The Sun. — London, England, 1821-10-27 00:00:00

FOR EIGN IN'VELLIGENCE. PARIS, OCT. 2-I.—The King transacted busi ness yesterday with the Duke de Richelieu. tlis Majesty has sent the cordon bleu of the late Cardinal de Perigord to his nephew, the Prince de Chalais. Count Simeon, Minister of the. Interior, has be6n created a Peer of France. It is said that the Abb6 Duke de Montesquieu, Peer of France, will succeed Cardinal de Peri gord in the office of Grand Almoner of the King. The arrival of the King of England is again spoken of. • It is said the Marquis of Londonderry is ex pected at Paris in a few days, as also General WoronzolT, who is at present in London. The Minister of the Interior has - directed that French ships coming from the Spanish ports in the Mediterraneanand on ,the shores of the At lantic, from Gibraltar to the Portuguese coast, shalt in future he'admitted only into the pprts of L'Orient and St. Mato, where they are to per form quarantine. . There has passed through Lyons, within these few. days, a certain, number of officers and sol diers of all ranks, mostly foreigners, who are re pairing to Marseilles, in the intention of embark . .. • ing for Greece. In this number, we -remarked . several officers, leaving the Guards of .Prussia, and belonging to the first families of that king dom. [Here there is a-blank for a passage struck out.by the Censor.] These [another blank] of ficer's affirmed, that in Germany, as in Prussia, there is a general enthusiasm for the cause of the •C•bris,tiani of the East, and that the want ofithe necessary funds fora very long and very expen sive journey, and the manifest opposition of se veral Governments, are- the only causes which prevent the departure of a great number of indi viduals ; that nevertheless the number of those who have set out on this honourable destination is already very great; and that every day new reinforcements continue to take their departure. —(Journal de- Lion, quoted by the Journal des Debuts.) • FRENCII FUNDS. Oct. 23, Five per Cents. Bank Stock 1590 f. c. . VIENNA, OcT..l3.—The Porte is very uneasy on account of the temper • shown by the Asiatic troops. Some divisions of this force who were ordered to proceed to the Danube, have refused to march, and persist in returning to Asia. Their officers have used every persuasion, and have promised large rewards to induce them to march, hut their success its very. doubtful ; ; at all events .it - will be difficult to retain them as soon as the winter sets in. • According to the;.Jatest. accounts -received from _Moldavia, , the strong fortress of Seiku (near Nyanvz) into ,‘ hick the remains of the Insurzents- had thrown themselves with their two:captains, Jordachi and Farmacki, was taken by -storm on the„2lth of September, after a . terribl e bornbardmept of several days, by the Turkish troops, under the command of Salih Pacha, and all the—insurgents in it (chielly,Al - put to the swordilwith the exception of the two Captains, aboxemnentioned, who were sent prisoners to Constantinople. The fury of the Janissaries, inflamed by the obstinate resist ince of the Insurgents, sacrificed on this occasion the innocent with the guilty. Even the monks in the convent were not spared, but several of them were killed without mercy, which cruel treatment so much alarmed their brethren in the neighbouring convents, that they all left their abode's and sought safety in flight. Two hun dred of them bave arrived on the Austrian fron tiers, where, they have found an asylum and pro tection. By the taking of this convent the last. remains of the Insurgents are destroyed except a . vvry few, who, being separated from_the main body at the time of its being .blockaded, are wandering about on the frontiers -of the, Buckowina ; and it is, therefore, to be hoped., that all these horrors will cease,,and tranquillity and order be restored to those unhappy provinces. The accounts which we have received on the other side from the Morea (by way of Zante) are equally horrible. Besides - Napoli di Mal sosia, Navarino had likewise been obliged by famine to capitulate, before the arrival of the Turkish fleet, to the Greek Insur4ents, who granted a capitulation to the Turkish garrison's ; but at the end Of three days, when the Turks had laid down [heir arms, and • were without• de - fence ip the, power of the Greeks, the latter had treacilerousty broken the capitulation and mas sacred all the Turks in the most babarous man .l4or in cold blood. - AUGS/WRG, OCT. 18.