The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-12 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

was much gratified at reading your account of
the presentation of a piece of plate to Mr. Elphinstone,
at Hastings. I hope it is not usual for Members to he
Reformers there and lukewarm elsewhere, for I perceived
one of them on the hustings at Ramsgate, and, although
pressed to vote for the Reform Candidates, neither him-
self nor Gardner, who are freeholders, could he prevailed
on. I hope, Sir, the electors of Hastings will be equal
lovers of consistency with,
Ramsgate,
January 11, 1833.

Yours, &c.,
A TRUE REFORMER.

We understand that the time fixed for the
final departure of the Court from Brighton is the 21st of
February.—Brighton Gazette.

His Excellency the LORD LIEUTENANT and
_ _

the Marchioness of ANCLESEA gave a private ball and
supper at Dublin Castle, on Monday evening, on a splen-
did scale. There were about two hundred persons present.
The entertainments clinmenced with a juvenile ball; after
which the parents of the children formed quadrille parties,
and kept it up until nearly one o'clock, when supper was
announced for the adults, the juveniles having supped at
eleven. The whole concluded shortly after two. The
Marchioness gave a concert yesterday evening to a select
party.

Died on Thursday morning, at nine o'clock,
at Portsmouth, Sir THOMAS FOLEY, G.C.8., Admiral of
ti e White, Rear-Admiral of Great Britain, and Port-
Admiral at Portsmouth.

The Queen of the BELGIANS is officially an
nounced as being in the way
"That Ladies wish to be who love their Lords."

It really would be a great accommodation to
the public if his Grace the Duke of RICHMOND would
permit the boxes for the reception of newspapers at the
branch post offices to remain open until six o'clock in the
evening, instead of closing at five. This arrangement, it
is thought, would not produce any inconvenience at St.
Martin's-le. Grand.

We regret to announce the death of the Right
Hon. Lord BLANEY ; a letter was received in town yes-
terday, announcing his Lordship's decease, at his seat in
the county of Monaghan. This causes a vacancy in the
representation of Monaghan, his Lordship's eldest s .n, the
Hon. CADWALLADER BLAYNEY, having been lately re-
turned.

HENRY RICHARDSON, Esq., of Aber-
Hirnant, Merionethshire, has within the last two years
enclosed upwards of 1,600 acres from the Berwyn-hills ; a
large portion of this land has been planted, other parts
drained, push-ploughed, and brought into tillage, and has
produced extraordinary returns in white and green crops,
particularly barley, oats, flax, turnips, and potatoes; build-
ings have been erected, and bullocks are stalled, and flocks
of wethers are fattening on the produce of land which was
never before considered worth Is. an acre. On Thursday
last upwards of 100 persons, Mr. flictrAftosoN's tenants
and labourers, sat down to a substantial Christmas dinner
in a new barn on the mountain of Maes.Hir ; the Welsh
harp sounded on the wild hill side, and the day was pas•.ed
in harmony and hilarity. The landlord's health was drank
with enthusiasm and sincerity—for the blessings conse-
quent on employment were fully appreciated by the indus-
trious class assembled. We hope this judicious example
will be followed.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
TRIUMPH OF REFORM IN DENBIGHSHIRE.

—On Monday last the triumph of constitutional prin-
ciples, in the return of ROBERT MYDDELTON BIDDULPII,
Esq., as the second representative of the county of Den-
bigh—to the rejection of the Hon. LLOYD KENYON—
was celebrated by a public dinner at the Wynstay'Arms,
Wrexham, to which the Hon. Member and .1. MADOCKS,
Esq., of Glan-y-were, who succeeded Mr. BIDDULFII in
the representation of the Denbighshire boroughs, were
invited. The chair was taken by RonenT MYDDELTON
LLOYD, Esq., hanker, of Wrexham, supported on his right
by Mr. Bloneustr, M.P., and on his left by Mr. MA-
DOCKS, M.P. The company consisted of a numerous body
of the independent and patriotic electors of the county.

THE LIFE OF A SAILOR.--44 This work is
a very worthy and a very entertaining successor to the
' Younger Son,' whose Adventures' issued some time
back from the same publisher's establishment. It is full
of daring exploits and hazardous escapes, and will be con-
sidered one of the best among naval stories of the kind.
Many of the most stirring scenes of the late war are here
described, and portraits drawn of naval heroes, whose
names are like household worlds to every Englishman, but
of none is the character more attractive than of Sir PETER
PARKER, who is represented as meriting all the eulogy of
Lord BYRON'S pen."—Brighton Gazette.

