The Sun.
London, England, 1821-07-07 00:00:00

BUONAPARTE.

The following extract of a letter dated St. He-
lena, May 7, contains some further particulars
relative to the closing scene of the mortal career of
Buonaparte. It was written by an English officer
who was on the island at the time of his death,
and had ample opportunities of verifying his state-
ments :

" ST. HELENA, 11faY 7.
" As it was the express wish of Buonaparte that. his body
should-be opened, and as.it was also most desirable to the au.
thorities here that the true seat of his disease should be aster_
tamed, it took place at two o'clock yesterday, the day after his
death. • There were present, his own surgeon, who operated, the
surgeon of the Admiral's ship, and five other surgeons ; the
Deputy Adjutant-General, and Brigade Major, with Bertrand
and.Montholon. When the chest was opened, the liver was
found to be perfectly sound, with not a mark of disease about
it. The French surgeon even cut it through with his dissect-
ing knife, and all the surgeons who were present agreed that
no " liver complaint" had ever existed. So much for the dis-
cernment of Messrs. O'Meara and .Stokoe.. But when they
proceeded to the examination of the stomach, all the surgeons
instantly called. out There is the seat of the disease.' It was a
4 cancer-of the Stomach ;' the same disorder, I understand, of
which his father died ; there was a hole in one part of it large
enough to admit the point of a man's finger: The medical men
unanimously agreed that it could not have been produced by the
climate, or by depression of mind, and that he must have died,'
as 'lladarrie Bertrand exclaimed when the appearance of his
diSorder was dLs2ribed to her, had he been in the midst of his
glory at Austerlitz.' ' With regard to the lying in state of the
body and the general admission of the inhabitants of the island
to view it, Sic Hudson Lowe left the matter entirely to the
option of Bertrand and ‘lontholon, who however both acquiesced
in it, and even wished that it should be the case. Accordinal,
in the afternoon of yesterday, soon after the examination of his
body by the surgeons, he was dressed in his green uniform, with
red facings and all his stars and orders." [This circumstance
appears to have given rise to the belief, which is now ascertained
not to be correct, that Buonaparte died in his military uniform.]
" An immense number of persons, both yesterday and this
morning, have been to see him. It was one ,of the most strik,
ing spectacles at which I had ever the fortune to be present.
The view of his countenance, frbin which I felt it scarcely pos.
sible, even for an instant, to withdraw my eyes, gave me a sen.
sation I cannot describe ; but the impression it made on me w.ll
never be forgotten. His hands' were as white as WAX, aed telt
soft, though toe chill of death was upon them. His remains
must soon be closed from mortal view. In this warm climate
dead bodies soon become offensive, and though all the
dispatch possible is used in preparing the leaden coffin:,
it is already time that he was soldered np. General or-
ders are issued that he is to be buried with the highest
military lionourS ; and, perhaps, Thursday or Friday next
will be the day. He had for some time past fixed on a particular
spot, which is also, I understand, mentioned in his will, a short
distance from Longwood, for his burial-place, in the event of its
being determined that his remains should be deposited at St.
Helena. It is close by a small spring of water, of which he al.
ways drank, and some time since he used frequently to breakfast
under the two willow-trees which bend over the bubbling
water. It is 'rather difficult of access, but pioneers are making a
way, and as there is no want of hands, it will soon be ready.
Buonaparte was perfectly aware of the nature of his coin.
plaint, and frequently described it to those about him, but was
never able to convince his surgeons that he had a just notion of
it. In the early stage of the disease, which is o. long time ago,
he commenced a statement of it, with his different sensations at
different periods, and continued it up to within a few days of
his death. It is intended for his son.
" It is a singular coincidence, that the Waterloo East India.
man, laden with necessaries for his establishment at Longwood,
arrived only two days before his death, just in time to witness
his final setting."
- [The dispatches brought by the Heron are dated the 7th, and
not the 17th of May, as originally stated. Capt. Hendrie, who
brought them, landed at Dartmouth, but no letters were put on
shore till the arrival of the Heron on Thursday at Portsmouth,
which accounts fir the very deficient information as to detail,
which was obtained of this remarkable event on the day it wag
first circulated in London.]—(Times.)

