The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-25 00:00:00

CURIOUS HYPOCHONDRIAC CASE.

The following case was communicated to us by a gentleman
who is never so enthusiastic in his doctrines as to embellish
them with that which does not belong to them:--:.Doctor
Eusabe de Salle, of whom we speak, treated the man himself,
and he related it to us, in order to show the benefit of humour-
ing the patient, as well as the probable use of the shower bath
in hypochondriac cases. The patient was a Parisian gen-
tleman, about 36 years of age, and had suffered mentally
from the death of a dearly beloved young lady to whom he
was .to have been married. lie was two years gradually
groWing more antl' 'more melancholy and emaciated; and at
last would lie in bed for three, four, or five days together, re-
gardless of sustenance, which he took more by the persuariim
of his friends than from any call of nature. The &dor was
sent for by his ado. brother, 00 account of a paper which he
wrote upon hypochondria having fallen into the latter's hands.
On visiting the patient, the doctor found him in a state of deep
despondency, elthough not of extreme debility. lie said
it would be impossible for any physician. to cure him, unless
he could extinguish the fire which he said was confined within
him. At first it was thought that he spoke figuratively mean-
ing the fire of hie feelings but on further explanation, he
proved to, the doctor that lie meant nothing figuretive, bu t
bone fide terrestrial, fire. kle declared he could feel the
flames beating internally against his ribs, and fancied
that his breath was the smoke which ascended- front It.

Be was perfectly rational on ever other subject;
but .al-
ways showed a wish, to return to that of his disorder, of which
he would reason ingeniously. Tim doctor passed an hour In
conversation with hint for the first time, and endeavoured to con-
vince him that the fire could not possibly exist within him: lie
ones observed to the patient, that even admitting that tire mild
exist within him, it would soon consume him ; this the hypo-
chondritte met by saying, that the reason why he was not burnt
had been because there was no. aperture to admit the air into
his breait below, which he said clearly accounted for the
phenomenon. Thus would he argue, nor could all the Doctor
said convince ,himaf his error. Upon the second visit the
patient was still more depressed than en the preceding, and
he informed the Neter, with a tone of sorrow, that lie would
burst at twelve o'cloek the next day, and be blown to atoms :
that he wished to make his will, and to be brought, into a court-
yard u little before the explosion, in order that the house
might not catch fire. The Doctor paused a moment, as
if he had been digesting the consequences of the approach-
ing catastrophe, when he suddenly. addressed his, patient.
in the following manner lily friend," said be, I nut
now convinced that what you have said is true, but T thielt
I have hit upon a remedy against so unhappy an accident."
This was received with a sigh and a shake of the head,-
" But," continued the Dottoro "listen to my plan, and Twin
sure you will approve of it: I propose to have you taken
into the court=yard a few minutes before twelve o'clock, and
on the instant that you expect the fire to burst out, a quantity
of water shall be poured over you, so as completely to ex-
tinguish the tire. I have read of a case similar to yours,
which was effectually cured by such means; and' I have no
doubt of success in. yours." The hypochondriac Seemed de-
lighted with the propo3al ; hope shot •across his countenance,
and ho smiled for the first dine in two years. The wholiof that
.day and night his spirits were lighter titan, before, and another
hour's conversation wi;h the Doctor next morning gave hint.
full confidence. The friends of the patient being made: ae-,
quainted with the remedy intended to b. employed, all things'
were duly prepared, anti at 3 minutes before 12 he was led into
the Court-yard. As it was in the Middle of sunimer, little
effects could ensue from stripping the patient; sio actXtrdingiy
it was done, and he was placed upon a chair, the Doctor be-
side him. As he was taking leave aids relations and the Me-
tor—which be did lest the cure should turned suddenly
to the latter told said, " I see by your watch it is within half
a minute—where's the water ?—baste t I feel the fire rising !"
At this instant the Doctor gave the signal, and from a win-
dow, directly above, a large tub of cold water was showeretV
upon his head. The column sunk him off his chair; but he:
still cried out to continue the water, which was done by four
Men with pails successively, until he nearly fainted. Ile was
then removed to his bed-room, rubbed well with dry cloths,
took a cordial of hot wine, and was put to bed. The good effect
already began to show itself; for be shook hands with the Due.
tor, and called him his saviour. Doctor de Salle repeated the
shower-bath every second day, under the pretence of guarding
against future attacks ; and in six weeks he became quite emb-
itter man.--(Kid.)

