The Sun. — London, England, 1819-04-16 00:00:00

LITERARY REVIEW. 'LITTLE HYDIIOGEN: on, THE DEVIL UPON TWO sTicKs T' LONDON. • We do n,,t profess to be deeply conversant in Ci.cmitt•v:---we have never explored the sec-lets of Dury's Locker:— we have otdy one or two derils at on, rommaro ; and we have no wish to raise the spi?its of which certain of our brethren are itewhat ton fond. When these are wore de -1 wed than they oite.ht to he, we can sometimes l!Se a retort ; and there is an end of ont practice in the ,ciettre Reviewers, however, should know someth;ng of every thior. ;—so we must ev.n make the hest it, and di , euss the work.before tic with all pos sible seien• ifieality ; —not enteting into Hu elabo rate examinatiou into the difference betteen Oxygen and Ilyd,ogen ; one of which, Perlolp, according to the old jo!:e, means plain Gin, while the other means Gin and Wafer. But there is another species of knowledge, which, as we (to not elluse to communicate, we can assume without fear of contradict i on—tire knowledge of fashionable life.—This essential science enables its to understand the characters of the pleasant and pithy r limn now on onr table ; and really, LITTLE HYDROGEN" has satirized, keenly, tt.ough mildly enough, the faults and fol lies of our metropolis. The first appearance of our chymical Spirit, and his couversation•with the Author, are well managed. ilttittinotiners himself us heretofore the celebrated Asmodeus, hot no lou;er either lame or ugly. Ile now appears vigorous and beau tiful ; while l is follower, endued by him With new functions, becomes light as hitncelf, and al most as disembodied.—The Tykrs—not the 6f - at Tyfers—of the present day, would have been much ituteb'ed to him, if he . had only nuroofed the lioneec ;—for slid) is the machinery of his disclo sures :—bnt little IIYtnoGP.I.T is a Devil of ho oov.r, and re roofs them all, after having ended tlieir exhibitiou I'Ve will not insist, that our old friend is alt n gether as intelligent as when Don Cleofas had 11(.1,1 of hiq skirt :—hut Madrid and London are, perhap4, diff..rentiy constituted ;—or, perhaps, 1-IYottoGEN describes real characters, while As broncos drew upon his own imagination. Be sides, he brings its acquainted with the per sonages of his several anecdotes, and their previ ous histories :---the requisite expansion, therefore, in one small volume, could not accord with the variety of so :flatly more characters in a larger work.—Nevertheless, Flitottooft4 has one signal advantage;—he takes his rounds by noon as ,well as fay night ; he sees and spews what is to day ; a livelier speculation, than what was done Yesterday, or what is to be done tomorrow„ — We could wish, however, that instead of unroof ing tire houses, which can only detect the Poets and Quidnunes who generally compose in a gar ret, he lad unfrosted theist, and so exhibited their drawing-rooms. This might have saved him the trouble of repair, upon some fashionable mansions at least, whose mortgagees are ready bands at a fore closure. 'Winn HYDROGEN favours In with R short story, be has much of his Asrondean conciseness and piquaney.—Onr Readers will recognize their •ld accraintance in the following extract : " ' In that corner,' said my.guide, ' is a youth who has corue to town from Cambridge. He has no business here, but to visit a favourite courte ztn, who is sapping his rich expectances. lie is in the act of writing to his uncle, dated Cam bridge, and to be delivered with a hare, by the guard of the mail-coach ; so that old square-to.'s will think that he is pursuing his studies, whilst he is quaffing his Champagne and revelling with a frail Cyprian. Ile is a new customer, and pays ready money. See how the cribbage-faced waiter bows homage to him. Put half a (Cozen of Cham pagne into the coach waiter, says he. This is doubtless for his favourite. His will be a short life Fi v:d a merry one ' " Next turn your eyes to a dinner party. The si c kly thin g a t the he a d of the table is of age this day ! 'tis his treat. What expense ! what -intemperance ! He is in bad company. Those youths around him will take him to one of the hells ; and this day may be the first of his ruin. The young man on his right has squandered all his awn fortune, and must now live on that of his acquaintances ; the other an his left is an old bird, a regular decoy, an agent to the Greeks.