The French Minister has declared his. inten-
tion of making a loan immediately of ten millions
of rentes.—(Morning chronicle.)
NEW PEERS.—The following are mentioned for
the rank of British Peers : —Sir Thomas Liddell, Lord James
Murray, Sir Thomas Freeman Heathcote, Right Hon. Wm.
Wellesley Pole, Cecil Weld Forrester,Esq., Mr.Cholmondeley
(Cheshire), the Marquess of Conyngham, and the Earl of Do-
noughmore ; Lady Charlotte Strutt to be a Baroness, and the
Earl of Ailesbury to be a Marquess. Sir W. W. Wynn has
declined a Barony. •
FREEmASolvity.—The New Freemasons' Ball
at Newport, MOnmouthshire, was dedicated on Tuesday by
J. H. Moggidge Esq. H. W. Grand Master for this City and
County, assisted 'by his Provincial Grand Officers ; the W.
Masters, Officers, and Brethren of several Lodges in this and
the adjoining Provinces, attended ; and after the usual cere-
mony, proceeded in Masonic form to St. Wollas Church, where
a most excellent and impressive discourse was delivered -by the
Reverend N. Smith, P. G. Chaplain,-to ,n -to a very crowded 'con.
gregation, and a collection of Sacred Music by Brothers, Leder,
Garbett, and Rolle. The day was remarkably fine, and. the
procession had a most grand and imposing appearance ; at four
o'clock upwards of 100 Brethren partook of a sumptuous ban-
quet at the Parrot Inn, and the day finished with that harmony
and good fellowship which are peculiar to The Craft.---(Bath
Herald.)
Mrs. GLOVER and DOWTON are now the attrac-
tions of the Liverpool' Theatre, where they ap-
peared, on Monday evening, in the characters of
the Widotr Cheerly and Governor Hear/all.
• The Ladies defend the tightness of their
dresses on two very plausible grounds—that it
displays the beauty of their waist and prevents
llic •
taste of materials.

THE. LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS

July 7.

[MORNING POST.]
Mr. Brougham closed his speech yesterday in
fawn: of the Queen's claim to participate in the
honours of a Coronation, and was followed by
Mr. Denman. On the arguments adduced we
!hall not now enlarge ; but we cannot help re-
. marking that to tis they seem merely to prove
what was never doubted, that, by ancient custom,
the Queen consort has generally been crowned
with the King, or at some other period which he
might think proper to appeint. "We needed no
Ghost to ten us this ;" but as it is not proved
that.the Queen on such occasions is bound by an
oath to watch with maternal care over the wel-
fare of the people, in her case the ceremony
' seems but a Compliment which the King has'a
Tight to pay if he thinks proper; but which it is
equally crear he has a right to withhold. In the
Tresent case, supposing her Majesty to be the
-thrrst innocent of women, too much is unhappily
hnown of the terms on, which she and her Royal
C.,.nsort Mint meet (if they meet at all), to make
it reasonable to expect that the King should feel
anxious to augment the splendour .of his Corona-
tion by soli-citing her presence. The pageant, 6r
the festival—were she bidden to them under
circumstances, would, we apprehend, yield
her Majesty little pleasure.; and had a wish for
her attendance on this grand, occasion been- but
expressed in a certain quarter, we think we may
almost venture to assert, that it would have been
trtet with a flat refusal to comply. -

It will be seen from Mr. Brougham's Speech
that the book which he had been refused by the
Dean and Chapter of Westminster was not with-
held through the interference of any one con-
nected with the Government, but in compliance
with a Statute passed in the time of Queen Eliza-
beth, under which they are restrained from giving
it in compliance with an unauthorised application.
Far from attempting to baffle her Majesty's
Counsel by throwing any impediments in their
way, or withholding any document which might
enable them to sustain the claim so strongly set
up, we know that the Noble Lord at the head of the
Rome Department has taken care that every
thing the State Paper Office could afford should
be forthcoming at their demand, anxious on this,
as on every occasion, that her Majesty should he
treated, not with impartial justice, but with
Eberal indulgence.—(Mid.)

