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Initel>rets, anaspetility titin Tiro Vols. A' 'SAY on the tiIARACTtit and PRAcTICAL WRITINGS of ST. PAUL. • 1y nANNAti MO tE. 'Printed for T; (adell . n . d W. Davies, Strand. Of whom . may he had, by the same Author, A New,Edition - theing the Eighteenth), with Additions, of r urea Dramas; ehlitly intended for Young, Persons ; the so , hjerts taken from thillible. To which is a dded, Sensihi i!,-; an Epistle, price es. in beards.—&Also, New Editioils'of all Mrs. More's alter Works. This Day was published, In One Volumeo2mb. the Third Edition, price ts.botind, of A N ABRIDGMENT of UNIVERSAL HIS -L-A TORY. Adapted to the Use of FAMILIES and SCHOOLS, with appropriate Questions at the End of each Section. Py the Rev. H. I. KNAPP,. A.M. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orrne, and Brown, Pa ternoster-row. '( this abridgment is executed with much judgment, know ledge, and propriety;--a due sense of proportion is of)-* served; the details expand as the events become itoportant, and a morality religiously tolerant and politically passive per vatlet the reflectioris."—Monthly Review, Nov. 1810. THE SUN -REVIEW. (No. LXIII.) YOrTICAG VACARIES ;Confaining an Ode to We, a liackney'd Critiek ; Low Ambition, or the Life and Death of Mr. 1)aw; The Lady of the Wreck, or Castle Blarsleygig; Tao Par sons, or the Talc of a Shirand Vagaries Vindicated, ad dressed to the Reviewers, by George cotHwi, the Yoringer, ectEdition, .12mo. pp. 217, price 10s. Gd.; Longman, Hurst, Rces,.Orine, and Brown. These Vagaries have already so cotnpletelv run the gauntlet of criticistnthrough Reviews of every size, disposition, and denomination ; have been so peeled, and flayed, and - plastered, that it would be a work of superorogution to notice t!.ein bore, were it not. for the 'pledge we have given, tairly and eankii:ily to delivvr otir opinion erei-y NVork ‘vhich is transmittal to its for that pnrp os ,. iota also hove been induc;fd to direct atten tio to these Poems, were it for no other rea son ,than t' state, that this new 1 7 4:lition thew combines Mr. CoLMAN's tiro last pubiications, and is of dimensions and price more within the bounli of hottest hook-making andino. iterate pnr thase than its bulky predecessors, whose sub— stance it fully cow:1.1;13. Of the Poems themselves Arc can have little to s 3 y. All the ►rorld, Ave :believe, has read them, and ere:, the scverest critics have buen compelled by their humour to " grin horrible a ghastly *mile," in the nilikt of their most querulous lee finings. We arc no apologists for any freakish aberrations from pare and 11:01"iii cterTney, or for the furgerfhluess. decorum which sometimes pL:sys like a light cln‘til over the starry gallaxv COLUAZei wit, and - farces - zto. regret that he, whose limey can command . the br:ghtest ornaments of the Colnic Alusc, should - descend to that species of jocularity which is so facile and low, that the hunifilest genius is competent to exCdicure in its pursuit. But tiact'e is viCli a; t u t of natura►l.tuirtj, such a vciu of rich bunion'. in these productions,. that arc cannot l)( cynical C1101q..,11' to s.iy - one wor:i in disapprobation of their Ati . fhor; far less - to dwell with inrilignant pleasure on lliserrors: Few arc tl;t: works of this C1.45S teat Will bear a second examination. Utitler the it:tine of light writing, they are Composed wi; lima an effort, and vnder_the nlon'Of light reading, perused withi m q a thought. Tber.d it no mind in their creation, and they make. no impression upon the - mind. Not, 'so- these whimsical tales. Their very ad litiltms •ore ration illy entertaining, and upon a reperusai f - ilietn we discover 'a number of beauties which bad escaped us before. - We are delighted with the . . f 'of imagination and richness of native hu mour which they exhibit, and are provoked to laugh , tuilens miens', at their happy .satirical sallies and lu dicrous illustrations. Should one of the wanton "freaks of the Muse, to which we have allUded, as not so becoming as the Virgin manners of Par tostiis sanction, offend us for a moment, ire spt;edily forget the Lapse in some brilliant play of pirit, which flashes before us, and, like an ignis /fauns, leads us far away frt;ns the beAten track. It may, it is true, beguile us into some quagmire, but again soon dances before our eyes in dazzling corruscafions, and never ultimately leaves us in the dark slough of despond.. It world be impertinent to enter into any de tail, or repeat . any examplars from ,these we:l - poems. We shall, therjore, close our brief renunks with expressing hope that we may ( as we undert.tand ►s probable) very shortly have . it in our power to oar our s'entintentl ►►pon a new publication trout the same able pen. It is t , inde e d,. 