—(Extract of a private Letter.),—We have this, moment received the following news The Emperor Alexander re viewed, in the beginning of October,^all his troops on ; the right bank of the . Dwina. They went through theirmanucenvres with great pre cision, more particularly, the regiments of the guards. The Emperor, who had at first his head quarters . at .. - Witepsk, has removed them ;to Minsk. We are cOrnplete ignoiance of the ulterior movements of , this Monarch, for great mystery is obseived in every thing that' relates Jo his journey. Nothing, even at Peeersburgh, is known respecting the. future plans of his Im- perial Majesty. It is affirmed .that the artily, commanded by General Jermoloff, has marched for a new destination.; and that a numerous corps is proceeding,, by . forced stnarches, into, Bessarabia, to ;joie the Rossini troops in that quarter." NUREMBERG, OCT. learn'.. from .good authority- that neither , at Constantinople, nor in any other of the great towns of Turkey,, are peo ple so very easy respecting the state of affairs : with Russia as some of the French and English accuuuti would wish it to be believed. It is true the Ottoman Government are circulating all kinds of reports ; such as, that the interposition of , Austria and England had induced the Court of Russia not to interfere in the affairs of Greece. But we know from undoubted channels that the Porte is very mach embarrassed by the demands of . Russia. The Reis Effendi has received despatches from Petersburg, which have rendered necessary several meetings of the Ministers of the Port, as well as fresh conferences with the British Am bassador. Russia insists more than ever on the unconditional accession of the Porte to certain points ; and it is affirmed that the Austrian In ternuncio has declined any further interference. The result of all this is that the most distin guished Franks at Pera are convinced that war with Russia is inevitable ; and they have in con sequence taken measures to meet this event, and do not allow themselves to be deceived by the pacific reports which are daily circulated. FRANKFORT, OCT. 18.—The Marquis de Pa lucci, a General in the service of Russia, and Military Governor of Riga, arrived at Vienna, the lith 'inst. from the former town. We learn from Bucharest that on the 11th of this month the Ottoman troops there were ranged in order of battle before the Kiaya-bey, to hear the reading of two tirmans of the Grand Signior, one promising a general amnesty, the other ap pointing the Pacha of Silistria Governor-General of the fortresses on the banks of the Danube.— Preparations were Making at Bucharest for the departure of 5000 Turks into Moldavia, to re- i lieve the same number of Asiatic troops, who, according to custom, are returning-home. A I X-L A ...CHAPELL E, OCT. 1 9.—[Extract of a private Letter.]—T he letters which we have received this day speak of a further fall in the Austrian funds, in consequence of very unsatis factory intelligence from Constantinople, which had just arrived at Vienna. The Archduke Ferdinand, of Austria, who is at Hanover, has frequent conferences with' the King of England. Our politicians thence infer that very important negotiations are carry ing on between Austria. and England, and that the affairs of Greece engage at this mo ment a.great share of the attention of both those Powers. We learn from Berlin, that the Rus sian Minister has lately had several conferenees with the Prince de lfardenberg, and we know that the diplomatic correspondence between the Prussian. Cabinet and that of Petersburgh is very active. It is affirmed, that both Governments are agreed on the means to be resorted to, in order to arrange the difficulties which have arisen out of the affairs of Greece. • ST. PETERSBURGII, SEPT. 28.