[BRITISH PRESS.
The Privy Council assembled again yesterday,
at ten o'clock in the morning, in pursuance of
their previous order, for the purpose of hearing
the further arguments of the Queen's Counsel in
support of her Majesty's claim. Mr. Btougham
resumed his argument, in which he descanted at
great length upon the importance of, the right
claimed by the Queen, and contended that it was
derived to her Majesty from immemorial usage,
and was as necessarily associated with public in-
terests and with the private rights of 'many indi-
viduals who claimed to hold lands by services
to be performed to her Majesty at her coronation,
as was even the coronation of the King himself.
Mr. Denman followed on the same side, but had
not concluded his argument at two o'clock, when
the Council adjourned. The King's Attorney
and Solicitor General will be heard against the
-claim. Should the Council decide that the
legal right of being crowned with her illus-
trious Consort, is in the Queen, the Minis-
ters will not, we think, venture to advise his
Majesty to separate his coronation from that of
the Queen, even though the honour were to
be granted to her Majesty of receiving the Crown
subsequently in a distinct Coronation, and the
King will never consent to sharing the same ce-
remony with his Queen. In the event, therefore,
of the Council's deciding in favour of her Ma-
jesty's claim, it is most probable that no Corona-
tion will take place. Having noticed yesterday
the circumstance of,the difficulty experienced by
Mr. Brougham in his application to the Dean and
Chapter of Westminster for permission to inspect
the Libcr Regalis, it is but right that we should
r:ow give equal publicity to Mr. Brougham's sub-
sequent admission, that an Act of Parliament-had
been passed in the reign of Elizabeth, which pre-
vented the Dean and Chapter from acceding to
Mr. Brougham's first request.

[NEW TIMES.]
We apprehend, we may now be permitted to
say, than there is an end to the absurd notion of
the Queen's legal right to be crowned. It is
true, the Privy- 'Council has not decided upon
the question : but the arguments of her Majes-
ty's Counsel have been heard ; and any thing
more inconclusive, we. will venture to assert was
never adduced before so high a Tribunal.--
What these Gentlemen had to maintain was this
—that the Queen had a legal right to be crowned
at-the same time as the King—observe, a legal
right : and what is their argument? That it has
been customary for Queens Consort with some
exceptions to be crowned with the Kings their
husbands. One would think a child might per-
ceive that these two propositions have nothing at
all to do with each other. In the first place,
their proof of the
,custom, in point of fact, is ab-
solutely ridiculous. In the lapse of 755 years,
how many instances do they produce ? Eight!—
namely, Edward 1., Edward IL, Richard
Henry VIII„ James 1,, James. IL, George 11.,
and- George 111. On the other hand, the fol-
lowing Kings, with wives living at the time of
their Coronation, were crowned alone, viz.:—
William 1., Stephen, Charles Charles IL, and
George I. And this is gravely called proof of
an uninterrupted custom!! Failing on the di-
rect point which_ they have to prove, they try
to help it, by analogy from the Coronation
of Queens, who were married subsequently to
the Coronation of their husbands. But this is
not the question now for consideration. It may
hereafter be urged, to show that the Queen has a
right to be crowned alone ; but it does not prove
what she now contends for, aamely, that she has

a right to be crowned with the King. Clearly
therefore there is - not the slightest'pretence for
saying, that the alleged custom is proved, in
point of fact. Nay, on their own showing, it is,
as a custom, distinctly disproved. Bat if they
had established their facts, what then ? Where
is the legal right ? Persons who argue on such
matters as these ought to have precise ideas, at
least of the chief terms which they employ. Now,
what idea have these Gentlemen of a legal right?

[MORNING CHRONICLE.)
The case for the Queen was closed yesterday,
and this day, it is understood, that the Attorney
General will be heard in answer.—We refer our
Readers to the Reports of the very able and
learned speeches of her Majesty's Counsel, (See
the San of this dag,) in whose hands we may
safely leave her case. We know not what their
opponents can urge in opposition to the
powerful reasoning by which they establish
her. Majesty's right. We have seen some
attempts at an answer in the Ministeri4-1 Pa-
pers, which, if they are to be taken as a 'sample
of what we have to expect from his Majesty's
Counsel, are not calculated to excite much
alarm. " If the Queen," says a.Morning Paper,
" had a right to be crowned, it must be altoge-
ther independent of the fact of the King's Coro-,
nation ; or else she must have a right to compel
him to be crowned for the sake of putting her in
possession of her right ! which is an absurdity
too great to be for a moment contemplated. 11l
she had a right she would have a legal remedy
for the refusal of that right, and we should see
Mr. Brougham coming into ;the Court of King's
Bench to move for a mandamus to his Majesty,
to admit his Royal ,Consort to participate in the
solemnity of Coronation." We confess we were
not before aware, that the Court of King's Bench
could in any case be moved for a mandamus to his
Majesty. We have heard of another form in usp
when the subject seeks for justice against the
Sovereign—but let that pass.

