The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-28 00:00:00

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,

Wit Mr. SOTHEBY, Bookseller, at his Honse, No. 145,
'Strand, opposite Catherine-street, on MONDAY, Novem-
ber 3, and Eight following Days (Sunday excepted), at
Twelve o'Clock,
A"Very. Extensive and Valuable MISCELLA-
NEOUS LIBRARY of the late HENRY IBBOT, Esq.
removed from his House at Islington : together with seine
Canons MISSALS and BOOKS of PitAYERS, in Black Let-
ter, from the Library of Mr. AMES.
To be viewed, and Catalogues (price Is.) had at the place
4of sale.

This Day were published,
Printed for J. J. Stockdale, 41, Pall-Mall,
pI.SHiON. Dedicated to all the Town.
By the Author of The Greeks, Pigeons, &c. One
Volume, 12mo. Six Coloured Plates, price Cs.
2. THE GREEKS. 15th Edition; Cs.
3. COLOURED PLATES to complete the first Eleven Edi-
tions, price Is. .
4. THE PIGEONS. sth Edition, Plates, Cs.
The above Works all contain innumerable Anecdotes of Fa-
, shionable Characters.

. •
This Day was published,
Elezantly printed in 4 Vols. Bro. (being the Fourth Edition),
illustrated with a Map• of Italy, Ten engraved' Plans 'of,
Churches, and It,dex, price al. in hoards, •
CLASSICAL TOUR THROUGH
r
Hvec est Italia diis sacra, hzeC gentes ejus, hzee oppida po-
- pulorunt.—Plin. Nat. Hist. iii. 20.
By the Rev. JOHN CHETWODS. EUSTACE.
Fourth Edition, revised and enlarged.
• In tbis Neu Edition, the Publisher his endeavoured,
tyllie addition of a large, accurate, and finely engraved Map
of Italy, and by a particular attention to the paper and type,
to do justice to a Work which the Public has received with
such uncommon partiality.
• The Map of Italy, separately, by Zannoni, price ss.
_Witted for J. Mawman, No. 39, Ludgate-street, London,

Of whom may be had,
Mr. Euston's Letter from Paris to George Petre, Esq.—
Tenth Edition,sro. 4s.
.._U* In the Press, the Fourth Edition of MILLAR'S
11ISTORICAL VIEW of the ENGLISH GOVERNME.NT,
front the Settlement of the 'Saxons in Britain to the Revolu-
tion in 1688.

This Day was published,
In Four Vols. 12mo. price il. I Is. 6d. Boards,
BRASS and HAVERILL , or, The
SECIZET of the CASTLE, a Novel. Containing—A
Madman and no Madman—Who Walks--L.Deeds of Darkness,
attc.--Re►uarkahie Characters, Incidents, Adventures, &c. in-
structive and entertaining.
"The Author has had the boldness to depict. in a style of
broad caricature, some modern characters of high rank and.
motoriety,, and to blend, among the incident's of a fictitious,
story, several transactions of so recta a date es to be still
the theme of general wt•onder and conjecture."
" Such of his characters and scenes as are taken front real
life may be easily Vaced.to their origin; but the reader is
left to interpret them in his own way, and at his own risk ;
for the Work professes to have no more offence itet' than
Ilatulet's-Play of Gonzaga."—Genl. Mag. June, 1817.
London: Published by Slm.wood, Neely, and Jones, Pater-
s:toter-row.
01 whom may be had, by the same Author,
1. Conirdan ; or, The St. Kildians ; a Moral. Tale. In 1
,oL •12mo. price 7s. in boards. • • •
2. Reft Rob ; or, The Witch of.Scot-Muir, commonly called
Madge the Stionver;.a scottish Tale, in I vul; 12mo. Price
Ss.-boards.
N.B. In the Press, and speedily will be published, JULIUS
t 44 3 vols. 12Mu. . . ,

