The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-29 00:00:00

D F.PARTV R ES.

Lord.retre, for Thornden, Essex: Lady Templetown and
family, for their seat in Surrey; Colonel and' Mrs. Vaughan,
fur their seat in NY:}les ; George Pocock,• Esq. M. P. and fa-
mily, for their seat Hallwood, Kent; Henry Banks, • Esq.
Ma'. and family, for their seat, Kingston-hall, Dorsetshire.
-AIIiqVALS AT BATH...clad!, E. Farm, Lady T. Hales, Lady
Johnstone,'Sir G. 0. Paul, Sir A. Agnew, Sir J. Scott', Sir H.
Lippincott, Sir J. and Lady Morris, Major-General and Mrs.
Peachy, Major-General Ambrose, Col. Bayley, Cot. and Mrs.
Duke, Lieut.-Col. Piihington, Lieut.-Cul. Gaitshell, Major
Bourne, Major Dickson, Major King, Dean of naphoe and
family,.

Description of MAtur, CIAAMANTP LAVALgTTE, published

in the French Papua..

Aged 45 years, born at Paris (Department of the Seine),
in height 1 metre, 63 centimetres, hair and eyebrows grey,
high forehead and bald, brown eyes, large nose, small mouth,
round chin, round visage, pitted with the small-pox.

Christmas Boxes and New Year's Gifts !—The
very best that can be given or received, are to be
had at CARTER'S, 8, Charing-Cross.. By the pur-
chase of. Lottery Shares you may.secure to your,
self :or friends an absolute Fortune Risk is
what every one can afford., the fortunate conse-
quences are what every one desires. Instead,
therefore, of merely wishing children or friends a
happy New Year, make it one, by giving them a
erobahle Chance of -rrosverity for Life.

{From a German Pafer.)•
TrrEIIIELERG, DEC. 4 ----WC Cali 11M9 cortmu-
ilicate correct infornieptin on circtitnstances not

`on* interesting- to this UniversityL. but , to the
Literature cif .Klertrt my. It is well Imo wit,t bat
the trill veriity / i-f ei(!ril)stg' possessed, until
the year 162 t.:, ":,:ollectioll of 1i0u1,4 and
the most covsitkrable in Cicrinany, a..;%1 which;

in Joseph Bcaliger'4 opinion, was at that
richer than even .tly!. Vatican Lii)rixry and that
this celebrated Library, vhlo:ie MS.S. alone were

