The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-26 00:00:00

the horizon: I Happy country !' said ha to himself,---' Land o
liberty and peace !--Beloved country !.—Land of my fathers !
Land of my boyhood !'—The tear of found recollection stole down
his cheek, and with a deep sigh he pursued his .jnurney.
" When he. recovered front the reverie into which he was
thrown by these aseociatione, and turned his attention to the
nearer prospect, the long ranges of hills which terminated his
view, And the tine waving grounds which intervened, diversified
eecasionally, though sparingly, with clumps of trees .and inclo-
ourl,s, and here and there with a gvntlernln'e seat, conveyed to his
Mind an idea of grandeur and beauty, which even his partiality
was forced to admit he had seldom seen surpaased in the more or-
namented landscapes of engl!iti4,--The clear :water of the
,river,
glittering iu the morning tin; and the blue smoke just beginning
to hang over the town, gave a clearackr-of elegance and of peace-
fulness to the whole, which striltrugly hartuouized with the feel.;
ings of the moment; while a share solemn sentipetit was excited
by the venerable ruins of an ancient monastery, which rose on
the banks of the strearit,.and et: tried the imagination back to the
splendour of popish magnificence, and the pin op Pf popigh proves-
sious. Ou this very spat, thought he, which. the hand of fana-
tical.fury has rendered desolate, solemn Choirs were chaunted, aria
holy matins sung, and the'earth rejoiced under the taste and skill
of pious eedesiaitics. There was surely something sublime and'
ennobling ip those ancient institutions, which compensated for
many errors and imperfections ; and the more than gothic bar-.
barity with which the system was assailed, and crushed, and per.
secuted—even to the destruction of the Attest monuments of art
—proves the savage and malignant spirit inherent in Presbytery.
It is well to wage a war of extermination against a sect which ire
such sworn enemies to all that is grand in religion, and elegant in
civilized society. •
_ _

" Thus reasoned the young Cavalier in the intlignancy of his
feelings, unconscious that he wns cherishing the very same illi-
berality of which he accused the zeal of the early reformere,and that he
• was uncharitably transferring to the disciples of the covenant in his
own day the deliuqueneiew, if they were: delinquencies, of a past
'generation.

' " The prospect immediately befoee the traveller was more alpine
than that which he wee leaving, but scarcely lens interesting. As
he passed along, the surface became' more and more unequal.
Green hills rose in every quarter, rut-mounted at a little distance
by higher and more abrupt eminences, till at last the sight was
terminated by lofty mountains, towering to the clouds, brown
with heath, and rugged with craggy projections.
" A few mike from town he entered a forest, and parsing
through a narrow defile, darkened with overhanging wood, found
himself all at once in a fine open lawn, surrounded on every side
by rising grounds of considerable height, covered with. copse-
wood, and interspersed with venerable trees of various kinds. Ou
one side murmured a brook of transparent water, which issued
from a lake of small dimensions, but extraordinary beauty, at the
further end of the valley. In a retired nook of this little pare
disc, a solitary building was pointed out by his guide, which was
still smoking from recent destruction. Tide, the subaltern was
informed, was the barn in which the Curate hail lately detected a
presbyterian conventicle; and here was an instance of the yen-
WANCO which even his own party could extend to the insensibk
materials that had given shelter to pious worshippers, whose reli-
gious forms they condemned. He felt rebuked by this incident
for the censure which he had too hastily, or at least too exclusively,
cast on the children of the covenant, when he passed the ruined
abbey ; anti the flush of shame, for the partiality of his judgment,
or rather, perhaps, the glow of generous indignation, at the wan-
ton oppressions of which his friends were guilty, rose to his (dwelt
as hi hastily turned away from the sight.
"About half a mile farther on, the smoke, which was seen
gracefully curling among the trees, marked the place of his future
residence. He was now on the margin of the lake, whieh, spread-
ing like an inuneuse mirror before him, reflected from its unruffled
hollow a softened image of the surrounding scenery. The rich
green of the smooth and swelling. ward, and the darker and more
vatted shade of the foliage which clothed the woods, were finely
contrasted with the clear blue sky, which now smiled in its calm,
Dees above his head ; and the varied notes of the little warblers,
which tuned their throats on every side, seemed as the voice Of
Nature proclaiming a jubilee.
" roesbaw was enchanted. This wall just such a scene as he
had delighted to indulge his imagination in forming, when, in the
twilight of p summer, evening, he used to stretch hipiself at full
length below the shade of a large elm on 114 uncles lawn, enjoy-
ing the luxury of building castles in the air ; but it we a scene
which he scarcely expected to see realized, even in England ; and
to find it .in' Scotland confounded all his preconceptions—Scot-
land, that inhospitable land of howling wilderness, HoW unjust
have I been to this lovely cottutry,' said he to himself, and per-
haps also to its inhabitants. May not the natives be as different
regin what I have heard them described, as is the land in which
-they .dwell? And-if they' have really been belied, then what name
Shall give to the proceedings against them ?—atnl what shall I
think of the commission on which lam nosy sent? but I will
suspend my judgment till I can form an opinion !Or

