The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-29 00:00:00

R. WILICIE.—This gentleman, we under-
stand, is at present in Fife, engaged with the
Portrait of the Earl of Kellie, which we hear
promises to be a very successful likeness of that
worthy nobleman. The study for the picture of
his Majesty's entry into •Holyrood-house is als6
farudvanced, and what we have,seen of it is con-
ceived in tv manner every way worthy of the
artist's fame.—(Edinburgh Courant, Oct. t 5.)
Pumnon.—The fame of this noted chess-
player has no rival, and his Treatise on the
Game of Chess" is by far the best practical
treatise. on the subject, as the several different
games which it 'contains are accompanied with
known, that his real name
notes explaining the reason of the moves. It Is
cliAc. Be was a native of
oat, however,AnE generally
Drieux, near Paris.; the soubriquet or nickname
of Pnt upon, was given to him by LOUIS X
after an, Italian musician of that name. Besides
wag
being • the first chess-player in Europe, he was
an admirable musician, and a Capital corn-
poser. Acniouttligt
country,
is marry
thmusical coinpositionse Carmen
in
this o
Seculare
of Horace, which was performed in 1779,
at Freemasons' Hall,* and was greatly ad-
mired. His family resided in France. In the
year 1794, when the progress of the French
Revolution alarmed him for their fate, he up-
plied for a passport to return to France, but
could not 'obtain it. This greatly affected him,
and speaking of this-refusal to a friend, he said,
" It has signed my death-warrant." it was af-
terwards intimated to him that he had been de-
flounced in Paris as a suspected person ; from this
moment his philosophy forsook him, his health
daily declined,.and in the course of the follow-
ing year (1795) he died at the age of 09, With-
out a groan.

A lively Description of the End of the World.
One day, the rocks from top to toe shall quiver,
The mountains melt and all in sunder shiver.
The heavens shall rent for tear; the lowly fields,
l'uft up, shall swell to huge and mighty hills.
Rivers shall dry : or, if in any flood
Rest any liquor, it shall All be blood.
The sea shall all be tire, and on the shore
The thirsty whales with horrid noise shall roar :
The sun shall cease The black coach of the moon,
And make it midnight when it should be noon ;,
With rusty mask the heavens shall hide their face,
The stars shall fall, and all away shall pass:
Disorder, dread,. horror, and death shall come,
Noise, storms, and darkness, shall usurp the room.

And then the .CITIEF.CHIEF-JUSTICE: venging Wrath
(Which here already often threaten'd bath),
Shall make a tvnzfire of this mighty ball,
As once he made it a vast ocean all.

" Sykiester (says Mr. Campbell—who ac-
counts,,l think, very naturally for the origin of
Milton's acquaintance with his poem,) was a Yu-
Titan, and so was the publisher of his work,
Mumphrey Lownes, who lived in the same street
with Miltons father ; and from the congeniality
of their opinions, it is not improbable that they
might have been acquainted. It is easily to be
conceived, that Milton often repaired to the shop
of Lownes, and there first met with the pious
didactic.- poem." Among Sylvester's epithets,
Mr. Campbell meets with " the opal coloured
morn," which he considers as a beautiful expres-
sion, and as not used by any other poet. But
,what is this to the " rosy-fingered" morn of Ho,
mer ? and what au hexarbetrical conclusion is the
Greek expression--" rododuktuloi Eos."
ton makes the morn witit..". rosy steps," sowing
" the earth with orient pearl." It is a beautiful

image.

CAUTION TO SERVANTS AGAINST SHARPERS.—
About one o'clock on the 26th, a tall, thin man,
of rather genteel appearance, and who looked
sickly, with hazel eyes,.brown coat, dark Ra'nta-
loons, and green silk umbrella, called at the
Rev. J. Campbell's, Kingsland, inquiring for the
cook, when the subsequent conversation took
place between him and the servant at the gate, in
the parlour, and afterwar6 in.the kitchen. " I
am the cook :" " Where do your friend's live ?"
Why do you wish to known that ?" " 1 am come
from Canterbury." ." I have no friends at Can.
terbury!"' 44 I know that, -but I am last from
Dactoro:commous;Concerning landed property."
64 It cannot be for me., Sir,"
.46 What was your
husband's name ?" (Having observed a ring on
her.Tiuger.) li4iffnObtatned his name, he said,
46 You are thevery person I want ;" and asked
various questions regarding him; on which she
burst into tears, when he desired her not to mind
her husband's death, for there 'wee more pro.)
perty left her by . her husband's relatives than
she could ever spend. Being in a parlour with-
out a fire, lie complained of having the ague, and
desired to be shown to where there was a fire. On
being shown to the kitchen, he inquired if she
had any papers belonging to her husband. Saying
she bud some connected with the Trinity
House, as her husband was a sailor, he re.
quested a sight of those papers. ---- She ran
hastily up stairs,- to bring them from her
chest. Coming down, she found him walking
out, saying he was going to inform a gentleman
outside that she had papers. On reaching the
gate, he called out; 44 William, she has got many
papers," hut she saw no person to whom he
called. While she waited, holding the door, for
about ten minutes, one of the family came to it,
who, on hearing what she waited for, declared
her gentleman to be a thief, which she could not
credit, until she found two silver table-spoons
had been stolen from the dresser in the kitchen.
A pug dog, who had witnessed Lis theft, contrary
to his custom ran after the man into the street,
harking, and holding hit» by the tail of his coat,
till called off by the unsuspicious servant.