'valued at 80,000 cro Am., was, in the above

year, in consequence of the capture. and plunder:.
in of the city by:the army or tiencral sent
'as' a present by Duke Maximilinn a BA
Pope Gregory and convcyed 'from- .11eidel-
herg to Rome by the famous scholar Leo Allatius,
This Heidelberg Library, at least as touch or it
as actually reached Rome .(for Many of the nrw-
Tlll'tiCiipt,'S were torn or dispersed amoug private
hands by the sacking- of the cite; farmed- since
that time, underithe name of Bilitiftketa Ectlatida,
a partilidar division of the Vaticau Library ; a n 1
in most of the tuanuseriptS there is still to be
• found, as a memorial 'ot the fine; by winch they
were torn from us, a leaf with the Bavarian arms,
and, the following Inscription
Sum de Bibliotheca quatn, fleitWNerga capta, situliora
fecit et Papa Gregoilo IV. trophatunt tutsit
utrinsqlic Bavarier Duk et S. R. I. Erector, 1623.'
Thirty-eight 'of these MSS. forming part of the
500 MSS. of the Vatican, which the Papal Govern-
ment ceded to the French Republic in 1797, by
the Treaty 'Of Tolentino, were deposited iu the
National Library at Paris. We have long wished
for the recovery of our lost treasures, and at last
the opportarnity presented itself on the general re-
storation last atiortnn of the worts of art, of
which the French had robbed other commies; and
this opportunity, Which offered the prospect of re=
towering rapt only the 38 Hiedclberg MSS. but the
whole oftlie Bibliotlreca Palatina carried to• Rome.,
was not leftunimproved by our Government. As
soon as it" was ascertained that a' reclamation of
'this kind would• he readily attended to by the
nisters of the Allied Powers,: Professor W Ike!),
Protector 'of :our University; was commissioned,
on the 2d of •SePtember, to proceed to Paris, in
order to prosecute the claims. To the tnicorn-
monly active assistance of . the Austrian
Mini-
ster, Count Wessenberg., and the Prussian, Ba-
ron Hipuboldt, we have it to ascribe, that the
Papal COttitiaissioners, the brot het s Canova and. •
the Abbate Marini, agreed without any difficul-
ty to gite up the 38 MSS. to the University of
Meidvlberg, the Pope's approbation being first
obtained and, that in the mean time, until this-
sanction, the .above/MSS.. should be placed in
the hands of General MoOling, the Governor
Of Paris, which was accordingly done. That the
Papal approbation would not be withheld, might
have:been expected with certainty from the known
reasonableness and justice of the present Head of
the Church. This hope has been frustrated.—
To-day a letter has been received from Prince
Hardenberg, acquainting. the University that
the hope has given his consent to the restorkt-
', tion of the above 3S MSS. Thus a part of
our 'once celebrated literary treasures returns
to Us, among "kb is the, famous Codex Palm
anus of the th'Clk Anthology, the MSS. of small,
geographical works; the AntoitinuS
which Bast, in his Critical Letters to M. Boisson-
nadc, destribes and uses in so moterly a manner,
four ancient .and valuable MSS. of Plutareli's
Works, &c. ; and we are also entitled to cherish
the hope that the future steps taken for the recovery
of those remaining in the Vatican, will beegoally
successful. Among others we may expect that
the valuable monuments of our ancient language
and poetry, which could with difficulty he made
use of at Rome, will be restored to their home
from banishment. It may undoubtedly he hoped
that the literary treasures torn from Germany by
inconsiderate religious animosity, will be willingly
restored by the Papal Chair, that -,has been -*so
highly indebted to the Powers of Germany.

THE LATE DOCTOR VINCENT.

The Very Iteverenti WILLWA Vltvcwr, Doctor
of Divinity, who .died at his lodgings, in the Clois-
ters of Westminster Abbey, on Touriday:last, iii
his 77th rear, was, at ,the time of his death, Dean
of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter's, West-
minster, andritecttir of Islip, in Oxfordshire ; and
formerly Sub Almoner of the Sing, and Prolo-
cutor of the Lower liouse of Convocation.
He was educated at Westminster School, from
the fOundition of which he was elected to Trinity
College; Cambridge ;.from whence having return-
ed at the end of sour years, he spent the greater
part of his subsequent life in directing the
„educa-
tion of others within those walls in Which he had
received. his own ;- and having successively passed
through the ollices of Usher, and of Under and
Upper Master, was appointed Dean of Westmin-
ster about' the year 1803 ; thus meeting with au
honourable and most appropriate reward for that
conscientious' discharge of his duly
which had awaked his whole life. • •

We shall not, or the present occasion, P.te;:rpt
to record more particularly the.history of him,
whose lamented death we have announced ; for,
doubtless, the biography of a 'cliar"attcr so emi-
nently distinguished in literature, will be givens
from better sonrces. 'We shall only oliserre, with
respect to his literary distinction, that his admira-
ble and excellent work on the " Commerce and
Navigation of the• Ancients," has made his name
nearly as famitiar among the learned of the Con-
tinent, as of his own country ;
sand yet we believe
it may be -strlctiy said, that this elaborate work
was almoSt entirely composed during his hours of
leisure. _ _ _

But his talents and erudition, and his felicity in
communicating instruction to, and improving the
talents of -others,-were among the least valuable
parts of his inestimable character ; and many are
they, who, in reading these word,, will call to
mind his pure simplicity •of heart and manners,
his affectionate regartl' fur those whom either na-
ture or the offices of his station had placed under
his care or protection, and his entire devotednoss
to the clause 4-true reiigion,iit every thought, anck
word, and action of .his life..

