The Sun. — London, England, 1817-05-19 00:00:00

U'L3IMS. ~. To Ti Eigrurt or TILE SUN. '''' ,-- We noticed with tench pleasure the Pal , Muc h • : Hll ''" were presented on Friday night to the "leut Lords front the tlitiversitiet of Oxford 'lcie"lbridee, agitinst the admission of Papists I ti '6 g i letive Power, and high Political Offices, 411tr1:11e,Ptriiriete:ietabtaittse ill gtibratetranliglitlatvetog9reeavtidcetinittilye P'"s. We did expect to have heard it 'menu'. l'itAly zitated, tint; in the event of the Papists c ',' , '"Ern ii 4 (l to the exercise of Legislative 15011 I''ron,,ior,,, they would he required to abjure i s 'l l l'cle and to tlegetive lit tout his interference, o'" temporal and spnitual, in then concerns. i lthe cOntrary, w e lament that a total silence t ; ti 'tit'ti an t hit 1,. it al point, and the most, laboured t ' i r's were made to imlure the Public to believe t''llole burly of the Roman Catholics were in -I:ttod by the -most liberal feelings and benevo ill.::::tnietti toward s their f e ll ow su bj ec t s o f , a ll . .1 3 deneminetions : et width) the last two i ille v Yemlp notwithstandm e a large s"b3criP. :4'1140 by Protestants for the purpose of : 0 }'' si nt slid tlistrihm ina gratuitotisly the version 1,,t11 ! 1 1 , 1 ,, _ , `,"e and Testament, allowed by the kt'''‘ii Chord}, but _without ' note or comment, ti i ts !il"toett Ca t h o li c Clergy and their prin. Pti . • ,q Ok tt,y (1 ► posed the measure, and would a , 1 i the same to be distributed amongst ow . , ` r orders of their peraltasion ;, and in ' ettnn of the fixed determination of the '.. ' ' e e to keep t h e l ower or d ers of society in itt l i • 6 ''ioce*of the wo r d of God, as revealed "1Y seriptnres, the Pope has recently pub ' it,L 4' 8 " 1 1 prohibi t i ng the i r d i str ib ut i on, an d It all I,lible S) ' •t' Whatever. 144 te t c" I" • l nt l'n 4aoh. circumstances, and the into ern , q . 1 1 ,i," "01 pervades the whole body of the ,71IliCi„ . ~. ,: ilt trorn the highest to the lowest, in liv t 4 1 11 "" tot/v . :ad s Protestants, and which was lil s ' I Y ilWrked in the circumstances attend-, 'l , t . " P t!? tii• NJ An u t AGE IN FAsifioNABLE. LIFE, it l i It . . )11, 0 1 ' hr '' expected the Protestant continu e:, ' i ' l llnaiii acquiescent spectators of these 4: 41 g tfrorts t o l ess en ~ the Protestant 4 1 '1,: i l l icv " , i) these it calms 3 ~.. . '. i 1 1 '' h'fentne of the Old IVltigs who an l' '' 4 '' e brat , d the glorious Revidurion' in I MIS, 4 rt, 'q+lit.l the muse of civil 'and religions ,' `t11 : 1 1 .' • tieh o leprobated the intolerattey of the 4 '4le- stile measures of all the Stuarts— , t4 tt ; "'lege oeder which the people groaned, ks a, le See of Rome had any direct influence ' C'llitt rI , 1 1' teltere are they now ? ttl i ()..4,ng inn r -41,,,,,111''"•)itt.),id th e liottse of Russell % Cat) 11 t 1,4 4 , t ''"1 the letters of Lady Rachel Russell— I cIll it4): 1 her illustrious Lord—and the perse , 1 tti , t'ilitt ''eti_ on in those'days by the Papists . Ne,,, ii iitr '°llB Who had ,thrown oil the papa l li t reel indifferent to this I L : tt) it great Question 4 N I . e xpected front the mild and tolerant 'lsi ki , i , el ' •regulates and guides Protestants of tti "Htli tt i,, . Plit, 'ins, that because they are 'Allelic, f ; l et 1 4 7 (" I ' l generous feelings towards man kltels,„i'e' they are unmindful of the secarity '14, ( ,, -4 hotter the Constitution of the CQUII. iii tender ' ' ll * , 1 and State as now by law established, i t siv irill "'"to the benign spirit it his infused I lli W i l t i th e Protestant Community, they will IN t ithe now made to add to the ~f kl lli ' the a r i itueracy of the kingdom, by the k it 44 et . 