emily, the ward of old Plod, to whom he is attached, contrary to the views of his father. After some of the usual difficulties in these cases, in which his jealousy has been needlessly alarmed, he succeeds in eloping with the object of his wishes, and Sir Damon's consent is extorted by Lady Gayland as a condition of their reconciliation.

A further interest arises out of the characters of Tom Surfeit and Lieutenant M'Lary, who are rival candidates for the hand of Caroline. The former (as an apology for doing nothing) has assumed the character of a Temple student; but, despising the slow returns of half-guinea motions as inadequate to his fashionable pursuits, he conceives designs upon the superior fortune of Plod's Ward. His attempts, however, are frustrated, and his vanity exposed in all quarters, while the

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Said a Smile to a Tear

On the cheek of my dear,

The

beam'd like the sun in spring weather, In sooth, lovely Tear,

we should be both here together.

It strange must appear,

I came from the heart,
A soft balm to impart

yonder sad daughter of grief:

And I, said the Smile,

That heart now beguile,
Since you gave the poor mourner relief.

Oh! then, said the Tear,
Sweet Smile, it is clear
We are twins, and soft Pity our mother:
And how lovely that face
Which together we grace,
For the woe and the bliss of another!

and Tom Surfeit's chart of his voyage The dialogue is neat and spirited i from the East Indies excited iminoderate laughter. Indeed, the whole strength of the house is employed; and with excellent effect. The piece was extremely well received, and has since had a very successful run.

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When high the billowy mountains rise, And headlong 'gainst the rocky shore, Driven by the blast, the gidly vessel flies;

Unguided, by the wild waves borne, Her rudder broke, her tackling toru; Say, does the seaman's daring nimd Shrink from the angry frown of fate? Does he, to abject fear resign'd, Th' impending stroke in silence wait ? No-while he pours the fervent prayer To Him whose will can punish or can spare, Cool and intrepid 'mid the sound Of winds and waves that rage around, The powers that skill and strength impart, The nervous arm, th' undaunted heart, Collecting, firm he fronts the threat'ning

storm,

And braves, with fearless breast, fell Death's terrific form:

II.

So, though around our sea-encircled reign, The dreadful tempest seems to lower, Dismay'd do Britain's hardy train

Await in doubt the threat'ning hour? Lo! to his sons, with cheering voice, Albion's hold Genius calls around; Around him valiant myriads crowd, Or death or victory their choice; From ev'ry port astonish'd Europe sees Britannia's white sails swelling with the

breeze;

Not her Imperial barks alone

Awe the proud foe on ev'ry side,

Now in each breast with heat redoubled glows,

And gleams dismay and death on Europe's

ruthless foes.

IV.

Not to Ambition's specions charm,

Not to th' ensanguin'd despot's hand,
Is conquest bound-a mightier Arin
Tuan Earth's proud tyrants can with-
stand,

The balance holds of human fate,
Raises the low and sinks the great.
Exerting then in Europe's cause
Each energy of arm and mind,

All that from force or skill the warrior draws,

Yet to th' Almighty Pow'r resign'd,
Whose high behest all Nature's movements

guides,

Coutils the battle's and the ocean's tides; Britam still hopes that Heaven her vows will hear,

While Mercy rears her shield, and Justice points her spear..

GLIMPSE OF CHILI, OR SOUTHERN PERU.

Addressed to the Inhabitants of the British Isles.

HERE see a most uncommon view dis-. play'd, [made, The lovely scene, by spring and autumn Where grapes, in festoons, deck the myrtle

glade:

With purple interspers'd, green clusters hang,
As in the Isles where Grecia's poets sang:
In contrast picturesque the colours glow;
And the luxuriant soil and climate show.
Not Naxia, + Mctelin, or ‡ Scio fair,

Commerce her vessels launches on the tide; Tenedos, Samos, could therewith compare:

And her indignant sons awlule

Seceding from their wonted toil,
Turn from the arts of peace their care,
Hurl from each deck the bolts of war,

To sweep th' injurious boasters from the
Alain,

Who dare to circumscribe Britannia's naval

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Not Deios, Paros, or th' Ogygian Isles, Whose charms did even Hermes' eyes be

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pose;

And Ocean's finest pearls surround her brows:
With lapis lazuli her pavements shine,
And all the rich productions of the mine:
Columns of porphyry support her dome, ¦
Where all, who shelter need, may find a
home.

Her, bounties measureless characterize,

On whom descends the influence of the skies; How she delights those bounties to bestow! And lo! the more she gives, to her more flow.

