The Sun.
London, England, 1815-11-13 00:00:00

ROCHESTER PEDESTRI/N.—(l3th Day.)

BAKER, on Saturday night, after resting in the
course of the day nearly three hours, with great
ease. completed 50 miles and 216 rods; on his
last titiii.coining up to the starting post, he con-
tinued humming his favourite song, '' Within a
mile of Edinbro"lown," and which, in the
afternoon, he had sung often to his friends, whilst
in hie room at the Cossack. Yesterday morning
he started oir quite fresh, at a quarter past two
o'clock, and at breakfast (20 Minutes before
eight) had only performed 14 miles, owing to the
slippery state of the ground, resting then 20 ►mi-
nutes, and at a quarter past ten 22 miles, when
he • left off during Divine Service ; commenced
again at twelve o'clock, and ashes having in
the mean time been put on the course, he was
then enabled to keep up at his old pace, and by
ten minutes after two, accomplished thirty
miles, when lie dined. He started at half
after three, and at 26'minutes before six, com-
pleted 38 miles ; end filially, last night, at 20
minutes after 'nine o'clock, finished 50-miles and
144 rods. Bets are now two to one in his favour.

Colts EXCHANGE, Noy. 13.—We bad a good
supply of Wheat this morning from Essex and
Kent, the sale of which W 43 rather dull at the
prices of this day week. Fine Barley and Malt
fully supported their prices. Having a good sup-
ply of Oats, and no great briskness in the sales,
they may be noted '2s. lower than this .day week.
Pease and Beans were steady at the last quota,
tions. In other articles {here was no alteration.
SMITIIFI ULU, Nov. 13.—Thit, day's Market had a good sup-
ply of prime Beasts, and the show of Cattle in general was
considerable ; Beef %vas dearer ; Mutton seas cheaper ; VCal
and Pork supported last prices ; and the trade, for the roost
part, was somewhat brisk. The sales in the liay-n,arket were
rather lively; Hay, Straw, and Clover, fetched last prices.
Friday, November 10, the Commissioners of
•Hackney Coaches convicted !3 hackney 'coachmen
in simay penalties, which were paid, for hi lag,
absent from their coaches, and other offences at
the theatres. These complaints were exhibited
by the Inspettors nt- Hackney Coaches, "tin at-
tend at the Theatres for the purpose of keeping
order, anti putting a final stop to those Shaniefal
bargains anti impositions lung practised liv the
coialonen on the rnistic, which the Commissioners
ate fully resolved to pat an end two. The public.
may not lie aware; that whenever a coach or cha-•
riot is found in the street, they are liable to. be.
taken to any part of the town, at all hours of the_
night, notwithstanding the coachman may have:
been at work twelve hours. • „,
The rriends of Literatate wilt be pleased to--
hear that time long-expected Biographical Diction-'
ary of thing Authors is to appeatathe lit of ,De-
coact. Several persons eminent for the know-a
ledge of literature, and literary men, we utisleraj
Stand, kive bastoved upon it a laborious applies,.%
tion of three years The undertaking, therafnie,,
cannot fail tO prove equally beneficial to meat of
letters and the. public ; for while the works of the.
one are, for the first time, distinctly enumerated,
the general reader will be able to form a more cor-
rect judgment ivitlt respect to their merits.
A Row3ill of 50 guineas is offered by Messrs.
Coo and Co. Surgeons, of Charlotte House,.
Blackfriars, for the discovery of the author •f a
letter sent to the Medical Board. We have seen
it ; the language is that of a Quaker, and bears
the Walwortla post-stark---a more scurrilous and
invective instrument we bave never witnessed,
and hope, for the honmir of the profession, it will
not prove the effusion of a medical than—if so, it
must arise froth a grovelling jealousy at seeing
A Society of independent Gentlemen, of the first
respectability, appropriating a large portion of
their 'time 'in alleviating the distresses of indivi-
duals, who may have consulted men ignorant of
the profassion : we are at a loss to conceive the
cause for such a libel. Pet naps some of the au-
thor's patients have experienced relief from
the
aledical
Board. We are authorised to state that
Surgeon
Coosa and Co. are consulted every
ui
until nine o'clock and 140 • al twelve till
1(1,rrl:Ing
sight ptera:aly.

.ekl*.:*l.- kEvihw;

(No. Chi.)

rembir on the Itufft.s, et' Ilab:77qm. fly CLAimr its .[Ames ~tertt
itesident fot• the Ton. E:,tst C:ompany at tbe
Cuurt Pf the -Pisba of Begliad. frit tic? re

Stu.

