Oh! may His blessing me attend,
From every ill my life defend;
And be my guide-my heavenly friend-
Thro' changeless Immortality!
T. N.

THE WAKENING OF CAMBRIA. Addressed to the Cymmrodorion Society, or Royal Cambrian Institution for the Encouragement of Welsh Literature.

By Mrs. HEMANS.

IT is a glorious hour to him

Who stands on Snowdon's crested brow, When Twilight's lingering Star grows dim, And mists with Morn's resplendence glow; And, rolling swift before the breeze,

Unveil to his enraptur'd eye,
Girt with green isles and sparkling seas,
All Cambria's mountain-majesty!
But there hath been a brighter hour!
'Twas when her voice from silence broke,
And, as an eagle in its pow'r,

The Spirit of the Land awoke!
From the far depths of ages gone,
From the low chambers of the dead,
It woke! and brightly moving on,

A sun-beam o'er the mountains spread.
And there were sounds, where'er it pass'd,
O'er Druid-rock and fairy-dell,
Of song upon the rushing blast,

Of minstrelsy's triumphant swell;
While, as Eryri's torrent waves
With joyous music hail'd its way,
Ten thousand echoes from their caves
Burst to prolong th' exulting lay.
And thou, O Harp! to whose deep tone
Was giv'n a pow'r, in elder time,
A might, a magic all thine own,

The burning soul of Cambria's clime :
Thou, hallow'd thus by Freedom's breath,
To guard her fortresses on high,
With sounds awakening scorn of death,
Instinct with immortality;
Thou to the winds, at that proud call,
Didst pour thine old, majestic strams,
As when they fir'd, in bow'r and hall,
The hearts that were not born for chains!
And deeply yet that music thrills!

Yet lives there, in each pealing close, Some mem'ry of th' eternal hills,

With their wild streams and glittering

snows!

The hills, where Freedom's shrine of old,
High midst the storm's dominion stood;
The streams, which proudly, as they roll'd,
Bore to the deep heroic blood;
The snows, in their unstain'd array,

Bright o'er each eagle-summit spreadOh! who shall view their haunts and say That Inspiration thence hath fled?

Eryri, the Welsh name for Snowdon. GENT. MAG. January 1822.

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It is not thus !-each mountain's brow
Bears record of undying names!
How should your Sons forget to glow,
Ye mighty! with your quenchless flames?
It is not thus! in ev'ry glen

The soil with noble dust is blent;
Of fearless and of gifted men

The land is one high monument !
And think ye not, her hills among,
That still their Spirit brightly dwells?
Be thou immortal, Soul of Song!

By Deva's waves, in Snowdon's dells!
Yes! midst those wilds, in days gone by,

The deep wind swell'd with prophet lore; Scenes, mantled with sublimity! Still are ye sacred as of yore.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last,
Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure:
Seek not time when time is past,

Sober speed is wisdom's leisure.
After-wits are dearly bought;
Let thy fore-wit guide thy thought.
Time wears all his locks before,

Take thou hold upon his forehead;
When he flies he turns no more,

And behind his scalp is naked.. Works adjourned have many stays; Long demurs breed new delays.

EXTRACTS FROM "THE PIRATE." Reviewed in our last Volume, pp. 541, 607. 1. CLEVELAND'S SERENADE TO

MINNA.

"FAREWELL! Farewell! the voice you

hear,

Has left its last soft tone with you,Its next must join the seaward cheer, And shout among the shouting crew. "The accents which I scarce could form Beneath your frown's controuling check, Must give the word, above the storm,

To cut the mast, and clear the wreck. "The timid eye I dared not raise,— The hand, that shook when press'd to thine, Must point the guns upon the chase, Must bid the deadly cutlass shine. "To all I love, or hope, or fear,-Honour, or own, a long adieu ! To all that life has soft and dear, Farewell! save memory of you!"

2. NORNA'S INVOCATION On unsheeting her dead Ancestor in St. Ringan's Church.

"CHAMPION, famed for warlike toil,
Art thou silent, Ribolt Troil?
Sand, and dust, and pebbly stones,
Are leaving bare thy giant bones.
Who dared touch the wild bear's skin
Ye slumber'd on, while life was in ?-
A woman now, or babe, may come
And cast the covering from thy tomb.
"Yet be not wrathful, Chief, nor blight
Mine eyes or ears with sound or sight!
I come not, with unhallow'd tread,
To wake the slumbers of the dead,
Or lay thy giant reliques bare;
But what I seek thou well can'st spare.
Be it to my hand allow'd

To shear a merk's weight from thy shroud;
Yet leave thee sheeted lead enough
To shield thy bones from weather rough.
"See, I draw my magic knife-
Never while thou wert in life
Laid'st thou still for sloth or fear,
When point and edge were glittering near;

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See, the eearments now I sever-
Waken now, or sleep for ever!
Thou wilt not wake-the deed is done,—
The prize I sought is fairly won.

