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London, England, 1821-10-27 00:00:00

TUE ARMY.

The 19th regirnent,'Stationed at Weedon, received a sudden
route, at two o'clock -on Thursday morning, to march at day-
break for Liverpool, where they expect toembark for Ireland:
We are happy to prevent the alarm which the -circumstance. of
this order might perliap§- etcite. The Dublin. Papers-of Tiles-
- daylast contain the grateful assurance that.the Judicious tiiiic
tare of temper and,tirmness exercised b 7. t't Government and•
the local Authorities, has been attended by the happt it results,
to-which the zear and energy of the Catholic Clergy in the dks-
turl:K4 district; have, materially contributed.: • •
regiment p(foot,at Chichester, received their, route,
on Thursday morning, 'an,.l yesterddia commenced their march
.tor NortharriptOn. 'This is a subject of regret to the inhabitants
of that city, who had hoped to enjoy its presence much longer.
ii liar's C,asTLE CAVALItY.—The troops of iCeninktury,
under -the command of •the lion, Mr. Clive, finished their six
4apj duty oa ,illonday, . whe.n, before iliey wore dismissed,
'then.. Captain was :Ppaiied to eornplemer.f them in the highest
terms on their tactics iii the ifielc.their steady and regular con
as: well. us, foe :-,t1,144., ,*e4l in fliiu .up the troop so hand-
-140P),,,e1, . _
' 'NA wtTnunt Yl:o3tkrenii-CKVALAY.—Tsliese'ineritorious
Artitip's' tetniniato their4eigbodays-dety- on.Atonclay next.
Ot nu, 04;T. 2Si -r--Tlfp, 0 xfprilshire. fl-ginlent of.
.which4ssembied under foiNuartd. of COlonel2;11-m. (tore
I.;angten,'in this City; •-•fOr '2l oafs' 'training keirtplettd their
period. Of szrcic'e on 'fifeSday lag% Their soldier-like appear-
ance, and-steadiness-in:the -fields in; so< short a -time, reflect the
highest credit op the diSciolinemot!'nfhinegeowirtptso.st. while the orderly
and eempliFy is e
worthy in -themselves, :and hOzonzaqe to their oflic-ers. It is
extremely gratifyin4-tous to ye..y tribute to
our County Itegannent, sin Ce. We have 6:eiOtity fot, stating 'that
thcSe are hot only out own -Sentiments, but theie of the (hit-
versity,.and also of our Chief :Magistrate, and fiNI/oW
Copy of.a letter-from the Worsliipf.Ul the Mayor of this city
(Sir Copy.
Ilif chi n,S) Golont'laW. 1/Ore-Lang-ton, com-
manding the Oxford,4iire 'Regiment-of Ilegutat 1l slitia :
" -As•Chief Alagigratc.of the City, of Oxford,. -4. canriovre-
frain 'front .e_xpressing thelligli Satisfaction I receis;!ed from the
exce.lleat conduet of the OfliJe.xs and-Priratesof the '
ur.der your ceminand,Auring tlie time they have hofn•on duty:,
in tZfis place; The exemplary manner: in which thqr have con-
ducted themselves calls- for the approbatiiii-ana gratitude of all
the Inhabitants OT.Oitfoid; .aturretieefs liotiohr'ori 'the .31ilitia
~service. _ .
I sh.ul feel obliged by, yq.i.g.cnimunicatirig to, the negl-
thent' the. senie ient.:.rtain'ot the good ottlet and itai§eworc..y~'
behaviour of all its ittembeiiiacid' • '" < .
• `,l base th 4 h9l3°ur"tf °to: $4l-. • • f
• cc Your pbedient and.very h.tzroble.serrant •
'. a Lamtmag Itarciiiif as. ,
‘' St. Giles's, Alondartaiening."
`4 Cillpnel
GorelianAton•taniurt allow tltt Otfordsl-iite.3lilitia
sePare<eailtithout-, exptesaing hi5411)(1,'44.1441. aj)pi obation. of
the orderly and soldier-like conduct of
the twenty-one_ training' and eitertise; 'end ,olich.---his; aid .
husay;,entitled-it to the good opinion of the_ University and in,
abitants of the City of Oxford • and he confid.ently hopes and
expects the same laudable regularity of behaviour will charac-
terize the corps
e has the honoUr tV Cernaliintl on returning to.
their respective henies,"

roßtmx /ATtßATtlitt.

