The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-13 00:00:00

DYNASTIES AND Rucms.

Plantagenet
Tudor
Stuart
William 111. to George 11.
George 111.
George IV.
William IV.
Ecclesiastical, Royal, and Representative

Total

158! 1991

SIR HENRY HARDINGE.

Sir Henry Hardinge is a knight
Of very great renown,
The fiercest military blade
That brawls about the town.

All dressed he is in black and blue,.
To represent a bruise ;
His jaw is squared for combat too,
His eye glows like a fuse.

For made he was by mighty Mari
Of very fierce components,
To scare the hearts of gentle Whig
And Radical opponents.

Upon his neck a bullet rests,
'Which bears this single billet,
" I ready am to meet you, Sir,
At any place and minute."

Not formed of earthly dust was be,
But of the best gunpowder,
Which in a chamber pent with lead,
Explosion makes the louder.

A cartridge is the type of his
Most curious combination—
The metal of the heaviest head
Conjoined with fulmination.

But yet fulfilling Nature's plan,
Who gives the venom'd snake
A rattle, which his motions mark,
Whence all things warning take:

So in Sir Henry we perceive
A quality preservative,
Which makes him loud defiance breathe
'Mongst men of peace conservative.

• 4. Sir Henry is a perfect model of a soldier—all buttoned up
to the chin in black and blue—solid contour of the jaw," &c.—
Blackwood's Magazine.—Examiner.

On Thursday, Prince TALLEYRAND dined
with Mr. JEREMY BENTHAM, at his house in Queen-
square-place. The Prince, who has ever declared himself
an ardent admirer of Mr. BENTHAM'S Writings, once formed
part of a circle of the philosopher's friends, which in-
cluded Bistssor, DUMONT, and others of the master minds
of the last century. It is now forty years since the father
of diplomatists, who is now seventy-eight years of age, had
visited the father of philosophical jurists and legislators, who
on the 15th inst. will be in the 85th year of his age.

The Publisher of " Fraser's Magazine" has
the pleasure to inform those gentlemen who feel desirous of
subscribing Monthly for his Journal, that an excellent
opportunity now offers the work, commencing its Fifth
Volume with the present Number. Fraser's Magazine
has now, for upwards of two years, been before the
public, and the Proprietor would be wanting in gratitude
did he not embrace this occasion of returning hie best
thanks for that support which he has received. This has
rendered his Magazine one of the most prominent of the
British periodicals. The talent, sterling zeal, independence,
and keenness of criticism, which have hitherto been the
characteristics of this publication, shall continue active in
every page of the forthcoming numbers.—Orders are re-
ceived at all Booksellers, Stationers, Newsmen, and Pest-
offices in England, Ireland, and Scotland.

AMERICAN COMMISSION TO ASCERTAIN
THE COST OF ENGLISH WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES.—
We learn that a seizure of English woollen goods has been
made by the Custom-house of the United States, on the
allegation that the goods were entered below their real
value, with the fraudulent intention of passing them at a
lower rate of duty. The seizure having been appealed
against, the Government has ordered a commission to be
appointed to examine in England the cost of producing
the goods. Several Leeds manufacturers have been ex-
amined en the subject, and no less than thirty-six written
questions were proposed to them, calculated to elicit an-
swers, showing the cost of every minute process of the
manufacture. It i. conjectured by some of our manufac-
turers that the seizure has been made, and the coromisaion
appointed, merely to furnish a pretence and an opportunity
for obtaining full information as to the modes and pro-
ceases of the manufacture of woollens in England, which
may be serviceable to our American competitors. They
say that the goods seized were not entered below their value,
and that the questions put to the individuals examined are
such as a manufacturer could only have suggested. We
should have thought, wing the great number of English
manufacturers and workmen who have settled in the
United States, and the excellence of their own machinery,
that it would have been unnecessary for the Government
of the United States to have resorted to such a mode of
obtaining information. But it is possible the conjecture
of our townsmen may be correct. At all events, the ma-
nufacturers and mtrchants.of this country should be cares• 1
not to enter their goods exported to America below their
real value.—. Leeds Mercury.