The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

WINDSOR, TrRSDAT.—Fier M.,jesty took her accuromed
airing in the Pa k this aft; rnoon,•aceorn: by her R,,yal
'Highness the Duchess of Kent dt.:..nded by the Baroness
Lehzen, Hon. Miss Cavendish, the Duke of Sutherland,'
Lord Melbourne, Lord Lvnsdowne, Lord Uxbridge, Lord
John Russell, Hon. C. A. Murray, Hon. Cul. Caren fish, and
Sir Robert Otway.
The Duchess of Sutherland and Ltidy Littleriale followed
in a barauche and four.
Lpatdy Mary Stopford rode out in a pony phaPton.
". Lord Chancellor, Lord Glenelg, Lord Palmerston,
ithd Sir John Hobhouse took their d, arturo this morning.
iotTMr. Bathurst and Sir John Claik left yesterday evening.
' Roral dinner pirty this evening will include the fol.
Roytil Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady
6- '93l(tY, Lady Mary Stopford, Hon. Misses L. Paget and
P_aver,digh, Lady Lit.leton, Barone,s Lehzen, Duke and
.'..:itess of Sutherland, Marquis of Lansd mne, Viscount
elbourne, Lord John Russell, Lord Uxbridge, Sir R.
I°tlq'tY, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Hon. C. A. Murray, and
onel Bourerie.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left his red-
olonereiteeso.at tisieKevr yesterday, on a visit to the Right Hon. Sir
s
Y. at his seat, Hall Barne Park, Beaconsfield,
10nDiaespatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the
Islands and from the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar,
vse,,,re received yeste.rday at the Colonial-office.
uespatches from the British ChatTe d'Affaires at Naples
reeoeuelilvt.edyesterday at the Foreign-office.
Palmerston left town on Monday afternoon foi
/1,1,5 e% Castle. His Lordship returned to town yesterday.
M. Glenelg returned to town yesterday from a visit to her
,Tiesty at Windsor Castle.
he Lord Chancellor arrived at his residence Copse Hill,
rpte,rdaY, from Windsor Castle.
'ue 'Castle. Hon. Wm. Temple, has arrived in tow n from Windsor
Sir John Hobhouse arrived in town yesterday from a visit to
r
e Majesty at Windsor Castle.

RIO.NABLE INTELLIGENCE.

oLord ARRIVALS.
t
Fitzroy Slmerset, in St :nliope. street, Mayfair, from
ter; Admiral Hawker in Piccs,dilly; Lnrd Saye and Seie
toßruton-street; Mr. Culling Smith in Piccadilly ; Captain
C:),.le in Hill street; Mr. Hoare in Gloucester-place;
place Blackwell in Pall-mall; M. Villebo)s in Gloucester.
Pieee',., Lord New.trk in Portman-Fquare; Mr. Briscoe in
at ChmeiillY ; Mr. Lowther in Piccadilly ;
_Miss Wright Wilson
street 'sett Patk ; Alexander Grant,
, fr
Ile °ln Scotland; the Rev. Mr. A Conti-
Etq., in Arlington-
lackie from a
Qat tour.

