The Sun. — London, England, 1834-09-05 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 4. (From a Correspondent.) Hopes were entertained last night from some promising !appearances that the wife of Don Carlos would recover, but early this morning it was ascertained that a mortifica tion had commenced internally, and about twenty minutes before twelve to-day she breathed her last. Donna Maria Francisca was a Princess of Portugal, and in the 36th year of her age. She has left three boys to lament her loss, and her husband, though distant, will much feel his bereave ment, as he was greatly attached to her. Her Royal High ness was considered in danger on Thursday last, and every eminent medical advice was called in, but we fear at too ' a te a period ; yet, notwithstanding the eminence of the talent , ca ll e d in, we cannot but blame those about her Royal Highness for not calling in the aid of some well known medical characters, or at least some of the well known first c l ass med i cal talent of 'Winchester, which boasts th e names of Lyford, Mayo, and Wickham. Such a pro "ding would have been satisfactory in a public point of "ew ; but, for a moment, we do not presume to say there Would have been any other result. Her Royal Highness will be buried pro t e n in the Catholic Chapel at Gos port, and will ultimately be removed to a convent she has rounded in Valencia. Arrived this evening the Thalia, 46 guns, Captain "auehope, to receive Admiral P. Campbell's flag as Com 14klersin.Chief o n the Cape of Good Hope station. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 3. COURT-MARTIAL. Comm A t-martial will assemble on Friday on board the rt,atd-ship, .San Jose` for the trial of Captain Lord John Hay Officers of his Majesty's ship Castor, for running down the ant eleon claw off Dover. The Castor is now lying in the iti ,(l, and will probably be brought up the harbour, to remain tat u e ng the i nqu i ry i nto t h e c i rcumstances o f thi s mos t unfortu a„ a nd unaccount a ble accident. It would be idle to make heuniment on the various reports in circulation. The papers ,„7 put Lord John under constraint at Dover at the very 7-fluent he was walking the streets of Devonport, where his Lu_rdship has taken lodgings. It is not likely that any thing •ca e ri the upon the positive merits of the case will transpire be . - t he detail is given in evidence at the Court, which it Is ra ewhat doubtful whether it can be formed on Friday. The Witnesses from the eastward are not yet arrived. Lord John L P Hay 18 said to feel mos t acu t e ly the sad event. Personally his ord s hi_ ttro„ is irre s p ons ibl e , th e s hip being at the time in the that charge of on e o f th e chief officers. It is stated as a dredwiat there were at the time of the accident about one A. P e rsons on th e d ec k of the Castor. At that time (six tea , •) the se would all be more or l ess emp l oye d i n th e i n ternal ' l.B of the ship. It is considered that in the event of an in !lest being held en the dead bodies, a particular verdict would ;reed? the watch of the frigate generally in a most awkward 3i o lea nt% cut Mr. Whiteford (solicitor) is retained as profes tastah° (1 4 4 1 adviser to Lord John Hay. The Deputy . -Judge- Advo manages prosecutions in such cases, is Mr.. George h as e , a gentleman of great ability and experience. He held the office since 1807. COURT CIRCULAR. about . MAjesty left town seven o'clock on Wednesday / t i li ng on his return to Windsor Castle. d fort Bulow, the Prussian Minister, left town on Wednes it he Continent. Paid Visits Althorp a r r ived in town yesterday ; his Lordship 1. ViSitS to Viscount Melbourne and Mr. Secretary Rice. hi. Ar au j o Ribeiro, the Brazilian Minister, and M. de Hum meLauer, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, transacted business Yel,terday at the Foreign-office. 1), 1 ' 1, Hon. Edward Petre, M. P., Colonel Napier, Mr. Pl o itill °re, M. P., Mr. Wray, Receiver to the Metropolitan vor c c: i t:l: l :he Military Secretary to the Commander of the t h e ces, had interviews Yesterday with Mr. Secretary Rice at office. th he Right Hon. Charles Grant had an interview yesterday Vi scount Melbourne at the Treasury. It is asserted that Lord Gardiner will be the new Or d of the Bedchamber, vice the Earl of Gosford. Lord an d Lady Rolle are now at Stevenstone , ne ar Torri ngton, B! in Devonshire, contributing to the comforts of th e "rrolmding peasantry. Viscount Cantalupe, eldest son of Earl Delawarr , t o i l a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, has left town J° in the 3d battalion, at present in Dublin. b b ,, Th e Marqui s o f D ouro , Si r M. Ogilvie, Captain m an. Col one l H are , M a j or C am pb e ll, a nd about fifty other rasze ngers. w ere on b oar d t h e D un d e e steam-ship, which sailed on Wednesday morning at ten o'clock. eII ATsWoRTH.—The Duke of Devonshire is ex teted to arrive at his princely chateau to-morrow, from the Uke of Suthe r l an d's seat in Staffordshire. Grand doings are IPeeted there during this month and the next. t 9 , r eat preparations are making for the next Doneas : ,„ 4 -aces, as t h e S t. L eger attracts muc h not i ce . Th e E ar l of 1- firewood and E ar l Fi tzw illi am w ill enterta i n a success i on of visitors during the races : and their equipages, with those tt other distinguished characters in the county, will add to Inge rna , rnificence of the course. Arrangements have been to keep it clear of low vagrant gamblers, by having a unable ?lumber of constables and of police to attend for the 1/ur Pose. TIIg ROYAL PARK, WEYNioUTII.—This splendid 4 , , , t (lit_ion . to the accommo d at i on o f W e y m outh, which is now in sit iv Negress, will occu py f or ty acres of land most rurally •• Lis ted, forming a contrast on the right to that of the sea It w is r the left, as you enter this fashionable watering-place. iltgrheat,e°stbe planted and laid out in a very tasteful . manner, and serpentine river will pass through it, This will be the improvement to Weymouth, with the exception of eeaplanade that was ever attempted, affording the most A deli ghtful walk ' s occasionally enlivened by a band of music.. to crescent of thirty first-rate houses is also in contemplation, `[tend from the Belvedere to the entrance of the town. p r iV ir• Stanl e y h as wr itt en a letter to the editor of the presto7 z Pilot, in which he states that the correspondence pub twp in many of the newspapers, as having taken place be tocie.4 himself and Lord Grey, is a forgery from beginning to e an that te correspondence in question has not, either c ootsh x P r ess d ion or h substance, the slightest resemblance to any g ad the w hi c h h ave at any t i me p asse d between him the Noble Lord. 011.,o 11 . , petitio n t o t h e King from the holders of Spanish ak bas •already received 2 000 signatures, and will lie open t,;olll:it_her signatures at M. Chavant's, No. 19, Rue de Ch'.try, " 'oe sth instant.