—The Peters- . burgh G (mak says, " The most perfect tranquil lity prevailed at Coa , tantinople ; the embargo on all ships laden with corn has been taken off by an order from the Sultan, and the navigation of the Channel has resumed its regular uninter rupted course." Regulations for the limits of navigation and the commercial relations along the east coast of Si beria, the north-west coast of America, the Aleu tian, Kurile, &c. islands, have been published here with the following Imperial Ukase, dated the 4th instant, to the Senate : " As we have .perceived by the statements laid before us, that the trade of our subjects in the. Aleutian Islands and in the Russian possessions on the north-west coast of America s is ex- Ip ied. to various hardships and disadvantages from the practice of smuggling,, end as We, find that the main cause of these dis vantogel ,lies in the want of regulations the the limits of navi gation along these coasts, and•Oia rule fer the commercial rela tiona,tas well in the above places as in general, on the east coast of Siberia, rec have_ judged it.necessary to determine these rela tions by the following special regulations." - • Seat. tnide, whale fishery, fishery in general, and every branoh, of business in the ports and bays, and in general along the whole north-Ng - 2.st coast of America, from llehring's Strait to 51 deg. north. latitude; as also along the Aleutian Islands, and in the - gist coast of Siberia, and likewisaalong the Kurile Islands, that is, to say, - from ,Behring's Straits to the south cape of the Wand of Ooroop, in 45 deg. 51 min. north . latitude, are permitted to Russian subjects eiclusively. - Sect. 2.—LVery foreign- 'vessel is consequently prohibited, not only from landing on any. of the coasts- and islands speci fied in the foregoing section, but also from approaching them within a less distance than 100 Italian miles (about 4l•English leagues). -.Whoever- ahaLl violate this prohibition is liable to confiscation of ship and cargo, &c. COPENHAGEN, OCT. 9.—ln the General Sit., ting. of the Asiatic Company on the 27th ultimo, various interesting reports were made.—Cap tain Stage has paid the debts of the. Company at Canton with the interest, but on the other hand made a new loan of 96,000 piastres on the Com pany's bonds, the indemnity of four. Dutch dol lars per day (which had been previously fixed) was granted. to Ca pt.- Trock, who .was imprisoned in :Yam for seven years and eight monthS. Each share is valued. at 185 rix.dollars.bauco in silver, or 2-16 ditto. in notes. - - • VIENNA, OCT, 5.--We know, from.an authen tic source, .that, immense purchases of. ',grain for English account,are.making in the, Bantle. BRUSSELS : OCT. 21.—We learn from the Hague that the projects of law for- carrying the-new taxes into execution will be immediately sent to the Second Chamber of the States generV, whose, labours will commence for this Session, with this important subject. • . - We learn from Lille that the French ,army is to be completed to the full peace estallishrnent before the end of this year. The cavalry, which was hitherto the most incomplete, has already received a great many, horses, and the War Mi nister has given orders to choose the finest men of the class of 1819, to raise the, regiments to their full complement. The corps of rtillery, both on foot and horseback. will be augmented. In the present state of -affairs in Europe, -the Fiend' Government has felt the necessity Hof having a respectable army on - foot. OcTonEtt 22.—The Court of. Assize decided this morning the affair of M. Wallet: (absent), proprietor a- the. Journal de • Flanthettu, and Messrs. Vervecke and Leman, editor and trans later of that journal, who were accusedbf having sought, by means of ten articles inserted hr that Journal, to excite discorl and disunion, and cause troubles among the inhabitants of the southern proinces. These articles .contained severe censures, criticisms, and threats ,against:; the persons-and properties of those Members of the States-Generat'who voted iu July last forthe new taxes. After a trial of three days, in which the accused-werr ably defended by Messrs, Le vigny, and I3eyers, they were condemned, L e.' M. ,Levan and M. Vervecke to a year's impri sonment d the costs. Tilt tOLONiEs', CANA DA. CORN AND 11M137611. TRADF. MONTREAL, AUG. 28.—At : * me . e..titighelti o:is dr,y :it the Dxchange in St. Joseph-street;::4the Merchants and other in. habitants of Montreal, interested in the Trade of the Pidvinces of Upper and Lower Canada, to. take into consideration the pre sent distressed., state of the Agriculture and Trade of the Country, with the view of adopting. measures for obtaining relief, The. Honourable John Richardson having been c a lled to the Chair. 1. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Tneqingthat Agriculture and Commerce of the Province of Canada are in such a state of depression and distress as threatens ruin to those engaged therein, if relief be not speedily obtained. 2. Resolved, That such relief can only be effectually had from the Imperial Parliament, by opening the ports of the United Kingdom to the admission, at all times, without restric tion, of Grain and Flour the produce of the British North Ame rican Provinces. 3. Resolver, That the greatest possible quantity . of grain and flour the produce of the se P rov inces, :which could be ex ported, would bear EQ small a proportion to the consumption of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom, that the average prices there would be affected ,by the adMission of that pro. duce in so trifling .a degree, ae to ,prevent , injury to the British Agriculturists. . 4. 'Resolved, That the iirovi4eS of - Canada have furnished an extensive market for Britigiirianuflictures and West India produce, which must cease to exist, if the produce of our soil cannot be admitted into the British ports for sale with. out restriction. 5. Resolved, That,. from the increasing population of these Pro inces, the distress now felt must extend, if our grain and flour continue to be excluded from the British sale and con- sinnption. 6. Resolved, That an effort be trade for obtaining relief, by representations in the forM of Petitions to his Majesty and Par liament, and his Majesty's Ministers, from the Merchants and Inhabitants of Montreal', and that the same measure be recom mended to the several counties of this district. 7. Resolved, That a 'Committee of Eleven be now nppointrd to prepare for signatare"the said Petitions from the Illerclyints and others interested in the Trade of the Canadas, resident at Montreal. • -. • 8. Resolved, That the said Committee do consist of the lion. John Richardson, Samuel Oeriard, Julius Quesnel, Francis Desrivieres, Peter - 31 4 0in, , George Garden, Esquires, J. A-Cartier, F. A. Laroque, Jambi Millar, James Leslie,• • J. Fleming, Member of • Committee, end Secretary, 9. Resolved, That a Subscription be opened to defray the expenses that may be incurred in promoting the'objects of the proposed Petitions. ' 10. Resolved, That-the Committee now appointed, do ap point, out of their number, a Sub-Committee, to correspond with the SeigneurS and other influential persons in the Counties of this District-, or with such Committees as may be nominatAl therein for the purpose of promoting measures similar to those contemplated by the present Meeting. The Chain having left the Chair, 11. Resolved,' That the thanks of this Meeting be tendered to the lion. John 'Richardson, -for his laudable conduct in the Chair. • - JOHN FLEMING, Secretary. 18th Auguast. MERCANTILE SHIM NG,. &c. DEAL, OCT. 26.--. Wind S.W...Came down from the River and rernairl the Mandarin, Nloarek, for Baltimcire ; Fifeshire Packet, Robson; for CO? mbia River ; Jane, Mansfield, for Buenos - Ayres; Nlessengir, Gowan, for Belfasf; . JameS Dun lop, Shepherd, for St. Kitt's; and Pascual, Arleago, 'for Bilbao. - Arrived and'sailed again the Weser, Jenkins, froni New York for Hull ; and Proselyte, Mainwaring, from Antigua .for .London. Put.back the Duckenlield, for Jamaica ; and Stockton, for Sierra Leone. • - • POWT 3 AI 0 t Om:N.—Wind S.W.—The Royal George yacht is gone out of Barbour._ _ _ _ FALMOUTII, OCT : . 25.-.Wind - S.W.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Bustard, from Portsmouth for the West Indies ; and John Baker, Anlaby, from London for Leghorn. • . PLY3totiT4, ()cr. 25.—Wind W.—Arriv . ed the Supply, Robertson, froth Newcastle for Jamaica ; and ' - the transport H. H. from , Cork. - • ' • - 'HARWICH, 0tT..26.