The Sun.
London, England, 1819-05-31 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

The Fourth Report from the. Select Committee
of Finance has been printed "by order of the
Home of Commons.
.This IC-port 'relates exalt.
sively to the Ordnance Department, and spews
that the vstiTate for the present year, as Corn-
pared with that of 1818, exhibits a reduction of
expence to the amonnt of 62,1781. The .Com-
mittee remark, that the estitnatill charge of the
Ordnance for the current- year bears the propor-
tion one to 74- to the whole expence of the
'army, and one to nearly 54 to the whole sum re-
quired for thenavy.

DISTRIIIUTION OR WATERLOO PRIZE-MONEY..-...
Commander-in•Cilief, 60,000/, ; General Officer,
12501.; Field Officer, 4201. ; Captain, 901. ;
Subaltern, 331. ; Sedeant, 191. ; .Rank and File,
2!. 101.-I'he Duke of WELLINGTOOS ;,share is
equal to 50 General Officers, 143 Fidtl Offic,ers,
666 Captains, 2158 Setjeants, and 24,000 Rank
and File.—(Portsmouth Paper.)

On Friday, the 21st inst. the State Lottery
finished drawing; and thotOt litsu cannot con-
gratulate his best friends, the Public, on their
obtaining (as lisnai) a great portion Of Capitals
,at his Offices, yet he has the satisfaction of
knowing, that he had selected for their choice
Two Prizes of 20,0001. and One of 2001. in addi.
lion to what lie aid actually sell, as he purchased
them from the Contractors ; •and one Ticket, No.
4,68 G, a Prize of 20,0001. was on sale at his
Charing,-(truss Office for several (419; and an-
other Ticket, No. 4,223, also a 20,0001. Prize,
was on sale at Cornhill ; and had the Public only
purchased 44 Tickets more,
.they must have bad
both 20,0001. Prizes, as that number was all the
Tickets BISH had left for sale when the drawing
began.—A new Lottery of only 7,950 Tickets is
now on sale, containing Two Grand Prizes of
30,000/, Money, and the lowest Prizes are 101.
All the Prizes are Sterling Money, (as there are
not any Stock Prizes). The whole Lottery will
be drawn in One Day, viz. Midsurnmer-day, 24th
of next Month (JUNE). Tickets and Shares are
selling by litsu, 4, Cornhill,, and 9, Chatit,g•
Cross, London ; and by his Agents its this
country.

LIfERARY REVIEW.

The /E EIS of VIRGIL. T.ranslatetl by CHARIX3 SYITYLONS,
D.D. of Jesus College, Oxford.--ite.

Vclle ridecuur, et in niediis conatibus rtgre
Succitlinlas, non Lingua valet.

It is with real pleasure that we now renew our
citations from this work of Dr. SY'l+OttoNS, which
lass excited so much of our interest. Our present
extracts will be drawn from the concluding notes
on the Seventh Book, and the .coMmencing com-
mentary on the Eighth. When we say that we
derive entertainment as zeil as instruction item
this short commentary oa the -august Epic of
Rome, we express a sentiment, in which
we prri,trade ourselves that all our Readers,
all our Classical Readers, at least, will concur
Asith us : and we can only regret, that .the
fear of swelling his volume to too large a bulk,
has iodueed the Author to contract this portion
or it into a compass 'too small for the, occasion.
.Pro eto ire voinute of. Annotations, by Lis pen, on
The '163, woolk! hive been bailed by us as a
very gnat it ying pi esent to the whole reading coin-
tnuu et' Britain : and we will still hope, that
such a work may yrt be-executed by him on the
just demand of ttae
" Bone VII.
Note.—L. RiCt. .
" So justly in their rants the troops engage,
l'hvy seem out turn that in the conflict rage;
" But birds rvseroble," &c.

Ncc quiquaui yeratas acies ex aqmine taut°
putet, aaiau3 sec] gurgii e ab alto
Urgueri vulucruin raucartnn ad litura nubera.

Trapp cannot reconcile himself to this resem-
bling of a body of armed men to a flock of birds.
In his note on this passage, he says, "This si-
mile is finely expressed, and is in all respects a
very good But, why a !mintier of armed
met', though they were sirn!ing, should betaken
for birds rather than men, I confess 1 do not well
understand. It were surficien!, one would think,
that they kv ere so tar like birds," &c. But Trapp
did not perceive the precise object of this compa,
risen, which was to give the idea of that order anti
perfect regularity with which the troops of Messa-
pus kept their ranks when they engaged. When
they are represented as marching in review and
singing the praises of their King, they are re-
sembled to a flock of swans uttering their melo-
dious notes over the Cayster ; and here the har-
mony of their voices is the object to be illustrated :
but subsequently the object of illustration is the
exactness of the order which they preserve in the
tumult of battle, implied by the word Misceri ;
sod for this purpose the Poet says, volt would not
- take them for men,mingling in conflict ; but for
birds as they steer in phalanx over the sea. This
is evidently the Poet's meaning ; and he could
nut have exemplified by a juster image the regu-
lar array of a military body. The plan and order
observed by certain gregarious birds of passage,
in their transit to distant countries, has frequently
been noticed : but never more agreeably titan by
Savary in his letters from Greece. This enter-