8 . k, film 4 everts' wealthy Catholic families c l ) trlit b orough in fl uence to legislative lune- Ort trit t , 1 1 1 : 1 depfiss and lessen the power of ' l ltith i Yol Protestant Family, wit° h ave , l e s ee i..tel vil, Ptre of these Realms with glory to I tt) i end manifold advantage to their et. Il ' at front the combination of talent 1,, ,t,„., 744 -it t " tit to curry - their point,. anti 'tkl, t e attaelllrielirs of the p e ople to the , ' l 'E l u nt 444111 they, Obtained and secured by ' l 4„, bi t}(l n t ' , i ti 414 1) , the i r ancestors, TUB. CRISIS ,',. le l'e b ' tei w hen every exertion must be made iti t ukt ittn alot interests at large, to prevent of • isitYl 0 ~, to the COllStitiltioll of the t 4 c l , nh a , ' m'elirnen and Seetarists most si ti tt 4, , ' l t :- . 4 il,fLien '" iiiind to opp o s e th e extension of ~:klitiNion ee ' 41 01 its You have declared your t il t !li iitil ti,. to rnlintain the integrity of the l it4i 'ital to S t ate, under the House of 8run5.,,,,,0; .,,, , , o ; 1211j ec h t : v : A: r "tui 1 ons insertion of articles 1 4 .the RI e tryst 'your paper will become . 1:: frit iitt : s . : , efii i, eient instrnments in the hands \t,, k l 'ts to ` civil and religious liberty," to ;N s Coati(, t "e latest posterity the blessings 1114 % pi Y hal enjoyed • since the Revo l',;;*---.We are, err. Edit r • 4 14, 0 r, C°ll:itant Readers and Steady ... i . ,),. Priends, G ail 1 till t'' d'4l.l "' 4 Y i ) if Yri -----------------," "17 T li t c ir . . ' lilt hurl, . i ll iil4s mtt ttr* :t reak ci P a ei ;sons (and those apparent , li te th e uc _ y) have embarked from • ' 4 4 1 4. , ottnent 'durin g the week ; "gal thence 4re comparatively 1 bti,lllll tt L%'l :_;%Y . For many years We devoted a part Of our Paper, under the aboVe title, to an eicaminstiOn of §9ch literary and political_ tvhrks as appeared to de serve the notice acid'. Readers. Thii Department hes been deco Signally cOntinued, btit under ano her designation. We resunie, howeter, the for, mer title, that Tint SON may, in all respects, re turn to its original forni and eharaetei% We cannot recomMence.olir labouri more properly, in point of literature, than by directingour notice to a new translation of The 40i4 , . wod s comes from a Gentlethart deservedly high in.e!,t minion for learning and poetical genius. The present Translator, who has put his name to the work, is the Rev. Dr. SY' bIMONS, who in t!iS life of Mutt*, displays a firm, intrepid spirit, and though, perhaps, he at times seems to lean to wards the political principles of the Great Poet whose life he has recorded, yet it must be acknow ledged that he appears to' be an enlightened 'ad mirer, and a staunch friend to the British Consti tution. This Gentleman has also published a volume of Poems written by himself and a deport ed daughter, an interesting Memoir of whom was prefixed to the work, written by the Rev. Paallots- WIIANGLIAM, M.A. P.R.S. in which the extraor dinary talents and amiable qualities of the deceased young Lady receive a due and interesting tribute of esteem and admiration. But we turn from this affecting subject to the work before us THE Though the celebrityoflif ann. has invited many translators, and some of them very rminent men, it cannot be said that the rotult has been such as to place the august Poet of Rome in his proper dignity and beauty before the public of, Britain. The illustrious DRYDEN wjs called to the task by the voice, as it were, of the nation : he was encouraged in the prosecu tion of it by the favour of the Great, who were proud in his day to he regarded as the patrons of the Muses, and herwas congratulated bn its accomplishment by all the first wits of his age. But, however aided by the circumstances tinder which it was 'composed, or however praised on its appear ane in the world, his work has not been found, by the im partial verdict of subseqUent generations, to be worthy of its first fame, or cerrespooding with the demands of •the occa sion. lime translation of the NNEIs is now very generally acknowledged to heat, unequal composition; to be slovenly and mean in many of its parts; anti, on the whole, to be un faithful to the sense, and altilgether alien from the character of its magnificent original. Many of its pass.irs, it