John Stewart, late vintner in Perth, was whip-
ped through the streets on Friday last, being the
first instalment of the sentence passed upon him
at the late Circuit Court. This man was tried
for the murder of his wife, but was only con-
victed of the minor charge of culpable homicide.
His case caused a considerable sensation among
the lower classes in town, who, during the trial,
expressed their opinion of it so decisively, that
Mr. Cockburn, in his address for Stewart, was
thrice obliged to give way to them. Under these
circumstances, it was thought necessary on Fri-
day to have the assistance of the military, in ad-
dition to the civil power; but fortunately the
mob were not outrageous, and confined the ex-
pression of their di►approbation to hissing and
groans. The executioner from Edinburgh offi-
ciated on the occasion. Yesterday the convict
was sent off by the Athol steam-packet for Dun-
dee, preparatory to his being forwarded to his
final destination.---(Perth (hurler.)

ALEXANDER SELKIRK.
Mu. EDITOR—As the misfortunes of ALEK.
ANDER SELKIRK undoubtly gave to DE-Fos
not only the idea, but even furnished him with
the outline of his admired Adventures of iiebituoti
Crusoer I beg leave to send you the following
account of the unfortunate Scotsman, whose story
was originally published in the Voyage of WooDE9
ROGERS) who brought him back to England in
the year 1711
in consequence of a serious misunderstanding
with his Captain, he chose to be
put ashore on
the island of Juan Fernandez. The re was left
with him on this uninhabited spot his sea chi!si,
'his clothing and bedding, a musket, one pound
of powder, a large quantity of bullets, flint and
stfsel,s, knife, a kettle, a few pounds of tobacco,
a hatchet, a bible, and some other religious books.
To these were added his mathematical instru-
ments, and pieces concerning navigation.
The resentment he felt against his captain, by
whom he had been ill-used, made him rejoice at
the present change, until the moment when the
ship put off, for then he felt concerned at
parting with his companions, and shrunk
from' the idea of spending his life in complete
solitude. He was in no fear of wanting food,
for the island a bounded in gouts, cats, and rats ;
but he first gathered nourishment from shell-fish
on the shore, and more especially from turtles,
•which he found in great abundance, and on,
which he fed with pleasure, until it disagreed
with his stomach, except when made into
jelly. The search for food, and the grati-
ficatiOn 'of hunger. and thirst, were his only
provisions in his lonely condition ; but when
these were satisfied, then did he feel most forci-
bly the loneliness of his situation, and most
anxiously desire once more to behold the face of
a human creature. lie grew melancholy and de-
jected, and frequently fell upon the point of
committing suicide, until the force of reason, and
by frequently reading the Scriptures, and ap-
plying himself to the study of navigation, when
he had spent eighteen months upon the island,
he grew quite reconciled to his situation ; this
change in his ideas, together with the serenity
of the sky, and the beauty of the climate, now
rendered his existence the happiest upon
earth. He now devoted leis time to• the
building of a hut, which he spent much
time in embellishing, and amused himself in at-
tacking the sea monsters which often visited the
shore. To provide against want of food in case
of illness, he lamed young kids, so thnt they
could not stray far from his hut, nor-ever be able
to recover their natural speed. He kept these
in great abundance about his hut ; and such, was
the degree of swiftness he acquired, that he could
easily catch a goat that ran up a hill at' full
speed, but never when they ran down any abrupt
declivity.

. ,
His greatest annoyance was from ratsocifich at
one lime filled his humble habitation', gnawing
not only his clothes, but even his feet 'Bo'he lay
ast.ep. In order to procure a guardagainst these
unpleasant visitors, he nursed and 'tamed a great
number of kittens, which kept witch around his
bed, and protected him .from h's impudent and
voracious enemies. Against sea-lions, some of
which, he said, had jaws capable of seizing, and
tails equal to breaking the limbs of any'rnan, he
waged a:more dangerous, but nn equally, success.
ful war. Full of spirits and of activity, by act-
fug with a little coolness and prudence, lie was
enabled' to kill them without much difficulty.—
As he had remarked that hoWever formidable the
jaws and tails of these animals might be, they
could not turn round without:great labour ;
placing himself in the middle, and as-close to
them as he could, he might easily dispatch them
With his hatchet. The howlings of these mon.
sters he represents as having at first tilled hii
mind with horror, yet when'habit had reconfiled
him to these discordant sounds, he listened to
them with no small degree of pleasure.
When all his articles of dress were worn outs
he made himself new cloathes, by.ta4ing to-
gether the skins of goats, which ire had 'previously
made thoroughly dry. But he bail, moreover,
accustomed himself to ramble through woods,
bushes,iilad. and briars; as fearlessly as any ' other
a

During the whole period of his residence in
this island, including a space of tour yOart and

four months, he etijoy NI uninterrupted good
health, and met with only one serious accident.

In pursuing a goat on the summit of u hill, he
made a sudden stretch at the animal, which fall-
ing down a lofty precipice, carried him along
with her. There he lay senseless for the space
of three days, which he ascertained was the case,
by observing the growth of the moon since his
last observations.

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ahialndhsis.
is life
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healionvodyting, fishing, and
so Tdehluigsirtafsuleddiclll tc:dpeeaorf xmil:tietilleo: nowtt' ; anda p
other'Apliegialhrti'sitsal: nlajetitturYtesigenutinwieledenr: eutestv,uet:r. olbeiceacu(slUpgniteShd his time, and at
stated tittles he regularly read out of his reli-
gious' books ; this he always performed aloud, in
ordet not to lose the faculty of speech. in short,
such was the happiness he enjoyed, that when
the ship which brought him oil the island made
her appearance, though he experienced great
flTetifsef t great cti
o ati
indifference re nmore
ce atthe i
conversing,sp,t o
with men,
acef),
companying them, which he was, however, per-
suaded to do. lle was • heard often to lament
his return into society, in which he could n" find the enjoyments and the tranquillity of his
solitude. - A. P.