'much to be lamented drat the situation Of .Mr. has not hcen tkf that happy n a t ure as to permit the full rind free exereie'of his great talents. It fs*griovuus drawback tra the pnt►lic amusement, and may even be quoted ns a natinn►ll misfortune, that a num possessed his wit ~ Ind genius should he so Inn;••ii enchained hy Ciretl:llst:itlecs, bc imolde• to cxemise them to Ficase atld Country, Vila/ 1:211 15 A: 111 D DZI ISI We bad .trot , roow 1) - efore this tiny to ins' rt th'e following article,. which the regret, As it relates to a thbjett which has'attractcd mitch notice, atul is a . topie of general conversation Many erroneous ideas (says a ,Correspoudent) appear to prevail with regard - to the new esta blishment of the Ordeer of the Bath. Some _persons imagine, that the Knights , Grand Crosses are newly created, as well as the Knights Commanders. But, in fact, there already ex isted sixty Knights of the liath, and twt.,lve only art now added. Objectiotis are raised to the preced . enZ.e which is given to the Knights Commanders before the ordinary Knights of this kingdom—and to the Compatdons before all .other Esquires. But the declaration of this precedence t 5 tt mere form. — It will be found in the old tables - of precedency, that all Knights of the Bath take place (by right) Of the Knights Bacliehirsots.,they are styled; and Esquires of the Bath precede all Esquires, except those '' of the King's body." Thcohjections upon this head lutist be reduced, therefore, to ;he question, how far it may have been proper to en large the Order of the Bath, and to molel it into a military order sufficiently extensive to give dis tinction to p;tst services, and to serve as an incite ment to exertions ill future wits, which :nay enm hate the gtorions achiyvements we have latelyiwit "uessed, in the tremendous conflict tvl:ich is just terminated, .Briiish mins have bee:t raised to, 0 d e greeof glory unknown since the days at We understaml tie. present- institution to have hail in view the late tear only, and to b e intended to distinguish those lairds who bare 'given their zealous servo ('5 it) t h e S7oe s : since the rupture of the Peace of Auden;. ‘Vtioever looks back to the giganticpowy r by ,chichi this kingi:ozn tnynac,ell in 1503, an:f valet:3s that we then possesed icia:Tiv the outline of a regular army, must Gil ¶isioiii.hed at the devotion am; exert ions by which SO great a change has. been wrought in our military strength, mid we may venture to add,' our inifit-try repotation. in this war, every colony which our enemies possessed in,both he mispheres has yielded to the British arms. Sicily, scarcely separat ed from the empit c of Napoleon by, the narrow channel of Messina., has been :}rutected by the Engiish forces thiriog nine years. The tii umplis which attended our armies in Portugal, in' Spain, and finally in France itself, are tut; deeply eograven in the hearts of Englislimen to require enumeration ; but let it be remembered, that in every iyalle in whicicthe British forces contended, through the seven immortal campaigns of the Spa nisb struggle,----24 every one our brave armies were 'Vietctriu is If our Navy bas drawn l ess o f t h e pu b lic aften tion daring the List war, it has been because their former victm ;es had .nearly swept t he sea of every r i va l . t o ISOS, I'monaparte, by great eXPrtiohst w as . abk ;(1 sues! Out al formidable fleet. One bat tle, Coe immortal day of Jra'faigar, annihilated th e n a v a l powers of France and Spain ; and since that' day no general victory has been Obtained. by our fleets,simply because our enemies dared nut to.‘eivere near them. 