—Galignani's Messenger. ROdw ell is composing the music of a new grand Si o - o i s, to be produced at the opening of the Surrey Theatre. • 4irt Miss Inverarity, and some other popular vocalists, are "Red to appea r in it. A tts 4 t n enterpri s i ng merca ntile house of Hobart Town, tir e ' Il k are about t o sen d o ut a vessel to circumnavigate the Pole; in the c entre o f w hi c h i s su pp ose d t o be the South o n .tei * T he ex_pedition will be under the command of Captain •--Netv York Paper. the PA PtltA.—The construction of a railroad across ver,„,: i nlus of P anama h as b een d e t e rmined upon by the Go sore - ‘ ellt of New G rena d a . This is a very important mea ci,d iilvrthether considered with respect to facilitating commer ' "course or promoting the great cause of science. ettg o Nandi, lately lost off the Arklow coast, had a 2 004„ On board valued at 50,000/., of which not more than W °r t. has been saved. tr ete great portion of the inhabitants of Littlehampton ‘. 10 14 44 , e1 ' alarmed on Wednesday night at half-past 10, by a l s li ti t e . s L uaking of the earth, which resembled the shock of an r,i t "e. The same was also experienced at Arundel, and rrret te 01 a remarkable degree at the Castle.—Brighten S T . 14 er ou , 'ANNE'S, WESTAIINSTER.—At a very nu -414 respectabl e ves t r y meeting, held yesterday, for the th e il k of choosing a Sunday evening lecturer, in the room of 4 ". e j: - Harness, the late curate of the parish, the ". Hine, A.M., was unanimously elected. ei gli kj t ‘ 7 , A ;: je A rs s . E OP CRIME.-At the Somerset Assizes '4sl)taii;;P° Barristers attended, only nine or ten of whom soa r; the , At the Bristol Assizes . about forty were pre , briefs were shared among six of the whole. 41 ttilor s a g e of birds has been computed, from different itb c , z , t ;_to be as follows :—Swan, about 200 years ; parrot, turk o , , "; . goose, 80 or more ; eagle, bustard, duck, and slto t, - 1 8 Perl i o4: 8 1 ; of life not known ; peacock, 25 to 28 ; phea hen, 16 t o ° 110 ; crow, 100 or more ; nightingale, 17 to 18 ; RohmPigeon 16 to 17- linnet and canary, IS to 14; 'lel ; IS to 20. " on Abeiltwileender.taking o f cons id era bl e magnitude is going • t0,,, hi1l the Thames below Blackfriars-bridge and Brix - HOuce •, A reservoir has been formed at the back o f t h e th e %vat°. Correcti on at Brixton, which is intended to p urif y t 4 Ying o 7 tt ° l l ve . yed in pipes eighteen inches in diameter. The ast number of hpan pes hands. days . %fe w e ditor of the Ami de la 1 7 11-ite, of Caen, was prisoltsince condemned by default to three months' im seudint and a fin e of 3,000 francs, for p üblishing a n article e °nt stk g p : . ° brin g the King's Governmentinto hatred and area` is (ioeu - ENGLAND.—.The following very cu- Id from a manuscript of Benjamin In, prved ryeey:rib n the British Museum :—" In the year but one of Queen Elizabeth, the whole liar t P li t e lb i l ts i e t ch4 , l , uta. In Lo amounted to no more than 600,000/. 1., to 800,000)/a•rin1633, to i r 2 l ee the eight year of King oo,oooi. • 1660, the 12th of Charles 11., tte ila, u th 12tho'ifr of Queen Anne, to 3,200,0001. ; in 1751, 4 Year of George IL, to nearly 6,000,000/. ; in 1765, the bl~rbett, t _ lIL, to 1 0,300,000/. Thus, from Queen LeincruaUharles IL's time, our public burdens were dou frt:f ton[ f about 60 years, and from thence to the r4oll"llo7tle4ettx:trla7Aosrndlien''lreign, about 54 years, nearly trebled ; that again nearly doubled ; and what is abrutYliwtarhisdslaosft einoo,oormoomusoobturindenthiencnrarearsoewd c unt 6 ,000, 0001. t 14" 14 to upwards from 1751 to 1765." LITERATURE. IMPROVED SYSTEMofENGLISII GRAMMAR. Rutherglen and Co., Glasgow, 1834. Mr. Connell has here packed up much useful in formation in a small compass, and as his grammar is remarkable for the terseness and simplicity of the rules it lays down, we arc by no means surprised to find that it has reached a second edition. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GEOGRAPHY. PARTVH. Illustrated with Maps and Engravings. London : Longman and Co. The present number of this most excellent work is fully equal to the choicest of its predecessors both in interest and illustration. Its contents are Sweden and Norway, Russia in Europe, Greece, Turkey in Europe, Turkey in Asia, and Asia ; of all which countries it ought rather to be called the universal history than the inexpressive denomination which it now bears. Of all cheap publications, this in reality is the cheapest, and of useful ones the most useful. The classification of the various objects of inquiry respecting each country is one of the greatest recommendations in works of this description ; and though we have seen great care bestowed on it in other works, the present is the only one we ever saw which left us nothing to desire to ren der it perfect in that particular. The maps are the only part of it not exactly to our taste. Perhaps the publishers intend the publication of a complete set of coloured maps to harmonise with the work when com pleted. We trust they will. THE MAN of HONOUR and the RECLAIMED. 2 Vols. London, 1834. Bentley. We like the first of these two tales the best. It shows more depth of acquaintance with the world, and, points a more useful moral than the last. The cha racter of Alfred Merton is one of those ever-day ones which are to be found floating, like bubbles, on the surface of polished society. He is a man of fashion, within the strict pale of orthodoxy—of honour, in the polite acceptation of that term—a roue, but so regard ful of forms in the quality of his libertinism, as not to shock the delicate nerves of high life. The novelist has hit off this character in a subtle and pointed style, keeping probability always in view, yet just sufficiently colouring it to awaken interest and curiosity. Let the reader once fairly begin this novel, and we promise him that he will not lay it down till he has reached the word " Finis," at the end of page 271. The ease and grace of the dialogues, in particular, will be sure to hold him in willing chains. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EMINENT ARTISTS. By Jouzsr GOULD. E f fingham Wilson. This is an useful and unpretending compilation. It deserves to be favourably received by those who take an interest in the fine arts, and want opportunity or inclination to avail themselves of the more compre sive works on the same subject. In some few in stances,—why, we know not—the author has omitted to quote his authorities, yet these articles are not more original than any- other parts of the volume. A yet graver objection, if it were worth while to inquire nar rowly into the demerits of so humble a production, is that the compiler has too often been content to draw his information from second-hand sources instead of tracing it up to the fountain-head, where the waters might be expected to flow more purely. For ),stance, it does not say much for the diligence of a biographer, that he seeks for knowledge in the silly, old, gossip ing Gentleman's Magazine, and this more particularly when the subject under notice happens to be a French painter. JOURNAL of a RECENT VISIT to thePRINCIPAL VINEYARDS in SPAIN and FRANCE. By J. Busar, Esq, Smith, Elder and Co. No praise, that we can offer, will go beyond the merit of this useful and interesting publication. To learn how wine might best be made, how the grape might best be cultivated, and to obtain a sufficient quantity of the slips of each sort to spread its growth through New South Wales, was the object of Mr. Busby's tour, and both in Spain and France he appears to have met with the most unbounded liberality. No coldness on the part of the great vine-growers, no attempts to make a. mystery of their system either in the field or at the press, no avaricious denial of the more valuable plants, was any where exhibited ; all was frankness, hospitality, and, it may almost be said, unreserved eagerness to assist in forwarding his pro ject.—" We found him (Domecq) under the verandah of his wine-cellar, and having mentioned the object of our visit,lhe undertook with great readiness to give us all the information we should ask," p. 15. " I uniformly prefaced my request for information with a statement of the object for which it was required," p. 111. ." I mentioned to the steward of M. Ouvrard my disap pointment regarding my letters of introduction, and my having resolved, in consequence, to trust to the good-nature of the proprietor of Clos Vougert for a friendly reception. He replied very heartily that I had done well. He conducted me over the cellars where the wines are made, and subsequently over those where they are kept, explaining the whole process pursued in making the wine, and answering all my questions with great exactness," p. 119. " I had the good for tune to find, in the Botanic Garden at Montpelier, a collection of most of the varieties of vines cultivated in France, and in some other parts of Europe, to the number of 437 ; and, on application to the Professor of Botany, he, with the greatest liberality, permitted me to take cuttings from the whole. I afterwards added to this collection, 133 from the Royal Nursery of the Luxembourg, at Paris," p. 135. It is delight ful to have to record these facts, and we trust the ex ample they afford will not be thrown away upon the better part of the English community. Mr. Busby commences his inquiries with Spain, and, though not immediately connected with the main object of his tour, there are two or three isolated ob servations well worthy of notice. It is generally sup posed that the aloe blooms once only in a hundred years, and hence it has acquired the name of the " Centennial Aloe." This, it seems, is a popular prejudice. The truth is, that, though it is often many years in flowering, yet, when once it has flowered, it dies off for ever. He tells us, too, that olives are biennial in their bearing, the old wood being rotten in the second year, and it being necessary that the young wood should be two years old before it can bear fruit. In going over a vineyard at Xeres, Mr. Busby was much struck by the appearance of a lofty tower. It communicated with the house, and not only com manded an ample view of the grounds, the principal object for which it was built, but of Cadiz and Seville also. We notice this, as being admirably illustrativo of a passage in the Scriptures---" A certain man planted a vineyard, and hedged it round, and having built a tower, he let it out to husbandmen." The productiveness of the vine may be estimated from a few data scattered throughout the volume, and which we here bring together. At Xeres a vineyard yielded 2i to 4 butts per acre ; a second, on the road to iklalaga, yielded 6 to 7 butts ; a thi r d, a t Dijon, 1,000 gallons ; a fourth, in the range of the Cote 3 hogsheads ; a fifth, i n Ch am p agne , d'Or, yielded yielded from 440 to .530 gallons. The wines, of course, differ very much in quality, not less from the nature of the soil or the peculiar species of the vine, than from the manner in which the manufacture is conducted. The greater or less degree of fermenta tion—the admission or exclusion of the stalks and -skins into the vat—and the ripeness or unripeness, soundness or unsoundness of the fruit submitted to the press—all are matters of the first importance, and con tribute largely in forming the character of the wine. As a general rule, while sweet wines may be produced from a variety of soils, the dry arc invariably the growth of calcareous lands. On the subject of pruning, Mr. Busby makes some observations, that the English cultivator may attend to with advantage : " He was gradually renewing his vineyards, the vines having been destroyed in many places by a very destructive insect—a small white worm, with a black head, which eats into the heart of the old stock, and destroys it : vines, he said, which would have been good for 150 years, were thus rendered useless-- they were now 40 years old : he attributed it to injudicious pruning. It was customary to cut off the bearing branch close to the old wood ; by this means the worm either obtained an entrance to the heart of the stock full grown, or was deposited in the egg, on the decayed part, and worked its way in when formed. A footing once obtained, there was no mode of get ting rid of it, and the consequence was that the vines became every year more injured in health, till they were at length in capable of yielding a crop. The system which Don Pedro adopted in pruning was to leave one knot of the branch cut off, which prevented the entrance of the insect into the stock. " His mode of pruning differed from what we had previously observed : instead of leaving only one, or at most two knots on each of three or four branches, as was the case in the other vineyards we had examined, he left one branch with seven or eight knots, and two others with one knot each, pruning them down alternately ; he did not consider that this was burthening a young and healthy vine too much ; he was in the habit of manuring his vineyards, but not each year in the same place. He considered it a disadvantage to have many varieties, and was confining his new plantations to three or four. He said that all the varieties mentioned by Roxas Clemente were to be found