The Sun. — London, England, 1814-09-14 00:00:00

THE SUN REVIEW. (No. X XXiX LARA, a Tale; pp. 93.—lAcQuLINt, a Tale . ; pp. 81.— _ • .1. RRAY, SW). piice 7s. Gd. [Condaded from TILE SVN of Friday last I-lad we not promised so often to notice the appendage to Lens, entitled Jacqueline, we should now have passed it over in silence. It is so pretty, infantile, and fragile, that there is no handling it without incurring the risk of its crumbling. into pleCes . ; and after contemplating the kite so long as we haVe clone, there is little pleasure to be derived from a dissection of its tail4--(Ar . I.l.dGEas spells it tale) —composed, as Usual, of many shreds of paper, twisted into something like form, and strung together (I-Jea-: yen bless the mark I) at measured distances.— But, allons ! for the tender Jacqueline of - Rogers : for wemay drop the disguise which the Authors never seriously appropriated, and consider this Poem as the production of the Writer of " The Pleasures of Memory," as Lara is of the misan thrope Lord TINION, without his magnificence, spirit, and generosity. This delicate female, as if anxions j to steal into some notoriety with the world, which-her own ,beauty would scarcely attract, has appeared in the train of a personage of considerable celebrity among the present race of Poets The fame of Lord, BIRON caused Lara to be read, and at the end of Lara, no one could be so churlish as to deny 'a few minutes time to, scan the unassuming merits of.the fair Jacqueline. Thus . tethrted to waste the precious moments, we, we have perused this mighty simple story, and had the invincible resolution to simmer over upwards of 30 long pages of short verse, -of the species of namby pamby. Yet were any one to ask us what great faults we discovered in this Poem (for we must call it so) we should say none ; and, again, were it enquired 11.• hat blemishes occurred to us in our sleepy progress .through its flowery way, w.e must still answer, very few ! It has no great faults, and few prominent blemishes : it has nothing to rouse a strong passion-of dislike, or to excite powerful distaste-4n truth, it moves no passion at all ;—it is a disk of skim-milk—pure, unadul terated insipidity ;—tame, tiresome, and stupify ing, except where doggrel breaks the even current of dullness. The subject is opened by the flight of Jacque line from tier father's cottage in Provence ; and it appi-irs, in the course of three Cantos, that the young Lady adopted this prudent measure in con sevence of the wish of her Sire to force her, con trary to her inclination, to marry a Nobleman in preference to her favoured and formerly approved lover, D'Arcy. This is followed by some descrip tions IA the confusion and distress accasion*l by this untoward event ; and the ultimate return of the t-epentant (but for fear of accidents, married) daughter, and the forgiveness of St. Pierre (the father), and general happiness is the denouement. It is not our intention to go regularly through this trifle, either critically to point out errors, la , boriously to follow the course of the tale (alias tail) as aforesaid, or generally to display the style and manner in wlich the whole is completed. We shall merely remark upon one or two censurable passages, and conclude with such extracts as may display the best parts of the Author, and the ge neral sing-song prettiness of his work. Within the first twenty lines •xe discover, that. he is inclined to be as much indebted for useless rhymes to the words " there" and " here," as even the person whose Poem occupies the preced ing portion of the volume. We are told that,the - Flies from her home, the humble spheie, Of ail her joys and sorrows here— where should they be ? this free employment of worthless expL tives, ill places of note, is extreme ly reprehensible. He proceeds, — Her father's horse of mountain stone, And by a moloitain-vine o'evgrown. At such an h.,ur in such a night, So calm; so clear, so heavenly bright, ho would have seen and not confessed It looked as all within were blest [There are a number of very useful lirle words left out here.] What will not woman, when she loves ? Yet lost, alas, who can restore her?