Sir 'R• DEPARTURES.
ss.Aurbtle-r. onie.ha.rd Sutton. Bart., for Leicestershire; Colonel
utonot on a tour • Mr. Trelawney on a tour ; Lord. James__
vi".e Ladies
fork. tour ; Cu. rrie for Essendon Hall, in
e Ire ;
kshire Sir
'"Fincahnd Mrs. Robl^rt Harrington for Brighton ;
for the Earl of Aylesford's seat in War-
Archibald and Miss Campbell fur Brighton;
413t4in Ind Mrs. Cust on a tour ; Lady Anne and Miss Mil-
iteelT.e Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Newton Lane for Woreeg-
toodf're ; Colonel and Mrs. Egerton for Brighton ; Mr.
Bart rel Wentworth fur Yorkshire ; Sir Thomas Apreece,
/I;T,'er Huntingclonshirc • Colonel and Mrs. Crawford for
111141'4 ; Mr.. Fontaine for Narford H.ll, in Norfolk; Mr.
13,;,,-"s Robbins from Thomas's Hotel, for their seat, near
"';e1; Sir Sinseon Stewart, from Hi. to,,
for Clifton.
CHANGES.
isirthe Earl of Scarborough. at RAby Castle, Durham, on a
ase..t° the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, from his scat
14;7 Doncaster; Lord Macdonald, at Ness Castle, Inver-
,l7. °r. a visit to Lord and Lady Saltoun, from his seat,
astle, Sutherland shire ; Lord Teignmouth, M. P., at
f.uctinshaTe, on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Lorton,
tr Dublin
Castle'u ; the Marquis of Tweeddale. at Chillingham
Wooler, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Tan-
/.;IT ie, from his seat, Yester House, Haddiugtonshire;
bt Prudhoe, at Ainwick Castle, on a visit to the Duke and
Ziuuseehess of Northumberland, from his seat, Stanwick Park ;
"ie7ftit and Viscountess Comberinere, at Combermere Ab.
, from Warwick; the Earl and Countess Jerrnyn, at
from Dover; the Countess Dowager of Belmore, at
Ha h, from Southampton; Talbot Patterson, Esq., at Bushey,
erta, from Brighton.