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i BAN ',IL N

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extrncttlie ()Ilse! vit-

tions froui The A' ep :SunilayNcwspapo- :
War C(eised, 110 W COVlSitle't our-
selt es as entitled toitultilet in quiet of some dura-
tion, as least so far' as tve are to be affected byConT
tiliental hostility; Other everts may be in pr‘lspeete
but they (eon scarcely alter the erander learnres-0f,...
our situation. We are to all Intents and purposes.
at length , at peace. But there i 4: tonations not
less than to inditeditels, something trying in
cessation fr•orn violent efforts---;and glory is but
half earned, it *it is not followed up and thicken-
ed by supreriority in the art; of' peace. *The brow
which is stripped by taking off the helmet, tuttSt
find some' not less noble coVering; or be so far dis-.
honoured. We believe that this distinction is rte-
served for Egli:hold.' We neither say nor wish
.for
England alone.; hut we believe in higher de
tree than falls to Che'faiiine of the:otherstrog,
gling States of the European world; As•an
evi-
deuce of vigour with 'which she has begun this
. Dew career. we must refei• our readers to the state-
ment of a Meeting held at So*tithampton, for the
establishment of.a Provident Inititut ion, or Saving"
Fund. Mr., Rose's speech, valuable tor its spirit.,
good sense', and infor'matioi), may heeennsuked-.
for the personal eqeiience of .a unto %Os) Ibis de.-.
voted a large shaft: of bis attention to the general
state of the lower orders. But it omits the de-
tails of 'the systente and t he 'praerical ,and actual
scheme muSa be sought for elsewhere.
Before We attempt to fill,' in :ley degree, ,the
chasm felt' intelligent person, .we must
:.press convictiOne that sititpleand.palpable as
it now appears; theewhole 'partakes of-the mature,
mid is 'cot ittecrto the -praise of a great _discovery,
CariouViroin its-"tiMplicity, and athoirable from
its extensiveness,' it has the uScial charaettristie of
the greater invention --=the. wonder that it, was
Plot di;covered beforee'. but it 1e..., too,, we:believe
'and Mile, the hi,glier feature., that. when-once dis-
covereel, it'rem• Scarcely fad of eager and, tver,sal
adoption; In sqore, it may rank In theory with
some-of the happiest trutlisof politiet+.erottonty:
In prat.eoe; it naturally belongs to the.eee thitt
• bas •begtio: by rite ''eXtinction of- almost a Pesti-
arid the gift of universal instruoion to the
poor---yaecipatiOne and the' lkll and Lancaster
Seilmd. liliiTegyric: May-seem too eley-ated
to thp' se-who come to-be told,. that after all, its
sv hole efreet is to...*give'the hiterest-of • hallitenny
a month tO•eVet ydeliositor orl2s. Go This is eee-
tainlythe founderion.Of the euchre scheme.. It se ill
he seen htir'Compreitiensive an edifice trray her aised
on thiS scant}` space. liank'has been al-
-1 ead.;, ti i•t4l iii Edylibtirgli and' Bath; atul iii both on
the sane principles, anTwitleastar as the different
locality itilnw'ed, the sail* indil)utable :Success. It
is linovo to the s^ tvh e Spetindation leads them to.
exauiioe hoW lb:. poor Fite, that their riot, folly,-
antl im'ircoviclehce, are' nor':More natural and ne-
eessarYthan tbose•of intweekalted neighbours.
The,peasaht, or the' .cirtifieer; generally heeins his
emp m
loyen't, with some-wishtolay tip permanent
roVi.siou for the chances'of' his future condition.
ans First years, tire generally years of . profit, he-
cawe they are:yeais at once of • sedulous industry,
/tad ile•cent. .self-restrainr. But' what lit can thus:
rcset,ie (tom 'the, expenditures' of the moment,. case
'scarcely". be serious in its 'entire amount, and,what
in its 001 St aYing• temptation,' must he saved. in,
extremely 'striail sum's'. The in'docetnents to spend
moyey t (ins eollected; dining -all-its stages of col-.
'chit be lina'gineil,i)illy•bythose.Wito know
the(l-Iflicnlty of selt-denial on the subject- of the
appetites Of. the loWer orders'. Tbkmrtur:il im-
pediinent is p*owet'lnily reinforced by the hazards
of hoarding'itiOney, the' general chance of its•be-
ing, lest, the danger • *of being made an.,Obieet of
and'attadk foritstnessessiou, the certainty
- that for the time, atfleaSt,it, might. as cid!
,be in
the calif" as in "the- -hoard, and the difficulty' of
finding persons who might -be trusted for the pay-
ment of the interest, or the restoration of the
fn i ,ciparon NeeMergenev. lint. it is obvious that
difficult as all. this tnitty 'be,, theeaulo Of the poor
man, or being thrown upon* the, paviab; nicest be
the consequence of his, spending the total of his
earnings as fast as he rt.ceives.th.a. The Mee,
soire which not less provide's against *the ((Wield.;
ties .of .saving. his nioney, than foe leis Stimi ulus.
to save, must-be one of prodigious.. value to the
community; anti this'Measure is the ProVi(knt
Sritution or Saving. Fund. (I,,seription of this•
fund is given-io.a few words'. It is an 'arrfily'
Ment by which- theavittgs of tlie-'working 'Classes
are received from one sliilling*upwards, With a re-
.g)llar monthly intere4t allowed, and 'uVith the pc,..)kver
cif withdrawing the deposits at any time, either in
the entire sum en' ally share Of .it 'at the will of
the disposer. One of the siugolatitiesa. the plait
is_the facility which this influx of• calculation is'
brought into order. .::The whole is reglilata by,
three books. A ledger, an interest account-book,
and a.cash-booi.-.. a 'lle ledger presents the-tirigi-
- nit accOnnt of, the fund, with -the depositors. • It
has three -cidurtins',-One' for the day of the Moab
()kite depOsise2a,'seeond for the suni deposited Or
Avithcitavvr,9„4ibe day, stated,. and'. the third for
ifiterest,.4y allowing no interest for any stun
iessethandqs. Gd. • nor for any period 'less than a
month. The calculation conies simply to * the
;Multiples of Its. Gd. the interest being the Same
'llllll6lde. of a haVoently. *TO those who desire to
--be more closely acquainted with theeractieatpart,
• a 11.34110 kt may ~be recOmmentic(l, entitled;- ' A
Short Account of the Edinburgh SaVings Bank,
containing directions for • establsbing
. Banks," &c. We come once nfore to the advart-
tages 'of this.systeM to the.poore.lFirst, in its' .s•u-
periorities to the ostial modes of laying up inottey;
''it' is preferable to individual trust, to the regular
• banks, and to: friendly societies. The indivienal
' May give interest for .Sinall sums, but the danger
•of breach of confidence is too I.,,feat to 'show of
this trust as a geneeid resource. The regular banks
'may be more secure, 1. ot they.2will not open 111-1 SC-
-count fun: a amts SO small as is conteniplated by the
saving fiend; ande unless stutter eircontstances of
great peculiarity, they Will not alloW• interest.—
The friendly s,ocietieslive' s6Me'merit, as a 111'0-
vision against future :distress but they have heavy
tiiscpOitical ions. The frequeut• meetings of-the
members, and in those most instances at public
houses, produce much loss of time,. and waste of

