As dark oblivion's harvest of the storm ;Yet waves may lash, and the loud hurricane Threaten thy cloud-capt dwelling, and deform The sky in glooms around thee:-all is vain ; Empires may pass away, but thou'lt remain.
Smiling in sunshine as the storm frowns by,
Whose dreadful rage seem'd to thy quiet thrall As small birds' twitterings that beneath thee fly: Winds call aloud, and they may louder call; For deaf to danger's voice, sublime and grand Thou towerest in thy old majesty o'er all. Tempests, that break the tall mast like a wand, Howl their rage weary round thee, and no more mpression make, than summer winds that bow The little trembling weeds upon thy wall. Lightnings have play'd around thy brow of yore, And left no footmarks:-so it seemeth now, Time proudly spares thee till that doom is hurl'd That sears the ocean dry and wrecks the world.
I come to thee, O Earth!
With all my gifts :-for every flower sweet dew,
In bell, and urn, and chalice, to renew
The glory of its birth.
Not one which glimmering lies
Far amidst folding hills or forest leaves,
But, through its veins of beauty, so receives
A spirit of fresh dyes,
Making thy streams, that on their noon-day track Gave but the moss, the reed, the lily back, Mirrors of worlds afar,
I come with peace: I shed
Sleep through thy wood-walks o'er the honey-bee, The lark's triumphant voice, the fawn's young glee, The hyacinth's meek head.
On my own heart I lay
The weary babe, and sealing with a breath
Its eyes of love, send fairy dreams, beneath
The shadowing lids to play.
I come with mightier things!
Who calls me silent?—I have many tones-
The dark skies thrill with low mysterious moans
Borne on my sweeping wings.
From the deep organ of the forest shades,
Or buried streams, unheard amid their glades,
Till the bright day is done.
But in the human breast
A thousand still small voices I awake,
Strong in their sweetness from the soul to shake
The mantle of its rest.
I bring them from the past: From true hearts broken; gentle spirits torn, From crush'd affections, which though long o'erborne, Make their tone heard at last.
I bring them from the tomb :
O'er the sad couch of late repentant love,
They pass-though low as murmurs of a dove,
Like trumpets through the gloom.
I come with all my train;
Who calls me lonely?-Hosts around me tread,
Th' intensely bright, the beautiful, the dread—
Phantoms of heart and brain.
Looks from departed eyes,
These are my lightnings! fill'd with anguish vain,
Or tenderness too piercing to sustain,
They smite with agonies.
Shut the dim violet, hush the woodland song,
I am th' Avenging One!-the Arm'd, the Strong,
The searcher of the soul!
Through slumbering leaves, bring storms-the tempest birth Of Memory, Thought, Remorse:-be holy Earth
[N.B. The figures with crotchets refer to the History.]
A PERDEEN, earl of, his correspondence
with the marquis of Barbacena, rela-
tive to the interference of Great Bri-
tain on Miguel's declaring himself
king, 435
Accidents: fire in a mine at Wanlock
Head, 67; fall of a room at the
Norfolk Arms, Hyde, thirty persons
killed, ib.; six persons killed at the
Methodist chapel, Hermandwike, 77;
five houses crushed by fall of a rock,
at Nottingham, ib.; explosion of the
"Fulton,' American steam frigate,
102; explosion of a powder-mill,
Hounslow-heath, 104: woman and
child suffocated in a privy, 129; the
'Patrick' steam-vessel injured by
a hurricane, 138; the Dolphin,'
convict-ship, sunk, and many convicts
drowned, 178; fall of one of the bells
at St. Sepulchre's, 182; a boat cut
in halves by a whale, 185; four per-
sons drowned in fording the Clyde in
a cart, 186; [See also Fires.]
Acts of parliament, list of, 274
Adelaide, the, case of, for slave-trading,
39
Adrianople, treaty of, between Turkey
and Russia, [219]
Aërostation, Mr. Green's ascent at
Bristol, 103
Algiers, its quarrel with France, [172];
French expedition against, [173]
Amphitheatre, at Arles, 33
Anticoste, number of dead bodies disco-
vered at, 115
Antiquities: discovery of a grand man-
sion at Herculaneum, 21; amphi
theatre at Arles, 33; two episcopal
stone-coffins, Chichester cathedral,
Arles, amphitheatre at, 33
ing Geo. Green, his fellow-appren-
tice, 136; T. Churchyard, man-
slaughter, 306
Cork: Leary and others, conspiracy to
murder Mr. Low, &c. 359
Exeter: Kezia Wescombe and Richard
Quaintance, poisoning Samuel Wes-
combe, 142
Lancaster: J. Latimer, murder of G.
Howorth, 54; Thomas Buxton, &c.
for conspiring to effect a marriage
with Miss Hickson, 297
Leeds: Hannah Atherton, child-steal-
ing, 92
Lewes the King v. Philp, cruelty to a
servant, 86
Leicester: Trimmer . lord Hunting-
tower, 324
Middlesex H. Milbourne, falsely act-
ing as an attorney, 36
Newcastle: Jane Jameson, parricide,
Nottingham J. Moore, stealing two
rabbits, 84
Norwich John Stratford, poisoning
John Burgess, 140
Old Bailey: Clements, &c. piracy, 68;
Esther Hibner, &c. murder, 71; M.