fr. -t is not yet fixed when the Court will leave Wind-
'''t for Brighton.
Prince Wiasemski, Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor
trt-ellteurssbivar,gahr.rived at Mivart's Hotel late last evening from St.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, who returned
to%,.Stafford House yesterday from a visit to her Majesty at
I"lcisor take their departure for Paris on Friday morning, ,
re *he their Graces will pass the, winter.
L The Duke of Wellineton s party at Walmer Castle
'exPected to separate on Friday.
u_The Duchess of Bedford arrived at Brighton on
ileonday night from the D •unr, in the
d and Cosmo Russell,
2 rt Grace left her sons, Lords Edw-tr. .
Highlands of Scotland.
torltiie Lodge, where they intend remaining
~ John Russell was expected to arrive yesterday
from town.
a in,,rob longer
wrint, orgiana and Frances Russell,andrty.
"Tleh442l:Y l'iussell, form the famiypa Lord and Lady
/rem e Duke of Norfolk arrived in town yesterday
le Littleatvii:it to the Earl and Countess of Surrey at t
.r, e Pto.
Peet 1,1 Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury are ex-i i:eio..tovrti to-morrow, from Walmer Castle.
;turn Marchioness of Clanricarde, it is expected, wil
of., to this eountr in the spring. The
the family rernain yhere. r branches
The vi-
it untw, ..uarquis and Marchioness. of Thomond left
-rilw4e Wells last week for Brighton for the winter.
Edwinle Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire, Lord
_ ,
sew frotolek Lady Charlotte Hill, are expected in town to.mor-
few days the Continent. This noble staying a
t,l in town, will leave for Easthampstead Park. . _
o_
family, after ..
frien' Talbot has been entertainine a septet circle of
Lads at
In of
Hall, his seat in Staffordshire. Lord
of lisiti '34,ah Ingestre have arrived at the Hall from a tour
•L'etvi'll, 'he Earl and Countess of airtmouth and Viscount
Th.tlrli_have been among his Lordship's guests.
day after Lad and Countess of Carlisle leave town the
Plishe.er. tonorrow for Paris, accompanied by their accom-
t:edaughters, Ladies Elizabeth and Mary Howard.
Se
b ' end Countess Bruce, who have been visiting I!4litioBewryltgler,i.Countess of Pembroke, at Wilton House. near
4rongy:' "n on Saturday for Savenache Lodge, near Marls
Cott
fel' L • ntess Batlivany left Mivart's Hotel yesterday
is at rlVnon, accomPanfed b bar family. Count IlathYt'Y 'll''' fiee°, but vial return t-o
this country shortly befoie
11.10al'
tretil trhd Rolle, we understand, has entirely recovered
daytoted etiff'"s or his Lordship's late accident.
ev ssowart de
" Walden arrived in town on Mon-
Loe,nlng from the seat of the Duke of Portland.
*Veiltahrr PrUdlioe still remains at Stanwich Park, in
dayLOrje'le:i'ling the amusement of shooting.
so; - ore
t bef eveson arrived at Devonshire House. the
kp li Yesteraa
• ticl 1), y, and has again left for Faris. His Lord
(1 h), at o'er" c'n 0 visit to Countess Flahault (Viscountess
taro„ '44 Allan Castle, N.B.
04 a Vigi;'tl3ll.low left the Prussian Embassy, yesterday,
1:A. n„ o,'"lr Gore Ousely.
114clethaerii-ve4rienrt:f„nnolale families and
tient northern
couincvt.ie.tbin. thnedlianst few persons of rank
Con-
The . is, intending pdrzse,efdrotmo
the Sco snd
ails in tisho
or co Sly ill
aPstor Winchester was la.stowle•ecexkt,tnaski;eentosuor
three L'eatio, • 0 be unable to proceed in
r en" hhe bad just commenced. At two or
14.-I,that 1,1,
~° Bishcp of B.irbadoes, who Lad just returned
It, .4 Ti hat
L , nu, cfficiated in his stead.
;tom tilts , and,
T
°` this r 'el RD FARNHAM.—The mortal re-
st. Paris t t:sPected nobleman, which had been convened
re-
beam , fey ° the Thames, were removed on board an Irish.
Hon
11;4,.ke't for,daYs back for Dublin, from whence they will
Itlrrll Itlasw-;lrment to Farnham House, Cavan. '1!
have.
ot 4''-'Y arive‘;' it NI. P., and the Hon. Samerset Maxvve , .
.3 licltdes 4at the above seat to attend Et his Lordship
I. 4‘ll t 1,
Tel DU
k E .(17 7
In Malcolm's
84 -.- of Floor_, vv ELLINGTics.—
tins,"s the f 11U and Field," published in Edinburghv
tros‘oa:_..., Oil()Win,„
Passage relative to the Duke of \ el-
ftverl'vtd. ,;tll,, riee'opgnasisseintg:
face of
amidst the vast and unknown
64rte 4"4s a wo I c
s recollections.
hia_etmeti hut fsor rive now rolled away since I
44 1, 44 Year h rd of prowudhi"lahndevgerliotrhineug. lance of tt MO-
h beheld
the
tile's of battle an instant, as it shot p Ist melat4..trboulg.ld. it
It '. lees and vardshed in its storm ; but. no one who has
..., is can ever f
MN , Itioreuye_forget that of the Duke of Wellington.
t,,, Placid
.r, but litile changed, and still wears the
I look • smile n.. 1
% 0 It .
.- '...,4 calm dignity which never for a moment
i•all'''. ' -yen ''' the mortal struggle and earthquake shock of
N heir
itoYal li• t4O Ink ho ighnesses the Prince and Princess of
Ink e left t
TI "II on a tour of visits for three weeks or a
l'io le ulce
kooejb at Loo'f Rutland and his visiters, during t
their
torn„ gat
and Lodge, in Derbyshire, killed abou
tterli:kieri b._ n' one hundred black game. His Grace,iac-
-11,44.haa left Y,, The Ntarquis of Granby and Lord John
n 1
''a the Longshaw . f
Iciaenn;
Q 'e Peak of (.. or Haddon Hall, his Grace's
ithe'4l6'atLleitrasosi4sAbhot,tisblisQ't:ebirlYlr:hfsitlrhieo:rtly lead to the altar the
present Lord Tenterden, and
hioliil4.B`le late Lord Tenterden, Lord Chief Justice of
bness theßench.„. Caain Smyth is brother- of her Royal
tiyarori
~ 4-- Ineess f Capua,
t l'•Nt " Buteaux, Master of the Horse to his
erd, Y the Kind.ile'llYla's,f;°4
hYo..o_ricsfh_irter,uswilhae'
es for the Prussianue
'where he
at Mivart's Hotel yes-
-451 "e tarl "ahrmasy.been making large
Yeßtheaa u • and Countess of Sefton and . the Ladies
t
c.,4 l.,i,ty ;ived at their town residence in Arlington.s.tr.ee _
1 hit'l',hh, it Weymouth. The Noble Earl has visltel
ha.Jls ,8
,r,o and Rath for the benefit of their sinters, and
. it
404a1: re,4reat pleasure to be able to state his Lordship to
y, c'sl.collsiderable relief fr 'fic'n'' Lord and Lady
"lag ii,ted the Earl and Countess shortly before their
eY'raouth.

