The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-02 00:00:00

GAZINES(CONTINUE D).

ll _EaM
,e,, .41NSIVORTIPS AGAZINE.
")e author of " Caesar Borgia" does not by any
4
zaake the best use ef his material:—of the ma-
k.a-ls) at least, which he might have collected for his
,'"P.'ple•-•a Ages -story proceeds. The whole -history of
ke .4idttie presents no passages more remarkable,
13°int °I view—moral, political, and chivalric-
-14 ological and romantic—then those which are con-
eeted. 'with the fortunes and the fall of the monster
.1" 0 f the Borgias. There is no
portion of European
:(2 fo which these anecJotical collections—diaries,
o:,,lire, biegraphies, ennals—so invaluable to the
'eLl 3; *xist in such variety or abundance. The most
.ere' . chambers of the Vatican—the most flagitious
neilt ; of the detestable Pope Alexander and his still
lioe
...a xecrable son, Duke Cresar—the debates of the
"Y `J-ensistory—the intrigues of the Sacred College—
ale, o
r etfeund duplicity with which the Court
of Naples
rin4.France long maintained an unequal contest
rat the unapproachable perfidy of the Papal closet ;
l''' art
mong the bequests which contemporary his-
strli*t.::ta. fanalysts, and diplomatists have left to pas-
iiticy i confirmation of the otherwise incredible tr.,a,r-
-h 'ls of Borgian guilt. The same authorities are, for
' t-sict•-t part, equally rich in all those details, not only
:11,0a raler4 and customs, but even of costume, which can
rf" t'l the interest of authentic narrative the excitement
lenP,i( rturraque description. With these fortunate incr.-
's aatacnina to the epoch which our anthor. has
el.ie.l ell for h-s story, we must confess, with dis,ap-,
)nt 1..1,.. tut nt, that as this romance of "13 Tgia" de%el"ps 4.8:s 1 e can recognise no corresponding development
trr,''t,(l taste or skid in the author's mode of handling
r,
,11-as! t resources that he might have enlisted in its see-
,' -,- Indeed, there are some indications of extreme
Ip'ehttgt
,•nce, if not of upardonable ignorance, in that
,e 1..., ',eenis to be his favourite employment—namely,
•• 11 %1 portrait painting,. In days like these, when
sir Rash
to
to,Aleyrick has supplied authorz and artists with
lei 1!:ILIte aud graphic as account of the military armour
1,,t, nI ms of all the great Ectreeean nations frem the
4. a to the commencement of the 18th century, such
iori°,,
ass these, contained in the following passages, are
much protested against as the slip-slop phra-
Isola ev ra'll.l
in i .„
._, Lanese mail being "apparently manufactared
the to Ration of the ancient Roman military gat b." Whe-
it.tie,,es,ttaateei;sethor means by "garb" the " ehlamys," or
"paludamentun," or the flowing " dalmatica,"
sl 1.-, Perlis
PSI useless to inquire. If, however, he be
1-"tking aeither of cloaks, nor robes, nor gowns, but of
eats of
1"-tnour w a'aia we beg to tell him that the Milanese
Dim by any forces of the Italian princes in the 1 4th
iriolrinsethb;teturies were not fabricated in imitation of that
old Remans (who had no plate armour at
eth; 'hair
neither Papal guards nor body guards of any
p,,i rheasatanation in Borgia's time wore " ereaves of
which 's-tkel" (and it is clear that, instead of or.-tives,
a are forte
lcygi,g; he swans euissts, whicii were
fzzottor .s for the thip,hs), nor exhibited such a Cockney
and .
2: ( if minor theatre costutne as legs encased in steel
area 4 v! • knees. But the"short
pI.
vi (Amgen of all " theatrical
soni,n vain in
which w, s should 1 ,olt '
duce in .one of Richat4l tpioieefr property quiltede
ps sreospr
intro-
"isetetye ,1 '''
The s melodramatic spectacles.
stone table was occupied by some thirty m.n-at-arir,s,
feeding on a kind of black barley bread, cheese, curds, and
milk. Betide each
doubleelan, crossing the table, lay a spear nearly
that on T s •
sang
height, its
point barbed like a fish-hook, so
fully lace stategd: with
thderiarwanrtt ayswasouant once de strong and rich,
the fieli must be fear-
bright fr, sin the smithies of Milan, and apparently manufac-
lucrecic isn.imlitatien of the ancient 11•3'man military garb—greaves
al'iniribn omit steel, bare nees, short kilts of quilted steel, breast
silver aCtk _pieces of gleaming plate, helmets surmounted by
gaze. alles with outspread wings and sun-soaring upward
round shield with a spike in the centre, a short
Istw,orsde,, and a and