Na XLVL.

Thatte couplet des Latins, i, e. The Complete Latin The*,
tre, by J. B. Lev4e, formerly Professor of Rhetoric, and
Latin Literature, &c., and by the late Abbe' Letuorinier ;
with dissertations, &c. by 31.- Amaury Duvfaitof the "too
demi of Inseriittions, and M. Alexandre: Duval, of the
French Academy. Plautus, Vols. V, VI, and VII. BvO.
Paris, 1321.

[Continued from Monday's Paper.]

Though all the dramatic authors among the
Latins were compelled to submit to a'common
law, that which imposed on them the obligation
of.ainusing an immense multitude, and of study-
the taste of the many, rather than the 'rules
of art ; though the manners'of the times foreed
authors to confine comedy within a narrow dr,-
cle, and to clothe it with little variety, we re-
mark, however, a great difference, not only be-
tween the works of Terence and those of Plautus,
but between the different pieces'of each of these
two authors. Mantas- especially exhibits such
a great disparity, that we shdbld be almost. in-,
dined to attribute his comedies to different ages,
if the character of his style did not manifest itself,
both by excellencies and by defects peculiar to
hithself. When Terence was born; Plautus was
twenty-five years old and .yet these writers
seem .to have lived in times separated by a longer
interval. When` the least ancient of theie tWo
was in possession of the stage, the ;Roman ails,
tocracy had gained the. ascendancy, civilization
had made considerable progress,. and Terence
was permitted to be more polished, more chaste,
more reasonable, and more #ave- than his prede-
cessors. In the time of Plautus, the people had
greater power, and it was necessary to please
their taste and caprices, on pain orexchision from
the stage. It is perhaps to this-influence of the
predominant taste that we must ascribe the con-
tradictory opinions •passed on the comedies of
Plautus by the best Latin writers. cicero, a
thorough republican, admired this comic. poet ;
llorace,a courtier and table companion.of Mem-
' nas, found Plautus rather coarse. It is mit perhaps
unnecessary to• 'mark, that .nearly about the
same time elapsed between the death of Cicero
and of _Horace as between the birth of Plautus
and of Terence ; thus a period of thirty years
was long enough to produce such a great diffe-
rence in the language of the drama, and in the
opinion of two illustrious writers on ancient
comedy.
All concur in praising the urbanity, the ele-
gance, and the 'purity of the style of Terence,
the profoundness of his dialogue, and the excel-
lent maxinis it abounds with; the same
unanimi-
ty of opinions doe's not prevail with respect. to
Plantils, and in fact there cannot be a more un-
equal author ; but this ineqnality is not that 'of
talent,'of genius, and of wit : it is methodical,
and founded. on system. This idea may appear
strange, but thave long entertained it, and. be-
lieve it to,be founded on just grounds.

iu Terence, the slaves and the parasite (a
character peculiar to the Latins) do not differ
by many degrees in their language from persons
of higher quality, as in the comedies of Plautus.
The slaves have a better manner,. the parasite
(iu plain Englisb, hanger-on) is less extravagant,
and says fewer foolish things ; indeed there are
only two pieces out of the six now remaining of
Terence which exhibit a parasite. Hence it ap-
pears, that in the polished times of Scipio, broad
humour was no longer indispensable to the suc-
cess of a comedy.

