The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-11-05 00:00:00

GENARAL D'EVARf.UX'S LEGION.

We lately published no retract of a lett►r from
Lirutenest Strive, dated no board the Luling, off
Barbadoes. Aulost flit. The following is from
soother officer of the same rrifitoritt. sod the same
date, adJressed to his brother, ot Ross :
"Os board the I-storey, under sail in Carlisle Day,
Herbarium, Autnat 42, 1419.
" It is with the "neatest pleasure I base to inform you of
our safe snivel Isere, after a passace of Etc weeks from
Waterford. We have, thank Providence. been very forte•
nate is regard to the health of the People on bruin!, there
Mine no silliness whatever. and rpi;eter and betirr eundaet.
ed earn Ittiref willed from Hritaio , the greatest bsamoay
woe •ulnida minting aloe officers.
" We wale the Charlotte Gambier, with Coload Meade,
Major Dereurv, he on bard; they said they were very
Iseatihy. If there be any improper reports shoat as, I beg
you will contradict them, as meat were never better treated,
or so *ell satisfied as we are alt.—Yours, Sac.

•' CHARLES FRENCH,

s.tenteuant tint nine surroent."
We just learn that there is a lever in oven from
Captaio Parsons, to the purport of the fureguing.—.
treentwe's Jorerrrat

MELAACHOLY ACCIDENT.

On Sitorilav moron% a melancholy accident
happened in Kell. near Whiteliiiven, by an
explosion of fire-damp, in which twenty persons
were unfortunately killed. We are informed that
it was a isn't unexpected occurrence, every re-
cension having been used, and an excellent venti-
lation regularly preserved. The explosion proceed-
ed from a part afire workings w here the pillars are
beiiit; removed, and where the atmospheric air was
ft.reetl over the broken parts as much as possible.
The overlookers and workmen had orders to examine
daily whether illy tire.damo existed in this part of
the pit, end uo rio occasion had soy been per-
ceiv.il.
It is ornit of the regulations in the Whitehaven
collieries, that no hewer shall approach his *cult
without a nary or Sqfety Lump ; and with one he
may *lo'o7 explore, let the qoamity of tire-damp be
what it may. The present lativeutable event was
the eye airquence of this regotattott lint being ob-
served ; and possibly the iiidiscretion of one indivi-
dual led to the catastrophe.
These workings in Pit have been quite
free from tire-damp, and on Friday evening they
were left in "'opposed safety.—lmpressed with the
ides
,t 1 s total absence of danger, workmen become
more adseoturons; and are apt to consult their
own convenience in the utter neglect of rules fram-
ed for genehl benetit.—Sir admirable
lamp, if kept is order, is perfect security to the
mints. From its construction, however. the light
it affords is not so strong as can be obtained by
other means, and miners are frequently induced to
remove the safety e, hinder, to have !WOWSe to
candles. thereby occavioniii; danger, which other-
wise would be avoided. Fatal as has been this ac-
cident, bad it occurred an hour later, more per-
sons would probably have suffered, es a great many
of the work p-ople *tilos pit had not assembled.
Two men were taken out alive on Monday morn.
inK. after having remained in the pit above thirty-
six hours, exruerd to the noxious vapour occasioned
by the explosion. and probably owe their lives to
having upon them gond flannel shirts. which in a
great degree preserved them from the fire, and kept
them warm afterwards. These two persons, with
live others, had retreated into some old worktrigs,
where the sir was lees impure, but their compa-
nion' did not smelts.; and when found, had no
shisto upon them, and for went of covering may
have perished by cold. It is surprising that the
two men, a fattier and son, could go long exist
in the place where they were, as the air was so iiu.
purr that the limps would not burn, whets the peo-
ple went to bring them out.—A little dog, the pro-
perty of the two men, *seals° taken out alive, awl
was lyiugciose by his masters.

