The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-16 00:00:00

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SWEETHEARTS AN!) WIVES.
• This Day, were published, . •
• By J. NTUIII, 713, Strand,
THE following Pieces frost) the New Comedy;
SWEETHEARTS and WIVES, now performing at
the Theatre Royal, Haymarket,
Composed by J. NATHAN. •
Song—Madame Vestris—" Why are you wandering here, I
Amy ?
Song-3lr. Liston—" Billy Lackaday's Lament."
Jones—" A secret."
Snag—Miss Love—" I'll not be a maiden forsaken." •
Duet—llTadameVestris and Mr. Davis—" The offerings, Love!
we being to thee."
Duet—Mr. Liston and Miss Love—" How can you abuse an
easy woman so.

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RietrYbr Lai? Caro': " A"*."—P""

Mane by I. Nathan.

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THE JESUITS.

ROYAL BRIEF ADDRESSED TG THE MOST EXCEL-

LENT TRIBUNAI. OF TIIE REFORM,

THE RINI; OF SARDINIA, CYPRUS, AND, JCRUSALInt, &C.

Our magnificent, faithful,and beloved Judges!
—ln suppressing, by our Royal letters patent of
the 9.3 d of July last, the Proincial College, from
regard to certain institutions therewith connected,
reservation was made for providing other esta-
blishments for the reception of the students who
might arrive from the provinces to the Univer-
sity, as well as for their being admitted gratui-
tously on the establishment. After having for
these purposes, ordered the formation of distinct
colleges for the faculties of theology and litera-
ture, law, medicine and surgery ; and the first
of those colleges being to be opened next No-
vember, and the rest in successiors, as soot► as ap-
propriate suites can be found, we directed our
attention to the important object of a system of
management, by means of which a strict awl rsz.
gular discipline may not only be introduced, but
constantly maintained, and the free pupils and
Convittori (or boarders who pay) alike instructed
in piety and learning., To obtain this end we
have resolved to i►►trust the direction of the said
colleges to the Society of Jesus, which has, to'
our particular satisfaeliou, already so praise-
worthily acted, and still continues to act, for the
benefit of youth in the houses of education, and
in the Royal schools already .intrusted to its
care. Therefore, we have ordered, and do order,
as follows :

1. The Management of the corteges established by us in the
convent of St. Francisco, da Paola shall be intrusted as we do
entrust it to the Society of Jesus, and to the rector who shall be
appointed by the said Society.
2. The rector shall have possession of the convent as soon as*
it shall he cleared out, in order that he may therefn establish'
himself with the other persons who' may be appointed to assist
in the management, and that the students of the college of
theology and literature may be received by the begfniung,of
Novenilinr next. Accommodation will be granted for the other"
colleges as soon as the places can be applied to that use. '
3. The expence occasioned by the application of the convent,
and supplying of such furniture, utensils, and impletnents, as
may be wanted, shall be defrayed out of the treasury of the
Royal University. The Steward of the Royal University Shall
cause to be tansferred to the rector all the furniture, utensils,
and implements of the suppressed provincial college.
4. In proportion as the colleges shall be opened and receive
their pupils, the treasury of the !loyal University shall pay to
the rectors in quarterly advances the sum allotted by us for the
gratuitous maintenance of the students, the expence for the
superintendence, and for the persons employed in the said
Colleges.
5. From the day on which the colleges shall be appropriated
and delivered up the rector, and that he shall have to defray
the expence of repairs and maintenance of the furniture, he shall
be allowed the farther annual sum Of 2,000 lire to meet the
said expenses.
6. Each fiYulty shall have a prefect, and the number of tntors
necessary for tlurinstruction of the pupils.
7. The prefects for theology' and literature shall be nominated
and removed by the rector of the college.
8. The prefects of the other faculties and the tutors shall
be proposed and removed by the Rector, when he thinks it
fitting so to do. The propositioni for prefects of the faculties
of jurisprudence, medicine, and surgery shall be presented to
us by the rector, and cannot have effect without our consent.
The propositions for tutors shall be presented to the Tribunal
of the Reform for its approbation. _ •

9. The Tribunal of the Reform shall have a particular view
to the prefects of the colleges in proposing professors fur the
Royal University—to tutors in the choice of candidates for ad-
mission to the colleges of the faculty, and shall prefer the pu-
pils of the College of Theologoy and Literature in appointment
of professors and masters for the schools.
10. No oonvittore can be received during the first year in
which the college may be opened. After that period is elapsed,
the rector may admit as many conrillori as he shall think
proper, but the admissions must be so regulated as never to
exceed the number of pupils gratuitously placed on the esta-
blishment.
The pension to be paid by the coirritto4 shall be fixed by
the rector, under our sanction.
11. The free pupils and convittori, shall attend the sschools of
the Royal University.
They shall ihere-undergo the prescrib-
ed examinations, and shall observe-the rules of discipline esta-
blished by the rector of the said college, the right or approving
which we reserve.

I. The pupils cannot be received into the Royal Colleges
unless they have passed the examinations specified in the rep,ft.
Wien as necessary for their admission ; and convidori cannot
be receiVed unless they comply with what is required in our
order for the establishment of each college.
13. The Rector shall be at liberty to dismiss or exclude from
the college any pupil or corvittore, and the pupil so excluded
from the college lie shall hold to have lost the benefit of gratiii-
totis establishment.

