The Sun.
London, England, 1801-12-26 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

7 • •
RightHoit. John Forster, Speaker - 5038 8 47
}lent), .'llexander, Esq. Chairman of the Corn-
mittees -.
of Supply and Wayi and MeanS Soo o o
Sir George'Fitzgerald Hill, 13. Clerk of the
Hose - = 2265 13 9i
Edward 'Cobke, . E sq. Clerk of the tiouSe in
Reversion - - soo o o
john M'Qlintock and William Foster M`Clin=
tock, ESqrs. Serjeants at Arms. - - !Too • o o
ttlward Tresharn, Clerk Assistant - - 593. 6- To
'George t'red. Winstanley, Committee Clerk 7.50 o o
j-ongthati Fgers`, the like - - - 250 o. o
faints Ra erty, Atsistaqhcormnittee Clerk fop o o
awson Ellis, Superannuated Engrossing Clerk 140.. o o
'Charles Henry-TalidYl,lPligrossing Clerk ••• 198 7 0
..rownlyrßichardsotv rllssistant ditto - 150 o 0
. the.. Chief. Clerk's
'O'fffce, ClerK Of Iti-e-Teei; and Clerk of the
• i‘Lnutes • • 476 0 0
lienry Coddington, Deputy Serjeant at Arms - 350 • 0
Janus Corry, Clerk of the 'Journals and Records 660 o
ohn Smith"; Assistant Clerk of the Journals and

Record's - - - - 230 o c
Rode'rick Connor, Attending Clerk - - 60 0
Arthur Hume, Clerk of the Briefs - _ to„ 0
'jtilin Tuna, Assistant Clerk in the Chief Clerk's
OPice . - - - - - - 63 6 S

john Leslie Foster, Esq. Speaker's Secretary ic, , s
.I.',Aent-y Door-keepers and 14Iessengers, some at •
,_ sot. blit`cnieri.y at 361. per annum
Williiii browne, 'Distributer of Votes - - 130 0.0
'iiugh Higgins, Assistant ditto - .. _ 30 0.0
Sarah Connor, Hous,f-keeper - - - -401 13 2
ohn Kennedy, Door-keeper - • - - 168 491
John Walch,.ditto - - - - -16 S. 4 g,ti
Wary Connor, House Attendant - - 4 II o
Thomas Levers', Fire-lighter - - ] I 7 6 .
Rodney Wathani' ditto - - - - - 616 6
Edmond Henry Lord
.Clentworth, Clerk of
- the Hanaper - - 131 3 61
thottas Bouchier, Deputy ditto - - 52 5 o
john Beresford, • Esq. Purse-bearer o the Lord
._ Chancellor - - - - 33 IS 9
Afrs. tlbinia Taflor, Keeper of the Parlia-
Merit House - . - - 140 o o

The foregoing eompensations were granted by
'Ad of Parliament, 4oth Geo. 111. and are trp eon_
tinue, together with their salaries on the Civil Esta-
blishment, during the respeaive lives of the, persons
to whom granted:
itionEN, Aud. Gen.

A MorninePaiCeetontnins the follOWing article
*1 Private'adVl'ddS' frtitt: Paris relate an "anecdote of
t o extraordinaiy if-tiainre;sihat-we cannot venture to
• give credit to ihe• reficti'on; although, the circuin-
' stance is. mentioned letters from persons of
the greatest respeftability..-=,L: The -following it •
said to have lately occurred t TALL EYRAND'
waited on the 'CHIEF COusuL, and acquainted
him that he had reasou to• believe his 'Consular
Majesty might obtain an 'ItirANTA of SPAIN in
marriage, provided he would divorce himself from
present. wife, whose conduct, while she lived
with BARRAS, iS well known, BONAPARTE heard,
the proposition of his Minister, but was cautious
of taking -any step in it: until' he had sounded:
FOUCHE, the Minister of the Police, 'who knows
-more of the state of the different faClions and the
intrigues of the Capital; than any ,person in Fiance.,
FoticifE, who is a determined'enemy of ,TAL-
,I,EYItAND; availed himself of. this opportunity (as
the- story goeS) of endeavouring to com'pass the
ruin of the Ex-Bishop, and conceived that_nome-
thod could be so certain as to inform Madame Bd-
NAPARTE of the proposal that had been
,made to
her husband. It is not difficult to foresee the
Denouement. The enraged Lady sent her
Mair-
dat for the Secretary of State to appear before' her,
and made it very plain to him, that she had no in-
tention of being divorced any more. TA 1, LEY-
...RAND, -it is said, is become fully sensible of the
• danger of interfering between a man and his lawful
wife ;' and 'the li. Tanta is to get herself another bus.
band.''
Lord CHOLMONDELEY has at this, time in .his.
.seririce, a, 'man of the name of Durham, who has
been in his family upwards of S 6 years. He is now
96 years old, and, what is rather singular, has had
no bodily infirmity for upwards of 6o years past.--
He is in the habit of walking from London toliamp-
Oa Court and back again in one day, three. times a
week, without the least apparent fatigue. Lord
-CHoLivioNoEl,Ey„. as, in consideration. of the long
services of this.yencrable man, settled an annuity
on him. He. has also added his portrait to his -nu-
. merous and valuable collettion.
Qn Monday se'nnight three- horses were killed
by lightning, on Samper Common, in Westmore-
/and ; .a -man working on the turnpike road rear
Kendal,—was struck down by the lightning, and
deprived of his sight, and a large ash tree' was torn
to pieces. s

THE FINE ARTS.

IT, is not at all to be Wondered at, that M. DE.
SENFANS, so accomplished a Connoisseur himself,
should be able to write Well upon the abuse of the
Fine Arts. He has taken occasion to. touch upon
the dreadful consequences of their abuse; in his
Catalogue lately published, in a Ivay which pleases
us so much, that we cannot refrain from transerib::,
ing it.

