tear

no more,

MET

own.

Ah! why still relentless does death aim the O thither turn thy straying feet,
blow

At twilight's pleasing, sober hour,
At the boson that genius and virtue adorn? And contemplative take thy seat
0! ye to whom genius and virtue are

Within this hermit bower,
dear,

Here all a source of stillness proves,
Approach, and in silent affection deplore;

No noises rude the calm infest,
While science is shedding the wo-speaking But rushing screams and vocal groves

Will lull thy fretted mind to rest :
At the grave of her M****, who hears her No porter here, in haughty state,

With surly tone bids chee depart,
While yet on the cradle of childhood he

But open stands the humble gate,
lay,

As is its owner's heart !
And her name and her worth to his mind

Romantic grot! as thee I view,
were unknown;
She watched every smile, and with fostering. The tinies ere man the base art knew,

I see, by fancy's pict'ring eyes, ray,

With friendship’s mark, guile to disguiseIllumin'd his genius, and marked him her

Then the fell monsters of the wood, While youth smild serene on the morn of With harmless jaws unknown to blood

Subdued by love's delightful reign, his days

'Mid lambkins cropt the plain! His bosom enraptured beat high at her

0 name;

age

of bless! when man was fed Her star shone before him, with truth. On what his fields and flocks supplied, beaming blaze,

And with a home, like to this shade,
To guide his young ardour, and light him His simple soul was satisfied.
to fame.

Man was co brother then no slave,
Improving, enlarging each power of his

War was to him unknown; from whence mind,

It poets name of Golden gave,
He Alies to explore, where her star lights

Primeval innocence !
the way;

Sweet spot! may no intruder rude But the heart that each grace and each Thy shell-embellished walls deform; virtue refined,

And may the genius of the wood Now slumbers and moulders in silent de Turn from thy harna the wasting storm ; cay.

But near thee be the fairies seen
Forgotten, unheeded, the pleasures of lore, To dance around that ivy'd tree,
Forgotten the joys his dear home can im- Footing so light the primrosed green,
part ;

To sweetest minstrelsy.
The once lovely names, he remembers no

When high the moon floats in the sky, more,

And shines on Esk's stream gliding near,
A father, a brother, the friend of his heart. Retired from mortal's prying eye,
No longer the warm, the affectionate sigh, They hold their mystic gambols here,
That heaves in the breast of a sister can And cull from neighbouring banks the rose,
move;

And with them all this threshold strew,
No longer the strongest, the tenderest tie,

Or twist them into shape which shows The voice of a mother, the tear of her love, Thy honour'd name.* Buccleugh. But lo! hope descends with soul-cheering Banks of Esk.

7. S. ray, To gild the dread horrors that brood on the

LINES tomb,

On seeing a Starnal, a species of Sea-gull, And shows our dear youth, in the regions rarely to be met with here, but found in of day,

great numbers in the Hebrides, flying up Where truth, love, and mercy, eternally Annan water, bloom.

By John JOHNSTON, the unlettered Bard -d, 2

7. B. of Currie Water, in Annandale.

WHITHER, Wanderer, dost thou roam

From thy native western home? LINES,

How could'st thou leave those happy isles Written on visiting the Duchess of Buc

Where peace unruffled ever sniles ? cleugh's Grotto, Dalkeith Park's.

Cleave the wide expanse of air,

And dangers elemental dare,
THOU who absorbed in pensive mood

Brave
From busy, noisy life, wilt fly,
And seek inviting solitude,

26th June 180.se

Brave the angry ocean's roar

Its nae your wit, its nae your lear, To seek this distant, dang’rous shore! Tho'ye cud on Pegassus gallop, Poor bird! thou fondly ciream'st of joys That's mething, gin' your breeks be aul', Of every bliss thy heart can prize,

An' hingin' in a tatter wallop. Here thy welcome ilight inviting,

O the waefu' want, &c. And thy raptur'd heart útlighting. Ye'll nae get brose, nor bread, nor cheese, Hence beans thine eye unwonted fire, Nor social drap to weet your wizzen, Hence heaves thy breast with new desire, Nought cares the polish'd man o' wealth, Wheeling round thy airy measure,

Tho' wizzen wame and a' gae gizzen. In all the luxury of pleasure.