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14. The government and regulation of the public Latin
schools annexed to the colleges belongs to the rector.
In charging you with the execution of the above in as far n.
the same may concern you, I pray the Lord to have vou in his
holy keeping. (Signed y CA R 140 FELICE.
(Counter-signed) ROOET de CllOl EN-
Govone, July 23.

" The Sun was rising as we mounted the
horses, and struck me so powerfully with the sur-
passing splendour and majesty of its appearance,
so cheered me by the gladsome influences and
intimate refreshment of its all-enlivening beams,
that I was contriving as I rode on-an apology for
the first adorers of the Solar Orb, and imagined
they intended nothing more than the transcends
ant majesty of the invisible Creator under the
syrqbol of his most excellent and nearly resem-
blintz creature; and this according to some im-
pel:feet tradition, that man, as a compound Being,
had, in the beginning, a-visible glorious presence
e? 1. Jehovah Eloldni—a visible exhibition of a more
distinguished presence by an inexpressitkle bright-
`fless or glory ; this is some excuse for the first
worshippers of the Solar Orb ; and when the
thing consecrated to the imagery and representa-
tion of its Maker, became the rival of his honours,
avid from being a help to devotion, was advanced
into the supreme object of it ; yet considering the
prodigious glory of this moving orb, and that all
animated nature depends upon its auspicious pre-
sence, we cannot wonder that the Eoptian ru-
ralists,.without a creed, and without a phitosophs,
should be tempted tie some warmer emotion than
a mere speculative admiration, and inclined
to something of immediate devotion. That uni-
versal chorus of joy that is manifested at the
illustrious solemnities of opening sun-shine, might
tempt. the weak to join in a seemingly. religious
acclamation. At least lam sure there is much
more to be said for this species of idolatry than
for the Papists worshipping dead men, stocks,
bones, and clouts. They have not only revela-
tion expi•essly against them—Thou shall worship
the Lord Hist] God, and nix onlN shalt thou serve;
Matt. 4.10. Neither shalttitoa set up any image
or pillar ; Dent. 16.22. But downright reason
demouStrates that the things are useless to the ,
preservers and_ offensive to God ; whereas, on the
contrary, when the eye beholds that glorious and,
important luminary of Heaven, and considers the
benefits dispensed to mankind by the means of
its most beatitiful anti invigorating beams, it
might strike not only an unpractised thinker,
aud cause the vulgar (who are not able of them-
selves to raise their thoughts above their senses,
and frame a notion of an invisible Deity,) to ac-
knowledge the blessings they received by a devo-
tion to this fancied visible exhibition of Divinity ;
but even some of the wise Ones who were a de-
gree above the absurdity of popular think-
ing, might be-led to address themselves to the
golden Sun, in splendor likest Heaven; they might
ascribe the origin of their own existence and the
world's to this seemingly adequate cause and ge-
nial power of the system ; when they beheld him
returning again in
the East (as I now see him)
after the gloom and sadness of the night ; again
the restorer of light and comfort, and the
-re-
newer of the world, regent of the 110) and all
the horison round, invested wit/a bri M rap. that
all inferior nature, the earth's own
form, and the
supports of its animated inhabtants, seem to de-
pend on his dispensing authority, and to be the
effects of his prolific virtue and secret operation;
they aright suppose, in the corruption of tradition,
or when the revealed truth and direction was lost,
and reason not as now in its maturity of age and
observation, that some kind
of glory flroultl be
giYen to the subordinate Divinity (as they fan-
cied)' of this heavenly body, and that some
hromage was due to the fountain of so much
warmth' and beneficence. This (I imagine) may
account for the earliest kind of idolatry, the
worship paid to the Sun. The effects of his Pre'
settee are so great, and his splendour so over-
powering and astonishing, that veneration and
gratitude united might seduce (hose ignorant
mortals to deify so glorious an (Nett. When
they had lost the guard of traditionary revela.:
tion, and wanted those helps to judgment which
are derived from the experience, observation,-
and reasoning of past times, the specious idolatry
might have been introduced, and something
telerahly plausible perhaps was. pleaded by
the better )(cads of (hose times. Exclusive of an
imperfect notion of the Deity's appearing by
Shechinah, and that the Sue might be the risible
exhibition (as before observed); they might, in
the next place, Conclude from the extraordinary
motion of the tuminau that he was an animated
being and noble intelligence,, placed in the highest
post of honour and usefulness, and employed by
God us his first Minister and Servant ; for which
reason they thought it their duty to magnify and
venerate the Sun, whom the Creator had exalted
so high, as the chief Nliniters of Kings are had
in honour, which is reflected back on their Royal
Masters. Thus might the novel impiety come on;
they might, in the beginning,
,svorship the Sun
as the Shechinah, appearing by a grPtious light;
or in a celestial train, attending the prese'rice
which, at so great a distaoce, must appear in an
indistinct luminous hut more generally as
vision,
the Minister of God, an animated Being, who
had a principle of consciousness put into it ;
ns
the human body has seatud in it a human soul.
and that this glorious creature was enabled to
perform the etherial journies by irs own under.
standing and will, and to make a:r lower nature
happy by his benign amt diffusive inthioic,,
could see as cur as he is seen, and every Way
Was fitted for the noble work lie had to execute.
Thus did the Sun confluence a God. He
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must (they thought) from every aPPearttnce;
his most wonderous, usefol course, have. the most
pxalted powers ; be wise and benevolent, great

tr An old Poem begins thus "
it ',tr., for a serene ifonie brings on the Day,
The nn 'IM mounted onward of him
'lrk, _MU/WM e 4 high attiong the fcatber'il
Creles the Aire ingpiret."

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