CO.{N-LAW FALLACIES, WITH THE
ANSWERS.

(Continue? from The Sun of Monday.)
103 —4 Switzerland is the real rival' of this country in
inanufictures ;" and th4t because " food (there) cannot be
taxed." Why, what is Switzerland ? A country of too limited
extent to form an independent nation exercising a free will;
without a port; without internal wealth; and whose only se-
curiiy against foreign arms, and foreign subjugation, is the
mutual jealousy of the great Powers that surround it. Such
is the Power from which the United Kingdom, with her em-
pire of Ait e hundred and fifty millions of souls, her hundreds
of ports, her tens of thousands of ships, and her Leeds,
Manchester, and Birmingham', is to learn policy,
and how to become rich and great. —Hull and East Riding
limes, 7th September, 1838.

ANSWER.—" Because a little tradesman gets rich by
economy and care, therefore a great one ought W let his
money be thrown about the streets, in the hope that the
nnders will bring it back to his shop again." Something
like that seems to be the argument advanced. In 1803 the
captain of a West Indianian was arguing on the merits of
Mr. Wilberforce, and he said, " Talk of him; there are
men in Jimaica worth fifty times as much !" Another in-
stance of judging of a man's argument by his weight.
104.—The case of Switzerland is precisely the reverse of
that of England. Switzerland gives no protection to agri-
culture, for it has no agriculture to protect. —ld.
A.—Switzerland might find agriculture to protect, as
England does ; if she were fool enough. Switzerland might
say, there shall be no more Swiss than can be kept upon
the corn grown in their own valleys ; but it happens that
the Swiss are the masters of Switzerland, and have beaten
dawn and reduced to harmlessness the aristocracy that
confine them to Swiss corn, and kill off the difference
by Poor-laws. •

105.—For plenty it must depend upon foreign sources;
bind it is not in the nature of things for all those sources to be
closed against it, as we have already seen, and any one being
'pen is sufficient —ld.

A.—lfit is true of Switzerland that all its sources of
•upply cannot be closed a once, how much more true of
Englan I. The dock-gates at Hull are kept locked, lest
di foreign ports should he closed against Hull ships at
once. Poor Hull merchants, what would they bring them-
selves to, if they had not Tor es to take care of them!

106.—And, as to its manufactures, they have not yet at.
tamed a consequence gri•at enough to excite much jealousy.—ld.
A.—Great or small, the fact is, that the Swiss, by de-
fending themselves stoutly aglinst their aristocracy, and
guarding every man's interest alike, have arrived at a de-
gree of wealth and comfort very dis?roportion,d to their
physical advantages ; while we are crouching, and killing off
our people by Poor-laws, li,cause it is necessary " to the
maintenance of the Church Establishment."