The Medal, faithful to its Charge of Famc,
Thai' climes .and ages bears each form and name;
InNne short view subjected to our eye,
Gods, Emp'rori, Heroes, Sages; Patriots, lie."--Puce.
1111911EVIOUSLY to the commencement of the
-AL present Keign, the imitative Arts, • with the exception
of Architecture, were but little regarded England. . All
the civilized nations. of Europe had. for centuries past, been
rendered illustrious for their genius in the Fine Arts,. while
Englaad,'Where'tfie'ferVeur of Poetic fancy, as displayed by
Chaucer, Spencer, Shalsspeare, Milton, Dryden, &c. rivalled
the Poetic renown of Greece itself, had not rOilited .s single
instance of superior talent in .Painting or Sculpture. But
their gradual progress during the present Reign, up to an
advanced state of stexcelleuce, sufficiently strews 'that uncon-
genial fortuitous circumstances, and not deficiency in the
powers of imagination, prevented their nurture in England.
Front the accession of his Majesty to the present period, the
public attention to Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving, has
been gradually increasing, an the iutroductiosr of the Elgin
Marbles into this country, followed by the • scrutiny of the
House of Cumulous into their merits, its purchase of them
for the nation, together with the seizure and surrender by
France, of the great works of the celebrated Masters of the
Continent, have, in England, excited a deeper and more ge-
neral regard for the elegant Arts,than has ever yet prevailed.
It is this more general and -intense regard for works of Art,
together with the just admiration excited by the . skill and
courage of our troops in their late defeats of the French,
that has elicited the publication of a Series of Medals, illus-
trative of those national events. The novelty of the work in
this country,- has alio been another motive for their produc-
tion. In the time of Cromwell and Charles 11., Simon, an '
English Artist, engraved Medals in a style nut very remote
from the pertectien of the Greeks. Since that time, Medal
Engravingbas had but a faint existence in England. A few
Nledals of individual persons 01 circumstances, and of talent
inferior to Italian or French Art, have been st nck ; but no-
thing of general mument—nothing that celebrates the power
ur grandeur of the British Empire—nothing that viorates on
the heart with emulative and patriotic effect, or fixes with
delight the tasteful eye—nothing, in tine, worthy of the;
majesty and the renown of the British People, and of the
beauty and dignity of Art,'has -ever yet • appeared from an
English Mint, during a long period of English glory, in al-
most every excellence that adorns, ennobles, and immortalizes
a nation. The present series of Medals, therefore, while it
is a commencement of that new speciei of publication which
records with elegance and. unequalled durability subjects
every way worthy of commemoration, will, it is trusted, re-
commend itself to every lover of the Fine Arts, and to every
species of Politicians; to those who have been friendly, and
those who have been adversu,to those measures of Govern-
ment, which resulted in the captivity of Buotraparte„ and the
occupation of Paris by the Allies ; for British persevinance,
talent, and bravery, must be equaly admired by all.
Mr. Mudic, the Director and Proprietor ot the Series, is
therefore confident that every class of his Countrymen will
hail a work which will child' the cabinet of the Amateur
with a class of Art but little known in this country, and that
will deliver down to their posterity to remote ages, and in
the most lasting of materials, an elegant and energetic re-
cord of so glorions a feature of its Character. Paintings,
exquisite and impressive as they an, are comparatively but
partial and perishable memorials; ter they cal be se: n hut
its few places, and are obnoxious to the lading and destruc-
tive influence of the elements. Marble statues, too, are more
liable than Medals to accidents, and are, like pictures, sta-
tionary in a few places. But the same subject in Medals,
from their smallness, the infrangible nature of their mate-
rial; and t heir cheapness, may be conveyed in numeroas im-
pressions to every part of the empire, and the admirers of
one identical work of Art be at the same time antipodes to
each other.-- Thernarble group, erected in .I..oadon, can Pa,'
viewed only by the visitor or tc4ideht there, but duplicated
impressions of Medals can be seen in numerous places at
once, by the inhallitatits of Europe and India, by the soldier
who is guarding Napoleon in Saint Helena, and those in
London who sent or continue -him there. There is then
but one circumstance in the nature of the work of which
the Proprietor thinks it necessary to be particular in explain-
ing : it is the employing of foreign Artists to engrave a ra-
tion of the Medals. This he was compelled to do, in order
to confer the greatest perfection in the metallic records of
incidents so highly deserving of that perfect representation.
Much as our native Artists excel in every other branch of the
Fine'Arts, equalling, and in many respects exceeding foreign
Artists, they have not yet reached the delicacy, precision, and
finish of the French and Italian Medallists. This is by no
means attributable to any deficiency whatever in the native
capabilities of Englishmen. The inbred vigour of their
powers, if duly cherished, is competent to the highest at-
tainments in this and every other Art, or they would • not
have rivalled the finest geniuses of antiquity in the sister
Art of }Poetry, or have approached antique perfection in the
works of their own native Medallist, Simon. There are,
however,-several of our countrymen who have great and
growing talents in Medal engraving. These talents shall
have a share in illustrating the deeds of their brave Country-
men represented in the Series; so that the proprietor will as-
sist, to the utmost of his power, to unfold their latent ener-
gies to a degree that will altogether supersede the necessity of
foreign aid. Opportunity only can be wanting to open, to
British genius all the paths of intellectual glory.
The Medals may be hail of Mr. Whiteaves, No. 30,
tFleet-
street ; Mr. Young, 46, High Holborn; Messrs. Solomon,
Lewis, and Co. No. 2, New-street, Covent-garden; Barber
and Whitwell, York ; Mr. Reid, Newcastle ; Mr. Morton,
Princes.street, Edinburgh ; and Barratt and Son, Bath.
Medals in Bronze, 10s. 6d. each, or Twenty Guineaa the
Series, inducting an elegant Case arranged for the Library
or Cabinet.
In Silver, One Guinea each, or Forty Guineas the Series..
In Gold, Fifteen Guineas each, or tiix Hundred Guineas
the Series.
Those who wish to become Subscribers, are requested to
give in their names to any of the above Agents,- as they will
have the advantage of Proof Impressions.
Those not wishing for a complete Series, may purchase
single Medals.
The following is a List ot Names already Sub!
scribed :