[THE TIMES.]
The official account of the quarter's revenue
"appears in another part of our paper.—(See: also
THE SUN this day.)—These periodical ex-parte
statements have too long lost their credit with the
public, to justify our bestowing much notice upon
them. The present return exhibits a falling off
in the Excise, the Stamps, and the Post-office
the first denoting a diminished power in. the
population at large to indulge in the use of
the necessaries of life; and the other two, less
activity in the internal trade of the coun-

try, and less frequent interchange of property.
Foreign commerce, of which the customs may be
assumed as the barometer, appears, though in a
slight degree, to be reviving. An instance of dis-
ingenuousness is exposed by this return, 'which
should not pass without observation. In order
to convey the more decided impression of the
prosperous state of the Revenue, we are told for
the first time that the quarter ending July, 1420,
was increased more than 140,0001., by payments
which belonged in fact to the preceding quarter,
and therefore that the quarter ending July,lB2l,
should have the benefit, on a fair comparison, of
that sum. Yet in July, 1820, no notice was
taken of this circumstance, and the public were
left to conclude that all the amount stated as the
produce of the quarter-, -actually belonged to it.
Ilow can we be certain, then, that a similar re-
serve is not made in the present instance, and the
fact withheld to give a false colouring to the-re-
turn for July, 1822

[MORNING HERALD..
A rumour prevails that the Governor of St. He-
lena had, lying in his hands, an instruction from
Government, that in case of the death of Buona-
parte, his body should be transported to Europe.
ft would be painful to execute such an order in
violation of his dying request. But if that diffi-
culty did not present itself, and' it should turn
out that this part of the intelligence is unfounded,
it would not be unworthy of the English nation
to, give him a burial suitable to the singularity of
his life and the superiority of his talents. It has
been said that—
" An honest man's the noblest work of God,"
in which, by the bye, there is no more morality

lan poetry. But a man endowed with one of

those extraordinary intelligences which appear
but once in the course of many ages, is certainly
the grandest production of nature; and if the
sentiments and the usages of this life are entitled
to any consideration, the death of such a man is
a

-1 event which should be signalized with corres-
pondent solemnity. Such a ceremonial would be

perfect and pleasing accord with the public

heart and imagination. The tomb of guona-
parte would be an interesting, and even proud
monument in England. As to his long hostility
to this country, the national forgiveness is, we be-
lieve, most complete, Should the body be brought
to Europe, it is not likely that it would be
claimed by his family, the members of which are
quite scattered, and debarred from leaving the
different and distant places assigned to them.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Thursday se'nnight,
at mid-day, Mr. Kent, the aquatic pedestrian, ex-
hibited on the river Cart, at Paisley, in presence
of a vast crowd of spectators. The day was fa-
vourable, and the people were seated on the banks
of the river. A most unhappy event, however,
occurred, which greatly disturbed the spectacle.
A fire took.place in Smithhills-street, devouring
the property of Mr. James Brown, broker and
wright there. His men had gone out to view the
scene already mentioned, and during their ab-
sence the fire is supposed to have extended from
the grata [of the workshop to some combustibles
with which they had been repairing furniture.--
A number of tradesmen who have no other me-
thod of living than by their industry, have lost
their all in every sense of the expression. The
damage has been very great to Mr. Brown. Mr.
Brown had neglected to.insure his property, and
became greatly disconsolate. Early on Friday
morning he leaped out of the window in the apart-
ment where he had gone to rest, by which acci-
dent his ribs on one side were driven from their
proper position, both of his arms broken, and his
body btherwise injured.

FOREIGN LITERATURE.

(No. XXVIII.)

