Then the smiles of the GREAT freely Moloc did share Now scorn'd at!--for why ?-he is poor! Oh, hard is my lot! I am born of Despair! Then pity poor MOLOC THE MOOR. I have known what it is to be robb'd of a wife To be robb'd of a family too; Sweet stars that shone bright thro' the troubles of life, Tho' them then to Moloc were few. How the season is chang`d !-ah how greatly have grown Those troubles too hard to endure! Then, Britons, Oh! dart not upon me a frown, But pity poor MOLOC THE MOOR! A CURE FOR LOVE CION. To the Editor of the European Magazine. looking over some very ancient volks lately, I discovered written on the inside of one, called the Faithful Annalist, printed in the year, 1666, the following lines, with the initials T. G. affixed to them. In another part of this book, Thomas Galloway is written at full length, whether this Thomas Galloway is the author of them or not, I cannot affirm with confidence, but am greatly inclined to attribute them to the production of his pen, having seen very similar manuscripts, which were written by him. Should they meet your approbation, an insertion of them in your invaJuable repository, at a convenient time, will, greatly oblige, sir, your's, very respectfully, PHILANDER. ON MAN. AN ape, a lion, a fox, and an ass, For apish they are till twenty and one, T. G. This hill, which is, in Welch, styled Cafu Oga, is situated near the sea coast, about one mile and a half distance from Abergale. It commands a most grand and extensive view of the adjacent country, comprehending some of the most striking outlines of nature, besides those specified in the poem; viz. the Isle of Man, the Mountains of Snowdon, and the Cumberland coast, stretching along towards Scotland. The opposite bills in the eastern direction alone prevent its enjoying a complete view of the grand commercial town of Liverpool. + The well-known river of that name. The neat white-fronted edifice called "Grwych" where the truly ingenious youthful poetess, Miss Felicia Dorothea Browne resided during the author's stay on this secluded spot, form a part of the embellishment of the landscape; he cannot avoid stating how many a happy hour he has spent in listening to the wild tones of that young lady's Cambrian Lyre" in h's visits to the truly respectable family she belongs to. The sombre hue of this castle, except when lit by the sun's cheering ray, or the pensive hue of moonlight, is such as would enchant the gloomy imaginations of a Radcliffe, Lewis, or a Scott. The village of Bettus on Rhôs cheerfully raising its head. The seat so called signifying in English what may sound unclassically, “* Red Wood" belonging to John Lloyd Wynne, Esq. a gentleman of most ample fortune, and more ample good-will; at whose hospitable table, and amid the society of his learned antiquarian uncle, Major Holland, the author has been many a time so fortunate as to pass bis time, INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. WAR DEPARTMENT. DOWNING STREET, MAY 20. Despatches, of which the following are Ex:tracts, were this Day received by Earl Bathurst, from Brigadier-general Lyon. Extract of a Letter from Brigadier-general Lyon, dated Hamburg, May 8, 1813. HE advance of the different corps of the French army to the Elbe rendered it necessary for the divisions of Generals Teltenborn, Doremberg, and Czernicheff, to recross this river; they concentrated at Hamburg. On the 1st of May, General Sebastiani, with about seven thousand infantry and three thousand cavalry, moved from Luneburg in the direction of Magdeburg. On the 4th, this corps arrived and halted at Salzwedel.-General Davoust, with about ten thousand men, including the division of Vaudamme, occupies Luneburg, Harburg, and Stade; detaching small posts of unequal strength at intermediate points along the banks of the Elbe. On the move of General Sebastiani to his right, General Count Walwoden marched with the corps of Dorenberg and Czernicheff to Deumitz. Extract of a Letter from Brigadier-general Lyon, dated Schwarzenbeck, May 11, 1813. A few hours after I had closed the letter which I had the honour of addressing to your lordship on the 8th instant, the enemy at tacked the posts on the island of Wilhelmsburg and Ochsenwerder; but I feel most happy in reporting they have been repulsed with considerable loss.-It appears that Marshal Davonst had collected from five to six thousand men in the vicinity of Harburg on the 8th instant. This force, with the excep tion of about fifteen hundred men left in Harburg, was embarked at one o'clock in the morning of the 9th. Favoured by the ebb tide, and under cover of numerous batteries on the opposite shore, a landing was effected at Willemsburg long before break of day. The number of troops stationed in this island did not exceed eleven hundred men; the enemy gained, therefore, in the first instance, considerable ground; but, on the arrival of a Mecklenburg battalion, which was ordered immediately to their support, he was advanced upon and driven back to the boats.