The Sun.
London, England, 1802-08-11 00:00:00

KEAfBLE.

(Ti'DM A FRENCH .PArlit.)

MR. X.Y.MBLE, the celebrated-Mir of London;
whose arrival at
_Paris lfas been announced by all
• the Paper, is a fine figure, and appears. to be from
36 -to 40 years old. His dark hair, and.the marked
,charader of his features, give him a physiognomy
truly tragic ;—he understands and speaks perfeliy
well the French -lauguage, but in ccmpany he ap-
pears. to be thoughtful• and incommunicative.—
His manners, however, are very distinguished, and
• he has in his look,, when he is spoken to, an expres-
' sion of courtesy that affords us-the best idea of his
education ; he is said to be'tvell informed,. and a
particularly good grafWiflrian, which must distin-
guish_ him from other.Eifilish Alors, who are more
attentive to attitude than to.didion. . _

The Comedie Franc Ase has received him with
all the respet due to the LE KAIN of England ;
they have already given' him 'a superb dinner, and
mean to invite him to a still more brilliant supper.

TALMA, to whom he had letters of.recornm enda_
lion, does the honours of Paris"; "they visit together
our finest workS, and appear to be already united by
the most friendly ties. KaMBLE is frank enough
to avow, that our mode of theartic declamation
does not suit him, and that he. thinks it too remote
room Nature, but he confesses,; that some of our
Alors have great talents. Before his depi:rtui-e
they talk of playing Macbeth, Hamlet, and, Romeo
and Juliet. Thus true French Gallantry will have
the double advantage of doing:honour to a whole
People in the person of their most celebrated Tra.
gedian, and of drawing great houses.

The following Anecdote is extrataed from a
Work of Mad. GENLis, entitled "Souvenirs de Fe-
lute:"—During the.. early part of -the .reign -of
Louts XV. the young Count de Tifriias was at
Foniainbleau with the'Court ; he was 'lodged in an
apartment of the Palace. under that of Madame de
MAILLY, who was not at that time the declared
Mistress of the King : she was not then even sus.
pelted of having an intrigue with him. The fun-
nel -of the chimney of the Count de 'l
r--HIARS'S room
opened into that of Mad. de MAttty's, so that
what was spoken near the .fire-place in the
lower doom could easily be heard in the room
above. One night the Count de THIARS was re-
tiring rather late to bed 7 hRI going along the corri-
dor, he met the Count de Bissy, his brother, who
walked with him w his 'room. It was the latter
end. of autumn, and the night, was cold : the tWtt
brothers drew near the fire and began to converse
about the King, whose character they treated with
the utmost severity. Their. conversation was how-
ever suddenly interrupted by a dreadful-voice, roar-
ing down the chimney, " Hold your tongties,
lent wretches." It *As' the King's -voice.—The
two br6thers remained for some moments silent and
motionless ; they gave themselves up for lost.—
When the first moments of surpriie and terror were
past, they began to consult about the means of. se.
curing their safety : at last they agreed that. they
'must wait the event with --
patience and courage.
They _went, pale and trembling, to the King's
Levee next morning; expetting at least to be sent
to the Bastille. The King looked at them with
great sternness. Before this, period the two bro.:
titers_ had been great• favourites with the .King.—
From that time till the period, of his death, which
was thirty years afterwards, ,he never
.spoke to
them; or took the least notice of them: they ob-
tained no favours from the Court, but never.expe.
rienced any other mark o,f. the King's displeasure.
Sir FRANCIS,BURD'ETT'S early retreat from the
Tavern, after -dinner, on the 'day.. of his empy
triumph, upon the.final conclusion of the Poll, has
given great disgust to his rabble. Friends. But
what could they expeCt ? They hall had their fall
share of the generous Baronet. They had ate and
:drank fron his lavish stores till he had no longer
any occasion -ft.r them, and they could hardly sup.
pose he would continue- higuconnealon with such a
despicable herd when no-employment for
them. We beg' leave t 6 retniu.d them of what SEM-
PRONIUS says in CATO.
• " Know, Villains, when such palsrylaves.pltsume
" To mix in Treason, if the P!ot succeeds,
" They're thrown seglelied hy: but if it tails,
" They're sure to die like Dogs."—

Written on the barrel of one of the muskets sent
into the Ordnance Stores in Hull Garrison, from

the Wakefield Volunteers :
" WILLIAM DAwsoN, in the Grenadier. Com.
pany of the Royal Wakefield Volunteers, took up
this firelock in the year 17,94, and continued till the
Ist of June, 18oz,, in defence of the Religion, the
Laws, and the Liberties of Great Britain, against
a Democratic Revolutionary System of Politics that
first reared its Hydraic head in France :—Pride
spread misery and desolation in that devoted land,
and thteatened destruEion to all Established Govern.
ments, and the dearest interests of Society. This
War cost the British Nation seas of blood. To-
wards the latter end of the contest she stood alone ;
but the bravery of her sons, and the firmness of her
councils obliged the enemy to abandon his deSigns
against this happy land, which by the excellence of
its Constitution, and the mildness of its laws, has
so long flourished, and under the blessing of Pro-
vidence may it continue to flourish to the end of
time !

"GOD SAVE THE KING !R"