-Plautus on the contrary had two styles,
:which seem to be those of two men living at.
different times,. and influenced by different
manners. His old men and his gentlemen dis-
course with a propriety and prudence, fre-
quently with a degree of elegance and
purity of style, which differ little from the
dialogue of Terenee ; we observe only, in the
characters of Plantus; a greater desire .to show
off their wit;, that his slaves, his paraSiteS, his ri-
diculous characters, such as the Miles Gloriosus,
and the like, exceed all the bounds of pro-
bability and of decency, .and even transgress the
utmost limits of the bad taste licensed on the
stage, when rude and low characters are intro-
duced. Plautus has followed, to the letter, the
precept which directs comic authors to make
every character speak in his natural. language;
he-has carried the imitation too far ; detent,
fished, and delicate, with gentlemen, he becomes
completely a valet with valets..; a gross, buffoon
with buffoons, &c. There was no ribaldry, how-
ever gross, no bad witticisms, no ridiculous equi-
vogues to be picked up in the streets of Home,
which he did. not introduce into, the dialogue of
his slaves.. .f shall be excused from quoting these
,-„expressions,: though Many, perhaps, may be
„pus to learn ltow•low an antlior, full of genius,
,wit, spirit, and originality could descend, to
pfease the htimours of the people-king.
.The means which he inoSt.Cornmonly employed
to excite a burst of latighter,. To repeat fre-
quently the same, word,,and to give it sometimes
in the. same
.sentence, in .all` the changes of its
.declination, or• to oppose to,, it a. word of a con-
.trarrmeaning. This •artifice-is repeated usgme
. ad nauseant.. .following are few among
.thousands-.of instatices,, ithich..,l could Cite,:
teta>,' UXOILS exuvire.-=-I.9izs mein, m .9rigera
inorilms.— floe !with°.
,decet, animates esse
umu-
tUrr.s. Misere miser sum_; fianviniserorunt thisel=-
ruins.. :Lurks. :RIC • ludo:,: .leys4ebras-, per-
sequor tenebras. In re-eatteoi:s4 Falcon.
.4'.eberi grates gratias, &c.. do .not 'offer a
translation, because,: with very_ ,few exceptions,
these conceits could not well he translated.: Tlie
follawing is extracted from a longer.Phice °Lae
same - , I • .
Ilona in seen= affero;
_ Nsm bona bonis fc.tri reor aluom maxume
.I„rt 'bah slabs ; ut, qui sink sent habeanc ulalaa
4,tui boiu, bona ; bonos good oderint mall '
. . Sunt m Ali, malos, quad oderint boni, bonOs
opo.tet; & ,
are ten whole verses on the boni and
• "'phis
on words, I admit,.May be very
pfeasant.on certain occasionS, and,if, According
tp, the expression of the Greek Corinne,-the au
ther Introduced them sparingly Plautus'
empties the sack, and this prpfusioa of pans was,
no doubt, very amusing to the Repahlicans of
the great city, for all the comedies of PiAt'aus ,