NAPOLDON, in his Italia►► successes, took a

Hungarian battalion prisoners. The Colonel, an
old man, complained bitterly of the French mode
of fighting—by rapid and desultory attacks, on
the flank, the rear, the lines of communication,
&c., concluding by saying, " that he fought in
the army of Mario Theresa."—" You must be
old ?" said Napoleon. " Yes, I am either sixty
or seventy." '‘ Why, Colonel, you have certainly
lived long enough to know how to count years a
little more closely !" " General," said the Hun-
garian, " I reckon my money, my shirts, and my
horses ; hut as for my years, I know that no-
body will want to steal them, and that I shall
never lose one of them !"

The body of Maki: (who was recently ex.
ocuted for the murder of Mr. Musavonn), which
now lies in C'olchester Hospital, has created much
interest in that town; the applications to view it
have been very numerous.—(C/almsford Van,-
nick.)

THE ARMY.

A detachment of the 34th (or Cumberland)
Regiment of Foot, arrived on Tuesday at Windsor from Wool-
wich.

A detachment, consioing of officers and recruits, belonging
to the 94th (now raising) Regiment of Infantry, is ordered to
embark, on Sunday, on board Leith, &c. smacks, in the
river, for the purpose of being conveyed to Glasgow, where
the Head-quarters of the above corps is, at present, to be sta -
tion ed .

The determination of Government to raise several new
r.
giments has created a prodigious bustle in the recruiting de.
partment. On Monday the parties stationed here commenced,
beating up, and paraded the streets, headed by the band of
the 65th Regiment, now in the Castle. The soldiers had their
caps decoratettwith ribauds, among which many a them J►ad
introduced our country's emblem -..the thistle. A cor-
poral of the 42d Regiment carried a standard of the Old
04th, or Scots Brigade, an ensign likely 'to attract recruits,
from the gallant character that that national corps always main..
tained.—( Caledonian Mercury.)

()LICE INTELLIGENCE.

