The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-12 00:00:00

THE ADVOCATES' LIBRARY.

Among the many improvementsthit are every
day taking place in this city, none deserve public notice so much
as the new library belonging to the Faculty of Advocates. This
magnificent hall is 140 feet long, 42 broad, and about 30 high,
and is finished agreeable to a plan designed by the late Mr. Stark.
The floor is of fine polished oak, over which, is laid a beautiful,
carpet, about 12 feet broad. The roof is supported by 60 elegant
columns and pilasters, of the Corinthian order, 20 ft. high. The
plaster war;: of the rich eliptic ceiling was done by Mr. Lawson,
and, with the handsome dome in the centre, has a fine. effect.
A gallery, with a fine bronzed cast-iron rail," extends round
the whole of the room. The furniture was made by Mr. Trot-
ter and for elegance of manufaeture cannot be surpassed.-..Tfij
The. former stair-case not being considered equally splendid
with the room, the Faculty erected an elegant one, after a de-
sign drawn by Mr. Playfair. During the period that the
Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in London were
exhibiting their works, Mr. Stothard was employing his pencil
in decorating the interior of this splendid hall, and was only
two months engaged in an undertaking, which might require
,four in the ordinary time, as few could have sustained the la-
bour of fourteen hours out of the four-and-twenty. That part
of the Library which has been thus ornamented is a space
about four feet below the dome, from which the interior
receives its principal light, and the subject chosen is Apollo
and the Muses, together with the first characters of lite-
rature and science.—The order of the design represents
Apollo in the centre, and opposite the entrance, on his left,
Euterpe, Terpsichore. Clio, Thalia, and Urania; and on the
right of the god, are Melpomene, Calliope, Erato, and Poly-
hymnia ; aright and left of the Muses, boys are seen flying with
wreaths of laurel towards the compartments, which contain
the orators, poets, historians, .&c. placed as follow:—lm-
mediately opposite the figure of Apollo is that of De-
mosthenes, on whose . right is Cicero,, and on his left
Herodotus and Livy. To the left of the orators are the
philosophers and historians, as Newton, Hume, Robert-
son, and Gibbon ; on the other side of Newton, are Bacon,
Napier, and Adam Smith. In the group which contains the
poets, llomer is in the centre; on his right Burns, and Virgil
on his left ; between Burns and Horner is Shakespeare, and be-
tween Virgil and Homer, Milton. These several groups, to-
gether with Apollo and the Muses, are in compartments form.
ed by laurel trees, which separate without interrupting the
chain of connection. Between the four arches, beneath the
dome, are introduced arabesque ornaments ; while the whole,
in point of colouring and effect, is calculated to relieve the in-
terior of the building, without interfering with its architectural
arrangement, presenting a coup-trceil, which does equal credit
to the skill of the artist and the judgment of those with whom
the design originated. This branch of the Library contains
antiquities, history, and geography alone, and is calculated to
contain about 30,000 volumes. The liberal manner in which
the Advocates' Library is conducted reflects the highest honour
on that learned body, as strangers are allowed the free use of
any book they may want to consult, during the hours it is kept
open.—(Edinburgh Courant, Sept. 9.)