is tree, ate eminently .spirited, harmonious, and poetic, 'ltch as Might be expected tram the pen of DRYDEN; and, with all its' faults, it was unquestionably the best transliitiou of the great AVOsTAN Eut which we posses'sed, till the present day. Still, however, it left o Want, 'of which the English Reader had cause to eb-opinin and tbli Want Is nor,. at length, as we think, sufficiently supplied by the new trans lation of the MNRit, tatvilicil we are now desirous of calling the attention of slich of our Readers as' are interested in works of this nature, and are rotalifieg to decide on its pre. tensions to the public approbation..., The inequality of DnYnEtes Nfuse iJ visible not 6nTy tit the ;meal pages of her long task, but In the general eircution of some entire books of the Pnem, in conseiluence either of their having enraged more of the author's attention, or of their having been written in a happier humour of his mind. Among those books of the English 2Eszts, which discover mkt Of the powers of Dnvne n• , may be reckoned the fourth. the seventh, the ninth, the eleventh, and the twelfth. From these, therefore, we will Select some of the must brilliant Passages, and, by placing them with the corresllffloling passages in the more modern translatio.o, wu shall thus enable the reader to determine in the faire s t way on the respective merits of the rival Poets. Our first transcript shall be of the translation of that pa thetic and awfully terrific description, in the fourth book, of the Prodigies and Omens, which, acting on the mind of the unhappy Qum:, impelled it to phrensy, and urged bur to self•destruction. The passage begins at line 4bo, and ends with line 473, in the original " The wretched Queen, pursued by cruel fate, Begins at length the light of heaven to hate; And loathe to live : then dire portents she sees, To buten on the death her soul decrees. Strange to relate! for when, before the shrine, She pours in sacrikce the purple wine; The purple wine ir turn"d to putrid blood; And the white offer'd milk converts to mud. Thit dire presage, to her alone reveal'd, From all, e'en (tom her sister she conceard, A marble Temple stood within the grove; Sacred to death and to her murder'd love, The hennaed chapel she had hung around With snowy fleeces, and with garlands crown'd. Oft, when she visited this lonely dome, Strange voices inflect from her husband's tomb. She thotight she heard him sums sou her away Invite her to his grave, and:chide her stay. Mutely 'tie heard . r when, with a boding note, The solitary screech owl , strains her throat And on a chimney's top or turret's height, With songs obscene disturbs the silence of the night. Besides, old prophecies augment her fears : And stern MAMAS in her dreams appears Disdainful as by day. She seems alone Tewanderin her sleep through ways unknown, Guideless and dark; or in a desert plain To seek her sabjeets, and to seek in vain. • Like Pr:NTlfige's when; distracted his fear, He saw two suns an.d double Thebee appear: Or mad.ORLSTEII, what his mother's ghost' Full in his face infernal wales tost't And shook-her snaky leeks. tie shuns the sight; • e'er the stage, surprised with mortal fright " The Furies guard the g ate, and intercept his flight. Dustiest. Much of this is good; and re prober it se one of ihe'-bela efforts of the sublime Muse of, Dwebas. If the following translation, therefore, should be nutted on the "tinge in .latti superior, we Tenn or one-r4unre par ants in 141VUT 05 04 cositemporartnay be confidently presumed i— • Now all sUbdued, and by tier fetes spin - LIN, Anxiiiiis on death unhapPyllitio call'd: Thc,beatus of heaven fetigile hei sicken'd sight And re.rtents ciriiivd to Scare her from the light. As Oft frequents with gifts the hallow'd shrtuii • And - potivs libations of neetareous wine; Sit r relate ! trpnn the sacred thitit • • ; The wine falls blackening and corrupts to toles. This pradigy to none-her lips impart ; froin the sister of lier heart: Within the space