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- apt , 1,4 _ 1 4 , , t • 4149 aw-i i / .z.,. e it _ _ *\91.145, INumnEtt 9665. FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1823. • PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING, BY SUBSCRIPTION, - N ANGLO-GAELIC and GAELIC and 'UAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY : to which will be pre ;fixed, a GRA3IMAR of the LANGUAGE ; under the l'a.; -tronage of, and dedicated, by permission, to, His Most Gracious si4A.IESTY, KING GEORGE the FOURTH. • By ROBERT ARCHIBALD ARMSTRONG, A.M. . pepuky Secretary to the Highland Society of London. CONDITIONS. • The Work will be handsomely printed in Demy Quarto,. 'and will contain, as nearly as can he calculated, between Seven quid Eight Hundred Pages. Price, to Subscribers, Two Guineas - and a Half; to Non-Subscribers, Three Guineas. A few Copies (not exceeding 50) will be printed on Drawing Paper, at Three Guineas and a Half. A List of Subscribers will be published. The Work Will be put to Press as soon as a competent man ber of Copies are subscribed for. 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Arrangements have been made, under a hich Assurarqes nosy be effected Num the Lives of Person% retudent tut derahle distances front Lioofott, withinrt the payment of a fine for non-appearance at the Oilier. Attendance daily at the Office, front-Ten till Four, where a Prospectus tgrirtis), with every other Information respecting the Society, may be obtained. n- The Board Days are on Tuesdays and Fridays,-at Two o'clock. JAMES ANDERTON, tiecronry. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Atm 14. COURLAY v. TUE MIZE OF SOMERSET. Mr. G.Turiay -- renewed - hls aiTtfreSs in this case at the sittin'g of the Court, and continued it till three o'clock in the after.. noon. He read through, and oecasiotiully commented upon, all the previous proceedings in the courts of lavi and equity. A considerable portion .of his xemarks went in depreeen the Duke of Somerset, the witnesses on the trial, and the law yers employed on both sides. Mr. Haul! ,interposed, to shield the character of, his noble client from aspersions which were undeserVed, and incouipa tibia with the proceedings of the Court. The Loan GUANO:LIAR suggested; that some allowance must be made to the circumstances and feelings of the plaintiff, whom, however, he checked in a course of rather ungracious reflections cast upOn the Duchess of Somerset, touching female dominion in matrimony. Mr. HAUT rePlied. The Loan CHANCEL Loft took a view of the whole of the proceedings. Ile observed, that the appeal should have been , brought earlier, heing•against the original decree of the Mas ter of the Rolls. Whereas the Noble defendant, had consent ed to go to trial, had paid the six hundred pounds awarded by the verdict, and had gone to trial a second time on his appeal against the verdict. His Lordship, however, would not undertake to determine on a questionwhich was comprised in papers of such extent and bulk as those in the cause, with out reading those papers through ; and he could not, injustice to the other suitors, who had been longer before the Court, undertake to read them through in the course of the next two days. The ease must stand over for the present, and he svoidd deal with it on the first opportunity at the next sittings of the Court. With respect to the observations of Mr. Gourley on the characters of individuals, he must declare that for the greater part, they were calumnies, and the publication of thou would render them highly libellous. He had only permitted them to go on to the length that Mr. Getirlay had carried them, from a regard to the distressed and anxious circumstances under which Mr. Gourley had appeared. before the Court. The proceedings took up the time till five o'clock. ATTEMPTED SVICIDE.—A female, genteelly at tired, and who turned out to be a teacher, took a hackney coach at the stand in Leicester-square, yesterday morning, and desired to be driven to Duke-street, Oxford-street. The coachman, in, Grosvenor-square stopped to ask the number, whets he found her senseless at the bottom of the coach. H o immediately drove her to the watch house, when it was discovered by Mr. `Dolby, a surgeon, that she had taken a quantity of opium. p ower f u l eme tics were administered, which re lieved the stomach from the nauseous draught, and saved her life. She must have taken the poison before she got into the coach. She was conveyed to her relatives in Maryleboue-lane, ici a very