-.4trrived the Lady Nepean packet, with a trial, frtnn Cuxhaven. The Thetis packet,. Captain frorii Gottenburgh, with mails for this port, was to tally lost on the 7th- inst. *bent 4 A. st., 15 miles eastward of I3ovenbergen ;—crew and Flails savcd. QUEBEC, Aro. M-... The crew of the - brig 'British King, Chambers are come - up: They say the- brig' was wrecked six miles to the westward of Anticosti, On the 2t;th Jtily:last—crew all. saved, and part of the'. materials-31astt , r coming up with the materials in a sthboner. The vessel was bound from. Qtiebee to Belfast with timber, and -is a total Wreck. TUE ARMY. The 19th regirnent,'Stationed at Weedon, received a sudden route, at two o'clock -on Thursday morning, to march at day break for Liverpool, where they expect toembark for Ireland: We are happy to prevent the alarm which the - circumstance. of this order might perliap§ - etcite. The Dublin. Papers - of Tiles - daylast contain the grateful assurance that.the Judicious tiiiic tare of temper and,tirmness exercised b 7. t't Government and• the local Authorities, has been attended by the happt it results, to - which the zear and energy of the Catholic Clergy in the dks turl:K4 district ; have , materi ally contributed.: • • regiment p(foot,at Chichester, received their, route, on Thursday morning, 'an,.l yesterddia commenced their march .tor NortharriptOn. 'This is a subject of regret to the inhabitants of that city, who had hoped to enjoy its presence much longer. ii liar's C,asTLE CAVALItY.—The troops of iCeninktury, under - the command of •the lion, Mr. Clive, finished their six 4apj duty oa ,illonday, . whe.n, before iliey wore dismissed, 'then .. Captain was :Ppaiied to eornplemer.f them in the highest terms on their tactics iii the ifielc.their steady and regular con as: well. us, foe : - ,t1,144. , ,*e4l in fliiu .up the troop so hand -140P),,,e1, . _ ' 'NA wtTnunt Yl:o3tkrenii - CKVALAY.—Tsliese'ineritorious Artitip's' tetniniato their 4 eigbodays-dety- on.Atonclay next. Ot nu, 04;T. 2Si -r--Tlfp, 0 xfprilshire. fl-ginlent of. .which4ssembied under foiNuar t d. of COlonel2;11 - m. (tor e I.;angten,'in this City; • - •fOr '2l oafs' 'training keirtplettd their period. Of szrcic'e on 'fifeSday lag% Their soldier-like appear ance, and - steadiness-in:the -fields in ; so< short a -time, reflect the highest credit op the diScioline m o t !' n fh in e g eo wi r t p t s o.s t. while the orderly and eempliFy is e worthy in -themselves, :and hOzonzaqe to their oflic-ers. It is extremely gratifyin4 - tous to ye..y tribute to our County Itegannent, sin C e. We have 6:eiOtity fot, stating 'that thcSe are hot only out own -Sentiments, but theie of the (hit versity,.and also of our Chief :Magistrate, and fiNI/oW Copy of.a letter - from the Worsliipf.Ul the M a y o r of thi s c i ty (Sir Copy. Ilif chi n,S) Golont'laW. 1/Ore-Lang-ton, com manding the Oxford,4iire 'Regiment - of Ilegutat 1l slitia : " -As•Chief Ala g igratc.of the City, of Oxford,. -4. canriovre frain 'front .e_xpressing thelligli Satisfaction I receis;!ed from the exce.lleat conduet of the OfliJe.xs and - Priratesof the ' ur.der your ceminand,Auring tlie time they have hofn•on duty : , in tZfis place ; The exemplary manner: in which thqr have con ducted themselves calls - for the approbatiiii-ana gratitude of all the Inhabitants OT.Oitfoid; .aturretieefs liotiohr'ori 'the . 31ilitia ~ service. _ . I sh.ul feel obliged by, yq.i.g.cnimunicatirig to, the negl thent' the. senie ient.:.rtain'ot the good ottlet and itai§eworc..y~' behaviour of all its ittembeiiiacid' • '" < . • `,l base th 4 h9 l3 °u r "tf °to: $4l-. • • f • cc Your pbedient and.very h.tzroble . serrant • '. a Lamtmag Itarciiiif as. , ‘' St. Giles's, Alondartaiening." `4 Cillpnel GorelianAton•taniurt allow tltt Otfordsl-iite.3lilitia sePare<eailtithout-, exptesaing hi54 11 )(1,'44.1441. aj)pi obation. of the orderly and soldier-like conduct of the twenty-one_ training' and eitertise; 'end , o l i c h .