The Sun.
London, England, 1803-10-06 00:00:00

CORK, SEPt. 26#

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117s•rettbal. the Yeomanry of this City Wet
reviewed in the Mardyke,field by Major-q,!neral,
lAi-E RS. As it was commqnly.understmd that this
was tlit'lasr instance of cifininand which the Gene,-
rat Wa's,likely to exercise "in, this Garrison, in con-
sequenCe of his being l'emtived to the Western Dill: •
'rid,- a very sensiblE regret was discernable among
the members °f both Corps, Setieral years of inter
course, in which 'Aithority was ree'runirrecded by
ronciliaiidn, and public spirit wag well directed,
because it was judiciously excited,.m;iy be 'supposed
tti-aceotint .fur•ti'porblarity so generally felt doci so
honourably earned, The Royal "C'irk,---Volurtmerr
Were the first Corps' reviewed.; anti during tho re. •
view-the C.valry' of the Loyal "Cork Legion, With
becoming liberality, kept the crowd at a proper-,---
distance; The like • attention was. repaid' by the
Caoairy, of the Royal Cork VOlunteets ;: anti, upon
the whole, 'we do not believe that any,ciry in En.'
rope could exhibit a Tine interesting scene of mill.
tary zeal and soldier-like appearance anti dis6pline,
than was displayed upon this occasion by both the

Corp;. ,
Of the opinion whii:h MAjnr Gen. MYr RS enter-
tains of them, the following will mire (loco.
rattly than any 011servariort of ours : •
GENERAL ORDERS To. THE YEOMANRY OF
CORK.

.. •
Major:Gaiter:it tiT y tca s returns his ''hanks to th Yeo-
manry of. tho City of and begs to express his evittrt
approbation of the highly iniprbved state of their druikiline,
ateadineas, and movement. ,
• ,
To Men who have enrolled themselves in A tins' for the De-
fence of their 'King, and all. that is desirable in this life,
Liberty, Property, and the (attic, of sticcessi ully.driending.
them, incitements to continue in their glorious exerti,,ll-..tur
not necessary- but by a continuance of the Zeal and Pairi.
otism whicitlias been alteady manifested by the Yeomanry -
of jreland, they
_may be assured of a certain and an effeetnat
security against private Treason, and of afibrding the greatest
aid id conpanelioit with His MajestO's Fortes, 'in tweliing
with glorions•sneeess the attempts of an Invading Enemy.—
ACtuatect by such motives, and acting with contid,!n.e.
unanimity, Ireland can haw nothing to fear eithcr frorn'itz-
ternal 'or external Foes.

Major.Cen. hivillts feels that he is arrived at the plinful
period of taking'his leave ()Nile City
,of Cork, and its I,lhr-
bitant3, after sojourn of six years; durin.z which ti.iie he
has experienced a series of uninterrupted hospitality,
ness, contidence.c, .

It is not to be expeaed that the Itl.jor-.General can exprele,-7'.‘i
his feelings at this innment ; any Lilorage .wry,',l:i 44;41-
unequal to it ; .but.lte has only to intre.it, every 'Vecitn4n„*.
of Cork will express to his Itelvives, .atAl
the aire6liondte repo with wriklt 44. take ills ',cave
and he begs. that t(te) may cola:114e asuied, :..at in every .
period and iCellt, of lite, he will ji(ild in, warm r,..!i!ernbrani:ci. •
their kindness, 'and that they possess (smite vocii n relics
for their Peace,. Security, Happiness, and•Pre.pority, . ; •

`lndeed when we reflea umo dn genital
merits whith prevail in this City ; upon the almost
proverbial loyalty which. peivadet, all ordersuf the
inhabitants; , and upon the great attention and
gence which are 'continually exerting f:r rendering
those qualities as operative in the' ranks, as they
are cotispicuous in common life, it svotrld he very ,*
extraordinary if the Yeomitnry Corps of the City of ,
Cork, •were not of the mast eminent charactero!...
Among the modes which have been adqpted 'for in.
culcating. -just sentiments of zeal and duty,, we
have not met, any which has been imagined v6tti
greater felicity, nor executed with more tlyility
than the address of the Earl.of DO NOU cumok toi
the Loyal Cork Legion, inserted in the regimental
orders of the Corps. It is a summary of the best
objets which a loyal soldier should hold in con.
temptation ; and 'at the same time, 'hit it applies
the,lllOst accurate panegyyic upon th- gener.il cwt..
due' of the, Corps, it ascertains, with no common
'eloquence and force, those itivociant motives which
have contributed to its Aistiktion, and which will
always entitle it to an equal share in that proud
charatter which has rendeltd our City Yeomanry so
justly celebrated. .
The following Extraas from his Lordship'!l
gimental Orders, contain sentiments which Ought to•
be generally circulated .; and may, perhal,s, furvi,h
a model fur Officers cot= ending large Corps, who,
after this, manner, may 'better convey their ppinions'
to the tiity of their, fellow boltlierp than through*
the imperfect apti periihable medium of a Toe,;11,
" Ti:e Commandiint cannot refrain from

