Our painters are as numerous as the things That crept, of old, into Noah's spacious ark! Let critics point their tantalizing stings,
Or, cur-like, bite at some, at others bark ; For me, a dauber in the art which brings
Beauty and light, as 'twere, from chaos dark, Shall have my sympathy, though one might blush To see the wild vagaries of his brush!
Enchanting Art !-opposer of stern death!
Time's silent enemy !-the grave's deceiver ! Thou keep'st alive our friends, though fled their breath; So true thy portrait, that the fond believer Looks, till he fancies that the earth beneath
Restores the dead to thee, thou kind retriever!
Thy power reclaims the past of life, supplies What absence steals, and what, without thee, dies!
Thou call'st on beauty, and her countless forms, Arise, to wait upon thy magic hand; Beneath thy touch the glowing canvas warms,
And scenes come forth as though from fairy-land; Or, more sublime, thou wak'st the fiend of storms, And the red lightning glares at thy command. While the deep passions of the human soul Await thy beck, and move at thy controul!
'Tis thine to raise our laughter and our tears, Thou canst create anew the vanished scene,
Recal the memory of forgotten years,
And show us what the state of man has been; Raise but thy subtle wand, and quick appears The sterile hill, or smiling valley green:
Enchanting Art! to study thee aright Attunes the soul to virtue and delight.
ON A PAINTING OF ZUCCHARELLI, IN POSSESSION OF MRS. BATT, OF "NEW HALL," NEAR SALISBURY.
BEAUTIFUL landscape! I could look on thee For hours-unmindful of the storm and strife, And mingled murmurs of tumultuous life. Here, all is still as fair-the stream, the tree, The wood, the sunshine on the bank: no tear- No thought of Time's swift wing, or closing night, Which comes to steal away the long sweet light,--- No sighs of sad humanity, are here.
Here is no tint of mortal change-the day
Beneath whose light the dog and peasant-boy Gambol, with look, and almost bark, of joy- Still seems, though centuries have passed, to stay. Then gaze again, that shadow'd scenes may teach Lessons of peace and love, beyond all speech.
SPIRITS of wonder, loveliness, and fear,
Dwell in these groves, beneath o'er-arching trees, With the dim presence of their mysteries Haunting the rocks and mountain-shadows near: They pass the lone enthusiast, wandering here By strangled Wharfe, or Barden's ancient tower; Pass him, nor shake a dewdrop from a flower, But with their whispers soothe his soul-taught ear, As with a dream of prayer; until he starts, Awaken'd from deep thoughts of Time's calm might And Nature's beauty, and in awe departs; When to the Abbey's moonlight tinted walls The demon of the spectred river calls, Mock'd by the voices of mysterious night.
[N.B. The figures within crotchets refer to the History.]
ABBOTSFORD fund, public meeting re- specting, 81
Aberdeen Lord, motion and speech on Spanish affairs, [268] Accidents: breaking of Suspension Bridge, Wakefield, 1; loss of the Pomona schooner, 13; fall of a chapel at Manchester, 14; do,a house at Li- verpool, 24; loss of the" Edinburgh,' 37; train of carriages upset on the Manchester railway, 52; death oc- casion by lightning, near Bolton, 58; fall of a suspension bridge near Lyons, and several persons killed, 71; Mr. Honey &c., drowned by the "Lady Emma" sailing boat upsetting, 83; seven persons drowned in the Sound of Mull, 122; coach accident near Bedford, 132; do. Red Rover coach, 134; do. Edinburgh Standard, 135; do the North Brixton, ib. ; acci- dent on the river, and four persons drowned, 136; explosion at the South Metropolitan Gas-works, 137; loss of Red Rover steam boat, ib.; explosion at the Liverpool post-office, 144; three lives lost on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, 158.