. price Bs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, 0r.!?., and brown;
Paternoster-row •J. Murry, Alliemar!c-strect.
e.f:dj

This Metnoir,,,,ttenii subject as interesting
as any of thesa.4 eiasi antiquity offers,
was originally. iitatlisheti Vienna, in
,the Mines
de l'Orient i" but it hal been 'lutist judieinnsly.
e(insidered, that the British PubliC hatl the best.-
claim to the fit& of rrseiticlici inadC by a Briton,
e►ic! this separate- i4tir6 hat; beat presented for

hire is HO 'paint of view in which the re-
usaiis of Babyhin are not entitled to our alien.-
thin.. The itie;Oif that int'iii!6, eity mingles
, • •r at.• .
all Our recollections of the earliest histOries, sa-
6ed ctit pro first intelligence of
of mankin.il,o).terl toge*Cr. iii Sociityi. Si) great
as to form nations—With all that is sublime front
autiliiiityapiobsc;trity, and all that is' afiettiiig
front magnige:,nce rind
.VicisSit Mk:
A6rreieArebes.,i;on tins siibjeci tbere.:.
fore hake.Nten iice. vat& : fell of novelty;
lamination, and classiCal picuteneSs, pos,esi
ekims to aptirobalion of the i'ery highest order.
What the pretensions of the Antlnir are., may be
gatliekeil from the following mokSt paSsage (pige
3,1 As probably wore, tVeiOtt 'nay be at-
tach'ed to my opinions; from my residence on the
spot and tltl vantage Of observation, than they
would otherwise be entitled to; 1 would rather
inciti- the inipittation or being- an ignorant anti
stiperficial observer, than inislead by tOrtnin4 rash
deciSionS upon Sitbjects so difficult tai be propedy
discussed ; and 1 shall, therefore; confine myself,
in the. resent Memoir, to a plain, minute; and.
atcui-koluitement of ,what 1 actually aVoid-
ing all.houjectures except where they May tend to
throw light on the desCliptiOn, or be the Means
of.excitinpabers tb Inquiry and ConsideretiOn."
Such a play, not helloing- ever] appearance to
some preconeeited Impothesis, is preckely What
we want in all such investigations, and we hate
only to add, that Mr. Ricu has most faithfully
performed 'his Undertaking,
Babylon, ;the capital Of the Assyrian Empire,
of an linpire the most ancient in the aunalS of
rue world, existing, according to sotne aleuta-
tions, 2900 years before Christ—Babylen was
seated bri (Ws, Fiiiihiatei which Cyrus, iihoYe. five
Centuries bef.ocksthe era we have nanied; diverted
from its:aittnnci and 'enter'ed the City as a Con-
querOr:,,,Tbs Acicriptions of its extent and gran=
deur areiktyptlar, to every well .educatell person,.
and Ire,nesti,not rcfur to 1-lERooo.ins, thonaatis,
?C'EsOrt!oN, STRABO, or PrAXY for tilts
accounts Of its •stupendous tower, of its hundred
brazen gates, of its prodigious walls cemented.
with bitumen, and reaching the circumference of
30 or 40 miles,- t nor of its other Wonders fromn:
the earliest times, through the Assyrian era to the
death of ALEXANDER the 'Great within its boun-
daries, 'anti° 312, J 3. C. and thence throukh the
dominion of the Seiucida3, whose seat it was•tilL
65 B. C. when Poit.4l.gy.the Ureic put a period to
time reign, of that dynasty, and annexed Syria as a
Province to the Roman Empire.

Within a 'century and a half of this periail;the
-
learn from PLINY; that Babylon was desolate
And; oh mutability of human greatness ! its very.
site has long been a subject or discussion among
the learned.

Modern-Hellah 'Modern Ctirdistan,:however,'
seems now:to unite all suffrages, and a miserable
town of,6•or1000 Arabs and -Jews, surrounded by
andl4lallo and with three gates, in Asiatic
Turkey, abotaAB miles from Bagdad, must (rea.
lying chiefly on Major KENNEL) oe acknowledgetl
as all that left, itt human iianitatton to remind
us Of the most splendid and extraordinary city of
antiquity:
" The whole Country between Bagdad
Kellala (says Mr. Ricit, page 4) is a perteetly
fiat and (with the exception of a few spots
as, you -approach the latter place) uncultivat-
ed.waste. Thar it was, at sonic former period,
in a far different state, is evident on the number
of canals by whirls it is traversed, now dry and
tieglecred;;. and the quantity of heaps of caul),
covered vitt!fragments of brick and broken tiles,
which z‘re seen in every direction-1 he, indisput.
abiti!traiceiet Iformer poptdation.- At present the
•onty-4iixbulaiitints' of this tract are the Zobride
Avabs,Gthei*eikivof which tribe is responsible for
thrtgatiiiisy4t the road, which is so much fre-
Ipletited.t`ha,t-robberies are comparathcly seldom.
heard Of."

• ,On one part of this -road we are informed, at a
...bridge,over a canal," some time ago -a large lion.
.canie..regUlarlrevery evening from the banks of
the Euphrates, and wok his stand on this bridge
to the terror of the irdveller i he was at last shot
bywZobeide But to return to our stib-
ject-,

At Moliarvil; though nitre miles from Heal),
the t•ttins of Babylon may .be said to commence,
and trees of buildings, great mounds, and arti-
ficial 'ma,sses of various composition cover a wide
district:l(mnd' that place, not only.in this but in
eyeyLptikerlldirection. .
lit Belt.f cwe are informed, page 10) " contains
nothilli qinaikable, except what the people shew
as CIF oftitPrif. the Prophet JosuuA. This coun-
try abounds34ft pretended tombs of Prophets.—
On the Timill, between Bagdad and Blissura, chef
shew the sepulchre of EzaA ; twelve miles in the
Desert, to the 3. V. of Halal], is that of EZE..
KIEL ;..and to the southward the tomb of JOB.—
The two, former. arc places of pilgrimage of th
Jews, who do not acknowledge those of \Jos and.
JOSliiii."