Newdigate Prize Poem for 1825. By RICHARD CLARKE SEWELL, of Magdalen College, Oxford. THE dark pine waves on Tiber's classic steep, This, this was Vesta's seat-sublime, alone, Fann'd by pure gales, and bathed in cloudless light; The flame from Heaven's ethereal fount supplied, And, lo! where still ten circling columns rise Nature's wild flowers in silent sorrows wave But ye who sleep the calm and dreamless sleep, And thou, Immortal Bard, whose sweetest lays Weep not her olive-groves' deserted shade, Flowers-yet more bright than Roman maiden wreath'd; The Christian's temple, to the Christian's God! n 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* Roman hoat discovered at Glasgow, 279* Army; regulation for the sale and pur- Bridgewater; Hannah Taunton, kil- 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 Limerick; Patrick Cusack, Eleanor Lincoln; R. Maydwell, murder, 37 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. 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 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 -- 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- For Freedom, and ye have not died in vain; 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; Are worse than common fiends from Heaven that fell, Go to your bloody rites again-bring back No eye may search-no tongue may challenge or reveal! |