!none,: in i:tinkltif,:togettiei.. • OfihoSe
mischief is Sc) plain, atilt regulations are not un
common • restrictiug the nenebers ceilLtin
quaotity of- beer. it -has been, however, calcu-
lated, that not lest than 460,0001. are spent iu
,these meetings the year, allowing on an
average fourteen assemblages to each society:—
The stated payments niutt be regularly made,
otherwise, after a certain time, the subscriber
loses the' benefit of his Fortner subscription.---NO- I
thing more than those staled payments can be
made, however the subscriber might Intim been.
-subsequently enabled to add to hiS store. The
value of the chances is sionetimet ill calculated,_
and the. concern is involved au bankruptrl.- The
trust is liable to be enthezzled by irs officers.— -
The benefit is 'contingent and distanikthe member
having the advantage only, in case of hiS falling
into the distress provided for by-the ruleS of the
society.' And the tchole concern is so frequently
' complicated, as naturally'todeter imor men from
trusting their sayinit to' system which they, do
not understand. There is an additional character.-
•trllicli appeals shore strongly to the legisla-
ture. The friendly societies have been, the great
ifund of those combinations among artificer
which have clone such alarming mischief to trade.
ThediSciterged workmen have been enabled in al-7
inott'all instances to carry ,their enjustifiable de-
inAnds,.by being sustained while they were out of
'employ, on the contributiOns of their Friendly So-.
ciety. From all 'those disadvantages, . the. Saving,
timid is free. It requires no weekly meetings
it .anoWs of any increase ill the original deposit.
It allnws of ti-ithdritaving at airy moment for use.
It payS a constant interest, and by giving an.
.note on a public b,tiik as soon as the depo-
sit amounts to 101'. it.-gives a double seeority,---
advantagesste Matters of, simple cal-.
ciliation. A n eckly saving of tyro coil:
tinned for twenty veart, amounts, tvithout .any
interest, to 1031. 12s. 'lime'' interest, at four per
Cent. alone, would be nearly 531, Thus the-whole,
in twenty years, would be above . There 'are
'few workmen who cannot. by .teauly abstinence
fro:n the mere velgiii and common int'ans.of Mdul-
genet:, save two shillings a Week. 'They may Ain(
smite difficulty in an early and intprovident mar-
riage, but as children .guiw uli, tiasy, catt,fre-
ipently he made rather productive than, other-
Wise, and thus the man who has begun to save at
tis erns', and persevered for forty years._ F.ad
himself at sixty, The master of front 4001.'t0
east such for the wants -of aleclinieg yeers,
the prospects- of his children. But let the
process of this saving be- eatisidered. •The habits
ta-soberoe and order, of abstinence from low
VieeP:and of honourable iodependence that • must
-groot up in this long' course of self-restraint, fore-
'sight, and prudence ; the general ini,a,vvement of
both sexes of the humbler ranks of society, where
the niati, conscious of future .c.unfort and reSpect-
ability, feels himself entitled to select a wife not
Min ort tor of sharing and enjoying his res.peetahi-
nty, and where the woman so naturaily..beeomes
solicitous to make her Self fit for such a choice,-for
'our own parts, and absolutely without ally exag-
geration of feeling out the subject, we look to this
plan as admirably calculated to promhte the peos-
perity of the empire.. Perhaps we might look he-
'yori and believe that an invention with- so many
of the features of excellence, and such 'sower beiOn-
lug front it, will not be-suffered. to 'shed its .soli-
tary radiance up-on one faeciured domMion. We
keit see ni) part of the earth, in which it might not
operate in the.most iMniviliate services of hollistry
and virtue. Russia hits but just taken home with
her otir Lare4ster School ; a More illustrious
than she could have carried away finuti half
:the conquered world,. klrliy_ should she not again
replemi.in her light front. the same " golden urn."
To the plan and its proposers,. for ourselves, we
say, in the and devotion of the words,
", All Flail !"

