The Sun. — London, England, 1819-01-25 00:00:00

LITERA RY REVIEW. CORALY, a Novel, in Three Voltretts, I tree. It was lately our melatircholy duty to advert to .the death of one of our best female Novelists ; it is now our more agreeable task to notice the !ad duction of a new IVork, by an individual of that sex, which, though it may-not replace those ta lents of which we have to ,deplore the loss in Mrs. 'lsobel - ON, is happily calculated to perpetuate her influence, and disseminate her moral and re ligious principles.--Corn/y is a fiction, of which the avowed object is to enforce, by example, the importance of certain precepts. The story is, we confess, too romantic to satisfy the ascetic spirit of criticism ; but though the incidents sometimes diverge from probability, the character's are not ton remote from ordinary life to excite interest and sympathy—and in the general tenor of the sentiment, there is something like accents of our native language in a strange land, which almost persuades us that we hear the voice o f a familiar friend. The following pa. sage does honour to the discrimination and sensibility of the wi her " You have never known poverty, therefore you know 'lot the extent of its miseries; it is not the bare deprivation of the riegancies, or even the csmeeuieuees, of lite which constitute its horrors; it is in the little distinction which is made between guilt and misfortune. The very actions which hare in prosperous days been ap pi need and extolled, the very opinions which, when harked by situation and oidependence, ac ere ipplatuled and admired, although their in trinsic value in a I stations must he the same, I have hen confounded in experiencing, have all turned to my disadvantage and condemnation. I believed, when I sail, and with perfect truth, that I could hear poverty, and that its evils con sisted in giving up 311 but the mere necessaries Of life. I reasoned, that to live homely, to be clothed poorly, to renounce society, to work lud, and to be sheet fill, were requisites I should t►ot va wit ; Ina I falsely calculated, that my mind was still to be my own; that the independence of-`my heart I could not only carry with me every where, brit that I could assert its honest opinions, tearless censure, since unconscious of wrong. }lett lay my chief mistake ; those who have fa a ow* to ask, must have no opinions of their own. They must go still tulther ; they must, at least apparently, adopt at pleasure those of others. All this I at length discovered ; but even then I calculated that such opinions, though I found they existed in the world at large, would not, could t►ot, extend to my more immediate friends and relatives. Again 1 was mistaken, for in msr altered fortunes, I found them also changed ; and while they needed an excuse for their neglect, they found it in heaping blame upon my conduct. found that even they expected from me what will never happen—that poverty was to deprive sue of the recollection that I was butts and edu cated as a gentlewoman." ,The striking truth, and impressive lesson, which this ,Extract contains, ought to sink deep into the minds of all our youthful Readers, and induce them to avoid those indiscretions which may lead to embarrassments, and produce that melancholy effect of obligation which the Author has so well described, and which may be con sidered as such a proof of the met it of the Work, is cannot - but recommend it to general attention. LONDON JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. [Morning Chronicle.] EXTRACT OP A LETTER FROM ST. HELENA, DATED 20TH NOV. 1818. -" Great preparations are making here for con structing the new house for Blionaparte, the foundation of which has been laid down directly opposite to the house in which Bertrand now re sirks. There- is to be a viranda of 60 feet in length in the front, and the house is to be stir rounded with a stone wall and encircled with iron pallisadoes 10 feet high. The labour required in order to bring up the materials is almost incre dible. The wood for the joists, &c. is sawed in the town, and partly carried up by sailors upon their shoulders as far as the Alarm-house, from whence it is taken by the 66th to Deadwood, partly by fatigue parties of soldiers sent down at four o'clock in the morning. The troops are greatly harassed, being obliged to go on fatigue immediately after being relieved from guard or piequet, and have only one night