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London, England, 1820-08-07 00:00:00

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" We find nothing in it worthy of extracting"
is a very common expression with Reviewers—how
different must be the estimation of the book from
which we extract the following two articles: it has
for some tune been before us, but other subjects
have prevented our earlier notice of it. The publi-
cation is intitled " The Retrospective Review," and
professes to give extracts front only those works
whose antiquity renders them worthy of the Book.
worm's It : R It:. But fur the Extracts—the first
is in proof of the comparatively happy, because less
anxious, life of a man without a family, and we
dive it for the comfort of such ot our unhappy
readers, reminding them that the comfort of a con-
nubial life are nut enumerated, and can be properly
estimated only by those who have tasted them.
" There was a disputation on a time between this Solon, who
was married and had one onely sonne, a toardly young man, and
Tholes, another of the sages, that was uninanied. winch estate
was better. marriage or a single life: Solon commended matri-
mony, Thales preferred the other: and when lie perceived that
lie could not perswade Solon by ream and argument to be of his
opinion, he practises' this device. When their mike was ended,
being both at Thales his house, Thalos went forth and caused
one to faire an errand to him, and say as he had instructed him,
as though hee Caine from Athens, where Solon's dwelling was;
this nain like a stranger, as these wise men were talking together
within the house, knocketh at the duore; Tliales letteth hini in :
the man faineth a message to him from a friend of his at
Athens : Solon hearing him say that hee came from Athens :
Solon hearing hint say that hee came from Athens, went
forth of the next room to him, and asked what news from
Athens? Little news (quail he) but as I came forth of the
city, I saw the senatoura and principal' men of Athens going to
the bunall of a young man. Solon going into the other roome
again, and musing who this should be, being in some doubt lest
peradventure this should be his sonne, cometh forth to him
againe, and asked him who it should be that was dead ? He
answered that he had forgotten his name, but it was the onely
some of a notable man In Athens. and that for the reverence
and love that they did beare to his father, all the nobilitie and
principall men of the city went to his burial'. Then Solon
greatly confused and troubled in minds, goeth from Win againe,
fearing his owne some, and being tine out of quiet, returneth
to aske him, whethet he could not call to remembrance the
name of this young man's father, if he heard it reckoned ? He
answered, that he thought he could remember his name. if lie
might heave it againe. And after Solon had reckoned up the
names of a great many of the principal' men of the city, and the
other denying them to be the man, he came at last to his own
name. and asked whether he were not called Solon ? And when
the other affirmed that to be the name of the father of this young
man that was dead. Solon cryeth out upon his onely sonne. and
maketh great lamentation c he taireth his haire, said beateth hie
head against the we]. and doth all things that men use to do in
cases ot'calaniitie. When '!'hales had beheld him a while in This
trdoo• be of good esololons Solon, (saith he) thy sonne liveth ;
c now you toe by your owne example what evil' things are
Incident to marriage."
The second Extract is a complimentary article to
red haired ladies ; and if it afford an idea to any
sighing swain, whose Dulcinea may possess locks of
so classic hue we shall be gratified.
" Glorious fruit of the essence of the most beautiful' visible
being ! intelligent reflection of the radical) tire of nature ! image
of the sun, the most perfect ! I am not so brutish as to mistake
for my queen, the slaughter of him that my ancestors acknow.
'alga' fur their god. Athens oemoaned the fall of her crown,
in me ruins of Apollo's temple.; Rome ceased to command the
world, when she denyed incense to the light; and Bitantiuin
first beim to inslave mankind, when she woke for her arms
those ot the sun's sister : as long as Persia did homage to this
universal' spirit, for the rayes that she held from him, foure
thousand yeares could not make old the vigour of her monarchy ;
but being ready to see his images broken, be took sanctuary in
Pequin tram the abuses of Babylon."
" A brave head, covered with red hair, is nothing else but the
sun in the midst of his rays; or the sun himself is onely a great
eye under a red periwig; yet all die world speaks ill of it,
because few have the honour to be so. And amongst a hundred
ladies, you shall hardly find one, because they being sent from
Heaven to command, it's necessary there should be more sub-
jects than sovereigns. Do we not see. that all things in nature
are more or less noble, according as they are more or lease red;
amongst the elements, be that contains the most essence, and the
least matter of substance, is the tire, because of his colour; gold
bath received of his dye. the honour to reign over the maenads ;
and of all the planets, the sun is most considerable, onely be-
' cause he is most red; the hairy annets which doth fly up and
down the skies, at the death of heroes. are they not the rod nurs-
tacheoes of the gods, that they pluck off for griefe ? Castor and
Pollux, those lode fires that make seamen foretell the end of a
storm, can they be any thing else than the red hairs of Juno,
which she, in token of love sends to Neptune? In fine, had it
not been for the desire men had to power* the fleece of a
red sheep, the glory of thirty demi-gods would be in the cradle of
those things that never were born. And (a ship being yet but a
recent invention) Americus would have told %lb that the world
huh fours parts. Apollo, Venus. and Love, the fairest divini-
tyes of the pantheon, are crimson red ; and Jupiter is brown but
by accident, because of the smoke of his thunder, which hath
blackt him. But if the examples of mythologic do not satifie the
obstinate, let them consult history. Sampson, whose strength
hung at his locks, did he not receive his miraculous energy trues
the rednesse of his hair? Did not the destinies make Use con-
servation of the empire of Athens, depend upon one red hair of
Nisus ? And God. would he not have sent the light of faith to
the ffithropians, if he could have found amongst them but one
red ? One would not doubt of the excellency of those persons,
if one considered, that alt men were not made by men, and for
whose forming God himself choose and kneaded the substance,
were red. Adam. that was created by God's own hand, ought to
be the most secomplisht of men—he was red. And all perfect
philosophy ought to teach us. that nature which inclines to the
most perfection, alwaies endeavours, in forming a man, to make
a red one, just as she aspires to make gold by making of mercury,
but she seldom hits upon it. An archer is not esteemed un-
skilful', who letting thirty arrows the, but five or six hits the mark.
As the best batianced consti:ution that which' is between fleg-
matick and melancholly, one must needs be very happy to hit
exactly an invisnble point. The flaxen and the black are
besides it ; that iii to say, t se fickle and the obstinate ; between
tech is the nordim, alter.: wisdom, in favour of red men,
bath lodged vettue, so their flesh is much more' delicate,
their blood more pure, their spirits more 'clarified, and
consequently their intellest more aomplehed, because of
the perfect mixture of these foure qualities. This, IS the reason