Acts of Parliament, general, 243; local and personal, 248 Agriculture, motion for select commit- tee of inquiry relative to, [219]; com- mittee appointed, [223] Albrizzi, Countess, death, 214 Algiers, the French government re- solves to retain it, after a proposal in the Chambers that it should be abandoned, [345]; military opera- tions between Marshal Clausel, and Abdel Kader, ib.; General Arlanger afterwards obtains some advantages over the latter, [346]; expedition against Constantine, the capital of Achmet Bey, [347]
Alibaud, his attempt to assassinate the King of the French, [337] his trial and execution, [339]; 88 Anecdotes of Leopold Robert, French artist, 361
Assizes and Sessions:- Armagh: W. Brownlee and others, for a riot at Armagh, 101 Cambridge: Mary Anne Wagstaffe v. Bruere, Ledbitter &c., singular action for assault, 95
Carlow: Archibald Sly, murder of Rev. J. Walsh, a catholic priest, 278; Anne Rooney, perjury, connected with the preceding case, 284; H. Corrigan &c., do. do. 285. Edinburgh, Court of Justiciary, John Campbell, murder of Duncan Mc'Dougall, 151
Leicester: Henry Roper, murder of Elizabeth Tebbutt in 1802, 285 Liverpool: Joseph Gomez Pelayo for putting fulminating powder into let- ters, and thereby causing explosion, 144
Old Bailey: W. Jordan, &c., robbery of cash at the Custom-house, 270 Shrewsbury: Patrick Donelly, &c., for robbing Thomas Woodward, 104 Association for the advancement of science, meeting of, at Bristol, 122 Attwood, Mr., asserts the Currency Act of 1819 to have been injurious to the agricultural interest, [221]; with- draws his motion, [223]
Aurora Borealis, instance of, 139
Balloon, Mlle. Garnerin's ascent at Paris, 79; Mrs. Graham's ascent and accident, 118; ascent at Vauxhall, 132; Mr. Graham's ascent, 136; Mr. Green, Monck Mason &c., cross the channel in one, 151 Bannister, J. comedian, death, 220 Barcelona, massacre of Carlist pri- soners at, [351]; and attempt to proclaim the constitution of 1812, [352] Barry, Mr., his design for the new houses of Parliament, [213] Beet-root sugar, extensive manufacture of, in France, 335
Belgium, its differences with Holland,
respecting the cession of Luxem- burgh, [411]; act for establishing a municipal form of government, [412]; prosperity in regard to trade, &c., [413]
Berkeley, Mr. Grantley his proposal for admitting ladies to hear debates in parliament, [216]; his assault on the publisher of a periodical, [218] Bilboa, siege of, by the Carlists, [391]; the town relieved by Espartero and the British, [394]
Bird, J. the "Royal Academy," 382 Bishops, Mr. Rippon's, motion for ex- pelling them from the House of Lords, [208] Bishop of Durham, death, 192; of Lichfield, do. 196; of Ely, do. 197 Blizard, Sir W. death, 179. Bonaparte, Prince Louis, attempts an insurrection at Strasburgh, which his to raise him to be Emperor of France, [342]; is allowed to go to the United States, [343]
Bowles, W. L., sonnet by, 385
Brazil, the town of Para recovered from the insurgent Indians, [454]; insur- rection at Port Alegreni Rio Grande, ib. Bristol, meeting of the association for
the promotion of science, 122 Brunswick, Duke Chas., suit against, by the duke of Cambridge, 11
Reigning duke, alleged
murder by, 23 Bruyant, tries to excite insurrection in Véndome, [343]; condemned to death, [344]
Budget, the, [234]; France, [335] Buller, Mr. C., motion respecting election committees, [176]
Bunn, Mr., lessee of Drury-lane th ea- tre, action against Mr. Macready for assault, 81
Burdett, Sir F., his letter to the secre- tary for the Cobbett monument, 69. Burlington Arcade, fire in, 36 Burn, Col. Aaron, death, 218
Cabrera, Carlist chief, the mother of, shot, 355.
Canada, Upper, opening of the session, [313]; demands of the House of As- sembly, [314]; disputes between the governor, Sir F. Head, and the council, ib., the latter resign, [315]; ' addresses for dissolving the assembly [317]; the executive council's address to Sir F. Head [288]; his reply, 291; Mr. Archibald Mc Lean chosen speaekr of the House of Assembly,
296; the governor's speech, ib., ad- dress of the house to him, 298 Canada, Lower, petition of the House of Assembly to the King in Council, 301; the King's reply, 305; the House of Assembly's address to the governor, 309
Canterbury, archbishop of, considers the Tithe Commutation Bill beneficial, [121]; bill brought in by him rela- tive to pluralities and non-residence, [136]
Carlow, the transactions connected with, between Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Vigors and Mr. Raphael, [181] Canning, sir Stratford, brings before Parliament the proceedings at Cra- cow, [272]
Cases before the House of Lords: sir W. C. Anstruther v. Anstruther, 110; marquis of Breadalbane v. chioness of Chandos, 111; earl of Durham v. Wharton, 112
Chalmers, rev. Dr., his correspondence respecting the Irish church appro- priation bill, 116
Chancery, court of, proposed bills for its reform, [171]; proposed to create a lord chief justice of, [172] Chandos, marquis of, speech on the motion for committee of inquiry into the state of agriculture, [220]; pro- poses to relieve agriculturists by re- duction of taxation, [226]; his mo- tion lost, [228]
Charles X., of France, his death, [342]; 219
Chili: decree respecting a compromise of the loan, [453]; attempted inva- sion from Peru, ib.