in bed out of three. The sickness amongst them and the sailors is very alarming, and the mortality very great. It is supposed to be partly caused by the excessive humidity of the climate. Those who are compe tent judges say that the house ►will not be finished before three or four years, although the Governor pretends that he ►will accomplish it in nine or ten months. lie repairs daily to superintend the workmen, and has been frequently seen at Long wood, although he has never been able to obtain an interview ►with Boonaparte, and is not upon speaking terms ►with any of the French. It is said that Buonaparte wished that the house should not have been built in tie spot ►which was selected by Sir Hudson Lowe, and that he has declared iotentions of not occupying it. The Governor, it is said, intends, in that case, to allow the house that he at present resides in to tumble down for want of repairs, and thus compel him to enter into his cage. Nothing can be more wretched than the situation of poor Madam Bertrand.— The Officers have been formally 'prohibited speaking to her husband, and .admittance has been refused to her and her faMily at the houses of some of the Officers where she .pre sented herself in consequence of the prohibition of intercourse. Persons who a seen to speak to the French are subsequently interrogated upon oath, and obliged to make a formal deposi tion of the conversation they have had with them ; in consequence of this, every body avoids them. Count Balmaine left this aboot four weeks back with Captain Gore, Aid-de-Camp to the French Commissioner, and has proceeded to the lrazils., It is thought that he will not return.— The Inquisition in Spain does not adopt more prohibitory measures towards the introduction , and circulation of Newspapers in that nuhaPpy country than are practised -here, and we are con sequently almost wholly iguorant of what is pass log in England." *** We insett the above article entire. be cause we will not expose ourselves to the charge of galbling, hist we have the most pet feet confi dence in the discretion and humanity of Sir Hun- SON Lows, and are persuaded that he adopts no regulations but such as are uecessary to secure a Prisoner, who, if he escaped, would endeavour to put all Europe into commotion. •- Vete Times.] We yesterday received Calcutta Gobernmeat Ga zettes to August 20, inclusive. Appa Sahib, the Ex• Rajah of Nagpore, after his escape from 'our escort, fled to the hills and rocky fastnesses of Goandwaua. The Goands, the inhabitants of this territory, • are a barbarous people, among whom lie appears to have obtained temporary protection, though this race have always been unwilling tri butaries to their conquerors, the lloonsla _Matt rattas. Indeed, man , of them cannot be .said to have been ever conquered, but preserve their ie depeedence, and continue to subsist by a p t oa. tory course of life. They are governed by petty Chiefs, who are generally in.a state of hostility each other ; and hence we may conclude, that A ppa Sahib's retreat is not ver y secure. He is, hoes-ever, said to have collected a-eind hit» near 3000 Arab mercenaties, the wrecks partly of his own for ce, and partly of Bajee lOW's ; and with these he was enabled to cut oft Captain :spikes, whose lamented tate we have Thrtnerly noticed. Large reinforcements have .sitree . been sent to the Bietool district, where this. dis aster ()centred, and there is no doubt but that the sanguittat y Atabs will be exemplarily punished.— These barbarians pay no regard to the laws of ci vilized war. %nen Captain Sparkes found that . he could not make good his retreat, he sent a flag of truce down the bill; but the feincious enemy would not listen to terms of any kied. Imme diately after receiving information of this unfor tunate affair, Colonel Adam.; detached Major Macpherson, with four Companies of the 2d Bat talion of the ,10th Infantry, and a squadron of the 7th Cavalry, to attack the enemy ; and other mi litary arrangement* ,were also adopted for the: purpose of protecting the country.