107. —The United Kingdom, on the contrary, has produced,
and can produce, sufficient grain for its consumption.—ld.
A.—The United Ktrudoin can produce grain for the
number the landlords like to keep and kill off the rest.
And this is what is doing every day. The New Poor-law
was an invention of the landlords to sharpen the til'eth of
the mill, in which the population, above what they choose
to keep, `is to be ground down. The old process was not
quick enough ; men and women got out and struggled in
dying, and the consequences might at some time have been
very disagreeable.
108.—And, while it possesses its present unequalled home-
market (which is made and preserved by the Corn laws), and
retains its immense colonial empire, it has a profitable field
for its manufactures, which, well worked, must enable it to
excel and undersell, not only Switzerland, but even France
and Prussia, out of their respective territodes.—ld.
A.—Tell Mr. JONES to shut up his shop and cut off the
communication with the outside, and he will see what a
wonderful home-market he will have inside; haw Mrs.
JONES will buy of Mr. JONES, and Mr. JONES of Mrs. And
if it be well worked, he will soon find himself in a way to
undersell all his neighbours, " out of their respective ter-
ritories."

The men that advise Mr. JONES to this, have one simple
object---to get three days' work for a quwter of corn out
of him instead of two, by selling to him at their own price.

109.—1 f the BOWRINO •ale of the Chronicle assertions are
to be taken as fair specimens of the projected Anti British- Ag-
ricultural war, it may furnish food for ridicule and contempt,
but it can excite no apprehension for the protection o
the British farmer.—ld

A.—Why not the manufacturers run about crying for
the due protection of the British manufaeturer by a tax
on home-grown corn ? It might be what ought to send
them to the mad-house or the tread-mill ; but it would be

just as good as the other. Where did the farmers ge.t
their peculiar right, to be bawling about the country for
leave to live upon their neighbours?

110.—The Shipping Gazette professes to be devoted to
the shipping interest ; and yet we find it, with all the ability
which it possesses—such as it is—endeavouring to place Hull
in oKosition to Liverpool ; Dundee in opposition to Glasgow.
And. upon what queston do our read-rs suppose that this
Cockney supporter of our maritime welfare would range our
ports in hostility to each other ? Positively, none other than
the equalization of the Baltic and Canadian timber duties."
He actually tells us—
" The people of Ah-rdeen, Dundee, Leith,. Newcasty,
Hull, and other sea-port towns on the eastern side of t
island are, in a peculiar manner, interested in this question.
The equalization of the timber duties would have the effect (..f
considerably adding to the bustle and business of their respec-
tive ports, by transferring to them the greater part of that
timber tradeC at present enjoyed by the western sea-ports. The
s.me considerations that render Greenock, Port-Glasgow,
Glasgow, and Liverpool inimical to the removal of the • pro-
tecting' duty in favour of Canadian timber, ought to stimulate
our east-country towns to give such a proposal their cordial
and zealous support."
More consummate ignorance than is here evinced was never
before exhibited. H.. 5 this writer still to learn that the
" reciprocity system" has put an end to the possibility of any
such jealrusy as that which he would excite ; and has he also
to be inform d that the trade which Hull carries on with Bri.
tish North America is not of a character to be willingly trifled
with, and still less to be sacrificed?—id. Sept. 14, 1838.
A.—An attempt to stop up the docks, by putting for-
ward the " reciprocity system" for the " prohibitive duty."
A law is made, putting a duty which to a great extent is
prohibitive, on bringing Baltic timber to Hull ; for the
sake of putting money into the pockets of the friends of
the aristocracy in Canada, and making an excuse for pay-
ing soldiers to keep the rest of the Canadiars in order.
By this method Hull is to lose the advantage of her posi-
tion for the Baltic trade, and contend with the ports which
have the breadth of the island in their favour. And then

the quantity Hull has of this maims d and unfavourable
trade, is to be held out as the reason why the people of
Hull should not wish for the better. It is not the " reci-
procity system," but the duty, which prevents Hull ships
from bringing timber from the Baltic, and forces them to
compete with the western ports, which have the advan-
tages of position all on their side. :What a nuisance to
private families, are Tories in a commercial town !