ANECDOTES of the NINETEENTH CENTURY ; a
COLLECTION of MODERN STORIES and ANEC-
DOTES, hitherto unpublished, of Traits and Sayin&s little
known, of singular Adventures, &c. &c. by J. A. S.. CoLLiN
DE PLANCY, 2 vols. Bvo. Paris, 1821.
What a terrible man- M. Collin de Plancy is !
What has he done ? Don't you know ? He' corn.
piled the Feudal Dictionary ,• he compiled the
Infernal Dictionary; and he also wrote. The Devil
painted by himself: Is this enough ? With such a
'rough adversary prejudices have not fair play ;
he gives them no quarter. Voltaire may perhaps
• have attacked them with as much wit, but not
with equal fury.
In France you hear incessantly of the near re-
turn of feudalism and superstition. The French
need not be under any alarm ; they- will never
return. M. Collin de- Plancy keeps too good a
watch over them. Feudalism and superstition
will never dare to shew themselves where he is;
but are not these alarmists laughing at the
French. Can they mean seriously thus to speak
of feudalism and superstition ? Are either of them
much to be feared in the present day ?
What, feudalism! after the Revolution! Feu-
dalism! with their charter-and its august author.
Feudalism I Sovereigns wish for it lessz perhaps;
than their -übjects. And - Superstition ! Is the
age inclined to be superstitious ? Do•you think
over much or not enough, tell M. Collin de
Plancy; but perhaps we must attack this opinion
still farther. The French are
.no longer, it is
true, in those days when. we read on the, gate of
Saint .Roch, in legible characters, these four
lines, placed there by one of the superstitious in
that quarter :

Nous abolissons en ce lieu
Le culte et sottises semblables;
II serait plaisant de voir Dieu
Loa par an peuple de diables.
No, that time is gone by ; but it must be ad-
mitted, even by the liberaux, that the French
have a long journey to take before they can reach
the threshold of superstition. M. Collin de Plancy
declares in positive. terms that reason will
triumph. I had no longer any doubt respecting
it, as soon as M. Collin de Plancy, taking her
under his protection, published his FEUDAL
DICTIONARY, his Itifernal Dictionary, his Devi
painted by himself, and recently his Anecdotes of
the Nineteenth Century.'
I say of the Nineteenth Century, because I am
too polite to give a flat contradiction to the title

page; for M. Collin de Plancy knows perfectly
well that some, of his modern stories are of a very
respectable antiquity, and that the same may be
said of his anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century,
which were not indeed very young at the be-
ginning of the fourteenth. .If 1 had bowed to
all the old acquaintances whom I met with 'in
this collection hitherto unpublished, my hat would
have been used as often as was honest Joe
Miller's ; but could it he otherwise ? Did you
expect that M. Collin de I'lancy would give you
two good sized volnmes, in which every thing
should be new and poignant. We ought not to
expect so much from a compilation.
However, we must not lose sight of the author's
object : his attacks are especially directed against
feudalism and superstition ; and to meet the
enemy he is obliged to go back to ages long past,
our's not being, whatever some people. may say,
either very feudal or much inclined to supersti-
tion..

The work of M. Collin de Plancy may, per-
haps, on this account, be less interesting ; but
this writer, whose taste is solid, has attended
more to our instruction than our amusement.—
" Perhaps," says he, " /shall make you think,
and I prefer doing so to writing an amusing book,
because the time devoted to its perusal will not
be a subject of regret." Let us, therefore, think
with M. Collin de Plancy, but amuse ourselves
with others.

I open the first volume, and find at the fourth
page the melancholy story of Maria of Brabant.
" This princess," we are told, " one day gave
" two letters to a messenger ; one for her hus-
" band, the Duke of Bavaria, the other for the
" Rhingrave. Unfortunately the messenger could
CC not read, and delivered to the husband the let-
" ter intended for the Rhingrave. The result is
" well known ; the messenger, the supposed
lover, Maria of Brabant, her governante, and
44 her first maid of honour, all lost their lives."
This happened in 1250; and it must be admitted
that the author goes back a little too far in search of
his anecdotes of the nineteenth century ; but if
what he relates affords you an useful lesson, and
makes you think, why should you complain ?
CC All these evils," judiciously remarks M.
Collin de Plancy, " would not have taken place

