The Sun. — London, England, 1815-03-06 00:00:00

TUE SUN REXIE%V. LNo. i.. 7 11AP.1.1•74AGNE ; Cr, ne Merck Delirrred.—An Epic Poem, Twenty-fonr Books. By LuctEN BUoNAVARTE, of the Itl.Ji.t..te of rrsulcv, fze. Tranilated by the Itev. S. Bu•r t.Fa, I).D. and the Rev. FBANCIS floDGsoN, A: M.; Quarto, "i•d:: price Two Goineas.—Longman, llurst,Rees, Orme, aad Brown, raternoster-?ow. nbove celebrated Work has just 'issued from tl,e Press, and though we have not had time to peruse it with that attention which would enable us to state an opinion upon its general merits, we imagihe our Readers will rather be gratified by a s':!) , ,ter and less systernapc notice which will have nwrit of being at least as early, than with a postponement to the distance of time which might si it o:gr couveniency. The peculiar connexions and character of the, A.ithor wil!,tesidec:, recommend his Poem to such universal perusal, that auv rental ks from us are Tendered less necessary, and will cause a . few hasty extracts. to he, better relished, than a number of itical suggestions. We observe that the An - thOr, more modest than Hs Translators, styles himself simply " LUCIEN lkosAr.urE, of the•lnstitute of France," as if °HIV emulous of the name of a Scholar ; while they; t'Aioldog perhaps that there is more merit in the ; , ppellatoti of Prince, however acquired,. vire very obtrusive with the title of " Prince of C:o7ixo." Of this we greatly di approve. `The Poem is founded on the Homeric model ; and the dv'nonement is brought about, by a visible miracle, in favour of the' Christians. It might - have been better to achieve the victory ,in their favour by natni al means—courage,. supported .by i9spiration and a good'cause, which should mithe thenmore than a match for their Infidel Oppo nents in the field. But we must abstain from ge nrral observations to introduce two or three ex omples of the I'oem from the lst and 2d Cantos. Picture of a Good tishop. " in WI ISM I#'3 trust, WILFRID with virtues graced, 1 7 . - ovtity his God, Spoleto's See was plated; poor, the dying, Wrtrntr;;; presence blessed; No sufferer ;w a ned, hut Wtisarr; brongl:t, him rest refore his soot'iing voice while terror (lel, The sainted man, in misery's humble shed, . To all the wretched would at once supply Tile gifts of earth, and trea,ures of the sby." Description of the Christian Temple at Rome. ", Here Cunts - r's Apostles sleep: aroind their tomb, Lamps, which with constant bean) disperse the gloon:, Raised on a hundred pilastres of gold, Shed deathless lustre o'er their mortal mould : Pere ceaseless gifts successive pilgrim's bear : neve agates diapered, and marh!es rare, With costly brightness, ttei.r each other shine, And vie to deck this sepulchre divine : The master worts of genius and of art, Condemned of old to hear animpious part Jo vites'w•here Gods fictitious were adored, INO-.v grace thu dwelling of the living Lord. Beneath the nave, and seated to the right, A statue lifts the keys of HeaJen to sight." These are good examples of the feelings of Luc:l;N BuoNAPARTF., who indeed throughout this Poem, appears in the light of an amiable and viigions man. The foliukving passage affords.per haps as strong a plod as . ever was given of the superior purity of the Protestant over the ROMan Catholick faith. We could not tolerate a pro duc:ion so incongruous, and so nearly allied to what we would think blacpherny l las this address put into the mouth of the VirginMAßY, hotwthe Bard imagines he behOids,,encompassed with all the heavenly hosts, attending to the pray ers pat up by the Pope in behalf of the Church, " Oh, thou, my Father, Con, forgive my woe : fear for Rome : 1 dread her impious foe : PENN's race, wham ease and so:tness,cluirm, The Church abandons to the Oaressor's arm: Hear, God all powerful, nor disdain to throw A glance of thine upou the world below: In N.Az.turrlt's Warne, Oh! listen to irly prayer: Oh! by this breast, so !:lessee; as to bear Ti.itie only o s when he vouchsafed to take • forUi cf Nlan: Oh ! fur this - bosotu's sake, Chvek the wit(liAalaw:crs inroad, our