— Poor Amphitrion ! thou art done for ! That man asleep is Lord -- ; he does nothing but drink all night and sleep all day. He is the prince Of epicures.' " • The qniet-looking elderly man in the corner Is an author. Ile frequents all the places of ele gant entertainment, and studies marikind. Mind how he smiles occasionally. Some of those blades will shine in a satire for this. That man is to be met with alone at all public places.' " In the private room adjoining you see an elderly Mewor. Mind his dress, a groom-cut truck, many waistcoars, a 'lark brown wig, put AI the affecta , ion of a boy, playing his favourite look upon his fotehead, and stroking up his gF,ssy hair. Observe bow well, and in how studied a manner, his cravat is put on ; mark his large coachman's hat, and his whip, although he h a s no longer a horse in his stable; see his dyed whi , kers, and the mouse-coloured eye-brow whiela should be grey, his ivory teeth, and fascinating smile. This is a man of quality, a has teen, re turned from abroad, and incog. upon the. town. His companion is a young Telemachus of noble birth but as unprincipled as his adviser. Listen to the affectation of his voice, his swearing in a womanish tone at every word, the approving !mil cat any thing like wiekedness which fails flout his prime minister and counsellor. See how the thing is pinched in the middle, and, betwixt his pouting crop, above his lady-like hips below and the flowing skirts of his tnnique, observe him to represent a %I-Akin;; hour-glass. They are now actually consilltiug how to carry off an heiress. The plan is to take her from a Money, however, :must be borrowed. A fine har vest for the usurer;.'. " In the ►►ext r: , o►ii are a profligate and two bailiffs. The one of them is disguised as a cler gyn►an, the other as a livery servant, the better to ' carry on their deception, and to ponuce upon their Fey. Their prisoner is in his 'morning ~,_!own, and has just been painting and perfuming himself. Yon would take him for the sign of a civic cat ; and he is as dAngerous as any cat in Europe. At this moment he is writing a letter to a certain Sir--, threatening to expose him if he do nor send him a tew hundreds to pay his coach maker. at whose suit he is• arrested, and to enable biro to car y o;t a little lunget ! . He'll get the money ; (or having treacheroudy possessed him self of the othet's secrets, he has him in his rower.' Who are those in the- front bedroom ?' sAia 1 ' They are two hocks of the lust head,' iephed my guide. The one has a hit of a title. father too was a hock of the first head, and Iris Matn4 took the charge of ornamenting The thrt ml-paper, yet athletic looking youth is heir to a title : you see lie alrecis the ruffian, with Iris Belcher halldKClChief, and his almost white hang-op coat. ,They are innocently unitising themselves %vitt' throwing in a main or two, just a little practice ; bravo ! The thin one has thrown seven and eleven sixteen times ! What a rare chance a man playing against him must have.!' " ' In the next room you 'see a money-lender and a buck parson closeted. .'They are doing an annuity. The former is right to keep all quiet ; for lie will get about thirty per• cent. - by the bar gain. lie is an usurer's agent, gets sixty pounds tram the borrower out of twelve hundred for besides a present from the leader•, who is to make hiS sixteen per cent. of him, namely, two hundred per iumuut for the loan of twelve hundred pounds, bes Ats a clause of half a year's re-purchase money. Ile will never be at the ex pence of inswing his life, because he knows that he will be ruined in a short time ; and, as his fortune will just cover his annuities, and they will come in first, he is sure of his man. To ac celera his fall, the procurer will sound the horn as to his having borrowed this sutra of money, and bring his creditors on him, receiving a per centage from them•' " ' The master of the house seems to he making out a said I;`why, it is like a bill in Chan cery." Yes,' replied the spirit, and Mr. --'strtinks will be exchequered for it ; but poor L-- will be thrown over. An Honourable Colonel owes that bill, who proposes beina , whitewashed ; [he was afterwards] so farewell the debt."' The next is still neater : " Do 1 not perceive two young ladies sleeping together itt an adjacent room ?' g You do,' te plied le petit (liable. They were up late at a ball, and are fancying themselves in love. IVhat a lovely youth that Officer