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Vol. LXXXIV. Part I.

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North West View of the

Cathedral Church of ROUEN in Normandy.

Published as the Act directs, March 1.1814, by L. Nichols, Red Lyon Court Fleet Street London.

See p.633.

THE

Gentleman's Magazine:

AND

Historical Chronicle.

From JANUARY to JUNE, 1814.

VOLUME LXXXIV.

(BEING THE SEVENTH OF A NEW SERIES.)

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LONDON: Printed by NICHOLS, SON, and BENTLEY,
at Cicero's Head, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street;

where LETTERS are particularly requested to be sent, POST-PAID
And sold by J. HARRIS (Successor to Mrs. NEWBERY),
at the Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, Ludgate Street;

and by PERTHES and BESSER, Hamburgh. 1814.

OH, for a son of bright-eyed glory,

That sweeping o'er the chorded shell
Should in sublimest numbers tell
The patriot hero's deathless story.

Oh, for a soul, that loved to ride
The battle's most tempestuous tide,
And thought the tumult of the fight
Most sweet to ear, and beautiful to sight.
If here thy glorious race began,
And Oxford fashion'd thee so well,
Up to the perfect man;
Spirit of air, obey the spell.
Oh, from the realms of day
Waft hither some immortal lay.
On thee thy Holy Mother calls,
Bid every note of rapture swell

To those that grace her honour'd walls.
For these are they, who, leagued in holy tie,
Self dedicate to Liberty,

Her banner bright unfurl'd: Hope could not lead astray, Fear might not bar their way;

They sav'd a sinking world.

What though with giant force

Yes, and it pass'd that night of sorrow,
Dark mother of a glorious morrow:

The sun, that to the waves
Fled from a world of slaves,
Uprose in holy jubilee ;

For every soul in every land was free.
Yet mourn for Him, who o'er the tide
of war

Beam'd brightly as a comet star;
And when that day was done,
His toils were scarce begun :
The wounded warrior's painful bed
With holy love he visited:

And his mild spirit groan'd to see
That universal agony-

What boots to tell, how o'er his grave
She wept, that would have died to save ?
Little they know the heart, who deem
Her sorrow but an infant's dream

Of transient love begotten;
A passing gale, that as it blows
Just shakes the ripe drop from the rose
That dies, and is forgotten.

Oh woman, nurse of hopes, and fears,

Elate of heart, and big with borrow'd fame, All lovely in thy spring of years,

The dark Adventurer came;
Uncheck'd they held their onward course.
What though o'er all the red and restless

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Thy soul in blameless mirth possessing-

More lovely in affliction's tears

Most lovely still those tears suppressing! Changed be the note, and once again Strike, harp, a loud triumphant strain ;

Fill high the cup of praise

To Him, who, in that desperate night,
Still waved on high the beacon light;
The Brunswick, resolute to save,
Who stemm'd that all-devouring wave:
Who, when no earthly hope was given,
Found strength and confidence in heaven;
And upward gazing on bright honour's

sun,

Finish'd the holy war his glorious Sire begun.

INDEX INDICATORIUS.

We feel greatly indebted to a variety of kind Correspondents who have furnished us with particular details of the festivities, the benevolence, and the illuminations, in almost every Town and Village in the Kingdom. We cordially join them in their rejoicings; and can only wish that our limits would permit us to particularize their loyalty and generosity.

INQUISITOR will be obliged by any information concerning the property, personal and real, left by Lieut.-gen. Frampton, who died at Butley Abbey, Suffolk, Sept. 23, 1749; and also of his family.

P, 315. In the elegant Inscription on Sir John Moore, l. 15, ɛr before GALLIS should be erased.

JOHN TAYLOR COLERIDGE,
Fellow of Exeter College.

We are obliged to L. D. for his remarks. He would find, if he favoured us with his own Lucubrations, that neither the vanity of A. or of B. or the garrulous loquacity of C. or of D. would supersede his communications.-In some of his observations we agree with him; to others we dissent. Births and Marriages (unless well authenticated) are purposely curtailed. The Obituary is of infinitely more consequence; in which our original arrangement is still preserved, except where we cannot ascertain the exact days on which the parties died in such cases, classing them in Counties, we conceive, assists the Reader. There are more appropriate channels for a regular History of the Drama.”

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