-- -hi s ; aid . husay;,entitled-i t to the good opinion of the_ Uni vers ity and in, abitants of the City of Oxford • and he confid.ently hopes and expects the same laudable regularity of behaviour will charac terize the corps e has the honoUr tV Cernaliintl on returning to. their respective henies," roßtmx /ATtßATtlitt. Na XLVL. Thatte couplet des Latins, i, e. The Complete Latin The* , tre, by J. B. Lev4e, formerly Professor of Rhetoric, and Latin Literature, &c., and by the late Abbe' Letuorinier ; with dissertations, &c. by 31. - Amaury Duvfai t of the "too demi of Inseriittions, and M. Alexandre: Duval, of the French Academy. Plautus, Vols. V, VI, and VII. BvO. Paris, 1321. [Continued from Monday's Paper.] Though all the dramatic authors among the Latins were compelled to submit to a'common law, that which imposed on them the obligation of.ainusing an immense multitude, and of study the taste of the many, rather than the 'rules of art ; though the manners'of the times foreed authors to confine comedy within a narrow dr,- cle, and to clothe it with little variety, we re mark, however, a great difference, not only be tween the works of Terence and those of Plautus, but between the different pieces'of each of these two authors. Mantas - especially exhibits such a great disparity, that we shdbld be almost. in-, dined to attribute his comedies to different ages, if the character of his style did not manifest itself, both by excellencies and by defects peculiar to hithself. When Terence was born; Plautus was twenty-five years old and . yet these writers seem .to have lived in times separated by a longer interval. When` the least ancient of theie tWo was in possession of the stage, the ;Roman ails, tocracy had gained the. ascendancy, civilization had made considerable progress,. and Terence was permitted to be more polished, more chaste, more reasonable, and more #ave- than his prede cessors. In the time of Plautus, the people had greater power, and it was necessary to please their taste and caprices, on pain orexchision from the stage. It is perhaps to this - influence of the predominant taste that we must ascribe the con tradictory opinions •passed on the comedies of Plautus by the best Latin writers. cicero, a thorough republican, admired this comic. poet ; llorace,a courtier and table companion . of Mem ' nas, found Plautus rather coarse. It is mit perhaps unnecessary to• 'mark, that .nearly about the same time elapsed between the death of Cicero and of _Horace as between the birth of Plautus and of Terence ; thus a period of thirty years was long enough to produce such a great diffe rence in the language of the drama, and in the opinion of two illustrious writers on ancient comedy. All concur in praising the urbanity, the ele gance, and the 'purity of the style of Terence, the profoundness of his dialogue, and the excel lent maxinis it abounds with; the same unanimi ty of opinions doe's not prevail with respect. to Plantils, and in fact there cannot be a more un equal author ; but this ineqnality is not that 'of talent,'of genius, and of wit : it is methodical, and founded. on system. This idea may appear strange, but thave long entertained it, and . be lieve it to,be founded on just grounds. iu Terence, the slaves and the parasite (a character peculiar to the Latins) do not differ by many degrees in their language from persons of higher quality, as in the comedies of Plautus. The slaves have a better manner,. the parasite (iu plain Englisb, hanger-on) is less extravagant, and says fewer foolish things ; indeed there are only two pieces out of the six now remaining of Terence which exhibit a parasite. Hence it ap pears, that in the polished times of Scipio, broad humour was no longer indispensable to the suc cess of a comedy. -Plautus on the contrary had two styles, :which seem to be those of two men living at . different times,. and influenced by different manners. His old men and his gentlemen dis course with a propriety and prudence, fre quently with a degree of elegance and purity of style, which differ little from the dialogue of Terenee ; we observe only, in the characters of Plantus; a greater desire .to show off their wit;, that his slaves, his paraSiteS, his ri diculous characters, such as the Miles Gloriosus, and the like, exceed all the bounds of pro bability and of decency, .and even transgress the utmost limits of the bad taste licensed on the stage, when rude and low characters are intro duced. Plautus has followed, to the letter, the precept which directs comic authors to make every character speak in his natural . language; he-has carried the imitation too far ; detent, fished, and delicate, with gentlemen, he becomes completely a valet with valets .. ; a gross, buffoon with buffoons, &c. There was no ribaldry, how ever gross, no bad witticisms, no ridiculous equi vogues to be picked up in the streets of Home, which he did. not introduce into, the