The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-07 00:00:00

POST COACHES.

MANCHESTER -New Light Post Coach, The Regulator,
through Dunstable, Il'oburn, Newport, Northampton,
liar-
borough, Leicester, Loughborough, Derby, Ashbourne and
Buxton, at a quarter before 3 o'clock.

1-101..YF1E.10 New Light Post Coaches, through Binning.
hain, Wolverhampton, Shiffnal, Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Cur..
wen, and Bangor., every Morning at half past 5, and Evening
at a quarter before 5 o'clock.

GLASGOW and EDINBURGH Post Coach, The Defiance,
through Nianchester, Garstang, Kendal, Carlisle, Annan and
Dumfries, at 5. o'clock.

SOUTIIAMpToN Light Coach, through Staines, Hartford
Bridge, Basingstoke and Winchester, every iifoiuing at ha:f
past 7.

LIVERPOOL Light Post Coach, The Royal Champion,
(in 28 hours. and driven through by Four Coachmen only),
through Stoney Stratford, Coventiy, Lichfield, Stone nod
Congleton, every Dav at 4 o'clock.
tVINDsoit and El'ON Coaches daily.
MANCHESTER Royal Defiance, (i❑ 24 hours), through
Dunstable, Northampton, Harborough, Leicester, Cavendish
Bridge,• Derby, Ashbourue, Leek, Macclesfield and Stock-
port, every Day at 5.

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EXETER New Light Four-inside Post Coach, The %pi-
lator, (with a Guard, and out One Night only), through -aa
singstoke, Overton, Andover, Salisbury, Blandford, Do rch s-
ter,- Brulport, Axminster, and Honiton, every Day at 2
o'clock. Passengers travelling by this conveyance proceeds
without delay to Plymouth and Falmouth.
EDINBURGH and GLASGOW New Post Coach, The
Champion, through Newcastle, Lancaster, Kendal, Carlisle
and Dumfries, at 4 o'clock.

BRISTOL Regent Post Coach, through Reading., Newbury,
Marlborough and Bath, every Afternoon at a quarter before
o'clock.

BIRMINGHAM Lit'Tlit Post Coach, The Ita loon, through
Stoney Stratford, Daventry, Coventry and Stone Bridge,
every Afternoon at half past 4.
FALMOUTH and PLYMOUTH Light Post Coaches, every
Afternoon at 9. o'clock.

WEYMOUTH and DORCHESTER Magnet nay Coach,
in 15 hours, at 5 every Morning, -and front the Gloucester
Coffee house, Piccadilly, 'at

COVENTRY Light Four-inside Post Coach, every After-
noon, at a quarter before 5.
The Prince Cobourg to MANCHESTER through Coven-
try, Atherstone, Tamworth, Lichfield, Stone, Newcastle and
Congleton, every Day at 4 o'clock.

GHAM New Light Post Coach, (in IS hours),
through St. Alban's, Dnnstable, Woburn, Newport Pagnel,
Market Harborough, Leicester and Loughborough, at 3
o'clock in the Afternoon.

CARLISLE, GLASGOW, and EDINBURGH, Four-inside
Coaches, Daily at 2 and 5 o'clock.
CHESTER and PARK GATE New Coabh, every After-
noon at 5, and Morning at 6 o'clock.
WORCESTER Coaches, through Oxford, Chipping Nor-
ton, Pershore and Bioadwav, every Morning at G.
WARWICK and LEAMINGTON SPA Post Coach, every
Evening at 5 -o'clock.
TAM WORTH, ATHERSTC:&E, and HINCKLEY Coach,
every Day at 4 o'clock.
DERBY New Light Post Coach; The Regulator, (in 18
hours), through Northampton, Market flarborough and Lei-
cer, every Day at .3.
New Light Four-inside Post Coach to DUDLEY and
STO(JRBRIDGE, every Aftei noon at 5 o'clock.

DOVER Union Coaches, through Rochester, Chatham,
Canterbut y, Margate and Rawsgate, at half pass 7 and 11
o'clock every Morning, anti half past 6 in the Evening.
PARIS New. Light Diligence, by way of Dover, every
Morning at 7, and half past G Evening.
TAUNTON, through Cross to Bridgewater, every After-
noon at half past 3 o'clock, at reduced Fares.

BIRMINGHAM Light Post Coach, The Courier, through
Oxford, Shipton, Stratford-on-Avon and Henley Arden,
every Morning at half past 5.
CHELTENHAM and GLOUCESTER Light Post Coach,
carries 4 Inside, through Oxford, every Morning at 6.
ROYSTON and BUNTINGFORI) Post Coach, every After-
noon dt half past e o'clock, tv the George, Buntingford, and
Crown Inn, Royston.