EXTRAOR.DINARY CHARGE OF SWINDLING'
AND ASSAULT AND BATTERY.
Queer. er-Scetranc.—Yestertlity, ?kir. 11-itrrie, the Magi.
strate, wax occupied. the whole morning in investigating a
charge of swindling preferred against two duping young nten,
named William Salt and Ilk/sant Callh 117;11thighain, mid also a charge brought by the prisoner Salt against three men,
named 'Matthew Frazer, Joseph Carron, and James Heyward,
for having desperately assaulted and wounded him with a spit,
merit, and a hatchet.
11r. ALLEY, on the part of the three men, first put in one of
the lists of swindlers, published by the Society fur the Prater-
thin of Tradesmen, on the face of which appeared the names of
the two prisoners—Whittingham, residing at No. n 9, Torringa
ton-square, Ritssellatquare ; and Salt, residing in Church-lane,
Stoke Newington. The Learned Counsel then called
Mr. Matthew Dyer, a house-agent unit land-surveyor, resid-
ing at Knightsbridge, who stated-that he way commissioned by
a lady of fortune, named (beset, the relict of the late Doctor, to
et her mansion, called Kent-house, in Mount-raw, Knights-
bridge, immediately oppomitc the Horst-barracks. The Molise
was furnished in the most splendid manner; the household
furniture itself would, if sold by the hammer, fetch tipwarda of
1,600/. ' • besides which there was a large stock of the choicest
wines, locked up In the cellaring, belongitag to the lady.
%tidy in the present month, the prisoner Salt called upon him,
represented himself as. a man of fortune, and enjoying van
landed property in Devonshire, and expressed a wish to treat
for Kent Mansion. tVitnesm told Mtn the -terms, 300 guineas
per year, to be paid monthly. The prisoner viewed the house,
and expressed himself satisfied with it; particularly with the
coach-house and 'tabling ; the latter, he said, were admirably-
suitable for hiss rses. Subsequently the bargain was xtruck, and
an agreement wan entered into between the prisoner and witness.
*magma of the widow Gossett; and it was understood that he shoitiel
take possession on the day after Christmas-day, upon condition
that he was a respectable man. Next day he wrote to Selt, stating
that he required a reference to seine persons who could speak to his
responsibility; and on the lith instant he was referred to Mr.
NVltittingham, No. 9, Torrington-square, from whom he re..
ceiveil a good character of Salt., with which he was satisfied ;
and on the 11th Salt took possession of the inanition and furn
l.
tore, and the areement was regularly executed. Since that, he
had ascertained that the representation made by the lirisonrr
Whittingliam, of the character of Salt, was talee, and that both
were notorious sharpers. Finding that he had been thus swindled,
and being solicitous ofprotecting Mrs. Gossett's property, I
It, wait-
ed upon the Magistrates at Bow-street, to whom he represented
the case, and they told him the law would allow him to regain pose
session in the best way he could; hut that it did not allow hint
to mike a forcible entranee, or to use any violence in ejecting
the persons its possession, although they ebtaiued it fraudu-
lently.
Mr. ALLEY said that it had been decided in the Court of
Common Pleas recently, that where a tradesman or' any other
person had been cheated out tit their property—no matter what
—by a set of swindlers,
m that the law empowered them to regain
possession in the bestmanner they cpuld, so lo ng as they re-
frained from violence.
Mr. Dyer then continued to state that he had acted in the
manner sanctioned. • Ile desired his clerk to go with the three
men who are charged with assaulting prisoner Salt on 'num-
day afternoon, ande if possible, to regain possession, but by no
means to use violence.
Mr. delm Palmer, clerk to Mr. Dyer, stated, that in come-
' quenca of the instructions of Mr. Dyer, he went about two
o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday to the houxe, and the door
having been opened, he inquired for Mr. Salt, who, he was
told, was from hom He. e quietly walked in, followed by the
three men, Carron, Frazer, end Heyward. There were in the
house, Mrs. Salt and two female domestics. Ile told Mrx.