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN..
Her Royal Highness the PaiNcrss Estzasstfr.
Her Grace the Duchess of The Hon. .Mrs. Robinson,
Wellington. Privy Gardens.
'The Most Noble the Marchio- I The Hon. Mrs. Kenyon, Pra-
. ness of Exeter. I doe, Salop. •
Lady Warburton. . The'Hon. Ann Rushout.
The Lady Sophia Cecil.
'His Royal Highness the PtuNcs 11.s0sxr.
His Royal Highness the Dux E of YORK.
His Royal Highness the Dugs of Susssx.
His Grace the Duke of Wellington ; his Grace the Duke of
Bedford; the Most Noble the Marquis of Huntly; the Most
Noble the Marquis of Anglesey•, 'the Most Noble the Mar-
quis of Exeter ; the Right Hon. the Earl Bathurst; the Right
Hon. the Earl Manvers; the Right Hon. Earl Verulam ; the
Right Hon. Lord Macdonald ; the 'Right Hon.. the Earl of
Coxentry ; the Right Hun. the Earlof Winchelsea; the Right
Hon. Lord Mark Kerr; the Right Hon. Lord Apsley ; the Rt.
Hon. Lord Lindsay; the Right Hon. the' Earl of Rosebery ;
the Right Hon.:. Vansittart; the Right Hon. Earl Beau-
champ ; Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth ; Vice-Admiral Sir
Sidney Smith; Lieut.-General Lord Comberruere, G. C. B. ;
Lieut.-Grneral Sir G. Murray, G. C. B.; Lieut.-Colotiel Sir
Ulysses Biirgh, K. C. B.; Colima Cameron;. Captain John-
son; -Major-General Lee; Colonel Robinson; Lient.-Generril
Lord Hill, G. C. B. ; Lieut.-General Lord Lynedock, -G. C. 13.4
Daniel Jones Long, Esq. Farley Castle;' Johli Dent, .E.sq.'two
• sets, silver apd bronze; .Mr. James Broad, jun. Portman-
-4
place; ---'—Bewes, Esq. Beaumont, near P yruouth; ,
Dowel, Esq.; Mr. Booth, Duke2street, Pord -place ';•---
Dowel,Major
Jackson; J. B. EN. • ----. Hope, ',sq.; •Wedder-
burn -Webster, Esq.; ,----- LeAmere, Esq. Harcourt-build 7
-ings, Temple • . Daniel Willinck,- Esq. Liverpool; , Captain
„Page' Royal Navy, Ipswich, Sitio ik i J ulna Patcarlisg. Mout-
.

TIONAL MEDALS ALREADY PUBLISHED. •
• No. 1. HIS MAJESTY GEORGE THE THIRD.
01verse—Head of the King, with his motto ‘‘ Hoc auspice
orbis-salus, 817."—Mudie, d. Webb, f.
Reverse—Figures personifying Religion ,and Faith, or Ho-
nesty. This, in union with the rock behind the cornucopia
and the rudder, imply that Religion, Integrity, and Constancy,
have steered Britannia successfully through all her dangers
up to the present period; marked MI the exergue, ISI7. This
head of his Majesty, by NI r. Webb,. has an union of sharpness,
fleshiness, freedom, delicacy, and relief, that could be pro-
duced only by a first-rate Sculptor of this branch of Medal

Engraving. -
The reverse, too, Is rich in .those excellencies for which
M. I)epaulis is so justly admired; and also in the.allegorical
display of those qualities which are so universally acknow•
ledged by the people of Great Britain to adorn the Royal
Character. In the excellencies of the heart, in whatever is
honourable, religious, and moral, in an ardent disposition
to du good, publicly and privately, and an unshaken constancy
in pursuing it, out SovereigiChas not • been exceeded by any
Monarch who-has swayed the British, Sceptre.