The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-26 00:00:00

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(P,,iin the Ritenhat DfC. 11.)

Nats.-1 have lately been in the.MuseuM.—
'The packing up is finished, rand it. begin to look
a little orderly there. .Of -the 1500 pictures 250
remain, mostly from the •French school. Of
the scat nes about the half ate there, -nainely,,4l4.
Borghese gallery) -then • what was. in .tk Itsival
1-),,icices,:amt, as itst'eios, some thiogs.fronOtotile,
as for example the Iwe Nhe wolf, th'e Heraiaphrb-:
Bite,. one of the red .chairs, .on which the Pope
sat, A.ckc. it is uncertain- whether these
.remaitt
.here. In the-last public-sitting of the Institute,
.they made a terrible lamentation over these Sad"
.events.-- Mr. Lebreton, perpetual secretary of the
class of_the.fine arts, Our losses are irre-.
, is for_history to deeide on the justice
orinjast ire winch has caused t'hetn to judge of the.
- forms Which have aeconipanied theta."- • After this
. little expeetoration,'he. assumed the tone of -.virtue
Feud_ even of.pride; ‘.`.lfts:ory will not.say that our
nation, whi.ch. had entitled itself with their' Inas-
'terpieces, sheweditselfatwort by to possess them.
.140 us .at least ennoble oire of our misfortunes by.
ilia persttasiou, that -it!)'as not merited."
Thea he siv...weA how, they hail always been
goodh,tritre& and pious; hoW they at first took
'merely the statues --and pictures. ceded by the
Treaty at Tolentino, thoeo tt. wbuid -have been
su easy to take. all the resi. Besides_ they had
givtit the Sovereigns time to have them copied—
" a noble and delicate attention. which .hits not
-been shewn us, who- hail set the example of it."
That is just what vexes them, that. they eOnitl
_not get tithe.to copy them. With their copying
they would .Im:finished onthe wade clay Mucus,
who is.making the brazen trumpets for the Pay of
Judgment,of which Lichtenberg slys were hespoke
of% hint 30 years ago. They could co;;y the Pillars
Of Aix-la-,Chapelle, hut the innucent3 in this
case-preferred t he. originals:
Then he descrilsted how Commissioners, .esti-
inen,l.oa been sent to Rothe, to direct the
removal of those 0-e:I.AI-es:which took a wbole
-year—how i!eV solute to Paris- -b Iv a treat
Vaudeville de ,were, given as the.Cliamp
Mars, at which .the Ant hat ides, Ste. etc. att,tded:.
" to celebrate lhis `cWh4t,",n says i
" could Athen.: nave done ,more in the. time..
or :Pericles

Then came a period in ‘which be touched upon
us a little : ." Before Victory abtised the rights of
the -strongest, which it always does in the end;"
and then another; aimed at the Noble Lord who
lately-said it vas good that the French had re-'
ceived''.l rii6ral les-ion,- which might cute them of
their inclination to 'sieal the v.:o;ks of At't—" It
was not from that it was .proper to take_. the text
to, tiS hat sh lemons ;" and every body
piadded, and was•convinved with the orator, that
great'injukice:bad been done them:
This was the first, act of the play periormcd byt
the Institute before the nutnerous Parisian Gen-
lictnen and Ladies. •

hi the second pct, the w0r!,.3-ot the French ar-
-tists produced 111.4 •ear .were shewn aud : duly
praised. Then the prizes were :distributed, a
symphony - played, Etc.; at five o'clock all zras
finished.. .

The next day the papers observed, thntAlie loss
of the Museum .was greAt, taut not irteparable.
They advised to trace the paintin-gs on piled paper,
and then have the outlines-filled np by French
artists, This new gallery:wputd have wally ad-
vantages above the old one, as they could hang
all the paintings of Raphael together, 'which were
now distributed in several galleries. Stiq more
easy wou!d it be to copy the statues in piaster.
They harp{ got the Rue building, and so they could
ni4kd arain. the finest Museum iii the wolid,
which would be more honourable,•:al it, would be
:roach:, by Frtnreh artists, and might be.called the
French Museum.

These projects %Nil' probably be executed in
part, and unless the want oknioney hinders theta,
I am convinced that in a few years they will have..
.clutriitilig' :Museum again, and' will, persuade
themselves and others that noiLing•extraindinary
has happened.-.

Mr, Sojc..ant !Nloogr„:;.trriveci. itr,Lirricrick onflie
214 r, 'ant! opent.4l the adjourned Sessions, under
Insvarertio;-: Act.

Wciltiesdrw:inorniog last, , Thomas Smith,,
a VOlllll4 iTinu btion,-ini- to Burlei.rh..streiit Son-
del laud, afcer so abSeoce of. fl years, unexpect-,
-cdly arrived at home, to the great joy and won-
der of .his family :---,lie :had formed one of tht
.crew supposed,to have foundered,
thecrew perished; and they were ininurnea for
accordingly by their rela;ions: The Neil) was case
yshore oil some distant island, and, by means of a
Newfoundland dog, a rope va conveyed on shore,
and being niacle fast by ti natives,. the crew were
saved,

Last Wee{: Benjamin Christopher, a young man
who resided on Loocisland, Lett Lcioe With lob-
stens for Pl.vinonth, in an open boat. When in
Caws'and B.ly, the boat upset,,and ,the man, was
seen to swim near the sbore,but before assistance
could he given he.wa;:drOwned.
On Wednesday evening Mrs. Stainsby, ofMans-
field,
.was shot 4t and wounded in the public
street of that town, so early as half-past six in the
evening: •A
reward' of NU is offered .for the
conviction of the offenders..

On.. Saturday week, about four o'clock in the
afternoon, the clwelling,house of Joseph Pitiier,
a blacksmith, at Roach, in Cornwall, was struck
,by lightning in a very remarkable manner. The
chimney wits thrown down ; an Oven in the
house, was driven into the garden and shat-
tered to, pieces, a cupboard and a clock that
were faStetied to the wall, were thrown down.;
five windows, the whole that were in the
house, were dashed to pieces. The floor of the
bedchamber, above stairs,- wa,s raised,. and in
many places shivered ; a bedstead was crush-
ed', and the canopy turned upside down, and
a cupboard bedstead, which'. was laid down,
was turned. up, as completely, as if done by.
a peison who wished for more room. The
whole took place in an instant, and what is
very remarkable,, though six small children
and their mother were_in the, Louise at the time,
they all escaped unhurt, except one,
.who had its
flair singed, and the "side ut:' its face slightly
scurchvd.,