Shortly his businesa, and left the three ;nen in poeseesion.
after she and the two females left the house without
being forced out.
Joseph Carron, one of the men who was left in possession,
stated, that about ten o'clock on Tuesday night, after he said
his fellow.servants had been left in posses:non, a violent knock-
ing and ringing took place. in___
ran up stairs, And
looked through the hall window, and inquired " Who wets
there ?" and almost immediately the window war broke, and
he received a tremendous blow on the heed, which laid his
skull open: Presently Salt made his way into the hall through
the aperture in the.window' billowed by the prisoner Whit-
tinglutin. 'rite door, which was chained, wits opened by Salt,
and a vast number .of persons, amongst whom were some of
the Life Guards, rushed into the house. The greatest confts-
shut took place, which ended in his fellow.eervants and Linn.
self being carried to the watchhouse on the clomp of Salt, for
assaulting hint, by which means he again got possession of
the house..
Air. WHITE said, that as Mr. Dyer heti stated that he hail Nought the repossession of the premises in consequence of his
hearing he had let them to a swindler, he conceived the persone
ought to be produced from whom he hail heard such statement.
Mr. Thomas Croft, grocer, residing in Maryleboneattreet,
T;ohlen-square, then stated, that on Tuesday week the prisoner
Whittinghani called on hint, and wished to take a ready-fur-
Willie(' !tense he bad to let, in Norfolk-street, Grosvenor.
square. He agreed to become a tenant at 2004 a year, audit was
understood he was to take poesession on the day after Christnais
day. Witness told hint a reference would be required, lintel
which he referred him the prisoner Salt, at Miens-house, Mount-
vow, Knightsbridge. Witness accordingly waited upon that
gentleman on Wednesday last, he was tntrodueed to hint by a
livery servant. On hearing the nature of kis business, he said that Whittingbam was a young man of considerable property,
and was about purchasing it house, and he supposed he merely
wanted the one in question for the intermediate time. Ile xe-
sured witness he need not be at all afraid of his friend Whit-
tingharn. IVitness suspected all was not right, and made in-
quiries in the neighbourhood of Kent-house, and muoniest
other penults he went to Mr. 'Dyer.
IiAItNEIL mil that this testimony did not bear
upon the case before. the 211agistrate.
Mr. WHITE said, he should not receive it as evidenee
against the prisoners: all he wanted to know was, whether
Mr. Dyer lied grounds fur attempting to regain the house; and
from the testimony of Mr. Croft, he WAN satisfied he hat! quite
sufficient reason.
Mr. Ashford, in the employ of Mr. Wood, .ironmonger, Of
Tottenham-court-road, said the prisoner Whittingliant enure
time agocontracted a debt of 1101. with his employer, for Which
he was about to arrest hint. On SVednesday evening last the
prisoner Salt called upon Mr. Woed, and stated his name to be
Norton, and that he was Witittingliam'aeolicifor, and aseurcei
hint that he would be paid every farthing; edding, that the
cause at' Mr. Whittinghara's exigencies wash owing to his hav-
ing advanced a coueiderable sum of money to his brother on
mortgage'.
This wits the case against the two prieonors, Salt and ‘Vhite
tingham.
belt now preferred a charge of assault ageing the three de-
'fendants, Carron, Frazer, and IleyWard.
Salt was then sworn, and from the loss of blood, he appeared
extremely weak. He stated, that when he got hao the hotter:
in the manner described, the defendant Carron cut him over the
bead with a hatchet, and Heyward thrust at hint with a sword.
He was dreadfully injured, and was under the care of a surgeon.
The defendants denied the charge, and
The Magistrate settled the business by ordering the two pri-
*merit, Salt and Whittingham, to find sureties in 600/aeach to
appear at the next Westminster Sessions, to answer any corn-
plaint that might be prefevfred against them, and to give twill-
dent notice'. The other three defendante were also held to
bail in 501. each, to answer the charge of S tat for assaulting
him.