Whan lucky stars gi'e leave to sit Thou knewest not, simple bird! the snare Roun' comfort's cozy cutchack beekin', That lurks in pleasure's tempting glare ; To set your vera creepie stool, Thy heedless eye o'erlooks the danger ; Baith rich an' puir will aft be seekin'. That waits to whelm the wand'ring stran

Whan beffe wi' care and fell mishap, ger.

An' puirtith hauds a bodie gauntin', Mark yon straggler on the heath

There's unco few will speer your ail,
He bears the winged shot of death!

Because the penny siller's wantin':
Heard'st thou not that piteous scream ?
Thy partner's life-blood dyes the stream!

An' now a days there's nae sic thing

As lovin' hearts of nature's lythin, O speed chee from this fatal shore,

There'll nae a body leuk your way,
Aná 'tempt the perilous track no more.

Gif that the siller binna kythin'.
Haste thee to thy mates again,
That fearless skim the western main.

What is't, think ye, links hauns an' hearts, “ O could I fly, I'd fly with thee,”

Its neither beauty, wit, nor carriage ; O'er mountain wild and stormy sea,

For frae the cottage to the ha' And gladly every danger brave,

Its siller ay 'at mak's the marriage. Where sinks the day.star in the wave.

I've been in love outowr the lugs,

As monie ither chiel asore me,
To range again those much-lov'd plains
Where calm contentment ever reigns ;

Yet cause my mailen was but sma'
Where kindness opes her friendly door,

The sawcy fizzle did abhor me. And plenty, smiling, spreads her store ;

Hale beuks I've writ baith verse an' prose, Where generous friendship warmly glows,

An' monie a' roosin dedication, And pity's melting tear o'erflows : But nae ane owned the puir báugh chiel', Where lovely woman, beauty's queen,

An' now there's nought but grim starvaBreathes sweetest blisss on every scene.

tion. Where manly freedom crowns each brow Wow! monie a rhymin' hungry chiel' That scorns to tyrant's rage to bow,

Has
spun

his brains into a ditry, And independance throned on high An'a' to please some worthless thing With lion heart and cagle eye.

Whase iron heart ne'er knew to pity.
BANKS OF ANNAN. An' O bat my ain shanks be sma',

My vera nose as sharp's a fillar,
SANG

Cauldeath will soon tak' me awa',

Ohon! Ohon: the want o siller! THE WARFU' WANT O'SILLER.

WILLIE WAEFU.' Tune.-Roy's Wife.

SONG. COME, ragged brethren o' the Nine,

Join ilka honest purseless callan', HAVE ye e'er seen the primrose bloom, The waes o duddie soublets sing,

So lovely fair, by bank and brae ?
Whan goasty want gaunts o'er the hal- Or seen, upon its winery stem,
lan.

The milky blossom of the siae?
Its true, I've nae gryte heart to sing, And have ye seen the April frost,

Foushtit in aul'hairmoully garret, Blight the bad blooming bonnilie?
Yet aft there's ease in doolfu' croon, Or have you seen the blighting blast,
Tho' little loan be i' the wallet.

Tear the sweet blossom of the tree?
CHORUS

So bloom'd the fairest, loveliest form,
O the waefu' want o siller!

That earth or ocean e'er could bear!
Wearifa' the want o'siller !

O why was Celia ever born?--
It mak'sna what be i' your pow,

Or why was Celia half so fair! Gin your pouch be scant o'siller. For on the morn of life and love, Its war nor a' the waes o' life,

Death's ruthless tempest roar'd around, Whilk sair benum a boddie's noddle,

And tore the lilac from the grove, That worth, nor wit, withouten pelf,

And strew'd its beauties on the ground! should nae be countit worth a boddle. Glasgow.

R.G. PRO.