allow Sur.3 bentiatli their intpiotis yoke to how." N'Ve iiqnte following lines- to stew that in asstuning the Bees in his state furniture, &c. Buo- N.IrA UTE WM 'apillg CHARLEIIAON% , c Where raised on pqrple ground, and wrought in gold, bees, their sparliling wings unfold :" And the following as a polNical .sentitnent, cu rions fro4nbeing penned on English ground by a Ltt.tlicr of the Usurper. It •is introduced by the los:II:ion Of IciIIg•EGBERT, who came to be Ttinight c:Jl:y :he Frank ' ! Woi.lcl Ova, pcw....e, in.that Monarch's reign, • France w:th mighty on the main! For their first uttiori let m.:r prayers appeal! r that alone thesnifer;:ig win-id can heal." The hint 4;ilOintiull for which we have mon) to- thly F!,01 - mare rcruarkable frotn the circum -s:;,iick.'s of tie IVritcr. CuIAitLE:SIAGNE divorces ADELINDF, for the sake of - Inari - ying ARMELIA. The aCCOII42KIIit: Ili:11 to the of iliay (a sort of I. 4 otir:imwai ), iinel tlrti ,-ttiitactit • of the assembled' people ate thus It.tinttAi :-- " Much had the :11,,,narelt borrol the prie,its would bend, And the proud chariot of the attenl: Rut st..rn and jeabinsi the threo ;an law! And deep in sacred e,onrts the prie:ts withdraw, And low before the altaCs lot are bowed. • Well was their alpieu,e n.aked by the crowd: 'A sullen, taingh , d warmar ettiiies the ear, Fir ;till to thon,Lteji, A`) . 1.1 - :.1s;11e, dear • Her nilptiak, r,ee, revo.ses, they projaidn, And thousand tongue,. .-Ibmi;r....t's name. " Wbai! then is France alwiiioned by the skies ? No more is reverence doe to m4rriage ties? What! du we now of awful Weight divest The words that God's Viecgcrent has ? Avew one. to every loy.:1 Frank endeared, For deeds of Christian virtue we revered. These graced her life, and dignified her throne, Why from on: hearts is their rztuembrunee flown ? A stranger h , dds our Monarch at her nod ! Dread the just wrath of au-avenging God ! * ae it it * * " This foreign b.!auty; this aspiring bride, In triumph seated by the Monarch's side, Forgetting ADEL!NDE, and all her woes, To thought,intrusire bids'her bosom close : The worldly incense, poired on every part From the thronged field, intitNicates her heart: The solemn curse, that bore celestial ire To baud; contrticted by profane desire, Against the right of former marriage ties, Seems rain and powerless to her dazzled eyes : A Sire's ambition wheirus the victim child," &c, It is intpo:;sii);e to 'avoid making the applica tion- of thee lines to BuONAPARTE, JOSEPHINE, and .11ARIA Loui A, Wilo lutist 1111 ye been resent to the Author's mind when -he penned them.— We snail resume this Point. To Lieut.-Gen. GASCOYNE, M. P. for Liverpool. Liverpool, Feb. 28, 1815. Sta—The Public Papers have reported . , that on the 9th ins . t• vhett you presented to the House of COmmons, the Petition from Liverpool against the renewal of the Property Tax, you stated that it was signed by either " all the Inhabitants of tile Town" or " all those who paid the Property Tax, with the exception of 8 6r 10 individuals," and " that it teas more: numerously signed than ,any Petition ever sent from Liverpool." I cannot doubt but you have seen the reports which impute these statements to l you, and from the time that has now elapsed without any ex planation being offered to your Constituents or the Public, they - must conclude the reports were correct';l,therefore, feel myself ;called upon, as an I:thabitant as wee as a Freeman of Liv'crpool, and one too who had the misfortune •to vote for you'when last sent to Parliament, to state, in the most unquaktied nianuer, that these assertions trere without foundation ; that I consider them, in the light they are generally considered here, as a, libel on the public feeling and good sense of a great majority of the inhabitants by whom the Petition in question was most decidedly disapproved, and considered only as a measure meant no embarrassthe Government, without the possibility of any good . or useful purpose being produced by it, notwith standing the praise you thought proper to lavish on its authors. ,Your new Friends