RE3IARBABLE CIRCUMSTANCE AND PROW-
DENTIAL ESCAPE.
_ _

On Friday evening as some of the Hoppers in the employ
of James Ellis, Esq. at Banning, were drawing water from
the well belonging to that gentleman, a boy and girl happen-
ed to be carelessly playing near the spot just as the bucket
was being let down ; the girl, to avoid the winch hitting her,
stepped.baA, and fell on the bucket as it was descending, and
was taken with it to the bottom of the well, a depth of 48 feet ;
but by holding fast to the rope she was miraculously preserved,
and drawn up again without experiencing any o her injury than
a few slight bruises. The poor boy, we regret to state; did not
escape so fortunately ; the winch, in the velocity of its course,
struck him a violent blow on the head, which levelled him to
the earth, and fractured his skull in so dreadful a manner that
he was taken up in almost a lifeless state. A surgeon from.
Maidstone was immediately procured ' • and on his examin-
ing the head a portion of the brain Was found protruding from
the wound. He in a most skilful manner operated on the frac.
cure, and extracted all the parts of the bone pressing on the
brain ; and, astonishing to relate, that, although he took Ocala
the head at least two spoonfuls of the brain, yet the boy,. who
bore the operation with much composure, retains all his faculties
and hopes are entertained of his final recover. 4( Maidstone
J0717.na1.)
Of the same larnetable occurrence the Maidstone Gazette
gives the following account : ••
On Friday, as a boy, twelve years of age, and his sister were
playing, the girl got hold of a bucket of a well, the winch of
which was held by the boy. Unfortunately he loosed his hold;
the girt was precipitated to the bottom, and the handle of the
winch, in its rapid revolution, struck the boy on the head. The
girl was much hurt, and the scalp of her head was nearly torn
off; but none of her -bones were broken. The poor boy was
taken up in a most deplorable condition, the blow having dread-
fully fractured his forehead. Mr. Whatman, surgeon of this
town, was speedily on the spot., and rendered every aid that
medical skill could suggest. He found a considerable portion
of the es frantis depressed upon the brain; on elevating and
removing of which upwards of two tea spoonsful of the stih-
stance of the brain nrotruded and separated from the mass. It
was expected that death would speedily put an, end to the poor
boy's sufferings, but he was yesterday (Sept. 9) still alive and
sensible. He has a great degree of fever, which every endea-
vour is used to lower; but it is most probable that inflarnma-
don of thebrain will shortly'supervene, and that medical skill
will finally prove unavailing.

In the reign of Queen MARY square-toed shoes
were in fashion, and the Dandies of that day
wore them of'so prodigious a breadth, that Buz,-
wan says, if he remembers right, there was a
Proclamation came out, that no man should wear
his shoes above six inches square at the toes.
A Gentleman, well known in the sporting
circles east of Temple Bar, has undertaken, for
a considerable wager, to ride from London to
Cheltenham, and back again, a distance of 200
miles, in 48 successive hours, and upon the same
horse. The animal is thirteen years old, and-has
never been used to laborious work. Betting two
to one against him.

Easy Method of Breaking Glass in any required
Directian.—Dip a piece of worsted thread its
spirits of turpentine, wrap it round the glass in
the direction that you require it to be broken,
and then set fire to the thread; or apply a red
hot wire round the glass, and'if it does not im-
mediately crack, throw cold water on it while the
wire remains hot. By this means glass that, is
broken may often be fashioned and rendered
useful for a variety of purposes.

'VILE LONDON JOURNALS.

XTItACIS FRI9III TIM DULY MORNING PAPERS,
September 12, 1822.

• [Tut TINtEs.I
• The- communications between Sir Frederic
• Robinson, Governor of Tobago, and the House
mf Assenibly in that island, which will be found
• under the head of "'Colonial Intelligence" (see
- -Tnx S.vrt:of this day), will, we trust, produce a
• Salutary's-impression upon the heads of the depart-
ment at home. It must be considered a' most
- .ungriestionable and painful proof of the grievous
condition to which the finances of our Colonies
• are reduced, that the amount of a Governor's
glary, bestowed 'spontaneously within a very few
!years, should formthe sole subject of a voluminous
wctintroversy bet Ween the party granting and the
',,ijarty receiving ir.. The poverty of the Colonists
xtmay well have overcome their delicacyin forcing
—them to speak on such a topic to the object of
• their former bOunty ; but what can be urged for
the dignity or decent 'pride of him, who could
reject, an appeal so just, and so mortifying to
- -those from Whom it proceeded ? The salaries of,
. these Colonial'GoVernOrs are said to form .but an
;nferiorportion of their profits. Fees and per-
quisites., in sundry shapes, are among the ru-
moured enjoyments of these high officers. But
it is quite unreasonable that in times of distress,
the whole Mischief should fall upon those who
have-had n:o share in' producing it.. ca snot
suggest a more equitable innovation, than that the;
causers of national-poverty, whether Cabinet
,i,nisters, or.,,their tributaries abroad, should be
f.itnade to taste, through the reduction of their own
e..`incomes,iOrne'drops of the overflowing bitterness
• Itjvhich their impolicy or iniquity may have ere-
-. 'ted:
,[NEW TIMES.] •
. The 'Paris Journals of Monday, and advices,
l'lron-t Bayonne and Madrid to a recent date,
- -
;'rived yesterday, but they communicate no intern,
ttence of importance. It appears from these ac-
--counts that neither mails nor private travellers
~escape the attacks of the armed bands in the
I:North of Spain.
*** The New Times of this day is chiefly
.:occupied by a controversy respecting the affairs of
• Andrews, Holborn.

