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LITERARY REVIEW. Toe ANEIS of VIRC;TL. Translated by CHARLE4 SYMMONS, D.D. of Jesus Crolleze, Oxfurd.--itu. *clic videmnr, et in.metliis conatibus mg re Succidimas, non Lingua valet. To proceeed recolArly with our extracts from Dr. SYMNIONS'S Volume, we shall now prrsent to our Readers some of his Noses, which occur in immediate sequence to the subjects of our last citation. As they ate not occupied with verbal or philosophical, hut with popular Criticism. the Notes which we now insert cannot fail, as we persuade ourselves, to be generally acceptable to the reading community. In our subsequent pro greys through this Commentary, we may hAve oc casion to address ourselves more particularly to those who are conversant with learned Criticism, and are pleased with its researches. BvoK VIII. L. IS9.—" From Salamis the Princely train pursued Their devious course, and cold Arcadia view d. " There is something peculiarly pleasing in all this passage, as it revives the past generation, and brings us into immediate fellowship with Priam and Anchises, in the full lustre of their fortunes, and in their prick ot heroic beauty and prowess. Arcadia, a mountainous country iii the m iddl e o f th e pelop o onesiis, is remarkable for the coldness of its atmosphere, with reference to its latitude, and to the general climate ot Greece. From the report of an intelligent and vet arions Modern traveller, Dr. HOLLAND, who speaks from iris own ext,erience, an Arcadian winter may vie, in the intensity ot cold, with a winter on the li ao k s of the Elbe or the Vistula. Fot the infnr tn,ttit.n and entertainment ot my Re titers, I will transcribe the passage in Dr. l-lot.t.AND's narra tive, to which I refer : " After traversing it," (the plain of Tripolizza) " for some distance, the excessive cold, and the impossibility of keeping the trdek, compelled its to stop for tie night at the villat!e of Steno ; where, in a wretched hovel, we huddled, together milli a family of twelve people, over the embers of a wood fire The rofd, ilowtver. was s+►ch, h e%en in this situation we could procure no wainith. At seven the next morning my tiler• mome t er slow! at 18 degrees, and I afterwards lemnit T , ipolizza, that at six &ctu►ck it was as low as 16 degrees of Fahrenheit. We con►inued our way to this city through the snow, actually cre•sitt , _; a considerable stream on horseback over the ice. Arrived at Tripolizza, we obtained a jodEzina in the house of Theodosius, the Greek diagc►u►an to the Pasha of the Morel', which meant have Bern comfort4ble but tot a degree of cold, which neither the construction 01 the Greek Douses, nor the nature of the fuel the Greeks enwl,,y, are at ill fitted to obviate. At 3P. M. this day, the thermometer WAS at 29 degrees, and it continued below the freezing point fur the three socceedith.; days, which we passed in this city, wind tle'ing chiefly from the noir(' and north- It hate been my design to have made an excursion tiom Tripolizza to the site of the At). dent Soait4, which is little more than thirty wiles eistant ; but the snow lay so deeply on the iicervening country, that the route Was deemed in practicable, and no one would c •nsent to at tend us. A Tartar arvived front Patras on the evening of the 29th" (ot January 1813), "so much affected by the frost, that I was obliged to have recourse to active means to save one of his feet In short, tie degree and continuance of the cold were such as I scarcely recollect to have ex perienced in England, and ► his in the very centre at Arcadia."—(llolland's Trarels, p. 426.) " 'Co a country, of whtcli the climate is exposed to tuch a winter as is here desct ibed, well tnight our Poet attic() the cpirl►et of cold ; and bpeak of the "Ircudiez gelidos—fines. L, 3131.—" Thy hand unconquer'd hero! also slew," &c. " "flits beauttitil transition Irom the third to the frst person, has very generally been admired, nod the title imitation of it by NILLTON, its the Even ill! Prayer of ma Fist Patents in Paradise, Leen the subjeist ot = a (pal notice and applause. "Thus at their sh,cly lodge arrired, both stood; lioth turo'd and, tinder open sky, rclor'd The (Sod that mad , - both sky, air, earth, and heaven, Which they beheld; the moom's resplendant globe, Aud starry pole ; -- Ilion also modest the night h:aker omnipotent! and thou the day." B. IV. 1720. " Doctor WARTON, who cites this passage from MturoN, cites another of the sane nature from 4 Poem, Wl'iCll I conceive to he too much neglect ed, the " Leonidas" of GLovEtt.