The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-14 00:00:00

The connexion thenceforward subsisting be•
tween Wales and Britanny, contributed to intro-
duce the legendary history of the Britons into a
conspicuous station in the heroic fables of Europe.
Arthur, who in the sixth century appears to have
ruled over the Britons of Cornwall, and to hay.
made a brave and often successful struggle
against the invaders,, became in process of titer'
one of the darling heroes of those fictions it
prose and verse which, under the name of ro-
mances, produced the first materials of origin sl
poetry among the modern 'nations: His tarn
was communicated to the Carlovingian empi+
by the Armoricans. It was in a subsequent agit
more widely spread by the Norman minstrels,
who exulted in the renown of the chief of that
adopted country. •They seem' first to hate eft;
grafted his name on those tales of descent from
the Trojans, in, which the western provincials,
before the fall of the empire, claimed a share of
the fabulous pedigree of their conquerors, and
which the most enlightened nations of Europi
continued to tolerate till the seventeenth centurf,
The ' glory of one of the last champions,,.
Christendom against ferocious pagans was allu4
ing to ingenious fablers. The absence of att
thentic particulars set free their fancy ; actions
seen in so dim a twilight put on the size /1.4
shape which best. pleased the poet; and tl4
wonders of mythology, which always graduall
withdraw . before the advance of civilizationi,
found a natural last retreat in the most rte'
mote regions of western Europe. To these ei
it may probablyri
eumstances, or to some of, them, .
be ascribed that, in a few 'centuries, a Cornistt
or Welsh chieftain came to share the popularit
of Charlemagne himself. The historical na .
of the great ruler of the Franks has, perhapi,
borrowed a brighter lustre from the hero*
leqends with which it Was long surrounded. Il)
this country, on the contrary, a disposition b
been shown to take revenge on the memory • .1
Arthur for the credulity of our forefathers, b
ungratefully and unreasonably calling into quelo DIED.
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tion his existence. "
On the 12th inst. at bharterhouse-squ . ,
It must be owned, indeed, that the traditions ley, Esq., aged SS. r 1)3414
of our heroic age have not the same historielil On the 12th inst. at Miek/ebsln' nee
rof
Greece,forexample,
value as those of other nations. The fables a. ' w9tan'' s'l" aged 613' : third (laugh°
101
merit,n of the Strand. in his e
have the merit of being the native produce u. 4 ,On the' 18th inio. at Torquay', Devtte c. 1.41,1%141
besides their singular beauty, 'ii ea"
the soil. As pictures of manners and indica-i,-Thorass Sualfaid, ettloat *en of the '11401)
late Right Bev. 1
t Lions of character they are, therefore, true tetchiest grandson of .tuts he I Ith in.t. Mary Lou .th
f Eilifibnr h. ' 'Thos'*
nature. They may occasionally approach the ° Ori hg i 1' k Ai. E. i 001
'l2th net. At Ise ney, .
',,. inferior truth of time and place, of names and -,, t e
geld 42. L niscea. "a ii
particulars, by a faint and rude outline of real -:l On the 12th inst. in ,liottingnaarl-fiari, 01,i
occurrences. But the mythological writers off
daughter, of the late Rev. .1. P. I3ae.T:rau aienta,,,,,
On the 11th Inst. Ann, wife of A% I •
the middle age were either monks, whose scant .1
t aged 75.
tplonkery, Down, Ken ,
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learning was confined to forekm languages and.
events,,, or minstrels altogether unlettered, wh tPi :2
- -0,4.. ;1-, Tip- AND-1;UU1.16 HET) ar M Vili )(1 to ii OP
adopted the legends of the monastic teachers sox °mon, 112, ,SlK,Abil_2:miiiid