expressing, to- hi§ friendt-iind , tlie
litlartjelt satisfaction With which he has witooswil. ,
thin day,. it his first inspeelion' of the 14;1.31.
Legion since their urvices have been again 0.
"ed by.the„State, the truly Tespenable, and hoMier.-
!like-appearance of the Corr, at 4 the pret:',.;i,',n with
which r ihey acquitted themselves in all tt:eir
me clts,
.11,1tht. field.

Aitet along suspension,of.e.Viny military dothi
and when the, Citizen Suldier ha i.,good reasprity,
flatter himself .tvitii the :Axptaatioo of. a long .re•it
.from his labours;.and witb,thc,,cpcioling ho lie that,
he might itt
.length., excliztme lkism arms , for the,
.ploughshare -you, have beco.su4erily roused Iron), •
'your repbse by the menace. 110111
,out, and
.the base and bloody in.q.liinazions of do..
• mestie treason.
.
• ti Your exerticins-have- been comnitniurate with,
,the pressing urgency of the times; and the-.
rious necessity; by chief- a free. nation. ha,. been
'called upon to arm. for every thing !stoic dear to the
individual, the citizen, arid the man—in the name
'of every tender charity arid en.learing conneCtion
which tie u5,•,10 our families, and friends—pf that-,
comefehensiye ;relation which. includes thettr,
all, with-ttsthvn' sacred and peculiar 'obligations,
• our Country—in the narnc•of insulted and outrageti
humanity and religion 1
" Such, fellovV-anldiers;• has been the nature 4.
your §9111(11DAS; and with no common energy
you obeyed, the call.
" In the discharge of all,your respe&ivetlwits,
• hiv4.nothiog to ceruktirc, and much to eninmend—..,,
the unanimous feeling with wlitcli you liak!o :
curled, in „the. selctlion of those, thawati
taken from your ranks, and recouuuenthd to
vernment as.fit persons to be ion usted with the'inh. ,
.portant talc, of commanding you as. 011ieers ; the
prompt acqUiescence with, which your 1,1110w..501.
diets have -undertaken the additional responsibility
imposed upOn. them by such, your choke, the t rue
sena of duty to the Corps, and of attachtpentl
•its interest and respeelability, which have Attained
• many of the first names of your City' as prilltes" irz
:your ranks, and has made the halberd of the'scr-
jeant the true emblem of your independence anti
.subordination, di,c;pline and ptiblic spirit, to hap.•
.pity blended together ; that tincorporition of semi.

me. my vilach is the cortiv-stone of your Institution,
taught us to merge every difference of opi.
nion in-Our unanimous devotion to our. common
Country, and to the common Father of all his pea.
lile—these are the objects, at the accomplishment of
which we have aimed, and not in vain, in this our
little family, friends, and brethren in arms of the
Loyal Cork Legion,--and no less happy will be the
effeds of that liberal feeling which must (and: it is
trusted, at no distant period) unite the greater com-
munity, the Nation, in a. system
.of just and
compfehenvive attachment to the Constitution', and
t reach other. - .

It is particularly gratifying to melhat.l have
tffily. to refer you to the past, in endeavouring .to
give you if • rule for your forum condutt.—Officers,
continue to blend conciliation of manners with fii.m.
11046 in command—so shall you be followed, not
with a cold and measured obedience, but with a
prpinpt and affenionate zeal. Soldiers, recoiled
that each Private in the ranks hai a particular and
individual interest in the maintenance of. the au.
thority of every Officer of the Corps as the objc of
his own voluntary choice, and to which the ap.
pointment by the 'Government has only given
form and stability—the- seal and sanction of the
State."

THE FRENCH•PAINTER DAVID.

tvt4rt Citoyen rancOill tel est Ic Caraaele.