New Safety hay Times Post Coach to NORWICH, (in 14
hours), driven through by one Coachman only, at 5 in the
Morning.

CAMBRIDGE. Tally Ho ! Fast Coach, in 5 hours, at
half past 2 o'clock tvel y Afternoon, and from the Flower-
Pot, Bishopsgate-street, at a quarter before 3.
CANTERBURY Fast Coach, The Tally Ho ! every After-
noon, at half past in 7 hours.

BBRIGHTONCoaches,, at half past 8, and half past 10
o'clock every Morning.

* Parcels and Lur'ggage conveyed daily to all Parts of the
North, and to every City and Manufacturing Town in the
Kingdom. W. WATERHOUSE and Co. Proprietors.
t.l.t The Proprietcrs of the above Carri.ages beg leave to
inform the Public, that they will not be accountable for any
Parcel or Package whatever, nor for any Passenger's Lug-
gage above the value of 51., unless tire same be entered and
Paid for accordingly at the time of the deliv►ry of any such
Parcel, Package, or Passenger's Luggage, to them or their
Agents.—Goods insured at a moderate Rate.

MORALS OF CHESS.

[From the Asiatic (1.0241 • ;I'd.]

" Human life. has been often compared.to.the game of chess.
The vicissitudes of each so frequently proceed from the absence
of
.reflection and prudence. of fortitude and perseverance, that
our imagination is forcibly impressed with ,the resemblance.
How many times we observe an impetuous youth, who rushes
eagerly into the great wAid, stopped in the outset by a fatal
scholar's mate ! and-how often does a stale mate reward the
vigorous struggles against misfortune of him who obeys the
precept—
Equam memento rebus in arduis
Servare mentem, non seetks in banis.
So far the resemblance is obvious and hackneyed : we may
carry it farther, and consider the different pieces employed in
the game as typical of various characters met with in life. Had
this idea occurred to Addison, he might have exhibited another
specimen of that rich and truly Engli,sh wit, combined with
moral instruction, which we find in his Spectators and
Guardians ; .and which appears so advantaeottlly in his ini-
mitable comparison of conversational ~,r_talitiitt to instrutnental
music.

Let us begin with the pawn : this, the humblest of the
heroes of chess, either advances slowly towards the opposite
extremity of the table, its path-beset with difficulties and dan-
gers, exposed to the attacks of host of adversaries, against
whom it possesses a very limited faculty of self-defence ; or it
remains stationary, and finds safety in obscurity. In the for-
mer case, it derives its sole protection from dependence upon
another, or from combination with its fellows.• It does hap-
pen, though rarely, that, by skilful and judicious plans, a pawn
attains its ultimate object, and is transmuted into a piece of
superior value.
We may easily conceive the pawns to represent men of
humble origin, who, when they endeavour to emerge from ob-
scurity, encounter a multitude of obstacles.—" Slow rises
worth - by poverty depressed."—A servile dependence upon
power, or the practice of low arts of paltry intrigue and de-
ceit among his equals, are the ordinary expedients which an
obscure individual employs to lift himself into eminence. A
pawn gains the prize generally by pressing directly onward,
without being tempted by dazzling advantages to deviate from
its road : so the man, who from a subordinate station reaches
distinctiori,-lias generally Confined himself to the direct path of
truth and integrity; inclining neither to the right nor to the
left, however powerful the solicitations of avarice or passion.
The knight is a piece, the movement of which is eccentric,
and the value equivocal. - No bounds can restrain its incur-
sions. It skips with impunity over the heads of potent, grave,
and reverend personages. Its extravagant motions generally
surprise those bye-standers who are ignorant of the ganie.
Small wits, pseudo-geniuses, men who'aim at being singu-
lar, whimsical, and extravagant, whose conduct is so far re-
gulated by that of others that they act precisely as other men
do not, who " affect the fool, and are what they affect:" such
characters have the knight for their symbol: the knight of the
chess board is, as Dryden expresses it—

. .
" Knight of the shire, and represents them all."
It must be allowed that the value of the knight is some-
times greatly enhanced ; so an eccentric character may prove
a man of real genius.
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The bishop moves diagonally on the board; neither plod-
ding on, like the humble pawn, nor fluttering about with the
levity of a knight. Its attacks are extremely dangerous from
their insidious nature. •

The bishop, therefore, ( absit invidia ditto ! ) resembles those
who accomplish their designs by craft and artifice; flattery and
deceit, duplicity and treachery: Such characters create a vast
deal of mischief in the world, and make but little stir about it.
There is an appearance of harmlessness in them, which mightily
favours their schemes; by begetting supineness and security in
those who deal with them, of which they seldom fail to avail
themselves. Au agreeable aspect, an engaging address, a plau-
sible tongue, unbounded courtesy, an a semblance-of piety,
are always found, combined or separate, in the character of a
bishop.

