The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-20 00:00:00

VT`fg ARTS.

DON QUIXOTE AND SANciro PANZA
We have just seen an engraving on this sub-
ject by Quilley, from a painting by Withering.
ton, which possesses merit, though of no very
superlative order, with the exception of Sancho's
Dapple, which is admirably fore-shortened, and
quished, the face particularly, with the most
r:gid attention to details. The Rosinante,
however, is feebly and stiffly executed. It is a
horse of neither " mark nor likelihood," which
was not the case with the valorous Munchausen's
immortal steed, who, as Cervantes tells us, had
as many angles in his body as a Spanish vial.
The expressiom of Sancho's face is capital. Here
the engraver has ably seconded the efforts of the
painter. The print is a mezzotinto.

B 0 NNIN G T ON'S FISHING BOATS.
This, like the last, is a mezzotint° engraving
by Quilley, but of an incomparably superior
character. There is not a particle of stiffness
or harshness about it. The lights and shades
are blended together with the most perfect har-
mony, and the misty aspect of the atmosphere
remarkably well preserved. The water dripping
from from the oar which hangs over the stern •f
one of the boats in the foreground is as beautiful
a bit of engraving as we have seen for some
time, and will add considerably to Mr. Quilley's
reputation.

SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S LAST ILL NESS

AND DEATH.

After some months of tolerable good health,
he was seized in January, 1725, with a violent
cough and inflammation of the lungs ; and, in
consequence of this attack, he was prevailed upon,
with some difficulty, to take up his residence at
Kensington, where his health experienced a de-
cided improvement. In February, 172.5, he
was attacked in both his feet with a fit of the
gout, of which he had received a slight warning
a few years before, and the effect of this new
complaint was to produce a great and beneficial
change in his general health. On Sunday, the
7th of March, when his head was clearer and
his memory stronger than Mr. Conduit had
known it to be for some time, he entered into a
long conversation on various subjects in astro-
nomy. He explained to Mr. Conduit how co-
mets might be formed out of the light of vapours
discharged from the sun and the fixed stars as
the centres of systems. He conceived that these
luminaries were replenished by the same comets
being again returned to them ; and, upon this
principle, he explained the extraordinary lights
which were seen among the fixed stars by Hip.
parchus, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler's disciples,
and which he supposed to arise from the addi..
tional fuel which they received.
Notwithstanding the improvement which his
health had experienced, his indisposition was
still sufficiently severe to unfit him for the dis.
charge of his duties at the Mint ; and, as his
old deputy was confined with the drop,y, he was
desirous, in 1725, of resigning his office to Mr.
Conduit. Difficulties, probably, were experi-
enced in making this arrangement, but his ne-
phew discharged for him all the duties of his
office; and, during the last year of his life, he
hardly ever went to the Mint.

But, though every kind of motion was calcu-
lated to aggravate hie complaint, and though he
had derived from absolute rest, and from the air
at Kensington, the highest benefit, yet great
difficulty was experienced in preventing hina
from occasionally going to town. Feeling him-
self able for the journey, he went to London on
Tuesday, the 28th of February, 1727, to pre-
side at a meeting of the Royal Society. On the
following day, Mr. Conduit considered him
better than he had been for many years, and Sir
Isaac was himself so sensible of this improvel
ment in his health, that he assured his nephew,
that on the Sunday preceding, he had sleFt
from 11 o'clock at night till eight o'clock next
morning, without waking. Ile had undergone,
however, great fatigue in attending the meeting
of the Royal Society, and in paying and receiv-
ing visits, and the consequence of this was a
violent return of his former complaint. He re-
turned to Kensington on Saturday, the 4th of
March, and was attended by Dr. Mead and Dr.
Cheselden, who pronounced his disease to be
stone, and held out no hopes of his recovery.
From the time of his last journey to London lie
had experienced violent fits of pain with very
short intermissions; and though the drops (~f
sweat ran down his face during these severe pa
roxyams, yet he never uttered a cry or a coin-
gmatti
the
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short
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intery ish:
coin-
plaint, leasT to,r orim pdaistpielnayceed thebu but uarsitu
;
vals of relief which occurred, he smiled and con-
e
versed with his usual gayety and cheerfulness.
On Wednesday, the 15th of March, he seemed
a little better ; and slight, though groundless,
hopes were still entertained of his recovery. On
the morning of Saturday, the 18th, he read the
newspaFers, and carried on a pretty long con..
versation with Dr. Mead, when all his senses
and faculties were strong and vigorous ; but at
six o'clock of the same evening he became in.
sensible, and he continued in that state during
the whole of Sunday, and till Monday, the 20th,
when he expired between one and two o'clock
in the morning, in the 85th year of his age.—
Family Library, No. XX/I ~ Dr. Brewster's
Life of Newton.

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF
GUANZT.—We are requested te state, that Mr Ltitrra%
new novel, entitled " Arlington," is now te&dy far pub—
lication, by Messrs. Coutuax and BENTLEY, and may be
obtained of all Booksellers, and at all the respectable
Libraries in the United Kingdom. Agents for Scotland,
Messrs. BELL and BAADFUTE, Ediobtligh; and fur Ire.
land, Mr. JOHN CUMMING,

A watch has recently been found near the
spot where the body of CELIA HOLLOWAY was deposited.
It is supposed to have been dropped by the murderer ; and
although considerably defaced, the characters of /lotto-
WAY'S name are sufficiently legible to he recoemised• Had
the murderer remained till now undiseovervil, this watch
would have afforded a strong clue to his apprehension. It
lereatatndi.
,ein the possession of a euld:er'e wife.—
Bi'''rwige uhtor: aet

A STURGEON CAUGHT IN THE RIBBLE.

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—A considerable degree of interest wa last week excited
amongst the Ribble fishermen, by the eircumstsaco of a
sturgeon, of a large size, having been observed in
the river, a little above the bridge at Walton, near
Preston. On Sunday morning week, about six o'clock,
it was dislodged from its bed in tile deep, itumidiately
under Walton Church, and after a gal!ant resistance, was
drawn out and killed. It was found to be a female, hea-
vily charged with roe, and is bulk measured eight feet ten
inches in length from snout to till; its girth was four
feet two inches, aril weight about two-and-a-half hun-
dred weight. The ho .y wai carried in triumph to Pres-
ton, and exhibited to some hundreds of individuals, as
rare and fine specimen of its kind ; and such was the re-
quisition for its flesh, a. an acknowledged delicacy, that,
with the exception of the heed and tail, the whole was
speedily disposed of at an average price of about a shilling
a pound. Nearly twelve yeas have e'apsed since a stur-
geon WM seep 1110 tar up the river...-Liesepou