Rob'd in magnificence, behold the Queen! Majestically sweet appears her mien ! See! how the ringlets of her tresses fair Fall on her neck, or gently wave in air: Behold her form! adorn'd with ev'ry grace; The beauties of her ever-blooming face; Her eyes, which bright with mildest lustre beam,

reign;

Image present of happiness supreme. While she, with guardian care, surveys her, [grain, On ev'ry side, the dust transform'd to Clothes ev'ry field, and hides th' extensive plain.

She smiles:--with blossoms all the trees are

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No pois'nous reptile may her subjects fear:

From ev'ry rav'nous beast her realm is clear:
Timid becomes the furious lion here.
No hippopotamos infests the meads;
No alligator lurks amongst the reeds:
Here never rises from the thorny brake
The dreadful buio, or the hooded snake:
Virginia's terror here is never heard ;
Here dwells secure th' unfascinated bird.
Alike exempt from heat, as winter's storm,
Nought may presume her landscape to de-

form;

Verdure delightful here is ever found; Pleasantness rests on beauteous Chili's ground.

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NOTES.

The beauty of the Grecian islands is well known.

A variety of the hippopotamos, (the formidable amphibious animal stiled Behemoth in Scripture,) is found in some parts of South America; it is inferior in size to that which is met with in Egypt.

The alligator, or crocodile, of America, is also to be seen in some parts near the Line. (This is the Leviathan of Scripture.)

The buio is the largest of the serpent tribe; it is also found in South America, as well as in the deserts and impenetrable forests of Africa.

The hooded snake is a very remarkable creature, having a membrane attached to its head, which it has the custom of expanding like a hood when it rears itself.

Virginia's terror is the rattle-snake, peculiar to that country the bones of this species, towards the extremity or tail, are loose, and rattle as moves; whence its name.

All the serpent tribe are said to have a power of fascination over birds, and indeed over all animals. It is, probably, the effect of the extreme terror which affects all creatures, at the sight of these obnoxious reptiles; which depriving them of recollection, induces them to rush into the mouth expanded to devour them.

In Guiana, Amazonia, tlre interior of Terra Firma and of Brazil, far from the haunts of men, are these tremendous monsters found. Similar countries shelter them in Africa.

Poetical language is here applied solely to illustrate facts. The climate of Chili is delightful, and its riches inexhaustible; it contains mines of every metal, though gold predominates. It produces sulphur, loadstone, lapis lazuli, limestone, salt. Many of the Andes are rocks of porphyry; the produce of the surface of the earth is immense, and it has timber fit for ship-building: it has no venomous creature, and the character of the lion is lost in this country: flocks and herds are abundant: also corn, wine, oil, and silk.

Lady Mary Wortley Montague's lines, inapplicable to the borders of the Hellespont, would be true if applied to Chili :

"No killing cold deforms the beauteous

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FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRD PARLIAMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. '

(Continued from Vol. L, page 481.) ́

DECEMBER 22.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

THE Earl of Aylesford reported his Majesty's gracious Answer to the Address. Lord Grenville brought down the Papers relative to the Negociation, and moved that they be taken into consideration on Friday, the 2d of January.

His Lordship then, with scarcely any prefatory remarks, except that the battle of Maida was one of the most brilliant and decisive in the annals of this country, moved the Thanks of the House to Sir J. Stuart and Generals Cole and Ackland, for their conduct on that occasion; as also to the Officers and Soldiers concerned with them. Agreed to nem, dis.-The House then adjourned to Wednesday se'nnight.

31. On the motion of Lord Walsingham, it was ordered, that no petition of a private nature should be received after the 27th of February.

JAN. 1. Several Peers took the oaths, and some routine business was disposed of.

2. After several Peers had taken the oaths,

Lord Grenville brought in a Bill for abolishing the Slave Trade; which being read a first time, he rose to move that it be printed; and observed, that he should give a fort night's notice before the second reading.

Lord Hawkesbury said, that the House ought to be put a possession of any correspondence that might have taken place between this Government and those of other éountries on the subject of a general abolition; and

Lord Eldon thought some explanation was necessary as to the nature of the Bill.

This, however, Lord Grenville declined till the discussion.

Lord Grosvenor expressed his anxious wish to see the odious traffic in human beings every where abolished.

The Duke of Clarence observed, that he had not opposed the first reading of the Bill, because he always considered that proceeding a matter of form, and wished to reserve what he had to say until the subsequent stages of the Bill. For the same reason, he should not oppose the motion for printing the Bill. His sentiments were well known, and he had not changed his opinion.

