The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-18 00:00:00

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1828.

LITERARY NOTICE. •
LpTT.I.:RS to. MARIAMNE, By Wtt.t.tast Costar,
• :Esq., 'Author of The Tour of Dr." Syntax in Search of the
Picturesque—The Diabolkad-,- i story of .the Thames—The
Devil upon Two Sticks in Lannon, .44ci, etc.
When we iaw the advertisement in the Daily
Papers, announcing this publication, UT conceived
that it was written by some person in imitatioe
of the example. of Mr. COME, who published
Letters of his own writing, under the name of the
late Lord LYTTLETON ; and that the Letters now
before us were not the real production of the
former. But the internal evidence, as well as
other testimonies, 'convince us that they are the
genuine effusions of Mr. Comma. It seems that
they: were addressed, very late in. the life of the,
Author, to a person who probably speculated on
his death, at his advanced age, and intended,
that .cases:: to, make the present use of
them. They are written with the ease and
elegance which invariably marked the lighter
compositions of the Author ; and it is somewhat
extraordinary that a writer, whose innumerable
political pamphlets were peculiarly forcible in
argument, and bitter in satire, should be capable
of bending into such a playful spirit, and such ten-
derness us appear in these Letters. We know
that in Mr. ACKEItMANN'S Monthly Repository
there is vast number Of articles written by
Mr. Coulee, in the manner of The Spectator, all
of which are characterized by light elegance,and
bear nit impressive moral tendency. We hope
that they will be selected and published to-
kether, us they will then form a valuable addi-
tion to our familiar Literature. It is obvious that
these Letters were written in the confidence of
friendship, and, indeed, of a more tender impulse,
and that the Author could not -have supposed
that they would ever, have been submitted to-the
public eye. We are glad, however, that they
appear in the present shape, as they cannot but
be read with interest. ,They seem to be the effue
sions of pure friendship and affection, .and the
Poems which follow them apparently result from
the same Platonic, feelings, but the lines which it
limns that the Editor has withheld,and of which we
have been favonred with a. copy, may be thought
to "denote a foregone conclusion" of a different
kind, and to manifest an inconstancy on the part of
the Lady hardly consonant with the purity uni-
formly ascribed to her in the Letters. The fol-
lowing is a copy of the Poem in question, and
with that we take our leave of this interesting
little work :

THE PARTING.

Since, Mary, we ate dooratart,
Since I must teat yon-f earl, •
That faithful heart, which Esau,
Too long your lovely image bear. ,
A moment your attention lend,
And hear the counsels of a friend.
When tirst I saw'those beamy eyes,
When first I saw those blushes rise,
When first I saw those ringlet break •
In jetty beauty on your neck
When first I heard your lips dispense
The strain of modest eloquence;
Oh, how I wish% that I could move
'The beautious charming maid to love;
And when you heard me tell fly fieine,
And when you said .you felt the same,
And when possess'd of charms like thine,
No happiness could.equal mine.
But room the gaudy dream was o'er,
The painted phantom was.nti more;
And in the,place of virtue's charms,
Deceit and lolly fill'd ply arms.
%Vim tortures did my bosom move,
What pangs of dissppoitrted love,
to my hopes I bade adieu,
And hired away from love 'end you.
From love said Ihow vain the boast,
Tho' by the foulest--
mischief crust ;
My, coward heart still pants for pm,
And knows notitow to say Adieu.
.Thus the ,poor moth around the light,
Though scarch'd its wings, renews tts tiight,
Nor wounded from the toe retires,
'But in'the very flame eipires

sr,* There is a complimentary notice of these
Letters in a judicious and liberal weekly pub-
lication, inti tied The Literally Museum ; but it is
obvious that the Editor knew little of the Author
and his numerous works, fur otherwise he'would
not have' spoken so lightly of the talents and at-
tainments of Mr. Costal:, who was a sound
scholar, deeply conversant with the Sciences, us
well as ‘$ ith the classical and modern languttgeS,
a Gentleman of relined taste, a powerful political
writer, and, if Fortune had given scope to his
abilities; who was eminently qualified to render
himself a distinguished ornament of British Lite-
rature.

*• • .
followin
DUELLI NG.-- Ihe g extract is from a
charge lately delivered to the Grand Jury of West-Chester,
United States, by tint . lion. they
Jay, first Judge or that
county, and clearly evince that this crying evil is more correctly
appreciated by the American legislature than our own ;—" Gen.
denten, when weseriouslyeellect on the declaration made by the
Almighty, at that awful moment when the retiring WAtetli of
the deluge proclaimed blotan holy and avenging. God, At
the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of
man ; and when we call to mind the assurance of the Gospel,
that the murderer shall not. inherit eternal life, we cannot hut
shudder at the temerity of the duellist, and at the fate which
awaits him. ',will not now comment on the absurdity of seek•
ing reparation for trilling or imaginary evils, ar, the hazard of
evenlife itself. The Iblly.of the duellist is lost in, the comm.
guilt. Bu t me to, remark, that to
plation of his emir-nous
denominate an- act honourable,. which originates in the most
malignant
passions .tehirli equally outrages the precepts of
our religion and the laiV9 of our country ; ;Intl which is gene,
rally perpetrated by wen of dissolute character;-..is an abuse
of language that can be tolerated only by those whose moral
sense is as depraved as that of, the duellist himself. The more
we reflect on the nature andiendency of,thill crime, and on the
necessary and indeed avowed disregard 'of !nand obligation on
the part of those-by whom it it committed, the more perso.tded
shall we be of the prudence of the law in excluding g from all
offfees of honour. triu;t, or Milt, and from Sill participation in
the election of public officers; every men who, by- being in any
way
aceess.try,ie a duel, evinces a. want of that moral principle,
without which he cannot $36.4 be intrusted with the rights of`
citizenship."
'The Duke of BtpFolto has 11 (~...rected that such
of the remains of the Abbey of 1 avistock us are
capable of b m
tieing turfs into use shall be tmtne.
diately repaired, and restored to their primitive
Vrfection, under f
he 'sL ipet ntendence of Mr.
o ST011):.- •