the messenger had been able to read ;" and

hence he argues, that we ought to give in-
struction to all classes of society ; but this,
he adds, is contrary to the wishes of the admirers
of feudalism and the partisans of tobscztrantisme.
No, they are decidedly opposed to nations being
taught to read, becauSe they know " that an ig7
norant people suffer themselves to be more easily
led by their rulers." Will you now reproach M.
Collin de Plancy for having recalled to your me-
mory •the fatal accident which befell Maria of
Brabant ? You see the use he makes of it against
feudalism and superstition ; at least, it teaches
us, under like circumstances, in order to avoid so
disastrous a mistake, to chuse a messenger who
knows how to read, and would not deliver to the
husband a letter addressed to another person.
Besides, such a lesson is not without its value,
and it is of little consequence whether the anec-
dote- which furnishes it be young or old. Let
us, therefore, not cavil with M. Collin de Plancy
respecting the ages of those whiel- he recounts':
let us pass over even the will of P. Pithon, the
apology of St. Barthelemy, by Guy du Faur de
Pibrac, the brief of .the Pope who established the
Inquisition in France, and other extracts which

the deems very curious, but which we are rather
surprised to find in a collection of anecdotes and
bons mots of the 19th century ; we -ought, how-
ever, to overlook many faults in a writer who
Nukes us think.

The misfortune is, that we do not always know
what M. Collin de Plancy thinks himself, even
on some very important points. For instance,
he boaits in his first volume of the politeness and

amiable manners of the French, and their pro-
gress in civilization and knowledge. After
reading this passage, the French may well feel
proud at being born in the 19th century ;, but, as
if he took a pleasure in mortifying their pride,
M. Collin de Pinney, in his second volume,
exclaims in a tone of anguish, bordering on des•
pair :—" Alas ! we are still barbarians ; and yet
" we talk of our knowledge and politeness.—,
" Can a country seem to you habitable, because
among a hundred thousand savage beasts, there
" are a few civilized animals." To which of these
two opinions must we subscribe ? Are the French
savage beasts You shall soon be satisfied.
The Anecdote related by M. Collin de Plancy
in support of his grievous accusation is so ter-

rible, so afflicting, that for the honour of the age
and France I wish I could contradict it. Read
and shudder:—" In the month of February last,
" some men were seen in the Tuileries beating
" unmercifully an unfortunate spaniel, about
" whose neck a tri-coloured ribbon had been-
" imprudently tied." And who were these

wretches? Do you wish to know ? 0 feudalism!
0 superstition ! They are, says M. Collin de
Plancy, they are the causes which produce poli-
tical and religious fanaticism. It was
_this fana-
ticism, you cannot for a moment doubt it, which
occasioned the spaniel's ill-treatment and death.
We must, therefore, no longer talk of French
civilization and French politeness ; for the anec-
dote is quite recent. The blood of the victim

still smokes, and will long smoke.
Again, M. Collin de Plancy expresses his opi-
nion on the domestic manners of the French

" Formerly," be says, 64 they were dreadful.
" The gteater number of women were prosti-
" totes." A very delightful recollection for
those of the present day. The Revolution has
changed every thing. -A female sceptic is now
a rare phenomenon. " Can you mention an age,"
says M. Collin de Plancy, 64 which has been
" distinguished for so much virtue as the pre-
" sent ?" And to what cause do the French owe
this happy change ? You will never guess. " To
" politics, which occupy all the leisure moments
44 of the French ladies :" and as M. Collin de

Plancy sees you smile,—" Do you think," he
continues, " that they understand this subject
" worse than you ?" No, assuredly not. "Do
cc you think that if you had a representative
" chamber of French ladies, they would make
" bad laws ?" Quite the contrary. I am
convinced they would make very good laws,
and also that they would know how to delibe-
rate on them without disgrace or scandal. M.
Collin de Plancy had better not press me further
on this point,- for I have no great opinion of the
masculine French Chamber, and if he were to ask
me to abandon it to him, it is a sacrifice I shuuld,
not be very unwilling tomake. He will then have

the power of replacing It by his representative
chamber of French ladies ; but let him take care

to choose only young ministers, the majority de-
pends on it. The idea of M., Collin de Plancy
will perhaps appear rather strange: but after
having made so many experiments in politics,
why tould not the French try his suggestion ?
There may be reasons against, but there are also
some in favour of it, and those very strong. To a
word, after mature deliberation, I am of opinion
that this question may be put to the test and de-
cided in the present day without much danger.
If we are to believe M. Collin de Plancy, the
system of education in France is detestable ; and
he attributes it to superstition. The education
of women, who neither go to the schools of the
ignorant, nor to those of the university, is, ac-
cording to him, better than the present French
mode of instruction. " Before the Revolution,"
says the author, " they scarcely knew how to
" read, not even those belonging to the first.fami-
lies." Now, what do they not know ? But there
are certain things which they learn perhaps too late.
" Would it not be better to make young girls
comprehend earlier the meaning of words deemed
immodest?" This is a delicate question which M.
Collin de Plancy puts td the good mothers of fami-
lies who are earnestly desirous of perfecting the
education of their children ; and to facilitate the
solution he assures them that" preceptors who have
" determined to conceal nothing from their pu-
" pils, have found their plan crowned with
" excellent results." I should not have be-

