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ORIGINAL POETRY. 
G+; Da on 
On Lorp MacarTnsy’s EMBASSY: To 
CHINA. 
ate 
G* WIFT fhot the curliew thwart the rifing 
blaft, 
As eve’s dun. fhades enwrapt the billowy 
main $ 
Boarfe broke the waves againft the fandy wafte, 
And dim and cheerlefs {wept the drizzling 
rain : 
When, bending o’er the briny fpray, 
Stood thy genius, old Cathay ; 
Her veftments floating on the gale, 
Wirh angry glare, her eye-balls roll, 
Horror fhakes her inmoft foul, 
As thus along the frand fwells her portentous 
wall? 
ile 
Athirtt for prev, what ruffian band 
Dares approach t this happy land ; 
Glimmering thro’ the gloomsof eve, 
ee at canvas flutters o'er the wave 5 
Piunaing thro’ the ie Ne tide, 
ay hat prows the whit’ning brine divide * 
—’Tis Albion's bloody crefs that flouts the a'r, 
is Albion’s fons that fkirt this peaceful 
fhore ; 
Ber cro! s--oporefion’s badge—the fign of war 5 
er fons that range the world, and peace is 
feen na more. 
ae qT: 
Tofatiate fpoilers! that with treacherous {miles, 
In wreaths of olive hide the murderous iword : 
i fare the tribes, uncenfcious of your wiles, 
Whofe honeft candour trufts your plighted 
word 
a ve harbingers of woe— 
Foo well your deeds of blood T know : 
For ?mid the thickening ae o eit 
Oit as l foeed my watciiful flig! 
& moni Loy y voice I hear. 
rv. 
A ‘cry refounds from Ganges’ flood ; 
There : Oppreflion’s 3 giant brood 
Wide the {cythe of ruin fweep, 
_ And defolated ditriats WEED ; 
Terror waves the fcourge on high $ 
Patient Mis'ry heaves the figh. 
Eo! meagie peeks * drains the vital forings, 
And puisits from far, where yawns the dark- 
fome eee: ; 
Fer gilts in vain profifive Plenty fling 
*  meeS tern Nese guards the ftore, nor owns 
the with to Piue 
. ™* Alluding to the ever-memprable Bengal 
famine, in whith 3,cco,000 of the Hindocs 
penthed, for want of rice (their cuftomaiy 
atime when the warehoufes of the 
Butith merchants were crammed with that com- 
madity, 

food) at 
. 
iE 
From Niger’s banks refound the fhriek of woe, 
There, inly pining mourns the haplefs flave 3. 
Fraud proudly biaves the light with fhamelefs 
brow, 
And floating charnels plow the seftlets wave. 
Behold, in defolate avray, : 
The captives wind their lent way 5 
Amid the ranks, does Pity find - |. - 
A pair, by fond affeCtion join’d ; 
Fell Rapine, recklefs of their pain, 
Blafis Micery’s final hope—denies a common 
chain *. 
VEL ‘ 
Hear; Omy fons, the w arming cry, 
And while you breathe ihe pitying figh, . 
Deep on Memory’s s tablet trace 
‘Theie triumphs of , Britannia’s race 5 
From age to age, from fire tofon 
Letthe cternal record run: 
And when, with hollow heart s, and honey’é 
tongues, 
Thefe flaves of gel 
ftain’d hand, 
from the touch—Remember India’s 
WrODgS—— 2 
Remember Afris woes—and fave your def- 
und lagd. 
d advance their blood- 
Shrink 
W. SHEPHERD. 
—SSS EEE 
SONNET. 
(\EEERLESS my road,and long and lone the 
way, 
As on | wander’d thro’ the vale of life, 
Not undifturb’d by caies, nor for the ftrife 
Of jarring crowds well meet 5 and vshen the ray 
Of Love’s mild torch beans‘d forth its radiance 
DUTEe, 
Its radiance pure heam’d only to difclofe 
A Gark dre: rdcene, a gathering cloud of woes, 
Which, tho” philofophy might teach t° endure, 
Ske knew not to avoid. Olov’d! O fair! 
Thy gentle influence cheerd the gloomy 
fhade ; 
Ev’n asthe angel, Hope, thou cam*it to aid, 
And Love his clear torch wav’d amid the air, 
eer as to the fearful failor’s fight, S 
Streams the far beacen’s blaze amid the ftormy 
nigh te 
, B. 
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* Mr. Palconbridge being fent to choofefome . 
flaves at Cape Coaft Cattle, objeGted to one 
that was meagre, and put him afide.. Mr. F. 
obferving a tear teal down the man’s cheek, 
enquired: of him the reaion, upen svhich he 
faid, ** that-he was going to be parted from hs 
brother.’’"—-Abfira& of the evidence delivered 
before a felect Committee of the Houfe of Com= 
mons, p. S 
TO. 
