The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1838,

of that monarch and his crown, and probably to all Europe, if in statue, that Canova was so well pleased with its resemblance to the ! title in his discipline. His soldiers had great confidence in him
theentn,
dr: :personal then
th e t
lexcited,is
interest
eadrinins such a disclosure had been made. original'
that he expressed to our infcrmaut the strongest interest we believe they never loved him. He had no symhpweadotrhdlyiktenwith them,
o t state
h e r
havee x ot
fr
a boPer
"yin, been
aryinstanefie, in
d which. private
. feeling !in tidsprod.uction of his chisel, and explained to him that the sea- and they none with him. He never joked orlau
nobly sacrt cx by this high-minded ! son why the statue had remained at the Hotel de Ville in- Paris,• said even, that we have ever heard, a real' friendlye)
his Pack,
in the faithful and intrepid discharge of what ho felt to be till the entrance of the Allied armies into that city, without the case He was just, but not kindly nor affectionate; a severe master,tie never
his paramount duty to the general interests of those for and with i ever i ts op.sned, was, merely, that the habitual supersti • a companion. If he attended to their comforts, it was as a
and greatest success more honours than 1.
whom he was called upon to act.machinist
which Bonaparte so subject bad induced him to, forbid oils his machine, not that be thinks of the iron suffering from the
• e• of the was
For Isis last
yet
his
ha I pre. ! the openinnfigure of
solely because when he understood that the friction, but that to oil it will make the engine last longer, and
vioualy enjoyed could scarcely be heaped on himis grateful ' small antique
te
„fiatue
batfiNitisetobr,y,'kwhtincrhastdands upoi nht.he oar:: ihtande right lose
. less power. So in his evidence before the Military Commis-
country increased " the noblest gift" that any subject ever tion to
ang•s shinorn4,. he spoke
i or his army as if it were a charif t with a team of
ver.rkeceived. hand of
ts h
The thanks of both Houses were again. oted toj him, shoulders, lie was '
fearful thate
it would hiemconstrued invit(')ehad it so well in my hand, that I could have gone
twelfth time that honour had been conferred on him. It
mg the upon, its
victory
had fled, or would fly, from him, and therefore' I with it(driven •
_m. lad been omen that it) all over the world." Such a feature, we ri •
gret
found by the trustees appointed to carryallowanybodyin P • •' .1 andthus it is •
out the purposes of the would not - •
. ngs, and is not amiable.
grants of money voted by Parliameut, that theofloo,oool. • kablc that this statue which Napoleon rejected as ominous of llf we
sum
( which was all that was then available for the
. purpose of building defsat is nos in the possession of his Con • 1 • •1 I
Conqueror—a lasting memorial consummate skill undeviat. I ter, y its own
a suitable mansion-house for the I)uke) was insufficient to accosts- of Victory. . 1B • , ing y successful, and that he conquered
, Bonaparte, the *conqueror of many nations,
plish that object in a manner suited to the occasion ; asd as soon, there Having ,now brought his military career to a close, we may be . )ers 1 us to say, much we think to his discredit, that
a regard to truth com-
fore, as the news of his last great victory reached F l dthe I.' -1
' dto observe
.ng an . .sar. permitted that his course was one of unexamnled, u • .
ranter- tail from the ea, which, he never cut one
of Lit erpool, as first Minister of the Crown, and Lord Castlereagh rupted, unchecked success.• From first receiving his E„signey, till hi_ . . to the eternal disgrace of England, and by
sTandvice, still larterates the backs of the conquerors of the world.
.
then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in their respective places be stood the conqueror of the great hero of the age, he never met
in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, stated that three with one serious reverse. The tide of prosperity colic lev • e Earl of Peterborough was a hero from romance—Gu-t v
Adolphus from religions Fl US
—Bonaparte from
ambition—Wellington
from
architects who had been consulted, bad givers it as their decided •
• h him, and carried him to the very highest paint. We knowcr
'
opt- on with ' duty. In all his dispatches
nion, that a mansion worthy the occasion, could not be built for less no other instance, ancient or modern, in military lila..
, generally sup..-a to ta • which we have noticed, in all his answers
e too Houses of Parliament, the sentiment of duty is predomi-
than 200,0001., and accordingly proposed ••to the two Houses an ad. posed to be very checquered, of such complete and undeviating - ' '
. sue- ' nant. It is, " I have only exerted myself to serve his ./sla'• , and
.14 sty,
ditional grant to that amount, for the express purpose of erecting a Cess.....a .success always independent of fortune, and always
achieved I shall always
mansion-house which should be alike a lasting. memorial of tlimugns by skill.' - -
life it
country." AO well for England at least, perhaps well for the world,
