The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-16 00:00:00

NOMINATION OF THE SHERIFFS.

The Names of those who were nominated for
Sheriffs by the Lords of the Council at the Ex-
chequer, on the morrow of St. Martin, in the 3d
year of the Reign of King GEORGE the Fo
in the year of our Lord 1822 :--
Bedfbrdsliire—Thomas Charles Higgins, of Turvey, Esq. ; •
Sir Robert Harry Inglis, of Milton Bryant, Bart. ; George
Nigel Edwards, of Henlow, Esq.
Becks—Sir Charles Saxton, of Circottrt, Bart. ; Henry
Piper Sperling, of Pali Place, Esq. ; Stephen Dowell, of
Braywick, Esq.
Backs—Wm. Tyringham Praed, of Tyringham, Esq. ;
Wm. Selby Lowndes, of Whaddon Hall, Esq. ; George Mor-
gan, of Biddlesdon Park, Esq.
Cambridge and Huntiazdowhires—Thos. Orton, of March,
Esq..; Wm. Raynor, of Wisbeael, Esq. ; John -Fuyer, jun.,
of Chatteris, Esq.
Cheshire—Robert Taylor, of Lymm, Esq. ; John Whyte,
of Sale, Esq. ; John Smith Daintry, of Sutton, Esq.
Cumberland.—Edward Stanley, of Ponson by Hall, Esq. ;
Thomas Henry Graham, of Edmund's Castle, Esq. ; Mathew
Atkinson, of Staingills, Esq.
. Cornwall.—William Baron, of Tregoare, Esq. ; John Samuel
Enys, of gnys, Esq.; Edward Trelawney, of Coldrennick,
Esq.
Derbyshire._Bache Heathcote, of Littleover, Esq.; Thomas
Bateman, of Middleton, by Youlgrave, Esq. ; John White, of
Park Hall, Esq.
Devonshire.—Thomas Bowes, of Plymouth, Esq.; Benjamin
Bowdon Dickinson, of Tiverton, Esq. ; Thomas Porter, of
Rockbeare, Esq.
Dorsetxhire.—Henry Charles Hurt, of Critchole, Esq.;
William Pitt, of Organford, Esq. ; Sir Claude Scott, of Lit-
chett, Bart.