languid state, without the cause of the rash attempt being known. Fon. THE SUN. Itatusgaft, Aug. 13, 1823. Ma. EDITOR—The name of Mr. Jons HALL, his 31AJESTY'S Hanoverian Consul-General, being well known to your Readers, I am sure you and they will be gratified equally on being informed that this Gentleman has been no minated, by our amiable and disinterested Patron of this Royal harbour, as one of the COMMittCC or Trustees for its management. This selection by Sir Wm. ClatT Is, of a man so eminently qualified for a Trustee of Ramsgate Harbour Committee, as Mr. Joist r Hau.,refiects the greatest credit on the honourable Baronet; and whilst carping people here, who, from their agd, property, experience, or characters; Vainly hoped for the-last twenty years to arrive at such kdistinction, 1431 v been dim:p , po;nted, the public at large will doubtless be benefitted by the preient appointment, in that .as Mr. h Ar.r, has been so con. spicuous in promoting the late inquiry into the affairs of the Trinity Corporation, and the consequent reformatioh of a few trifling errors &judgment, and also in the expenditure of the Ramsgate Trust. lie will now be enabled to probe all the accounts to the bottom, and render to his country yet greater services than he has already done, by promoting a still farther reduction in light and harbour dues and other charges on its commerce.— Report adds, that Mr. HAT. los objected to these magnifi cent turtle feasts annually given at the public expence by the Trustees to the elder brethren of the Trinity Corporation, on auditing the accounts and surveying the works of the harbour, recommending for the future the expence being paid by the in. dividuals. I sincerely wish the rumour of Mr. JOriti lIALt being appointed to the first vacancy as a Commissioner of his :Majesty's Customs may be equally true—it is due to hint for his manly and useful assistance to the Committee on Foreign Trade. In congratulating the Ship-Owners of the country on 'Mr. JOHN Hates distinction, I have only further to remark on the noble and disinterested conduct of our Trustees in adopting into their family a man whose evidence has done more to reduce their expenditure and income than all other exertions which have been used for that purpose ; and I am sure the public must appreciate the motives which have led to the measure.— Vide, "SIR ROBERT WALPOLE." TIIE FINE ARTS. TAB WORKS OF CANOVA. All Europe has admitted the genius of CA NONA, and he needs not the test of the hundred years to be secure of his rank amongst the most eminent Sculptors'of any age. His classic purity, his intense perception of the beautiful, his taste, judgment, and imagination in design, his ex quisite finish in execution, combine to produce an effect to which the most untutored spectator cannot be insensible. lie feels rather than judges, and his homage is not the less honour able because it is involuntary. N o one possess . ed of the faculty of discerning beauty can look at a statue of Canova's, without those peen liar sensations of affectionate admiration which loveliness of form or character can alone inspire. Every effort to give greater publicity and consequently greater influence to such works merits the encouragement of all lovers of the arts, and it is gratifying that a successful a ttempt has been made in our own country to bring within the reach of the public at large the means of esti mating the n'eneral characteristics of the produc tions of Canova. i it will be immediately per ceived that 'ye allude to the outline engravings of Mr. Henry Moses, published by Mr. Prowett., of the Strand. Nothing can skew more clearly how little of Canova's success depended on mere de licacy of workmanship, than the effect which is brought out by these bare outlines. This effect is to be attributed, it is true; in a great measure to the skill of the artist, whose engravings are bold, flowing, easy, and spirited ; yet all his abi lity would have been unavailing but for the corn. mending excellence of the originals from which his sketches are taken. Parts IX. and X. of the work appeared on the Ist of this month ; they are not loss valuable than those which hare preceded them. We have first a remarkably fine line-engraving, by Worthington, front Fahre's picture of Canova in his Workshop then an engraving of the simple and elegant monu ment to the memory of Count Tadini of Cremona.; followed by three views of the Statue of the Mag. da len—a study of infinite value. To these succeed the Three Dancing Girls; the first in