—(iii. 53.) ,‘ If the band Of Orornasdes on precarious life Shed wealth and pleasure, soon the infernal God With wild excess or avarice blast , the Otomasdes! cietory dust give. Dy thee with lime the regal head is crown'd. " In the " Leonidas" are to be town' some bean tirol strains of poetry ; and its author, however lift may he itoks. , overlooked, was no ordinary man. His head was illuminated, and his heart was up tight and large. L. 44/.—" F.ren then the dread religion of the place, With holy hortor struck the peasant race." " To enthrone, from the remotest times, On the summit of the Capitolian Hill a visible divinity, arrayed ni all 'be terrors of the Monarch of the Gu►l+, was a sublime idea, which has been exe cuted as nobly as it was conceived. I never rend the passage without being affected by its awful gnit yk tir . 'rh e darkness ‘vith which VIRGIL has in this place surrounded the majesty of the God, and described as emanating from his iEgis (agitla rig; antern) is productive of the most sublime ef fect.—ln the Holy Scriptures darkness is attri buted as an attendant on the glory of the Al mighty—'• It was dark under his feet." He made his pavillion of dark waters end thick clouds to cover him," &c. &c.---llow nobly Alit.ToN iias acaileri himself of this idea is too ge nerally kno . A ii to require to be pointed out. ." How oft amidst Thick clouds and cai k cloth Heaven's all-ruling Sire, litise to reside ; Alto! with the of (hirkise,s round Curers hi. Ihrunr.—P. 1. iI. 4. c is something pecUliarly sublime and sw t„l ; is t he clippie idea of darkness." P}j N t, LONDON JOIMINALS. TROM MOIINING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. [Morning Chronicle.] A great deal of mystery hangs over the conduct of O'Donoel io the Falai,' of the Cadiz Revolt, and this begins to be expressed in Madiid letters. It is cheer this Cl i f .was in the - secret of an exist ing conspitacylthat had many partizans and one peculiar object. The troops'embarked for Lima, more than a year and half ago, were also in the secret. How have these elements of disaffection been suffered to gain strength ? Though the public has been ioturmed of the circumstances which took plave, the causes which led to them are still involved in great mystery, and possib'y for some time they will remain so, for no one dares to write no the subject from the scene of action. We hale had an opportunity of seeing no less than eight letters from Cadiz, dated up to 16th July, but no details whatever are given.— This shews the dread and consternation that pre vails. They do mention that 2000 men were to he sent to Morino, but still in the language of doubt. " MADRID, JULY IG. 'out will, no doubt, be anxious to learn what has occurred at Cadiz, with such other information as tnlr satisfy those who seek nit the causes and results of events. 'll, in reality, a concerted and well-or ganizt d plan of extensive conspiracy existed, and Was in some Way connected with the revolt among the military at Port St. Nii,ty's, the conduct of O'Donnel is certainly inexpbc , ble, lot he most have been in it, as well as the Officers under his command.- If, on the other hand. he has got this plot up, Ilia ambition is so well known, that he most have d oie it for the sake of obfainiug more hoonors and distinctions. If the conspitacy was among the military, it could ri,t be confined to the tew who were disarmed, the greater part of the expedition ' ary army must he infected. In that case, how could he dare, or rather, of what use would it be, to arrest a small or a given number of persons, when he had at his command no other than im plicated parties If symptoms had been pre viously cyinred, how is it o•Donnel waited so lone., and n110 , %e11 the evil to increase, so as at last to destroy the very object the Government h a d i n view by the assembling of these