-A battalion of Hanoverians, commanded by Major de Berger, and a Dubec battalion, marching from Bergadorf and Zouenspikea on Ochsenwerder, to the assistance of a corps of six hundred men stationed at this post, attacked the enemy with vigour and impetuosity on his right flank; this compelled him to retreat, and in falling back he set fire to all houses and mills in the line of his march. The conduct of the corps under the orders of Major de. Berger has been described to me as most distinguished. It was my intention to have made a particular report on the very rapid progress in discipline which this corps has made, although so very recently formed for his Majesty's service; and it is with great satisfaction I can add, that their gallantry in the field is equally conspicuous. Upon the advance of the enemy, a flag of truce was sent out by General Wagher, commanding the advanced guard of the Danish army in Holstein, with a declaration, that the forces under his command would co operate in the defence of Hamburg, should an attack be persevered in on that city. On the officer's return, and a continuation of the operations of the enemy, the Danish forces actually passed the frontier, and took up a position on the Hamburg-berg, with ten pieces of cannon, whilst a line of gun boats was at the same time stationed for the defence of the port. I am unacquainted with the loss the allies have generally sustained in the late affair; it is estimated at about one hundred and fifty men and fifteen officers. I have learnt with regret, that the Hanoverian battalion has suffered severely, two captains and eighty men being killed or wounded.The enemy entered Cuxhaven on the 8th instant. The detachment of the veteran battalion, under the orders of Major Kenzinger, are safely embarked. [Two short letters from Sir John Murray are likewise inserted in this Gazette, and in which the General withdraws his assertion that the French General Harispe was killed in the late battle with Suchet. Sir John's army remained at Alcoy the 17th of April.] FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 25. A Despatch, of which the following is a Copy, has been received by Viscount Castiereagh, his Majesty's Principal Secretary' of State for Foreign Affairs, from General Viscount Cathcart, K.T. his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of Russia, dated Dresden, May 6, 1813. MY LORD, My last despatches informed your lordship of the arrival of the Ruler of France, and of the concentration of his forces near Erfurth and towards the Saale, as also of that of the allies upon the Elster.-I have now the honour of inclosing herewith, the official statements which have been published by the Russian and Prussian governments, of the general action which took place on the 2d instant, between the two armies; and after which the allies remained in possession of the field of battle, and of the positions from which in the course of the day they had dislodged the enemy. The last division of General Tormazoll's corps having crossed the Elbe on the 28th ultimo, the whole of it moved forward by forced marches to the Elster. H ́s Imperial Majesty and the King of Prussia arrived at Borna on the morning of the ist instant, with the reserve; and the several parts of the army were on the same day collected in the vicinage of that place. Marshal Prince Koutousoff Smolensky was left ill on the march at Buntziau, where he died; but his death was not published. Count Wittgenstein, at that time at Zwenkau, was appointed to command the army. He had on that day reconnoitred the enemy, and ascertained his position; and the same evening, a disposition was made for a general attack, to take place on the following morning at day-break.-During the preceding week, the advance of the enemy's main army to wards Naunburg, and the approach of Beauharnois from Quedlinburg, had been indicated by several skirmishes and partial affairs, particularly at and near Halle and Merseburg, where the Prussians behaved with great gallantry. On the evening of the 1st, the enemy appeared to have great masses of his force between Lutzen and Weisenfels, and after dusk a strong column was seen moving in the direction of Leipsig, to which place there was clear evidence that he intended to move. -The advance corps of Count Wittgenstein's army having been engaged on the same evening to the east and north of Lutzen, the cavalry of it remained there to amuse the enemy in the morning, but