The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-06-04 00:00:00

PUBLIC MONUMENT

TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE LAMENTED
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES AND SALE
COBURG. -

The Cenotaph Committee, after maturely comiderloir the
vamp's comainairiti #### s they have received, and is *maw.
. . . .

roily with what they have mann to believe is the wish
or the public, beg leave to state that it is their intention.
shonitl their funds be aderpiate, to construct the proposed
Temple of the Cenotaph nu a scale sufficiently extensive to
'limit of its being appropriated to the purposes of Divine
Woitslatp, and constituted a Free Church.
(Fur the Couunitite)
BENJ. BOTCH, Jun.

iNVITATIOI4.—Those Ladies and Gentlemen
who have not yet selected Tickets and Shares for
the present Lottery, are respectfully invited to the Royal
Eseluniee Office of HAZARD and CO. the Comm-tins,
before Five u'Clork this Afternoon ; when the Wheels will
be opened, and the First 20 Prises drawn mnst all be Capi-
tals : indeed, the Scheme is so formed by HAZARD and Co.

at the request of their numerous Correspondents, that be-
tween THIRTY and Foliar Capital Prises will, its all proba-
bility, be draws THIS DAY.

Mr. BILASISEN, a Privoian Gentleman, who
travelled with the son of Sir JOHN Mhswei.r..
Baronet, has just published a Series of very intereslinc Ut-
ters, descriptive of his Tom thrum& Sweden, Prussia. Any-
tria, Hungary, Istria, The [valise' ;sleuth, Ezypt, Syria,
Cyprus. 'thuds., The Morro, Green•, Calabria, Italy, The
Tyrol, The Banks of ihe Rhine, Hannover, Holstein, Den-
nark, Westphalia, and Holland. They also contain an un •
nasal nrsabsv of remarkable Aurrdutcs, and tend to illustrate
seven al recent political occurrent:vs.

LUCIEN BONAP•RTE.—.It is not generally
known, that the 4' 411emoirs of Lucien Bonaparte."
'drawn up from his correspondence and other pipers, were
misted at Paris in 1815; when, however, they were nearly
ready,fe lon appearance arose, the puliliratiun
wait , Ins whisk impression wan eventually
beret. AO 110111 of Lucien, it is presumed, indemnified the
publisher, and obtained of him the sacrifice of his *peen's-
time and the posnemion d the origins! manuscript. Ply whet
means this manuscript bas again been suffered to see the
light, we knew not. It has, however, just appeared in Lon-
don, mid will be read with avidity by the literary and politi-
cal world. It abounds with the must curious facts and
anecdotes of distitiguished persons.

•
A CARD —/ Noble/nen, Gentlemen, and Sports-
men.—JAMES TURNER. of Crnt•don, Veterinary
Surgeon of the Royal Waggon Train, liege leave to inform
the Public, that his Horse Infirmary is open for the rvetption
of Horses labusniug under the disease commonly called
Founder, or Groggy Lammers, fu► the cure of which he is
performing the new uperatiun tinily. Mr. Turner being the
discoverer of Me rent trot of Um compl.,int, for which Mc
new operation is petfuroted (having proved it to be ise the
naviculac joint, situated within site hoof, • disease which
has never been dercribed by any author), begs leave further
to anuonnee to the Public, that tiw•y may hare ocular demon-
stration from healthy anti diseased alternator, with which
Mr. T. will attend at the different Inns in Croydon, every
traturday, until further notice, front two till ruin o'clock iu
oho afternoon, to euturnence uu Saturday, the 13th of Jane.
Admission with tickets only, which may be had patio, ori
application at the Hone Infirmary, Croydon, Surrey.
Mr. UM* bertrin, of Whitecrosa-street, The-
was Heirmsei, of Whitechapel-road, John Smith.
of Whilecrosawtrert, anti John Smith, of Whits.
chapel-ton& all in the City of London, were yea.

terday convicied before the Cammiesioiters of
Excise of selling adulterscd coffee, cad fined
accordingly.

4flt:
dRAND SERIES OF NATTONAL MEDALt.

