The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-18 00:00:00

tr 13-Lit the truth, through all the,spht:rP3 ,f society,
is the very quality which is 'least valued by vulgar
rninas—from the . vulgar-minded staieSmin, who
deems playing with ./the truth nn offici?l acomplish-
menti to -the, dealer and- chapman, who-, together
with the mass of the buSy, considers shetr-lyirig as
the staple_eugitie of tradP.- • _
Shallow, short-sighted policy!
That no case can ever occur in which a blicking
:of the truth may interpose a momentary!wept froth
embarassment would; perhaps,- be too it,ch sweep-
ingly to.attirm. lint what a charming state of
when detection in- the truth forms only the excep-
tion. The truih„,even to-it-Rise who_are wltoitc in-
sensible to its native bounty, will, a, Mere-ma-I.er of
expediency,` be forever- found td be the safest rule
of a6tiOn. Mistaken, indeed;are they who think that
motives are ingredients: to- lying. As.- profound
,would the philosophy be which held motives to 'he
essential to malignity. Set the Malice, and the lies
which arrise from personal incentives,: agailist .the
lies and the malice which are-purely gratuitous, the
former will instantly kick the beam;
" You Shall as soon find her without her tongue
as her excuse" says Rosalind, who is imagined to be
deeply versed ,in her own se*,.. 'But,, u here there
exists no necessity for excuses, nay, where the whole
truth is vitally important to-the respondent,'it is not
without difficulty that the truth is extraeled arid
eKed in hems and half- sentences. Aperson, a
little while since, warned a physician of eminence
(the first in the obstetric line), that a vestal'was
coming to consult him on the next day; and, from
• anxiet for the Lady's health and reputation, hinted
to the doctor not to be too credulous: The dr:dor
quieted the warner by telling him, that his experi-
ence- bad forced, upon -him a systematic distrust of
almost every-thing that his fair patients told him
niion certain topics—aye, even though life:and Ito-
nour required the whole truth. So it is, generally,
not universally of course, from the cradle to 'the,
grave. What between nature -and the' nurse, be-
tween instinct and
.example, truth is either wholly
suppressed or dolled out according- to fancies of
convestience, .or in fits of -caprice. The tongue
seems to get epileptic at the utterance of truth.
The anatomy of the human mouth appears with
many people—how in any ?—ta lose its funCtions
when it is not fibbing.
Several noble, instances; of noble coqueting with
truth, in many a noble person, of both sexes, occur
to the writer at this moment..

"And if yet higher the proud list ascend'' some
fine examples are not wanting of Very superb lying
Indeed.

That the natural turpitude of lying should beget
disciples is not the wonder ; the wonder only is,
how people should lie, when the lies are not only
useless to themselves but absolutely mischiavons.—
The unfortunate man whose attempt upon his own
life has' furnished occasion for this arbele, used to
'exult, not entirely without reason, that latterly, he
had been turning prettily to the truth. But if he
had taken to*the truth in right earnest, he had never
cut his throat. Had he taken wholly to the truth,
he had been among the happiest of mankind.
No principle is more certain than that the proper
parent of crime is lying. Lying is the .true father,
and grandfather, and great
.grandfather of all vice.
And true as_it is, this proposition is not more true
than its converse., Let . the most depraved' beings
under the sun—if a heart the most indurated with
'guilt, try the truth, as by experiment, even for a
single day,, from that single day they are meliorated,
Right, quoth the Reader, who will probably, keep
his devious course the next minute. The listener ap-
plauds, but will lie not the less the next hour--
Laudatur et abet.
Of any great, moral innovation in this early and
late, in this grand paramount privilege of that para-
gon of animals, man, slight, indeed, is the danger.
Slight is the danger that the ancient, wholesome-, and
well-probed right of lying will ever rust from disuse;
for, as It was in the beginning, the world is now,
and ever will be—lying to the end.

AN ADMIRER OF THE VENERABLE

CUSTOM OF LYING.

