Straight thro' the narrow cell and echoing hall, Stern rule and sober task forgotten all, In mingled fits of ecstasy and pain, We hail'd the battle won, and mourn'd o'er heroes slain ! Tumultuous hours were those, but now employ [chasten'd joy. Our tranquil breasts pure hope and No more, in wakeful truce, the jealous hand, [brand, Clasps, unrelax'd, the loosely sheathed But, bare of steel and gauntlet rough, [embrace. With pressure fond, the scholar's keen Methinks, while yet the pageant treads [smiles, Approving Science lifts her head, and Like some imperial dame, who, thron'd on high repays, our ailes, To grace the splendid feats of chivalry, While hotly strive the flower of ev'ry realm, [ven helm: Sighs o'er the splinter'd lance and cloBut when the herald parts the dang'rous fray, And victor knights advance in fair array, Darts from her radiant eye, like gleam of summer sun, [that valour won. The pledge of grateful love, the meed WILLIAM DALBY, Fellow of Exeter College. VERSES Recited in the Theatre, OXFORD, June 15. YE guardian Spirits, who, ordain'd of old, In solemn charge the doom of empires hold, To you, through all her shores, may Enrope raise, [praise, The hallow'd relics of the wise and brave Your conquering swords dealt Freedom where they came, [of fame. And Mercy strew'd with flowers your path Such deeds heroic to the world confess'd, In one great hour, foes conquer'd, spar'd, and bless'd. And Tuou, who, stedfast in the righteous cause, [applause: Ledst the bold strife, shalt share the rich Now mid thy Nation's thanks, one pray'r is borne; [adorn, The peace thou counsel'dst, by thy cares Till, rear'd by thee, her graceful arts re sume [bloom. A fresher life, and spread their vernal ROBERT INGHAM, Commoner of Oriel College. The Opening of one of GREGORY NazienZEN'S Poems, entitled, An Address to his Soul; translated from the Greek by H. S. BOYD. Realm after realm, the pealing hymn of pions spar'd. me? Tell me, my Soul; I ask of thec. Say, Say, wilt thou mount a throne sublime, And rouse the lion from his lair? To tread the courts by Seraphs trod, The Conclusion of the Third Hymn of SYNESIUS; translated from the Greek by H. S. BOYD. GRANT me, O Father, having filed To gain thy radiant ball, and rest And view my wreath of glory blighted. 'May'st thou conduct me with a shepherd's care, [prepare. And for my native realm my longing soul HISTORICAL CHRONICLE, 1814. PROCEEDINGS IN THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FIFTH PARLIAMENT OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, June 6. Lord Grenville expressed his regret that the Slave Trade should be continued by France; he had expected that all Europe would have concurred in its abolition, as a great crime, as a system of the worst piracy, which ought no longer to exist. The Earl of Liverpool said that Ministers were anxious for its abolition. In the Commons, the same day, 129 petitions were presented against the proposed alteration in the Corn Laws. Sir W. Curtis presented a petition from the Watch and Clock-makers, stating that they exported goods to the value of 500,0007, annually, and that their trade was in danger of being ruined by the importation of foreign watches and clocks, to which the names of English workmen were affixed. Lord Castlereagh presented a copy of the Treaty of Peace with France. Mr. Wilberforce deprecated with much. eloquence and feeling the renewal of the Slave Trade by France, and the cession of large settlements on the North coast of Africa, which had now for many years enjoyed repose, and where its chiefs, awakened to their true interests, had begun to direct their exertions to more humane pursuits. Lord Castlereagh thought his Hon. Friend had been too sanguine as to what could be done on a point of so much importance. When France received back certain of her colonies, colonies, her great and high-minded people expected them to be restored with all their former advantages—one of the principal of which was the right to stock them with slaves. The French Government knew that the people were warm on this subject; that they were not prepared to concur in the Abolition of the Slave Trade; to have pressed it peremptorily, therefore, as a measure absolutely necessary to be definitively adjusted, might only have fixed their prejudice deeper, and made the attainment of the object more difficult. It was therefore thought advisable to leave it open to further discussion in a Congress, where the support of the Emperors of Austria and Russia, and the King of Prussia, might be relied on. Lord Milton said, that the concurrence of Spain and Portugal in the Abolition of the Slave Trade would be of more importance than that of the three Allied Sove. reigns, neither of whom had any colonies. If the French were averse now to abolish that inhuman traffic, he did not think they would agree to it after reaping benefit from it for five years. Besides, how ac. tively would that trade be carried on during that period, and how numerous the individuals employed by other nations. The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved that the petitions against any alteration in the Corn Laws should be referred to a select Committee, which was adopted by several Members with an understanding that the report made by the Committee should not be used to press the obnoxious measure during the present Session.―The motion was carried by 173 to 67. The Chancellor of the Exchequer next June 8. Lord Donoughmore, in presenting the General Petition of the Catholicks of Ireland, praying for Emancipation, expressed his opinion that the present was not the favourable time for discussing it when the public mind was heated, and his Catholic countrymen seemed to be at war with the Representative of the Sovereign Pontiff himself. The resolution of the Catholic Prelates, seeking a conference with the Pope, offered, he thought, a reasonable prospect of accommodating those differences. Earl Grey concurred in this opinion, and, with the Duke of Norfolk, declared, that the claims of the Catholicks were founded in justice and policy. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 7, 8, 9. The Hackney Poor Bill was thrown out by 62 to 50. Mr.Vansittart, in reply to Mr.Whitbread, acknowledged that 8000 Russian guards were to be conveyed from Cherbourg and encamped near Southampton, until our shipping could convey them to Russia; 3000 had landed. Messrs. Whitbread, Wynne, and Ponsonby, thought it unconstitutional. Mr. Methuen said, that unless something should be done in the interval to ameliorate the situation of the Princess of Wales, he should move on Tuesday the 14th that her letter be taken into consideration. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 9. Lord Hardwicke moved the appointment of a Committee to investigate the Corn proposed that the report of the Corn Im-Laws as connected with the growth, com-. port Bill should be deferred three weeks, to give the above Committee time to make their report. Messrs. Canning, Rose, W. Smith, and others, urged the serious and general alarm which prevailed out of doors. Mr. Huskisson said, that before the war our peace establishment was 16 millions; now it would be near 60; the price of bread could not be less than double what it was at that period. General Gascoyne moved an amendment, that the report be deferred till six months; which was carried by 116 to 106. The obnoxious Bill is therefore thrown out for this Session. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 7. The second reading of the Bill permitting the Free Exportation of Corn was supported by Lords Hardwicke, Liverpool, and Grenville, (the two latter because it extended the great principle of freedom of commerce,) and opposed by Lords Stanhope and Lauderdale: read a second time. GENT. MAG. July, 1814. selves if they thought proper. It appeared to be the intention of the Hon. Member to move subsequently for their expulsion. Mr.Vansittart expressed the Royal assent to the proposition for extending the term of the annuity to Lord Hill while the Peerage continued. Mr. Methuen's motion respecting the Princess of Wales was, on the suggestion of Mr. Whitbread, postponed till Friday 17th. Lord Castlereagh, in reply to Mr. Whitbread, said, that Buonaparte had been averse to the Abolition of the Slave Trade. In a Committee of Supply, four millions were granted for the defraying the expences of the Army Extraordinaries for 1814; and three millious to pay off the outstanding Exchequer Bills. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 13. The Earl of Liverpool informed the House that the Prince Regent, at the request of the Emperor of Russia, had given permission that 8000 of his guards might be conveyed from Cherbourg, and landed at Portsmouth, to be re-embarked as soon as possible for Russia in the Russian fleet; their expences in England to be borne by their Sovereign. In the Commons, the same day, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in stating the sums necessary to be raised for the service of the year, said he estimated the ex-. pences of the Navy for the present year, (exclusive of the ordnance sea-service,) at 18,786,509.; the Army (including Ireland), with barracks and commissariat, 18,121,173/.; the Extraordinaries for EngJand, 9,000,000/.; ditto Ireland, 200,000l.; unprovided Extraordinaries, last year, 6,350,132.; Ordnance, including Ireland, 3,955,6581.; miscellaneous service of the year, 2,500,000.; Vote of Credit, 3,200 0007. Ireland taking 200,0001. of it; Subsidies voted to our Allies, 3,000,000l.; ditto to be voted, 1,200,000.; Bills of Credit, 1,000,000. Making the whole amount of the joint Charge for England and Ireland 67,313,472/. If this estimate was thought high, it should be recollected that the first part of the year had been passed in a state of war and of exertion beyond any former period. We had America still to contend with, and considerable expences must be incurred to carry on the contest with vigour and effect. The separate charges for England were as follows: Loyalty Loan, 71,3207; interest on Exchequer Bills, 1,900,000/.; interest our Debentures, 49,780%; the grant to the Sinking Fund for unprovided Exchequer Bills, 200,000.; and 6,000,0001. for the repayment of Exchequer Bills. The whole of these separate charges amounted to 8,311,100l. which, added to the former joint estimate,made the sum of 75,624,572!. The proportion of the joint charge to be furnished by Ireland was 7,919,2327. and for the Civil List and Consolidated Fund 187,8621.; so that there remained a total expence for England of 67,517,4781. To meet this charge, Parliament granted 3,000,000 in annual duties; 20,500,000. for War Taxes; the Lottery, 200,0004; Vote of Credit, 3,000,000Z.; the English proportion of Naval Stores, 508,5457,; the first Loan, 22,000,000.; and the second, which had been this day contracted for, 18,500,000l.: in all, 67,708,5451. — The Right Hon. Gentleman then detailed the relative increase or diminution of different sources of revenue in the two preceding years. The Consolidated Fund had fallen short of expectation. The Customs was 9,818,000. being two millions deficient. The Excise Duties had, on the contrary, increased nearly one million. The duties on Beer were nearly equal in the two years 1813 and 1814. On the article of Malt there was an increase from 4,444,000. to 4,875,0002. British Spirits had produced in the year 1813, 2,600,0001. and in 1814, 2,900,000. On Foreign Spirits there was an inconsiderable rise. The Wine Duties had increased from 900,0004. to 1,300,000l.; and the duties on Tea from 1,100,000l. to 1,200,0001. The Stamp-office produced in 1813 five millions and a half, and considerably more in the last year. The Post-office had also been more productive. The Assessed Taxes had increased from 5,518,000l. to 6,339,000. The Land Tax had risen from 1,051,0007. to 1,059,000 The Property Tax had increased from 12 to 14 millions. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by stating the terms on which the loan of 22 millions had been taken; so much had the funds improved by the signature of peace, that one million and a half of stock had been saved. concluded by moving that a Loan of 24 millions be granted to his Majesty, which, after some observations by Mr. Ponsonby on the discontinuance of the Property Tax after April 1815, was agreed to. June 15. He Mr. Holford complained of the present condition of the prisons in the metropolis. The allowance to prisoners was not sufficient to sustain life. The meat sent in by the Sheriffs as a sort of donation, arising from the subscriptions to the Sheriff's fund, was without regard to the number of prisoners, and the distribution always left to the discretion of the gaolers. allowance to untried prisoners, who were to be presumed innocent, was only ten ounces of bread per diem, and six pounds of potatoes per week: in the City prisons there was no allowance of cloathing; each prisoner had two rugs, but as no straw was allowed on the stone floor, from he The appre apprehension of fire, he must keep on his cloaths night and day, a practice not very favourable to cleanly habits. He objected to the privileges enjoyed by all (convicts under sentence of death, transportation, respited, &c.) who could pay 13s. 6d. admission money, and 2s. 6d. per week for a bed on the master's side. The duties of religion were not attended to. In the Borough Compter there was neither chaplain nor chapel. In Newgate, Dr. Ford *, the ordinary, told the Committee, that he did not think it a part of his duty to attend to the morality of the prisoners, but only to the duty on Sundays, and attending condemned prisoners. Mr. H. concluded by moving for leave to bring in a Bill for the better management of the City prisons, by placing them under the superintendance of a Committee. Sir W.Curtis, Aldermau C. Smith, Sir J. Shaw, and Alderinan Combe, warmly opposed the motion as unnecessary. They allowed that the gaol fees ought to be abolished. Messrs. Phillips, Wrottesley, Horner, and Thornton, approved highly of the Bill, and leave was then given to bring it in. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 20. The Royal Assent was given by commission to the Irish Treasury Bills Bill and six local and private Bills. [The ceremony was witnessed by the King of Prussia, his three sons, and Marshal Blacher.] Earl Stanhope having moved that a Petition which he had presented from a prisoner in Gloucester Gaol be now read, Lord Kenyon moved the standing order for the exclusion of strangers; upon which the foreign Princes and ladies quitted the House, In the Commons, the same day, Sir S. Romilly presented a petition from Robert Harris, a prisoner confined in Lincoln Gaol. Sir Matthew W. Ridley inquired of the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it was the intention of Ministers to make any speedy communication to the House respecting the marriage of the Princess Charlotte to the Hereditary Prince of Orange. Mr. Vansillart said he could give no other answer than that Ministers had received no authority to make any communication. After some very warm remarks between Messrs. Whitbread and Stephen, Sir M. W. Ridley said, he had heard that the marriage was broken off because it was required that the Princess Charlotte should leave this country. * Dr. Ford has since resigned. June 23. On the second reading of the Small Pox Spreading Prevention Bill, Lord Boringdon stated that the clauses left an option 10 parties to inoculate with the small pox; but required notice, according to a prescribed form, of such a circumstance; also making regulations with respect to persons afflicted with the natural small pox; and prohibiting children, supported by parishes, from being inoculated with the small pox. In the Commons, the same day, Mr. Methuen deeply lamented the necessity of addressing the House upon a subject so painful and distressing as the situation of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. That necessity he attributed to no step having been taken by Ministers to ameliorate it, though public opinion had been so decidedly and unequivocally expressed on a late memorable debate. The present discussion might cloud the triumph of the moment; but was it to be expected that because others were basking in the sunshine of happiness, the Princess of Wales was to be content in the cold shade of ob They scurity and neglect; or that, in the hour. of general triumph, she should forget the comparative degradation to which she herself was reduced? What must the Allied Sovereigns have thought of British generosity, when they beard the disgraceful fact that the allowance to her Royal Highunable to pay them even the common atness was so parsimonious, that she was tention of a formal visit, from the want of dignity of her rank and station. means to support the proper grandeur and should legislate with the feelings of fathers daughters or sisters were made to endure and brothers; let them suppose their a similar indignity and degradation, and then let them say whether they would refuse their interference in favour of an unprotected woman. The Princess of Wales, on her marriage, was allowed 17,000. in addition to her own 5,000. It was afterwards reduced to 12,000 on account of the circumstances of the Prince. necessity of contracting debts, which in She had subsequently been under the 1809 the Prince had paid, to the amount of 40,000. She had then been obliged to live on a less income than when she re |