The rook's movement is simple ; either forward or laterally
in a straight line. It never mixes early in the fray, and is bet-
ter adapted for defence than offence.

. There is an obvious analogy between this piece and a plain,
substantial, good-humoured specimen of the genuine John
Bull species.
The queen is the last we shall consider : it unites the mo-
tions of all the other pieces, except that of the knight.
This valuable piece may be regarded as one of those rare and
finished characters which seem compounded of the best quali-
ties of our race ; discernment and promptitude, truth and in-
tegriiy, fortitude and perseverance; spirit tempered with pru.
dence, and energy adorned with moderation.
Let us now look round fir examples ;—hiundungus is t
pawn, who early in life pushed forward without prudence or
foresight. His progress seemed easy : he soon stept out of his
track into a gaming-house, where he took 4 few pieces. A
bishop (alias a sharper) fixed his eye upon him, and lured him
into his toils. Mundungus may now be found in the Fleet
Prison.

Probus was likewise a pawn : placed under the notice. of a
man of tank, whose patronage -introduced him into the army,
he soon distinguished himself there ; he advanced step by
step, until, having headed a party of his men, who forced the
enemy's line,- he gained a title.

Pervicax is a knight. His motions are precisely those of his
prototype. He sets out with the design of going due east, and
presently bends north. You arc least likely to find him where
he has promised punctually to meet you. -He seems oppressed
with all the infirmities of-human nature, yet does not repine.
At the age of thirty, his sight is very dim : his gait is feeble
and decrepit. He hears imperfectly. His memory is so
treacherous, that he tells you he often misses his dinner
through forgetting to examine his memoranda to learn when he
dines, although it is constantly at the same hour.
My friend Vesuvio is a knight of another complexion. Lie
has been pronounced mad, but is far too amusing to be impri-
soned in a mad-house. The ease with which he acquires arts
and languages, is equalled only by the facility with which be
abandons his acquisitions. He has visited a large portion of
the globe, but has merely studied whimsical points of charac-
ter. He'can assume the garb and manners of a Persian or an
Esquimaux, a Turk or an Otaheitan. He maintains the
existence of dragons, unicorns, and griffins, as well as of the
phoenix, the mermaid, and the sphinx ; holds that disem-
bodied spirits inhabit the moon ; and is now employed in com-
posing a treatise on the city discovered in that satellite by a
German Professor, and on the language, manners, and amuse-
ments of the Selenites.

An example of the bishop is found in Bathyllus. This
seeming virtuous man has a crowd of admirers and eulogists.
He talks of honour, integrity, virtue, and religion, with the
tongue of an- enthusiast : but all is false and hollow. He is
an atheist, and a sensualist. lie betrayed into ruin, for his
own profit, the friend who trusted him, and then abandoned
him to misery and reproach. He bestows, in charity, a pittance
upon the widow of a man whom he secretly robbed of his for-
tune. This character is too odious to dilate upon.. Vicious
propensities acquire intensity of mischief under_, the cloak of
hypocrisy.
Jucundus supports the character attributed to the rook. He
is one of the best natured men in the universe. Though he
weighs thirteen stone, he would walk fifteen miles in the month
of July to serve a worthy man ; and so many claim that title
by false credentials, that he sometimes loses weight in the ser-
vice of those who ill deserve the sacrifice. Jucundus has some
points of character in common with Sterne's Yorick. Ile
puShes along the straight path of life, so that he occasionally
jostles against those who choose the zigzag tracks which inter-
sect it; but he seldom quarrels with them. He believes man-
kind to be better than they are; but if he discovers a rogue he
never spares him.
My friend Eudoxus affords a living example of the perfect
character ascribed to the remaining piece. Partiality may be
expected to heighten the portrait, but the real features are too
noble to borrow from flattery any thing but deformity. He is
wealthy, but has as much humility as would become a poor
man. lie is a scholar, but displays the modesty of a learner.
He has power and influence, but they are exerted for the benefit
of others. The gracefulness of his person attracts our notice;
the sentiments of his heart confirm our esteem. The qualities
of his mind axe nicely limited and counterpoised. • His gene-
rosity is without profusion ; his compassion is unalloyed with
weakness; his firmness is remote from obstinacy; his promp-
titude partakes not of rashness; and his gaiety is untinctured
with levity. The virtues which cluster in his character rarely
unite, or exist in such perfection when asunder. As the game
of chess is robbed of its chief interest when the queen is re-
moved ; so life will appear to me divested of its charms should
Eudoxus leave it before me." 31, A.