in the vineyards of Xeres, but the proprietors were all anxious to make it be believed that their vineyards contained only the most celebrated sorts." The result of all this care is a delicious vintage, if we amid only get it in the unadulterated state. This, however, is rarely the case, and our author goes so far as to affirm, that "no wine can be farther from what may be called a natural wine than the sherry." It is made up from a stock of all kinds and all ages, the good serving to qualify the bad, and the old helping to mellow the new. The peculiar nutty flavour is im parted to it by a dry kind of Xeres, called Amontillado, or Montillado ; this is not, as our author seems to sup pose, the produce of any particular sort of grape, but the result of a more perfect fermentation, by which the saccharine matter is got rid of, and the wine becomes, as it were, dry and clean to the palate. The Mon tillado is also used, being very pale, to reduce the colour of the highly-tinted sherries, as, on the other hand, boiled must is employed to cure the defect of too much paleness. Still less known in this country is the Manzinilla, the vins du pays of the district, a light pleasant beverage, full of mellowness and flavour. But indeed there are many other Spanish wines which Mr. Busby has omitted to notice, as lying out of the . immediate sphere of his travel, and having no charac ter in the mercantile world. These are produced far up in the interior, and from the want of good roads and ready conveyance are seldom much heard of be yond the place of their growth. The French wines form a no less important topic, and, even without reference to the probable effect of Mr. B l4 us o by , s labours on the new and beautiful conti nent of Australia, it is impossible to read his account of them without the liveliest interest. Amongst these the delicious hermitage holds, if not the first place, yet a place amongst the first ranks ; and we cannot forbear indulging in a tolerably long extract, illustra tive of its qualities and the manner of its production:— 44 The hill, though of considerable height, is not of great extent ; the whole front which looks to the south may contain 300 acres, but of this, though the whole is under vines, the lower part is too rich to yield those of the best quality, and a part near the top is too cold to bring its produce to perfect maturity. Even of the middle region, the whole extent does not produce the finest wines. M. Machon, the gentleman whose property we were traversing, pointed out to me the direction in which a belt of calcareous soil crossed the ordinary granitic soil of the mountain, and he said it requires the grapes of these different soils to be mixed, in order to produce the finest quality of Hermitage. I took home a portion of the soil which he pointed out as calcareous, and the degree of effer vescence which took place on my pouring vinegar upon it, in dicated the presence of a considerable portion of lime. It is probably to this peculiarity that the wine of Hermitage owes its superiority, for to all appearance many of the neighbouring hills on both sides of the Rhone present situation s equally fovourable, although the wine produced even upon the best of t'aem never rises to above half the value of the former, and in general not to the fourth of their value. A good deal may also be attributable to the selection of plants. The best red wines of Hermitage are made exclusively from one variety, and the white wines from two varieties ; but in the di str i c i generally a much greater number of varieties are cultivated. The Red Grape is named the Ciras. The white varieties are the Roussette and the Marson. The former yields by itself a dry and spirituous wine, which easily affects the head—the plant produces indifferently—the latter yields a sweeter wine— they are mixed together to produce the best white Hermitage. 44 The labour bestowed upon these vineyards is immense. According to M. Machon, on their first plantation, and every time the plantation is renewed, the soil is dug to the depth of 41 or 5 feet. In most places it is also supported by terraces. in which This was the first place, in the course of my jou rney, I observed any supports given to the vines, but th ese were simply a stake of about five feet in hei g ht to e ach plant, and the shoots were tied toget h e r at its to p ; far fro m the care in dicatedtrelbleis opfertfhoremd in M e edo c vineyards, thi s par t the rudest poss ibl e manner. M. Machon informed m e that the vin es require con of tlie labour il the seemedsmall to con stant attention to keep them in bearing, and whenever a vine is observed to be weak, or to yield a poor crop, it is dug out, and its place supplied by a prouin from the strongest vine in its neighbourhood. I saw this operation commenced and com pleted. A vine which appeared weaker than the rest was dug out, and a trench of about two or two and a half feet deep was opened up between it and the nearest vine in the adjoining row. This vine bore three vigorous shoots ; the stock was carefully bent down till it was laid flat along the bottom of the trench ; a quantity of dung was next put over it, and then some soil ; of the three shoots, the least favourable from its inclination was cut off, one of the two remaining was bent back to the original position of the stock, and there fixed by the covering in of the soil ; the other, in like manner, was bent in .the opposite direction, to fill the place of the plant which was dug out. It is evident that this is a very different process from that of filling a vacant space by bending the shoot of an adjoining vine into the ground till it issues at the place where it is intended to grow, and afterwards, when it has acquired sufficient strength, cutting off its connection with the original ; the stock actually became the root of two dis tinct vines, and their connection is never destroyed. This process had . taken place with a considerable portion of the vines this season, and a portion of them are annually treated thus : Into each trench was put rather a large basket full 'of stable dung, mixed with soil. On my expressing great surprise that dung should be used at all in a vineyard of such reputation, as I had always understood, that though it added to the quantity of the wine, it injured its quality, and often gave it a bad flavour, the.proprietor said, that without frequent and strong manuring the vines would scarcely yield any thing ; and that provided horse or sheep dung only were used, there was no danger of its giving the wine a bad flavour, though the con trary was the case if the dung of cows, and still more that of pigs, were made use of." The vineyards of Champagne and Burgundy are .strikinff examples of what may be effected by human skill and industry in taming the stubbornness or supply ing the deficiencies of nature. Here the shoots are small and puny compared with the vigorous branches of the Spanish vines, yet is the produce much more abundant in France, and no less superior in its quality. The average result is 660 gallons per acre, or even more, and there have been instances of these vineyards yielding so much as 1,100 gallons per acre. This immense quantity is derived from two sorts of plants, the black and white Pineau ; of the former there are two varieties, the plant vert, and the plant dore, the latter of which was not common in the country a few years ago. This, it must be obvious is a very sketchy account, but our limits will admit of no details. entiary!o.l e to a g— raids Pr' . iothint, Mr. I°" r the New c o sbil tile. 71sub9• "-_ 2 les t I 2 dr 1 2 3 3 3 ;wo ! 