are to this respect alike, which the autlecaasOotilti
have avoided ' if the public had hissed ,the. first
which appeared. This fault, however, isaiseri
trilling in comparison with another which-teaches
the maximum' of bad taste, which occurs as fre'
quatitly,, and- which malt haveNseen equally
ageeeeehlestto the_ people', beicau se *e Lneet with it
in alPtlic4.*venay pieces of this authoF which have
descended tg.us: I .allude to those miserable and
laboured equivoques' produced by -the -forced
juxte-position of two words which have simply
a literal resemblance, but none whatever in their
signification. At one time .the word adsiun '(I
am present) is answered by the word assail',
which signaies—roasted,and furnishes the pretext
of a rejoinder, by elixam—boiled. 'Another-time
it is 'them, the subjunctive of the verb' /itaarei
which is played off with limo, the dative,oflimus;
,too Often, indeed,- is the reader disgusted at these
'Alehouse jokes, which the refined Horade-den°-
-mitiated Plautinos sales, and which have not eve"'
the honour of bearing a resemblance. toepulls'
We should .not, however, forget that these pas:
sages, unworthy of comedy, are, only to. be, fount'
in the scenes of slaves or of despiCahle characters ;
and that these faults, so shoeking .and. so moue'
roes, are redeemed by the most lively, the Mast
spirited, and wittiest .dialogues, by the mast,
.energetic..expressions, - and the - most.- original
characters. Place Terence as much as. you please
' above Tlautus,:it is no less certain thdethe latter
i, more amneing, in spite of his faults, aaci
perhaps 66 account -of his very' faults ahefeselves'
In. considering .these, comedies. mil Yais.- regards
the subject and its management, we find between
them -as tench differenee as betwfTn the to
styles employed •by Plautus to distinguish the
masters from. the servants. Several of these plays
are as regular as the- beSt angdern piecei ; while
others are so out of all Order that they seem la,
have reached us in an incomplete or garbled
state. In most of therm, the dennuement is vicious;
and in some cases a slave comes forward and a"'
Bounces to the audience in .what manner the
piece ends, in an adjoining room, and withoat
any of the characters showing themselves. This
mode of finishing a play would not be tolerated
-on our stage ; but, as I observed in my preceding
article, the ancients had no desire of produciog
dramatic illusion ; they presented to the people
comedy and comedians, tied not an apparent
real action and apparent' real perSonages ; -and for
this reason they terminated hastily a piece when
they had nothing further to say to the spectators;
A good denouement, heiveyee, though a gre3e
excellence, but a little exaggerated, is a verJ
rare thing in a good comedy, 'yet many i°-
different plays shine in this respect. For n'9
.part, I prefer
.a pleasure continued during t°.°
hours to a con-.IIOE, gratificatiolt; folloWed ' bY
moment of extraordinary surprise and satisfsc;
1 tion. The most perfect of comic
.authors is n°
celebrated for good denouements, and this alune'
would prove that this part of the art is not the
most important and the most indispensable.: . a
The two Academicians who have jointly eslite
this work, in annexing their observations on tl'e
Latin comedies to the translation of M. Lel
have given a short analysis of each piece, 11';
have appreciated them very well as far as regal".
the dramatic art.
al
M. Levee has undertaken a difficult ta4lnTet
has performed it with ability: Plautus i 5 l'i
easy to translate ; his Latin mixed with Greer,,
and full of barbarisms, puts the reader to the t° 0
tore. I know not a greater coiner of words o'l
the poet of Sarsina. A great number of the terms
he uses are not to .be found in any dictionari:
and many of them have no other authority til'e
Plautus himself, and are not again to be met wile;
in the authors who foll Owed him. His puns, "io
frequent allusions
,to domestic usages and ills
habits no longer known, his proverbs, and..
gleanings from the vocabulary of the popul3ceri
Continually impede the translator; and eve.
when he guesses the meaning, it is often hull:
sible to render it into French. The Latinist
not the person who always, best uuderstan.e
Plautus. In a multitude of 'paseages -resantroct
must be had to the antiquary, arid he knovrSoe
every thing. I leave to the scholar the task
ei
examining, whether the new translator has c°(i
prehended all those niceties which the leart'eo
alone discover in the ancient authors, and shalt
confine me remarks to a few errors which I LW!''
out meo periculo., . _ i a
In the Miles Glorlosas, two Men are orlon.
to beat the 'bragadochie Pyre-opoliniceS;
command,tt:efe
do not execute this and the per o
..e,
who gave the order exclaims, Quid ccgsall:i ~,
M. Lev6e translates it : ccWhy de you I,ave oil ••
Thii is a mistake ; cesSare 'here means atora4`e'
for they have Cot yet begun to heat him. 1 ,
should have said.:. ",,Why -do you hesitate, ).1.7'1/
do you delay ?" -
In the ilfestellit, ria: a ilaVe.qUarrellite salt"' j
e
'cook calls lilm. ':n do: e'culina : MS Leiketralslate;
it, 44 Sacculent.vepor ;'.'. ‘b.nt. it. is esi4e,llt./ji
is a terwoferepreeels, which.. the 1-'''-11ch 1.c°...
do ii,ot express._ Plaetusolot being very SCIA''.
jOUS respecting vulgar expressions, -.wished el'i
,to say': Odour 71).-f scraps - and -5i.,4.4,-.ldler, which
may, perhaps,she disgusting- iti, French ; bet '!e
should . then have sought au equivalent but le'
ignoble epithet. . ' '• '
In the Piteidohis, after having- Played .111),°di
the words in ,aavorsci. MrSari,• Plautus mekea tr'l
Teply: Turbo , non, allou . citas est. .. M. .14e e'r
saw these a " whirlwied,".whereaS the inetaPtli
is taken from the peg-top, or humming-top, 'ye
known to children. . . a. . .•\
tbe
In thessame piece, a person, speaks to
slave of a man who had rendered hire a see'V'c'?
sp i tibi io.voitalis full, and the slave'
replies, MI;
.
'twee 'est 'qiiifuil. According' to bleeelsev'ef,eo
moans 'to.say:that he :considers the person ''' if
formerly befriended him. as dead. A t is sialVj ;
a. play upon words, of which Plautus' is iiif°llo)
the prefer-tense fait was proverbially . use° 00
signify " he, is no trlisre e"- Teojafisit, Troy is: ie
more. .The siaee, in saying mortaus,est Vila
..alledes to this proverb. . - ai
In the Prologue of the `Mena' tiles .t4se aet°l.!, A
rhav6 'stated in my last artieln, :preaealt'ke
theatrical regulation, and, tells the., mall °.
conducts the spectators to their places :----- ~
Neu sessum ducat dain histilo in. seerA sRi. ~„(If
M. 141'4e renders iti. Let him.not make aii,ti '