Jacobs, arson, 74; A. Finlayson,
stealing sir W. Beechey's plate, 105;
E. M. Van Butchell, manslaughter,
Oxford: S. Berry, stealing a pig, 44
Tyrone: T. Read, &c. murder of J.
O'Neill, 150
Winchester: J. Stacey, murder, 320
York: Miles v. Cattle, &c. to recover
loss of a travelling bag, 65; J. Mar-
tin, setting fire to York Minster, 301
Atheist, a person declaring himself one,
not admitted as evidence on trial, 15
Army, French, return of the number of Baird, sir David, death of, 242
Arndt, Von, death of, 210
Arson, trial of Moses Jacobs for, 74
Assizes and Sessions :-
Aylesbury W. Dowsett, burglary in
the house of the Rev. T. Jones, 46
Bury St. Edmund's: W. Vialls, wound.
Bankes, Mr. G., speech against the Ca-
tholic Relief Bill, [41]
Barrup, Benj. trial for attempt to mur-
der Mary Mortlock, 13
Beechey, sir W., his plate stolen, and
afterwards restored, by a servant,
105
Beet-root sugar, increasing manufac-
ture of, in France, 404
Belsham, rev. Thos., death, 253
Benning, Mr., editor of the Kentucky
Gazette, shot by Mr. Wickliffe, 116
Bethnal Green, riots at, 101
Bicephalous girl, at Paris, 183
Binckes, J. B., imprisoned for fraudu-
lently negotiating the sale of an
office in the department of the Lord
Privy Seal, 30
Blind man, forgery by, 11
Blomfield, Dr. bishop of London, cere-
mony of his enthronement, 12
Body snatchers, two committed for ob-
taining a corpse under false pre-
tences, 4
Bonin, islands of, visited by Russian
navigators, 543
Book-trade, meeting of the booksellers
to regulate the prices of new books,
190
Brazil: the emperor recalls his daugh-
ter, the queen of Portugal, from Eng-
land, [192]; explanation published
by the Brazilian minister, ib.; extra-
ordinary meeting of the Legislative
Assembly, [235]; regulation of the
bank, ib.; reductions in expenditure,
[237]; finances, ib.; revolt in Per
nambuco, attempt to impeach the mi-
nisters of war and justice for arrests,
and trials in consequence, [238]
Bridges, suspension, in France, 186
Brunswick, duke of, his quarrel with the
king of Hanover, [201]; called upon
by the Diet to apologise, which he
neglects to do, [202]; report of the
commission appointed to investigate
the dispute, 127
Buchan, earl of, death, 224
Budget, the [119]; increase of revenue
in 1828, ib.
Buenos Ayres: the government over-
turned by Lavalle, [238]; he defeats
col. Dorrego (the governor) and
Rosas, [239]; and orders the former
to be shot, ib.; the federalists under
Rosas approach the capital, [240];
which is besieged ib. treaty concluded
between Lavalle and Rosas, [241]
general Paz takes Cordova and defeats
the federalists, ib.; new convention
between Rosas and Lavalle, and
change in the government [242]
Buonaparte, Napoleon, processes insti-
tuted by various individuals to re-
cover legacies bequeathed to them
by him, 120
Burke, the murderer, executed at Edin-
burgh, 19
Calculus, vesicular, in a horse, 547
Cambridge, regulations relative to de-
grading at the University, 36
Canning, Mr. his correspondence in
1826, regarding the Portuguese con-
stitution, 405-
Carey, Dr. death of, 253
Catholic Association, its suppression
urged in the king's speech [7]; bill
for that purpose brought in by Mr.