So greatly is the foreign trade of the port of
Gloucester on the increase that most of the European
Maritime Powers have recently appointed agents tbere.—
Worcester Journal.

The mildness of the present season has been
seldom equalled in the early part of the month of January;
in various places the banks are bedecked with primroses;
the wild strawberry is attaining to maturity, and the hedge-
rows begin to unfold their verdant foliage. A sprig of
hawthorn, with its white and lovely blossoms just expand-
ing, was this day brought to our office, gathered in the
woods of Sir B. P. WREY, Bart. —NorthDevon Journal.

A correspondent says, " A trick was lately
played off at Barnstaple market, where a person bad
bought an apparently fine plump goose, but on preparing
it for stuffing, it was found already stuffed, not, however,
with sage and onions, but with rags ! It appears that the
same species of low cunning has found its way into our
own market. On the Saturday before Christmas a
gentleman purchased a couple of middle-sized geese in
preference to a very large one (as he had before been itn.
posed on with old birds). The next day, when his cook
examined the geese, she found the plumpest stuffed with a
large rag, which, perhaps, was not the only trick played
in a market abounding with much poultry. The buyer,
out of curiosity, but without suspicion, had asked the
sellers (who appeared to be a young man and his wife)
where they resided : they answered at Rtminstel."—
Taunton Courier.

LITERATURE.

MEMOIRS OF THE DUCHESS
D'ABRANTES. VoL. IV. LoNDoh 1,
We shall be brief with our notice
work, a 3 it has been already some time
the public. Madame Junot relates an 201
with all that off-hand vivacity for wille/i
French ladies are so notorious, and on
thing that regards Napoleon (for whose ,
she seems to entertain an extraordinary.°
Lion), shows herself a keen, though fat;
an impartial, observer. We have peruse',
volumes with considerable pleasure ; well
that from her relationship to Marshal 1
Napoleon's earliest and best friend, 01
most favourable opportunities of 01:Serving'
many of the great events that took place 11
the itnperal regime. Her court anecdotes
numerous and gossiping than might be e%fi
but she appears to be a lady of a most e
line and vigorous turn of mind, who is 0°
home in studying the character of heros
mere fashionable figurantes at the lle/1
Her volumes throw much additional ill
the personal peculiarities of that scour'
wonder of his age, Napoleon.

RECOLLECTIONS OF A CHAPS'
3 VOLS. _LONDON, 1833.

. _
The title of this work is not its least
mendation. " Recollections of a Chap
The bare mention of these words conjures
thousand lively associations which the gel,
the giddy will be sure to dwell on with ford
Chaperon is a word of magic import at $ °
ing-place, and it is to such places chiefly ti;
majority of our modern novelists are in
for their popularity. We take for granted]
nine out of ten young ladies will make 14
of sending for these volumes to the nearlf
culating library. Nor will they be disap 1
in their expectations of amusement. " Re6s
tions of a Chaperon" is a work full of inel
in some places highly wrought, but almost ei
interesting. Even without the aid of the
we should take for granted it was the prom
of a female pen, so little is there of noel
vigour about it, and so much of that gensii
and subdued melancholy, peeping out iri
shape of brief, cursory reflections, which 1
main characteristics of female authorship.
volumes consist of three or four tales, e
which developes some trait of female chars
a little after the manner of Mrs. Opie ($0
straight-forward simplicity is concerned), b
like the usual deep-toned earnestness o'i
delightful authoress. The best of the tsll
variety and effect, is that entitled, a
Wareham ;" the one that inculcates the PI
moral, and in the simplest manner, 21)
" Single Woman of a Certain Age," which
trates the tenacity with which, through life'
predominant, but unfortunate passion, ell
the heart and poisons the memory of 313
rently cold, reserved, and heartless womsPl
subjoin the description of a coquette frO
tale, as it is one that woman only could '
penned :
..i