— . • She lifts the latch, the wicket moves; And now the world is all before her. ln proceeding with the Poem, we find an an swer to the second of the querrics in the laStfour lilies, viz. that when lost a woman can restore herself ; but as for the first question, we are coin ' • ''s .1 very unwillingly to take Mr. 11,0GEit's an swer, to•wit,, that when woman loves, she will eakcil aml move a wicket ! ! What a spirited and successful cricketer ! , . At page 101, we have two lines pretty closely imitated froM the song of " Hush, baby, hush !" and, in truth, any thing babyish offered too con genial temptations for plagiarism to.be resisted by Mr.RooEtts. The song says— , Alas! he's gone and gone fpr ever, Never shalt thou see him—never. Hush, baby, hush! , Mr• ROGERS stlys- But she and gone for ever!! Na never shall they clasp her—never; thief ;ntttato nomiye, of he for she, come pretty much tb the same purpose, though not precisely to the sane time. We dare no t quote lines 68 . an d • t h e y are barely decorous—anti turning over to the nex t page, it is there stated as an ac complishment of Jacqueline's; and a proof of her filial affection, thougul she did run away from her Papa, that before T She would lead him zebcre he-went,_ Charnt 'with, her converse while he leant, &c. • 7 - which," . tve presume, ‘vas a great tleatliiti i de - t• than uad led tint where lie did tot p,-sut let that also pass, and conclude we, as these Bards would say, our observations-on the imperfections of this Poem by one ettract of the doggrel we have particularized above—(page 125) Theft 4actineline the silence broke: She itlamird her father's knees and spoke, Her brlther kneeling too •, • .• D' i lircy as before looked on, • Though from his manly cheek was gone Its natural hue.- ' This is " silly sooth ;" but we have donee With it, and hasten to lay before our Readers the fol. lowing passages, as the most tolerable afforded by Jacqueline . A FATHER'S REMORSE. St. Pierre sate by, nor saw nor smiled, Ills eyes were on his lov'd Montaigne ; nut every leaf was turned in vain. Then in that hour remorse he felt, And his heart told him - he had dealt UnMadly with his child. A father may awhile refuse ; . But who can foranother chnsc ? When her young blushes bad r e vealed The secret from 'herself concealed, - Why promise what her tears-denied, That she should be De Cdurcy's bride ? —Wouldst thou, presumptuous as thou art, . O'er Nature play' the tyrant's part, And with the hand compel the heart? • • Oh rather, rather hope -to bind The ocean-wave, the mountain-wind; Or fix thy foot upon the ground To stop the planet rolling round. The light was on his face; and there You might have seen the passions drien—. Pcsentment; Pity, Hope, Despair— Like clouds across the fate of Hear'n. Now he sighed heavily ; and WOW, , His baud withdrawing front his hrow, 'He shut the volume with a frown, To walk his troubled spirit dawn. . ••' THE EETPR-N. But. what felt D'Arcy, whinrat length Her father's gate was open flung ? then he. found a giant's sttength ; Fur round him, as fur life, she clung! And when, her fit of weeping o'er; • Onware they moved a little space, And saw an old man sitting at the door, SaW his wan cheek, and sunken eye That seew'd to gaze on vtcancy, Then, at this sight of that beloved face, -At once to fall upon his nee]; she flew; But—not encourage-I—back she drew, • And trembling stood in dread suspense, Her tears her on! \ eloquence! All, all—the wlnie—an awful distance heepiug; Save D'Arcy, who nor'speaks nor stirs ; And one, his tittle hand in hers, Who weeps to sec his sister weeping. -FRENCH PAPERS. VIENNA„9VG. 31.—Nobody here believes the report:which is in circulation, that a.treaty of al liance has been concluded between Austria, Eng land, Naples, Spain, and Sardinia ; it was pro bably invented for Stock-Jobbing purposes. Al though our Cotirt does not perfectly agree with some of the other Powers, yet it is hoped that the differences will be adjusted without an appeal to arms. We are reproached for keeping our army upon the war establishment; bUt we must place ourselves in a condition to execute the ar 'rangements which may be determined upon. Rona, AUG. 24.