'ln the outset of such an institution as the pre sent, some lino must be laid down. If the ho nours of the Order are to be conferred as the re ward olthosc services wlticl► arc suppose►{ to have contributed mainly to the great successes by which the last war has been distinguished, no Officer who has nut enjoyed the' opportunities of render ing signai cervices since 1803, ouglit to share in them: lionourS ; nor ought the many brave and meritorions . ollicers who have fought and bled in the wars of the 'American and French revohitions, to con Sider themselves as being neglected. There is a point at which all such institutions must com mence ; and the best epoch . which Government could determine upon is, undoubtedly, that which has been marked by the highest degree of 'military glory. W e understand, that in order to avoid the in convenience and the imputations which might have followed an arbitrary selection of ()Meets, certain regulations were laid down previous to the nomination ; so that, however high the rank, orgreat the interest ot stn individual might be, he Could not be eligible as a Member of the Order unless-his servi%ts.brought him within the rules. The line adopted by the Admiralty has nut come to .our knowledge ; but we understand that eighty Naval Officers . were to be recommended .for the dignity ot Kltights Commanders by the Lords of the Admiralty. .One hundred ()Ulcers of the Army were to be nominated for' the same 1101)0111. ; the proportion of these numbers being nearly the same as the proportion' which the Cement! and Field Officers of the Land Forces bear to the Flag Pfficers tln.l Post Captains of the' Navy. Th e regulations obser ve & i n 'regard to the Knights Commanders who were taken front the Army are understood to have been as follows : Ist. Every (Mice..., not being below the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, who shall have received medals, or other badges of distinction, on account of his conspicuou s condnet in not less than jive dif ferent battles, shall be admitted as a Knight Coiu 'Dander of the Bath.- Under this first regulation, we understand that no less than severity Oilicers became entitled at once to the honours'of the second class. It was next laid down that the thirty Commanders who were to complete the intended number, should all be General Officeus ;...--;that no Ciencral Officer .shoultt be eligible who had not received at least one in'edal onuccount of distinguished conduct in action with the enemy ;, or h ave commanded in chief a large•body ot troor'in a successful action against the enemy ; or lime exercised during two years tn.c of the great military governments uhroad ; or h:rve - filled during the same time the high situations ot• Adjiitant o r Qw,rter-Alaster- General to the whole . Army, or of Lieutenant- General of the Ordnanc e . We are not sutiiciently informed as to the regti h;tions by which the selecti on of the Companions of the o:'fier will be limited ; but should they come to our knowledge, we shall lay them befoie the Public. While speaking of the Co:np'anons, however, five n(u•t observe, that several of the public prints .I.ravc adopted, very erroneously, an idea that the LO NDO N. .7' r N iIY 181 5, There are no arriali .front abroad to-day, nor have we seen a Foreign PAper, but' the Morning Chronicle, which, with- the -exception of a let ter from Italy (Ravenna), is as. dull and stupid as usual. - • . In onr last page will he foam! the spirited Ad dress of CnntsTortWs Council General of Hayti, it) conscquenee of the Letter from the French Commissioner LAVAISR, to which we alluded in 1:11E SUN of the 50 instant. It fully merits the character we then INSto,ved upon it. Mr. PELTIER, in his -fazbigu, has published Mon. LA;• VAISSE'S C9TreSrlldellee both will CHRISTOPIIE and PisTros, for svi)i,ch we shall endeavour to find space to-morrow. After the communica tion of the former to CHEI3TOMIE'3 Senate, Cotmt LutoNAnn read to the Council tie pam phlet of one H. HENRY, printed at Jamaica, and entitled, " Considerations Addressed to the Inha bitants of St. Domingo on their present state, and the Fate that may be presumed to await them." The reading being terminated, his Majesty said, " I leave it to the wkdom of the Council-General of the nation, to take the measures and resoluti o n, sthich it may deem accessary for the •fl afcty of our