Peel, ib. the government bullied into
submission by the association [11]; the
association not to be put down by the
common law [19]
Catholic peers, take their seats in par-
liament, 82
Catholic question: both the duke of
Wellington and Mr. Peel formerly
against concession to the Catholics
[2]; sudden change of measures on the
part of the ministers [3]; Mr. Peel's
bill for removing Catholic disabilities
[12]; its plan, &c. [22]; arguments
against concession to the Catholics
[28]; petitions against do. [36]; de-
bate on the second reading of the bill
[38]; copy of the bill, 367
Chabert, Xavier, fire-eater, discharged
by the Insolvent Debtors' court, 79;
accepts Mr. Smith's challenge to
swallow 20 grains of phosphorus, 167
Chichester cathedral, stone coffins dis-
covered in 111
Clare, J., stanzas by, on Boston Church,
554
Clinton, sir Henry memoir of, 533
Coach proprietors, action against for
loss of a travelling bag, 65
Codrington, sir Edward, his charges
against captain Dickinson [135]; 328
Coin counterfeit, colouring of, 16
Colchester, lord, death of, 227
Columbia: the Peruvians blockade and
take possession of Guayaquil, [243];
advantage obtained over general Plaza,
[244]; preliminary articles of peace
signed but frustrated by Prieto's re-
fusal to give up Guayaquil, ik-
armistice and surrender of Guayaquil,
[245]; a constituent Congress called
by Bolivar, ib. mode of electing de-
puties, [246]; the sentence of death
against Santander commuted for
banishment, ib. Bolivar's decree
against secret meetings [247]; insur-
rection in Popayan, b. another in
Antioquia headed by Cordova, i
Combination of Workmen, case relative
to 24
Commercial commission, the French
royal, report of 400
Convicts, several drowned by sinking of
the Dolphin 178-escape of some con-
victs from the Albion coach on their
way from Chester to London, 180
Cordova, general, heads the insurrection
against Bolivar, in Antioquia, [247];
his proclamation against him, [248];
Court Martial, on captain Dickinson,
for his conduct in the battle of Nava-
rino, [135], 328
Courts: Admiralty, case of the ship
Adelaide, exportation of slaves, 39;
case relative to Fanny Ford, a slave,
125
Common Pleas; Lane, secretary imperial
distillery company v. Wickley, &c.
shareholders, 18; George v. Jackson,
recovery for money for maintaining
defendant's son, 20; Fish v. Travers,
shooting a dog, 35-Kemble v. Far
ren, theatrical engagement, 107
Guildhall; Basham v. sir W. Lumley,
false imprisonment, 1
Insolvent Debtors'; Ralph Fellowes,
tea-dealer, 17; prince Giardinelli,
25, Xavier Chabert, the fire king, 79;
-R. Best, 97
King's Bench; Child v. Affleck, defa-
matory character of a servant, 37;
the King v. D. Evans, refusing to
bring back a sailor from a foreign
port, 79
Prerogative;
Langford v. Maberly,
Mr. Leader's will, 8; Colvin v. Fraser,
Mr. Farquhar's will, 290
Crowe, Rev. W. death of, 215
Cuba: Spanish expedition from, against
Mexico, [253]
Curtis, Sir W. death, 212
Dantzic, dreadful inundations at, 78
Davy, sir Humphry, memoir of, 504
Dawe, G., artist, death of, 248
Dawson, Mr., announces his change of
opinion with regard to the Catholic
question [2]
Dickinson, capt,, tried by court martial
for his conduct at the battle of Nava-
rino, [135]; report of the trial, 328
Diebitsch, count, succeeds Wittgenstein
in the command against the Turks,
[205]. See Russia
Discovery, Russian voyage of, 542
Discovery of a new metal, 546; opti.
cal, ib.
Dog, action for shooting one, 35
Drama; the Robber's Bride, English
Opera House; 124; the Recruit, do.
159; Mr. Lister's tragedy of Epi-
charis, 176
Drinking, boy killed by, 45
Drury Lane, Mr. Lister's new tragedy of
Epicharis, 176
Duel, duke of Wellington and lord Win-
chilsea, 58
East, sir Gilbert, singular bequests in
his will, 34
Earthquake, in the province of Murcia,
Eldon, lord, his speech on the Catholic
Question, [87]
Epsom, first stone laid of the grand
stand, 17; singular lunar phenomenon
seen at, 159
Equitable Assurance Company, state of
their funds, 181
Executions; Burke 19; Redgard, Kelly,
Birmingham, and Goodlad,
Esther Hibner, 73
Eyesight, case of recovery of, after 16
years blindness, 185
False imprisonment, action for, Basham
v. Sir W. Lumley, 1
Farquhar, Mr., law case relating to his
will, 290
Farren, Mr., action brought against by
Mr. C. Kemble, for refusing to per-
form at Covent Garden, 107
Ferns, bishop of, his correspondence
with lord Mountcashel on the meeting
at Cork, 165
Ferronay, count de, French minister for
Foreign Affairs retires from office,
[138]
Finances, see Budget: French, [152];
Spanish, 472
Field-land gang, execution of three of, 84
Fires Glasgow theatre destroyed, 5;
York Minster set on fire by Martin,
23; at Camberwell, with loss of lives,
66; Mr. Skipper's stationery ware-
house, St. Dunstan's Hill, 67; in a
mine at Wanlock Head, ib,; in West-
minster Abbey, 80; Bell Yard and
Shire-lane, 94; Mrs. Usher's, Fen-
church Street, two lives lost, 95; Mr.
Pick's London Road, and six lives
lost, 97; the Bazaar, Oxford Street,
98; Warehouses at Manchester, 176;
Ramsgate theatre, 186
Fire-escape, 160
Fischer, C. A. death of, 223
Fitzgerald, W. T. death of, 238
Fleet Market, the new one opened, 184
Forgery, trial of J. Hunter, a blind man,
for, 11; do. J. Williams, an attorney,
48; do. R. H. Jones &c. forging on the
Custom House, 162
Foxton, J. executioner, Newgate, death
of, 33
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