Esscx.--John Jolliffe Tuffnell, of Langley, Esq. ; Nathaniel
Garland, of Michaelstone Hall, Esq. ; Robert Newton Sarratt,
of Bromley Lodge, Esq.
Gloucestershire.—Robert Hale Blagdon Hale, of Alderley,
Esq. ; John Smith, of Stapleton, Esq. ; Thomas John Lloyd
Baker, of Hardwick Court, Esq.
Herefordshire.—Edmund Burnam Pateshall, of Allensnmor,
Esq. ; Sir Edwin Stanhope, of horn Lacey, Bart. ; William
Chute Hay ton, of Marston, Esq.
Herts.—Robt. Sutton, of Rathway, Northchurch, Esq.;
Patrick Iladon, of Colney Chapel, Esq. ; Joseph Latour, of
Hoxton, Esq.
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Kent.—John Anston, of Seven Oaks, Esq. ; Francis Wyck-
ham Martin, of Leed's Castle, Esq.; Abraliain Welland, of
Southborough, Esq.
Leicestershire.—Chas. March Phillips, of Garondon, Esq. ;
Sir 'Wm. Walker, of Leicester Forest, Knt. ; Ewd. Major, of
Blaby, Esq.
Lincolnshire.—Sir Wm. Earle Welby, of Denton; Bart. ;
Francis Chaplin, of Riseholme, Esq.; Sir Robt. Sharpe
Ainslie, of Torrington, Bart.
Monmouthshire.—John Partridge, of Monmouth, Esq.:
Joseph Bailey, of Nanty Glo, Esq. ; James Proctor, of Chep-
stow, Esq.
Norjblk.--Sir Edmund Knowles Lacon, of Ormsiby, Bart. ;
Theophilus Thornhaugh Gordon, of Letton, Esq. ; Sir Ed-
mund Bacon, of Raveningham, Bart.
Northarn;tonshire.—llenry Otway, of Hanford, Esq. ;
Thos. Welsh Hunt, of Oundle, Esq. ; Wm. Abbott, of Moul-
ton, Esq.
Northumberland.—Prideaux John Selby, of Turigell-house,
Esq. ; Edwil. Collingwood, of Dissington-house, Esq. ; An.
thong Oregson, of Bowsden, Esq.
Nottinghantshire.—Wm. Mason, of East Retford, Esq. ;
Slingsby Duncombe, of Langford, Esq. ; Wm. Charlton, of
Chilwell, Esq.
Oxfordshire.—Daniel Stewart, of Wjfkharti Park, Esq..
Thos. Philip Wykham, of Tythrop, Esq. ; John Connor Field,
of Adderbury, Esq.
Rutland.—Thos. Thompson, of Tin well, Esq.- • John Morris,
of North Luffenham, Esq. ; John Neale, Of Bolton, Esq.
Shropshire--John Mytton, of Ralston, Esq.; Thos. Bish-
ton, of Neachhill, Esq. ; John Wingfield of Onslow, Esq.
Somersctshire.—John Frederick Pimroy, of Somerton Erly,
Esq. ; Arthur Chichester, of Walford, Esq. ; EdwtL Jeffries
Esdaile, of Cotlielstone, Esq.
Staffordshire.—Edward Sneyd, of Byrklcy Lodge, Esq. ;
James Horn Hordern, of Wolverhampton, Esq. ;, John Phillips,
of Heath House, Esq.
County of Southampton.—Ewd. Knight, jun. of Chawton
Park, Esq. ; Henry Eyre, of Botleigh Grange, Esq. ; Walter
Long, of Preshaw, Esq. .
Slifu/k.—Henry Usborfie, of Branches Park, Esq. ; Robert
Newton Shaw, of Kesgrave, Esq. ; John Fitzgerald, of Brad.
field, Esq.
Surrey.—Charles Hampden Turner, of Rooksnest, Esq. ;
Richard Sumner, of Pultenham, Esq. ; John Barnard Hankey,
of Foltham Priory, Esq.
Susses.—Richard Prince, of Walberton House, Esq.; Chas.
Harrison, of Sutton-place, Esq.; Wastale Briscoe, of Hast-
ings, Esq.
Warwickshire.—Edward Willes, of Newbold. Comyn, Esq. ;
Robert Middleton Atty, of Smitherfield, Esq, ; Lionel Place,
of Weddington, Esq.
Wilts.—John Fuller, of Norton Park, Esq.; Sir Edward
Poore, of Rushall, Bart. ; Walter Long, of Harthum House,
Esq.
Worcestershire.—Sir Christopher Sidney Smith, of Eardis-
tone, Bart. ; John Williams, f Pitmaston, Esq. ; William
Congreve Russell, of Moor dreen, Esq.
Yorlahire.—Walter Fawkes, of Farnley, Esq. ; Sir John
Vaude Bampde Johnson, of Ilackness, Bart. ; John Hutton,
of Maruke, Esq.

CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE.-It must be most
important and welcome intelligence to all the
manufacturing districts, and those neighbour-
hoods, where steam engines and other boilers are
in use, to be assured, that by Mr. G. STRATTON'S
recent invention, for consuming (or rather not
producing) smoke, that much wished for object
is at length undoubtedly realized. Its great ad-
vantage in saving fuel and labour, and in quickly
raising a most intense and constant heat, renders
it the interest of all proprietors of steam engines
to adopt this plan, even if the law were not im-
perative upon them, to prevent the smoke they
occasion. The fuel (which after the first supply
it is necessary at long intervals only to renew)
is served by a novel but simple contrivance,
whereby the smoke which would issue, must pass
down through its own furnace, and is thereby
not merely consumed, but adds to the combus-
tion, and the boiler is, without the least inter-
mission, enveloped in a white heat, and can never
be checked by the fresh fuel even when applied,
nor by the interposition of any smoke. Besides
other advantages, the caloric and power of the
steam are increased in an extraordinary degree.

The Provident Institution, or Savings Danl:,
just established in Maidstone, has commenced
under the most favourable auspices. On the
first night of receiving deposits, the sum of
701. 7s. 6d. was invested, and on Saturday last, a
further sum of 1921. 4s. 6d. was paid in, making
together a total of 262/. 12s. invested in the
space of one fortnight only, by fifty-nine de-
positors.
There is a woman of good address going about
town, pretending that she is grand-daughter to
a person of rank, and giving orders for goods for
some lady of quality. She diverts the attention
of shopkeepers with a pathetic tale, and when
she departs they generally find they have been
egregiously imposed upon.

FOREIGN LITERATURE.

(NO. LIX.)

(EUVRES COMPLETES DE MILLEVOYE ; i. c. The
Woitxs of MILLEvOYE, 4 Vol. Bvo. Paris, 1822.