country. The result of its deliberations, provided it do not compromise our honour and the interests of tke Ilaytian people, shall he the invaria ble rule of our conduct." iIisMAJ.EsTi• then retired amidst acclamations of Vice le Roi ! The Council having been" then constituted under ene . Presidenry of the Prince de LtmrsE, Minister of War and Marine, the Count de la TAsTR, Minister of Finance, officiating, as Vice-President, and Count ENNERY and Baron DEssAuxs as Secretaries, .0)6 Address we have copied was unanimously agreed to. The exorbitant price at which Sugars are now Sold. seems to keep the Porter Brewers, Flour Factors, Coal Merchants, and ►ither monopolists . incouutenance. Till within these few weeks we had all the Sugar Islands in the world, and yet the produce of these islands is infinitely dearer in England than upon the Continent : we speak with a perfect reference to the amount of Drawback on re-exportation. Teas are also, high, though not so disproportioned to their, real value, and we subjoin a statement of the• quantity of that com modity which the 'East India Direetors have re solved to put up at their next sale, ,not only as a curious commercial .document, but in the hope, that in this, as in every other article of consul - 1)- tion, the Plenty may lead to Peace Prices. Bohm Cungo and Campo 5,350,000 Pekoe and Souchong Single anti 'FFankay • klysuu Skin . .230,000 'lb s. 7,100,000 We twee received a Note, stating that the mar riage of Mrs. PERcF.v.O Was to take place this morning, and mention it, therefore, merely as - a current report, though We shall continue to be firmly persuaded of its falsehood till the fact is notified from unquestionable authority. While the Navy are paying their tribute a gra titude to the meroory.of the late Lord NI ELv his Soo, the present First Lord of the Admiralty, treading in his footsePF, and followi:Ig ex atiple, is labouring in every laudable way to pro mote IN welfare. We copy the following, which we believe to be correct, front a Morning - Taper : ``.A great tulval promotion will very s-hortly take pla::e in the class of MilAipmen Mas- s 'C 5 C T V C' merit; rioUsly fluting the greater part of the lasi war. The promotion will be regulated entirely by the merits of the parties; Uninfluenced by either favour 1: - .1ffection, and Will do great credit to the Lords of the Admil•altit." Among the individuals most obrAiCiti's to the Men' is, if we rimy judge from the incessant vi tuperation of their favomed Journal, are Mr. CANNitiGs Mr—WELLESLEY POLE * and Mr. flus- Ki Fs ' lc . Were it possible that any tlfi , q; party politics could surpi ize us, , we sbould nished indeed at the bitter animosity displayed against these three Gentlemen. They have 011 Leen. in'Oce, and no man ever heard . a whisPer to.their discredit., so clear .have they stood in the opinions of a censorious world : from their rank in society, their prirate lives are also in a greilt measure public, and it would rl7zlc the Morniiig Chronivle, with all its malice, to name ',tree liwil more estinthble, or more estiemed in evely rehttion. then have they done to be drJgged forth by an impertivent IN - t.wsi>lper, as tic butt for its animadversions ; What i 3 their offence that they are to be evermore exp s wcd to the calumnies and falsehoods of a worthless rkirty . ? One sentence will explain the enigma —=they ark men of great abilities, of unimpeached integrity; and of loyal and patriotic principles. They a!6 inen vtlt' have served, and are likely to serve their Country . ; and therefore, are they obnoxious to a Faction which hai nothing in common with them. • Dean SWIFT has indeed told us, that we may always know the cleverest men by the number f knaves and fools who abuse them. Mr. CANNING'S appointment had pretty. well served its day : upon that subject, misrepresenta-. tion and slander were worn thread-bare, and the name of this Gentleman (emblazoned as it is with all the honours of literary fame and unrivalled eloquence) became stale in the contemptible re , . petitions of a despicable cabal. Hoping that the refutation of their lies are forgotten, they have. ventured to revive the subject : they have "advices" from Lisbon, describing the conduct of the A Tit bassador, and the effect it has