A violent storm was experienced On the eastern
coast, on Wednesday laSt: The fleet bound to the
Baltic, about 70 sail, under convopof the Pandora
sloop of war, and Starling gun-brici, 'lying in
Hozeley Bay, sustained considerable °damage, by
some of the ships dritting, and obliging others to.
cut; about b 0 ships lost their. anchors. Several
vessels also lost their anchors in the Downs:
The Rev. Philip Du Val Aufrere, B.- A. is insti-
tuted to the Rettory of Bawdeswell, in Norfolk on
the presentation of Sir John Lombe, Bart.
On Monday se'rutight,, the .reniains of a hthrtan
skeleton were' dug up on the bank side, near the
'Southern end of Stephenson-street, `North Shields.
An old house was lately pulled. down near the spot,
to enlarge the street, and within-a fewyards of its
site, the bones. were discovered. A few years ago
another skeleton was dug up near (he same plate.
It is believed this was the old house wherein, in
then resident at Chir-
-1705; the Duke of Argyle,
„ived so many braises and wounds in a night-
brawl, as to occasion his death shortly after. It was
occupied by Paphian nymphs, and olten resorted to
. by the' noble profligate.
The following simple remedy against the depre-
dationsOf mice in corn•stacks, is tecommended by.
its undoubted efficacy.—" .Sprinkle from tout to
six bushels-of dry'white sand upon the' roof of the,
stack, before the thatch is put on." The sand is
no detrithent to the corn; and the sacks thus dressed,
have remained without injury, whilst adjoining ricks
have • suffered much. So very 'effective is the'
remedy, that nests of dead young mice have been
found where the sand has been used; but not 'a live
mouse could be seen.

SHIP

GRAVESEND, SEPT. i 6.,

Arrived—the Adventure, Keith, from Rio raneiro ;
hernia, Banks, froin Nlartiniqus: ; and the Britannia, Pater-
son, from Quebec.
Sailed—tile Pursuit, Chavers, for the Cape ; Thalia, liar-
die, for St. Thomas's ;
.Maryland, Mott, for i3altimore;
and the Attive, Brown, for Malta.

SCOT-LAND. I

EDI ViIURGI-1, SEPT. 13.—1 t is in contemplation
to prevent the Old Bridge of Doon from being de-
molished. By the report of, tradesmen it is declar-
ed to be in so ruinous state. as t] ren.!er it impu-
dent any longer to allow carriaeoopass, and even
to justify it; condemnatien. '1 he ,old bridge boastS
a very, lrigh antiquity,-and iS.Considered as. one of the
finest archeOn Europe, being- it height and'span
equal, if not superior, to the Rialto at Venice:. It
also forais an interesting feature 'in that exquisie
pit:ture .Of his native scenery, drawn by Burns in
'his " Tam O'Sliariter."' The cottage in 'which the
poet was born, Alio*? • Kirk, and. the Auld Brig,
are objeas that give such a charm to the landscape,
in the eye (4 the stranger, who has read ariA'ad.:
mired the writing; of Coilia's bard, that the annihi-
lation of -any one of them would prove the subje&
of general regret. Under these impressions, a sub-
scription has been seton foot, with a view to raise
a fund, to be applied in purchasing, repairing, and
keeping up the venerable edifice. It is also intend-
ed, if the fund prove adequate; to ere& a statue or
bust of Burns on the centre of the arch; and to
make the Old Bridge a thoroughfare for foot pas-
sengers only, as soon as the new one shall be
finished.

As the launch belonging to the Adamant, 50, 'was
going out of Leith liarbt'Air, on Monday afternoon,
laden with coals for the Cho sloop of war, it blow-
ing fresh frOm the west, she was struck by a wave,
and, filling with water, almost immediately sunk,
close to a Danish brig. Luckily the crew, consist-
ing of eight men, and- the master of the Clio, got
hold of the brig's cable, and the boat of which being
alongside, they were all saved.
On Friday night, about t i o'clock, as a lady was
going home, attended by her servant, three young
men, with aprons on, came up to them on the
North Eridge, near the POst-Otfik..e, and knocked
down the man twice, without the smallest provoca-
tion, and then went off.