and Corr,2;z9ondents may not have deemed it necessary to inform- you what pains were taken to procure names to this Peti tion ; that it was for near three weeks hulas trionSly exhibited in every public ‘ place to invite .signatures ; that names were written without the knowledge ol the parties to whom they belonged ; that many imaginarysignatures were added; many did not belong to Liverpool, and -not a few of tiroie Who - never paid the Tax that with all these • exertions, it was sign'ed .by,only a small propor= tion of the Inhabitants of the town, and not by one fourth part of those who paid the Tax in question. Common report here states the num ber of names to have been under three thousand. Had you examined the Petition before you pre sented it, you woidd•have found that the skins, 42 in number, were very loosely signed, sortie of them only filed in p-trt ; and that -though it - is possible they might be under-rated at 3000, the excess •abOVe that number could not be considera ble. 'Now, Sir, you ought to know, that the po pulation of •Town is estimated to exceed 100,000 ; that; from houses and other buildings alone, about 17,000 py the Propertv Tax ; that near 3060 pay it from Trade and Manufacture only, besides professional men : the respectabi lity, Wealth, intelligence, and influence of those who did not sign this Petition, it . is well known here, are at least,in the same proportion. Yourxecollection seems also to have been sadly at fault, or you must have remembered, amongst other instance, that last ,Summer a Petition was sent from hence, and presented to the House of Commons by your Right lion. Colleagues; pray ing that the existing Corn Laws might not be altered„ which filled 15-1 skins, and 'contained above '20,003 signatures, all sobscribed .in five days ! 1 leave it to you and the Piddie to compare 'these facts with the statements said to have been made by von in the House, and then draw your and their conclusions. I trust I ha re said enou g h to 1.110 ye:the odium so unjustly t hrown upon the '' good, ord, and loyal town or Liw.Tpool,".• , . I;3L 'O.:: 2.4;011'001. DUTCH 2,:A IL. 13Russtns, FEB. 27.—The Prussian troops which lieon the righ.t hanks - of the, Maese, on the side of Namur, Dinant, Condroz, • arid in the city of Leige, t are already making the necessary preparations for their departure ; what was still remaining of the artillery and Military equipages is at this moment filing off towards IVlalmedy, Jaliers, Aix-la-Chapelle, and Cleves. The Prus sian troops which evacuate these countries, will he trucceedcil by Dutch and Belgian from the garri, son of Alacstricht, Hassell, and Namur. The news of this change has made a very agreeable impression at Leige. On the other side the Prus sians are beginning to evacuate ,the fortress of Luxembourg.—(flaarlem Courant, March 4.) If we may credit a report that is spread here, the King of Saxony has refused to accede, as far as lie himself is concerned, to the arrangement relative to Saxony.-(Ora cle, March 2.) • BRUSSELS, MARCH 1.-The Baniturg Gazelle says, that King Frederick Augustus will not con sent to the cession or any partition of Saxony.— (Journal de la Belgi7ur, March 2.) ANTWERP, FEE. 27.—Our city has. celebrated wish joy the union with Holland. The Engl6l.l and Hanoverian troops, 12,000 men, were under arms. The city was illuminated; &c --(Nether - lapd Courant, March 4.) FRENCH PAPERS. VIENNA, FEE. 19.—Next Monday all the troops in this capital and its vicinity will execute some grand manoeuvres on the occasion of Lord Wel lington's arrival. It is remarked, that this MiL niF.ter appears very little in public, but mostly in Russian society. His Imperial Majesty, perfectly recovered from his indisposition, gave a private audience on the 17th to ethe Duke of WellingtOn, who, was pre sented to him by Lord Stewart. The affairs of Saxony being arranged, it is said, the King of Prussia will take the additional title of " Margrave of Lusatia." PAM'S, MARCH 2.