The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-28 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1826.

rfl CLARK'S GENERAL OUTFITTING
A. • WAREHOUSE, for the .EAST and WEST INDIES
and SOUTH AMERICA, EXETER 'CHANGE, STRAND.
Officers, Cadets, and Writers going to India, and Gentlemen
proceeding to South America, or any other part of the Globe,
will find in this Establishment the whole of their Military Ap•
pointments, Swords, Chaos, Sashes, Belts, Pistols, &c. toge-
ther with a large and well-manufactured stock of Sea Cots, Couches,
and Bedding; Cabin %all:hand Tables, Chairs, and Lamps;
Sea Chests, Mule and Bullock Trunks, and every other descrip-
tion of Travelling Equipage. . ,
AN ASSORTMENT OF CANTEENS, ready fitted with the
necessary requisites for India, and other tropical climates ;
a great variety of Silver and Plated Articles, Knives and
Forks, suitable for families going abroad ; 'Military and Hindus-
tannee Books, Maps, &e.
A FASHIONABLE STOCK of Carriage, Curricle, Tandem,
Phaeton, Stanhope ar.d Chaise HARNESS, with every descrip-
tion of Saddlery, &c. &c. for home use, East and West Indies,
and South America, which merit inspection from their excellent
quality, first style of workmanship, and moderate prices.
All the Articles in this Establishment are warranted, and the
excellent plan of fifty yeare standing is still strictly adhered to, of
asking but one Reedy Almsey Price, from which no abatement
will be made.

COMMERCIAL ROAD WHITECHAPEL.

EXCELLENCE COMBINED WITH ECONOMY Goon ARTICLE AT

A LOW PRIOR !

TN order to keep pace with the highly-improved
1. state of the Commercial Road and its environs, which, for

Respectability and Commerce, vie* with the proudest thoroughfare
in the Metropolis, JOHN LLOYD and Co., Kiwo's PLACE,
corner of BATTY-STREET, Commercial Road are determined, in
the selection, extent, and quality of every Article in their Stock
of LINEN DRAPERY, HOSIERY, LACE, and HABER-
DASHERY, to be equalled by few, and excelled by None !
At a timcwhen distress and famine have arrived at their zenith,
and the Manufacturing Distri.ts are reduced to the last extremity,
J. Lloyd and. Company have been induced by feelings of grati-
tude as well as the desire of meriting future favours, to pur-
chase the whole of their large and valuable Stock of Winter
Goods with their ever acceptable cash; thereby entailing upon their
Customers the pleasing satisfaction of alleviating the distressed, and
ensuring to themselves a good article at a low price.—With such
claims to public aupyort, and a determination to act with rectitude
and principle, they ' respectfully offer their well-selected Stock,
at Prices full 20 per Cent. cheaper than Credit Shops can
buy for.
'I he following curtailed List of
• judge of the extreme
Irish Linen, beginning at 64d.
Hussia'Sheeting, ?id.
Brown Holland, 44d.
l)amask Table Linen, yard and

and half wide, is. 6d.
Linen Huckaback, '7ld.
Russia Towelling, bid.
Suffolk Hemp, 61d.
Town Prints, beginning at 40.
An immense Stock of Stnffs,
61d.
8O pair of Witnsy Blankets,

le. 9d.
The largest Stock- of Furniture.
in London.

Prices will enable the Public to
owness of Charge :-
350 pieces of real Chintz, be-
ginning at 6id.
Bed Ticks, hid.
Oros de Naples and Luteetring,
in every shade of colour,
from 21. 6d.
Satins, all colours, 21. 4d.
Cloaks, 4s. 6d.
Rich Silk Shawls, 2 yds. wide
6d.
An immense Stock of Lace, be-
ginning at per yard.
Lace Veils, 4s. 9d.
500 ' dozen SsVies Handker-
chiefs, bid.

DULMONES VULPIUM, or PREPARED
FOXES' LUNGS, for Coughs, Colds, and Asthmas,
either recent or of long standing. This valuable medicine re-
quires no enumeration of its virtuo, as a sigaltjaigliailLeyv.

its efficacy.
Prepared and sold in Pots, to. t id. each, by 'Tholi, Rase, 29,
Clliswell.street, Finsbury-square and sold by Mr: C. A. Hop-
kins, No. 10, Staverton-row, Newington Butts; Mr. J. W.
Stirling, 66,11igh-street, Whitechapel ; Mr. Yate, 109, Blackman
street, Borough ; Mr. Studinao, 3 and 4, Keene's-row, Wal-
Worth ; Mr. T. Brown, Union-place► Camberwell ; Messrs.
Atwell, 196, Oxford-street ; Mr.' Lowden, 202, Fleet-street ;
Mr. Boetoek, 37, Red Lion-street, Holborn.` Wholesale Agent,
Messrs. Barclay and Son, Fleet-market.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE/.