--The departure of the Pope for the Congress of Vienna is no longer spoken of. It appears that the Holy Father will trust to the generosity of the Allies fur the care of his temporal affairs.. PARIS, SEPT. 10.—The departure of 'his Ex cellency the Minister for Foreign AffairS, which was to have taken place this day, is postponed till Monday next. _ This day a battalion of wounded Russians left Paris'; their health is nearly established. • PAais, SEPT. 11.—It is not only Austria that has recognized King Joachim ; there is at Naples a Prussian Envoy. A new Russian Envoy has succeeded General 13alascheff at that capital: MADRID, AUG-. 28.—The publication of the treaty of peace with France is daily expected. It is time that our relations should be settled. with a country with which it .is impossible . to avoid corning in contact. Our national' markets furnish wool, silks, - wines, oil, &c. and it is our interest to procure purchasers for them, - and not to prevent foreigners from Coming to buy our commodities. Notwithstanding the state of war in which we still are with France; a trade is car ried on in some articles with great activity. There is no news. Some vague reports are in circulation about the ereturn of Charles IVtli, of embarrassments in the finances, and of some par tial discontents. The people of Madrid_ are en, chanted. with the King for the pains he takes to ,make himself beloved by his subjects. The following .is an extract. from pamphlet published-by the Counsellor of State, Escoiqui : " I call the resolution to go to Bayonne, where the-Emperor waited for his'Majesty, a wise reso lution ; because the nullity of whatever the King might do there was evident, and under such cir cumstances that step could not be productive of any prejudicial effects, either as affecting the- ho nour, or .damping the zeal and loyalty of Spa niards, who must laugh at such a treaty, particu larly when the King and the Infants in a pro clamation renounced their right to the throne. That ,proclamation I myself drew up in the apartment, and under the eyes of the Grand Marshal Duroc, and I presented it io the Emperor, without either of them perCeiVing the artful terms in . Which it was drawn up, which gave me the 'greatest satisfaction, and the more so, as it was conceived in such terms as to appear to the most ignorant reader to be a protest against violence, and an exhortation to the - Spaniards to continue the war, instead of considering the Pro- chunation as an order to the People of Spain to receive the ifev Dynasty." Thu:se who were 'unfortunate enongh to under stand this Treaty literally are treated with great severitY•by the Author.,Of this PampMet. . •,tr • FRENCII 11,011 SE OF PEERS. SPEECH OF THE PRINCE OF BENEVENTO IN fIEING• NG PoII\VAED TICE BUDGET. In opening the subject, the Orator states the law, of which, by order of the, King, he then submitted the projet, to be intended, not only to provide for the immediate Wants of the public servive, but in establishing a proper equi librium between the receipts and expenditure of the State, to form a System of Finance, new in its end, and new in its means:. New in its end, as it proposed to found the prosperity of France on public credit proportioned to her resoutees, new in its Means,. as punctually to fulfill their en gagements, was the noble expedient which the French King now recommended to his subjects. By these means, the intrinsic power of the state will soon unite with it the force of public opinion. Lending each other Mutual support, when properly understood, from their will result . all the power of great national credit. Ministers were happy in that august Assembly, religiously approaching the sacred altar of IlOnour raised by the glory of the French, arms, to be enabled solemnly to abjure and proscribe for. ever all those miserable conceptions,all those disas trous operations, known