—Private letters from'Vienna, of a very authentic description, state, that the affairs of King Murat wear a very gloomy appear ance, and that. in all probability he will be obliged 6 - abdicate the Crown of Naples. It is said, he will be indemnifielelsewhere. The same lefters speak of Prince Ltigene in a way that it appears his interests will be duly attended to by the Cou- (TICSS. Numerous corps of the army have addressed his Alajesty, through the medium of the Minister of War; expr2ssiVe of their ardent wishes to sec a suitable monument erected to the memory of the virtuous but unfortunate Louis XVI. LEG►toRN; FEB. Sovereign of Elba was at first desirous of adding two pav,licins to the neat but small mansion which he inhabited. He afterwards - .marked Oct the foundation of a species of I'al►►ce but all these edifices, like the Palace of the King of Rome;, at Paris, remains only in plan. He has no other guard now than a few Germans and Poles. CATTARO, FEB. B.—There k expected here; from Malta, two regiments of English troops, which made in Holland the campaign of 1814. They are destined to replace the force which forms our garrison, which will then proceed to the in terior of the country. The English %%Till, with the above regiMents, have a force of 12,000 -men in this quarter. Now that the fate of Saxony and Poland is de (sided, the progress of negociations is more free awl unembarrassed.' It is said, that besides the erection-of the Low Countries into a monarchy under the house of Nassau, the province of Lux emburg will be erected into a Duchy, and given to the younger son of the Prince of Orange. This Duchy will form part of the German Confedera tion, and the Duke will be a German Prince. The following, it is understood, will be the bases of this Coffedcratiou for mutual defence against foreign (attack : The Princes to retain their domestic sovereignty and rigllts. The 'common affairs to be managed by a Council of Heads of Circles, in which Austria mid Prussia will have two votes, and Bavaria; Hanover, and Wurtemberg one vote each. This Council to•be permanent, to enjoy the executive power, the right of making war and peace, and that of send ing representatives to Foreign Powers. • The Heads of Circles exercise the powers confided to them only a %landatories of the Confederation, not as Sovereigns. To prevent the safety of Germany from being endangered, ear:ll.°f the Princes who possess no territory out of Germany, engages not to enter separately into any foreign war; nor to tahe-part in any war of this sort, as also not to conclude miry treaty of subsidy or of cession of tro:ips. In the event of German Princes, holding territory out-of-Germany, entering the field, it depends on the Confederation to take part in the war on the proposal of the belligerent patty. The Princes of Germany 'likewise renounce the right of •making ,war on each other, and will submit their. disputes to I he Cmnicil of Heads of Circles, if they cannot be terminated ai;!iitration, or by the decision of the Tribunal of the Con federation. The act of , confederation appoints the establishment of constitutional Slates-General in the dijerent cynntries of Germany and fixes the midimum of their rights. The Princes may augment these rights at their pleasure, and may arrange their representative systems according. to localities; the cha racter of their people, and received usages. The act of confederation grants to every German certain rights which he may erroy without hinderance, viz. tie right of emigrating under certain restrictions, the right of accept jai; civil service in other States, &c. The two last articlas are uet lauwever, obligator on Aus tria cent Pigssia. 0 CORRESPONDENTS, A n•linber of Articles, intended fur publication are ' ,O. nec es city postponed. AtmvEi)-1 France, I Malta, g rid Jersey, , 3 DLit)lit), 4 IVateridrd. Dut;-5 liatitutir,„ll! 2 Guttenburgli. I Otteynsy PRICE OF ST(.7•CKS 'ruts (MY Al TwELvE I) ' cLocK. Bank Stock, • Bank L. Ault. shut 3 per Cent. ►ted. shut India Bonds, Ss. pr. per Cent. Cons. EKcheq. Bills, Is: ss. Pr. 4 per Cent. Cons. shut Omni 31 5 per Cent. Navy Attu. 931 . 1 i Cons. fur April, 6-111 SUGAR.