—These Papers contain addresses to the Marquis of Hastings on the glorious termination of the late campaign, front tie British inhabitants of Moorshetlabad. and Berhampore, and from the Native inhabi tants of Calcutta. In reply to the latter, the Noble Marquis takes occasion to observe, that be " cannot feel, and never will make. a distinc tion of interest between the Native subjects of the Indian Government and his owu countrynteo : and that he is conscious be can hate the pride of meriting British approbation, only in proportion as he promotes the happiness and welfare of the Native population." FOR TB L SUN 7 MARIA STUART. MR. EDITOR ,--I perceive by a paragraph in your Paper of last night, that SCIIILLEeS Maria Stuart has been withdrawn ; a circumstance which you seem to regret, and which shews that you entertain a just sense of the merits of that ce lebrated Poet. 1 should most heartily tnyself (egret ti.iS circumstance too, if I were not ennvinced than the non-performance of this piece in 'this CoUurry is a judicious measure ; I mean as- far as regards the piece itself, as I am not going to offer any remarks on the differences which we are told horve arisen between the Managers and one of the Female Performers respecting the cast : :, of the characters. SCHILLER'S Maria Stuart, in the original Ger. man, is undoubtedly one of this Author's master pieces ; but as it cannot, of course, he brought before a British audience in the original, a mere Translation will be, in the same degree, defective and insufficient, as the beauties of the Original display the mind of a sublime and extraordinary genius. 1 have seen a Translation which • was published in London several years back, and ' 1 do not deny that it is a very good one ; but still a Translation, and consequently not able to coo stay the beautiful language of the Original, in all its richness and brilliancy. The Piece neither would, in my bumble opinion, ever become popu lar in this country, because a great manypoints , have been mixed up in it, for the sake of support ing and carrying on the Plot, which cannot well be reconciled to the political and religious ideas of the English. Maria Stuart, and all her friends, ,are more over represented as enthusiastic Roman Catlio lics (as no doubt they were), and. many scenes are introduced, which would -not produce the intended effect upon an audience itohis country. I he! e particularly allude to that - scene •in Which the Holy Sacrament is administered to Maria Stuart, on which point there is a diversity of opk, Mon even in Germany ; and in some places, for instance,- Leipzig• and Dresden, both •Protedvarst towns, this scene has been suppressed proper. For this, and many other reasons,, I. believe that the Piece would entirely fail in its:effect upon an audience.in this country. it was written for the Germans, who viewing the subject of 'it as quite foreign to themselves, bad only to contem plate and to admire the sublime thoughtsand ideas of that extraordinary genius, SCHILLER, expressed in language which has not yet been equalled by• any German writer, and which I maintain cannot be translated. A GERMAN. January 23, 1819. REMEMBER-that although good fortune always attended li. CARROLL'S Old Office, Na. 7, Corn hill, till it was accidentally destroyed by fire, yet it cannot be compared to the splendid success which has distinguished the opening of his NEW OFFICE, No. 19, Cornhill, in ,the last Lottery, when No. 2.387, Prize of 30,0001. and 7,003, Prize of 50001. in Shares, were sold by him, making a larger amount of Prizes .sold by CAA ROLL than by any other Office Keeper in the last Lottery. The NEW LOTTERY will All be drawn in One Day, Feb. 9th. The Scheme contains only 6000 Tickets and 2 Prizes of 20,0001. Money, which are on Sale at CARRO,LCS New Office, No.. 19, Coruhill, and his Old Established one, No. 26, Oxford-street. FOR THE SUN MR. EDITOR,— . I regret to find that your zeal in defence of the regular part of the legal pro fession has brought you into trouble. In the first instance, it is certainly the duty of your Cor respondent, the MERCHANT OF BRISTOL, In come forward, and take upon himself the borthen which be cast upon your shoulders. And, should he not have so much honour, the associated Attornies, whose cause you have so strenuously fought, and to whose interests you have devoted so much of your Journal, are, I think, bound in honour to carry you through the business without trouble or eftpence. Not being a Lawyer, Sir, 1 cannot say whether the BRISTOL MERCHANT has written a libel or no. To my plain understanding, it seems only a plain statement ; which, if true, ought to be told ;. and if false, can do nobody any harm. But this has nothing to say to the present question ; which is, that, between them, the BRISTOL