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long to 'be extracted.

SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

. .
ROYAL SOCIETY, MAI' 25.
At the Meeting this evening, the Right Hon. Wm.
Sturges Bourne, M. P. attended, and was admitted
into the Society, as waS also Dr. Wilson Philip. . . • .A_ paper was read, which had been begun at the
last Meeting, by ---- Ostler, Esq..' on the naturalhistory or the marine burrowing animists. This paper:
is of a nature bardly suseePtible of abridgement, con-
sisting entirely of details of descriptive physiology.
The author's .opinion, deduced from numerous re-•
searches, is, that those small animals of the genus
Saxicava which form holes in the liinc,stone rock's, do
sio by means of a solvent power which they pdasess, in
the secretion of a peculiar said.

ANNIVERSAJty OF THE SONS OF THE

CLERGY.

Anniversary Festival of this Institu ticn
celebrated in St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday morning,
By the hoer of ten- the doors were besieged, and a
constant addition of numbers took place up to eleven
o'clock, at which time the western door was thrown
open. The rush was tremendous, and it was only by
closing the doors by main force twice,., that anything
like, order could be maintained; by these means the
persons in charge of the barriers had an. opportunity
of receiving the donations of visitors, and prevent-
ed that 'rush into the choir which would have been at
least inconvenient, if -not indecorous. By half after
6leven the choir was filled almost to suffocation.
, Shortly before twelve o'clock the peal of the organ
was heard summoning the vocal and instrumental per-
formers to their stations ; and immediately afterwards
the procession of Bishops entered the choir, headed
by their Graces the Archbishops of York and Can-
terbury, and followed by a distinguished retinue of
the 'clergy of this diocese. As soon as their Graces
were seated,- the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor,
preceded by his Uilicers of State, and followed by the Sheriff's and Aldermen, took their 'seats in the
stalls allotted to them. The band then played the over-
ture to flanders,Oratorio of E;ither with great eirect.
The musical performances were supported by a very
full orchestra, the organ by Mr. Attwood, and the
vocal parts by the gentlemen and ,eboristers of this
Cathedral, Westitunster Abbey, and the Chapel
Royal. The selection of music is the same which
has been sanctioned by ancient .custom at this meet-
ing, and was perfarmed in excellent style. The ser-
vice was chaunted with much solemnity by the Rev.
.C. Packe, one of tits Minor Canons; and the sermon
Was preached by the. Rev. Henson, Rector of St.
Giles's, from Prov. x„ 3, ti Withhold not good from
those to whom Wig due, when it is in the power of
thy hand to do it." The preacher's object was to
show that the poorer clergy were a class to whom the
" good spoken of in the text was peculiarly " due,"
inininidiriefeeirser:eccntti:eicasnitt)iooc,tro,htnecicieurdoeadrnviarsiognedfourpotinieiwtitwhiigrloweast anpadthfoas-
wfth an eloquent and forcible