MR. EDITOR —lt is rather • singular tircomstanee
that Eseglaud and France, who are the two oldest
monarchies in Enrope, should have been for so
many cesituries opposed in politics and rivals in
glory, as to create an idea among the vulgar, that
they are natural enemies to each other, as though
the channel that flows between Dover and Calais
should necessarily create any other effects than
those produced by a similar current between Holy-
head mid Dublin; or as if the common parent of
the universe ever iuteuded any other strife between
hiv children than the honourable rivalry iu all those
pursuits by which man rises above the level of the
brute creation, and by the impress of mind upon
his works, vindicates from the sneers of infidelity
that cheering revelation which declares that an im-
mortal principle of existence was breathed into,
and animates, and ennobles, his material and perish-
able frame, and emitting, amid all the dust and
ashes under which it is at times almost smothered
and extinguished, those splendid sparks which evi-
dence his heavenly origin even in this life, and
soften the dreary confines, and illuminate the dark
passage to the grave, and disperse its gloomy and
uncertain shadows, with the elevating prospect and
the animating certainty, that its portals are bat the
entrance to a more exalted, and expanded, and in-
telligent state of being.
At too period lance Britain existed as a nation did
she ever stand on such an eminence as else now
occupies, for never were her .powers of mind so
called upon fur exertion, so impelled into action, and
so invigorated by conflict, as they have been in the
late tremendous struggle of twenty years. Every
person is willing to acknowledge this, but all are
not equally ready to render justice to the abilities
of our great opponent, Napoleon, now that he no
longer stands as • giant, arrayed in armour, not
more refulgent than well tempered, leaning on the
stow of his might, and brandishing theftword of
destructioto, alarming the strong by his iortoweva,
and tasking all wisdom of the thoughtful and the
experienced, by the depth of his plans and the in-
tricacy of his devices. Nu doubt, now that the danger
has ceased to exist, people are to be found who can
consider this Goliath of intellect to be of as corn moil
a stature as themselves 1 Whenca, then, 'irises those
glories which we claim ito having withstood, re.
pelted, assailed, and overcome him? Surely, if we
have coped only with madness or imbecility, we
may be silent on the aubject of our achievements;
but I suspect this Pitt and Wellington thought
very sliffereetly, and found all their resources of
genius and energy acre tried to the utmost in the
day of trial. Think not, Sir, that I am the par-
tisan or apologist of Bonaparte: I sin neither. A.
a Briton. who considered him as. the most deadly
enemy his country ever had to encounter, I would
willingly have signed my death warrant if l could
have included his lialr sib my twist Upon his ac-
tions I could never Elect but with abhorrence and
detestation, and convitieed of his perfidy, I would
snorer have sheathed the Board while he remaitied
in power. " Carthage mint be destroyed," was
his motto—" War to the knife" was mine. But I
never have, aid I trust .1 never shall hesitate in
doing justice to those transcendent powers of mind
which are unequalled in our days (if indeed they
ever have been equalled), or in lamenting that an
intellect which, tightly directed, might have been
the 'source of such abundant benefits to man, should
have been exerted only to spread yet wider the
streams of moony and affliction, to resider his name
a harbinger of terror and desolatioli. and II by-
word of astonishment and abhorrence to the re-
motest generations.
Nor is it probable that it ever will si uk into
ob-
lirimt; at least no person ever took more effectual
methods to perpetuate the records of his life than
the Einiwror of France, und to s:•aitrr them over
all civilosed society. You will of course judge that
I here allude to his series of medals which contain
all the remarkable events of his extraordinary ca-
reer, and which, while they do honour to his taste,
'gamily diplay how deeply lie hail studied the pro-
grass of time, and remarked, that of all re-
cords, the medallic, while it gratifies refinement by
calling into action mental mid mechanical ability,
is that which also combines übiquity end durabi-
lity. The trittinplial arch at Paris has already but
some of its proudest ornaments, sqd a few years
hence will probably see it levelled with the dust ;
but on the medals of Napoleon it will exist in all
its splendour for thous/nods of years ; and when we
consider the number of Napoleon medals that have
been struck, it is scarcely presumptitius to say that
it probably never will be unknown. It wool(' be
curious to ascertain the mother of medals that
have been ',ruck of Napoleon et the Paris Mint
alone. I have little doubt they amount to several
hundred thousand. A. soon as a medal was en-
graved, before any impreasiions were sold. packets
of thesis were sent to every Court in alliance with
(or rather in subjection to) France. and• time de-
mand at home w-s yet more extensive. A friend
of mine havitig occasion to apply at the Mint for
some, saw orders fur upwards of seventeen thou-
sand, nor could he obtain whit he wanted till these
were executed. There appears to have been a
similar establishment at the Minn of Milton and
Home. and the foreign medals of Napoleon tire
almost as numerous as thine executed in France.

These records and memorials of Bonaparte's ac-
tions and power. are now sailing down the streatn
of time, and how interesting will they be to future
agev ! But did Napoleon till the great stage of
Europe alone Had he no rival in arms, or coun-
cil—no great opponent, tinder whose banners all
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