mace intended to knock those on the head
"0 arm uniformed the sword access when overthrown, corn •
pieced, elle
‘tVi,e have Lord
,n Campbell's authori for sayin g that,
c
-t: ' verS lately, it was a breach of the privileges of the
,y Per Rouse of Parliament to write the life of a de-
ocaed Peer. We shudder when we reflect on the amount
L damages at which, under any analogous custom touch-
'''.; illustrious foreigners long since departed, the de-
tseendants of Benabo or of the great Florentine score-
all' would be entitled to estimate the injury done by
,otir author to the reputation of the great Cardinal and
14e still niore renowned Machiavelli, by his mode of ex-
!hibiting them in these chapters, and still more by the
fleonceivable imbecility infused into their conversation.
Ti Moors and the Stubble" is a pleasant paper on
'ne
sloth of August and the Ist of September (the mar-
tyreleg3- iy of the grouse and the par-
f‘ettig€'). byFred, rick Tolfrey, whose agreeable writings
ee never encounter without pleasure. But can Mr. '.l.'ol-
.rey be serious iii thus noticing the absurd pamphlet. by
er• Cirtintley Berkeley on the Game-laws, winch we
have snare than once introduced to our readers:—
L" One of our oldest and best sportsmen has takes up the
-j,:uitler-,, and in the House, as well as in a pamphlet remarkable
-"r goal writing and an admirable analysis of the laws, has
st'Rgested the only effectual remedy for the existingeymilsos;tadn,±
l's, in common with every sportsman in the kingdom, ,
~
/Gtittly eepe that the hints and ad,i.ce so forcibly and ch a ly
offered by Mr. Grantley Berkeley, will meet with the attenaoa
the!' deserve and the case demands.
The ~ good writing" in the precious productionrei-
ferred to must certainly have escaped cur detection in
t4e most infinitesimally homeopathic dose of " good
writing') ever administered to the public patient ! . " The
sklittlocchio (or ' Evil-Eye')", by Captain Medwm, is a
etchy bold " extravaganz I," the preternatural horrors
which are not satisfactorily or even plausibly ex-
plained by the somewhat clumsy solution attempted cf
battu-al-eauses. " A Story of a Strange Childhood," by
•-vulaeldt Weaver, is told with some pathos and coca-
tis!?tial power, and a " Renaintscence of Marseilles,"
light as the anecdote is, is as well done as suer, all affair
canprhaps be. The best, most. vigorous, and racily
written article is " Captain Bobadil," but it is devoted,
not as this title would
time but to the class imply to oc
ht hhaet
iis
, he dramatict)piem. p e.lr st opnuar -.
ports to be by " Pat Fogart
needshave hesitated to affi 17' of
Cork."
lion which contains many other
Y is real name to a contribu-
No Irishman
• following :—passages as good as the
" And here we would take leas: to a•k, are the recent ptroe-
jects of recent Bobadils wiser.nt an the foregoing? At)7;
gal-
1°
for doingsnienre_ryzi
atanism—by air—by humbug,
hybu,ysteam—abtoyma
amso—re likely
_olie successful than Bobaktil's grand n'o'storunme ? Have not eur
Joint-Stock Banks driven thousands to beggary ? How many
1 th_tionmdreds.are
.wandering and starving through, the country
" our knavish Assurance Societies ? 'What Is the meaning
of the great tunnel just about to be made under Fleet Ditch ?
th`•-of the marble bridge, of ten millions cost, that is to be
rown across the fishing-brook at Walton ? Is there no
•15f)hadil at work in the American Loan, the Spanish Loan, the
bison Loan, the Portu uese Debenture', the Central
-1(10t1 Colonization Company,g the erection of National Schools
at Sierra Leone ? Truly, good people of England, of each and
all of them, a Bob3dil is the mainspring ; and it is only when
Ye are fleeced to your heart's content that you will discover
that the grand plan which was to enrich you all, was started
dieely to fill its pockets by sinking a shaft through yours. But
roa'corers will never be warned, nor capitalists ever deterred
°Y the destruction of those who have gone before them in the
same line, and the valiant tribe of swindlers laugh and grew fat
as fast as ever. Exult then, 0 ye illustrious Bobadils I—exult,
and be assured that your dynasty is immortal. So long as
there are fools to be fleeced, so long will there be rogues to
fleece, and from the history of the past we may safely conjec-
ture that the race of both will continue per °nu:la scecula
geculoruns."