the full spirit of the dance, with her arms raised above ti er h ea d , and cymbals in her hands—the second niore lan guid , and with an air of fatiguethe third, as th eyw are arranged here, with her hands rt - sting on her sides, and holding up t her d rapery, full of life and " nature, more brisk and more like a dratzatrice than the other two, but riot so Grecian nor so nymph. like. The Venus and the Tattenedes are th e l ast two engravings. The former is exquisitely l ove ly --no attitude can be more expressive Of modesty shrinking from observation, nothing more per fectly fendeine, tender, and d e licate. Canova insisted that this statue should not be pla ce d whore the Medecean Venus before stood. Great as were the advances he had made, hi s modesty and discernment prevented him front pl ac i ng him. self on a level ts ith the great Masters of anti quity. The Ptdamedes is a noble specimen of the human form, full of majesty) 'Power, and grandeur. engravings Annexed to each of these are de scriptive remarks from tire Italian of ttr c ountess Ibrizzi. They are merely Panegyrical, and of little value; but written With feeling and ao i.„ mation. Able critical ' remarks, pointing out the faults and p e euliaritieB, as swell as praising the importance of the work. V er Y few men, beauties of the s cuptor, would have trebled ale holy ever, are competent to the task and it i s much better that it should not be attempted than that it should be imperfectly performed. FOR THE SUN. RUSH-BEARINGS. Ma., EDITOR —ln your Paper of August 13 is an extract from the Westmoreland Gazette, giving an account of the ancient custom of ltusu-nEmt iNd at Ambleside. In that extract it is suggest ed, that," it is the remnant of an ancient custom, which formerly prevailed, of strewing the church fioors with rushes, to preserve the feet from, damp." This idea, however, gives place to one more likely to be correct ; namely, " that its origin may be referred to the days of Heathen ism, as a representative of some offering to their Gods ; and if, in my calling the attention of our country people to the following remarks upon the subject, they shall reel gratified, the little labour they havt. given me will be amply repaid. I think the custom of Rush-bearing is undoubt edly of Jewish origin ;- not because Moses, the great lawgiver, was preserved by Providence by means of the . bull-rushes, nor because after he was born, and had arisen into power, that the Lord said," And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not snake clean riddance of the corners of thy fields when thou reapest, ther shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy har vest : thoti shalt leave them unto the poor and to the stranger ;" not on these accounts is the custom to be attributed to a Jewish birth, but ,because the harvest season was gaily celebrated, anti ushered in by the •trihes. We are informed, that at the gathering in of the harvests among the Heathens, they adopted the ancient customs and preparatory feasts of the Jews, and therefore it is not unlikely, hut pro. bable, that our " harvest homes" are imitated from the Heathen customs, since they very strongly resemble each other. In a book now laying before me is the following passage, which approaches in description so near to that in the ,c.azeVe, that if we allow our northern country people to. have fallen into our error as to the time when " The Rush-bearing" ought correctly to take . place, the account now given may per haps give a dawn of intelligence as to the birth of this ancient custom. " YaCitla (aliter vacuum, a vacando, the tutelar deity, as it were,of rest anti ease,) among the antients, was the name of ire goddess to whom the -rustics sacrificed at. Use conclusion of the harvest. Moresin tells us that Popery, in imitation of this, brings home her chaplets of corn, which she suspends on poles; that offerings are made on the altars of 'her tutu. tar gods, while thanks are returned for the col lected stones, and prayers are put up 'for ftiture rest and ease. Images too of straw, or stubble, he tells us, are wont to be carried about cut this occasion ; and in England he himself saw the country people bring home in a cart (t suppose from a field) a figure made of corn, round which men and women, promiscuously sing ing, followed a piper or a drum ; ti vestige of, this custom is still preserved in some places in the North ; not half a century ago they used every where to dress .up something similar to the fiAnre above - described at the end of