On Wednesday, an unfortunate accident hap-
pened at the quarry near the Fire-Works on• the
Cathcait-road. The crane unhappily gave way,
while the workileople were' raising a large stone;
Which imrnediately fell, and crushed a labourer who
was below, in such a manner, that'he languished
under great agony till Thuisday morning, when he
died.

ABERDEEN, SEPT. 12.--The sloop Peterhead Pac-
ket; Philip, of and for this place, from- SUnderland
with lime, in coming too.close round the Girdleness
on the evening, of Sunday se'ennight, struck the
rock called the Girdle, and soon after fell on her
broadside, the crew having barely time to laimch
their boat, and get clear of the vessel. Next d;;y,
owing to the deck blowing up, and part of her
rigging being cut away, the mast broke from her,
and the vessel drifting from the rock, was carried to
the Southward by the flood tide,'and found near
the Cove by three boats from that place, which
towed her into this. bay; being nearly under water,
she was with some difficulty got into the harbour on
Wednesday, very much damaged, but with &rat
part-of her materials still on board, some part of
them being previously saved.

Nine tenths of the Officers in the French army
have sprung from the ranks. Edoeated in distant
camps, they know no other country, ; and, habituat-
ed by long devotion to the track of war, it has be-
conse their element and- passion. Their whole. tor-
tune is staked on the sword, and their attachment
is therefore necessarily secured under the influence
of a leader whose indefatigable ambition occupies
them in their favourite pursuits, and whose liberal
impartiality feeds the hope of preferment, and di-
vides thefruit of conquests. Of the eighteen Mare-
chaux- d'Empire, fourteen have either ernerg,d from
the ranks, or ascended from the lowest employ-
ments. Most of the Generals of division, and others
who .hold the principal commands, have the same
origin. We annex the following sketch :
Massena, a subaltern in the Sardinian service at
the -beginning of the RevOlution ; rose gradually,
and in 1793,.becatne a General of Brigade.
Mortier, a Captain of a Volunteer company in his
native. province at the same period..
Ney, •an ' hussar: and an Adjutant=General in
179.6, after passing-through all thc inferior grades,
Soult was a subaltern before the Revolution in a
regiment of infantry ; and an Adjutant-General in
1795. = , ,

Jundt began his career in 1792, as a grenadier in
one of the volunteer battalions, commanded by
General Pille, and, in 1796, was one' of the Aids-
de-Cariap of BuOnaparte.
Murat served originally in' the constitutional
guard of Louis XVI. became afterwards an OffiCer
in the 12th Regiment of Chasseurs de Cheval, &c..
Lefebvre, son of a miller of Alsace,. became a
Serjecint in the regiment Of French Guard's before
the Revolution.

Perignon, after aging as a Jtistice of the Peace at
Monte Sch, engaged in the army; and passed ra-
pidly through all the subordinate grades, and in 1794
commanded the army of the Eastern Pyrenees..
Bessieres; Originally a common soldier, became,
in 1796,- a Captain of Infantry in the army. of ltaly.
Attereau, a private in the Neapolitan service in
1787, became soon after a feneing-master "at
; in 1792, entered as a vOiunteer in the artny
of Italy ; and in 1794 was a General of Brigade in
the army of the Pyri .?es. •
Bernadotte, at the commencement of the Revolu-
tion, a Serjeant in the regiment of Royal Marines ;
in 1794, a General of Division.
Jourdan enlisted in 1778, but left the service in
1784 ; was a shopkeeper at the commencement of
the Revolution.

Kellerman
,began his career as a simple hussar in
the regiment ol Conflans:
* Lasnes, originally a common soldier, became,
in 170, Adjutant of _Division in the. Nrationpt Guard
of Parii,

-* Brune, a printer, at the commencetn'ent of the
Revolution, a member of the Club cat Cordeliers, and
an intimate friend of Danton, commenced big mili-
tary career in 1792.

* Both dead,