The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-14 00:00:00

THE WARWICK VASE.

England is indebted to the late Sir WILLIAM
HAMILTON, for the many beautiful specimens of
antique vases, which adorn the mansions of its
nobility and gentry. Having less pleasure in the
possession of such treasures than in gratifying the
good taste of his countrymen by making them pub-
lic, he'distributed them with a most liberal hand to
those w ho felt their beautyand appreciated their im-
portance. Among the presents which he thus made,
was that boast of G recian sculpture, the vase of Ly-
sippas. The individual honou red with the gift of this
chef-d'oeuvre, was the Earl of Warwick, by whose
name the vase has since been more generally
known. Mr. Thomason, of Birmingham, having
conceived the noble idea of making a fac-simile
of the great vase, entirely in metal, was permitted
by the Earl to have free access to it, in order. to
make a model of it in wax. This was -a task of
several months. When the model was completed,
casts of it were then made in lead, and from
these the vase was completed in two distinct
sorts of metal, the field being of one metal,
and the handles, vines, marks, panther skins, and
leaves, of another. This adoption of two metals
gave Mr. Thomason an opportunity of adopting
two novel modes of oxidation, by which the most
beautiful effects of light and shade were produced.
The oxidating of the field was accomplished by a'
combination of the sulphates and nitrates, urged on
by a powerful heat, which has produced the desired
appearance of the rouge antique marble. The
marks, handles, and parts in relief, are oxidated by
the acita tes, and resemble the verd antique bronze;
and the harmony of these two colours produces
an effect at once grand and imposing. The vase
is twenty-one feet in circumference, and weighs
several tons ; and when its size and execution
are considered, it is, perhaps, entitled to rank
as the grandest specimen of metallic sculpture
in its style, that has ever appeared in this or
any `other country. Being made of imperish-
able materials, it will not only hand down the
name of Mr. Thomason with honour to future
ages, but it will serve as a perpetual record of
the taste which has been so happily cultivated in
the town of Birmingham. Whilst England pos-
sesses manufacturers so public spirited, and artists
so zealous, it need not apprehend being surpassed
in fine and classieal workmanship by any foreign
competitors. The stupendous undertaking was
begun in the 54th year of the reign of King George
the Third. Two hundred and eleven medals
of different subjects, including one of King
George the Fourth, all made at the manufactory,
were sealed up in an antique urn, and deposited
in the centre of the pedestal, upon which the
vase was raised, by t,,e efforts of about fifty of
the workmen, in celebration of his present Ma-
jesty's accession to the Throne. The vase re-
mains at Mr. Thomason's establishment, in a
room admirably adapted for exhibiting it to ad-
vantage, and is very liberally shewn by that gen-
email to all cultivators and admirers of the arts.

SUICIDE.-011 Tuesday fselthight, Mr. JORX
CARRVTUERS, blacksmith and innkeeper. at
the Raffles, near Carlisle, drowned himself
in the river Caldew. He came down to Cal-
dewgate about one o'clock, called on several
friends, paid one of them (a publican) ss. 6d.
which he owed, drank a pint of ale, without
betraying any visible aberration of mind, and
on leaving the house, a little before two o'clock,
went into the Sorceries. When he reached
the river side, he made a pause, took off, his
neckcloth and coat, looked at his watch, put it
into his waistcoat pocket, walked to and fro
two or three times, and then threw himself
into the water. The fatal act was observed, by
more than one person, and an immediate alarm
was given ; but the body floated down with
the stream, which the late heavy rains , had
rendered strong and turbid, and was not: got
out for about twenty minutes, when the vital
spark had tied. An inquest was held on the
unfortunate man's remains the same afternoon,
before lticuAnn LOWRY, Esq., and the Jury re-
turned a verdict of " temporary derangementk"

Last night an inquisition was taken at the
" Grave Maurice," Whitechapel-road, on the
body of Thomas Quee, aged four years.—
The mother of the deceased said she had gone
out on Thursday evening, about five o'clock, to
a neighbouring shop for half a pint of o►l, leav-
ing him in doors, and cautioning him not to
go out. She had not been many minutes
away. At her return she was alarmed at
the screams of a child, who was cry-
ing, seemingly in great agony, and call-
ing out—Oh! mamma ! mamma ! and soon she
discovered that these screams proceeded froth the
deceased, whom she met in the lane carried by
a neighbour, wrapped up in. a blanket, who
was taking him the doctor's ; and who informed
her that she had found him enveloped in flatne4.
She instantly ran with him to the London hospital,
and he there died about 12 o'clock yesterday fore-
noon. There was a little fire in her own room
when she \vent out, and the deceased was the
on►y person in' the house at the time ; bait she
could not say how he became on fire. Verdict
-" Accidental death by burning."

