The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-30 00:00:00

NEW TRANSLATION OF THE
BIBLE.

" If he who spake as never man spake, who came to bless all
nations with divine wisdom, was by the enemies of his Gospel,
the Pharisaical critics of the time, charged with being beside
himself—of having a devil, &c., because he told them that they
taught for doctrines the commandments of men, i. e., the false
interpretations of the secred original, and on that account was
persecuted by the bigots of that day— one humble as myself
may expect to be abused by men of this description." . . •
" But my motives and my principles are, I presume to hope,
worthy the protection of my country, and its established
Church ; and, under the guidance of Heaven, I look to both.
For the condescension and uniform patronage which I have re-
ceived, I shall ever feel the most lively gratitude ; the Prince
of 'Wales, 50 copies, 1,000/. I trust that it will support me in
the prosecution of my labours, will protect me from the insidious
influence of calumny, and the more daring violence of malice.
envy, and all uncharitableness."
Mr. Bellamy's Reply to the Quarterly Review, 1519.
Published in 1820, price 7s.
Lacon. By C. C. Cotton.
" The inequalities of life are real things, they can neither
be explained away, nor done /say ; Expellas furca tamen
swine recurrent." A leveller, therefore, has long ago been
set down as a ridiculous and chimerital being, who, if he could
finish his work to-day, would have to• begin it again to-mor-
row. Tile things that constitute these real inequalities, are
four—strength, talent, riches, and rank. The two former
would constitute inequalities in the rudest state of nature ; the
two latter more properly belong to a state of society more or
less civilised and refined. Perhaps the whole four are all ulti-
mately resolvable into power. But in the just appreciation of
this power, men are too apt to be deceived. Nothing, for in-
stance, is more common than to see rank or riches preferred to
talent, and yet nothing is more absurd. That talent is of a
much higher order of power than riches, might be proved in
various ways, being so much mere indeprivable and indestructi-
ble, so much more above all accident of change, and all eonfu-
sion of chance. But the peculiar superiority of talent over
riches may be best discovered from hence-1 hat the influence
of talent will be the greatest in that government which is the
most pure ; while the influence of riches will always be the
greatest in that government which is most corrupt. So that,
from the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the
soundness and vigour of the commonwealth ; but from the pre-
ponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneracy. That talent
confers an inequality of a much higher order than rank, would
appear from various views of the subject, and more particularly
from this—Many a man may justly thank his talent for his
rank, but no man has ever yet been able to return the compli-
ment, by thanking his rank for his talent. When Leonardo
da Vinci died, his Sovereign exclaimed, I can make a thou-
sand lords, but not one Leonardo.' Cicero observed to a dege-
nerate Patrician, lam the first of my family, but you are the
last of yours." And since his time, those who value you
merely on their ancestry, have been compared to potatoes—all
that is good of them is under the ground ; perhaps ft is but fair
that nobility should have descended to them, since they never
would have raised themselves to it."
To CORRESPONDENTS.—" The Bible.—We have been so
earnestly exhorted to persevere in opening our Paper to the dis-
cussion of the merits of the New Translation, as a question of
the utmost importance to the interests of mankind, that we feel
it to be our duty to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore,
shall be attended to in turn, as we have reason to believe that
the Heads of the Church have already directed their attention
to the controversy."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dee. 5,
1811.

" Surely the elevated patronage which this New Translation
has deservedly obtained, should operate as a general example
and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledged
errors, descend to posterity polluted with all tilos() errors ; •r
shall it lee transmitted to the latest generations of mankind,
with as much of its original purity as it is possible for human
sagacity, knowledge, and diligence to elucidate and confirm."
The Sun, Monday, November 23d, ISlii. The Sun, Septem-
ber 30th, October 7th, and 2sth, 1837.