troops ? Another strange surmise is here afloat, viz. that the measure adopted by the Commander in Chief has arisen out of a wish to secure to himself the command, of the duration of which some donhis beg a n to be entertained, in consetpience of cer tain jealousies, and other things of graver import. For my own part I am greatly rrplexed, and so is that small pottion of the Government lett in the capital. An affair so boisterous and of such unpottance, brought about by a Chief the most immoral, ai.d possessed of no stride virtue except courage, gives rise 0 various conjectures. Ooe thing, hors - ever, is certain, and that is, that the affair is only at the beginning It is only (Me halo to the gland mine that hither.° lots hue') &el. Among the joisonals are, General Cruz Alurceou, the, two 'ate Migneles, Qu roga, Llizizin, and many (Witt- distinguished men. In the 111 , ill time, the King is driaking the wat ers of Sacedon, accompanier! by other Counsellots than Salmon and Campnzano, the byte' of whom you most remember in London, anti who, you most be aware, arc not well suited for such ar duous moments." [British Press] An arrival from India has furnished us with the following account of the energy and activity of S r Thomas Stanoorl 'Lacs, in maintaining the interests of his conwry'against the encroach ments of thy Dutch in the Indian Seas : Extract from a Letter. (heed Prince of Wales's which be returns 'to the seat of his Government, at Fort Marlborough." [The Times.] Accounts have been received. from Venezuela, confirming the defeat of a Spanish force by a leader of the Independents, named Santander. A letter from that Officer to Gen. Bolivar, dated Santiago de Pore, April 15, says— " 1 have just completed the, destruction of the Royalist army, which, in number 3500, came from Santa FE, lor the purpose of joining Gen. Morino in Achagitas. None of them have escaped our arms. All are either dead or prisoners. To the cry of ' Veneer o' morir,' our troops, much infe rior in number, charged with such firmness that nothing could resist them. The artillery which they had in Salinas, and all their arms, baggage, and munitions, have fallen into our hands." A dispatch from the Secretary of State of the Republic of Venezuela to the Plenipotentiary from that State in London, dated Angostura, May 28, which was received with the accounts of the above victory, contains the following particu lars : " At no period has the state of our cause been sn flattet ing as at the present : doubtless within this present year the terrible struggle between despotism and liberty will he terminated. By the accompanying manuscript and printed papers, you «ill learn the complete triumph of Santander over the Spanish army which was marching from Santa 1 7 6. A division of two thousand five hundred men, under General Urdaneta,which com poses part of the auxiliary English army, will disembaik on the coast at the beginning of June, to proceed to Caraccas, while our President Bo livar marches from Varinas, in the direction of that capital; and General Pae7 watches Morillo, who is in Achavnas, on the Apure. The cities of Socorro, Tunja, and Pamplona, have sent to Santander their congratnlat ions on the victory of Pore. That commander now marches to occupy Santa Fe de Bogota. Whelever his army passes, it is received with enthusiam. In a short while I expert to send you most satisfactory accounts of the happy progress of the arms of our republic The British who are in our service do much ho nour to our cause." Adviees from the Cape of Good Hope, dated May 10, were received yesterday. They cow tunnicate information of another irruption of the Csffres, who, by the last accounts, were sup posed to be completely repulsed, to the number at 30,000 men. They had crossed the river which divides their territory from that of the Cape, and were committing the most extensive depredations. Order• had been issued to compel the milit,ry service of the inhabitants of the adjoining dis , and all the Ii ir,es had been put into requisition, in order to equip a portion of them as cavalry, the species of force beSt calculated to repel the attacks of these dastardly but ►mischievous in vaders.