The follosting are the acmes of the unfortunate
sufferer%:—
Alesender Billion, Stephen How, ‘Villiam 711`Kinnry,
Michael Words Poi irk Wade, Jubu Cummings. William
Askew, Jaewit Anderson, Jonathan Casielbow, Thomas
Itiekrrby, Philip Bales, Johu 11,1othenk,, Andrew Conroy,
Murphy Quin, Edward Cain, 'George Haseldon, Joseph
Gresalinsuoi, Jambes *Gra), and Thomas
Fnker,f,Whitsitaren Paper.)

Wit. SALMON. who has been for many years a
meritorious end inrwt vigilant conductor of the
Bow-street
_pattule. has lately become one of the
principal officers of that establishment. in conse-
quence of Hamar Agues having resigned. the
latter bring now governor of the House of Correc-
tion at Birmingham.
Sunday nigbt about eight o'clock.. most daring
burglary w.is committed on the premises of Mr.
Teomas floc, Cabinet Manufacturer, of No. 8,
Hera-street, Bethnal-green.
We pre yesterday at length the coufee.ion of
Thomas Woods, who stated himself to have mur-
dered a woman between Edinburgh and Leith. ten
weeks ago, and which turns out to be a gross
impuoition. as Eire fellow was only released from
the gaol at Horsemouger-lane on Monday. to
which place he had beta/ committed as a vaga-
bond before the time of this alleged murder.
He accused himself at Union Hall with the murder
of r female. at Leicester, and afterwards threw her
into the river there. This upon inquiry turned out
to be a fabrication. and that the fellow had imposed
uron a clereysnati to like nissmer ma the country.
Mr. N. STAPLK. on seeing the report yesterday.
produced taw •baoka from Union Hall. by which
this gross imPeeition was defected. The Prisoner
was resnindrd fur a weak,: and he will be disposed
of at Um Saieseam

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LiNtAlitOS ENGLAND.
i.
(FON*, Farhat:ls, coisimititiresi • Am* Apirl

HENRV 1.--/ItATIE OP iIIiARPIING.
0 hefore I close the %Mary of this Peassce, end Prieetillo
the luibulesit nigh of Utephru, it will be prop* Os &oboe
live rapid isnprosement of tki ',mime in Meese, permits
ander the Cooquerur sad his suns. Laetrile( Mid Amoeba,
the twit Aiehhishops of caoterbary, hod peremel thlomelves
worthy id* theli esalied siviot. The ouperioe knowledge ut
the former was universally admitted: the attelemeasts of kis
sorcesstir ...Teo( • still higher elate. Both In their owe
early sears had energised the profession of teseben: end
their precepts slid examples hid •nakeitid the corn:wily of
the drily, mot kindled ardour for learning which am
hardly be parall, led iu the present age. No.' did this toothily-
plasm pr. ish with its authors: it was kept alive by the ho-
nours which were so radically laveshed 011 all obit' cmild
boast of literary serpsireaseista. The velment., which formed
the usual course of educative, levee divided Oohs two Seem,
which still retained the appellations of a more beeherosto
age: the trietiost, comprising (ransomer, logic, sod rbetorte;
and the qundriviusn, or music, arithmetic, geometry, sad
astronomy. It was front the works of the Latin whim,
which had survived thr crick of the respire, that 'lndents
sought to acquire the principal portion of their knowledge;
but b. the smote of mtdicise, sad the more abstruse its-
-1,1111,:111 ions of the mathematic*, the •nciewie were believed
tuft-riot to the Mohammedan teachers; anti many an Log-
lishmaii, during the reicu of Drury, wandered as far as the
bouts of the Ehro io Spoilt, that hr might listen to the is.
strorti. ms, or translate the winks, of the Arabian phthaeo•
Own..
To the praise of the Popes, it must be said, that eves in
the middle ngcs, they were generally attentive to the in-
terests of learning. The first wthools hail been established
in monestries and cathedrals by the seal of their respective
prelates: that they were perpetuated and improved, cm
owing to the regoletious limited by dim rent Pontiffs. But
now the ancient seminaries began to be reelected fur others
opened by men, slut sought fur wealth and distindion by
the public display of that:. abilities; and who established
their schools who there was a prospect of attracting
disciples. The new professors were 91100 animated with a
spirit of competition, which, while it sharpened their facul-
ties, perverted the issifuluess of theirlaboors. There was so
subject on which tlwy would einsdeseeed to acknowledge
their itnionnee Like their Arabian masters, they dismissed
with equal warmth, mature above their comprehensive, oe
beneath their notice. As their schools were open to every
hearer, they had to support their peculiar opinions 'valeta
all the subtlety sod eloquence of their rivals; and ow many
occasions *vie compelled to argue in despite of commis
seise, rather than allow thentatlem to be 1/0111111ished. Heuer
the sit of reasoning came to hr vetoed as the first of bagel.
Icetual acqutiemesits. The stirleot applied assiduritioly to
toe logic et Aristotle, and the subtlety of hie Arabia' com-
mentators: words were substituted is the place of ideas:
nothiplie,l and unmeaning distioctions bewildered the un-
derstanding: and a system of scholastic disputation was
introduced, which the celebrated Abbot of Claim.: 9111e019.
11C411y defined to be ' the art of always seeking, without
ever finding, the troth.'
" A. the principal ecclesiatt ice of England were foreigners,
they imported the foi rip: course of studies. Thus Joffrid,
Abbot of Crityland, who had been educated at Oilcans,
established in hie convent several eseeks of so comtensplible
acquirements, whom he procured from the same city. Wilk
their assistance he detei mined to open a school ma his memo
of Cotenhata, near Cambridge. Al first a large bairn suf-
ficed for their accommodation: in the stetted year their die-