within the last century 'by the names "de visa ;" " de reductions de rents;" tie suspensions de remboursemens ;" " de reduc tions de valetas :" " de remboursentens ;" leurs nominates;" " dc mobilisation;" " &inscrip tions ; reduites au tiers ;" " de liquidations _,en va letas ckfineciees ;" " de .revisions;". " d'assurentens de revisions;" " de rejets de rents par prescription," &c. &c. &c. France, at peace with the whole Uni verse, ought to aspire to new celebrity. She ought to endeavour to establish, in every department of the administration, freedom and justice in the exercise of its powers. To obtain this great re sult, it was necessary to find the means for pay ing all demands on the State, and to prove,that, with ability, she possessed the will to do so. r - France has the means of paying all her ex pellees, all her debts. This would be seen by comparing that which she has with that Which she owes. The total amount of the debt now demandable is 759,000,000. The revenue of the year_lBl4 is estimated' at 540,000,000, and that of 1815 at 618,000,000. This revenue is entirely furnished by taxes, direct or indirect, with the exception of 10 or 12 millions, the estimated produce of the Forest Domains. For the year 1814 there will be a deficit of 307;400;000 francs. This is occa, signed by the' events which preceded the Ist of April, and consequently it makes part of the debt of 759,000,000, now demandable. The ex pences of the year 1815, fixed at 537,700,000 francs, leave 'an excess in the revenue for that year of 70,300,04)0 francs. , These estimates, to some, had appeare4 • not sufficiently exact. The perfect , accuracy: desired by some persTis could not at once be attained. ,-- At present they must be content with approxi mations to. correctness, but of this the Chamber might rest assured, they had before 'them the maximum of the public'debt, and the minimune of their receipts. He did not hesitate to say, that had • Ministers found no resoume but in taxation, they would nevertheless have called for an effort to diminish the national debt. This might have been effect ,ed by, the addition of some centimes to the incli rect taxes during a certain number of years, and such an effort in favour of the public cre dit, would not have exhausted the resources of the State. But they had the happiness of proposing a mode of accomplishing this design, which would not call for an augmentation of the taxes which even made it probable , they would be diminished.• France possessed still 1, - 400,000 hectares of forest domains. It was proposed that of these 300,000 should be sold, to accom plish the payment of the debt in arrear, without imposing new taxes. -The produce of the sale of the goods of the Communes, previously ordered, and of other effects given up to further the re demption of the debt, will be applied to the sanie object. If a supplement to these shall be neces sary,' it will be found in the excess of successive Budgets, and already that of 1815 presentS 70,000,000 applicable to this object. In the midst of the calculations involved by the preSent' discussion, it would he pleasing and perhaps instructive to remark, in the relative state' 'of the. public charges, compared with those' of nations whose -pmosperity was most brilliant, the situation of France after so many storms was still favourable. . . • In pr.of' of this, lie went on to compare'the population and taxes of France with those of giant; anti the United States of Ame ric ; t od & result (-dais comparison seemed t o silew't:3,,ce, taxes of England quintrupled those ° I iso tel' Odd' were also exceeded in the 3 .1 io The average contribution of . each inflivi-:1,1 the state, taking the ;population of 1)gl611 01" i 12,000 ; 000, that of America at 7,oooPth that of . France at 2%000,006p he g3Ve 4i In tngland - Fra ,Cs ' . Atherieft 93 In France - - I te Having descanted on the natura l advay.rro France, and the means she has cif Iteeert'ocg public faith inviolate, he urges the inl° iferl of National Credit, by a reference to thn se who, under all circimistances, bat e P rf3c.l' 