EBRITISTI PRESS.]
Four'olthe'Paris Papers of Saturday last, the
Courier _Francais, the Journal de Commerce, the
Constitutronnel and the Pilote were visited on
that day by Officers of the Police, and the

Papers seized on the charge of their having

fully misrepresented the proceedings of Thtirsday
lin the Assize Court of Paris. The Editors have
been cited before the President of that Court—

the virtuous and impartial Judge who tried
' the Rochelle case, to answer for this offence.
The summons was their condemnation. Some
of our Ministerial Papers, noticing the state-
inent contained in these Papers respecting

the affecting manner in which the accused who,
were convicted in the Rochelle affair express-
ed their gratitude to the advocates who de-
fended them, ridicule the tears which were said
to have been, shed on that occasion by all par-
ties. The same writers were not so very jocose

'a short time Since,, When on the trial of a goaler,
convicted during the last Assizes for cruelty
to the unfortunate beings subjected to his
power, -an advocate was so overpowered by

his sympathy for the gaoler that he was obliged
to retire from Court. We heard nothing then
from these persons about blubbering barristers or
we'eplifc advocates, although to our minds the
case of persons crushed even to death by the
-iweigh of Ministerial influence, and the criminal
partiality of the presiding Judge, offered a, far
more legitimate subject for manly sympathy than
the prosecution for a misdemeanour of a dis•
charged gaoler, convicted before an impartia
Judge andno hostilti! Jury of undoubted acts' o
cruelty.

[MORNING POST.

The Paris Papers to the 10th inst. contain an
extract from the Austrian Observer, which no
longer contends that Chourschid Paella had de-
feated the Greeks in a great battle ; but main-
tains, on .the contrary,• that no great battle had
been fought or gained either by the Tutks or
Greeks, as none of the Foreign Embassies or
" of the respected Commercial Houses" in
Vienna had received any such intelligence.—
This statement is satisfactory, because it sets• at
rest the report raised by that very same Journal
of the total discomfiture of the main Grecian
army, and admits that accounts of their hav-
ing obtained the victory had been received' by
Commercial Ilousesi which it does not choose
to consider as " respected." The original intel-
ligence remains therefore in its full force,- ang:.
mented by confirmations from many quarters, and
by the acknowledgment of tilt _Austrian, Ob-
server, that the counter statement which it
published at the time, giving the victory to the
Turks, was a fabrication ; since it now declares
that no information whatever had been re-
ceived on the subject. This awkward self
exposure shows what degree of credit ought to be
attached to the assertions of this veracious Jour-
tat, and what are the principles by which its
official conductors are guided. We therefore
feel 'our alarm considerably diminished on hearing
through that channel that the march of several
Turkish corps through Thessaly and Livadia
was confirmed, ,and that an Ottoman fleet of
120 sail, with 20,000 troops on board, was on
its way to the Morea to join in a general
'attack on that peninsula. It may be true
that " decisive events were approaching," but
aye trust that although deserted, if not as-
sailed by their fellow Christians, the Greeks
will continue to' be supported by that Pro-
vidence -which has roused them from their slum-
ber of ages, not certainly to accomplish- their
-destruction, but to restore them to' their rank
and independence as'a•Christian people. Like
..head of old, they have fulfilled the years of
their captivity, and the spirit ,which gives
arength to. the-weak, and freedom to the cap-
isive, has-revisited their souls. It is in itself a
pledge of divine support) for it is of divine

origin, =1 will ttereiore triumph., though th
friends who should assist betray, and the foes
whose turn it is to be judged and punished for
their oppressions, now advance exulting in the
pusillanimity of Christian' Princes, and in the
greatness of their power.