harvest,. which was called a Kern Baby; evidently a cOr-• ruption of corn baby or image, (Ceres). In an ancient Roman calendar. on the eleventh of June, is written this observation : " The season of reapers, and their custom with rustic pomp:" To this may be added, that it is to be remember. ed that all nations have regarded the harvest and vintage seasons with particular demonstrations 1 of festivity ; we yet say " A man has made his harvest, A.e." when we would imply that he has been successftil ; and the French have a proof 'of the same tendency, though differently expressed " A man has made ..elugust,"tqfc.w hich latter expres. sion proVes AUGUST to have been the acknowledged titne of in-gathering. The drawings that are to - be found in the Saxon calendars, yet preserved, characterize August by the appearance of a car ter standing near a loaded cart of corn, &c. ; in later times, men mowing grass was the emblem of' the month,. and still nearer our own period, but of old 'late, August was delineated as a young man with a fierce countenance, or rather heatet4 dressed with a flame-coloured garment, hearing a victim and crowned with a garland of wheat, having on his arm a basket of summer fruits and a sickle stuck through his belt. The sign of the Zodiac, which the Sun now reaches, is Virgo, or a representation of a young Woman.--- 7 k. S. X. P.S. Perhaps the Westmorland Gault* could ascertain w hat the villagers themselves intend _to celebrate by their procession and Rush-bearing ; if they yielded no information, the above account perhaps will be somewhat satisfactory. Aria Houssaie's Memoirs, vol 1, page 43.5, a little circumstance, is recorded concerning the de. latation of the unfortunate Ann Boleyn, which ilhistrates an o b servat i on o f Hume. - our historian notices that her Curti tioner was a Frenchman of Calais, who was supposed to be tin commonly skilful ; it is probable that the following dent May have been proved by tradition in France, front the account of the executioner himself. Anne Boleyn being on the scafibld, would not consent to have her eyes covered with a ban tinge, saying that she had no fear of death. All that the Ali. raster, who assisted At lien execution, could obtain ftom her, Was, that she would shut her eyes. But as she was opening them at every moment, the executioner was fearful of missing his aim, and was obliged to invent an expedient to behead the Queen. lie drew ofrhis shOeS, and approached her silently ; while ha was at her left hand, another person .advanced at ••her tight, who made a great noise in walking, so that this eircum, stance drew the attention of Anne; hhe turned her face front the executioner, who was enabled by this circumstance to Witte the littad blow without being disarmixl by that spirit of affecting resignation which shone in the eye of the lovely. but .unfortunate ' The black man who 'Was so disabled htst August, by the wiplosion of . gunpowder at the Trinity pier, whilst tiring it soluta.on his departure from :Scotland, hos now receiyol a pension of 15ti. a.tlay from Government. Ile had become a complete mendicant since the accident, not being able to make any use of his bands ; and he was almost in a state of starvation when be heard of thjs benevolent pro. v^ ion fur his future support.—(Etilnintrgh Obfer.ver.) , , \ I 441, .itp(t PRICE SEvENpswtti DESCRIPTION OF ST. SAINADOR. [From a lifissionarlifJourual.l (Concluded from Wednesday's Sex.) " Soon after there was a procession of Priests, carrying the Sacrament to the house of a person just departing ; Antonio and the Major both knelt, and continued till they 'pait. Senor An tonio said, that he ' conformed to the:custom of the country in trifles.' I thought or Naaniais and his God Kimmon. I did not, however, thhik it right to ,push the matter too suddenly ; but told him, in general, how the English Reformers were led to the flames, rather than conform ; and that if Iwas born a Portuguese, I would rather be imprisoned and burnt than conform to idolatry. At the same time I talked to him of the doc trines of the Reformed Church, &c., but he did not seem to pay much attention : Senor Doni 'nig*, asked the if our soldiers have a Minister to attend them in their dying moments, to instruct and administer consolation. For the first time I felt I had the worst of the argument, and hardly knew what to say to explain such neglect among the Protestants. He shrugged up his shoulders with horror at such a'religion. We were then shewn the hospital erected by the Prince of Por tugal : it