her ample courts include; Itais'd to tier former love, a temple stood : Whoie Wells she dress'd, in fond devationi houri; With Satiwyffeeces and with festal flowers. I fere now, whru earth reposed in night's embrace; gisMil accents whisper throngh the place. The dead are there,•;—.and, with no mortal tune; - Her conscious huitiarid claims her for his own . And, lonely an the roof, night's bird prolongs Her note; of woe, atid shrieks funereal songi. Predictions too, front ancient prophets brOught, with dread simrning on her startled thought. In dreams note fierce Xmeas, wrapt in gloom, Inipeli her plitenti, rind provokes her doom : , Now solitary, watideritig,wiztry, sloe, • She seems o'er long and trackless wastes to go : To seek, ebandoretl, and a queen no more, tier Tytiot cnuirades on a desert shore. glad as wild Ps.s . rriens, when his roll* eyei Saw front the deep infernal legions rise : Aud, by distraction's lawless poWer coinpell'd, A two sun and double Thebes beheld Or Mind-struck, like On arts on the stage, - When, pale With fright; he shuns his Atother's rage While, pressing on Lis steps, ilia Shakes her lianas, Ared with !dick serpents and Tertareari bran& Aghast he flies ; but at the guarded gate . The avenging terrors of the•kuriei wait. Svstmoss. THE TFILATN.ES. KING'S Ttrivillo.—,-A new serin-comic dpera was brought forward at this place on Saturday, befote a crowded house. The name of the piece is L'Armse, and the fable is taken from- Mrs. ONE'S pathetic and terrific tate of The Father and the Daughter.—The admirable acting of Asitatto- GEM find CAMPORESE rendered it in the highest degree interesting and affecting. The music was con►poged by PARR, and is a good mixtnre of the light elegance of theltalian with the scientific solidity of the German style. The piece WAS well received. It was followed by a new ballet, en titled Zak(' or The Peruvians, which was Ow gether gland and striking in performance and scenery. , Covr.NT•GAttnr.q.---tt has been _justly observed bV n liherai Critic in a Morning. Paper, referring !o the representation of Julius Cd.sar nn Saturday ust at this Theatre, ;hat when Mr. KUMBLP ewes the stage, though •we .01311 retain an excel- . - lent rassius and Mark ilathoffy in YOUNG, and C. K vmaLE, wu catinot hope ti) have another Broca. 'Fills observation was fully jostified by the per formance of these Actors, and particularly of the first, whose Brutus had nil the calm dignity, the philosophic reflection, the public spirit, and the get,tle piqideroest... which the Piet tins drawn with such ekrioisite skill, : , o4.toient, And 'historical precision. He was received throughout with fervent and reiterated uppianse. v"--- If we may trust report, Mr. KEmar.fr has re sumed his intention 01 performing,Fuistaffbefore he finally quits the stage. That he will give alaith ful interpretation of the te‘t, and an accurate outline of. .the character, we are quite satisfied, hut whethyr the colouring fully be sufficiently gay and animated, may admit amine doubt. But we may so far trust to his llama! taste and a judg ment matured by experience, as to, conceive that he will not attempt what he does, not conceive . himself to be capable.of executing. Report statesthat KEAN'S popularitY has reached Ames ica to such an extent as to induce the thea trical Managers in that country to offer him an engagement for three years, at a recompense of ten ,thousand pounds gelling, well secured in this country. SIT IL DAVY'S SA!"[ITY LAMP.