On Monday evening the 18th inst. The Royal
Society of Edinburgh met,
Vice President Dr. lion in the Chair.,
The scapula of a whale, found in sinking a eoal.
shaft in Ayrshire, was exhibited by Thomas Allan

Esq.
Observations on the Origin of Language, and par-
ticularly on the formation of the Greek Alphabet, were
read by Professor Dunbar.

On Tuesday evening the 19th instant. The So-
ciety for Encouraging the Useful Arts, met in the Hall
of the Scottish Antiquaries—
A description of a new steam coach, by Mr. John-
ston; a model of this coach was exhibited in operation.
Account of a Method of restoring the damaged
canvas of Paintings, by
.Mr. Robert Taylor.
Notice respecting native copper found in Caithness,
by Dr. Hibbert.
Mr. James Nasmyth exhibited a model of a high
pressure steam engine in action, with a method of ap-
plying the waste steam to increase the temperature of
the furnace.
Mr. James Forbes, of Old Meldrum, gave a de-
scription of a new protracting quadrant, and of a new
vernier fbr subdividing the divisions of instruments.

VIVIAN GREY.

TO THE EDITOR.

Stn—As you have given insertion, in your paper of to-day, to
a communication by a Correspondent, headed " Mr. Colburn,
and the Author of Vivian Grey." I trust you will do me the fa-
vour of printing in your columns a few words from me in reply.
Every circumstance stated in that communication as fact, is
utterly false.
The main object of row correspondent seems to be to insi-
nuate that the author of Vivian`' Grey had bribed a certain lady
to bring me' the manuscript, in the hope that I might suppose it
to come from the same pen as that of the author of Tremaine.
This insinuation will be considered not a little extraordinary, when
1 declare that the manuscript of Tremaine was sent to me ane-
rymoualy; and it was not till long atter I had undertaken' that
publication, that I became acquainted with the lady in queateiher
on,
whose affluent circurnstancie, and high respectability, plac
bquud the slightest chalice of being influenced in the way pre-
tended. Only a moderate sum was given for the copyright of
Vivian (;trey, as I never for a moment conceived, that that work
came from the author of Trernaine. Indeed, the contrary (vas
lopenly declared when the tnanuscript was first put into my hands.
llt is scarcely oeectesary for me to add, that Vivian Grey was b&'
extremely suceessfol that a oew edition was ahottly called for ;
t
it to pay
and, us a further proof of my being perfectly satisfied with the
ospe-
culation,
I am.
‘reparing for üblicatiou three additional volumes,
for which I have agi
volumes.
does not state how he became acquainted
double the price of the former
Vlith respect to the author of Tremaine, your correspondent
thoughts ; and as I do not prof eft an knowledge of then', I must
let the sentence pass, with his most Secret
in which allusion is matte to his fears of
acknowledging himself the author ; but so far from that work
not being considered by me as likely to pay, and that I muse-
quently gave only a trifling sum for it, 1 at once considered it
cerfain of success; and, as a proof of this, I made an offer of
SOO/.'for it, a sum which most anthems and publishers would not
deem very trifling for the first work of an anonymous 'writer.
I mu, Sir, your very obedient servant,.
New Burlington-street, Dec. 26. HENRY COLBURN.