We perceive in this Author many happy qua-
lities which age would have brought to perfec-
tion, and some faults which experience would
doubtless have corrected, if he had not been pre-
maturely snatched from the world at the very
commencement of his career. Though scarcely
thirty-.hree years old, he had, notwithstand-
ing, composed many valuable pieces, some of
which are still held up as models for imitation.
Academic Contests laid the foundation of our
Author's reputation ; he possessed those quali-
ties which command success—a correct style, a
facility in elegant and smooth versification, a cul-
tivated mind, and a knowledge of poetic effects.
his compositions, 4vhich frequently carried off
the prize, and w ere at all times distinguished,
procured him a place among those writers who
held out the greatest promise to French Poetry.
Several of these academic pieces, especially Le
Voyageur and L' kulependance de l'homme des
Leitres, are not only deserving of praise, on ac-
count of their vigorous and chaste style, but
also for many noble and brilliant ideas.
L'Amour Maternal, and Belzunce, were also
in their origin only academic pieces, but en-
couraged by their success, the Author revis-
ed those compositions, and by several additions
made them into little poems, which, as well as
EmmaandEginard, are chiefly remarkable for ele-
gance and a sweet and affecting interest. We must
not expect to meet with overpowering eloquence
or high wrought sentiments. The talent of Mil-
levoye was better adapted to tender and delicate
expressions ; he was born for elegy, and in elegy
he acquired the most undoubted and durable
success.

Elegy belongs to a species of composition, the
limits of which have not yet been determined.
Tlie Latin Poets sang only, with scarce au ex-
ception, of love, its pleasures and piins. The
Greeks conceived 4 higher idea of the elegiac
species, and in many instances their lyre was de-
dicated to the affections of nature and the mis-
fortunes of their country. Millevoye, like the
latter, was not merely the poet of love, and if his
Muse did not produce the energetic and stern
accents of the ancient Muse, at least it found
inspiration for all the tender sentiments of the
human heart.

The poem of L'Arnour Maternel was not less
happy in the expression of filial griefs; the love
of rural nature sheds, in the piece entitled Le
Bois detruit, the charm of elegant melancholy,
La Chute des Fueilles expresses the touching re-
grets of the unfortunate being who felt approach-
ing death in the flower of his age. In the two
other books of his collection Afillevoye has at-
tempted to convey into French the elegy of fo-
reign nations and the elegy of the ancients, but
with partial success.

Miilevoye, will however, stand very high
among the elegiac poets of France. , He cannot,
indeed, rank with Partly or Berth' : he has not
the happy dignity, the agreeable ease, the volup-
tuous melody of the former; nor can he pretend
to the fire, the poetic inspiration, or the warm
and brilliant colouring of the latter ; but though
he is not their rival, he, is little inferior to them.
Before the publication of his elegies, he at-
tempted a translation of the Bucolis of Virgil.
This attempt was altogether unsuited to the cha-
racter of his genius, and of this he was soon con-
vinced. A few morsels, which he afterwards re-
vised with the greatest severity, are all that he
preserved of this work; and these fragments se-
lected and remodelled by an author extremely
rigid in his judgment upon his own writings,
will not be found to disfigure the collection of
his works.

A happier effort, though not crowned with
complete success was a little epic poem, entitled
" Charlemagne a Pude." The action of the
poem is considered weak, but the style has been
highly and deservedly commended, particularly
in the descriptive parts. In the narrative a style
sometimes unnatural, and an affected brevity
which not unfrequently renders him obscure,
rather weaken the interest, and fatigue the
reader; but the descriptive scenes are painted
with a freshness of colouring that displays a fer-
tile and luxuriant imagination. Millevoye has
produced nothing more brilliant or more pure.
But it is, we think, in fugitive poetry, that our
author's genius shines to most advantage. There
are numberless little pieces of eight or ten verses
each, the greater part of which are perfect models
of delicacy and refined taste. L'Epilaphe d'un
Eryina, Le ehoix du plus tendre, La Marchande
d'ilmours, and many other equally lovely mor-
ceaux, would be alone sufficient to establish the
reputation of their Author. Of all the literary
works of Millevoye, these, if not. the most impos-
ing, are certainly the most interesting.
'Such are the pieces, which together with a few
posthumous works, compose this collection, which
is deserving the perusal of the lover of French
literature.

JAMES FORBES, Esq. M. I), who has for some
time been stationed at Fort Pitt, Chatham, as
Chief Medical Officer, is appointed Inspector-
General of Hospitals in the West Indies.
The Corporation of Berwick has unanimously
resolved to request their Representatives in Par-
liament to oppose the proposed alteration of the
line of road between Morpeth and Edinburgh.—
A similar resolve, by the Magistrates of Northum-
berland, was come to at a late meeting held in
the Town Hall, at Alaw•ick.