—..M. VAN MONS As bent the gratifying intelligence that the Lamp nvented by the - scientific and indefatigable Sir HUMPHREY PAyY, for being used in mines, coal )US, completely succeeded in the Nether- lands. The' folloWing is an extract from his letter communicating its. effects, and which is highly sa tisfactory on this important invention. " Forti fied With it," he says', " we can penetrate into the foulest mines. - We have even opened DepOts of g as , and procured its mixture with the prdportion of atmospheric air calculated to produce the most prompt inflammation, and the strongest explosion, Init the gni has never taken fire 'We use gauze made of stronger wire than with you, in Order to guard against any exterior darimge from the awk- - m a dne s s of the workmen ; anti 'to prevent the men from Opening the lamp, sve have adopted the ex pedient of a small padlock; with the key of which the master ruiner is entrusteit. The heating of the gauze clOth, however intense it may be, is not attended with any danger, for iron the most incan descent will not affect gas; nething but flame will kindle it. Some attempts have been matte to light one by weans of its gas, buti am not it 4 yet ac quainted with the result. I should think Snell a project must be attended with many obstacles." thivittt AND PA INTP.II.—The appointed flAlit he tweet) Oliver' awl Painter, on Tuesday next, being preventytiny the inform: ion laid against the for- tiler, a meeting 'at Calais has been proposed. The hark et s are to decide upor, it in the course of the week, The bets ha% e not 'been called in as yet. SCROOGINS AM) TUlt N tt...-.411e final settlement of the Stakes brt wren the above pagilists will take place on Toeidav evening next, at Belcher's; Cat tie Tavern, itolborn. These heroes ni fist are expected to meet each other in tile Isle of IVight, an the 1011) of jour. • BATH it RIVALS, MAY IG.--Lora 1-1111, Callous% of show s . si t T j k,,, 4k ,Cllffarri, Sir E. and Luny fitartopp, Sir A , b ta u y: I* l) '4lc A "l r t c ' %' C . 4 t l ; " i t ralt i e r Ze ln le u i v n i eukrtirc Palmer. Lieutenant em,e, Dr. Flint. itev. the Deana tort, lice. W. Dclity, Key. W. ,g„ 1 -4 4 ittlfe-Ac , Aril, Aar. 4.241. COCi! `L. ~i ti (train the Ilatitpskire Telegraph ) . . .TOWNSRND AND OTHERS against itop cuctuziNp. Our readers Will recollect that see, ourNer'of the 6111 lust. that thei - e - ithirWceit executions in Lord 'Cochrane's bouie. We t ' 3l , give the followi n g stateaent áf what has happened since, authority At the tinie theSileriff'S officers levied the eXe entioos, and took possession of them.. Lord C. was not-in the house, nor did he appear t ilviv ouch' last ‘Veduesday week, when aboUt silt in the atterniinn, %chi* one of sire officers . Was putting some ca:;:e into the stable, the followittg strarageni . sorted ro, to get out the Other : the hell at the fi.ont door was rung violently, When the 'Haul left in posses , i6o stepped without t he kitchen (1 . 60 i• to see who it was that 'rung, and the door was, in. stantly thut.against bins ;:.and, as it has since ap peared, by his Lordship himself, Who, upon the man demanding to he let in again,. threatened death to the first person who should attempt. to enter the litii6e.-=-The rie:tt day; Mr. Hollis,'the Under-Sheriff, went to Holly Hill; and had aeott terenee with him through the%virulow, -which he kept shut down, - arid when he repeatedly Made the sante threats, notwithstanding the Under-Shtriff warned him Of the illegality and impropriety of his conduct, and offered to retake possession by sufficient force to enable hini to support an Betio!, for, it trespass, if he should wisluto-do ii). He then . left him, cautioning himagaitist furtheriesistance-, and informing him that he shoot(' send a suffieent unniber of per3ons tot egstio Ilit• poisesdon by force; and he lannediately issued a warrsaut to the She ritt'S Officers at Farellion, Ciosport, and rorts mouth, to aid and rissi-J the Officer who bad been in risiesaion, acid to take such other persons a s . might be necessary t o retake possession- of The goods, &a. They. went the next . morning to do . so, .but were deterred by Lord C„'s threats, top! by his having fired off a gun, at one of the windows, and by seeing what be gave out to be, and what atiparently were, -bags of gunpowder laid at the windows anti doori, with trains lead. tog to them, and notices st uc k u p i n various parts, "'!'ante notice, explosion bags are set wit hits ; thieves beware." Several letters