dot,* Whilst the actor is on the stage. This
.is. quite :wrong ; he ought, on the contrary, to
make every person sit down during the
.perfor-
mante of. the play; but the Latin says,nen ses-
sum ducat, let him not conduct any person to his
seat, because in doing so he must pass before the
benches (cuneos), which would incommode the
spectators.
1.. Levee has sometimes also imitated Plautus
in inaccuracies of expression, which occur more
than once. Ile is also mistaken in his notes on
the Sesame, which he confounds with the wheat
of :Turkey, and on the solstitialis herbs, which is
the silphion of the Greeks, the laserpitiuni of the
Latins, the condurdon of Pliny, and not a herb
which withers quickly. I have only one more
mark to add•; it is not, as he supposes, with refer-
ence to the .Grecian Sea that the Adriatic. is:
Called mare superum, but with reference to the
Tyrrhenian. Sea, which was the mare inferum of
the Romans. . Z-. •

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Woon Sets 49 m. after 7.
TR lIIISDAY, November Saints.—Sun rises 12 in. after
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PIIMAY 2.—A11 Souls.—Sun• rises 13 m. after 7; sets 47 Tri•
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THE SUN.

Q UIS DICERS FALSWIII AUDEAT?

LONDON,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, iBel.

The. French Papers of Wednesday, Brussels
Journals,
and a liamburgh Mail, have arrived
since our last. They do not bring any decisive
intelligence respecting the determination of Rus-
sia, but their tone is decidedly warlike. A Nu-
remberg article states, that in every part of the
Turkish Empire the general belief is, that war is
inevitable ; and though the Ottoman Govern-
ment studiously circulate reports to counteract
this •,
nPression, yet the. Franks do no, allow
themse
l
ve
s to be deceived by them, and are
rnakine
arrangements to meet that event, which
we are inclined to think will shortly be deter-
!tined.
11