LITERARY ADVERTISEMIT•

Wanted—Authors of all-work, to job•for the season,
No matter which party, so faithful to neither
Good hacks, who, if posed for a rhyme or a reason,
Can manage, like "ern, to do without either.
If in gaol, all the better for out o'-door topics ;
Your gaol is for Trav'llers a charming retreat ;
They can take a day's rule for a trip to the Tropics,
And sail round-the world, at their ease, iu the Fleet,
For Dramatists, too, the most useful of 14111041 s
They may study high life in the King's Bench community ;
Aristotle could scarce keep them more scithia rules,
And of place they'te, at least taught to stick to the Unify.
Any lady or gentleman come to an age
To have good " Reminiscences" (three-score or higher,)
Will meet with encouragement--so much #r page,
Aud the spelling and grammar both found by the buyer.
No matter, with what their remembrance is stoek'd,
So they'll only remember the quantant:disied;-
2,nough to fill handsomely Two Voluines,•ac •
Price twenty-four shillings, is all that's ii*ltitted.
•,
They may treat us like Kelly, with old jeu decerite,
Like Reynolds, may boast of each mountebank frolic;
Or kindly inform us, like Madame Ovine,*
That gingerbread-cakes always give them the cholie.
There's nothing, at present, so popular growing
As your Autobiographers--fortunate elves,
Who manage to know all the best people going,
Without having been ever heard of themselves!
Wanted, also a new stock of Pamphlets on Cora,
By " Farmers" and " Landholders"—(gernmen, whose hinds
Enclosed all in bow-pots, their attics adorn,
Or whose share of the soil may be seta on their hinds.)
No-popery Sermons, if ever so dull a vein,
Sure of a market ;—should they, too, who pea
Be renegade Papists, like Murtagh
Something extra allow'd for the additional venom.
Funds, Physic, Corn, Poetry, Boxing, Romance,
All excellent subjects fOr turning a penny ;
To write upon all is an author's sole chance
For attaining, at last the least knowledge of nap.
Nine times out of ten; if his title is good,
His matter within of small consequence is ;
Let him only write fine, and, if not understood,
Why,—that's the concern of the reader, not his.
N.8.---a learn'd Essay now printing, to show,
That Horace (as clearly as words could express it)
Was for taxing the Fund-holders, ages ago,
When he wrote thus—" Quodcuuque in Fund it, attest it."f
" This lady, in her Memoirs, also favours us with the address
of those apothecaries, who have, from time to time, given her.
pills that agreed with her :-.—always desiring that the pills should
be ordered " comae pour tile."
t A gentleman, who distinguished himself by his evidence be-
fore the Irish Committees.
According to the cotumon reading, " quad cuuque infundie,
acesolt."

MALTE BRUN.

(From the Journal du Dobats.)

Conrad Matte Brun, the celebrated geographer, was
born in 1775, in the Peninsula of Jutland,- in the kingdom
of Denmark. His father belonged to one of the first
fitmilies of Jutland. Born Lutheran himself, he educated
-Isis .assoia,th..sarne-taftirrinFr 'even' 'destined him to fulfil,
at an early age, the functions of the ministry. YoUng
Malta Brun was sent, for that purpose, to the University
of Copenhagen, to take his degree there ; where, disgusted
by the dryness of theological studies, and borne away by
his taste for the Belles Lettres, he published seine pieces
of poetry, and undertook the management of a "Theatrical
Review." At the period of which we are now speaking,
the French Revolution had already gone on for several
years, and Denmark, as well as the other States of Europe,
had come within the circle of its political influence. An
enlightened Minister, Mr. de - Bernsdortf, conceived that
the time had arrived for making concessions to those ideas
of liberty that were diffused throughout the country. Such
a system, which might have prevented great misfortunes,
but which was opposed, notwithstanding, by the aristo-
cratic party, found a potent auxiliary in the energetic pen
and ardent imagination of a young man of 20. Mr. Matte
Brun wrote a pamphlet in favour of the enfranchisement
of the peasantry, and of the liberty of the press; but in
spite of the support which the Ministry gave to this liberal
system, and in spite of the general consent of the nation,
the opposing party, profiting- perhaps by some defect in his
plan, so easy to be explained by its being the first produc-
tion of a young man, menaced him with a persecution. Make
Brun thought it beet to anticipate the result, and went to seek
an asylum in Sweden. He was welcomed there, and recurring
to his former tastes, he publishedu volume of poetry, which
acquired for . him the encouragement and approbation of
the Academy of Stockholm. In 1797, Mr. Make Brun
obtained permission to return to his native land, but some
fresh intrigues speedily inspired him with the 'prudent re-
solution of withdrawing himself front dangers similar to
thOie he had already incurred. He again passed into
Sweden, whence he proceded to Hamburgh, and it was in
' that city that he learnt the events of 1799, and the re-
volution of the 18th Brumaire, which held out the pros-
pect to France of a Goiernment whose power was
founded upon public liberty. Relying upon thii, he came
to Paris, where he was not long in perceiving that the
dearest half of . his hopes was deceived, and where he
dared, through the medium of some journals, to testify
his displeasure. It was easy, however, to impose silence
upon a stranger who had no support but his talents; Mr.
Melte Brun received a prohibitory mandate to which he
was compelled to submit. The leisure thus forced upon
him, he employed in perfecting himself in a science, to
which, from his earliest youth, he had devoted his parti-
cular attention. From the.recesses of his closet he began
to travel over the universe as an observer, and he per-
ceived in geography, relations which until that time had
escaped the investigations of the most learned. So
early as 1804, he began, in conjunction with Mentelle,
his " Mathematical, Physical, anti Political Geography,"
in 6 vols. Bvo., which was only finished in 1807. But a third
part, indeed, of that great work was the labour of Mr. Malte
Brun. The learned, however, are aware, that the merit of a
book is , not to be calculated according to the rules of
arithmetical proportion. Mr. Mentelle was a learned geo-
grapher; Malts Brun was a philosophical geographer; and
in this, his first essay, he
•gave the earnest of what he,
who, at 28, bad hardly any rival in geagraphical knowledge,
and not one in the application to geography of a multitude
previously been strangers to it,
'should accomplish in the progress of study and of years.
of sciences which had
It was upon the reputation acquired from that work, that
the proprietors of the Journal des 'Debate invited Mr.
Matte Bruit to
join in the editing of that paper. Mr. 'Mahe
Brun accepted of that invitation; and, with the exception
'of one brief interval, from 1806 up to the fatal period, we
may say, until the very moment of his death, for nearly
20 years, be devoted himself to his everyday toil, with a
zeal that was never relaxed in favour of the other labours
with Which he had voluntarily charged himself. One hour
before he expired, with a hand still firm, and with an ad-
mirable. freedom of spirit, he traced a few lines designed
to be printed in this imime!, but had not strength to
finish them. _
foreign politics
Almost all the discussions relating to fore
were written by him. The precedence which he claimed