—The average price of Brown or MuscOvad o lf f compute:l from the Returns wade in the week end" March, 1815, is 58s. Cqd. per cwt. • ITIGT I WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE To-moratols_.% Morning, 48.alitnites after I Eveuiw', —minutes aft". TUE SUN. SfthENl (PUS IJICEKE FALSUM ALIDEAT LONDON, .11.111C11 6, 1815. It will be secs from our Naval News, that ship supposed to he 'American, has passed up •Channel under a press of sail ; and rumour say s ' that the President's ratification of the Treaty of Ghent is expected this week. We are, however' rather inclined to coincide with the opinion of i; contemporary, that this document cannot be re : ceived so early as has been anticipated. It is sal that Congress was to be prorogued on the I Oth t January, and convoked again on the 4th ° March, %Viten one third of the Members must be changed under the terms of the Constitution, 311 4 also that the Treaty of Peace, to give it elic cr ' must be ratified not only by the President, but by two thirds of the Senate. Assuming these sta t e ' meats to be correct, we cannot reasonably 511 pose that the ratification will be obtained bete until the middle of April, and from the stipulat i° of time with regard to captures on the Americ3ll o r coast, no commercial shipments can be looked f Until the close of that month, or the commeocr • !went of the following. It is possible, however, that on so extraor ili' nary an occasion the Legislature may be rotor re-assembled ; but even this act would retard th ival of the ratifications beyond the period b e . uerally antiCipated. Many Dutch,and German Papers have reac lo us since Saturday, but their contents are no t ° much moment. The decisions of C ongr ess h av e already given a stimulus to the whole Contin ent ' Troops are every where moving from the quar ters they have. provisionally occupied, , and the pe ° P 5 of every country seem to be promising theinse lb.l a long career of peace and Happiness. The P ig Of SAXONY, it is reported, will not a g ree to the arrangement respecting his late dominions-411, does not !signify much ; justice tempered 'vit mercy haS been done him, and he must s ubmi t ' There is a very long article in these papers vn a paMphlet published at Naples under the s 39 ' tion of MURAT. We have no use for such (W u° theists, and would rather hear of this fellow's tie' thronetnent than of his pretended tights. We have Paris Papers of the 3(1. but the% l. d 0 not contain a single paragraph worthy of tWs tion. 'Tile French Funds coot iuue to rise. 5 per Cents .80 f• 75e. Bank Actions. ..noof.--c° The Corn Bill will be in a Committee the Commons to-night, where we m o st earn est e : w hope the sum speCified in the R e sol u ti on s as a P r/ v ar.' tee:ion to the Agricultural intere s ts will be l° % ' , ed. It is for the good of the country that " s e . interests should be fostered, but this must_be d°ll at a less sacrifice than that of the general wel f3r A sudden revulsion to very low prices, N' t 6 shOuld involve a great proportion of our F ll ar' 6 , 4' and Land-owners in ruin, is as much to be t ' a ' c it cated on account of the labouring class Whicil it would deprive of bread, as any calamity wh ich ,: i. , v s can anticipate. For their sakes, then, as ,„ ey for the sake of the Land-inter es t s a nd the °`* -t . we would give as high a degree of encoura6 -1 .. e , to Agriculture as the N at i o n can a ff o rd t° 51* without destroying its other sources of l'e 3ltil , l • s •• We are convinced th a t s ome rn-gasure is jui LL t pensible for the preservation of this Count'i . f o r it be but one which has due consitkra ‘ t i°ll l q even the prejudices of the p eo pl e , an d it 0 011 tift our warmest support-,with ou t th a t recen" l '", tion we cannot in conscience urge one• p ijora We lock to progressive dn.' 0,,g 5 ti-,n, and to no compariso n %yid) ttl of as 'they - have been durnig the past r r ao distress, ditlieulty, exciton, and elu' u ( f re`' Sheri the - people that this will be t i '` c 4 1(` . 0 cif any projected , legislation, Icf.vc its favour. "•G *if `hi; • ` I J N:1 ar l fti