SIMMOND'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE.
The claims of the Nova Scotia baronets to the exten-
tbre lands granted to them by former sovereigns are ably
advocated in the opening article of the present number. It
appears that the baronet; intend to proceed by petition
of right, and certainly they make out a strong case.
Shomd they succeed, they are, we understand, pre-
land to perform the conditions on which the
a
„ Was granted, in which case they will
gora
ale a practical answer to the question
d,leharti,,nglY
Lo put by Sir James Graham in the
Zelnaon rd John Russell's resolution, " What is
tic Colonization ?" The revival of the -rights
/ratuutie; of the, / 070 Scotia baronets is a matter of
rat onal imp ranee, for while it secures
.to the
the end ai,uraut t. at immediate care on his arrival in
wea,bzncnttf his adoption, which is so necessary to his
e'"g, it erects a barrier against Yankee encroach-
thtY effectual that can be devised. We hope
ar:to !,1 slastlucceed in obtaining those rights to which they
cle, iiiy entitled. There are several valuable artt-
ther,i: • the present number of the coLnial. Among
At,e4 report of the Committee of the Gener.al. (4 that ye (?t. Newfoundland on the state of the fisheries
1,11 who co%°l.lY--/t document well worth the attention of
ean ZIT," Me maintenance of a nursery for sea-,
sli'renit‘e37. s'eure the continuance of our ntr.a.L

Titß II .."-------__-----_ ,
1144°0N , or AEROSTATIC
In addition t, E. .
.4°llth thethenrpre4evnt ulial aerostatictnterdliegsecnrcipetoiofnth.oef
kthe '‘'ater a nunauer gives a minute. .
•..)atl ~.. !°-. ear rkcylistructe.4 on the principle oia_iife,
by tie'll'u Ingenious invention of the editor (Mr. W)a
descent into tthich the aeronaut can with safety makes
the
sea.

11 'Ova tie d`v 2VP, the LITTLE MIL LINER,
Seal et' see, through a tenth number, towards
in
_
IP ter2, ultimate happiness which we trust awaits
',Ring heroine.

41.ceibb
fast bT AT HUNGERFORD STEAM-1101T PIER.—
I.,ezargtirrer at. , between seven and eight o'clock, another accident
u this 'er arising from the crowded state of the
h • 4111ing the' pier, and the rush made to get on hoard
th
team-boats owing to the cheap rate of the fares
dy, - '-helsea wood„ cmts. A young man named Double-
had onv the Primro min alongside, and
.before she was
ir°' red forcedseeth) • gay across the Prince of Wales
t„osee-t7:eh boit, endeavoured to get on board the Prim-
pjoeeed to London-brilge, and, although called on by
1Ay.13,,"11 onard to wait until the Prince of Wales's bow gangd-
rols, waS thee
theefastend, he went on. The boar
smq7a: off at tiyme, persons on board could net see
~`4l)at;i"","t was believed' he had gone under the boat. FoE-
'rota nowevet, he succeeded in laying hold of the chains in
ttle4e,,(,the bows of the Prince of Wales, and was ultimately
A,sm !Nal his perilous situation.
Inquest was held at Lewes on Saturday, on a
Dre;i '4l, named Charles Holden, who had been killed on the
l'lsairg4' "ening by the wheel of one of the Brighten coaches
t4l
"er his body• Having heard the evidence the jury re-
krt " a his
of Accidental". death," with a deodand of
Lea.3'4'ahriildlinsc:hnutrhsse coach annd
ihnoor se a belonging to Messrs.
the verdict with the fel.
ttiatTg observation a"cAconmdl'ath3e jury cannot separate without
str
. ongly their sense of the dangerous manner in which
oPrietors of the Brigh. on and Lewes coaches generally
IValieiifei.r,,servants to drive, to the imminent danger of the
Vt.„ ,
I.l:ilyb ttobuct. il,aLifE .p rasott:,slD DROWNED.—On Monday morn-
g'x
o'clock, the body of a female, appa-
::oliharf, osi net,s? en to twenty years of age, was
di-S7—'ar:evd-
"lr lab carer; lyirm in the City Canal, just (nip `i 1, H.
t. l'an'cras. The body, from its general al p^ar-
Tbe have lain in the water for some length of time.
Y hot yet been recognised.