1 I 2 dr 1. qu 1 1 1 ./ , - a 3 , 4 ' c • rh o o add• 1 ..... 9 1 • d r A O, led.▪ q 1 I • 3 • a f rich• ie. 4,4 c, r ri been" 00 tootli o se° be be b Wi er ' o oodvi'to; 7 from o ft , s thre e stamt b ooe' 4 Row the Dn du n ball. t he or e t f: tens co d bie oniq rs o*, eoel e ,J, big'" ..... slic k ' O f vW 4 1: ta t 130: 0 0 0 „,' lor iv 6". the , d or tot bOteir if N J 1441 f inst e 4 VireP THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1834. AN ORATION ON THE DEATH OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Ella. Delivered at the Russel Institution, on Friday, Augu st 8' 1834, by Joint- A. limaAro. We attended the Russel Institution on the melan choly occasion which called forth the delivery of this oration ; we listened to it with breathless attention ; and the impressions then made on our mind are as fresh as they were the moment we left it. 'We will not attempt to describe the awe-stricken intensity of our feelings, as we approached a hall, hallowed by having formerly re-echoed the voice of the mighty dead, who was on earth one of the hightest " lights of the world" —too suddenly extinguished ; neither will we dwell on the saddened anxiety which we beheld visible in the multitude of fixed faces by which we were surrounded. The orator appeared—bowed lowly and gracefully — opened a manuscript—hemmed twice, after the most courtly fashion—and raising his hand to the precise height prescribed by Walker and most modern rheto ricians, lisped a sentence, the tones of which completely restored us to ourselves. The dream in which we were indulging vanished. We saw—we thought of nothing but the orator, cujus ex ore melle dulcior fittebat °ra tio ! Enough, however, on this head. We may be mistaken in our ideas of the inappropriateness of af fectation on so solemn an occasion. Perhaps out of a lady's boudoir there is no place in which scent boxes appear to such advantage as on the rostrum ; and that the graces borrowed from the dancing-master are never so well displayed as before a public auditory assem bled to weep over a cinder of mortality. But our present business is less with the manner of the orator than with the matter of which his oration was composed. We have never had the pleasure of seeing the illustrious man, to whose angelic virtues in public and private life Mr. Heraud bore true testi mony, and of whose transcendent genius he discoursed in terms which few feel diSposed to controvert ; but we cannot help thinking that many might have been found who would have discovered a more intimate pri vate acquaintance with the great poet and philosopher, and who besides were fully as capable of doing justice to his varied and extensive literary labours. The oration before us, is more taken up with dis cussing the powers of Coleridge as a philosopher than as a poet. The author very properly and judiciously saw, that with respect to Coleridge's poetry, the world had come to a settled opinion upon it, which no re marks of his would be likely to change. But with his philosophy the case was very different, because his works in this vast field of literature are yet un published. We cannot affirm whether the view of Coleridge's philosophy, taken by Mr. Heraud, is, or is not in strict accordance with the spirit of the philosopher's works ; but if so, the world will gain very little by the new system. We subjoin a few ex tracts, upon which we regret the want of sufficient space to make any lengthened remarks : "He contended that systems of philosophy, to be true, must be constructed on a priori grounds, and that experience could only confirm them. The process of right reasoning,' he said, was cathartic ; a cleansing away of all matter de rived through sensuous media, and a proceeding in the Light of Ideas without regarding phenomenal facts—in a word, upon premises altogether and purely ideal, arriving at the appro priate conclusion. Having arrived at which, we should hold our system up, and ask, Doe; Nature echo this ? And Nature will echo it, if care has been taken that all the premises should be included in the deduction. If only half the truth be taken, the conclusion must be erroneous.' " Paley in his " Evidences of Christianity," some where says, that a man who takes up a system of divi nity with a previous opinion that every part must be true, or the whole false, approaches the discussion under great disadvantages. Now, if this be true of a system of divinity alone, which we are willing to main tain it is, the disadvantages under which he labours who approaches the discussion of the truth of a system of philosophy which, according to Coleridge himself, comprehends a wider range of metaphysical and moral objects, must, a priori, be much greater. But are the operations of infinite mind on matter so unvarying and so obvious, and is our knowledge of these operations so intuitive, that we possess the power of constructing systems which Nature shall ever be found to echo in her works ? The vaunted system of Coleridge, as here defined, is neither more nor less than that the Pythagoric and Platonic systems of the pre-subsistence of para digms or models in the Divine Mind of whatever has or can have an existenee in nature ; which paradigms are likewise necessarily existing in the human mind, in consequence of its being an emanation of the.,Supreme Intelligence. These paradigms Plato was wont to call the real realities, of which their external representa tions were but the fleeting forms. Hence the system of ideas and numbers which formed the great study of the ancient Greek philosophers, and which upwards of two thousand years scarcely sufficed to explode. The system here attributed to Coleridge is pre cisely a restoration of the same system of philo sophy, from which the great Bacon delivered the world by his doctrines of induction, partly framed by himself, and partly modelled on the dialectic sciences of Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. It is at once to summon the " winged stymphalidx of the soul" to our assistance, by whom all such systems were ever constructed. But this is clearly to begin at the wrong end ; we must not construct systems in our closets, and then force nature into a conformity with them, but we must rather look to nature, and form our s ystems after her model. The " cathartic process of r ight reasoning" consists not in drawing from our ima gination, but our experience of what we know to be true. Nature is unique in all her works but man ; man is never so with himself, and consequently inca pable of drawing any system from himself which shall b e echoed by Nature. To construct a system which Nature shall echo, we must follow, not precede her, so long as she is not under the controul of human will. Again One'splendid passage, nevertheless, I may not pretermit. s pea king of Nature and Will—in reply to some remark made by the Rev. Edward Irving___ , he said, is a higher Faculty than Reason, but a Will is none that does not act ; and the highest act of a Will, which is the highest form of Being, is to beget Being. There must, therefore, have ever been the voice that said, I Ale—and the Response, Ay, Father, thou art, and lin thee It is the existence of a Will that constitutes Individuality.'" There could be no such thing as created individua lity if there was a cessation of Will whenever there was a cessation of action ; and, therefore, will cannot depend on action for existence. Neither can absolute Being beget Being equally absolute, in the creative or pro creative sense here understood. Pity that those who who attempt the solution of a mystery so profound, so incomprehensible, as that involving the whole question of the Trinitarian and Unitarian controversy, were not contemporary with the learned divines by whom the Homoousion and Homoousian doctrines were discussed in the Councils of Nice and Constantinople. The ex clamations and responses of the " Trinity in Unity, and Unity in Trinity," would sound less profanely in their ears than in those of more sober Christians of the present day. But our main objection to the above exposition of a divine truth is its utter inconclusiveness of proof—its barefaced assumption and false logic. It begins with the assumption of Will, not as a mode, property, or accompaniment of Being, but as absolute Being itself—a proposition rather startling to be made without proof, inasmuch as it goes to destroy what Paley terms the " Personification of God ;" it then goes on, and declares the only essential to the existence of Will, namely Action ; and from this it derives the eternity of co-existent Being I This is altogether very like the " Grant me this, and this, and this" mode of reasoning. The premises here are all assumed : deny any one of them, and the conclusion, ingenious as it may seem, is not worth a rush. Deny the necessity of Action to the constitution of Will, and the whole fabric falls in pieces : and admit it, and you have as good a proof of the eternity of Matter as you have of Omnipotent Mind—yea, a thousand times a better one ; for God (his name be blessed 1) cannot multiply or equal himself in his works. " ' Nature,' he continued, is rather an appetanco to be, than Being itself. Nature is essentially imperfect, and all her tendencies are (so to speak), to supersede herself.' Thus the fin of a fish is a hand, but without the uses, it only serves as a fan ; but there it shows that an imperfection has begun to befell : and which imperfection is removed, more or less, in a higher scale of creatures. Nature is the Opposite to God, and accordingly God can not be seen in Nature; but all things are distinguishable by contrast only ; and, therefore, by means of Nature, the idea of its Opposite may be evolved, which is God. Now God is a Spirit. It is between these two opposites of Spirit and Nature that there is an antagonism, and which, existing in man, explains the principles of his structure.' " History, whether sacred or profane, does not inform us that fishes' fins have undergone any change in their formation since the Deity, on surveying all his works, pronounced them " Very good ;" and we hardly be lieve that naturalists will allow a human hand to be better formed for swimming amid " a world of waters" than the scaly substitute here pronounced imperfect. At all events we are of opinion that in nothing is the imperfection of Nature so little manifest as in her ad mirable adaptation of the structure of every species of creature to its locality, and means of procuring sub sistence. Physically considered, all species of creatures are, of their kind, alike perfect. Some, it is true, are lower in the scale of being than others, but the dif ference manifests order of gradation, not imperfection. Neither is the doctrine of the opposition between God and Nature less liable to be disproved. The antagonism of Spirit and Matter in man, proves no thing, unless we reject the doctrine of the Fall, and its accursed consequences, which was an act of Mind, not of Matter. If all that is corrupt in us is the inevitable result of the disobedience of our first parents, and if that corruption is capable of purification, how can Nature, which ever works the will of God by means of His attributes, be His opposite ? The whole pas sage is an ingenious delusion. The opposite to Nature is not God, but Nonentity. " What Kant's System wanted, that of Coleridge supplies. —Delivered from all these systems, we find Coleridge at last resting in a region of contemplation, equally removed from the Dogmatism of Locke, the Scepticism of Hume, and the Criticism of Kant ;_where, emancipated from the superstition of the senses, he might rejoice in the Vision of Omnipresence, of the Absolute and the Indemonstrable as the ground, the cause and fountain of all demonstration—and in the very con struction of the mind itself, make discovery of the Laws that egulate the phenomena of nature, and fix the limits and ex tend the dominion of Reality throughout the Universe of Being. That a philosophy so sublime, should meet with only discouragement or neglect, was and is a sign of the times, little to the credit of the public judgment." 