—(ltid ) THEATRICAL. REGISTER. Prrformed t a ,t TUEATRE ROYAL, HAYMANKFT.—Tenzing Made Easy : Liti gant, r. Terry; N 11,11) Mixvitt, Mts. T. Hill. Atter which, Killing Nu unit r. iu whxh was addea, Wet Weather. THEATRE ItfiYAl„ ENGLISH OPEI , A HOUSE.—The Blind Boy Edmond, Misi ; Eivina, Mrs. W.S. Chatterley. After One, "I T u 'Three, For, Fire, by i\dvertisewent. '';ll":'o%Ni.ll:ich was added, %Valk for a Wager TO CORRESPONDENTS. The AnuttEss from Mr. FoLt.rrT of Chester came too late for insertion this day, but shall appear to-morrow. *** For PROVINCIAL JOURNALS, see the Last Page. S I'OCKS 'ELI; F. O'CLOCK. Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann..... 70i India Bonds..los. 12s. 9s. pr. Exch. Bills, 9d 2.. 3c. pr. DittoCommercial,24s.29.s.dis. 3i 3i pr. Cons. for Account, 714 ii 71h March 1, 1811. You ate probably aware Of the proceedings of the Dutch,and of their plans to exclude ns nor only from the commerce of the Malayan Arcipelago, but to obstruct our China trade. They had al ready made the noose rapid strides, and not satis fied with deearing themselves sovereigns of all Borneo and the whole of the Islands, were about to become sovereigns of the Eastern Seas, when it fell to he tire duty of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the Lieutenant• Governor of Bencoolen, to check their further progress by the establish merit of a British port to the eastward of Malacca, at Singapore, the ancient maritime capital of the Malays. About three weeks ago, that cab-table Officer bad the satisfaction to make engage ments with the Native Authorities, and to establish a British factory at Singapore, situate in the Straits of Sincapore, and in a position combin ing every advantage. It is only to glance at the map to be convinced of its importance for the protection of our China trade, and for insuring to its a fair participation in the trade of the Eastern Islands. It possesses one of the finest harbours in those seas ; the Dutch never had a factory there, and it promises to become at an early date one of our most valuable positions in India.—The Dutch are terribly annoyed, as this step completely destroys all their plans for our exclusion. They will exert every nerve to injure the success of the establishment ; but if it be only supported from home, its eventual success, and the advantages that must accrue, arc in no way doubt fol. The station is entirelycommercial, and for the protection of our commercial interests, awl if England can negociate,for Baoca, her interests to the eastward may b e considered as adequately pro vided for. Sir T. S. Rallies, to whom his country is indebted for these important services, has been absent from his Govettiment for the last six months, in their eat:cation. Ile has just taken Iris leave of us on his departure for Acheen, on the northern side of Sumatra, to which he is gone as agent of the Governor-General, to settle our political affairs and interests in that quarter, alter THE SUN. MSS QUIS DICEIRE FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1819. We received this morning the .Paris Papers of Sunday last. The following are extracts : " Palm, AuG. I.—The King is entirely reco vered from the effects of the gout. His Majesty received yesterday several Peers and Grand Dig nitaries. " The trial of M. Bauvonx, ex-Professor of the Ecole de Droit, commenced yesterday before the Court of Assizes of the Seine, and is to pro ceed again this day. " An employe in the Ministry for Foreign Af fairs, who set out in June for Rome, with the letters of the Prelates to the Holy Father, and with dispatches from Government, arrived at Paris, en Courier, last Monday. He proceeded immediately to the country-house of the Minis ter, where his Excellency was with his colleagues. He delivered to the Minister the dispatches which he had brought from Rome. It is said they con tain the conclusion of the arrangements which have been for sometime negociaiing. " Yesterrhay the King gave a private audience of half an hour to the Duke de Riche lieu. " M iss Hutchinson was not admitted yesterday into the vresenee of the King, but delivered her Petition lot a commutation of thy punishment of General Sarrazin into the hands of the 1341 d'Anmont, first Gentleman of the Chamber• " The K'ng transacted bulginess vesterdel witia the Marquess DeSSolleg. FIVE PER CENTS. Saturday m it 1. 