" Nor did the charms with which she Was Oil
dowed lose any thing from want of skill in the pi)!
She had the art of keeping an indefinite number:,
sons occupied with her alone ; she bad left her OP.
the next room, and with a thousand graceful 5P'
she asked one person to fetch it for her, at the 0.1
holding her cup in a helpless manner, and casting
*leeching glance around her, which brought 111
eager hands to set it down. Then she looked titni",
fused at having given so much trouble. Preset
had a message to send to her cousin Fanny, with
she despatched one admirer, while she hinted 113
voice to another, who was pressing her to stand WI
next quadrille, that she did not like to do so while
was sitting still. The devoted youth flew to daocl
Fanny, claiming as his reward the hand of Isabella':
ensuing waltz. She knew bow to pique and to eSc'i
vanity of each : to one she implied she had horn
thing of him which certainly had very much el
her; to another that she understood be had been
her horridly ; she playfully scolded a third for not ri
ing Fanny half as much as he ought, and wondere
he could be so blind. She assured a fourth that
all the world had quite mistaken her disposition,
that scarcely any one did understand her; implyinit
was depth of character and feeling beyond the reaebi
multitude, and thereby piquing and interesting the
mental youth to discover these hidden treasures.

lIISTORY of the AMERICAN THEAj
2 VOLS. LONDON, 1833.
These volumes form capital reading ford'
out by profession, for they abound in fun
anecdotes (many of the anecdotes by
being quite new to us) which can scarce',
to keep a dinner—or rather an after.dini',
table in a roar. Nor are these anecdotes '`
theatrical, many lively odds and ends, ill
shape of sketches of native American chio'
being also brought before us. We subjoin!
interesting particulars respecting Mr. C'
the American tragedian, who, it may be rel;
bered, came over here the other day frorn
kee-land, and tailed in his very first ess°,'
Macbeth, at Drury-lane :
" Mr. Thomas Abthorpe Cooper will command
tention next. We have spoken of his arrival irii;
York at the same time that Mrs. Merry, accomparico
her accomplished and well known husband, lauded',
shores of America. Mr. Cooper was born td
His father was an Irish gentleman, a surgeon byY
sion, and long resided at Harrow on the Hill, but
into the service of the East India Company, and dl
India. His mother going to Holland when he yi
tween eight and nine years of age, the celebrated ;di
Godwin, a friend of the deceased father, prevail
her to leave the boy with him, and was to him oni
We have noticed that at the time of his arrival 6.
visit to the John-street theatre, be called himselftl:
versation, the son of Godwin; much more than
mon father is be to me; he has cherished and irf!,
me." Mr. God win was his preceptor, his rnonir,fr
friend. He instructed him, as he could receive tl
struction, in French, Latin, Italian, and Greek. 01
gularly read to him every day after dinner. Ado
books thus read and explained were Clarissa flior
and all Sbakspeare's plays. It was customary
Godwin to dine every Sunday with his friend Pd
and Tom always went with him. Thus he
one of the most pure and benevolent of men until oj
sixteen years of age, when, one morning, to the efo
ment of the philosopher, Tom told him abruptliti
was tired of studying Latin and Greek, and though
time to go into the world, as he was able to take
himself. Godwin, although surprised, asked
he wished to do. Cooper replied, 'Walk to Pi'
join the republican army.' Mr. Godwin only said',
will ta'k further on the subject to-morrow morning
4, By the persuasion of his friends, Godwin 0i),
croft, the youth relinquished his military sehetned
as his great object was to be independent, be Pcj
among other projects, that of becoming a chorus
one of the theatres. Whether in earnest, or onlYdl
rime and turn his attention to something else, Pi).
made an appointment fur Cooper to come to bin]
might judge of his voice. On trial Holcroft said It;
not do. Singing was given up, and acting wail co
of. The young aspirant read Zaphna, and Holeri
dared it was hopeless ; but, on his speaking a °r
Richard, hope was revived. Holcroft had played

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CHAPEfi
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mestness 0'
of the tale
utitled,
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manner,
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hrough lifei
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quette frov
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She w is resll
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rite number
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graceful al)°,
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and castig
brought a
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looked doll"
Preetrit
Fanny, wit"
he hinted i°
• to stand "P
do so while
[ew to dall
I of Isabella I
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L• had hear"
ry much Oft!
e had been
hird for not.!
and wonder"
burth that
disposition.
er ; imply4al
nd the reach:
eresting the
treasures."

