The Sun.
London, England, 1817-05-29 00:00:00

170 it SIN.

. .
. • WATEntLOO MONUMENT.
Eiii-run,---Ausisist the %vide cornMotlinn of
pubhe sentin'leht; which "the late circumstances of
'.-Eogland have Produced, tew subjects within he
encle of the Arts have excited so much interest
ac the long projected Muliument ot
. .
1 11,11ii)tiS desi'gns have been proposed; V‘ainas Mo-
dos bare been fornied, ,antl. various plans have
b,v,•r!,,,tmes'ded, 1:0r tovcsiii,g it u‘sii. that
411porlfillCe tthia !I ac!hievenicnts, nut.
exalted state, abd our advancing civiliz
to reqUire. t has btvii conceived that 1.,•1
o be erected ot that idooked;loc
and unparalleled uutiun.,l energy, tt l,lcli, dul b:r-
ately exei (tug its gathered knee, 0-attaa;ly
advancing In the front ot competitioo ;hung con-
tending nations,, filially bore down LI nil I
Miller toot, the most pouerful and must inveterate
enemy that ever assailed the liberties of mankind.
it has beedimagined, Ihat it was in reniembrauev
of the IlePose thus restored to harassed Euaoke,
and in everlasting honour of the airtuaas Public
Spirit which achieved it, that the Monument of
Waterloo was to arise—a perpetual assistance to
Vatrintisur7-a perpetnal warning to, Tyranny, 4-7
Under these notions, ut.twithstantling the dis-
tresses of the CountrY, no morptir has, been
raised at the mention of an undertAiog, necessa-
, rily so expensive, but' :to eniiiienily calculated to
immortalize; in the same instance, the %irtues and
the Arts of England.
B(it if the desire of raising such a It ecoid, and
of betineathing such a )tesson to our distant pos.
was great, the ttitlicully of forming a work
adequate to such glorious purposes was of no less
magnitude. Imagination seemed feeble, when it
soared to the contemplation of a Building des-
tined to convey impressions of such awful impor-
tance. Yet, unappaned by the difficulties of the
enterprize, expectation still continued active.
, In this state of suspense (and perhaps from a
sense of the difficulties 'shove-mentioned) a vote
passed the House of Commons some time since,
for dividing the National Record into two Moau-
irients ; one, in honour of the Army, and the other,
of the Navy ut Great Britain ; and it vow appears
that Orders have been issued, that two Architec-
tural Trophies, of great size and durability, should
be erected, without any further expression ot pub-
lic sentiment than their supposed commemora-
tion of the two principal victories gained by our
Army and Navy,—the Irish and success of our
superiority ill arms.

If such is in tact the design finally adopted by
our Government, ril farther re flexion on the emi-
nen( and singular tecord of National Virtue, he-
fore proposed, is a fruitless iptlidgence of fancy ;
and the achievements of Water too sink to toe
common level Of 'Military Triumph,—to a level
with the glory of Giugis Khan and Buonaparte.
No man in his senses can fail to entertain toe
the unconquered heroes of Trafalgar and Watetlno,
the respect due to their valour, their patient en-
durance, and success. But it their Heroism only
be to be immortalised, and the great results of their
patriot strife are to be gathered only from indite-
tion,—or, in other %voids, it size and durability
only are to be regArded in a building which is the
Alemorial. of those Victories and their stupendous
,consequences, a Pyramid or a Rock is more valuable
for the purpose than the Parthenon, and the.stooe
or mat ble mason the proper eirtio for the occasion.
To adorn a barren mass, is but ingeniously tor-
menting those who are to bear the bait hen of
the expence attending the performance.
What rational motive can be adduced for the in-
dulgence of so senseless a vanity ? Surely it is,above
all other considerations, requisite, that a building
raised by the English nation, on the greatest event,
in its history, and at the most exirmordinary ex-
pence, should be devoted to some useful, active pur-
pose, consistent with the sense, the habits, and
the genius, of the prople who raise it. It is not
enough that it should present an empty trophy of
passing honours, forgotten or unfelt by the unin-
formed even of the next generation ; but it should
contain within itself—it should be pregnant with
the perpetual seeds of—advantage to those who are
to imitate, and, pet haps, to rival the virtues it coin-
mentoraies. It should strew the fruigs r f a victory
unparalleled in the annals of the world. Whether
it contains schools, academies, societies, or what-
ever assemblies of the learned and ingenious, let
it display, by actual, living examples, the means,
protection, and security, or peaceful studies, the
valuable result of the energies of a nation, and of
the actions of those heroes whose names are in-
scribed on its base.

Without this end in view, the preposterous ex.
pundit tire of 2 or 400,000 pounds, although it
feeds the labourers employed in piling stone on
stone, or column on column, is but a wanton waste
of national wealth, at a moment when our -Go.
eernn►rnt is called on by every motive, physical
and moral, to employ the utmost degree or sets•
dons aucl caution in the application ut the pubiio
means of the zonntry.
Submitting these reflexions to the persons en«
heed in the great and responsible enterprise of
embodying the feelings of the nation on so me.
morablo au occasion--! remain, &c.

run MS.

PEDESTRIAN MATCH ON WORMWOOD SCRUBBS.

BAKER and EATON both left off at w quarter at.
ter S on Tuesday evening, when the former had
completed 52 miles, the I►ttter ()ply 44. Yesterday
morning EATON started at a qnal let past Live, BA.
Kra tint till a gnat fey. before six At four in the
afternoon the former had completed 35 miles, the
latter 34i. It was now exacily halt the time al.
lowed them to pei form 2000 miles in forty-two
days. BAran was on the whole 14i miles in
advance 1.4 EATON, the total number► buing—
DAKVA el77 mike.
EATON l.s93f

AWRIVALI PROM FRANCit --Two or the first
Public Characters of Paris ate now ariivvd in thit
Country, where'they have been performing -with
the greatest eriat....the famottliTALNlA anti Monsieur
MoNt2.o, the Learned Dog. Five thousand guineas
have already been refitted for the sea. .en of the
latter Performer, 'offered by a Gentleman at Chet.
tenbasn.