601. DEFERRED STOCK. Of the 22d March, 1817, • . 91 1. 10C. 22d Sept. 1817, ..... 891. 10c. 24d March, 1818, . 87 1. 10C. 22d Sept. 1818, .85 1. loc. eid March, 1819, " CONSTANTINnELR, JUNE 28..--We Conlin" to experience the greatest th,quiettide respe66l/6 the sanatory sate of the different countries of 1110 Ottoman Empire ; the mortality i% %cry gic 4l st Cairo, Alexandria, and several other imr"l3 " CARLSIII7III3, JULY 24.—The Session of the Chambers is to be closed the 28 h inst. " The marriage of the Margrave Leopold' 17 . i 11ir Future Sovereign, w ish the Princess Sophia ‘"... htlinina or Sweden, Wai solemnized yesterday' " VIBNNA, JULY 21 —The Emperor and Ein ; press of Austria are expected here the ' 2 d ° August. " RASTADT, JULY 25 —1 Prince de Met ter' uich is arrived at Carlsbad, vvi,ere his eery had preceded him The Prii , sia" nister for Foreign Alfrir9, M. de Bernsli ) " c is ills° expected there. The Russian '4 6l Berlin and the Count Munster had both 0 111/4 at Carlsbad." American PHpers have arrived this mnrnilig to the 611) .111!y. (From The Commercial didverlizer, Jtvte 'l9) • Captain CARRAWAY, of tine schooner 'Tenant, from St. Thomas, states, that 3 time before he sailed a small privateer schoi'l ler ' commanded by one Massart, belonging to 1 561".. more, had been taken by an English 50 gun shil) ; and carried into Barbadoes. Th e Fi tst Li e nfen 6li of the privateer, after he was carr i e d on t " )•fa the ship, was tucked up, and had 50 lob" e his bare back, in consequence of the Are; dations of these piratical cruizers oput) °i f distill commerce of the 's. A Danish siliP ° war, hearing of the succ e ss o f t h e E n g rob " P'l3 e of war, went out i n p u r su it o f a sma ll schoy l ' e which lay off Tot tol3, took possessim l' er stratagem, and took het into St. Thomas's• 1.13# look the crew into cife keen;lig ; not I° b ., nut-done by the English, :bey took the s ecolv i '- command within six tiiilei of the place anti iA • tlicte:l sum.naty ptipistion in on him. Extract of a Letter fioin Moak lido), April 26. "Gener.l Aocia, one ot il“rtoPsl principal Oche , who hail hen prisolir l the l'orttigi.ese, ha% made ii „, n 3lo le If Video, collected J numbei to j,Ol, htw, 3 " 1 committing all Kinds of deprethoos .4. I pected the new Constitution t h. gated the 25th May. Awl-lois ti.,(! his ftiett were to share in the Government. A ilechl" li ` ja of War against Pottugal %soukd he immetliatcli made, and the conquest of Monte Video was er petted." EARTHQUAKE AT CARACCAS. bi st ST. THOMAS, MAY 29.—MORRILLO, by t accounts, was in Cal.bc7a, but daily expected Caraccas. This unforti,nate city has again b ee visited by an earthquake it threw down a pub 4 ber of houses. (From. the Freeman's Journal of the sth Jicy.) o f WASHINGTON, JULY 2.—Among a Innlttoi de ic rumours, a report in the Eastern States, th' t (.1 0 PRESIDENT is dead, is thus noticed in The 13°1° Cell tine/ : of A report of the death of the PaEslnstir a the United States, of a fever, in Tennessee, 6 1 ) "' I a gloom over the public mind for a short time pit IVednesday last. On examination, it WWI 0110,1 to be incorrect. We have advices of the 3 d ir° l3l Tennessee, when his health was sound." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM Iit7ENOS “Silgt MAY 14. " We have accounts by way of Chili, th at South Sea Whaler had arrived at Chacabucl from Callao de Lima, bringing the intelligence cl j Vice-Admiral Lord COCHRANE'S having e" tere o the leftr port on the 2.3 d February, during a i lei's j fog, with the squadron under his cotomand , ' 3l immediately opened a brisk fire against the sbir t ping and batteries, which was returned and k e P up tor a couple of hours. The result was , 114 j COCHRANE'S carrying off a guts-boat, and (loin " great darw,ge to the shipping, which he wris 'IP° able to cut ow, 00lo sI g to the chain tasteni" 6 ; He afterwards captured the Spanishll,o,6l) ship Vittoria, !rout Chili to Lima, lade n timber." We have given this day, an Address fron. 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