'l l"ll' Of England, be says, `1 the Go vein rficnt) ]able fidelity to their engagement with tbei: creditors. -. Notwithstanding twenty ye ars °1 " ‘l3l. withstanding the restrictions an d p t°'-' i rye whiCh bad. dosed almost ekery P ert toc r ' Continent against . her ships an d 4e. o c`.l 1 1 chandize, have been enabled to b° lrlP %d r yearior upwards of ten years, .at a noder.' terest, more than 25,000,000/. sterlin. f'l octi i equal to the whole Ordinary re venue 61 estimated at 600,000,0000 of-lrancs• vitO i j ILr then refers to the example of the to ci ° States of America, to show the ad011".4,/° Public Credit.—He concludes as foliows'''',lol/ see, Gentlemen, how much the the propositions of his Ministers an d ti 'i t er l of his Government should bear a chat conformable(*is probity conformable to the elevati on of i'reo and which carefully attentlini , to a ll is : must inspire a just confidence hi all 11('$1.f.e It is a new era when the justice deration of the Prince, whose pres euce has given peace to the world, shall ma" "f 4 day more and inure the reciprocal urilitio I° ' virtues which so easily bi n d the Fr e " -c toL ,413( 1 If e the potent guarantee of honour. Oen ce 1 1 be permitted to hope, that the ali-c aitb long accorded by- the people of other tt~e ; 91'`IS to the manners of our Nation, t moderatiOn to be generally felt th r°l4 :e rr rope—that moderation which. ha s hec°3) f than ever necessa r y f o r the hap jects, and the power and glory o f °Pgs. a c e d. The Speech was ordered to be its II • s bon , nniv ED=l Dublin, 1 Waterford: , D lia ~ P t 4 burgh, 1 Holland, 1 fiamburgh, 1 Dub . • PRICE SOF 'S:Cii.S THIS 1) '.Y Al Twri.vr. o'Cl.o oh. :rt , Bank Stock, shut ' 3 per Cent. Red. shut India Stoc l ,'' 04. 1 ,.. gr. . India 11 , 0 11 "'' 1.. i • 5 4 3 Gent. 11 1 1 ::e . r r r ( ( t : . r. s i 1 a t ~i .C ( .l:il ii:s . .. 9 l s s hl i t l t A a q 51 c ( E .) x ot n l c i s l o i c t i t q s ; l l ", u4 l2l lic •j c l u dri);:° o l l,o o Caf 13ank L. Ann. shut ' 95 _ . E. El-r a o t N i 1 : . ,t ;I: c . 1: 1 -:.:r e a t l::: 11 S t .; ',' s 1;‘ ,. .: 00,i, --,... c .......—;-- ii NV ) , 0 6 , .. HIGH WATER xr LONDON ItItIOGE.I--.- 00' Mnriiiiz, la minutes after 3. i 'Evening/ 4° n'll' - 1 , 7 , Si)l•E3f GItJIS DICERE LONDON 0 1/ ' WEDNEsD4 Y, ..; El' :i B- 1 " ;17 14' f i r W el The reports which havhaveheel' eir,-6 ar e l' :i• ; - 4 specting the Meeting of Parliaalefst'or. founded upon any authority. " re c' :., ' , 5 I t")'' ' ' '‘ tively, that lie day is a t ptescot .—'` ot D e' ) Meeting ; but, in all-probability, it wi ll 11 in November. • ' / , A Letter has been received i ll "31%11 t ll .i6ill': ing from Buenos AviTs, „ ll i,l, states ~: $ O lll ,O , e- % tant fact that the City of gontl'll'' 6ol'e' dere(' by capitulation to the Arms °f the f' 10 tuent of Buenos Ayres on the 2lst J iie ta ke . g I 2 e l i t: l e : l e : a l: inst. this . i s s p l ' e r l a ' l o k i e r i n y n i g c n g f ' r . : l s l o r : : - ..: 1 11 i ): 44 11, Iii : 11° Ii t : °" : 4 : 0, —......a. , --- -- nrtielicteleivetodbie,, upon the result of the ensuing Neg ° " r cirl'ois ii t : t te t i r cb e tl . itc:t A bi oteinoaofrfititreiell the Treat le : 1: I . : t o t a l e r i t e i d yg y ion a A; l. e r a t d ,ei nf ia ::::: i ‘ ° } l l: i sf : ct l e:s i , ce. the i iei e :;; P r I:: C P ti i, ;: t and Spain,-and enforces the nec essi : "l bC i t :* ' ec ; tij the ancient commercial intercours- tiro ttd countries. get,to n The Moniteur of Sunday 13 ' % g el* : :,0 0 , oor iifi lf , s o 01 Prince ß of BEN EVE Nro's Speech, 0 0 p l. o u,' r- ,..# a tt oliliedgilit: necess i t y l its i tit t Yli a eu i oll o ltil s .ort:ss i et : o c l o t i ri l t. t : :l ll : ig . ) e t g e. c e l l). r e:: T e b r il: c le : l. c cec b Scri t s:- 5 3:6 : 1 : 1:1;:tic'::::':1 fully adequate to Par c t ! i i . complimentliei,rr v il x e P e i i e tl e c s et . op atyhve a clitl er ( I tr . m id 445 1 IV English Government ; L p el IrleyrCft10:1313111: lilt 5f61°.111::Ilitilii:05:::::Fil IC; meat•. to the Public Creditor, 11°Psri— (4. 1,41.