THE LATE NEGOCIATION,

Lord Grenville observed, that it was unnecessary for him to enter into any details upon the Correspondence; the documents being of themselves unusually complete; and though there were many points which it was not proper to make public, and which were in consequence omitted, yet the contents of the Papers were sufficient to justify the Address that he should move. No apology

was due for the desire that had been evinced on the part of Government to obtain a safe and honourable peace; the history of this country sufficiently proved the advantages of that blessing. The basis proposed for treaty was that of actual possession, because this country could not afford to pay a price for a peace, when it was impossible to obtain any security for its duration: The objects that we held were of great value to us, and France could give us nothing that could compensate for them; while the possessions of France were of such value to her, that we had nothing to offer in return for them, But it was never meant that the uti possidetis should be applied with such strictness, as to preclude any exchange for a reasonable compensation. His Lordship then touched

en the obligations of this country to fulfil the stipulations entered into with our Continental Allies; and inferred that we were bound not to make peace withont the consent of the Emperor of Russia; for if the Continent was to be saved, it was by connecting the interests of this country with those of that empire. But, besides Russia, Great Britain had other Allies. For Sweden and Portugal we had nothing to ask but the state of actual possession; but the King of Naples and the Elector of Hanover had much to expect from our interference. With respect to the former, his Lordship was of opinion that we ought to make very great sacrifices to effect the recovery of his possessions; for it was evident, that nothing we had to offer could be a sufficient inducement to France to abandon her acquisition of Naples.The question respecting Sicily was, however, very different; and our honour was pledged to secure that island, though France might make such compensations to the King of Naples as might be equivalent to the surren der of Sicily. Adverting to the territory of our ally the Elector of Hanover (in which light his Majesty is considered,) he observed, that it was made a consideration that that country should be restored, without any compensation being made to France, and no hesitation was shown by the enemy to this demand. The question respecting that Electorate had, therefore, nothing to do with the rupture of the negociation. The object of France uniformly seemed to be, to separate us from our allies; but, finding us in that respect inflexible, the French Government succeeded in inducing the Russian Charge d'Affaires to sign a separate treaty, which treaty they considered equal to a great victory, and thus afforded a clear proof of the importance of our policy. As soon as the French Negociators suspected that this treaty would not be ratified, they told our Minister that they considered Great Britain entitled to better terms than before; but still it was proposed that this country should give up Sicily, and all the conditions offered were precisely in opposition to what Russia insisted on. The terms proposed by France left us in possession of Malta, India, and the Cape, of none of which France could ever hope to deprive us, and of Tobago, which was not worth mentioning; and for this we were called upon to restore every other conquest that we had made from the enemy or his allies; to cede Sicily, and to confirm the French in the possession of Dalmatia; thereby leaving Austria to be overawed by France. He concluded with observing, that it was evident the negociation was at an end the moment the French Emperor left Paris; and that, even if peace had been made, the German Confederation would endanger its existence; for that monstrous association contained in itself the germs of perpetual

war.

After the efforts that we had made to

restore peace, the country and Europe had a right to some declaration on the part of that House respecting the negociation. He would propose it in the form of an Address to his Majesty.His Lordship then read the Address, which was in the usual style on such occasions-"Thanking his Majesty for his communication, acknowledging that he had used every effort to obtain peace, consistent with the honour of the country and fidelity to his Allies; and that the disappointment of his expectations was solely to be attributed to the extravagant ambition of the enemy."

Lord Hawkesbury expressed his perfect concurrence with Ministers in all those points which had caused the rupture of the Negociation; but he was dissatisfied with the ambiguity which pervaded the documents; that ambiguity was, that his Majesty's Declaration stated the basis of the treaty to be the uti possidetis, whereas nothing of the kind appeared throughout the papers. He made several observations to show that this ought to be the basis of all treaties of peace; but that every thing on the subject ought to be commitied to paper. He then took a view of the relative situation of the two countries at the peace of 1801 and at present; and showed that our commerce could receive but little injury from the measures of the enemy He gave a statement of the exports and imports of this country in the year 1798 and that of 1805; by which it appeared that the latter year considerably exceeded the year 1798, in the increase of our commercial advantages. His Lordship said, that he was perfectly satisfied that Ministers had acted rightly in breaking off the Negotiation rather than give up Sicily, and in not divulging what they would have thought a reasonable exchange or equivalent for Naples. He was sure the people of this country would now cheerfully contribute to the common cause, and would place confidence in the Government, in proportion to the confidence which they received from it.

Lord Sidmouth went at some length into an examination of the papers, to show that there was no cause of complaint against Ministers, and expressed his perfect reliance on the sup port of the Nation.

*The import and force of M. Talleyrand's expression in his letter of the first of April, (the printed Papers,) seem to afford a conclusive testimony, that the basis of uti possidetis was intended to be offered, when he declares, "L'Empereur n'a rien à desirer de ce que possede l'Angleterre :" who could doubt that these words amounted to an admission of the uti possidetis, as applicable to his Majesty's conquests? If the Ruler of France required nothing which England possessed, and coveted none of the actual possessions of England, the conclusion must necessarily be that it was proposed to treat on the basis of actual possession.

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