e have received the Quebec Gazettes to the
3d f September, and shall on Monday give
carious extracts from them. In the mean time,
we beg leave to call the attention of our Readers
to the Resolutions of the Merchants, &c. of
Montreal, inserted in another column. In our
Paper of the 2Gth ult. we published the .Resolu-
ti°os of a Meeting of Merchants, &c. held at
Quebec on the 16th of August, in which the Po-
lies) justice, and necessity, of permitting the
Produce of the Canadas to be admitted for
consumption into the United Kingdom, were,
in our opinion, clearly demonstrated. The
Meeting at Montreal re-states the substance
•Pr the Quebec Resolutions, and further de-
clares, " that the greatest possible quantity of
grain and flour, the produce of these 'provinces,
which could be exported, would bear so small
a PT°PI)CtiOUr to the consumption of the inhabi-
tants Of the United Kingdom, that the average
Prices there would be affected by the admission
that produce in so trifling a degree, as
,to prevent
11try
lo.the British Agriculturists." 'Even though
`eura:Plia-nce with the dernanklUor the Canadas
should .
'"2
-in some considerable degree, injure the
—ritish Land-Owners, we do not see that that pro-
spective consequence is sufficient. to deprive them
of the
fair and reasonable clainis which they have
• set
• 4P. But if the concession of their claims'
could be attended With-no injury to.the British
agriculturists, it is obvious that perseverance in a
e"rse of policy which is absolutely entailing
rain upon the colonies, ought to be'deprecated by
all Parties and that Parliament ought to take
.4s' the injurious restrictions complained of _with-
mutilelaY. It is a striking instance of the intper-
-4tti°ll of the existing social arrangements in all
"4at4ries,' to find it resolved by the Montreal
keet,..„ CC
taat from the increasing population
of these, povinces, the distress now felt must
extill244
e if on r grain and flour continue to be
,1445 - from. the British sale and vorisumplion."
Ararre
- • are a-, a),eopie .complahling that they are,
-"`uieeted to' great distress • because 'they have
• 44.4e/i •
of the prime necessaries of life than
-e‘"lienLe:reir cwt consume? and declaring that

their distress must. be greatly auraiated, unless
• .
they are permitted to,send a large portion of
those necessaries. to ' another. country :1.--And
these complaints are from a people 'inhabit-
in; a country "abounds With' all the
means and materials ~of , with all the
natural productions w.hich• are- essential to
the comfort,' the secdrity, and the increase
of mankind !—How do these factS 'agree with
Mr.. MA LTIIUS'S, arithmetical and geometrical
ratios ? In the Canadas, it appears; that
with an increasing population, 'population is 'so
far from pressina upon the means of subsistence,
that their only complaint is of. the. restrictions
vitiaf'Orev'ent them from sending their redundant

means of subsistence to this country !

The Irish affairs are putting on a more favour-
able appearance. The energy of
,Povertnt...nt,
and the appeaiance of a strong military, force,
have" had considerable effect in al:eying the sa-
.
•
gage fury of the riotous peasantry, The Catholic
Priests are represented, by the.. Dublin. newspa-
pers, to have been most active and successful in
their endeavours to bring, their tlo'cks back to
due subordination, and .bave -induced them to
deliver up the arms which they had phuidered in
the course of their outrages; and the Magistrates
have latterly been watchful.

•
In addition to the_ flourishing state of our
various Manufactures in Yorkshire, Lancashire,
and the West of England, we are happy to in-
,form our Readers, upon the best zrathority, that
a briskness has lately been infused into the Coal-
trade in the 'North, by reason of the increased
demand for coals, which is producing the most
beneficial consequences. All the leading col-
lieries on, the Tyne have as many orders as they
can well execute ; and, 'What is of 'still greater
moment,. the ship-owners have had such an in-
crease of freight within the last two' or three
weeks, as renders the carrying trade advan-
tageous indeed compared with the former rates.