A man belonging to the coast blockade fell
over the cliff on the evening of Wednesday
se'nnight, between Eastbourne and Berlin Gap, at
a spot near Holywell, where it is about 300 feet
in height. The only injury he received was the
fracture of one of the small bones of the arm,!
Yesterday morning, at half-past seven o'clock,
as Mr. BROWN, master plasterer, residing at
No. 92, Quadrant, Regent-street, was passing
through Cold-bath-square, ou his way to the new
Church,building at the back of Wellingtou-street,
S'aint Luke's, and on which he is employed, be
perceived a common rush basket laying against
the palings that surround the unfinished buildings,
land on taking it up, discovered it contained the
body of a full grown male infant ; it was quite
naked and bloody. The legs were double'd back,
and the body crushed together. He tookif im-
mediately to the Overseer, yr. Bunt, Bowling
Green-lane, who had it conveyed to.,the Work-
house.

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THE' I.()NDON JOURNALS.

NWIDACTS mom, THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS

Decenter 14, 182.

NEW TI M Es.]
The speculations of the money market, both
iq leor,glort and Paris, seem to incline, in a small
11egree, towards Peace. Consols for the Account
iWer4a.y left oil at'
8O and by letters from
Paris it appears that on Wednesday evening the
itentex were at 89f. 50c. 'lt will be remembered
ttiat this Stock fell to 82f. 25c., in the course of
last December, soon after the present Ministers
curie into office ; so that notwithstanding all the
afayms or pretended alarms as to the effect of a
war, the French fundholder who purchased only
a twelvemonth ago is still a gainer, a gainer of
7,4 per cent. on his stock, or 8i per cent.
,on his
rikonied capital. This dues not indicate any great
instability in the present state of public
.credit
in Fiance, or any great want of confidence in
the existing Ministry.

['nu TIMES.]
Anecdotes and tales generally bring up the
7.ear of any political crisis, during which the dis-
Ossiom have been of a more serious nature, as
light troops follow or attend the motions of the
heavy armed battalions. We now, therefore,
give some specimens of the Parisian gossip which
has reached us. -In a conversation between the
Puke of Wellington and a Spanish Nobleman
now. in Paris, the former is reported to have
said that he saw no reason for apprehend-
ing a war between France and Spain ; but
that, at all events, it- was the determination of
England' to oppose an armed interference in the
internal concerns of the Peninsula. A Liable re-
solution,. we should say, though perhaps for
awhile better suited to our wishes than our
Rowers. There is no doubt but that if war were
waged between France. and Spain, the hearts of
all Englishmen wotild fight with their gallant
friends the Spaniards from the very beginning
of the contest ; neither would it be long before
our persons, also, were by the side of theirs.
A. Minister, however perverse, could not long
keep this country out of the contest.

[MORNI NG POST.]
The Monlieur has not suffered itself to be be-
trayed into any further explanation of the views
of tae Government, by the furious attacks of the
Ultras. Satisfied with" having shewn by its adop-
tion
of the article of the Journal des Di;bats, that
the inkluence of the friends of peace predominated
in the cabinet, it has since returned to its cus-
tom4ry silence and impassibility. The same course
has been adopted by the Journal des Dames, so
that the. Ultra and Liberal publications are left
to discuss the matter amongst themselves. The
former do it with their characteristic violence,
whilst the latter content themselves with a war
. of observation ; for though unwilling to give to
the moderate part of •the Ministry all the credit
to which it is entitled for its support of a just and
pacific policy, they are. unable to suppress a
Jaug.h„ or: to withhold a sneer at the surprise,
wrath, and alarm, of their astounded opponents.
.4ltras, indeed, disguise their ill-humour
and. Mortilication so little, that they make them-
/selves fair. objects of ridicule.