"Thanks, Ribolt, thanks,-for this the sea
Shall smooth its ruffled crest for thee,—
And while afar its billows foam,
Subside to peace near Ribolt's tomb.
Thanks, Ribolt, thanks for this the might
Of wild winds raging at their height,
When to thy place of slumber nigh,
Shall soften to a lullaby.

"She, the dame of doubt and dread,
Norna of the Fitful-head,
Mighty in her own despite-
Miserable in her might;
In despair and frenzy great,—
In her greatness desolate;
Wisest, wickedest who lives,
Well can keep the word she gives."

3. THE SONG OF HAROLD HARFAGER.

THE sun is rising dimly red,

The wind is wailing low and dread;
From his cliff the eagle sallies,
Leaves the wolf his darksome vallies;
In the mist the ravens hover,
Peep the wild dogs from the cover,
Screaming, croaking, baying, yelling,
Each in his wild accents telling,

Soon we feast on dead and dying,
Fair-hair'd Harold's flag is flying.'
"Many a crest on air is streaming,
Many a helmet darkly gleaming,
Many an arm the axe uprears,
Doom'd to hew the wood of spears.
All along the crowded ranks,
Horses neigh and armour clanks;
Chiefs are shouting, clarions ringing,
Louder still the bard is singing,

Gather footmen, gather horsemen,
To the field, ye valiant Norsemen.'
"Halt ye not for food or slumber,
View not vantage, count not number;
Jolly reapers, forward still,

Grow the crop on vale or hill,
Thick or scatter'd, stiff or lithe,
It shall down before the scythe.
Forward with your sickles bright,
Reap the harvest of the fight-
Onward footmen, onward horsemen,
To the charge, ye gallant Norsemen !
Fatal chuser of the slaughter,
O'er you hovers Odin's daughter;
Hear the choice she spreads before ye,-
Victory, and wealth, and glory;
Or old Valhallah's roaring hail,
Her ever-circling mead and ale,
Where for eternity unite
The joys of wassail and of fight.
Headlong forward, foot and horsemen,
Charge and fight, and die like Norsemen !'

FRANCE.

The Moniteur states, that in consequence of the resignation of the Duke de Cazes, as Ambassador to England, and that of the Duke of Narbonne Pelet, as Ambassador to Naples, the King, by a royal ordinance, dated the 9th inst. has named viscount Chateaubriand, Peer of France and Minister of State, to the embassy to the Court of London: and Monsieur de Serre, Minister of State, and Member of the Chamber of Deputies, to the embassy to the Court of the Two Sicilies. The Moniteur further contains four royal ordinances of the 9th of January, appointing the Duke of Laval Montmorency, the Duke of Dondeauville, the Duke of NarbonnePelet, and the Viscount Bonald, Ministers ef State and Members of the Privy Council. The King has also signed an ordinance naming Dr. Francois an Officer of the Legion of Honour, in recompence of the devotion he has shewn by his efforts for the relief of persons labouring under the dreadful contagion at Barcelona; and another, replacing General Donadieu on the list of effective general officers. At the suggestion of the present Keeper of the Seals, M. Peyronnet, the King has remitted to M. Lacretelle the elder, the remainder of the imprisonment to which he had been condemned, as the author of a pamphlet entitled, "The Clippings of the Censorship."

It appears, that the missionaries in Paris, of whom so much has been said lately, are increasing in activity, and the concourse of persons who flock to the church of St. Genevieve to assist in their exercises, and receive their instructions, becomes every day more considerable. In order that the working classes may profit by them, they commence at half past five in the morning, and continue till seven.

The Clerical Almanack of France for 1822 states the number of priests in actual employment to be 35,286, of whom 14,870 are above 60 years of age: 4,156 have been ordained during the last year.

SPAIN.

Accounts from Barcelona are very important. The following details are contained private letter: "Barcelona proclaimed ita independence on the 30th of December. Gea. Villa Campa endeavoured, but in vain, to oppose the change. He addressed every rezument separately, in order to bring them back to obedience; but all answered him by thouts of Live the Constitution! Down with the Ministers! The General immediately

quitted Barcelona. The movement was directed by Col. Costa, Commandant of the National Guard, who devoted himself to the maintenance of good order and tranquillity during the whole time that Barcelona was ravaged by the epidemic malady. A levy of 30,000 men has been decreed for Catalonia. The 400 royalists who projected the releasing by force some prisoners who were detained at Gerona, were pursued. The day before yesterday three of them presented themselves on the frontier near Banyuls, to demand a passage for themselves and 400 men, whom they preceded. The post which they addressed compelled them to retire; and on a menace being made that they would force the passage in the event of their being pursued, the generale was beaten during the night in the different villages adjacent to the point menaced. The royalists, however, did not again make their appearance."