pie-
tabling traveller says: " z new scene no,v
sents itself to vicw!'• An innumerable multitude
of swans and cranes .are sailing on the waters,
ranged in files like eoldiers in order of battle.—
, tad) of these files is upwards of a quarter of a
league in length-; and we have counted thirty of
them, all swimming in a similar direction. The
head of this army terminates in a point, and re-
. sembles the prow of a ship. They all keep. their
posts, notwithstanding the motion of the waves.
with which they alternately rise and fall, Their
plumage, which is of a dazzling white, forms ate
admirable contrast with the transparent greenness
of the waters. Further on we discover another
•troop, disposed in the same manner ; and all
have their heads turned towards Africa, to which.
they steer in concert. But, hark ! they are in
full cry.: their leaders have given the signal, and
the winged navigators rise into -the air, and Hy
all together, directing their course to -the south.
To cleave this element also with facility, they
ray ge themselves in the form of a triangle, the
vertex of which is a very acute angle.
LETTER
I. cite in this instance (as I shall in another
from the same pleasing and intelligent raveller)
from a translation, not having the original imme-

diately at hand.
L. 1068.—" To these Camilla brought her Volscian aid," &c.

• This'portmit of the Volscian heroine has oni-
'versally been admired ; and she is made by the
Poet the suhject of our warm interest from her
'birth to her death. Her presence also gives a
'striking variety to the scene. But after all, tsith
the precedent of the fabulous Amazons and of the
historic Norman dames, who fought by the side
'of their husbands in the eleventh and I webth
'centuries,' I cannot thoroughly reconcile toys&
to this introduction of a female warrior, who
shews herself superior- to the male combatants,
'Pot in courage only, but in personil prowess,—
The bodily force of women is checked, as we
know, by -the operation of nature ; and to see
them triumphing in the exertion of ihtir sangui-
nary migi+t in the battle, rather shocks probabi-
lity, it it be not offensive to our feelings. The
suppositiOn of Pitt, that the squadrons led by
Camilla were all females like herself, strikes me
as very strange.
The four I,male combatants, Latina, Tulla,
-Tarpeia, and Acca, who taught by her side, are
particularly specified and discriminated from her
other troops, who unquestionably were male.
Pitt's translation of " Tota Collars, (All the troops
of Camilla) ad terrans defluxit equis,

," is

The beautious band alight. with equal speed.—[xi. 707:1

Boni
A large portion of this Book must he consider-
ed as episode, though sonic of it immediately be-
longs, and ail of it (if we except the story of
Cacus, incidentally and most naturally introduced)
is directly and solidly fastened to the main action
of the Poem. That remarkable variety in the
which was the subject of my notice in the
vrtface, is here very forcibly displayed. From
tine busy scene in Latium, where all was tumult
and alarm, and warlike preparation, we are here
Suddenly transported to the sequestered residence
'of peace, and ate entertained with the localities
of chat remarkable spot, which was subsequently
to be crowned with the towers of Itinite, To the
Itoniau reader, this part of the Xucis must have

THE SUN.

SOLESI QUIS [MERE FALSUM AUDEAT ?

lON DON,
MONDAY, MAY 31, 1819.

We received yesterday the Paris Papers of
Thursday last. Those of Friday, which were due
this morning, have not arrived. The discussion
in the'Chamber of Deputies on the projet respect-
ing the Es►imates for the service of 1819 was
contir►ued through the sitting of Wednesday,
when it was closed, and the deliberation on the
Articles ajourned till Thursday. During the
sitting the attention of the Chamber, in conse-
quence ot the Report of a Petition on the sub-
ject, was called to the prevalence of Suicide.
It was stated by the Count de FLOIRAC, that
the number of suicides in Paris Amounted 'in
the course of only five months to upwards of three
hundred. The Petition which called for the exe-
cution of the laws against suicide was referied to
the KaErER of the SEALS. Another Petition, of a
different charactEr, from the widows and heirs of,
several dramatic authors, prayed for the repeal of
the law of 1793, which limited the right of pro.
perty in dratitatic works to ten years after the
Ovath ot the authors. The Petition was referred
to the Mioister of the interior, to consider tulle•
titer any measure could be brought forward upon
the subject during the present Session.