Tint painter David, who: is now occupied in
,vainting Bonaparte as the God of. War, 'driving
iris chariot over a prostrate figure of Neptune, whose
trident is broken, is the same person, who on the
=sth of September, 1790, did homage to the Na.'
tiunal Assembly, of a pidure representing the en.
trance of the virtuous Louis 'XVI. in that Assem-
bly on the 4,h preceding February, and who,
in May 5794, painted the famous.Feasr, ordered by
Robespierre, acknowledging a Supreme Being, and
in his pitture drew the 4/mighty 'with the face of
this blood.thiesty repahlican tyrant,
Jr is a fait not honouring the Arts, that most of
the first French artists, have, since the revolution,
igored in the revolutionary massacres, in the re.
volutionary tribunals, and in the revolutionary
'committees, David, Mannequin; "lopitio, Le
'Brun,- ,Gaulliereato, and many other republican
painters, have committed crimes, which, under
moral governments, would long ago have sent them
to the scaffold ; but, in republican-France, the scene
of their cruelties, though all their, atrocities are
known, their persons are rotated, and their prin.
ciples and conduet extenuated, honoured and 're.,
spotted. David is. a Member of the French Na.
hand Institter, and was in 1860 nominated by 81,
anparte the Painter of the Republican- Govirss.
intro 11l

David was educated at Rome in the French,
Academy of Painting, at the expence of the King
Of France, by the recommendation of the' unfor.
tunate Queen Maria Antoinette. In' return for
this generosity of his benevolent 'Sovereign, he
from the beginniog of the revolution joined the
standard of rebellion, and became one of the most
violent of the revolutionary fanatics He was
cmie(l the Pillar of the Jacobin Club; where, in
NN,vinniwr 1740,, ,be propoud to drasif the like_
ntf,.s of two thousand of the principal Aristocrats,
that is to say,-loyal.subjeCts, and to send copies to
the forty thousand Municipalities in France, with
orders to hang, on the lantern ,witkaut atrial, the
originals wherever they appear. At the head of
these AristoCrats were the King's brothers, sister, ,
and the other Members of the Royal Family.
• On the zd of September 4791, when republican
assassins were butchering the prisoners at the prison
called La Force,
,the National Deputy Leboal oh..
served David calmly 'drawing a picture of the dying,
n 3 they Were heaped up on the pile of the already
murdered, and when asked what he was doing there,
calmly answered, "I am catching the last minion
of nature in those coundrels;" and when reproach.
ed for Ilia barbarity, he saitivitith a laughing indif.
ference, " If I hive blood, it is no doubt because
nature has given me this disposition." In his ca.
binet David lias, and thews to his friends, draw.
jogs of thirty.tWo Mutilated heads, and mangled
and disfigured countenances, of persons who perish.
ed.that tla!, I . •

NVith Maria and Rohespierie be was fleeted a
rePeescntative of the PariAians iii the National
Convention, where he voted for the death of his
Keog, who some years before had made NM hie
painter. When gobe,pietre had destroyed his.
rivatiebels ihr, (affirm, David •was. ebb.
s6ri MeMbOr llt the Con-nitive of Public Safety,
where he I.otadistd all tire tyranny of a French
republican ultstart, and all the abominations of
detritogue; be publicly ilotiFml
himself $ r baring signed the orders frit imprison.
in,ffit of twelve "thousand of his fellovi.titizeris, of
whom, he said, five thousand hadheen guillotined
at Paris, drrisvnerli or shot in the departments.
He was the constant friend, admirer, And ac.
complier: of Alarat and Robe,pictre, ,antl for them
riCserted even his old meucxiotis with
:Aid Camille Destnottlinc,. at hosei conntenances ninon
its'caffinid he went to-draw, when Robespicfre's
tribunal. condemned them to die: 'Another trait
will give some just iIIL-nt of this monster.. A preg.
inant woinar, seven C.rew herself at
his ieet., deinamling the rdesise of he.r, husband,
crying out, " be is innocent, and hp alone nourishes
our tyretched Grni.y." David drdered her to re,
main in the sates. position, and ctiolly took otit his
tuld thi,n pregnant woman in her
kineeling-attitude, Whin her allifird head 'hanging
on 'one .blintadet ; whril he h° finisher} he she„,ed
,
her the ,paper, saying, " Look, thiS is my only an.
sv4-ric" The next day her husband was ordered to
be guillotined, nntl when he was aseeinding the
scaffold., David asked him to stop a moment, be.
cause he wetnt,cd a supplement to a drawing, by
!.silting his dying looks, and comparing them with
time of. his pevitioning and fainting wife.—The
torte night David himself brought to tine widow his
ini'rforrnance, who, in looking at ir, miscarried.and
* anti her assassin made this new scene of bor.
--
smother suijta,for 11i c pencil.
He hastened the execution pf the Queen, in 1793 i