4 " But not only did Coleridge restore Reality to the material World, but, in an especial manner, was it his delight, to find the Real in the Ideal. With him our ideas of Deity, of the Soul, of Conscience, of Free-will, of a Future State, and the Moral Law, were not only co-essential with the Rational Spirit of Man, but correlated to absolute Realities, which actually exist in regions beyond the bounds of experience and the limits of sense. In conversation, he was accustomed to call these the real Realities—in contradistinction from those of sense, which though real are apprehended mainly as real Appearances. And rightly—for, in comparison with these, whatever reality belongs to the Objects of Sense fades away into nothingness. A beggarly element,' is the element of their reality ! The Mathematician looks in vain for his perfect circle there;—and a machine constructed on pure mathematical principles would fail of its intended purpose—because, for sooth, allowance must be made for friction. And the Natural Philosopher there, is nonplused, because the least and the greatest of things are equally beyond the sphere of his ex periment, and the infinitesimals of existence baffle the keen ness of his observation. And the Moral Philosopher there is yet worse-bested—for he has the Ideas of an absolute Right and Wrong—and what finds he ? For one, a paltry, shuffling Expediency—and for the other, much Suffering and much Sorrow, and more to pity than to condemn. He has an Idea of the Eternal Connexion between Virtue and Happiness, and Vice and Misery—What finds he ? The virtuous man with out the comforts of life, and the wicked flourishing like the green bay-tree 1 And are these the real Realities ? No—no 1 They are but a fugitive stage-play-pageant--or rather—we PASS, in our onward and upward course, and leave them behind us and beneath us, in our progress toward that Ideal State of Being, to the Eternal Realities of which we are fast hasten ing, glad to be soon quit of this weary pilgrimage though a phantom wilderness. " And here I deem it proper to state, that it is precisely at this point, we begin to feel, in contrast with the miserable de ficiency of other systems, the happy plenitude of Coleridge's." In these extracts the orator has given us a glimpse of Coleridge's entire system of philosophy, which to us appears a complete jumble of all the systems ever yet constructed in the world. The ancients, properly speaking, had but two systems ; that of Pythagoras, Plato, Zoroaster, and their followers, who examined all matter metaphysically, and who might be said to test earth by the revelations of heaven ; and the system of Aristotle, which professed to admit nothing as true for which the evidence of the senses could not be obtained. Yet, strange to say, Aristotle, as well as Coleridge, descanted most learnedly on the real realities of things invisible. All later systems of philosophy were modi fications of these ; the most of the works which have gone under that name were neither complete in them selves, nor did they profess to be so. Descartes, Bayle, Voltaire, Rosseau (the latter's civil systems excepted), Bolingbroke, Hume, and Gibbon, con structed no systems of philosophy ; they contented themselves with endeavouring to expose what they termed the falsehood of those which were then held sacred. And the same may be said of Locke, whose " Essays on the Understanding" are confined to proving that all knowledge is, and can only be, acquired through the medium of the senses. This dogma was disputed by Bolingbroke, whose refutation of Locke consisted in asserting that he knew he thought, although thought itself was not an object of which the senses could take cognizance. The shadowy system of Kant is, then, almost the only one which Coleridge had to supersede, and that the world was before-hand with him in doing. We are no believers in the reconciliation of reason with revelation, as promised to us in the unpublished works of Coleridge. We hold such a marvel impos sible 'to man, in a sublunary state ; and we wish all Christian philosophers had been of the same opinion. Revelation would cease to be revelation, were its mys teries within the reach of human capacity ; and no thing has had a greater tendency to make men Athiests than foolish attempts to penetrate the inscrutable coun cils, or discover the sacred essence of the Eternal. The real world found in the ideal by Coleridge is an old discovery, which is treated of at considerable length in the " Parmenides" of Plato. Christians shokild rest content in the blessed hope of being united to God, and of enjoying His glorious presence in another world, satisfied in this with endeavouring to spend their lives in conformity with the precepts of the Gospel. We pass over, as below our notice, the learned orator's attack on modern critics. All who know any thing are aware that critics are not a distinct race from authors, or rather that the majority of them are authors of no mean rank in the literary world. Coleridgeihim self was a critic, as are all the great writers of the day. And as to the castigations which some men of great genius receive at their hands, the world has never yet allowed them to be wholly unmerited. The orator talks of genius being entitled to the worship of c r iti cs when once it establishes its claims to greatness. Now, this is very like saying that a child ought not to be whipt, or rather ought to be treated as of mature age, because its chin will some time or other be graced with a beard, and its shoulder support a musket. We do not ques tion the " Poeta nascitur, non ft" of Horace; but we hold that bards, as well as boys, may be very advan tageously corrected by their seniors. Mr. BURKE'S HISTORY OP THE COMMONERS OF GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.—WC are glad to observe that this publication is proceeding with great regularity in Quarterly Parts, the ith of which has lately appeared. It is a work of great utility and interest. Its researches are cu rious, and the information it supplies touching the gentry of the country is not less worthy of regard than that to which we have hitherto been confined with the higher ranks of the titled peerage and the baronetage. The number of cholera deaths returned in the last weekly bills of mortality reaches to as many as 103, and that precise number makes the exact amount of the increase of deaths during the same period above those of the preceding week. READING.—The Crown land situated at the en trance of the beautiful town of Reading on the right, facing d Lord Stowell's land, and on the high road to Bath, was sold about two years since, in lots, and the purchasers are d n r o n w ws s lay oi lay ing it out and building a square, two crescents , beautiful mansions, all in Bath stone. ./../ Chronicle. and ronicle. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE THIS EVENING. WAR OFFICE, SEPT. 5. Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub-Lieut. G. Tom_ line to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Blackett, who retires ; E. N. Harvey, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tomline, Sept. 5. 3d Regiment of Life Guards—A. Knox, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Marindin, who retires, Sept. 5. Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieut. G. R. Campsie, from half-pay (i4th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice W. Landreth, who exchanges, Sept. 5. loot—Lieut. R. H. Tighe, from half-pay 60th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Edward Wynyard Young ; who exchanges, Sept. t. 11th Foot—Brevet Lieut.-Colonel C. Bisshopp, from the 14th Foot, to be Major, without purchase, vice Love, promoted in the 76th Foot, Sept. 6. 14th Foot—Capt. J. B. Creagh, from the 81st Foot, to be Captain, vice Boyle, appointed to the 85th Foot, Sept.-5 ; Lieut. J. .M‘Dermott to be Captain, without purchase, vice Bisshopp, promoted in the 11th Foot; Ensign H. Ti!. F. Stirke to be Lieu tenant, vice M'Dermott ; Gentleman Cadet E. 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Dorsetshire—Dorchester, Friday, Oct. 31. Devonshire—Exeter and City, Monday, Nov. 3. Devonshire—Plymouth, Wednesday, Nov. 5. Cornwall—Bodmin, Friday, Nov. 7. Somersetshire—Wells, Tuesday, Nov. 11. • Somersetshire—Bath, Thursday, Nov. 13. Somersetshire—City of Bristol, Friday, Nov. 14. Gloucestershire—Gloucesser and City, Monday Nov. 17. Monmouthshire—Monmouth, Wednesday, November 19. Herefordshire—Hereford, Thursday, November 20. Worcestershire—Worcester and City, Saturday, November 22. Oxfordshire--Oxford and City, Monday, November 24. Berkshire—Reading, Wednesday, November 26. At the City of Canterbury, Saturday, November 29. Kent—Doter, Monday December 1. Kent--Maidstone, Wednesday, December 3. Sussex—Horsham, Friday, December 5. MIDLAND CIRCUIT. W. J. LAW, Esq., Commissioner. Hertfordshire—Hertford, Wednesday, Nov. 5. Essex—Chelmsford, Friday, Nov. 7. Essex—Colchester, Saturday, Nov. 8. Suffolk—lpswich, Monday, Nov. 10. Norfolk—Yarmouth, Wednesday, Nov. 12. Norfolk—Norwich and City, Thursday, Nov. 13. Suffolk—Bury St. Edmunds, Saturday, Nov. 15. Cambridgeshire—Cambridge Monday, Nov. 17. Cambridgeshire—Ely, Tuesday, Nov. 18. Norfolk—Lynn, Wednesday, Nov. 19. Northamptonshire—Peterborough, Thursday, Nov. 20. Leicestershire—Leicester, Friday, Nov. 21. Shropshire—Shrewsbury, Monday, Nov. 24. Staffordshire--Stafford, Wednesday, Nov. 26. Warwickshire—Birmingham, Friday, Nov. 28. At the City of Lichfield—Monday, Dec. 1. At the City of Coventry—Tuesday, Dec. 2. Warwickshire—Warwick, Wednesday, Dec. 3. Northamptonshire—Northampton, Saturday, December 6. Huntingdonshire—Huntingdon, Monday, December 8. Bedfordshire—Bedford, Tuesday, December 9. Buckinghamshire—Aylesbury, Wednesday, December 10. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. CHARLES CANFOR, builder, Cottage-grove, Camberwell. WILLIAM PROSSOR, sen., and WILLIAM PROSSER. jun., linen-drapers, Pitfield-street, Hoxton. BANKRUPTS. THOMAS SHADRAKE, Jun., coal-merchant, Hope-wharf, Commercial-road, to surrender Sept. 12, at two, and Oct. 17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Wells, York-terrace, Com mercial-road East.; Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee. WILLIAM ORTON ATTREE, draper,'Newbury, Berkshire, Sept. 11, at one, and Oct. 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple ; Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee. SAMUEL WALKER, ironmaster, Gospel Oak, Staffordshire, Sept. 22, at ten, and Oct. 17, at three, at the Lion Inn, Wolver hampton. Holyoake and Robinson, Wolverhampton; Capes, Ray mond-buildings, Gray's Inn, London. CHARLES WINN, blank-tray-maker, Birmingham, Sept. 17 and Oct. 17, at two, at the Clarendon Hotel, Birmingham. Norton and Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London ; Harrison, Bir mingham. CHARLES INGRAM, currier, Salisbury, B, at six, and Oct. 17, at el e ve n , a t th e Li on I nn , S a li s b ur y. Sept.- Newton, South square, Gray's Inn, London ; Housman, Salisbury. GEORGE BENSON, innkeeper, Liverpool, Sept. 22 and Oct. 17, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Walker, Liverpool; Perkins and Co., London. FRANCIS BONNAFFE, merchant, St. Michael's-alley, Corn hill, Sept. 26, and Oct. 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. JOSHUA ANDREWS, stock-broker, Threadneedle-street, Sept. 0 2, at twelve, and Oct. 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. The following is the official return of the exportation of the precious metals from the port of London from the 22d to the 28th ultimo inelusil e :___. Gold coin to Oporto 1,161 ounce Ditto Hamburgh 1,359 Ditto Lisbon 16,659 Silver coin to ditto 83,660 Ditto Algoa-bay 3OO Ditto Boston Ditto Malta 5,196 This is independent of the exportations from Dover, Ports mouth, Falmouth, and Liverpool. LACONIC LETTER WRITTEN BY BLAKE TO THE ADMIRALTY.—" Please your honors and glory, yesterday met with the French fleet, took, sunk, and burned, as per " THOS. GILL." FEEDING DOGS ON HUMAN FLESH.—Las Casas, speaking of the Spaniards in Jamaica says—'they banged these unfortunates by thirteen, in honour of the thirteen Apostles. I have beheld them throw the Indian infants to their dogs—l have heard them borrow the limb of an human being to feed their dogs, and next day return a quarter to the lender ? margin.—Yours, &c., There is now in the orchard of Mr. Hardwick, of Brislington, an apple-tree in full blossom. STRANGE PIIENONIENON.—There is a pear tree growing in a garden at Manningham, near Bradford, part of which is bearing rich fruit, and the other is in full blossom.... York Courant. - ---- ----- BUNKERS HILL.—In the desperate contest of Bunker's Hill, au anecdote, celebrated in prose and verse, oc curred, for when all the officers and non-commissioned officers of the flankers were knocked down ; when, at this crisis, it a man who so ught no other name, h ere stopp o d . s vi o • a ld s i s e a r id p , re " se F n a t, 11 back, there is n o one to command, " the ol dest forth, exclaiming, " Never retreat, boys, for want of a lea der, country,Kensin while I have a musket to point the way to go, le gitto U sn t i t a ni lllbreL;rd_i t o: e i n s ,m at gh a g f o r l i d en i d n 's th a e t To THE C O BBETTITES.—MaIIy have called Bolt-court to obtain information relative to the p•g ma at decorated with laurel, firmly fixed in horses, and thus carried, slow tAhiethGorpridlierao:.ie.s u l s t march, to Bolton-court, and there fixed up on the front of the h ouse main till a sovereign in gold will ; and there it shall Yo sell for twenty-one pound notes ; and then as soon as we have hoisted the gridiron we will have a dinner, at which we will laugh to scorn all the stupid and malignant beasts that have been abusing me for so many years, I had a right to put up the gridiron long and long a g o, my prophecy having been fulfilled; but I thought I would stop till the finishing stroke came; and now we shall pretty soon have it in one way or another.—Cobbstt's Register.