THE FESTIVAL OF NAURUZ.*

THE moon of Nauruz silvers yet

THE

Spahaun's high tow'r and minaret; Eight times the golden bowl has pour'd Red nectar on the banquet board, And nymphs with purple feet have way'd Their locks in myrrh and amber lav'd, Lah Illah!.... thrice the holy song Has rung Shah Sephi's bow'rs among ;He sleeps on woven down reclin'd,

While bath'd in balm, the sacred rose Around his perfum'd pillow glows, With Shirauz silver clusters twin'd: Soft sounds her slumb'ring car surpriseA form in youthful beauty bright, Comes like the dream of rich delight, Seen by the love-warm'd poet's eyes.

Such forms their gracious vigil keep, When rose lipp'd Houris whisper sleep. "Whence, and what art thou, form divine?"

"I was, I am, and shall have been! A vague unearthly form is mine,

Dimly thro' painted shadows seen.

* On the eve of this festival, the Persian sovereign was visited by a beautiful stranger, who replied, when questioned, "I was the Future, I am the Present, and hall be the Past."

"I was the Future !-1 have slept
Unknown since Time himself was bora,
Then on the sun's first glorious morn,
Prophetic Allah paus'd and wept.
He saw me in the depths afar

Of dark and drear Eternity;
And ere he shap'd the earliest star,

His changeless mission gave to me. No longer veil'd. no longer dumb,

I visit thy desiring eyes, From the wide throng of things to come, Where Happiness for ever lies! Her shape, her presence, and her place, Men doubt, yet her existence feel; Thought cannot fix, nor Reason trace, The glances which her throne reveal. In one pure beam of seeming white, The rainbow's richest tints they find: And Peace, the soul's unsullied light,

Is ev'ry ray from heav'n combin'd: But when and where!...... I come to bring

New treasures from the lap of Fate;
Yet thou wilt ask another spring
To open Joy's still distant gate.

I am the Present!-Now I lift
The veil which hid my shining brow:
That holy veil was Wisdom's gift,

Tho' cluster'd roses crown me now,

Thou hear'st not while on flow'rs I tread,
How swift my down-shod feet are gone;
Thou se'est my silver pinions spread,
Forgetful how they waft me on!
To-morrow, silent, sad, and cold,

I join the throng of ages past;
And none shall find the threads of gold
Wove in the veil by Fancy cast
O'er dim unshap'd Futurity,

When Youth and Pleasure smil'd for thee!
Age, weeping Age, shall strive in vain
To weave that precious veil again.
I go, and those who watch my track
Thy bounties and thy pomp shall praise;

But thou unheard shalt call me back
Again on vanish'd joys to gaze.
Thy scimitar may stamp my name
Ön earth in adamant or brass
In vain!-thy tow'rs of wealth and fame
To darkness with thyself shall pass:
Alike thy sceptre and thy tomb
Shall moulder in oblivion's gloom.
But in a tablet never trac'd

By mortal eye or mortal hand,
Thy deeds are graven undefac'd,

Till by rewarding Allah scann'd:
He in the fading rainbow writes
The record of man's brief delights;
But in the blest eternal Sun'
Preserves the fame by Virtue won.
Farewell:-the fated hour is near

When I and all the Past shall rise
Before assembled myriads' eyes,

The fiat of our Judge to hear:
Truth shall unveil his throne, and men
Who fear him now, shall know him then!

ANACREONTIC.

HE Ark on Arrarat was seated,

THE
The waters to their deeps retreated;
The dark and angry clouds no more
Their deluge torrent ceaseless pour,
And forth from windowy roof above
Noah sent his courier turtle dove.
She cleav'd the air with timid wings,
And wander'd o'er the face of things.
But all in vain she sought around
For branching bough, or grassy ground;
Still the wand'ring waters roll'd
O'er the landscape damp and cold,
All unmeet for bird of love,
So return'd the turtle dove,
For its foot could find no rest
Wide across the watery waste.
Once myself I sent my dove
On an errand to my love,
With tresses all of glossy jet,
And eyes of dewy violet,
And form as fair as early spring,
Clad in white of angel's wing,
But, alas! her friendless breast
Gave its little foot no rest.