cendant public services of the Duke, and of she grist
tode and„ifi_
_ln civil life it resembles, we think, the career. of watt who • • it on
, : - as so ; for, if the Dake's mighty talents for war had been animated
cence of this great nation, in rewarding those services; the grant !beginning a mere mathematical instrument maker, marched ;e t
(t),..adily ! by burning ambition, instead of being directe I by a sense of duty,
was voted not only without a dissentient voice, but with cordial aeclaran, and andeviatinal.Y forward, till he was the first machinist
the with the feeble things that have for sonic. 3 ears been on the thrones
tion. With the additional sum an estate, Strathfieldsaye, was pi, world, aed having reached the very top of his .
profession spent of Enrops, instead cf being only one of the first subjects of Queen
chased, to be held by him and heirs on condition of presenting a the last years of a long life in ease, and opulence, and honour. The Victoria, he might possibly have been the master of the world.
tri.coloured flag to the Sovereign at. Windsor Castle on the 18th comparisol. however apparently inappropriate,. is not
day of June on every year. this foreign honours and titles were. . for tile assn" qualities of mind predominated in both,
ill and were the or sorrow like feebler mein Captain Sharer, in his memoirs of the
increased—he was made a Russian and Austrian Field Marshal, and dements COf their success. Both had a strong . riot to be turned Duke, mentions that on the night of the bat:le of Waterloo, Welling-
received from the King of the Netherlands the title of Peiatte of aside by diflietthica—heth were calm, calculiatt.'
lacing, ,and- r •fiecti a ton repeatedly leaned hack upon his chair, and, rubbing his banes
Waterloo. . both were precise and accurate in a remarkable - ' ,an
' n'—
degree • b
oat were convulsively, exclaimed aloud, " Thank God, I have met hint I Thank
Among the testimonials of his greatness, which be possesses, and bold and niterprising, and both triumphed ; the one
tac one over inert God, I have met him ! And ever as he spoke, the smile that lighted up
the high distinctions conferretl upon him, may ben/tied, the marble .matter, and the other over living men, I
Both the
uni).Yed. elearness and• de- his eye was immediately dimmed by those few and hie. tears that gush
statue of Bonaparte sculptured by Canova, during the Period of , iinitivenesi of their conceptions. in an eminent degree, warm from 'a grateful heart." Such an incident, and it is the only
the• short peace, which took place in 1801, arid which having beer and possessed them at all times, never '
forgetting themselves for a one of the kind we are acquainted with, connects the Duke, though
presented by the King of France (Louis XVIII.) to the Prince Re.. • mament, great sagacity in devisina
atheir measures, and equal pru- but very slightly, a ith the feelings of ordinary mortals. His tears flowed
gent of Eogland, was transferred by his Royal Highness to the i denee in exscuting thant,
from a drew but selfish sense, probably, that he then reached the eery
Duke of Wellington, and was carried into Apslev House, in the very ' Wellington gained no victories like Bonaparte,
of human fame It seems that the
by exciting the summit desire to meet was mutual.
case in which it was originally conveyed from Rome to Paris, that . enahasinan of his saldiers. We ,chow " I said Bonaparte,*'
ow of too fortunate 'General
his go," as he threw himself into his carriage to join
case never having been even opened between the lime of its first ai rival who had less of the nhand, i.„.. -" sto measure m • sir with Wni
, sof the generousness, less of the arms', I ;,,, myself .. e...111p0n." '
in the
French capital and the capture of that city by the Allies. : chivalry which is usually th,! red,,,,i..,, ,His Grace'spersonal coura, 4 • •
.. caaracteristie of the Woo ly
Highly honoulable as the possession of this trophy is to the Duke ' trade of the soldier. We speak of
l . hint as. a soldier, and say there because' 'he teas himself never valued it highly,e
and hits always beau'
we should among all the other more prannnent and important disa is not one particle of the s'
us. ahvap;
to
heave
work;lml4a, tic in his character. He seems to conspietions for not speaking of himself. Within our immediate rec t
tinctions heaped upon his Grace, probable not have mentioned it,wish the precision of oat! of Watt's lectiOn, though we say troth of the morality of either a'ti ' '
b;:t for a remarkable circumstance connected with it, which is highlyengines; and, as if he ' .
,
characteristie of his gnat g ' r—Na I W'.
po con. ' e I.IION 'COM-a mathematical aece a
, ta aey by some all powerful machinist, he never i Winthilea having
proof. Lord
gentleman to whom ea "la
.°l"beastly oil the
Canova himself communicated the facts, that went wrong.
Duke, his,Grace in consequence sent Sir Henry • - tlardinge t 9 demand
that artist ha several ' • f N
sittings rota apolcon for the head of this This liardncz, rigidness,' •
and mathematical accuracy were percep- an explanstion, ar.4 He satisfactory 1 • • exp anation being given, a challenge