Here was the Sovereign, with the appreciation of Leonardo
da Vinci, in the person of the linguist. What kindred feeling
have the „thousand lords," who value themselves merely on
their ancestry, shown ?—an apathy to exhibit " that all that is
good of them is under ground !" With what truth may the
distirguished proprietor of this Paper throw the galling taunt,
" I sin the first of my family—you are the last of yours." He
whose columns were the first to maintain the renown of his
Prince, and who now associates with his requiems the utmost
endeavours to make a linguist's languor smile upon his bed of
death. The recollection of that noble panegyric, in a para-
graph of " bright intelligence" of Sheridan's, ennobles him.
I give you a slavish and a sycophantic nobility, partial and
interested judges, a corrupt and venal House of Commons ;
yet, leave me the single advantage of a free press, and amidst
all evils I will not despair."

" It has been remarked, as a peculiarity in modern criti-
cism, that the courtly and loyal make a point of crying
up Mr. Young as an actor, and equally running down Mr.
Kean ; and it has keen conjectured in consequence that Mr. Kean
was a Radical. Truly, he is not a radical politician ; but,
what is as bad, he is a radical actor. He savours too much of
the reality. He is not a mock-tragedian, an automaton
player—he is something besides his paraphernalia. He has
" that within him which passes show." There is not a par-
ticle of affinity between h im and the patrons of the court-
writers. Mr. Young, on the contrary, is every thing--all
assumption, and strut and measured pomp, full of self-import-
ance. void of truth and nature, the mask of the character he
takes, a pasteboard figure, a stiff piece of wax-work. He fills
the throne of tragedy, not like an upstart or usurper, but as a
matter of course, decked out in his plumes of feather and
robes of state. stuck into a posture, and rettating certain words
by rote. Mr. Kean has a heart in his bosom, beating with
human passions (a thing for the great to fear, not to delight
in !') He is a living man, and not an artificial one. How
should those, who look to the surface, and never probe deeper,
endure him ? He is the antithesis of a court actor. It is the
object there to suppress and varnish over the feelings, not to
give way to them. His overt manner must shock them, and
be thought a breach of all decorum. They are in dread of his
fiery humours, of coming near his Voltaic battery—they choose
rather to be roused gently from their self-complacent apathy
by the application of metallic tractors. They dare not trust
their delicate nerves within the estuary of the passions, but
would slumber out their torpid existence in a calm, a dead
sea, the air of which extinguishes life and motion."—On the
Spirit of Monarchy : The Liberal, No. 2, Byron.
Having associated our cause. ,The new translation with Kings.
—See the Sun, No. 14,666. With this view in perspective,
i. e. " May the Eagles of the Western and Northern Powers,
may the gallant Lion of Old England, and the spotless colour
of Noble France, never meet again but on friendly ground,
and may the following motto be universally adopted—" Peace
to the world, and comfort to Ithe poor." We heed net much
about " a thought of a breach of all decorum," but shall con-
clude.

" And since there's safety in a multitude
Of counsellors,' as Solomon has said,
Or some one for him, in some sage, grave mood ;
Indeed we see the daily proof displayed
In senates, at the bar, in wordy feud,
Where'er collective wisdom can parade,
Which is the only cause that we can guess,
For Britain's present wealth and happiness."
Canto am. Dow JOAN.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.
(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. )
By Appointment : Budd and Calkiu, Booksellers to her Ma-
jesty, Pail-mall; Longman, Rees, Orme, and Brown, St.
Paul's, London.

By Appointment : W. Wright, Bookseller to their Majesties
the Queen, the Queen Dowager, and all the Royal Family,
Pall-mall.

Letter to . . . . on the Rev. W. L. Bowles' " Stric-
tures on the Life and Writings of Pope,", By the Right Hon .
Lord Byron, and that Noble Lord's works complete in one
volume.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Amsterdam •.
J. Muller and Co. Leyden : H. Hazenberg. Paris :
Arthur Bertrand. Venice: J. B. Missiaglia. Petersburgh :
Schwetschke. 1826.
A New Plan for Church Reform : in a Letter addressed to
the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Melbourne, and the Right Hon.
Lord John Russell. By Epsilon Theta
London: Hatchard and Son, No. 187, Piccadilly.