copies were so numerous. that separate aparttnents were al.
lotted to each master. Early in the morning the labours of
the day were opened by brother Odu, who used the
children the rules of grammar according to Macias, surd Om
scholia of Romigius; at six Terrie read lectures ow the
logic of Aristotle, the Isagode or Porphyry, and the Ara.
biros Averroes; nine was the hour allotted to brother
the expoender of the rhetorical works of Cicero
and (Watt lien ; and before twelve messier Gilbert explaioed
to the theological students the diiieolt pomages of tie Holy
Scripture.. This tommout, left vs by • cooteosporary, is the
more curious, as it includes the real origna of the Univer-
sity of Cambridge.
" There were few among the scholars of Howls reign
who did not occasionally practice the art of composleig in
Latin verve. A few of them may certainly clAim the praise
of taste and elegant e; but the majority seem to have upired
to On other excellence than that of 'Alliterating the Odle.
mate metre by the admixture of middle and Anal rhymes.
Lelia prottnetions, however, tote confined to the perusal
and admiration of Latin scholars. The t ich and the power.
ful, flume who alone were able to reward the labours of the
poet, were scqualoted with no oth. r lanenige than their
own, the Gallo-Norman, which since the Comptes* had hem'
introduced into the court of the Prince, and the hall of the

.....--___. _
Baron, and was I d and spoken ly every candidate fur
office and ponce. To amuse and delight these are arose a
new race of versifiers, who neglected Latin composition for
vernacular poetry. In their origin they were 6otered by
the two Horror of Henry, Matilda and Alice. Mailmahuey
swum no that net y putt hastened to the Cnunt of Matilda
at Westminster, to read his versos to that Princess, and
partake of her bounty; and the name of Alice is liequeutly
mentioned with honour by the contraapurary versifiers Get.
mar. Beneoit, and Philippe de Thaun. The works of these
writers are still extant in inentiecript, and shew that their
authors knew little of the irapiration of poetry The turgid
metaphors, the abrupt tennaiti4es, and lb. rapid Illovemeats,
so characteristic of she Anglu.kiaxon moat, though conceived