111 —The madness of depending on foreign countries for
,he staff of life, is absolutely suicidal.—Hull Pachet, Sept.
14, 1838.

A.—The madness of going without the staff of life
when we might have it, is something much more like sui-
cidal. Ask what is thought of it, in the places where the
poor are weighed, to gee how many ounces of food may b.
dispensed with.

112.—Once in the power of our foreign foes for bread,
compulsion a ould be employed to oLtain admission for the
manufactures established with the money paid for foreign
corn.—ld.

A.—A droll pay of establishing manufactories abroad,
by sending manufactures to the foreigner ourselves! Could
not some of the Hull Tories slip over to Hamburgh or
elsewhere, and try to establish a manufactory on this prin-
ciple ?

113.—An universal sympathy pervades the body politic; an
injury inflicted on a part, quickly induces mischicf throughout
the whole community. —ld.
A.—Why should not the captured thief say the same ?
Why does not he beg not to be injured by being made to
disgorge, and plead the universal sympathy that panatelas
the body politic ? To bring it home, where does the
farmer get his right to call the cessation of his robbery an
irjury, and threaten mischief throughout the whole com-
munity ? Let somebody rob him a little, and tell him of
the universal smpathy that pervades the body politic.
114. Is it the policy of England to raise the price of
foreign corn? By the free admission of grain from the Con-
tinent, an immediate rise must there take place, caused by
English money raising the market price of grain for exporta-
tion to Britain.—ld.
A.—lf it does so till it stops the trade, what else do
you want But you know it would not. We therefore
mean to have the benefit of the difference.

1 15 —A man of sense would ask, what does all this hue and
cry against the Corn-laws mean ?—ld.
A.—Simply, that the people of Englind are dying under
the Ncw Poor-laws, because they are not allowed to keep
themselves.

116.—Where is the practical evil? The real answer is, it
is from first to last, like the Reform mania, a mere theoretic
gri„vance. Mankind are got too wise to be industrious. The
labouring classes would live without labour. The middling
classes would swallow up one another. Cheap bread, cry the
poor, though we he left without s farthing to purchase it.—ld.
A. Ye dogs, so ye would not give the landlords'
prices !" And thus the poor are sent home, to feed their
families on the " theoretic grievance." Just in this way
argued
toothe
manyfeud foraltytrahteitm.s in old time. But the masses
proved

(To Dlt CONTINUED.

A select partv is expected to asseinble at Hatfield
House in the ensuing week.

THE COINAGE.

TO THE EDITOR OF TUE SUN.

SIR,—To an article in the True Sun, of the 12th of Octo-
ber last, by Mr. Till, Jack Briton answered on the 20th, and
be accompanied his letter with three of Mr. Pistrueci's,
and one of Mr. Wyon's works, cast in plaster. On these
ou remarked—" Judging from the specimens with which
we have been favoured, we have no hesitation in assigning
the superiority to Mr. Wyon."
I would, most likely, never have troubled you further or,
this subject but for a very rabid communication from 'Wm.
R. Hamilton, Esq., in the Times, of Aug. 10, which aeci•
dentally fell tinder my eye, in which it is said—" Mr. Pis-
trucci's worst fault is hi• foreign extraction—a crime not
yet expiated by a residence of nearly four and twenty
years in England."