dialogue of his slaves.. .f shall be excused from quoting these ,-„expressions,: though Many, perhaps, may be „pus to learn ltow•low an antlior, full of genius, ,wit, spirit, and originality could descend, to pfease the htimours of the people-king. .The means which he inoSt.Cornmonly employed to excite a burst of latighter,. To repeat fre quently the same, word,,and to give it sometimes in the. same .sentence, in .all` the changes of its .declination, or • to oppose to,, it a. word of a con .trarrmeaning. This •artifice - is repeated usgme . ad nauseant.. .following are few among .thousands-.of instatices,, ithich . .,l could Cite,: teta>,' UXOILS exuvire.-=-I.9izs mein, m .9rigera inorilms.— floe !with°. ,decet, animates esse umu tUrr.s. Misere miser sum_; fianviniserorunt thisel=- ruins.. :Lurks. :RIC • ludo:,: .leys4ebras-, per sequor tenebras. In re- e atteoi:s4 Falcon. .4'.eberi grates gratias, &c.. do .not 'offer a translation, because, : with very_ ,few exceptions, these conceits could not well he translated.: Tlie follawing is extracted from a longer.Phice °Lae same - , I • . Ilona in seen= affero; _ Nsm bona bonis fc.tri reor aluom maxume .I„rt 'bah slabs ; ut, qui sink sent habeanc ulalaa 4,tui boiu, bona ; bonos good oderint mall ' . . Sunt m Ali, malos, quad oderint boni, bonOs opo.tet; & , are ten whole verses on the boni and • "'phis on words, I admit,.May be very pfeasant.on certain occasionS, and,if, According tp, the expression of the Greek Corinne, - the au ther Introduced them sparingly Plautus' empties the sack, and this prpfusioa of pans was, no doubt, very amusing to the Repahlicans of the great city, for all the comedies of PiAt'aus , are to this respect alike, which the autlecaasOotilti have avoided ' if the public had hissed , the. first which appeared. This fault, however, isaiseri trilling in comparison with another which-teaches the maximum' of bad taste, which occurs as fre' quatitly,, and - which malt haveNseen equally agee e eehlest t o the_ people', beicau se *e Lneet with it in alPtlic4 . *venay pieces of this authoF which have descended tg.us: I .allude to those miserable and laboured equivoques' produced by -the -forced juxte-position of two words which have simply a literal resemblance, but none whatever in their signification. At one time .the word adsiun '(I am present) is answered by the word assail', which signaies—roasted,and furnishes the pretext of a rejoinder, by elixam—boiled. 'Another - time it is 'them, the subjunctive of the verb' /itaarei which is played off with limo, the dative,oflimus; ,too Often, in deed, - is the reader disgusted at these 'Alehouse jokes, which the refined Horade - den° - - mitiated Plautinos sales, and which have not eve"' the honour of bearing a resemblance. toepulls' We should . not, however, forget that these pas: sages, unworthy of comedy, are, only to. be, fount' in the scenes of slaves or of despiCahle characters ; and that these faults, so shoeking .and. so moue' roes, are redeemed by the most lively, the Mast spirited, and wittiest .dialogues, by the ma s t, .energetic . .expressions, - and the - most . - original characters. Place Terence as much as. you please ' above Tlautus,:it is no less certain thdethe l a tter i, more amneing, in spite of his faults, aac i perhaps 66 account - of his very' faults ahefeselves' In . considering .these, comedies. mil Yais.- regard s the subject and its management, we find between them -as tench differenee as betwfTn the to styles employed •by Plautus to distinguish the masters from. the servants. Several of these plays are as regular as the- beSt angdern piecei ; whil e others are so out of all Order that they seem la, have reached us in an inc om pl e t e or gar ble d state. In most of therm, the dennuement is vicious; and in some cases a slave comes forward and a"' Bounces to the audience in .what manner th e piece ends, in an adjoining room, and withoa t any of the characters showing themselves. This mode of finishing a play would not be tolerate d -on our stage ; but, as I observed in my preceding article, the ancients had no desire of produciog dramatic illusion ; they presented to the people comedy and comedians, tied not an apparent real action and apparent' real perSonages ; - an d fo r this reason they terminated hastily a pi e ce whe n they had nothing further to say to the spectator s ; A good denouement, heiveyee, though a gre 3 e excellence, but a little exaggerated, is a verJ rare thing in a good comedy, 'yet many i °- different plays shine in this res p ec t. F o r n' 9 . part, I prefer . a pleasure continued during t °.