MERCHANT and the REGULAR SOLICITORS should take care of you. I am, Sir, Your bumble Servant, unknown, CONSCIENCE. *** We certainly agree with our Correspond ent, that the REGULAR SouciToßs ought reso- Intely to take up the Cause of THE SUN, as the im puted libel was inserted in the course of a corres pondence instituted for the purpose of clearing their Profession from all irregular Practitioners. The Bristol Merchant has afforded us all time in formation necessary in the present stage of the business. TO LINEN DRAPERS AND OTHERS. ANTED for the USE of the HOUSE of CORRECTION, COLD-BATH FIELDS, • Six pieces of Grey Cloth-8 pieces of Check, for Shirts,- 4 pieces of Dowlas-4 pieces of Sh,eting - --1 p i ece of Irish, for Chif► —ti :!,.zen of Handkerchiefs-2 pieces of Flannel— yars of Canwas-121b. of Whitey-brown Thread, No. 22 121 h. of Blue Thread-12 dozen of Yellow Hose-6 dozen of Blue dial-121h. of Yellow Yarn-61h. of Blue ditto—l piece of Blue Baize. Any person wiling to contract, may see Samples at the House of Correction, and semi their Proposal:., sealed op; here they are to attend the Committee personally, on Thursday, the 28th instant, at Om; o'Clock preciselv. Ready money. T. !*IIRIANG. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed on Sat,trdait Niff ht fiIEATRE ROYAL, DfIURY.LANE.—(2Bth time), Brutus: Lu cius Junius, Mr. Kean : Tarquinia, Mrs. W. West. Alter which, The Innkeeper's Daughter. T:fEATItEROYAL,COvENT-GARDEN.—Guylkiannerine Henry Bertram, Mr. Minna ; Me;; 11Ierrilies, Mrs. Yates. After which, Harlequin Nlunchansen. TO corm EsPONDENTS. We are much obliged to A MERCHANT Of BRISTOL, fur his candid Letter, and for the information which it contains. He will see,how•erer, by our forn►erNotes to Correspondents, that an Action has been actually brought against us on ac count of his first Letter.—We shall refer to him again if necessary. For an Answer to the Remarks on Saturday last on the Pro testant Petition (in Ireland), see PROVINCIAL JouRNALs, in our first page this day. CONYERS/6N or ST. PAUL —Holiday at the Bank. Exchequet, East India and South Sea Houses, this day. MAILS. Aantviu.-4 Dublin, , 1 Waterford, nd Jersey, 1 Guernsey 2 Holland, 1 Flanders, 1 Fra nce, 1 Lisbon. a DUK-IWatcrfurd, 1 Guernsey and Jersey, 2Sweden, 3 Ham burgh, 1 Holland. .',HIGH WATER. AT LONDON B RIDGE TOMORROW. ''''rning, 2 minutes after, 1. I Evening, 27 minutes after 1. THE SUN. SOLEM 4QUIS DICERE FALSVM AUDEAT ? LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 181 g. - We received yesterday the Paris Papers of Thursday last, and this morning The Moniteur of Friday, that being the only .Tournal published on Friday, on account of the solemnity of the pre ced:pg day, namely, the Anniversary Service in memory of Loris XVl.—The Chamber of De !jiffies bad a Public Sitting on Wednesday, but nothing of importance occurred. Several peti tions were disposed of, and a grand deputation was appointed to attend the Anniversary Service at Saint . Denis on Thursday. The King held a Council of Ministers on Wed nesday, which sat from one till four. F The accounts froM Madrid of the 7th ins►ant, `mention the remarkable fact of the first Lady of ,Honour to the late Queen having died of a dis order with which she was seized on her return 'from the Escurial, after attending thither the re :mains of ber late Royal Mistress. The patrolling of the police still continued in the Spanish ca pital, and the reason assigned is the increaiie o f the armed bands in the Sierra Morena,which seem to be continually augmentink:. The Royal Vales are at from 80 to 88 per cent. discount. One of the Journals mentions a report (hut it does not: appear disposed to give credit to the rumour), that the publication of a Constitution for Prussia was to take. place on Monday last. The following are extracts from The Moniteur of Friday : " ROYAL ORDONNANCES. " Louis, &c. "The list of our Councillors of State, and Mas ters iu Request in Oidinary, is male out as fit• lows :—, CONIMITTEB OF LEGISLATION• COUNCILLORS OF STATE. MM. The Count Simeon; Royer Collard; the Count 17°r- tails ; the Baron Meunier ; Camille Jordan. MASTERS Or REQUESTS. or MM. The Baron Dun over; De Malarlic ; Ja c q uinot ParOr lune; Pichou ; De Porte. COIkIMITTEE OF RBFECRENCS. COUNCILLORS OF STATE. MM. The Chevalier Anent ; the Chevalier Dela tn alle; the the Baton du Ballainvilliers; the Chevalier Faure; c Baron Durant eh: Marenil ; the Baron Favara a l'Anglade; the Baron Zangiacoini ; D'Argout. MASTERS OF REQUESTS. .fle Froidefond de ; Jauffert; Berard; 116'03 Villefusse ; the Baron de Curnienin ; the "evallec Tarbe ; de Vaux Clavis ; Briere ; COMMITTEE OF THE INTERIOR AND couttiglicB" CnUNCILLORS OF STATE. MM. The Cheralier Coder; the Baron Gerando ; the CO' , d'Hauterive; the Baron Capelle ; the Chevalier AO* de Bisan ; the Baron Hely d'Oissel. d . Councillors of State Extraordinary ; Directors - G enera ra don, having seats and deliberative voices. ot MM. Becquey, Director-General of the idolinistr ation n Bridges, Roads , and Mines; Guizot, Dir ectot-qe : , ral of the Communal mid Departmental Adml stration. . MASTERS 0? REQUESTS. MM. the Baron de Vendeuvre ; the ViscOunt d'AmbraY; " • Baran Chaudruc de Cazatnes ; the Baron de 1a 13°3 0 di6re; the Baton Maurice k the Viscou nt de Sal Chainans ; Patry ; Misbcl. COMMITTEE{ OP FfNANCS. COUNCILLORS or STATE: MM. tie Colonia; the Count Berenger ; the Baron' e Councillors of State Extraordinary, Directors -Gel'era' ridininistration, having seats and deliberative vo ices. rs, MM. de Saint Cricq, Director-General of th e MalittisiGe, tion of Customs ; the Baron Barrairon , Direct°. :05 tieral of the Administration of Registrations D'' 3la , o f and Forests ; Duplaix de Nlezy, Director-Gonerte the Post-otlice.Administration ; the 13aron de 9 ° 3" c ' t Director-General of the Administration o f Indic Taxes. MASTERS OF . 'ogle; 111111. Lechat ; Taboureau; Feutßri EQUESTS er ; Leriehe de Chev e '' . Briscogne; Delaitre; the Could O'Dounel; the 13310 de Freville. COMMITTEE 01P WAR. COUNCIL OF STATC. MM. The Prince de Broglie; LonS the Count Ricard ; the Visc °llll ! de Caul; the Count de Ruty. AIASTERS of RIOQUFSTS• 13 31' M. De Brevannes ; the Barou j'Esuagnal ; Mazola; lyet ; Casaimg. COMMITTEE OF THE MARINE AND COLONIES' COUNCILLORS OF STATE. rerSI V MM. Th Count de Biloven; Forestier ; Julien; Es3l3--" MASTERS OF' REQUESTS. 00 0 ; MM. Antiot ; The Baron Joly de Hen r y; Prevost; Fart the Chevalier de Rigny ; the Baron Pelet. (Signed) cc La igi n ( Dated Jan. •20, 1819. (Countersigned) " The Keeper of the Seal., Mi ti i , ;te Justice, I .c 11. D. SlSTlltg' By an Ordonnance of the same date, the Ning a ppointS to be Masters of Requests Extraurd i ‘ nary, ALM. de Colientt, Honorary President ofthe Cour nor'" ° Nancy; Thirat de Saint Agnan, Director of Budg et " and of the General Accounts of the Ministry of tea r; Delaire, Judicial Agent of the Royal Treasury' Sal randy, Captain on the Staff. " PARIS, JAN. '22.—The anniversary service In memory of Louis XVI. Was celebrated yest e " l : 3f . ts in the Church of the Abbey of St. Denis. 1.1; Princes and Princesses of the Royal F° ll ' ll attended. s . A funeral service was also celebrated i° tb Chapel of the Thuilleries. I °. " At St. Denis, Grand Deputat i ons of m. Chambers, several of the Marshals of Fran c, attended. r i t iet " The Civil, Military, and Judicial Ant" c of the Department of the Seine ass ernbl'd Notre Dante. l ose' t' All the Theatres and places of plitT lic a" molt were closet), as were a l so t h e ' s hops. r fere " A Court istlonrning for 21 day is for the late Queen of WTurtemberg, to engin ) to-morrow, 11 in black, and ten in white. t ai " The reconciliatiou between Talina a° Comedic Franca:zie is certain. Wednesday FIVEt PER CENTS. ..67 f. 90 e' DEFFP.P.F,D STOCK. Of the 22d March, 18)7, F o 1 . 65 c• 22d Sept. 1817, 7s f. 65C -2,.?(1 March, 1818, 7f f. 65c. 22d S'ept. ISIS, 74 1. 75 C. (The Exchang - e Was shut On Thursday•/ EXCHANGE ON LONDON• One Mont It ',3f. ` OO Three SlotilitS NO'. 1541 Charleston Papers to the 26th ult. arrivea morning. (From The Charleston Courier of the 25th.) e i FROM MONTE 'VIDEO.-Arrived the ocliti° l3 ll l o Platishtirg, PARBLOW, in .7.0 days, from IVl°-elf Video. Captain P. has very politely han ded , B o some papers, and a particular list of vessels, si.e. of the Country, &c. A ffairs of the Band a Oriel 01 031 remain nearly in the same state as for I be 3 0 ( six months. The Portuguese Naval force $: Monte Video consisted of one frigate, 51°°. of ‘var, and a number of small vessels. a nte Captains Moms and PORTER of the N,30 now in the Town, and expected ,to proceed. Ame:la Island, where Commodore SLIAW Prtst Port, imps 1 114 1 t tubi e 4 ' 41 t tre, tl it4l4 ty tni, ktl, 1 4 , 11 : e . ffi,seit ( Rai n %‘„ I ki lt, ti,eir ~~~~~~ bite 14111