The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-29 00:00:00

THE Nrarr ANNIVERSARY DINNER
of the METROPOLITAN BEERSELLERS'
PROTECTION SOCIETY will take place at HIGH-
BURY BARN T. &VERN, ISLINGTON, on THURSDAY
NEXT, August Ist, 1839. Tickets, ss. each. Dinner on
Table at Three o'( lock.
H. WARBURI 'ON, Esq., M.P., has kindly consented to
take the Chair, and several other influential Gentlemen are ex-
pected to attend.
Recent eircumst: mces affecting a Free Trade in Beer, hav-
ing given to this occasion a peculiar interest, it is particularly
requested that an c any application be made for Tickets, that
suitable arrangement may be made.
In the Evening there will be a Select Ball.
Tickets may be hac l of the Stewards, the Committee, or of
J. Bishop, Se cretary, Cleveland-street, Mile-end ;T. Stallwood,
Collector, Gre at Bias Id-street, Dover-roan.

COMMON ,ROAD STEAM CONVEY-
' ANCE COMPANY.

TREASURER —James Gordon Murdoch, Esq.
The call on such: of the Shares as have been allotted being
now in course of pa yment, the Committee, in order to facilitate
their arrangements, and to provide, as extensively as possible,
for public. accommodation on the first starting of the Carriages,
hereby give notice that they will be happy to receive Com-
munications from such Coachmasters and others as may be
desirous of Contracting for Carriages, addressed (post-paid) to
the Committee, at the Chambers of Mr. Hodgson, Solicitor,
21, Lincoln's Inn-fief ds.

SALE S EY AUCTION.

AT ATHENS.

A !FREEHOLD ESTATE WITHIN a MILE of the ACRO-
POLIS and CITY, a CHATEAU and HUNTING VILLA,
with 380 ACRES o.f LAND.
MR. GEORGE ROBINS, with feelings of
unmixed pleasure and satisfaction, makes known that he
is' honoured by having been selected as the humble individual to
OFFER for SALE by PUBLIC AUCTION, at the Mart,
London, on Tnunsner, the 22d of AUGUST, at Twelve, a SIN-
GULARLY DEL' GIL* ma. FREEHOLD PROPERTY. And
he is proud to add that it is the FIRST ATTEMPT at a SUB-
MISSION to PUBLIC. OPINION and COMPETITION of a
DISTINGUISHED ESTATE SO FAR REMOVED FROM
ENGLAND.

THIS IMPORTANT ESTATE
is within one mile of
T."HE CITY OF ATHENS,

it embraces nearly
FOUR HUNDRED ACRES OF LAND
Within its plains, and a
CHATEAU AND HUNTING BOX,
WITH EXTENSIVE GARDENS,

Before Mr. Robins ventures upon his fearfully difficult task, h e
may well ask for a little forbearance with a kind public, in not
oriticising too earnectlyor too severely this, his first essay as connected
with an attempt to describe a splendid estate so nearlyallied to

THE CLASSIC CITY OF ATHENS,
and so far removed from the usual sphere of his vocations—the city and
its vast renown he may safely leave to those who are well read in
the history of Greece ; his task, fortunately, is only to give in
the language of truth, however imperfectly told, an unpretending
description of the property under review. As it would require
the pen of the immortal Byron to do it adequate justice, the
writer may be well excused for approaching it with fear and
trembling; he will however venture only at a round, un-
varnished tale, leaving to the imaginative powers of those who seek
such a splendid repose, to fill up the vast, immeasurable space, which
his feeble effort ni\ust leave unaccomplished. The Villa may be
thus succinctly des.cribed : It is suited to a family not very large,
but whose minds are embued with reminiscences of the glory of this
once famed city.l

" Shrine of the mighty I can it be
That this is all remains of thee ?"

is placed

WITHIN THE OLIVE GROVE

on the Plains of Athens, and from its lofty tower commands the
MOST SPLENDID AND PICTURESQUE VIEW
OF THE ACROPOLIS AND THE CITY,

including the Mount Hymettus, and Pentelicus, the Pincus,
Salamis, and indeed all

THE ISLANDS OF THE /EGEAN SEA

In contemplating this magnificent Panorama, how awfully
grand doth Nature's works isppear, inclining the imagination first
to believe, and at length the senses to concur in the realization of all
those classical associations, which cannot fail to interest and encou.
rage the enterprize, and lead to researches which the march of in-
tellect has recently more than ever provoked. Oh, that the pen
of the great Bard could at this moment lend its influential aid, and
direct the one that now falters in thevain attempt to give a moderate
portraiture of the Landscape! but this is hopeless. A short sum.
mary of a few of the minor points for consideration must suffice with
those who, while they would enjoy the Antiquities of Athens, are
not insensible to the large income that is available by this pur-
chase. It has already been noticed that the Demesne around the
City numbers
• THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ACRES,

.he greater part under cultivation, in Corn, Cotton, and Maize, beside

LARGE PLANTATIONS OF OLIVE TREES :
THE VINEYARDS AND EXTENSIVE GARDENS
arc about twenty acres, walled round and planted on the celebrated
site known as