*
ever.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

R. H. But that the House is necessitated

to submit to his Majesty, that, under all Friday, March 10.

the circumstances of the case, from the unCHARGES AGAINST THE DUKE or York. becoming and unhappy connexion into

which his R. H. had fallen, and from the THE House resumed its investigation of direct wound which would be given to the

the evidence against the Duke of York. public morals and religion of the kingdom, Mr Bankes observed the importance of it is impossible that his R. H. should conthe investigation, the unwillingness with tinue any longer in the command of the which he entered into it, and the probable army." mischiefs to which it must give rise. - The Mr Yorke opposed the plan proposed by amendment of the Chancellor of the Ex- Mr Bankes, as tending to render the subchequer embraces only two points of the ject still more confused and perplexed than charge, namely, personal corruption and

He observed, that Mrs Clarke had criminal connivance. Mr Bathurst proper- been a paramour of Mr Ogilvie, an army ly adverted to a third, namely, undue in- agent, before she went under the protecfluence. There was still a fourth, to which tion of the Duke of York! there she must he begged leave to call the attention of the have learned all the mystery of army inHouse, namely, the offence against public trigue. She had stated, that her dabbling morals, in the scandalous and unbecoming in commissions had not commenced till six connexion acknowledged by his Royal months after her establishment in GloucesHighness. He then made some observa- ter Place, and was the consequence of the tions upon the evidence. Miss Taylor, he inadequateness of his funds to support her. thought, deserved credit; the mysterious But the first proposal of Colonel French note in Captain Sanden's possession he con was dated 1st February 1804, only a month sidered as genuine, and, together with Ge- after that establishment commenced; a neral Clavering's letter, proved that an un- proof that her assertion was false. If the restrained communication on military mat- charges against the Duke were made out, ters existed between the Duke of York and it would not be sufficient to deprive him of Mrs Clarke ; and this was what he consi. the command of the army. They ought dered as undue influence. He then con- undoubtedly to vote his exclusion from the cluded as follows:-“ Upon the whole, succession. But as he considered him as therefore, Sir, I most fully acquit his Roy- innocent, he did not think that necessary. al Highness of any personal corruption ; but He concluded by opposing the motion. I cannot acquit him of something which at Mr Leach could neither concur with least approaches to a criminal connivance. the original address, nor with the amend. Under this impression, Sir, I shall move ment. He then went into an elaborate disthat an address be presented to his Majes. cussion to prove the inadmissibility of the iy, humbly representing to him, that the witnesses against the Duke of York, espeHouse, having duly examined all the char: cially Mrs Clarke and Miss Taylor. ges produced before them, and the evidence Lord Folestone, in a speech of consider, in support of them, consider it as their able length and energy, expressed his induty to state to his Majesty, chat the cor- tention of supporting Mr Wardle's motion. rupt practices alleged had existed; but that He commented on the treatment Mr Warthis House has the satisfaction to state, that dle had at first received from the supporthere does not appear any proof that his ters of the Duke, supported the credibility Royal Highness the Commander in Chief of the evidence, and pointed out various was guilty either of personal corruption, or inconsistencies in the exainination of Col. of a direct criminal connivance: That fur- Gordon and Mr Adam. thermore, in the execution of their duty, in Mr Adam vindicated his evidence, and examining the evidence, the House have showed that it contained no contradiccions had the satisfaction to discover the excel. nor inconsistencies. He had begun his publent condition of the army under the com- lic career before Lord Folkstone was born, mand of his Royal Highness, and felt it represented a respectable county, and theretheir duty to express their full and entire fore was aoxious to set himself right with approbation of its present and actual state, the House and the country. If any inconand to impute that flourishing state to his sistency could be made out in his evidences August 1809,

he should be willing to expiate it by any

upon the speeches of the Chancellor of the punishment whatever. He animadverted Exchequer and the Attorney General, and upon some observations cast upon his son showed bow little they had succeeded in in the newspapers, and pointed out rheir their endeavours to destroy the credibility falsehood. He thought the House should of Mrs Clarke. The conduct of Mrs Clarke, first come to a resolution upon the inno- was to him a conclusive proof that she spoke cence or guilt of his Royal Highness. truth; she would not have dared to tell

Mr Smith said, he was convinced that them that Donovan would deny a fact, as the severest vote they could pass would be he in fact did till it was forced from him. the most acceptable to the country; point- Several cases had been passed over, because ed out the importance of the characters of they were not military, as that of Dr O'. Princes; the stability of the throne at the Meara, which he considered as peculiarly commencement of the French Revolution, bad. The stopping of Major Turner's rehe ascribed to the excellent character of the signation, at the request of Mrs Sutherland, King; and regretted that, one or two steps was injurious and unjust. How had the lower down, the virtue was not in propor