produced, though it is a known fact, and we pledge our character against their's on the issue, that there have been no accounts of either of these matters from Lisbon. Mr.CAtkr- , NlNG'$ most intimate friends have barely heard- of his arrival, and being confined with gout, when the Forger of Foreign correspondence for the Chro nicle narrates the proceedings and effect of his diplomacy. So much for the veracity of this Print, whose rank impositions area disgrace. to • the British Press. Mr. WELLESLEY POLE is guilty of a still more heinous crime against the Faction of the Talents. Mr. CANNING is only the Friend ; die is the Bro ther of the Duke of WELLINGTON. Independent of his other effences ; of his having faithfully, zealously, and ably discharged"- the duties of Secretary for Ireland ; and of his firm and . manly conduct during the last short quPstianing Sitting of Parliament ; he has to answer for t.he horrid delinquency of family connexion.— The blessed Patty in Parliament, , and their faithful Organ in . the Press dare not now, as iu days of yore, arraign Sir ARTHUR WELLESLRY, Or the Earl of WELtatloTol4.:---the country \Olt not endure to hear its glorious Hero slandered. As long as:they dust they railed against him, nay even since he has been crowned with the inunor tal chaplet of complete victory front the begin ning .to the end of his career Ifforniag Chronicle has promised the Public a work by a " General Officer," to spew that the catnpaigns . which delivered Portugal, Spain, and the third part of France, were ignorantly conducted, anti with an useless waste of blood ! (Why . does not the basc wretch whd penned this pledge, redeem it 1;) But WELLINGTON is above the reach of the shafts cif calumny : except a hint to assassinate him in Paris, he is beyond the malice of those who hate him most. These excellent subjects must therefore .try to revenge themselves on those nearest and dearest to him, and how nobly is this done with. calling his brother " Mat of the Mint," and other such exquisite pieces of wit • .Two or three dirty falsehoods, and two or three bad puns, are solacing to malevolencei---mueb good may they do their authors. • As for Mr. HusussoN we have nothing to sac,' in his defence,. He has no relationship with the Saviour of the Peninsula to plead in exculpation ; though we . believe he too is one of the old (no t early) friends of that truly Noble Man. He is , moreover, convicted of being one of the first Fie nanciers in the Empire. He-is the person unde r whose authority the Talents sheltered then selve s upon several important points which they wrough t into their ribaldry about the Bullion Questio n ' 2nd other subjects. of the same nature ; and tb e/1 witb / he was even • with them, what be lI9W ; - Or 7 1r 11 , 1 1 11 t'lN•it are TO " 181115 w;eli r. the iiatict t_:ros . ses all'll the n►►i4 ta , :t is, that the rmnvpaltiihui will rece% . e no t rtie whatever ; and if n Colonel or a Lieutiinant- Colotn-1, after Iwint7 IVotnin:fteA to thk the Bath, shou'Ol 11 , 111-eoont at A race or an assize before ilte .of the licit:lll)66'ring : zquires (a fearful e, il, Which one of our brother iournAists contempLite with a laudable hc.rror), it will b e no more tiuso 'MI:a Military or that rank have been in tl:c of assumine: l'ereto•;. fort!; whil.e, if at any time a Captain or a ,'Subal tern should distinairkh Itimst-If so very roiliarly as to he considvrerl worth.: of aceeinig . thrse ho nours, there whahl he (we art peratviled) very few Poitish Squires who w o :dd mint ykla the Pa s with pleasure to such ;lre-einineitt merit. WEDNES'D.r,I'FIE I,OTTERV IIEf4INS.—THE viits - t"ncKE DR.; v N P}t ABOVE 1, 9 i WILL ItE(EiVE L.t0,0 , 1(3 IN .-ki)1)I1'ION AND :JAY PROVE ,‘A OF .L.zo,o11). Guernsev:md 1 1)^11,1in, 1 Waterford. I)uc-1 Fra Lis!)ott, 1 Holland, ' PRICE OF SIC Z7r:.S 'ruts DAV Batik Stock, 251 ' ;;art!: L. A. 3,1. i 6 .1 3 rer Ctut. 11,1, r; - '~T 4 1,11;q11,70:, 20 , . 193. pr. 3 pet Cent. Cons. • • Exowt t . 6,. pr. 4 per Cent. Cons. 3_0,11 per Cent. .Naer-Inn. Coos. for :\c.!; n --.u.:-n...___ 1J (IJ W. 1 1 . 1 7!!. AT 1. , )`;1) , )N Ili; f:)1;V:TO-N101:110W. Mit; itinz,B illi:tates atter 4. 1 Evvi)iiig, tiiiitutes alter 4. ads.voryerra 11 3 1-1 ;4 1 ,_„. 1 • s•II.EM VVIS I , irEltE AI , ? I