111 r. Dyer, and 111 r. Nicholson, a solicitor, immediately, he.
came terptenlli security, and they were distil:111;0 ; and Salt
and W gharn were conveyed to Tothill.tlelas prison.
Salt stated himself to be In possession of a vast property in
Devonshire, and Whittinghant raid that Ive, about four years
ago, carried on the bitsiness of a wine.n4l-chant in Exeter_
street, Strand, but had failed.

ME LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Di.. %5.

tNEW Totcs.l
There was only a single arrival of interest yes-
terday, which was from Buenos Ayres, with an
account of an engagement having taken place be-
tween the Independent troops' in Peru, under
Bolivar, and the Royalist forces under General'
Canterac. This event is very shortly alluded to
in the letters, which are to the 30th September,
and no details are given ; although the situation
of the two armies ut the date of the former ac-
counts leaves little doubt of their having met. It
is believed that Camerae. has not been taken, but
Valdez, the second in command of the Royalist
troops.—No Express from France was received
in the City yesterday, and from the near ap-
proach of the holidays little business was trans-
:acted in the Funds.—Consols closed at 864, and
Spanish Bonds at the price they have been the
whole day, 264-.—lt is understood that neither
the British nor Foreign Stock Exchanges will be
open for public business until Monday next.

[TUE TIMES.]
In proportion us public respect and confidence,
the only solid foundations of a Government what-
ever may beqts form, crumble away beneath the
feet of Ferdinand and his servile Ministers, they
and their foreign auxiliaries are driven to the
fruitless labour of catching at straws, and at-
tempting to realize the most absurd and despe-
rate chitneras. It is perfectly evident from the
tone of the Ultra-Royalist Newspapers, French
and Spanish, that the re-conquest of America
has now become the forlorn hope of the cause
of Legitimacy in Spain. Without the reve-
nues of the precious Colonies, those of the
Spanish Church must ere long be appropriated—
in other words, cottliscated—to the famine which
devours the State in all its departments, and every
man in his senses knows that the dollars of Mex.
ico are for ever gone. Not so the Bourbon Ca-
binets. Facts and arguments to them are, on
that subject, equally unavailing. The Dolls of
Tuesday last distinctly assures us, that the men
of war San Pablo, San Was, and three corvettes,
are arming in the port of Cadiz—that the expe-
dition is destined for the Pacific,—and that with
this maritime succour, the " Viceroyalty" of
Peru will soon find itself in a condition to de.
stroy the revolutionary army of Chile, as well as
the forces front Terra Firma (Colombia), which
now desolate that beautiful region. In what,
then, consists the Peruvian Viceroyalty ? In
Canterac and his army ? In one word, then, they
are destroyed. The someday has brought us both
text and comment—the Efoile, and the correspon-
dence from La Plata. By the former, the Viceroy is
to receive helpfrom Spain; by the latter the Viceroy
has been placed beyond the reach of succour. The
troops 01 Colombia have attacked and demolish-
ed his army, the last feeble prop of Spanish ligi-
timacy. Bolivar was fast approaching, the great
scene of ertion, and the force which was to serve
uuder this virtuous and illustrious Commander
was nearly P 2,000 men ; almost as many more
were eneaged in OM] pying other points of Peru,
so that the interests of the " Viceroyalty" are
likely to require something more than the aid of
twoarmed ships and three sloops of war from Cadiz.
In one word, the die is cast, the game is ended—
Sun expedition sent against the United States by
Spain might be more speedily crushed, but not
more certaily than any that she, or France in
masquerade, can launch against the South Ame-
rican Republics. Were it otherwise, it would
be of little moment. If the New States of Ame-
rica be weak, which they arc not, England is
strong enough to support them. Should Eug-
land abandon this noble and imperious duty,
North America may perform it for her, and
punish her by enjoying the consequent advantages
unrivelled. The;lioly Alliance may issue its mani-
festoes, it may placard free nations, it may send e
regiment of Pozzos to intrigue and corrupt,
and undermine and menace, to make virtue a
name, and servility a religion, wherever sordid,
shallow, or pusillanimous minds are to be found
enisconductiog the great Interests of a supine and
indifferent society; but against America it is a
warfare altogether unseasonable and feeble. The
mass of the American population, high and low,
lay and clerical, are full of the spirit of revolu-
tion ; they have been relieved and raised by the
changes ;it !itimates and cheers them—it opens
for them the road to riches and self-respect.
Force would be ridiculous against such a com-
munity ; corruption would have few materials on
which to operate ; and intrigue, as in Mexico,
would lead its vicious agents to a dungeon.

[BILITISU PREM.!
The Moniteur of Monday has nothing in its
columns, official or otherwise, of any moment.
Some of the other papers allude markedly to the
embarkation of Iturbide, the Ex-Emperor of
Mexico, for this country. Their remarks are
grounded OD a paragraph of the Austrian Observer,
stating titbit letters from Leghorn mention that
Iturbide, two of his children, and a Deputy of
the, Cortes, Torrente, had embarked on the 30th
of November, in an English ship, for this coon.
try. Iturbide's wife, and the rest of his family,
it adds, remained at Leghorn, The sudden de-
porture of the Ex-Emperor, the Austrian Paper
states, had caused great surprise at Leghorn.—
The pension of 2.5,000 piastres granted Iturbide
was given, it adds, on the express condition of
his remaining in Italy. Had the Austrian Court
arty designs ou the Mexican, which he appre.
beaded, and which induced him to quit Italy ?
The Courier Francais has a paragraph on the
sidiject, as if the departure of Iturbide was con-
nerted with any political views of Great Britain
ratspectiag Mexico. The unexpected voyage
of the P.,x-Emperor of Mexico, at a moment
(the Paris Paper states) w hen constant and active
negotiation! are going on in all the Cabinets of
gurope, on the subject of South America, and es-
pecially of Mexico, gives room for much considera..
tint) to thlatesmou, and attracts the att4mtion of
the Continental Cabinets. This is indeed the
ridiculous inhlitue, the monies parturiunt all over.