passed betWe, • and the Under-Sherilf,•but he. could not lit. induced to give tip the possession, and as' his threats Were cOntinited, and hither apparent pre paration 10r resistance was made, it became ne cessary to communicate what had happened t ) the Sheriff, then in London, who haViHg ci,n sultvd high legal • anthority, as to, .the. proper mode of proceeding, imtnediately repaired into the country, and on Wednesday went to /ltd.. ly attrnded hvl Mr. •Hollis, bis tinder Sheriff, his Officers,. and a stolicient force to. re obtain the possession - in execution of the'liing's writs ; and basing first ineffeetoally endeavour ed to convey' a let rto Lord C.'s hands, and at the window of the room ) in which he hush beets seen it; the course-of .the morninzi verbally sin! repeatedly demanded ,entrauce, and no one helps!, tound ei!tier to take the letter or give ;city altSkl - cr to the verbal communication, the :windows where the supposed bags of gunpowder lily were brokeit with a bo a t-hook, th a t i h r y might be pulled out, and.the door Ito ced, when.his Lordship was found in the libtary;and eS he offered no farther re- ShtylrecovotApti aheil custody, at he tohir . - wise must have. been, an d the trains that h e -gave 'Out were, and supposed to be guallowdrr, Wert! 101111t1 to he only powdered charcoal, and his gist at that time charged only with' powder lite Under-Sheriff stayed utter the possession h ut bi..ett regained, to look over several trunks of papets 'and clothes, which his Lordship wished to take away, and gave leave for their ,being removed" and he left the house for London the same evening. CORN-EXCIIANOR, MAY 19,---We had a mid tiling supply of Wheat this morning from Essex and Kent, which sold readily at an advance of from 2s. to 3s, per quarter from this day week barley is iu demand, and 2s. per quarter dearer.; Malt is steady Oats have rather a better sale nt Monday's thices ; Grey Pease are, in , de mand, and 2s. per quartet higher ; Boiling ream and Beans remain file sa per sack dearer than Foreign Wheat - tills. 755. me ; Floor is fixed at si. day week. ;Int! ditto - ' - 10Gi. • , Fine Grey Pease - Us. s. Tick Mans - 83 , 415. Old ditto - LW. G 44. Small Tick Beans as. 451. Old ditto - 6tis. Feed Oats - - 174. 245. Floc ditto - ais. Poland ditto - 2r4s. Vine 1354. 4a3. Polatoe d‘i to des• 52a. 4; 11 ,e. Se4ll. OM per last. Vim Flour 108 s. Sentidi 140 s. 10b4. Enitii4l, Wheat - Find ditto -100 s. Old ditto - 1223. 1:103. Itye Fine ditto - - 623. Barley - - - - Ms. Fine dittO -•- - 48*. 52:, Malt - 6,1‘, Fine tlitto 801. 84$. WhitePease fliullert) 61s. 645. nn* 4ittu - rids. ilea. Grey rea4c 403„ 44% • A . panter;' . of Portsea, was on Prithty appre.. liended, under a warrant from Lord ELLENBO. orivott, tar printing PArodies on the Litany, Creed, 'Sic. the same for which Ir. Flora was indicted hotly' in the Court of King's Bench. tie was ad. mitred to bail. Our diming are traitors, Si An.i wake ut hoe the good we at might gain By fearing to tittempt."•— Those persons who may have felt an inclination to adventure in the present Lottery, but who may have yet tiefeiveil their purChases, will do well to consider the applicability of the iiilttVe HMI lose no time in hastening to either of the Of. aces of Ce. Camtnt.t.,, 7, Cocithill,or26, Oxford street, wilure a few istiKil4l.Tickets and shares may he had before To•morrow, which will be the Last. Day, when '1 Pi izcs of 20,000/. niir of 3,001)1. Eigliteenof 1,0001. &c. mutt be drawn. To-morrow, 'Tuesday, the '2oiti intettnt, the Lottery finishes, being the List Day,of Deawing. The Wheel contains the major part of the Capi!.i t , bath as in number and value, eluding Two cif 20,0001. Four of 9,0001 fitc. &o ail ot which lutist he then decided.—A few Tickets and Sliarcs rauted . undrawn, will remain on Sale at the ta. ~,u ri ie oales of T. Brsis, 4, Corniiill. and 9, Charing-cross, till eleven o'clock this evening. a s the • 4lrttwing begins, us early as nine Tsputotror Moulin& . .