in bad taste, 'hewed at least indications of native genius;
but the narratives of the Gallo-INornsau pieta are tame, pru-
's:i and iuterniinsble ; and their authors seen, to have
known nu beauty but the jingle of rhyme, and to have
aimed at no excellence hut that of 'pinning out their story
to the greatest possible length. These puents, however, recto
as they were, delighted Heinle fur whum they were written,
and, what was still better, brought wealth and popularity to
their authors.
" Dining the reign of Henry, Geoffry of Monmouth pith-
fished his history of Britain, which hr embellished with nu-
merous tales respecting Arthur sod his knights, Merkel and
his prophecies, burrowed from the songs sod traditions of
the ancient Britons. This extraordinary work was accent.
purled l.y another of a similar description, the history of
Charlemagne sod his twelve peerssuppoard to be compiled by
Archbishop Tit r pin, from the stings of the Preach trunverea ;
and shoat the same tient the Adventures of Alexander the
Great, by the pretended Dares Phrygias, and Maya Cre-
Imola, were brought by some of the crusaders into Europe.
These three works supplied an inexhaustible store of matter
for writers in verse and prow 3 the Seats of Alexander. and
Arthur, and Charlemagne, were repeated and embellished
in a thiiussud forms; spells and enchantments, giants, by-
pugriphs and deagous, ladies cunlued in durance by Ilse
power of necromancy, sod delivered from confinement by
the courage of their knights, captivated the imagination of
one ancestors; and a new species of writing was istrorlnced,
which retained its sway fur centuries, and was known by the
appellation of Romance, because it was originally written
in abe Gallic idiom, an idiom cor►upted (ruin the ancient
language of Hone."— f Pp. 54-542 .)

The election of a Representative for the Connty
of Kent, in the room of the late Sir E. KNATCII.
Butt., is fixed for Tue Kiley, the 16th instant.

Clio. Wm. H rums, Irkieem, Esq. of Knowlton-
court, is appointed joust Rreeiver-General of the
laud-tax, &c. for Kent. on the resignation of Sir
E. KNATCHUCLI, Bart.
It is said that some of the great coal-owners in
this neighbourhood are about to raid* two or three
troops of cavalry.—(Nesreasde Paper.)
J(JYEntt.E THILITRI.-013 Wednesday evening
Mir STARILItr. • young lady. about 17 years of
age. residing at Nu. 165. High-street. Shoreshteh.
was surrounded on her way hew by • gang of tire
buys. the eldest appeared to be oboist 14, who
sewed her ems. while soothe' a( Ih► gong tore •
valasbie tbsch4oes We her neck rad escaped.

(V 7110115 DIVCOVERT.

Leg week • disvovery was made in Cadirret
Cootlwo whir+ has mat tbd rousideralife tot.. rest,
The se,akenett emplo).At to the nitrintuts no* go.
jug rorworil, while rot t.,K hoop-hubs in a et!',,
several fret in thickne-s, who h wparates the :arm ,rf
she C. le from the ronlottne and the proric,m
defences, direevered • gn.intity or hones, nlifl t!..
remains 01 a very 04.44 t female dress. The Imre.
boot, ere foreeom.,t t•• be those of a WORM*. e
hark b At •f R child, newly orr.re
urine. W tin oluigst peace, state. Retire
and by 54r1.n. persons. The (1,,.
is composed of let, isch and wirer, apprie.
to beton% to the age of Ells iheth. StwiSt
think it prolnelde chat the {illy, by someir4.,•,..
heel 11.C11$ rtlf the punishment or h.-tog wsllvl
site-, out W.c mon at one period ril 1/111 11;11/0,...
Othrre, more conceive that some set.o.t
murder will *cerium birth fur the Owe aud rime
of sepulture.

nit 7VRP.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S, TINVIIIDIV, Nov

DRURY. •
II In 1 ago Mr. Pierces c. IS to 1 apt (truffle, •a
131 to 1 apt Brother to 11111thrr
Blocher SO to 1 apt Powlvra
15 to 1 agst Sailer

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