was a noble building, far superior to that at Hasler. In the garden each person alter nately gathered a sprig or fragrant leaf for me. The person who shoved it us was a Chevalier of some Order. In the Chapel, Senor Antonio knelt, but always looked on me smiling, ens! said, " C'est le coutume du pays." ' I left him in order to return to my ship, but finding as I went along a chapel open, I went in to see the pie ttxresi all of which contained; as is prominent figure, some Friar of some Cfrder. In one, simile people in flames were laying hold of the twisted rope which was pendent from his waste, tv re pre sentation which would have bi.en more appro priate had our Saviour been substituted for the Friar ! At this time a friar, dressed identically as the one in the pictare, .moved slowly along ; I followed him through the cloister, and address'ed him in Latin. He was a little surprised, but re plied. Ile told me that the chapel belonged to a monastery of Franciscan Friars. In a cloister Which led round the second floor of the building he stopped, and by this time we Were able to understand each other very well. 1 then 'asked him to prove from Scripture the doctrine of pur gatory, of image worship, the supremacy• of the Pope', and transubstantiation. Ilis ar guments were exceedingly Weak, and I felt enabled effectually to answer them all. Dur ing our 'conversation, two or three more friars assembled round and joined in the dis pute. I confuted all their errors as plainly as possible from the is ord of C od ; and they had nothing to reply,- but did not seem,. disconcerted. A whole troop of them, pa4gng in procession-hi the cloister below, beckoned to them to retire, which they did, taking me along with them to a cell, two before, and one on each side of me. As we passed along the passage, one of then, asked me, whether I was a Christian' When we had nil reached the cell and sat down, I ask ed for a Bible, and the dispute was renewed. I found that they considered their errors were not tenable on Scripture ground, and appealed to the authority of the church. I told them this church was, by their own confession, acting against the law of God, and was thereforenot t 171: Church of God ; besides, I referred them to the last words in the Revelations. They seemed most surprised at my knowledge of Scripture. When they were silent, and had nothing to say, I was afraid the business would end here, without any good re sult; and so I said—You who profess to teach the way of truth, how can you dare, before God, to let them go in idolatrous practices, which you know to be contrary to the word of , God ? They looked very grave. The one who spoke French, and also the hest Latin, grew very angry during their dispute, and talked of the Scriptuarurn interpretes—pii sapientissimique veri Augustinua Betnardus, Sze.; but, .said I, 6 they were not inspired.' Yes, he said. But here be was corrected by the rest. As this man seemed ,in earnest (the others were sometimes se rious and sometimes laughing), I-'asked: him why he had assumed the cowl of a friar—he an swered, 6 lit me abstraherem a varietatc rel um mum damn et meipsum sanctum jaciam ad 410. riam Dei.' He spoke with great impres.,,lon nntl earnestness, and seemed the most sincere of any. They were acquainted with logic, and ergaed tic- , - cording to rule. He began by saying N " ullaret salutem esse extra ecclesian Catholicaat. axiount est ?" ' Concede,' said I, 66 sett extra itamanam salus esse potest,' ' Minirne,' they all cried out. ' Quart.; said 1, 6 probe,' but they could not. At last I went away as the sun had sets and they all attended me through the lag and datk plos3gl.:, I almost trembled at the situation and company I was in, but they were exceedingly pollti , Iva' begged to know when I was comite.7 again, that they might expect me. I had staid so long, that after waiting for hours at the differ ,, nt (plays, nt-, boat returned ; and I was obligeo to return to Senor Antonio's, from whom I received un Wee tionute welcome." _____ 3 Conti, Alio. 6.---- "'t, ' ' —Thi "Y -• w m M‘Donnell and David Nagle, ror taking away arins from the house of the Rev. TnoNt,ts T owNsEiwn , an d a lso William Noonan, for taking arms from the bowie of Mr. Gummy: It oG rn s , underwent the dreadful sentenCe of the lawti, at Gallows-green : there was art immense concourse of spectators to witness this awful execution.-- AVD•annell, who showed much resignation, poi sisted in declarations of innocence. Nagle :I whilst in gaol, stated this man's innocence> ~~ 07, itv,