V THEAJ
33.
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Ind in fun
)tes by tlr
an scarce',
after-dil°
necdotes
d ends, It'
rican 60'
subjoin
Mr.
may be rel;
day frorii,
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command

arrival iti
, accompo
,nd, lauded

well as Written for, the stage, and was doubtless an ad-
mirable critic. He acted the part of Figaro when his
translation of Beaumarchais' Marriage of Figaro was
Performed at Covent-garden in 1785, under the title of
The Follies of a Day. He was not then a player by
Profes,ion, but for some reason performed the part on the
brat night, Bonner appearing in it on the second.
Cooper's friends fiding his dermiation to be a
hero of some sort invincnible, preferred the stage to the
a!rtlY, and, after preparatory drilling and much delibera-
tion as to the scene of operation, he was furnished with
inioney and letters, and sent by the stage-coach to Edin-
burgh, where Stephen Kernble, commonly called the great
4elnhle from his bulk, was manager.
" Arrived at the Scottish capital, Tom, who had here-
tofore retained the dress of a boy, put on the apparel of
!Manhood. His dangling locks were frizzed, powdered, and
ipunted according to the fashion or folly of that day ; and,
n all the awkwardness which novelty of dress and situa-
he ion bestowed, with a figure neither that of man nor boy,
•
„ awaited upon that awe-inspiring personage, the ma-
-ager• He was received politely, hut when King Stephen
ried his letter, and found him recommended for Young
Norval' his smiles fled, and chagrin marked his counte-
rnance. Torn, thOugh awkward from novelty of circum•
an'es, was handsome, and nothing doubting his own ta-
ts Or appearance.
the b The manager took time to consider
usiness, and after another cool reception, a rehearsal
%vlas e'lled, and Mr. Cooper was flattered with the idea of
P;aYing Young Norval, with Mrs. Siddons for Lady Ran-
rlph- The lady, however, did not attend rehearsal, but
nTer husband was present to judge of the young debutanf.
DTI' ranted- Ketuble walked up and down the stage in
-nce- The rehearsal was over, and Cooper, perfectly
satisfied with himself, concluded that Kemble, if dumb,
tpai Only 80 in consequence of extreme admiration, and
his
..e
dthe opening of the great man's mouth to receive
.ed of praise—hut all that fell from it was a request
tothbfanetonh,fiedsev.ould wait on the manager next day. Still full
nee, he kept the appointment to a minute. No
ugnt had yet entered his head that could damp the
Iv'etr?ie ardour of Young Norval, or lower the tone in
°Leh he had shouted, The blood of Douglas can support
itself.'

co:p:l:ihis is a very difficult part you have chosen, Mr.
noVery difficult, Sir,' with a smile which said, but
t too difficult for me:
" You bad better think of something else.'
" Here the veil was drawn aside ; the reality appeared.
h ate
was rejected. Douglas was performed. He saw
bother hero fill the space he expected to occupy, and re-
ceive the Plaudits hop! had promised and dreams had al-
l'e4clY given him."

!lon
D'S COMIC ANNUAL.—LoxpoN, 1833.
119 Mr. Hood's quips and quiddities are just as
telY and piquant as ever. We see no symp-
b°lll of decay about him. His wit has not yet
eerl compelled to come on the parish, that is,
ivitti Joe Miller, for a maintenance, but squanders
S varioua racy stores as though they were inex-
hustibie,
Mr. Hood makes strange work with
e King's English. In his hands it is as sub-
"BBive as the Slave of the Lamp. He twists
It' and twirls it, into as many grotesque shapes
;,a old Joe Mundell used to screw that delight-
ul anomaly of his, which he called a face. But
,
Hood's wit is not solely verbal ; he pos-
thesses, in nearly an equal degree, the wit of
t ought and feeling. No man conceives a gro-
hes-que situation so happily. His account of
e "Yeomanry Review," in the present volume,
tS, a remarkable instance in point. The illustra-
13ns, however, are not equal to the literary de-
partment of the " Comic Annual." They are
dime in many instances, and far-fetched in
tZ,ers• There is nothing so good this year as
the Meeting a Settler"—" Accustomed to
Care of Children"—or the " Spoiled
hild," in the earlier volumes. Still, as a
whole, the book forms delightful reading—espe-
eti.ally during the present gloomy, suicidal wea-
(l7, when no man handles a pair of garters
‘llthout a fidgetty recollection of the bed-post.

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