° hours to a con -. IIOE, gratificatiolt; folloWed ' bY moment of extraordinary surprise and satisfsc; 1 tion. The most p e rf e ct of c om ic .au th or s is n° celebrated for good denouements, and this alun e ' would prove that this part of the art is not th e most important and the most indispensable.: . a The two Academicians who h ave jointly eslit e this work, in ann ex ing th e i r o b serva ti ons on t l ' e Latin comedies to the translation of M. Lel have given a sho r t an aly s i s o f eac h pi ece , 11 ' ; have appreciated them very well as far as regal" . the dramatic art. al M. Levee has undertak e n a di ffi cult ta4l nT et has performed it with ability : Pl au t us i 5 l'i easy to translate ; his Latin m i xe d w i t h Gre e r , , and full of barbarisms, p u ts th e rea d er t o the t ° 0 tore. I know not a greater c o iner o f w o rds o ' l the poet of Sarsina. A great numb er o f the ter ms he uses are not to .be found in any dictionari: and many of them have no other authority til' e Plautus himself, and ar e not a g ai n t o b e met w i l e; in the authors who foll Ow ed hi m . His puns, "i o frequent allusions ,to domestic usages and i l ls habits no longer known, hi s p rover b s , and.. gleanings from th e vocab u l ar y o f t h e popul 3ce r i Continually impede th e t rans l a t or; and e v e . when he guesses the meaning, it is often hull: sible to render it into French. Th e Latinis t not the person who always, best uuderstan .e Plautus. In a multitude of 'p a se ages -resantroct must be had to the antiquary, arid he knovrS o e every thing. I leave to the scholar the tas k ei examining, whether the new translator has c ° ( i prehended all those niceties which the leart' e o alone discover in the ancient authors, and sh al t confine me remarks to a few errors which I LW ! '' out meo periculo., . _ i a In the Miles Glorlosas, two Men are orlon . to beat the 'bragadochie Pyre-opoliniceS; command, tt:efe do not execute this and the per o .. e , who gave the order exclaims, Quid ccgsall:i ~, M. Lev6e translates it : ccWhy de you I,ave oil • • Thii is a mistake ; cesSare 'here means atora4` e ' for they have Cot yet begun to heat him. 1 , should have said.:. ",,Why -do you hesitate, ) .1. 7' 1 / do you delay ?" - In the ilfestellit , ria : a ilaVe . qUarrellite salt"' j e 'cook calls lilm . ':n do: e'culina : MS Leiketralsl ate ; it, 44 Sacculent.vepor ;'.'. ‘b.nt. it. is esi4e,llt./j i is a terwoferepreeels, which.. the 1 -'''- 11 ch 1.c ° . .. do ii,ot express._ Plaetusolot being ve ry SCIA'' . jOUS respecting vulgar expressions, -.wished el' i ,to say': Odour 71). - f scraps - and -5i. , 4.4, - .ldler, whic h may, perhaps,she disgusting- iti, French ; bet '! e should . then have sought au equivalent but le' ignoble epithet. . ' '• ' In the Piteidohis, after having- Played .11 1 ) , °d i the words in ,aavorsci. MrSari,• Plautus me kea tr' l Teply: Turbo , n on , allou . citas est. .. M. .14e e ' r saw these a " whirlwied," . whereaS the inetaPtl i is taken from the peg-top, or humming-top, 'y e known to children. . . a. . .•\ tb e In thessame piece, a person, speaks to slave of a man who had rendered hire a see'V' c '? s p i tibi io.voitalis full, and the slave ' replies, MI; . 'twee 'est 'qiiifuil. According' to bleeelsev'ef,eo moans 'to.say:that he :considers the person ''' if formerly befriend e d hi m . as dead. A t is sia l Vj ; a . play upon words, of w hi c h Pla ut u s ' i s iii f° ll o) the prefer-tense fait was proverbially . use° 00 signify " he, is no trlisre e"- Teojafisit, Troy i s : ie more. .The siaee, in saying mortaus,est Vil a ..alledes to this proverb. . - ai In the Prol o g ue o f th e `M ena ' tiles .t4se aet° l. !, A rhav6 'stated in my last artieln, :preaeal t ' ke theatrical regulati on , an d, t e ll s the., mall °. conducts the spectators t o th e i r places :----- ~ Neu sessum ducat dain histilo in . seerA sRi. ~„( I f M. 141'4e renders it i . Let hi m . no t make aii,ti '