I consider that mind in a wilderness state that can have
any prejudice against a person on account of the locale of
his birth. Important as that may be to the individual, it is
altogether connected with circumstances beyond his controul ;
therefore whether that great event may have occured on the
banks of the Thames, the Tiber, the Jordan, or the Nile,
the Severn, the Shannon, or the Clyde, or even the banks
of the sweet-flowing Fleet, in the Vale of Bagnigge-wells—
or whether a palace or a cottage, may have embosomed the
cradle of the sapling—or whether St, James's, St. Giles's,
or Grub-street may have owned the cellar, first floor, or
garret where he first saw the light, it has no value with me ;
the discipline of my mind leads me to judge mankind by
their science and morals. Artists I judge by their work:.
It appears then to me, that the matter in dispute between
Mr. Hamilton and the British Artists, having nothing• to
do with national prejudice, as he has put it, and being a
subject not of opinion, but of matter of fact, it can only
be treated in a common-sense way, by an exhibition of the
works of Sig. Pistrucci and Mr. Wyon, as I have done in
my first communication with the True Sun. Mr. H. is
represented as saying, " When Pistrucei executed the coins
of the country, they were the most beautiful in Europe
those which come from the Mint, since he has been re-
moved from the office of chief engraver, threaten to bring
the character of the British Mint below that of most simi.
lar establishments." Against this rash and unjust judg-
ment, I make the following appeal :
Mr. Pistrucci's first work for the mint, I believe, was the
die for the half-crown of 1816 ; it was universaPy condemned
by the public. In my judgment it is the most untrue repre-
sentation of the natural shape of the human head among the
coin of the realm. The modd of this coin must still be in

the archives of the Mint ; a public exhibition of it would be
desirable, that wo might have the felicity of studying the
first work done by one of the " most distinguished men of
the present time." As Mr. P. was chief engraver in the
Mint at the time of its issue, having done th model, he
had also the superintendence of its execution. He may,
therefore, have the glory or disgrace of this first of his
works, which Mr. Hamilton lauds as the " most beautiful
in Europe." Now it appears very strange that the Mint,
under the cognizance of the Master and the Directors of

that establishment, could have allowed such a piece of art to
be issued from their cabinet, the keep of which they had
confided to their pet, whom Mr. H. extols as" one of the
most distinguished men of the present time, who risk their
fortunes and success in life in transplanting their abilities to
our shores!'

When I look at the half-crowns and shillings of 1816
and 1817, and consider that he was chief engraver in the
Mint at that time, I say that these coins are sufficient
evidence that their fabricator was incapable of making a
natural portrait of a human head. Previous to their ap-
pearance it was boasted that they would be the most per-
fect works which had issued from any mint, because they
were to be finished works, by the hand of a master who
could handle the seal engraver's engine with the greatest
skill : foolish Least, as if any engine could make up for bad
drawing and false modelling!
It appears, now, that we can strike ugliness or beauty:
witness the Coronation Medal by Sig. Pistrucci, and the
common coin, and the medal to commemorate her Ma-
jesty's visit to the City, by Mr. Wyon. Mr. Hamilton
assumes that the public are under a delusion regarding
the Coronation Medal, but he consoles us that all will be
right again when we use our " eyes instead of our ears."
Mr. Hamilton must be advised to consult his oculist and
and his optician also, that he may see more clearly, and
probably he may be better qualified to discriminate with
taste, and to judge more candidly regarding art and artists.
It is droll that he should hint as proof of" the unrivalled taste,
truth, and execution" of his pet, that drawing, modelling, or
successful die-sinking could in any manner be influenced by
the most perfect machinery. It would be as reasonable
to boast of the operations of the hammer, the hatchet, and
saw, without the hand and intellect of the skilful worker,
who may be able to direct them in framing or destroying.
In very hal taste, Mr. H. complains of persecution
against Mr. Pistrucci, and that it has been done anony-
mously. He must not forget that he threw the first stone
himself in the (lark, although now he blazons his name in
the newspapers, and in conjunction with a Mr. Till. leads
the van in a disgusting abuse of British talent. Now I
propose a truce in this senseless word-battle, and from
words, that we proceed to exhibit the very works we pre-
tend to talk about. Yes, let us have an exhibition of all
the models and of the coin done for the Mint since the
time of Henry VIII. ; let it be in the Museum. It would
be a most delicious treat to the public, and might be im-
proving to artists professing the art of intaglio engraving.
It would he pleasing for the Directors of the Mint to have
public praise for their employing such talent as Mr. Wyon's
in their mintage ; even Mr. Hamilton—better late than
never—might blush to look at the a orks of a Simon and a
Wynn, and reason might induce him to make a sensible
apology for his reckless attack on native art.