Noah sent his timid dove again (Noah sent, and got iu vain);

Nature's friendly breast was seen,
Robed in grass of verdant green;
And the turtle, joyful now,
Eager pluck & the olive bough;
With the branch return'd the dove,
Emblems of celestial love!

Fly, O fly, my dove again,
Tell the Virgin of my pain;
Pity's gentle heart is here,
Can she slight thy tender tear?
Be not timid-hence, away-
Stop not, gossip, on the way;
Swiftly go, and swift return,
Say, is love the virgin's scorn?

Owns her heart the flame of love?
Tell me, does it beat my dove?
Will her secret sighs relieve me?
And her tender arms receive me?·
Bid my troubled fancies cease,
Bring the Olive branch of peace!

SONNET.

G. F. M.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 16.

HE Prince Regent has commanded

That all court mournings (except those

of very short periods) shall, in future, be abridged half of the duration as at present established; and further, that all court mournings of a long duration shall, after the first six weeks, be worn only at court and on Sundays.

Member returned to serve in Parliament.

Borough of Witton.-James Lord Viscount Fitz-Harris, in the room of the Hon. Charles Herbert, deceased.

This Gazette also contains the names of the persons who are nominated for sheriffs for the ensuing year.

Aggregate average* prices of the twelve maritime districts of England and Wales, by which importation is to be regulated in Great Britain:-Wheat, per quarter, 92s. 9d. Rye, ditto, 53s. 7d. Barley, ditto, 44s. 5d. Oats, ditto, 278. 6d. Beans, ditto, 46s. 4d. Peas, ditto, 47s 3d. Oatmeal, per boll, 30s. 6d. Rape Seed, per quarter, 63s. 7 d.

Published by authority of Parliament,

WM. DOWDING,

Receiver of Corn Returns.

The above is the average prices of grain in the maritime districts, and by which importation is regulated. Wheat having exceeded 80s. per quarter, barley 40s, and oats 2s. 6d. the importation of foreign growth is now permitted. Rye not having exceeded 58s, beans 53s. and peas 59s, per quarter, are still prohibited.)

SATURDAY, NOV. 23.

Notice is given, that the present Court Mourning, to commence on Thursday next the 22d inst, will be for his late Serene Bighness the Grand duke of Mecklenburg Strelits, brother to the Queen, as well as the King of Wirtemburg."

"This Gazette notifies the appointment of Mr. Auldjo, as Consul at Cowes for the United States of America.

TUESDAY, NOV. 26.

Board that the plague, which made its appearance and prevailed at Noya, has ceased; it is, thereupon, ordered, that the Order of Council of the 14th of February last, subjecting all ships and vessels liable to quarantine, and coming from or through the Mediterranean, within the straits of Gibraltar (although furnished with clean bill of health) to be treated as vessels arriving with suspected bills, be, and the same is hereby revoked.

CARLTON HOUSE, NOV. 25.

This day General De Neuffer, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for his Majesty the King of Wirtemberg, had an audience of the Prince Regent, to deliver his new credentials, &c. &c.

Also, the appointment of Sir James M'Gregor, Knt. M.D. F.R.S. as physicianextraordinary to H. R. H. the Prince Regent. And, Major William Gosset, of the Royal Engineers, to be a Companion of the most honourable Military Order of the Bath.

TUESDAY, DEC. 3.

This Gazette notifies the royal licence and permission to Lieutenant Robert Steele, of the Royal Marines, and of Valencia, in the Spanish service, to wear the supernume rary cross of the royal and distinguishedSpanish Order of Charles III. which his Catholic Majesty Ferdinand VII. has been pleased to confer upon him,

SATURDAY, DEC. 7.

This Gazette notifies that the Prince Regent has granted to Ear! Moira the dignities of Viscount, Earl, and Marquis, of the United Kingdom, by the titles of Viscount Loudoun, Earl of Rawdon, and Marquis of Hastings. And also, John Dumaresque, Esq. to be procurator-general, and F. J. Lecouteur, Esq. advocate general of Jersey. He also conferred the honour of Knighthood on Lieutenant-Colonels D. St. Leger Hill and H. Watson; and permitted Majors A. Anderson and J. Rolt to accept the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword. The 28th regiment to bear the word" Victoria," and the York Rangers the words "Guadaloupe" and "Marti nique" on their colours and appointments. It also contains the proclamation for the apprehension of Jas. Watson the Younger,

TUESDAY, DEC. 10.

