648 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



Sib. Sidney Smith. 

 Acre. 

 Or of the redcross hero teach, 

 Dauntless in dungeon as on breach ; 

 Alike to him, the sea, the shore, 

 The brand, the bridle, or the oar. 



MooiiE. 



CORUNNA. 



Fallen to save an injured land. 



Imperial honour's awful hand 



Shall point his lonely bed; 



The warlike dead of every age, 



Who fill the fair recording page, 



Shall leave their sainted rest. 



And half reclining on his spear 



Each wondering chief by turns appear, 



To hall tlie hero guest. 



Old Edward's sons unknown to yield, 



Shall crowd from Cressy's laurelled field, 



And gaze with fixed delight. 



Again for Britain's wrongs they feel. 



Again they snatch the gleamy steel, 



And wish the avenging fight. 



Hardinge. 

 8th March, 1808. 

 'Tis not th' embattled host, 

 Nor fleets that line a coast, 

 That claim alone the meed, 

 Of valour's sacred deed. 

 Nor whether admiral or captain bleed ; 

 No, 'tis the hero's soul 

 Which gives the high controul : 

 This saves a tailing state. 

 This signs a tyrant's fate. 

 This flamed in Hardinge's eye 

 At battle's cheerful cry, 

 And bade himlike themighty Nelson die! 



Welleslet. 



VlMEIRA. TaLAVERA. 



Victor ab auroroe populis. 

 Duo rapta manu diverse ex hoste tro- 



phaea. 

 Bisque triumphatas utroque ab littore 



gentes. 



Stuart, 

 ]Maida. 

 On you, noblest English, 

 Whose blood is fetched from fathers of 

 war-proof. 



The above inscriptions are deriv- 

 ed from sources too generally known 

 to require specification, unless we 

 except those which relate to the two 

 naval heroes, Nelson and Harding e erected. 



who fell alike in the hour of victory. 

 The beautiful lines on the former, 

 are by Dr. Leyden ol' Calcutta, and 

 the no less beautiful verses on the 

 latter, are from a poem written at 

 Parell House, in March, 1808, by 

 a lady who has recently left this 

 settlement for Europe, who long 

 filled the first rank in this commu- 

 nity, but nlio was much more dis- 

 tinguished by her genius and vir- 

 tues, than by the highest rank which 

 any community could bestow. It 

 is onl)- for strangers that it is ne- 

 cessary to add, the name of Lady 

 INIackintosh. 



The bail was opened about ten 

 o'clock, by the hon. the governor 

 and Mrs. Lechmere, and the danc- 

 ing continued with great spirit, 

 considering the extreme heat of 

 the weather, until about one o'clock, 

 when the party retired to an elegant 

 Bupper, after which the following 

 toasts were given. 



The King, and may he continue to 

 wear the Crown for man3' years. 



The Queen and Koyai. Family. 



The Honourable United East 

 India Company, &c. &c. 



The party afterwards proceeded 

 to the extensive gardens, whichwere 

 illuminated in a very grand and 

 magnificent manner, having a tri- 

 umphal arch between the fountains, 

 and the great terrace which runs 

 parallel with the water. 



From the terrace, the company 

 were gratified with a splendid dis- 

 play of fireworks, which illuminated 

 the whole of that beautiful pictu- 

 resque scenerj', which extends from 

 the gardens by successive ranges of 

 hills, interspersed with wood and 

 water until it terminates with the 

 high land on which the flag-staff is 



On 