Simon was supplanted in the mint by Roither a fa-
vourite of King Charles 11. Simon was a man of splendid
talents as a die-sinker, and fine taste as a modeller. I
question whether anci •nt or modern time has presented
better things in that art than he has left behind him ; yet
he was refused employment at the Mint, and, it is said, died
of want to give place to one of those eminent foreigners who
have adorned our land by " transplanting their abilities to
our shores. In Pisirucci's case, we ought cordially to thank
him for being the first to prove to us, for many a long year,
that beautiful coins and medals may be struck even in
England, that Cameos of equal merit may be engraved in
England, that hard Greek marble may, under the hands of
the sculptor, be moulded into forms as elegant as the soft
Carrara," &c. Such verbiage from a dealer in old coins,
or a connoiseur of Queen Anne farthings, might excite a
smile at the rhapsody of ignorance ; but that a travelled
gentleman and scholar, who has represented our Sovereign
at a foreign Court, and who, probably by his rank, has
found easy admission into the principal collections of vertu
in Europe, should proudly obtrude his name, apparently
for the mere purpose of depreciating native talent, is indeed

very strange.
This diatribe on the powers and the talent of Signor
Pistrucci is rather unintelligible to me ; that he has been
the first to prove that the British could strike ugly or
beautiful medals is rather anomalous, seeing that we have
been in the daily use of Bolton and Watt's steam-coining-
engine to some purpose, long before this paragon of a gen-
tleman and artist graced our land.
Mr. Hamilton luxuriates on the industry of his pet, and
measures it at fifteen hours a day—most extraordinary !
What a blessing to our country to have such servants. I
will venture to say, that one hour's labour a-day, from the
time of his appointment to his snug berth at the Mint,
would be more than sufficient to do all the work which he
has done for that establishment—a snug sinecure indeed,
when we consider that the work of the Mint has been car-
ried on by an artist more competent to the work than he.
Let the dumb coin of 1816 and that of 1838 be laid
beside each other, with the half-crowns, shillings, and so-,
vereigns of George IV. by Pistrucci and Wyon (not for-
getting the horse of the pretended St. George, the legs of
which expose such ignorance of nature as ought to force a
blush on the most bronzed impudence which designed to
declare the merits of the rival artists to every intelligent
eye ; I challenge this trial as an act of justice to British

artists.
In our public exhibition of works done for the Mint we
must have a peep of the grand work which Mr. H. says
is the result "of more manual and intellectual labour
than Ins been bestowed on the public works executed in
this country by all the engravers in steel, and all the die-
sinkers put together, during the last and present centuries.
Britons, respond to my call, and let us implore those
who may be able to answer the call that this wondeifal gem,
by " the most distinguished man of the present time" m 37
be publicly exhibited with the cabinet of the Mint. As
to the manual labour on this peerless gem, it would be
folly to speak till we see it. But as to the intellectual
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Let us arrange their Godships :—George 111., or the
Regent of our father-land, as Jupiter the thunderer ; Pluto
the banker, with
.his subsidies, and Mars the destroyer
Britannia, as Juno, with counsel, cash, and spear for battle,
supported by Austria, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, &c.
It is said that Pistrucci has had two 2,0001. beyond his
usual salary already advanced upon it, and that he has
actually sworn, that he will not finish it !!
Mr. Hamilton may blame himself for this fair challenge.
I claim fair play for Mr. Wyon, who has been grossly
abused—for Mr. Pistrucei, who has been spoiled k% ith flat ery
—and for Mr. H. and Mr. Till, who have promoted an in-