The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-01 00:00:00

THE ASIATIC JOURN&L.

A new and very promising seriea of an oh
established periodical, which has clearly beet
drawn forth by the increasing intelligence of th
age, and the spirit of ardent inquiry no,
abroad respecting our East Indian posies
sions, and all directly or indirectly connecte
with them. The proprietors, it is trie, hal
not come forward to satisfy this curiosity till th
eleventh hour, but better late than never. Th
Number, we may add, is altogether a Ter
creditable one.

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the best, we may mention " The Sketch of th
Battles of the Pyrenees," which is drawn i
parts with no light graphic v
will confess that the perpetual repetitions
battles and sieges, month after month, first '
battle, then a siege, and vice verso—at on
period an engagement by land—at another a
engagement by sea—we will confess that th
repetition of such descriptions, of which ti,
animal rather than the man is the hero, begin t
pall upon our attention. The Editor shout
learn to vary his matter, or he will find too let
that the public are heccniing as sick as ourselvt
of his naval and military commentaries. As
favourable specimen, however, of his beta
sketches, we give the following description of tl
close of an engagement among the Pyrenees
4, As soon as the second brigade came up, we aga
ascended the heights of Santa Barbara, where we Land
French corporal, with a broken leg, his head resting on
hairy knapsack, and supported in the arms of 2 ccuwat
who generously remained behind to protect the life of
friend from the suchillo of the Spaniards. As soon u
had delivered him to the care of the English soldiers,
embraced the corporal, saying, Au revoir, bon earn.
rade Anglais,' and throwing his musket over his should(
with his butt-end en ruin he descended the mountain
rejoin the French army on the opposite range of height
Of course, no one offered to molest this simple sade
who easily effected his escape. As our picket:. could n
enter the valley until our right was cleated. encl
enemy pushed from the mountain of Eschalar, as tam
another division attacked those heights, the first Rig
moved on and clambered the mountain of St. Berner
supported by five companies of our regiment. The se
diens had been for two days without any sustenance, a
were as weak that they could hardly stand ; however,
excellent commissary had managed to ovrr'ske us, a.
hastily served out half-a-pound of himutt to each inc
vidual, which the soldiery devoured in the act of primit
and loading as they moved on to the attack.
The summit of the mountain was wrapped in a den
fog; an invisible firing commenced; it was impossible
ascertain which party was getting the best of the figh
the combatants were literally contending in the close
When half-way up the side of the mountain, ws found
man of the Rifles lying on his face, and ;)leedick so c
piously that his haversack was dyed in blood : we turn
him over, and being somewhat recovered before lie
carried off, be told us, in broken monosyllables, that tiu
Frenchmen had taken him for a Portuguese, :aid hold
him, thrust a bayonet through his thigh, minashed t
stock of his rifle, and then pushed him from a t
ledge of the precipice under which we d:seovered hit
The second French light infantry were dit.lodged befs
twilight from the top of this mountain ; but the spar
ling flashes of small-arms continued after dark to wen
with
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amongst a chaotic jumble of sterile mountain!, the mum
were totally discomfited, with an enormous loss, by
series of the most extraordinary and hrilliape arc
during the Peninsular war. For three days the Fren
had the vantage ground, owing to their superiority
numbers at a given point ; but on the fourth day, t ,
sane divisions who had so heroically fought while falli
back, sustained, with their backs to a hostile foetre
(whence the enemy sortied during the battle,) a most (3,
perate assault made by the Duke of Dalmatia, one who
the Duke of Wellington gained a memorable victory, ai
ceased not in turn to pursue the French Marshal, until
was glad to seek shelter from whence he game. T
standards of Britain again waved aloft an.; 14ped iy t
gentle breese over the fertile fields of Fur"...
" Arnold and Andre," (the latter the we
known Major Andre, whose execution
a spy in the American camp excited cut
general commiseration at the time, at
Whose fate has been lamented in the strait
of the young—the gifted—and the beaut
ful), is an article, which, from the natu
r
of its materials, could scarcely fail to be interee
ing. It is here worked up with much ski
The short biographical sketch of Admiral Byn
from " The Journal of an Officer engaged in ti
curious Action
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narrative, 5
Admiral's conduct would appear to have bet
6 is ,
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if authentic,
which t
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the result of infatuation—coward lie certain
was not, though condemned and shot sue
A Popular View of Fortification and Gui
nery," is a scientific, though, to peaceful men lit
ourselves, a dull and superfluous I.i-title. Ti
remaining ones are of the usual culibre in poi,
of excellence.

THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE OF FASHIOI
The embellishments to this Magazine a
such as would satisfy even that fastidious print
of coxcombs, the ultra-marine Beau Brumnte.
The chequered silk stockings of the long gel
tleman in the military cloak are .faultless ;
coat is of the true Stultz cut ; his neckclot
starched to " a turn ;" his shoes enviable, at
as neatly turned as one of Sam Rogers ep
grams. Equally admirable are the accoutre
ments of the fat Dandy in the Turkish dres
who, however, wields his scimitar as if he we
wielding a yard behind a linen-draper's counti
Op the literary merits of this repertory of dre
and dandyism, we cannot speak in such hit
terms of praise. The articles are bold certainl
if an utter and lofty disdain for all grammatie
particularities—those vile degrading tramrm
which fetter the intellects of so many strugglit
young tyros in our modern literature--cOnst
tutes boldness or energy. Certes 2'.-30, they