in the Guards, cries one with a sigh. Yes, replies the other, stretch ing out her arms, a perfect Adonis. Didn't you think that he looked hard at us ? Certainly ; but Pa was so ill dressed and so surly, that he Gig - lit- Cited him away Irons us. Heigh-ho! M a ry, let tne sleep.' " The story, at p. 154, is Cnr . loll4 and well told : we have not room toctract it ; nor the painfully strong delineAtfr.ns of our Prisons. We must also [orego the pretty characters which HYDROGEN draws of the t37tigs, old and new; and the gra tifying pourtrailUte of our good old Monarch ; which, however, is rather more in the style of Swwfs John Bull; than of LE SAGE'S ,4smodetts. ;Much still remains to be told ; and we trust that the public encouragement will induce LITTLE HYDRoGEN to continue his rambles, He will then visit, perhaps, our Theatres, and get somewhat better acquainted with SIIAKNPEARE than to quote Cassio instead of Grationo ; our Public Offices ; our i hlouses of Parliament, if not too touchy a subject ; aye, and our Newspapers too—and he is welcome to refresh his gas at THE ;—and, above all things, we pray his spirited publisher to turn him loose upon the Westminster Rump Committee. A second volume, equally enterain ing, cannot fail of increasing the attraction of a book, which whoever reads with his slippers over the fender in foggy mornings will find himself well amused and beguiled into some hearty and constitutional laughs. THEATRICAL REGISTER. - Performed Last Nied. THEATRE ROYAL, DIU/ RY•LA N i Oats Rover, Mr. Russell ; Lady Amaranth, M►s. Glover. After which (3d time); Abudah. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GAR HEN.—(lsth time), Evadne: Principal Characters by Mr. Macready and Miss O'Neill. After which (4th time), Fortung an d hi s Sons. TO COIVAESPONDENTS. BRITANNICUS, Letter ji ,, on ItomAN C , TIIOLiCS, To-morrow. Also, INSOLVENT ilEurons (concluded). . 4 ' For the PETITION from MeTons in the FLEET PRISON, see the Fourth Page. PRICE 0 THIS nAv AT T N per Cent.Red....7 , 24t 72, 1 ;4 ' per Cent. Cons. 73-1, 724 734 72i 73 S per Cent Stif 4 per Cents 9l4a DO F STOCKS WELVI O CLOCK, ti per Ct. Navy Ann. 1053 M Bank Long Ann.... 194 India Bonds, :rs 395. pr. Exch. Bills, 2d....par, 2s. pr. Cons. for May, 74-ai MAILS. ARRIVEIr—I Dublin, 1 Waterford, I Hamburg!), I Flanders. DUE—I Waterford, 1 Guernsey and Jersey, I Holland. HICII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 29 minutes after 7. I Evening, 54 minutes after 7. THE REGENT'S CANAL. This grand undertaking, so advantageous to wards fdrtl►ering the commercial interests of the City of London and .its environs, respecting the facility of an inland conveyance from the Thames, crossing the commercial-road through Islington (where part of the channel of the New River has been turned to accommodate its progress), con►inuing its line through part of the Hampstead road to the Regent's Park, to its union with the Grand Junction Canal, is advancing with such rapidity towards a conclusion, that in less titan a twelvemonth, it is said, it will be perfectly navi gable and complete for all the purposes of trade. Numerous bridges have been erected over its long hoe of connection. The tunnel, which is -finished, is viewed as an object of much curiosity. It is three quarters of a mile in length, commencing at the bilge bill contiguous to White Conduit hoose. The tunnel is of an oval form of arch work, and composed of bricks. No lamps are necessary, as sufficient day-light is seen through it to enable the bargemen to make their way without difficulty ; but it is too narrow lop the use of their oats, and the bargemen, in conse quence, must lay on their hacks, and with moving their feet upon the top of the !Untie!, make their passage to the end, which is practicable and easy. That the bargemen may not feel any in convenience or delay, occasioned by want of water, a large engine, or niece of mechanism, denominated a '' Feeder," is to be erec , ed - on th e Thames, calculated to furnish a sufficient !Alp- , ply at the shortest notice. CHELMSFORD ASSIZES.-This morning a coach load of Convicts from the Assizes held in this town, for the County of Essex, passed through the Mettopolis. There were scveval of the gang, five of whom were recently executed. Their re moval is considered A greet relief to the inha bitants, who have lived in a state of terror and alarm for a roniiderable time past, mud whose property was the continued object their depre dations. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Tuesday last. The Chamber of Deputies assembled on Monday, but were chiefly occupied in deciding upon Petitions. The Duke de GAETE, AIM. TertNAtix and BRETON, were returned upon a scrutiny as Candidates for the vacancy in the Committee of Surveillance with reference to the Sinking Fund, &c. M. SAVOYS ROLIN was ap pointed to report on the Projet respecting the Journals. There was to be no public Sitting on 'Tuesday. Wednesday, as already stated, the dis cas.ion was to be opened on the Projet respecting the offences of the Press. It is only mentioned that the name of M. SIMEON was inscribed to speak upon one of the Articles, and the names of MM. LAISNE de VILLEVEQUE and BENJAMIN CONSTANT to speak against the Projet. The fol- lowing are extracts : " PARIS, APRIL 13 —After Mass on Sunday the King held a Court, which was numerously and brilliantly attended. " The Persian Ambassador passed the evening on Sunday at the hotel of the Duchess d'Escars who had a numerous party, Yesterday his Ex cellency promenaded in the Garden of the Ihnil leries. " An , Ordonnance of the Police, dated the 3d inst., directs, that the Cabarets, Coffee-houses, and other places of public resort in Paris, shall be shut precisely at 11 o'clock every night, and in the rural Communes at the same hour, from the Ist April to the Ist October, and at 10, from the Ist October to the Ist April. " Marshal Ondinot, at the head of the Staff of the National Guard, and accompanied by a great number - of Officevs, presented their congratula tions yesterday to Monsieur, it being the A nni versary Of his Royal Highness's return to Paris. His Royal Highness also received the congratu lations of the Ministers, Deputies, Councillors of State, &c. . " The Duke and Duchess of Kent arrived at BrUssels on the 8:h instant: " Ir is understood that the Committee on the Projet relieving the Journals propose to reduce j,!ct." the securities required to one half the amount stated in the Projet, that is to say , to 5,000 francs far the Daily Journals, and '2,500 francs for other Periodical Pnblications. " One of the Journals of the Capital has re' ccived letters from Italy, which confirm :be in' erof telligence of a conspiracy against the EMP of Austria.—(Gazette de France,) " The following are the only French P3Peti admitted into Spain :—The Illoniteur, Gazette dl France, Journal de Paris, Journal des Debats,andi .Quolidienne. The English Journals , a nd those ° the Netherlands, are very severely prohibited' 4 The Italian Journals, received on Sundry [ `lre entirely silent respecting the Conspiracy agaias c T Emperor of Ai:stria, wh:ch, on the faith of Pri", f 6 letters, is alleged to have been discove red. Gazette de Florence, on the contrary , speaks of the tejoicings with which the Emperor and EmPrest were received on the 29th ult. a t -Sienna, wh ithe t hey proceeded on quitting Florence, a nd of lb leres hich were prepared for them.—(Journal- Paris.) !f The Gazette Universel d'Augsbarg, of the g 7112 inst. states, that according to private letters f r o g Warsaw, the Emperor of Russia was "reef there, to hold an extraordinary Diet. FIVE PER CENTS. Alonday 177 1. 4.5 C. D 8 1 : 1 11 7, ED STOCK. Of the 220 March, SS f. 70c. . 22d Sept. 1817, 22 , 1 March, 1818, Bl 1. .70 - c. 22d Sept. 1818, 7 /1 f. 70 C• 220 March, 1819, 77 f. " e : c , t ate, " LUBECK, MARCH 30.—Private accou nts - that the negociatiuns between Sweden a-1 I)eir : of mark, respecting the fulfilment of the T reaty 1. . Kiel, are so far advanced, that a Definiti ve 6°l vention is on the point of being concluded- the " MAN H ELM, APRIL 6.—Tire s(atemen r of death of the assassin of Kotzebue is ent irelYer' 6 c° tt roneous, At ten o'clock last night Ile wa c . veyed to the Infirmary in the Ilotoe o f C° : rr $ tion. He tainted on the way. The IllYstci e9 l ll stare, that it is ir»ossible he can recov er, but 1 p may live several days. Judg e " A Special Commission, consisting' 0 f of the first rank, has been appointed.to iftvest gate the affair. 