on the part of -the Duke enrledton moving
for an additional grant to his Grace, on June
23, 1815, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
said he knew from private communications, that
the Duke's personal exertions at the battle of
Waterloo transcended all his former achieve-
ments. "At a critical period of the battle
he took possession of a high ridge, from which
he declared that he would never stir, nor did
he stir, until he quitted it inlriumph. M
another period, when his position was strongly
attacked, he threw himself into the centre of a
square of infantry, which was furiously charged
by the enemy's cavalry, and which, fortunately
fur his country and the world, resisted the shock
with dauntless intrepitlity." " I mention these
things," said the officer, " because they are pre-
cisely those of which you will not find one word
in his dispatches.. Every person around him
was either killed or wounded." A similar
undaunted courage, united with a similar mo-
dest silence as to his own achievements, per-
vades his whole life ; and the latter qualitY
perhaps goes far to account for the great want
of personal anecdotes concerning him in all
the memoirs of his military achievements with
which we are acquainted.
We had intended.to have said something of
the Duke's civil career since 1815, which in
our estimation, comparing him with other
statesmen, is as brilliant as his military career,
though, judging him by what is now required
of a statesman, he has been very deficient; but
the extent of this article commands us so
stop. We shall only say that, as Ambassa-
dor abroad, as Commander-in-Chief of the
Army, as Master-General of the Ordnance,
as First Lord of the Treasury, and F'rirne
Minister, all ofarhich posts he has tilled, lie
has been distinguished for a punctual and unre-
mitting attention to his duties. The game
talents, however, which suffice to wield an arm'
—the creature of the human will—are not
sufficient to rule society in the yet imperfect
and incomplete creation of the Divine will,
and in making the attempt, the Duke. met
with the only great defeat he ever encoun-
tered. The battle of Waterloo was not more
disastrous to the military reputation of Bona-
parte than the battle of Reform was to the
civil wisdom of the Duke of Wellington.
_lt
'dethroned him and disenchanted the world,
almost 'disposed to believe that he was in all
things invulnerable and invincible. But this
part of his history is of such recency, that it
is less necessary to dwell on it ; and opinions
are yet so conflicting about it, that we are not
sorry to be spared entering into further detail.
His Grace, as we have mentioned above,
has received a noble fortune from his grateful
country. In addition he holds, and long may
he hold, -a considerable number of lucrative
military appointments. His clear income,
therefore, is probably very large. It is under-
stood that he maintains a well regulated but
not sordid economy, suitable to his rank ; and
that never having been since his return from
India a poor man, and having of late been a
saving man, be is now a rich man. There is
scarcely, however, another man of equal wealth
in the world, certainly not in England, who so
well merits all he possesses.
Passing over his civil services with this brief
allusion, we shall conclude by noticing the latest
public scene of his life. He defeated Marshal
Soult in the Peninsula and in France—he has
embraced him in London. Herein he gained
the greatest of his victories--a victory over the
prejudices of his life and his party. He never
appeared more illustrious in the eyes of his
countrymen than when, forgetting all ancient
rivalries, and spurning all the croaking seduc-
tions of low party malice, he gave a cordial and
an affectionate welcome to the man who next
to himself is the greatest soldier alive. ir°
commemorate that great event, we publish the
splendid portraits of those two heroes, and vie
have drawn up these memoirs of their live'.
We terminate our notice of the Duke, by an,
ardent prayer that the peace and the union et
the two countries which they respectively adorn,
and of which their appearing together in our
paper this day is a type, may be at 'east as last;
,ing as has been heretofore the animosity and
the national separation.
We have to regret that this article was iii
type before the Monthly Chronicle, which con-
tains a very good notice of the Duke, fell into
our hands. Had we previously seen that
article, we should have been able, we believe,
to make our own more acceptable to,-,-11',,a
reader. With the letter, whit-ii -The
Chronicle has 'presdrved, of Geo. IV. to the
Duke of Wellington, on sending him the Mar-
shall's staff, we cannot refrain from enriching
our columns. It does honour to the King as
well as the Duke :