MAKERS AND •MAItitERS OF WINES.
The following cask: is extracted froin a recent
Paris Paper •
COLIZECTIONAL PotAcc.7--.-We 11:7C already
spoken of several jtidgments of the Tribitnal of
Simple Police, by which certain wine-merchistrts .
convicted of having adidterateff their wine by a
mixture more or less considerable of watcr, have
been fined, and the wine thus deteriorated ordered
to be poured upon the plvetnent.
In stating. that theSe judgment's had been ap-
pealed against, we promised to inform our readers
of. the result.
.11 has not been favourable to the appellants,
the jiidgwents being confirmed:
- 'Pre dealer, ought therefore to be informed ;-
I.That chemistry -affortiS infallible means of
disecive-ring: tie adulteration of wine, and even
that simple change which is produced by. the in-
ftssiOn.,-of water.
2. That tire 'laws and regulations on the sult
ject oblige the Court to order the.adolterated wine
to be.eMptied in the street, even though the sul.s.
'stances employed its the_ adulteration shousd be
such as would be attended with no bad conse-
quences, nor even any derangement in the diges,
true functions of the consumers.
In •vain was it pleaded that it is unreasonable
to throw away or destroy -wine, which, accord-
ing to. the report of the examiners, has preserved
the proper degree of strength.for rendering it an
article'of commerce, which contains nothing in-
sallibrious, which is mixed with puie and potable
'Water : and, finally, Which is stated in the report
of the chymists to yield OlT'distillati9n a quantity
'of spirit of good quality, equal to that .which •
might be yielded by undiluted wine.
WhCre the law has not- made distinctions, the
Judge cannot-.- Peisal laws ought to be applied
literally, when the offence as the contravention is
judicially proved;
But as the law ought always to be written rea-.
son, 'is absurd :lit. a:.period of public., misery to
throw away wine which contains nothing injuri-
ous to the health.. We hope, that the error* of
our legislation, in this respect, will he speedily
corrected, and that an amendment of the -existing
law will, while maintaining , the confiscation of
adulterated wine, declare, that the wine so con-
fiscated.shall be applied to the consumption of the
hospitals, ;span it's being _proved by chemists, tbist
no danger would result, either (rain (linking „or
from its conversion into spirits of wise; to be em-
ployed in dressing the wounded.