Church commission, its reports, [134]; cathedral and collegiate revenues, [135]; bill founded on the reports brought in, [136]
Church, Irish, condition of, in regard to provision for the clergy, [72]; bene- fices, [73]
Circassia, present state of, 366; inva- sion of, by the Russians, 368; classes of society, 370; administra justice, 371; Circassian priests, 372; Circassian women, 373
Clergy, pluralities and non-residence, [135]; bill relative to, brought in by the archbishop of Canterbury, [136]; afterwards dropped, [149]
Coach accidents, 132
Coals, differential duties on, in France, [334] Cobbett's monument, sir F. Burdett's letter to the secretary for, 70
Coin, quantity of gold coin discovered at Stanmore, 33
Coiners, gang of, at Liverpool, appre- hended, 128
Colman, George, dramatist, death, 215 Columbian debt, the, measures of Con- gress respecting, [452] Commercial union, established in Ger- many, [441]
Commntation of tithes' bill, [112] Consul, supposed agent of the French police, in Switzerland, affair of, [419] Conspiracy against the life of the King of the French, 46
Constantine, Achmet Bey's capital, ex- pedition against, by the French, [347]; account of the town, [348] Coroner's Inquests, Mr. Wakley's bill for remuneration of medical witnessess at, [168]
Corporations, Irish municipal, bill, and debate on, [21] Courts:
Common Pleas : Ransom v. Dundas, election petition costs, 72; Nairn v. Chancellor, false imprisonment, 31 Exchequer, Dublin: application of Dean and Chapter of Killaloe, v. R. Otway Cave, esq., relative to serving writs of subpoena, 8
King's Bench: The King v. Hunter, conspiracy to defraud, 54; the King v. J. Hume, M.P. for imputing mis- conduct to sir John Gibbon, 58; the King v. Kensett and others, conspi- racy, 262; Tarr v. M'Gahey, to re- cover penalty of 5001., 267
Sheriffs' Court: G. Ball v. Hawley, hair injured by baking, 78; Bunn v. Macready, assault, 81
Cracow, its neutrality as an independ→
ent state violated, [272]; the article securing its neutrality, [425]; pro- ceedings against foreigners, [426]; remonstrance of the senate, ib.; the troops of Austria, &c., take posses- sion of the city, ib.; removal of Poles and suspected persons, [427]; alter- ations enforced by the foreign powers, ib.; censorship established, [428]; the Diet postponed after the elec- tions, by the foreign residents, ib.; note of the plenipotentiaries of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, to the president of the republic, 333; principles relative to the re-organization of the militia, 335; to re-organization of the police, 336; new law respecting admission of foreigners, 337
Crawford, Mr., resolutions moved by him relative to the Irish tithe bill,
[96]; do. proposed by him to the Irish general association, [305] Custom-house, robbery of cash at, trial of Jordan, &c., for, 270
Davidson, captain, his re-appearance after being supposed dead, 70 Debtors, process of proceeding against, [168]; that proposed by the bill for abolishing imprisonment for debt, [169] Disfranchisement of Stafford, bill for, passes the Commons, [178] Dissenters' marriage bill, and debate on it, [122]
Divett, Mr., his motion for repealing additional duty on spirit licenses, [228]
Diving apparatus, suffocation nearly occasioned by, 1
Divorce, suit of, by the Duchess of Otranto, 32
Documents, public, domestic, 288 foreign, 318 Drama: Auber's opera, "Le Cheval de Bronze," 1; "Provost of Bruges," 17 Drake, Dr. Nathan, death, 206 Drury-lane theatre, Le Cheval de Bronze," 1;"Provost of Bruges," 17 Dublin, statue of William III. blown up, 45
Duncombe, Mr. T., his motion for abolishing tithe on fish, [120]; for an address to the King to obtain the liberation of Prince Polignac, [286] Durham, act for transferring the secular jurisdiction of the see, to the crown, [151]
Eclipse, the great annular, 62 Egerton, lord F., his motion for abol- ishing the Irish Corporation, [32] Election committees, motion on the subject of, [176]
Euphrates expedition, and loss of the Tigris steamer, 64
Evans, gen., his operations against the Carlists, [354]; his proclamation against British subjects aiding them, [389]; his attempt on Fontarabia, [390]
Ewart, Mr., his bill for allowing counsel to felons, [163] Executions, Lacenaire and Avril, 3; Fieschi, Morey, and Pepin, 20 Exeter, bishop of, his amendment in the Dissenters' marriage bill, [132]; objections to the bill for altering the revenues of sees, &c., [149]
False imprisonment, action for, Nairn v. Chancellor, 31
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