in ;his department was readily granted. To the immense
advantage :of possessing all the languages of Europe, Mr.
Melte Brun joined that of knowing equally well the per.
serial character of all the European caboets, their acts of
diplomacy, the family relations and interests between the
different Courts; and the correctness of his memory, the
soundness of his judgment, and the order which he intrn-
dueed into the mass of his previotisly acquired knowledge,
made it easy for him ,to analyse the most Complicated
jeets. He felt no difficulty in comprisinf in a column,
materials diSpersed in. numerous fore►gn journals, which
frequently occupied him three or four boors in readi%
the midst of these occupations, Mr. Make Brim found lenstire'
enough for the rearing of that mighty monument; which Will
ever remain as the most durable title of his scientific and

literary fame. The " Summary of Universal Geography" iA
a Work whichhas operatedin the study of that sciences revo-
lution, which has left truces that nothing can ever efface.
It is not our purpose to characterize a performance, whose
reputation is established, and whose success has been pro-
digious. Only six volumes have appeared; but the
literary world will. learn, with interest, that the printing of
the 7th and last volume is nearly finished, and that the
whole' of the necessary materials for finishing it are in the
hands of the 'printer. With his " Summary of Universal
Geography, Mr. Make Brun brought out a monthly periodi-
cal work, in the editing of which he was associated with
Mt. Eyries, and which also related to his favourite science.
It is entitled " Annals of Voyages and Travels, and of
Geography and History," He began it in 180ei, and it
still goes on. It is a faithful and learned analysis of all the
voyages and travels, and of all the discoveries of modern
times. His " Picture of ,Ancient and Modern Poland," in
one volume octavo, was published during the same period.
It Is impossible here not to recall to mind the " Apology
for Louis XVIII." which he wrote during the Hundred
Days,—an act of boldness which proves that no danger
could deter' him from expressing his dislike of despotism
and arbitrary power. The same sentiments oceur, but are
more exclusively 'developed, in his " Treatise on Legiti-
malty," published in 1825. It was in that work that he
established, forcibly and profoundly, the advantages
of I that fundamental' dogma, as indispensable to the
liberty of 'the people, as to the preservation of
Created 'powers, under whatever form instituted, for
the defence of society. Lastly, as if so many works
were not yet sufficient to satiate that passion for study and
knowledge which consumed him, Mr. Mahe Brun' charged
hiMself, during the last few months, with the drawing up
of a " Dictionary of Universal Geography " in one volume,
which is already in part printed, and for which he had
formed, with all the care of which he was capable; the vo-
cabulary of technical words necessary for understanding
'every book on the subject of geography. Human strength
hal its limits, and Mr. Mahe Brun was not aware that his
was exhausting. His friends were the first to make
the melancholy observation, Absolute rest for a few
weeks would have been sufficient to re-establish his health,
the loss of which every day became more apparent. Such

. .
repose was recommended- to him, but he neglected the
counsels of friendship. Ina short time the disease made
frightful progress,
:yet he alone perceived it not. The
crisis at length arrived. For three days only he was pre-
vailed on to keep,'his room; but even in this almost
desperate state he still felt a longing to render himself use-.
ful, and only death, happily without pain, was able to
solatett:tbeirenkor4e*tiffening lingers. Mr. Melte Brun
has left w wstio* and two eons behind him.