This Gazette notifies the appointment of Major-general Sir David Ochterlony, Bart.

and Knt. Commander of the most honourable Military Order of the Bath, to be a 4 A

Knight Grand Cross of the said most honourable Military Order.

TUESDAY, DEC. 17.

This Gazette contains a notice, for the greater convenience of persons having claims upon the French government under the convention concluded at Paris, on the 20th of November, 1815, between his Majesty and the Most Christian King, in conformity to the 9th article of the Treaty of Peace, of the same date; which convention was laid before both Houses of Parliament on the 2d of February, 1846, the term for receiving such claims has been extended, with the consent of the government of his Most Christian Majesty, from the 20th of January next, to the 20th day of February

next.

SATURDAY, DEC. 21.

This Gazette contains the appointment of the following officers belonging to the service of the East India Company, to be Companions of the most honourable Military Order of the Bath:-Lieutenant-Col.

John Burnett, 8th regiment Bengal Natise Infantry; Lieutenant-Col. Joseph O'Halloran, 18th regiment Bengal Native Infantry.

Aggregate average prices of British corn, computed from the return of the last six weeks, from the London Gazette of Saturday, December 21-Barley, 50s. Id; beans, 51s. 7d.: peas, 56s. 9d.; rye, 51s. 2d.; wheat, 93s. Id.; rape seed, 90s.

Average price of oats within the last twelve weeks, 30s. 4d.

Signed, THOS. SHELTON,
Clerk.

DOWNING-STREET, dec. 24.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the be half of his Majesty, to appoint the Right Hoa, Stapleton, Lord Combermere, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Hon. Military Or der of the Bath, Lieutenant-General of his Majesty's forces, and Commander of the forces on the Windward and Leeward Island station, to be Captain-General and Gover nor-in-chief in and over the Island of Bar badoes.

DIANS for the PROTECTION of TRADE against SWINDLERS and SHARPERS, by a circular, has informed the members thereof, that a person undernamed; viz. THOMAS EVANS, ale and porter merchant, 5, Salter's Hall-court, Canon street; who refers to THOMAS COULSON, 220, Upper Thames-street, frequently mentioned; and to HUBBARD, upholsterer, near the Alfred's Head, London road, is reported as improper to be proposed or ballotted as a member thereof. Also, that a person call. ing himself Mr. JAMES, was at Leith, in October last, stating that he was formerly in the employ of the Earl of Warwick, and ordered a quantity of goods to be sent to Park Farm, Kingston, Surrey, and the invoice to be addressed to Mr. Hume, wine vaults, 49, Green-street, Grosvenor-square. The goods were forwarded, but some suspicion arising, they were not delivered; and, on application to Mr. Hume, he had no knowledge of any such person. The said James is now following the employ of a jobber or dealer in horses. And that a bookseller has lately received an order from ANTHONY POWER, So frequently mentioned; and that he now assumes the name and address of Mr. A. P. Best, No 5, Prince's-square, Kennington, where he was noticed in April, 1811. He is a short

that there have lately been several bills in circulation, addressed to "James Gum, wine merchant," sometimes " Rood-lane,' and sometimes" Borough," which appears to be accepted by him, and are made payable at Messrs. Ladbrooke's and Co. who, on application to them, say that they know no such person.

The above Anthony Power, so well known in London, Bath, Ilchester, Cheltenham, Reading, Henley, and other places, having absconded from the Poor-house at Henley-upon-Thames, with clothes belong. ing to the parish, has been committed to the county Bridewell, for three months, by John Cooper, Esq. mayor of Henley.Jackson's Oxford Journal, Nov. 30th,

MEETING AT THE MANSION-HOUSE,

Tuesday Nov. 26th, a numerons and res pectable Meeting was held at the Egyptianhall, in the Mansion-house, pursuant to a Public Requisition addressed to the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of providing a fund for the extraordinary and unparalleled distresses of the poor inhabitants of Spitalfields and its vicinity.

The meeting was summoned for one o'clock, but the Lord Mayor, who presided did not enter the Hall till two, by which time the three front rows of seats were ocou

pied by a numerous assemblage of elegant females, among whom we noticed a large proportion of the Society of Friends.