lieved it; but M. Collin de Plancy attests the
fact, and I cannot any longer doubt it. 1k has
seen young girls, from whom nothing had been
hidden, listen with cold indifference to the most
perilous words; and on finding them so perfectly
unmoved, he could not help forming a good opi-
nion of their education. I beg pardon, bow pver,
of those preceptors...vho conceal nothing from their

pupils ; but 1 will not have any thing to do with
their method, in spite of the excellent results they
have obtained from it. M. Collin de Plancy may,
if he pleases, confide his daughters to their in-
struction, but they shall not have mine. They
would return to me too well informed. Politics
may be tolerated ; but words deemed immodest
make me tremble. The age has ylready well
finished the education of our sons; but we ear-
nestly intreat it, not to make such dispatch in
bringing our daughters to perfection : a know-
ledge of these things comes soon enough.

" My work," observes M. Collin de Pinney,
" communicates many remarks and details which
" I think new." All his readers will have plea-
sure ;n payiqg him this act of justice : his reflec-
tions, however, are not only new but very bold'
in proof of which we refer to his observations on
M an drin

I will not here discuss the articles intitled
Divine Missions, Miracles, Prophets and Pro-
phecies, Toleration, &c.—M. Collin de Plancy
ought to be obliged to me ; for; entre naus, his
jests are neither so new nor so keen as his reflec-
tions. I would recommend him to leave off jest-
ing on matters of religion.

With respect to feudalism, he would probably
speak less ill of it if he were better acquainted
with it; and especially if he could be persuaded
that we ought not to form a judgment of ancient
institutions according to our modern notions. The
feudal system was a very good institution ; it
insured protectors to the vanquished and un-
armed, and, owing to this greater security, ena-

bled.the,latter to make rapid, progress. iri the
arts, sciences, and all kinds of knowledge.
_Collectors of anecdotes and bons mots have
been compared by a wit: to those persons who
eat cherries or oysters; first chusing the best,
and fin►shing by eating ail. This yeMark, conveys
a just idea of the work• of COW!) de.Plancy.

'1 MELANCHOLY SUICIDE Or CHA:ILES THOMSON,
I ESQ. MASTER IN CHANCERY.-- Yesterday an In-
quest was held before TITOIAS STIRLING, Esq.
Coroner, in an apartment at the house of-Charles
Thomson, Esq. Master in Chancery, 14, Port-
land,place, who put a period •to his existence
under the following circumstances appear-
ed froni'the evidence adduced, that on Thursday
morning last the deceased was in his chamber;
about eight o'clock, when he rang the bell:for
the butler,- who immediately proceeded up'-
stairs. The deceased-told him to bring him some
water, on doing which he said that he should
- not want him for an hour. The butler accord-
ingly went up stairs at the expiration of the
hour, aiad he found the door of the deceased's
dressing room locked. Upon looking through the
. key-hole he observed a qnantity:of blood on the
floor. lie immediately made an ' alarm, which
brought up• stairs several servants, who forced
open the door, and found the deceased sittinga;ni
a chair in his, morning dress, with his throat cut
from ear to ear., Two razors were near the de-
ceased, one of which laid upon the table, and
the other upon 'the floor, and the place was co-
vered with blood. The family Were informed of
the horrid transaction, and Mr. Houghton; soy'.
-geon, of Conduit7street, was sent for, but the de-
ceased was quite dead. The evening before the
deceased rode out on horseback, apparently in
his usual state of health, and there was no:S-uSpi-
"cion whatever that he would have laid-Violent
hands upon himself. The only cause -to which
the commission -of the rash act can be attri-
buted is, that a short time' ago, he was attacked
With an apoplectic fit, which seemed to prey
_much on his _mind, and latterly he was ob-
served to be very low and. dejected. lle was
52 years of age ; he• has left a wife and ;artily.
It appears that the deceased first initde, tininci-
sion in his throat with one of the razors, -and
-completed the deadly gash with the second. Mr.
Houghton, for the satisfaction of all parties,
opened the deceased's head, and -found it in such
a state as was likely to have caused•derangetnent
of intellect : it is supposed that the act took place
on the impulse of the moment. Several witnesses
gave evidence as to the deceased's general con-
duct, and his state of mind, all of which tended
to prove what has been already stated. The
Jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased
committed the act himself, being at the time in a
state of mental derangement."
Within the last few days a considerable num-
ber of genteel foreigners have arrived in Londoa
in every direction, from the Continent, to wai-tnes
the magnificent ceremony of the Coronation.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, July G.