What Influence has the abdicated despot Itur-
bide i or what possible effect can his presence
have in this country ? At his leaving Mexico,
which was all the Congress wanted, he was, we
believe, free to choose his residence in any coun-
try of Europe. Ile named Italy in the first instance,
but the Mexican Congress could have no object in
chaining him to that country exclusively. Itur-
bide probably relishes no despotism but his own,
and does not like that of Italy. He is coining to
this Country, in all likelihood, to ,elect it as his
future residence, and leaves his family at Leghorn
only until he is domiciled here. But every move-
ment, however trivial, is now full of danger and
suspicion to the Continental Despots, they fear
every breeze that passes by them. Di I3orgo, the
Russian Ambassador, was daily expected in
Paris ; he was to have quitted Madrid on the
14th. Great ellorts, it is stated, were making to
restore the execrable tribunal of the Inquisition
in Spain. A multitude of clergy of all ranks,
with the Ex-G rand Inquisitor, the Bishop of Ta-
ragona, at their head, had waited on Ferdinand,
in a body, to press the re-establishment of this
tribunal ; but the dissembling tyrant is said to
have replied, that the remonstrances of the Fo-
reign Powers, and even of the Pope himself, corn.
pulled him to refuse their request. Thus, if this
statement be true, Spain, for the present, at least,
will be saved the additional horrors of this infer-
nal tribunal.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 23d inst. reached us last
night by express. The Ordinance for dissolving
the Chamber, and that appointing, the Presidents
the Electoral Colleges, were not expected till to-
day. They have been so long announced and so
often postponed, that although much time has been
lost,and the Session must be late,even if they should
be issued at present, few people in Paris believe
that they will yet appear, and their insertion in the
Moniteur• will ►alone remove public scepticism. A
letter from Madrid,dated so late as the 12th inst.
complains that small armed corps of Constitutional-
ists scoured the environs of Xeres de la Fontera,
and did much injury to the Royalists. Twenty
prisoners having been taken by the latter were
immediately shot, and " such was their blind-
ness," says the letter, " that they all died cry-
ing ' Long live the Constitution I"' According
to the same source of intelligence a great number
of Prelates of all ranks, headed by the Ex-
Grand Inquisitor, went in a body to the King,
and supplicated him to yield to the gene-
ral will of the nation, which demanded that
the Inquisition should be restored. To this
the subtle Ferdinand is said to have replied " that
he was forced by Foreign Powers, and even by
the Pope himself, to deny their request." The
Duke of San Fernando has been banished to a
distant fortress for having refused Embassy.
The expedition from Cadiz to Lima had not
sailed, and was not to sail the Knit instant. It
consisted of two ships of the line and three
frigates, and will probably serve to increase
the navel Nee of the Peruvians, if it be not
informed on its way of the events which have
established the independence of Peru. The
Journal des Danis pontnins an article► from
Semlin, dated Dec. let, which announces that on
of the greatest persecutors of the Greeks, Abol-
labat, Paella of Salouica, who had canoed five
thousand Christian families to be massacred in
cold blood last year in the neighbourhood of that
city, had been put to death by order of the Sul-
tan, who longed for the immense wealth which
he had accumulated. Aware of his master's
designs, he had long frustrated them by remain-
ing within the walls of Salonica, surrounded by
a numerous and faithful guard. He was not
proof, however, against the temptations of
ambition, and fell into the snare with which the
Porte sometimes entraps the most cautious. Ile
was appointed Seraskier of the army assembled at
Larissa, in addition to his title of Pitch of Ito-
melia. After some misgivings he ventured out
of his strong► hold, but was not two days' journey
from its walls, when the Capidgi Baschi appear-
ed with the fatal order. The guards inclined
themselves before the hand writing of the Grand
Signor, and the Pacha was quietly strangled.
The article justly observes, 44 that the revolution
in the East has caused the heads of all the per-
secutors of the unfortunate Greeks to fall one
after the other, and that it reveals the hand of
Divine Justice."