His Lordship was accompanied into the Hall by Sir W. Curtis, Ald. Atkins, Messrs, Buxton, Marryatt, Butterworth, Hibbert, and several of the most eminent bankers and merchants in the city.

His Lordship having taken the chair, said, that the object of the Gendeinen at whose request the meeting was called, was not to confine the intended relief solely to the inhabitants of Spital-fields. The poor inhabitants of the adjacent parts were suffering much from the same general causes, and, their cases would meet with attention as far as the resources of the Committee should enable them. The increase of pauperism was alarmingly great; and though he lamented such increase as much as any man, yet he had been obliged, for want of the means of procuring employment for them, to send home to their several parishes 30 or 40 persons daily for the last two months. As to the kind of labour which should be devised, that was also the subject of many suggestions which had been made. He himself had con sulted with Government on the matter, and he had to regret extremely that the case received from Government less attention than it deserved (Hear, hear). Among other things which he had suggested was one which had for its object the giving employment to nearly 20,000 persons (we understood his Lordship to allude to the inclosing of certain lands), in a place where nearly 8,000 of them could be provided with a habitation, and where the expense to Government would not be a single farthing. Unless some such means as this were devised, it would be useless to attempt to remedy the evils which existed. There was another suggestion which had been made, and which, if attended to, would no doubt have a salutary effect—that a subscription from the shopkeepers, of one paund and upwards, towards giving the manufacturers employment, and receiving back the value in goods.-He should again observe, and begged to impress on the Meeting, that no means, however trivial at first appearance, should be neglected, which may contribute to employ the poor-for by emplayment only could their distresses be properly alleviated (Hear, Hear).—One other observation he should offer to the Meeting before he concluded. The extremely high price of flour and butcher's-meat was a subject of just and general complaint. This was an evil to which, in his opinion, the public itself could apply the remedy. exertions were made to countenance and support the cheap butcher and cheap baker, there was not a doubt but such a competition would be raised as would greatly contribute to lessen the price of those articles of necessary consumption-bread and meat. Persons, going to market themselves, and looking out for those who sold at a mode

If

rate profit, would find that they could pro

cure the best meat at a rate much lower than that which they now pay; and while they thus cheapened the best pieces of meat for their own consumption, they would also cheapen for the consumption of the poor the pieces which were called inferior, but which were still good meat. His Lordship conclud ed his address by expressing an earnest hope that, as the Meeting had been expressly couvened for a charitable purpose, that no, other subject should engage its attention (Loud applause).

Mr. J. J. Lister then read a Report from the Committee, which gave a melancholy but too true account, of the accumulated misery now existing in Spitalfields and its vicinity; after which Mr. Buxton, and several other Gentlemen, most eloquently pleaded in behalf of the many miserable objects, at present suffering all the ills of poverty -A Subscription was subsequently opened, to which his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT has since benevolently presented the sum of £5,000 from "funds at the disposal of his Majesty," and the total amount now considerably exceeds £35,000.

On Friday Nov. the 15th, was held a meeting of the distressed Manufacturers, Artisans, and others, of the Cities of London and Westminster, in Spa-fields, in consequence of the following placard,

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At a meeting held at the Carlisle, Shoreditch, on Thursday evening, the 7th of November instant, it was determined to call a meeting of the distressed Manufacturers, Mariners, Artisans, and others, of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and the parts adjacent, at Spa-fields, on Friday, the 15th, instant, at 12 o'clock, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning the Prince Regent and the Legislature, to adopt immediately such means as will relieve the sufferers from the misery which now overwhelms them,

"JOHN DYALL, Chairman.

"THOMAS PRESTON, Secretary." That meeting having been held, certain Resolutions were passed, and a Petition to the Prince Regent agreed to, about ten days afterwards the adjourned meeting was announced by posting bills of a most inflammatory description for Monday, Dec. 2nd, at the same spot.

As the day of meeting approached, Government was busily occupied in preparing against the worst, and the Magistrates of Bow-street circulated cautionary postingbills and advertisements in the papers.

In the City, the Lord Mayor, as on the former day of meeting in Spa fields, took precautions for preserving the public peace. The ward constables, who had been considerably augmented, assembled at an early hour; and the following notice was posted on large boards, and not only fixed in conspicuous places, but carried about various parts of the City :

"OUR SOVEREIGN LORD THE KING Chargeth and commandeth all persons, be