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Mr.
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why red men become not so soon grey as those that are black, as if
nature were angry and unwiling to destroy that, which she took
a pleasure in making. In troth, I seldom see a flaxen head of
hair, but I th' ko ' a distaff ill periwig' But I grant, that fair
wutten when young, are • but as soon as their
~r.„ip oully ink that their flesh
;di i tsel in I th a t a beard ? I speak
not black beards, for tis well known, if the ill weare any,
it cannot be but very dark. Since then we must al e slaves
to beauty, is it not far better to be deprived of our freedom by
golden chains, then by hempen cords, or iron fetters?"

FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
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BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

J. Bolt and G. Jones, Bath, grocers.
BANKRUP'I'S.

J. Barrow, Bramell, Cheshire. dealer. Solicitors. Messrs.
Appleby and Sergaint, Gray's Inn.
J. Housman. Broinsgrove, Worcestershire. wool dealer. Sol.
- Wheeler, Castle Street, Holborn.
1. Thornton, Kirkeaton, Yorkshire, victualler. Sols. Messrs.
debt' and Sergeant, Gray's Inn.
_. Hall. North Shields. mister mariner. Sots. Messrs. Mit-
chell and Francis, Sun Court, Cornhill.
DIVIDENDS.
Aug. 25, B. Smith and N. Redhead, Penrith. banken-22. I.
and R. Corny. East India Chambers, merchants—l 2. J. 1..
Cope. Kingston upon Hull, merchant-12, J. Woodroof. Gun
Street, Liberty of the Old Artillery G round, turner-25, J. Barnes.
Portsea. bufider--26. J. S. Rains. Wapping Wall. merchaut-
-24. J. Bragg. Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, mercer-12, H.
Wwldington, Bridge Street, 131ackfriars, merchant-26, T. H.
Smith, Oxford, linen draper-26. J. Swainson, Manor Row,
East Smithfield, merchant-25, T. Freame, Worcester, cabinet
maker—Sept. 7. W. Fanner, Walsall, Staffordshire, innholder
—7, J. Wood, Walsall, Staffordshire, factor.
CERTIFICATES to be granted Aug. 22.
G. Stock, Bristol, cabinet maker—T. E. Ilenshaw. Derby
currier—E. Steven Aintree. Lancashire, sail maker—H. and W.
Carpenter. Alresford. Southampton, brewers—C. Willis. Hatton.
Garden, scrivener—A. liolmes and 11. White, Chesterfield. and
I'. Tindall. Ckester Le Street, Durham. hat nianutacturers.

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