A mstet dant
Ditto, at Sight l2 15
Rotterdam ri 19
Antwerp' l2 12 ,•_•
Hambingli, 3B 10 9i Us
Altona
Paris, 3 Day's sight 25 55 0 Us.
Ditto - 26 20 i Us.
Bourdeaux, ditto
Frankforton the train
Madrid ..... 36 Effect!, e
Cadiz
Wilma 351 Effective
Barcelona
...
.
Seville
Gibraltar
.
Leghorn
(hi i.., ,04-Veliice, Ital. Lie 27 60
Malta 45 -Naples 341
Palermo
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio.lanrii 0
Dublin .... 9%

BULLION.

Portugal Gold, in Coin
Foreign Gold, in Bars
New Doubloons
New Dollars
Silver in Bars, Standard

7 .0 0 0 pet o%*
:1 17 10i
0 0 0
0 4 0
0 4 1041

CORN EXCHANGE, JULY G.
We have had but little fresh Wheat since Monday, but?
considerable part of that day's supply remained over for
morning's market, for whiar there was only a demand for
finest samples at Monday's Fices : all other deScr,
were unsaleable, although ofl-I:red at a rerluction of P;r
quarter. The arrivals-of Oats having bean small this Nvce^..'‘'
fine fresh Corn sold Is. per quarter higher, but at that advance
the trade was heavy. In Barley and Realm and Pease here
is no alteration. iption.s

• SMITHFIELD N 1 ARKET„TtrLY
The supply this morning at market was not so great
this day week in conseuence of which ail descriions
Cattle maintain the prices of last mar AA day. In t pthe 114
Market there i no alteration.

Price.
Ws. 6d. to 425- uv•
Us. 61 to 425. Sq.

• COAL MARKET, JULY 6.
Sl.iips at Market. Shins Sold
251 Newcastle - -
8i Sunderland

BIRTHS. •
Yesterday, at Hampstead, the wife of J. B. Nichols, Esq.
Parhament-street, of a daughter.
rig at
On Monday last, at his house, in Dover-street, the ,
Win. Newton, Esq. of q son.

. MARRIED. Of
a,
On the 28th ult. the Rev. George Gordon, M.A. Rte` ;il-, to
113mblJon, Rutland, eldest son of the Dean of tinc'°'n o',
Eliza Catherine, eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. &aunt"„ 7
itaunton U all, Notts. lli
Lately, at eoltnworth, Bedfordshire, the Rev. 11,-.44
s,,
A A
Richard Mattliews,.curate of that parish, to Ann, seccn,, -
ter of Mr. John Fielding, of Eaton Socon. •
-.----

DIED. r
On Wednesday last, at Clifton Hill, Clifton, Mrs.r.„;;bop of
son, daughter of the late Right Rev. Wilsoh,
Bristol.
Suddenly, at his house in Portland-place, on Thur,--
iag, Charks Thomson, Esq. one of the Masters 0'
Court of Chancery. He had had a paralytic :.;:r0 ;:e.,
h San 0f
been in a declining state for some time past. • x
On Thursday last, aged 27, William, the folvidalese •
Robert Vincent, Esq. of Bridgefoot, South Mims? ~,s-street,
On Thursday, the fith inst., suddenly, in Pri„n'tY' cheBt.,.
Drury-lane, by the rupture of a blood vessel of Lamb's
Frances, the wife of Mr. William Green, forrn.l,,t, Gosweli-
Conduit-street, but latterly of Pres:dent-stv'et
street
t -rheoad Devon', Pala,
n
On 4th inst., 'at Alphington Rector?,
ie wife of the Rev. Win. Eilionnibe.

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