P otitt . :-Ti-,:i_tic, I,_-f,x

c~'~E Nom\{~lTr~RE,

t •
ON AL 114XAnINATI01,1 Uk RODF,ItT3.---.Yeitettitiy.;
at one.. o'clock, R. Roberts, who it antis char,,ed
with having stolen a parcel 'Containing
from the WindsOr-coa-ch; 'was brought before Mr.
tottAuHong for- final -6Xamination. - Previously ,
to the examinatiian, Roberts had been sitting in a;
private room at' the White Horse ;
Ite was communicative, and appeared-in:excellent
spirits. The •Office ''as exceedingly crowded,.
and Mr. gave his assistance on the occa-
sion. When Roberts was put to the bar, Mr.
COLQUHOUN spoke to him to the following effect
Roberts) in consequence of yortr haying before
stated that tion.were able to adduce evidence to
prove that you were,at a public4iousenear Bury
St. Edmonds on the day-this robbery etas 'com-
mitted, 1 have allowed you sufficient time for
that purpose ;—ls your evidence ready
Roberts.—No, yonr Worship.
Mr. CoLauuouN.—l thought it Mills your
tention to bring `f4 evidence to that fact.
Roberts.--I was not aware, Sir, that the de-
scriieion would be satisfactory:
Mr. COLQUITOUN.—The evidence of the land-
lord would have been salicient, but- there. is a
strong confirmation of evidence to prove that you
were not there on the day the robbery was' coin-
thitted,
.and no doubt can be entertained bin't
,that
you were in town. Wyatt, are you still -in-the
saute mind ;is that .the HI-n) who followed you to
the banking-hearse in llirclrialanei.
Wiiatt.,—lt is ; 1 shall not change my mind,
you may depend :on it...
Roberts.—! pledge 'Myself, ai:d will forfeit toy
life, if, in two days, I do not prove• to you that 1
was at the Red Liou, near Bury St. Edmunds, on
die dav alluded. to.
Mr; l3ellis, phis attorney.)-7llon't say any thing-

more.
Wm. Evans, of Park-pace, Carliski-lane, Lam-
beth, and George Evans, of' 141, Goldetilane,
then .presented themselves as bail for the arppear-
twee of Rohe) ts at the Qa4rter Sessions, to il)e,
amount of 1001. ekich. Roberts was boad in the
stun of• 2001. for his apperi-anee When called on,
and iris irons having 'oven knocked off, he was
()nee wore anOWed I:hert y. •• • • • •