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My dear Lord—Your glorious conduct Is beyond
all human praise, and far above my reward : I know
no language the world affords worthy to express it. I
feel, I have nothing left to say, but devoutly to oar
up my prayers of gratitude to Providence, that it
has in its omnipotent bounty blessed my country and
myself with such a General. You nave sent me, among
the trophies of your unrivalled fame, the staff et
French Marshal, and I send you in return that of Eng-
land. The British army will hail it with enthusiasm,
while the whole universe will acknowledge those
valorous efforts which have so imperiously called for
it. That uninterrupted health, and still increasing
laurels, may continue to crown you through a &de!s
and long career of life, are the never-ceasing and ra";
ardent wishes of.

My dear Lord,
Your very sincere and faithful friend,
G. P.

THE 'ENGLISH YEomhN.—Theto
no class of men, If times are but tolerably good! tit
enjoy themselves so highly as farmers. They are little
kings; their concerns are not huddled into a caner:,
as those of the town tradesmen are. In town, InartY:"
man who turns thousands of pounds per week is hema""
in close by buildings, and cuts no figure at all. A °erre
row shop, a contracted warehouse, without an inch 7,
room besides to turn in, on any hand, without a Pr."
a stable, or outhouse of any description_perbsP:
hoisted aloft, up three or four dirty pair of stairs!_
all the room thatt he wealthy tradesman can bless ha,'"
self with ; and there, day after day, month after
month, and year after year, he is to be found, like a ray
in the hole of a wall, or a toad in the heart of a 60°6
or of an oak tree. Spring and summer and autarl
-go round, sunshine and flowers spread over the wort
the sweetest breezes blow, the sweetest waters a°"
along the vales, but they are all lost upon him ; be i,SI
the doleful prisoner of Mammon, and so he lives and
dies. The farmer would not take the wealth
the world on such terms; his concerns, howere"
small, spread themselves out in a pleasant amplitude'
both to his eye and heart ; his house stands in its own.
stately solitude; his offices and outhouses stand rouna
extensively, without any stubborn and limiting con-
traction. His acres stretch over hill and vale; there
his flocks and herds are feeding, there his labourer'
are toiling—he is king and solo commander there--:11°
lives amongst the purest air and most delicious clute....
Often, when I see those healthy, hardy, full_groal,
sons of the soil going out of town, I envy. then' the,
freshness and the repose of the spots where the}
going to. Ample old-fashioned kitchens, with
sea 004'
chimney corners of true projecting-beamed and ,
construction, still remaining, blazing fires in winte
shining on suspended hams and flitches ; gulls 01'1:
ported on hooks above, dogs basking on the heart,
below. Cool shady parlours in summer, with
windows, and odours from garden•and shrubbery 19in.:fr
ing in ; gardens wet with purest dews, ant 4 htt
at noontide wills bees ; and the green fields.
verdurous roses, or deep woodlands, lying all arolliP,;
where an hundred rejoicing voices Of birds au' 011.°11
creatures are heard, and winds bowing tb and fur.y iu_,„
of health, and life, and enjoyments. Ifow t nviable.;
such places seem to the fretted. spirits of towils
compelled not only to bear their burdens of carc•
to enter daily into the public strife again.t
e,ll. and ever-spfeading corruption.—llotviliV
the Seasons.

ANCIENT CA lITIIAGE.—Sir Gren;
yule Temple, who a few days ago arrived in th'`l4.s
from Tunic, on board the Ottoman frigate Surieh. ~
elnll'nYed himself for the last six months in in 3
excavations on the classic soil of Cariliage-La city,,,t of
mere mention of whose name awakens in the I,o°'it
wli; .11
every scholar a thousand ri.collections of glory, nd
once adorned the mistress of the African sea''' 81._
the imnur tal rival of the Roman lie public
bourn have beer; well rewarded bY the pectiliarlY 'l"e
resting disecivericti he has tirade.' Among then, b.
may notice, that on the site of the 'temple of G3n3tof,
or Juno Ccelestis, the great protecting. di.vinitY
Carthage, he found about 700 coins, and - varioys (1,
jests of glass and earthenware. But the most VT 4f
able, and perhaps least expected of his discover'es la
that of a vide, situated on the sea-shore, and
15 feet under ground. Eight rooms are coili
cleared, and their size and decorations prove that •
house belonged to a wealthy personage. The '"4.1
fn
ere painted, and, the floors are beautifully l'e``• ;
mosaic, in the same manner i.s those at
Herculaneum, representing a great variety of 6uj'rert
such as marine deities, both male anti female, dttlt,vitli
species of sea.fish, marine plants, a wave'w„d,
female figures dancing on deck, and surrounded
by
,Tar
miring warriors; other portions rei,re."3 lh
,lies,;
horses, leopards, tigers, deer, zebros, bears, gas.
ri
hares, ducks, herons, and the like. Ten human ,o: the
tons, apparently of those slain during the assault „we.
city, werefouno in the different chambers. Sir Gre.o pf
also discovered in another house other mos,iii4
great interest. These represent gladiators Conte"l is
in the arena with wild beasts, and over well 10.."..„,
written his name. In another pert are seen rfiiis
our
races, and men breaking in young horses.
oblige us to res:riet these details; but we 1,011
ill
deed we understand. that Sir G..etiville Ternl:ole.tot
shottly publish a complete account of his Uhl
and extniorttinary discoverics.-2u'alta Gazette.
I
A sow belonging to Mr. C9ll9"t
,4,10,1
tenant of Longdale, near Carron; lately Pr
twenty-four young ones at a litter, Which A"
living anti thriving.

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