'Affaires "M. de Struve, the Russian Charge d has at the Court of Baden, has arrived here' and produced several important papers found at there' d sidence of M. de Kotzebue ; he has also receive many materials regarding Sand, the assassin'''. Sand is very tranquil, and still rejoices at the o ° ° cess of his; enterprize ; he has persuaded 1110- self (or affects to have), that he has done au ' 4 ' 4 agreeable to God. •'The innkeeper where Sand lodged , has de' posed, that another young man arrived With 1 111 ; 4 but who has disappeared. " It is reported that anonymous threatening letters have been addressed to several of the Germs man Literati. " One of Sand's letters, which has been dis c°. vered, begins in these words :—" I go to me et my destiny, which is the scaffold." " JENA, MARCH 27.—The mother of bl' wades Kotzebue, aged 82, who resides at Weimar, so shocked by the melancholy news of the iissa '; sination of her son, that she has been seiz ed a dangerous illness, and lies without hope o f re m co very. " LEGHORN, 'MARCH 29.—Sir liumphry 93v1 has returned from Naples to Rome. it is un der ; sto9d he has discovered an infallible method° unrolling the Herculaneum Manuscripts wit b°Lit damaging the writing. " N. B. (Journal des Debats) Our Private Cor respondence from Italy is entirely silent as to 614 arrests, or any other circumstance tending to ° lv firm the statement of a Conspiracy against th e Emperor of Austria. The Journals of iloreti cef Genoa, and Milan, Erre also silent upon the 5011 - - THE FUNDS.—The Money Market looks sTer/ heavy this morning; Consols began - at 73 fO l l. Money, and 734 : for the Account ; they s l " "t4 tell to 72i for Money, and 73 Account. 111" mense sales have taken place, and large bets lire made that Consols will be done at 70 on or bcf' re the 26. th May, Settling-day. Two Ducklings 11 ' 1 -' 1 declared this morning, but their defalcation is a° c to'a large amount. Two houses have failed in the City, one of which is said to have 250,0001. 13 paper afloat in the Market. The amount of th e Loan is now reported to be twenty-five millions this, with the present stagnation of trade , h as tended materially to affect the Funds. The Com missioners were served at 73 by two Jobbers- The subject of the Catholic Claims for Efltan' cipalion, as PAPISTS think proper to style their pre. tensions to Political Power., is of so much portance to us as Freemen as well as Protestants* , that as the moment is approaching when the gislature is to decide on this momentous questionfi FOR THE SUN. THE CATHOLIC QUESTION. quid niinis. Ma. EDITOR—You call fur additional matter on this subject from a Protestant Public, who admire you no less for your zeal than they are obliged to you for your communications. From me you have bad a full history of it, from the time of Augustine the Monk to the present ; and as other Co,rrespondtents have afforded you a large addenda, though perhaps not so connectedly to the point, one or two excepted, 1 do not think that any further diScussion can give it new light. It has made a deep impression, and roused the sleeping lion of Great Britain - and Ireland. Trusting to the wisdom of parliament, and their just respect to our Constitution in Church and State. I have no reason to doubt their defeating :he Petitions of the Papists, which have been turned round every Sessions since the year 1806, when their hopes for success were encouraged by those Ministers who, were they now in power, would see the gross inconsistency of what they then proposed. They lost their places in conse quence, and alarmed their afflicted Sovereign. Chagrined and disappointed;their party has since made it a Botie rather of a political and temporal, than a religions or spiritual Opposition. This has reduced them below their level, and betrays a Vindictive spirit against Ministers that be, and every thing they do ; for which they are much to be pitied ; and so friendly am I towards them, that I finish this concluding Paper on so nauseous and disgusting a subject, with an humble ejacu lation :—May Almighty God soon turn their hearts, make them sensible of their errors, and teach them their amendment ! Keep 'them, 0 Lord, out of all cabalistic clubS, in which evil is meditated and promulgated ; and correct their judgment of politics, which, from its fallacy, they insult by their defence; or as if the people of another Babylon were flying in the face of their Creator by their presumption, impose, 0 Lord. eternal silence upon them, by confusing their tongues, and leaving them to bray for their wantF., like asses in the field. TERR.E FILIUS. 'ru t R 4-1 AL. , IL) T. !OLEN! QUIS DIOERE FALSU:VI A UDEAT ? LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 180. ~~. ~