[MO RNIN lIERA
-011-e of the French Papers mentions rather a
curious circumstance. It is that the insurgent
hands of Navarre contain considerable numbers
Of deserters from the. French army (we suppose
the Army, of Observation, that alone being suffi-
ciently contiguous) and that the French Com-
mandant of Bayonne - entered into a compact
wish. General, O'Donnell, when leaving that
place, for delivering them up. Without having the
highest opinion, of the morality of French soldiers,
we stal cannot suppose that they would abandon
t!.s.eir country, their colours, and their regular pay,
for the actual wretchedness and desperate hopes
of those undisciplined and unprovided banditti.,
It appears to be an attempt to give an impression,
indirectly, of the zeal of the French soldiers in
the cause of " the Faith." General Torrijos
has routed several, bands of the Navarrese insur-
gents, but had not yet come in contact with the
mmail),' body, under O'Donnell. The latter is
stated. tp have been in momentary expectation of
being attacked:, which he awaited.

EBIIITISII PRESS.]

The French. Papers of Wednesday are uncom-
monly destitute. of news. The all-agitating ques-
tion, of war has subsided into petty altercations
arnpng. the. Journalists. The Ministerial Papers
are extr,erneLy ferti'le, of misrepresentations and
fictions from, Spain. The answer to them is, that
the Cortes, are. acting with equal vigour and mo-
deration,. aNit that. G,en. Mina has &yen all the
fugitives of the Faith into Prance, except the
feW, who, lave shut themselves up in the fort of
Ujgel. It really; is not worth while to notice or
to, refute the falsehoods of the Quptidienne
specting. the Spaniards, or of the Austrian Ob-
server respectin4 the Greeks. We are told that
the Miuisters are to renew the deliberations of
Verona at Paris, and the Emperors at Vienna.—
We rejoice, that the Congress of St. Stephens will
assemble s, on.; Arid will not, with shut doors,
and: under th!wix_lionsprotectiOn of police officers
and. spies, but in, the faC:e of-the people, and with
the klnoWledge of ail, Europe, discuss the mo-
mentausquesrjons. which involve the peace and.
liberty, of the presetri age, and the happiness of
sncceeding generations. 'When the light of day
hrieaks.forth,; the ilkornened birds of darkness
slink into, tIIT

[.°)FIA.N. CII119!'!IPI!E.]
13rsidgs. the ex„trepediftlkspity of the position in
whichtheAulse,of. W,ellii►gton was placed, and
e,ve,ry, allowance' also for his own
arql, peculiar. ipsiinations, we mustcan-
coufsss, that • ofjginally set_ out with
inafiressions. v,e.ror djiferent: from those he after-
fßand hg act. upon, anti that
he" was called upon to:perform a duty he by
no means anticipated. He must have been
bewildered by the change in his instructions,l

and by the new facts, the progress of the deli-
berations elicited, and at a loss how to act amidst
the artifices and intrigues employed against him.
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• Fortunately, the deliberations of the Paris Con-
gress being nearer home, the communications can
be more frequent ; and we understand that no
determination is to be come to in the name of
this country without the previous knowledge and
consent of the Cabinet.—This new plan of ne-
gociation will, we trust, make up for the errors
committed in Verona—errors which had begun
to rouse the indignation even of those high
circles in this country in which it is fashionable
to think that every sacrifice ought to be made
to keep down popular revolutions. Like Eng-
lislunen, they nevertheless feel for our national
honour, and the circumstances which have sub-
sequently developed themselves, have greatly
shaken that unbounded confidence they formerly
placed in the person intended to support it in a
Congress of Allied Sovereigns. Lucidly for us,
these errors are not irreparable. Sir Charles
Stewart, by his recent remonstrances to the
French Ministers, has shewn them that his Go-
vernment is not only fully sensible of the nature
and extent of the intiigues played off at Verona
against Great Britain ; but also that the policy
France is blindly pursuing must eventually in-
volve herself in ruin, without answering the end
proposed.