By recent accounts from Spain, it appears the resistance to the Government continues, or rather seems to increase. The change which has taken place in the Ministry, instead of satisfying the malcontents, has rendered them more insolent in their demands, and more determined in the pursuit of their objects.

The Lapidas, or constitutional pillars, set up in the different towns of Spain, are sometimes, during the night, defaced or bemired by the Serviles. The Lapida of Onda having been defiled in that manner, the Madrid papers state that the Constitutional Alcade, Don Rafael Querol, caused a vein to be opened, and washed the stone with his blood. The same profanation having been repeated in Velez, Malaga, Don Cristobal Olor, of Ruiz, parochial Curate of Santa Maria, also caused a vein to be opened, and with his own blood performed the same act of patriotic zeal as the Alcade of Onda.

The following is an extract of a letter, dated Barcelona, Jan. 12:- With respect to the political aspect of Spanish affairs, I never saw public opinion, any where, more unanimously or decidedly pronounced than last night and the night before, at the theatre of this place. The immediate object which called forth the expression of it was Gen. Riego, who came from his retirement

at Reus to visit Barcelona. He was received with the loudest and most universal acclamations of "Viva Riego," and "Down with the Ministers."

ITALY.

An article from Venice, in the French papers, states the condemnation, by the Senate

Senate of Lombardy, of 34 unfortunate individuals, of all ranks, to various punishments, death, imprisonment in a fortress, &c. for the crime of belonging to the sect of Carbonari. The punishment of some of those sentenced to death has been commuted by the Emperor of Austria, as a special indulgence, for imprisonment in chains for 20 years, and others for lesser periods of a similar imprisonment.

GERMANY.

A letter from a gentleman in Saxe Weimar, written in November last, contains the following remarkable passage:-" Corn in this country is selling at such very low prices, that the farmers are in a dreadful situation; and if England does not soon open her ports, the cultivators of our soil must run away."

TURKEY.

The Austrian Observer of the 3d inst. communicates several particulars respecting the state of the Turkish capital and provinces. The intelligence from Constantinople, however, does not reach beyond the 10th ult. It states, that the Firman published by the Grand Seignior, with the view of repressing the violence of the populace, has been attended with complete success; and that a few acts of severity had inspired such terror, that they became as submissive as

they were before disorderly. However, the Government continued to punish the Greeks who were taken in arms; and such are the fanaticism and deadly revenge with which both parties are inspired, that we see no hope of these atrocious reprisals speedily terminating. It is stated, on the same authority, that according to the last advices from the Persian capital, the Schah had declared that the hostilities committed by his son had no connection with the actual situation of the Ottoman Empire, and that they were undertaken solely for the purpose of punishing the Curds for some predatory acts of which they had been guilty. These people acknowledge only a nominal dependence on the Porte, and are in the habit of plundering both the Turks and the Persians. It appears that the report of the Persians having invaded Armenia is not true, and that the mistake originated in some disturbances which broke out in Trebisond. The Austrian Observer

also gives the particulars of the horrible butchery that was committed at Tripolizza; but it makes no mention of a capitulation, as stated in the private account. If we can believe this, 36,000 men, women, and children, and forming the whole of the Turkish population, were destroyed; and only one person, the son of the Pacha of Corinth, was spared, in the hope that he might be useful to the Greeks in the enterprise which they had meditated against Corinth.

as,

AMERICA, &c.

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New York and Boston papers to the 22d ult. have arrived. They contain a copy of the Annual Treasury Report; from which we learn, that the revenue of the year just ended, may be estimated at 16,110,000 dollars, of which sum the Customs produced, alone, 14 millions. In the year 1818, the Customs amounted to nearly 22 millions; the next year to above 17 millions; wherein the year 1820, the whole receipt, including Customs, public lands, &c. amounted only to 15,284,546 dollars. The greatest state of depression which the Customs had reached, was in the first quarter of last year, when they were 727,000 dollars less than in the corresponding quarter of the year 1820. But an improvement of more than a million took place in the second and third quarters. It was also expected that the last quarter would be a favourable one. It will be seen, from this Report, that the commerce of the United States had been declining rapidly from the beginning of 1819; and that a reaction did not take place till the second quarter of last year.