" It is strange that Mari shoillit so wilfully per.
vcrt and turn to his own ruin, spch endowments as
the Fine Arts, which were bestowed on him as a
source of amusement and consolation, under the
worst ills of life ; but the abuse of blessings is the
frailty of mankind, and the means of happiness often
prove the bane of society ; indeed it is to that abuse
of the Fine Arts we must attribute all those horrors
which
.were, committed in France, till Bonaparte
wisely and humanely put a stop to them..

"Voltaire; under its ancient Government, by
his philosophic verses, and Rousseau; by animated
and inflammatory prose, laid the foundation of the
Revolution. Every individual believing himself
enlightened by those writers, soon considered him-
self as a superior genius, and in a community where
all ctmeeive themselves gifted with an equal share
of understanding, insubordination is the inevitable
consequence ; the,mass of the people being informed
that the Fine Afts were the pursuit of men of ge_
nius, believed them particularly suited to themselves;
and, from that period, France was inundated with
lascivious ballads, ' as, well' as with 'lascivious pic-
tures and prints ; the lazy litcquey'in the hall, and
the soldier in his barrack, passed their rime in read-
ing Voltaire, and poring oyer the obscene works
of Peron and Grecourt.

"As the understanding of the People grew more re,
fined, their devotion to Liberty increased in propor_
tioni and they were' not long without, theconviOioni
that
.SubmiSsion.and Religion were perfectly incom-
patible with Genius. -As soon as Religionis thought
chimerical, Legal Authority becomes tyrannical
for throdghout the world, Religion-and Goverunent
reciprocally support each other, and cannot exist
separately ; in France flay were soon trodden un-
der foot, and the general avidity for. impious books,
and the indecent frodudions of the pencil and the
graver, foretold the dissoldtion of its,Qoyernment.
" A derangement of its Finances was the conse-
quence of the corruption "of its Manners,; and as
Manners and Nioney are the only Safeguards of a
Sovereign and his Country, they were. both lost as
soon as Manners and Money were gone.

" The Fine Arts also became the chief instru.
.meats in, thehands of the skilful condutors of the
Revolution,
,for inflaming. the minds-of the People.
The Pencil was busily and effeclually, employed in
representing subjects, tile 'most humiliating and of-
fensive to Government ;, and Music, the most dan.
gerous of the Fine Arts,, whenjill applied, resound-
ed with Airs of Sedition and Rebellion.

• "Such is indeed the power of Music, that Elric
the Second, King of Denmark, having at one of his
feasts ordered a 'musician to play a warlike air, ,was
so well obeyed, that hiniself and the guests, inflamed
with fury, flew to arms, and four of them fell vie.
tims to the impassigned transports of the Monarch.

i( We could quote other. instances 'of dangerous
music, and what. horrors did it not then excite in
France ? ,Murder became habitual to that ill fated
People, and the
.groans .on the, glutted. Guillotine
were drowned' ,by the tunes, of Ca Ira,
.and the
Marseillois hymn,—but ,at that period, and ever
since, those of Gad strue the King, and Rule Bri-
tannia, have been daily encored in England with
feryenc, and enthusiastic love for .its Sovereign and
Constitution."

CoriOus Anecdotes from the same Work,:

There is nOw in Spain a folly of name of
Levi; who pretend to be clelenditnts of that men-
tioned in the Bible; and consegpelltly related to the
-Virgin Mary and Veronica ; a"genealogy so far
`traced could not fail procuring: them in Spain, the
titles of Dukes and Mayquisses.
" One of them, originally of Flanders when that
Country was under the dominion of Spain, deter-
mined Jo gratify himself with other honours, for
want of a title, and to shew his cotemporaries and
'posterity, the, source from which he had' the honour
to spring; he commissioned, Alber, Durer, or one of
his imitators, to paint two pi6lures, in one of which
St. Veronica is represented receiving Mrs. Levi
and her, two daughters, who are introduced by an
Angel, whilst two other smaller Angels are bring_
iog them chaltsi and on, a, label attached to the
mouth of St, Veronica, is written " praj be seated,
,iousins !"—in faEt, there should not be much eti-
quette amongst relations.

'c'Thebtliet Plaure represents the Holy Family at
and Mr. Levi enterinc,b,with.his fOur sons
respedfullY approaching with his hat in his hand,
whilst an angel is busied in fetching plates for the
visitors ; St. Joseph turns his head towards them,
as he is on the point of taking a mouthful.; And the
Virgin is, sitting beSide him, the infant Jesus on
her knee:, an,d a knife in her right handi her eves
are fixed on Mr. Levi, and, from her mouth is Writ-
ten. " be coverer, cousin."

" These Pidures were but a few years ago in a
Church in Flanders; .as Folding-doors; to a Crud:.
fixion."

On Wednesday se'nnight there was a tolerable
shew of fat and lean cattle at Gloucester great
market, 'which sold at somewhat reduced prices,
Lean Sheep and Pigs were also plentiful, but sold
high ; though Store Pigs fell vawards tire close of
the market.
At:Shrewsbury Fair on.Saturdily 'se'nnight, fat
cattle sold at ladvanced priceh."—FatTigs dropped
tonsiderably, and 'went off at frotn'64d. to 711 d. per
pound. Stores were in great demand. Salt Butter
at from 9s. 6d. to ,tos. arid sos. 6d. per gawn of
zlbs. - Best, Cheese at 31. and- three guineas per
-cwt. Inferior from 455. to 555. ditto. The greater
part of the Qh.cae-was taken home unsold.
The. Felicity, King, from 13altimote, is lost rear
Fecamp.