Duke himself behaved to Mrs Clarke ? Af. tion to the rank.- The House adjouried at ter living with her in excessive fondness, half-past four till Monday.

sitation in voting for the dismissal of the the Duke, (which he considered as a very Duke of York from the army.

unfortunate and improper one (he had deThe Master of the Rolls observed, that precated the House coming to any decision. he had bitherto refrained from speaking, it was painful for him to give his opinion, because he wished to hear the opinion of but he could not say that there was no other Members before he delivered his ground for charges against the Duke, or own. Two principles were involved in that he disbelieved all the evidence. He the question; Ist, Whether they should then went into a long examination of the come to a decision on the subject; 2d, credibility of Mrs Clarke, and proved that What that decision should be. Mr Bankes' notwithstanding the circunstances in her amendment, he thought, would involve the situation, and the points alleged against House in an ambiguous decision. He a- her, her evidence was entitled to credit. greed with Sir Francis Burdett in his ideas There were two things so irresistibly strong of corruption. If it could be proved that in the evidence, as to render it impossible the Duke of York had connived at the re- for him to say that there was no ground ceipt of money by Mrs Clarke, or any one of charge against the Duke. The first else, the charge of corruption would be was the testimony of Miss Taylor respecbrought home to him. It was a question ting the conversation between the Duke to be decided entirely by the credibility of and Mrs Clarke about Col. French's levy, evidence. It was impossible for the House the second was the note in the Duke's writto decide upon the character and interests, ing about Major Tonyn's promotion. He he would not say of the Duke of York, but concluded by pointing out the necessity of of the meanest man in the land, by the addressing his Majesty to remove the Duke evidence they had heard at the bar, be of York from his office, cause it was not given upon oath. The Mr H. Smith did not think the evidence Hon. Member then entered into a long sufficient to induce the House to inflict cenand acute examination of the evidence, sure or punishment on the Duke of York. which ic is unnecessary to particularize, af. The Solicitor General thought it his ter the numerous speeches upon the sub- duty to state to the House the reasons that ject already given. Mrs Clarke's evidence had determined his opinion. The House required to be received with considerable ought first, he conceived, to come to a recaution, as she had a purpose to serve, and solution concerning the guilt or innocence was the declared enemy of the Duke. It of the Duke, before any address was vowas not sufficiently confirmed by other ted. He stated his reasons why Mrs testimony to justify the House in proceed- Clarke and Miss Taylor ought not to be ing on it. Her applications, it appeared, believed, and showed that the conduct of had often been unsuccessful, and she ap- the Duke of York to her could not have peared to have been in a miserable state of been adopted, unless he had confided in his ignorance with respect to military promo

innocence. tions. It must be admitted, that the Duke Mr Wyndham did not consider the evi. of York was culpable to a certain degree, dence as sufficient to convict the Duke of in not stedfastly prohibiting her to tak York, though it certainly was sufficient to or apply on the subject of military promo. raise suspicions, and for that reason he cions. 'The House had only undoubted would'vote (though very unwillingly) for proofs that application had been made by Mr Bankes's amendment. her in two cases, that of O'Meara and Lord Castlereagh admitted that Mrs Clavering. The first was not military, and Clarke had spoken a great deal of truth. the other had failed.

She had related her own transactions with Sir Samuel Romilly saw the subject un- accuracy, and had no motive to falsify; der consideration in a different point of but her charge of the connivance of the view from every person of the profession Duks of York he would not believe, beto which he belonged who had hitherto cause it was unsupported almost by others, spoken on it. It was impossible for him, and because she was actuated by resenta after considering the subject in all its bear

Had the Duke been guilty, he neings, co agree to the amendment of the ver would have dismissed her unconditionChancellor of the Exchequer. He thought ally, and far less braved her threats. They the original address ought to be yoted. It ought not to vote the Duke guilty, but, had been said that the House ought to if they thought him so, put him

upon

his come to a decision on the charges against trial. the Duke of York. But no written char- Lord Milton had not formed his opinion ges had been brought forward. Mr War. from the gentlemen of legal habits, far less dle had stated facts in his opening speech, from Mr Burton, which went to say, that and a Committee had been appointed to when any contradiction appeared, the whole inquire into these facts. In the letter of evidence should be swept away. He had

the

ment.

no