A letter from Demerara, of the 24th of October, mentions an extraordinary instance of the violence with which lightning acts. On board a vessel called the Susan, on the voyage from New Brunswick to Demerara, on the 16th, all hands being on the foretopsail yard, the lightning struck the vessel with terrible force, coming down the wedges of the foremast, which it carried away in a moment, about eight feet above the deck, along with every soul aloft, and shattered the main-topmast and jib-boom into splinters. It also burst the ship on the starboard bow, two planks from the deck. One of the crew was in a manner annihilated by the thunderbolt; no mark remained of him but spots of his blood on the sails and rigging. The rest were more or less hurt by the fall, when the masts and rigging came down.

The country to the north bank of the river Plate, opposite Buenos Ayres &c. has been annexed to the Crown of Portugal, under the title of the Cisplatine State; and a free trade with the whole western coast of that extensive country is anticipated. EAST INDIES.

Extract of a letter from an Officer, dated July 24, 1821, Camp Sumbhulpoor :: "Immediately after I was appointed to the regiment, we were ordered to take the field along with four other regiments (making together about 5000 men, against a tribe of outrageous mountaineers, called Kooles, who had made war upon their peaceable neighbours, burnt their villages, murdered all the inhabitants, and plundered the whole of the country. These depredators inhabit a mountainous tract of country, running through the centre of India, from East to West. We had to march upwards of 600 miles before we got to the point where the attack

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obliged to follow them, hunt them down, and kill them like so many tigers; as they never allowed themselves to be taken prisoners while they could keep hold of their bow and arrow and battle-axe. At last, after several thousands of them being killed, they accepted our terms of peace, which they had refused several times since the commencement of the campaign. From

what I have here stated, you will easily perceive the very harassing nature of the expedition to every one concerned. Out of the four medical men that commenced the campaign, only one survived the excessive fatigue that they were obliged to undergo, so that the whole of the medical charge devolved upon him. His exertions (having at one time upwards of 400 sick in the camp) called forth the public thanks of his Excellency the Commander in Chief."

IRELAND.

The Irish disturbances have not yet ceased. The Insurgents may have lately become less sanguinary, or, not meeting with resistance, may have found that the shedding of blood would be but "loss of time, and hindrance of business." They have, however, not proceeded with any abatement of activity, skill, or good fortune, in that particular course of enterprize which their illomened cause appeared to them to require. They have seized and carried off considerable quantities of arms;-and in one instance, not far from Lord Donoughmore's residence, they are said by The Clonmel Herald to have planned with ingenuity the surprise and plunder of a post of some importance during the absence of a body of the Police, which scheme they executed before the close of day in a resolute and successful manner. The house where the Constables had deposited their store of fire-arms and ammunition, was entered at the same time with the owner, by a party of the banditti, who had a mock prisoner under escort, and some carbines and pistols borne away in triumph. As the ruffians who undertook this adventure were undisguised, the conclusion is, that they belonged to a distant part of the Country; but the judgment which they displayed, and the negligence shown on the other side of the question, go equally to prove how intimate was their intelligence with persons about the spot. This transaction appears to have excited a considerable feeling among the Magistrates of the Country; and a second occurrence, though so far different from the above that it was a capture made on the part of Government from the law-breakers, will, we doubt not, be regarded as no less worthy of attention.

A sergeant of police-men, with his party, discovered, in a place called the Giant's Cave, amidst the Kilnemanagh mountains, a sample, for it was no more, of eight wellconstructed pikes; the manufacture of which instrument has always, within the last 30 years, been considered symptomatic of some extensive conspiracy among the Irish peasants.

A fatal and melancholy occurrence, growing out of the unhappy disturbances in Ireland, is related in the Dublin papers. It appears, that two parties, composed of military and constables, and accompanied by Magistrates, in patrolling the country near Mallow, in the county of Cork, on the night of the 10th instant, unfortunately approached each other in mutual ignorance. One mistook the other for a party of the nightly disturbers of the peace, and fired several shots. The consequence of this disastrous mistake has been, that Mr. Lowe, a Clergyman and Magistrate, was killed, and his servant, who accompanied him as a constable, mortally wounded.

The Marquis Wellesley has been received as Lord Lieutenant in Ireland with all that enthusiasm which his appointment was so well calculated to call forth. He made his public entry into Dublin on the 29th of December. His Lordship was received by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, and a numerous body of gentlemen of the county and city of Dublin, on horseback and on foot, wearing a ribbon of the colour of the scarf worn on the occasion of his Majesty's public entry. The noble Marquis was greeted with the enthusiastic cheers of the multitude, eager to testify their joy at the sight of an Irishman coming to govern them. The heads of the horses belonging

to