[MORNING HERALD.]
The King of Spain and his Allies must bestir
themselves, or else the re-conquest of the Colo.
nies will have to commence do novo, and the ex-
pedition, if one be sent, will be in strictness an
invasion. If the accounts from Buenos Ayres be
correct, the mother country will not long have a
foot of territory, or a single soldier, even in Peru.
It was recently announced through the United
States' Papers that Bolivar was about to proceed
to the seat of war in Peru, for the purpose of
sealing the war of independence. A blow
has been struck, even without his arrival,
from which the Spaniards will find it dif-
ficult to rally. According to one account
General Canterac, the Commander...in-Chief
was taken prisoner, and Valdes, the second
in command, killed,—The main fact of the
defeat of the Royalists and their retreat is,
at all events in appearance, beyond doubt,
though neither of these officers should have met
the fate assigned to them. We have understood,
however, that if General Canterac had not been
defeated, the loss of Peru to Spain would be
,equally .certain. This General Is described
as a Constitutionalist, and it is believed
that he would not employ his arms in the
service of the restored despotism. Intelligence
of the fall of the Constitutional system had
not yet reached him, when this engagement is de-
scribed to have taken place. Even the tempo-
rary cessation of the war would be an object to
the great union called the Colombian Republic,
as It would afford time to consolidate the inde-
pendence and institutions of the Government.,—
It is ,difficult to withhold from Bolivar the.
credit ,of capacity and moderation, after the
career which he has been now for several years
running.. The closing of the war, in Peru, or
the reduction of the contest to,aninsignificance

which would admit of his acting in concert with
the Legislative Assemblies of the State for the
formation of a permanent and solid system, would
be of the greatest moment to the new Empire.
Even supposing that France and Russia, in the
name of the King of Spain, should resolve, or
even have already resolved, to send out expedi-
tions, it must be long before such a project can
be executed. This interval, besides the moral
force of a sense of total emancipation from the
metropolitan sovereignty, would be usefully em-
ployed, in strengthening the frame of Govern-
ment. The facility of the conquest of Spain
would be a delusive analogy in the case of an in-
vasion, by Ferdinand and the joint Allies, of
territories so distant—a population so large and
widely spread—the invaders contending, more-
over, with a destructive climate, and want of sub-
sistence, at such a distance from their own re-
sources.