with orders to retire gradually. Meanwhile, the several columns of the army were ordered to cross the Elster at Pegau, and bear down, and to follow the course of a rivulet, which, rising near the Elster, runs in a north-west direction to the Saale; by which movement, which the ground favoured, it was intended to turn the enemy's right between Weisenfels and Lutzen, while his attention was directed to his left between the latter place and Leipsig. As soon as their Majesties saw the troops placed according to this disposition, the whole was put in motion towards the enemy. -The country is uncovered and open, the soil dry and light, but with very considerable variety of bill and valley, and much intersected by hollow ways and mill-streams, the former not discernible till closely approached. infantry, and in the mean while to pierce the line to the enemy's right of the villages, with a strong column of cavalry, in order to cut off the troops in the villages from support -The remainder of the enemy's line was to be engaged, according to circumstances, by the corps opposed to it. -The cavalry of the Prussian reserve, to whose lot this attack fell, presented themselves, and supported their movements with great gallantry; but the showers of grape-shot and musketry, to which they were exposed on reaching the hollow way, made it impracticable for them to penetrate, and the enemy appearing determined to maintain the villages at any expense, the affair assumed · the most expensive character of attack and defence, of a post repeatedly taken, lost, and retaken.-The cavalry made several attempts to break the enemy's line, and behaved with the most exemplary coolness. and regularity under a very heavy fire; in some of these attacks they succeeded in breaking into the squares and cutting down the infantry.-Late in the evening, Buonaparte having called in the troops from Leipsig, and collected all his reserves, made an attack from his left on the right of his allies, supported by the fire of several batteries advancing. The vivacity of this movement made it expedient to change the front of the nearest brigades on the right; and as the whole cavalry from the left was ordered to the right to turn this attack and to charge it, I was not without hopes of witnessing, the destruction of Buonaparte and of all his army; but before the cavalry could. arrive, i became so dark that nothing could · be distinguished but the flashes of the guns. The allies remained in possession of the disputed villages, and of the line on which, the enemy had stood.-Orders were given to renew the attack in the morning, but the enemy did not wait for it, and it was judged › expedient, with reference to the general pos-ture of the cavalry, not to pursue. The wounded have all been removed across the Elbe, while the cannon and prisoners taken, and the ground wrested from the enemy in the action, are incontestible proofs of the success of the allies. Both sovereigns were in the field the whole day. The king was chiefly near the village where his troops were engaged. The empe ror was repeatedly in every part of the field, where he was received with the most ani.. mating cheers by every corps he approached. i The fire, to which his person was not unfre took place near him, did not appear in the least to disturb his attention from the ob The enemy, placed behind a long ridge, and in a string of villages, of which Gorsthen is the principal, with a hollow way in front, and a stream sufficient to float timber on the left, waited the near approach of the allies.quently exposed, and the casualties which He had an immense quantity of ordnance, of 12-pounders and larger natures, distributed throughout the line and in the villages; the batteries in the open country were sup ported by masses of infantry in solid squares. The plan of operation determined upon, on view of the enemy was, to attack the village of Gros Gorschen with artillery and jects to which it was directed, and which he followed without any ostentation.-General Wittgenstein, with the army, is between the Elbe and Elster, with the command of seve ral bridges over the former. The Russian troops of all arms fully realised the expecta tions I had formed of their bravery and $teadiness; and the emulation and spirit of patriotism which pervades the Prussian army merits the highest encomium. I have the, &c. CATHCART. The Lord Viscount Castlereagh, &c. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, MAY 25. A letter from Sir John Borlase Warren, dated on board the San Domingo, of Annapolis, Chesapeake, April 20, 1813, states, that in proceeding up the bay, five sail of armed vessels were discovered off the River Kappakannock; he immediately ordered the Maidstone and Statira, with the Fantome and Mohawk brigs, and Highflyer tender, to pursue them into the river: however, it falling little wind, the signal for the boats of the squadron, manned and armed, was repeated, and they were all sent in under the direction of Lieutenant Puckinghorne, of the San Domingo, and, after a most gallant attack from the officers, seamen, and marines in the boats, and a determined resistance from the enemy's vessels, who were prepared to receive them, the whole were carried, with the loss of two killed and eleven wounded on our side. -Admiral Warren mentions, that Lieutenant Brand having formerly lost an arm, and being so unfortunate as to lose his remaining one, as a volunteer upon this occasion, he trusts their lordships will confer a mark of reward for the misfortune of a most courageous, zealous young man. Lieutenant Puckinghorne, in his letter to Admiral Warren, gives the following additional particulars:-"I have to inform you, hat, after rowing fifteen miles, I found they were four armed schooners drawn up in a line a-head, apparently determined to give us a warm reception; notwithstanding their formidable appearance, and the advantage they would necessarily derive from mutual support, I determined to attack them; the issue of which is such as might have been expected, from the brave men you did me the honour to command, and is as follows, viz.: Arab, of 7 guns and 45 men, run on shore and boarded by two boats of the Marlborough, under Lieute nants Urmston and Scott.-Lynx, of 6 guns and 40 men, hauled her colours down on my going alongside in the San Domingo's pinnace.-Racer, of 6 guns and 36 men, boarded and carried, after a sharp resistance, by the San Domingo's pinnace.-Dolphin, of 12 guns and 98 men. The guns of the Racer were turned upon her, and then gallantly boarded by Lieutenant Bishop in the Statira's large cutter, and Lieutenant Liddon in the Maidstone's launch." A letter from Captain Lumley, of his Majesty's ship Narcissus, transmitted by Admiral Sir J. B. Warren, dated Cape Henry, N. 55 W. distant 32 miles, March 30, 1813, states the capture of the Revenge, American privateer-brig, belonging to Norfolk, of 212 tons and 89 men, pierced for 18 guns, but had only twelve mounted. A letter from the Hon. Captain Percy, of his Majesty's ship Hotspur, transmitted by Adiniral Lord Keith, dated at sea, May 13, states the capture of French ship letter of marque, l'Imperatrice Reine. SATURDAY, MAY 29. A letter from Admiral Lord Keith, dated Hamoaze, May 25th, states, that the Alphea schooner, from the north coast of Spain, brings an account of the capture of Castro by the enemy on the 11th ult. The particuJars are detailed in letters from Captain Bloye, of his Majesty's ship Lyra, which his lordship encloses. His lordship adds, that Lieutenant M'Donald, of the Alphea, had informed him, that he had learnt that the enemy had lost at least 2500 men in the different attacks. In a letter addressed by Captain Bloye, to Lord Keith, dated May 15, he transmits a duplicate of his letter to Captain Sir G. Collier, giving an account of the capture of Castro; and informs his lordship, that in various reports he had received, he was informed, that the loss of the enemy was so great, that the conquest of Castro, instead of being celebrated as a victory, as was usual on other occasions of any advantage, created an universal gloom among the French. The Lyra, Captain Bloye, with the Royalist and Sparrow sloops, were stationed to defend the town, &c. and afford protection to the besieged. At length the enemy advancing in great numbers, Captain Blove re-embarked the troops, after gallantly repulsing the enemy, not less than 3000 men, and rendering useless the guns," &c. not a soldier was left behind. Captain Bloye says, that he has reason to believe, from the intelligence he had received, that the enemy had not less than 13,000 men before Castro. Their loss was very great, that of the garrison about 50 killed and as many wounded. The Royalist had only four wounded, and the Sparrow six; none killed. Among the wounded were, Lieutenant Kentish, of the Royalist, slightly, and Mr. Sutton, midshipman. The intrepidity and good conduct of this young officer · is highly praised, but we are sorry to report that the amputation of his leg has been found necessary. A letter from Captain Seymour, of his Majesty's ship Leonidas, states the capture of the American schooner privateer, Paul Jones, of 16 guns and 85 men, commanded by Archibald Taylor, out two months from New York, and had made three prizes. This Gazette also contains a list of seven American vessels captured and destroyed by his Majesty's ship olus, Lord J. Townsend, commander, between the 18th of January and March, 1813. |