Nostrums; auto/smut.]
The Journal des Debuts has a curious article
on France, England, and Russia, in the shape of
a criticism on a work of M. Charles pupils.
To some of M. Dupin's sentiments we can-
not subscribe. If good institutions would pro-
mote the prosperity of France, England is
of course interested in their permanency, be.'
cause nations are interested in the prosperity
of each other. If England, that is to say, the
Government of England, have hitherto been op-
posed to Institutions calculated to promote the
prosperity of other nations, this does not prove
that England is interested in the debasement of
other nations, but only that her Statesmen were
not acquainted with her own true interests.—
M. Dupin's account of the military colonization
system of Russia is curious ; an excellent work
on Russia, in which a valuable light is thrown
on that subject, is on the eve of pub-
lication in London. But the most impor-
tant part of this article is the liberality of
the concluding paragraph, in which the balance
of power, for which we have paid so much at
different times, is deservedly ridiculed, and the
prosperity and intelligence of nations are consi-
dered their only security. Sentiments like these,
for which our Country Gentlemen in Parliament
may not be prepared for some time, are certainly
somewhat startling in a French Ministeral Paper.
We are almost tempted to believe that the war to re-
store Ferdinand and the Inquisition was a mere
philanthropic ruse to destroy the influence of both,
and to take the task of Spanish regeneration out of
the hands of those whq certainly were not over
brisk in going about it. We expect to see the
French Commander in Madrid in correspondence
with the British and Foreign School Society, and
Ferdinand establishing schools for the Manolos,
and ploughing matches and sheep-shearings ou
the Royal Domains. Nothing, however, can
be more true than the position that a na-
tion's chief security is in the prosperity and
intelligence of the people. We sincerely hope
the French Government is thoroughly persuaded
of this truth. If the melancholy state of Spain,
the fruits of a brutalising despotism supported by
the Inquisition, have impressed the Duke of An-
gotsleme with the importance of knowledge and
civilization, the iniquitous measure of the Inva-
sion of Spain will not have been alone productive
of unmixed evil. Be that as it may, we hail
these signs of liberality in a quarter in which we
so little expected them. We have never failed
to bestow approbation on the conduct of our
own Ministers when we deemed it deserving
of approbration, and we shall be equally ready
to do justice to a Bourbon Government when we
see measures corresponding to the liberal lan-
guage of its Journals. We can even forgive these
Journals their want of respect for the dicta of
Mr. Justice Park on prejudicing and prejudging.

CIIAS. SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET

Of CHARLES SACKYILLE, Earl of DonsET, the
most accomplished gentleman in the voluptuous
Court of CHARLES the SEcoNn, we have the fol-
lowing representation in the Memoirs of the Kit.
Cat Club

" Although Lord Dorset is rather, as Pope has
remarked, a holiday writer, a gentleman who
diverted himself now and then with poetry, than
a real poet, he was undoubtedly possessed of
talents of no ordinary description ; and as a
patron of poets and a lively wit, his name will
always be associated with those of the eminent
men with whom he mixed, and by whom he
has been so frequently panegyrized. Prior,
Dryden, Congreve, Addison, and a host of
the minor poets of his time, have written ve-
Itetnently in his praise. The eulogium of the
former has been justly admired, as a master-
piece in this style of composition. He says of
the Earl, " the brightness of his parts, the so-
lidity of his judgment, and the candour and gene-
rosity of his temper, distinguished him in an age
of great politeness, and at a Court abounding
with men of the finest sense and learning. The
snost eminent masters, in their severe! callings,
appealed to his determination. Waller thought
it an honour to consult him on the softness and
harmony of his verse ; and Dr. Sprat on the
delicacy and turn of his prose. Dryden deter-
mines by him, under the character of Eugenius,
as to the laws of dramatic poetry ; Butler owed
it to him that the Court tasted his ' Iludibras ;'
Wycherly, diet the town liked his ' Plain
Dealer ;' and the late Duke of Bucking-
ham deferred to publish his ' Rehearsal' till
he• was sure, as he expressed it, ' that my
Lord Dorset,would not rehearse upon him again.'*
If we wanted foreign testimony, La Fontaine
and St. Evremond have acknowledged that he
was a perfect master of the beauty and fineness
of their language, and of all they call' les belles
lettres.' Nor was this nicety of -judgment con.
fined only to hooks and literature ; he was the
same in statuary, painting, and other parts of
art. Bernini would have taken his opinion upon
the beauty and attitude of a figure ; and King
Charles did not agree with Lely, that my Lady
Cleveland's picture was finished, till it had the
approbation of my Lord Dorset.'
Swift, in that spirit of falsehood and malignity in which he
is alone consistent, tells us, " that Dorset had mall learn'
or none, and that he was a dull companion !! !" tie
num in his usual way, "he is the most universal ytt.
vulaut I.
ever knew,"