The KING held a Council of Ministers on Wed-
nesday, at which it was unaerstood his MAJESTY
authorized the return to France ,of :Marshal SOULT,
LieUtellatit-Gelleral the Count Pt RE, 13II1AT, the
Collin REAL, and POMMPRELTIL.

It is stated in the Gazette de France, that plea
sore camps, consisting of about 40 000 are
to be formed this summer in Alsace, and that
distinguished Mar,lhal is to take the command.
Previous to the departure of Prince LEOPOLD
of Saxe Coburg from Paris, Sir CHARLES STEWART,
the English Ambassador, gave a grand entertain-
ment on Wednesday, in honour of his 'Royal
Highness ; at which the Ministers of State, the
Ambassadors, and a number of persons of distinc-
tion, were present. •

A letter from Leghorn states, that a revolution
had taken place at Tunis ; the Bey and all his
family having been massacred, and a new Bey set
up by the,Algerines, who had obtained the ascen-
dency.

The Doke and Duchess of CLARESNCE were to
set out from Hanover on the 17th instant, to pro-
ceed to the Baths of Liebenstein.

FIVE PER CENTS.
Wednesday 66 f. 90 c.

DEFERRED STOCK.

Of the 22d March, 1817, . $l5 f. 95c.
122 d Sept. 1817, ....83f. 95c.
22c1 March, 1818,
.22t1 Sept. 1818, 79 f. 95c.
M4ich,1819,

THE FoNDs.=-Although a holiday this day at
the Bank, the Stock Exchange is open, and a
great deal of business doing. Consols com-
menced this morning at 66j. The Exchanges
have risen again, and Bullion is falling—Gold,
80s. Silver, ss. 3d., and no buyers.

It is currently reported in the City this morn-
ing, that the Minister will send to the Stock Ex-
change on Wednesday next, for the Gentlemen
to wait on him, concerning the Loan.

Accounts have.been received from New Bruns-
wick, stating that a serious misunderstanding has
taken. place between the Council and the Ciovernor
of the Colony, 'elating to some proposed New

buries. SeVerat protests, tnade by the Council,
bay's been sent to the Governor, for the puipuse
of being transmitted w England.

The Morning Chronicle of this day has discover-
ed " a Nare's Nest," aild seems to triumph in its
good fortune. It pretends to perceive a great
inconsistency in Ministers, whom it charges with
deserting Mr. PITT'S principles in Parliament,
and extolling them in Taverns. The writer is
not stifficiently acquainted with Mr. PrrT's sys.
rem to know that while he maintained that
certain principles ought to be generaily support-
ed, yet that, on important occasions, wise Polis
ticians will act according to " EXISTING CIRCUM-
STANCES:' 1-10 W is if possible for human facul-
ties, however penetrating and sagacious,. to anti-
cipate all possible contingEnCies ? Mr. PITT
died at a critical period, when a gloom hung
over this Country and all Europe, and his
latest moments, which were consecrated to his
Co‘untry, anti the welfare of mankind, as all
his lite had been, were not cheered by the hope
that.the triumph of his principles would be the
deliverance of Europe. If he had lived to witness
that glorious issue, be would not have sunk under
the burthens, a temporary evil, occasioned by that
glorious result, but have adapted his measures
to temporary exigencies, as ,his successors have
done. But the truth is, that all the alarm
about the suspension of Cash Payments have
been raised by the clamours, of Party, in and
out of Parliament. The People at large saw none
of the predicted danger, satisfied :of the solvency
of the Bank, conscious of the interested removal
of our metallic currency to France, and convinced
that a fnether issue here would be attended with
the same effect. The alarm is now done away,
and the timid have recovered their understand-
ings. But The Chronicle attempts to be natirical
on Ministers for speaking their sentiments at
" Tavern Clubs," atter all " the taunts and
sarcasms " thrown out against Mr. Fox for
doing the same. It does not occur to the
Writer, or he wisely passes it over, that there is
material difference between the two eases.—ln
the one, the Idol of Democracy frequented Tavern
Dinners, as Mr. WlNnnast said of him, to
pander to the bad passions of the mob." In
the>,other, Ministers once a-year attend the cele-
bration of the Birth-day of a Man whose life was
devoted to his Country, whose last sighs were
breathed for her welfare, end whose principles
have, established the,„satety of that Country, and
accomptished the Deliverance of Europe.

h is highly gratifying to us to find daft our
efforts in support of essential interests are pro-
perly understood and duly appreciated. For this
reason we feel much pleasure in extracting the
following at tide tram " The Leicester Jouinal,
and Midland Counties Generat Advertiser" of the'
2...8!it inst.. :

" In the last page we have inserted the SPEECH of the
E:snov Of PETERBOIIounn, on the Catholic Claims," in the
House of Lords .on the 17th instant, extracted from that '
sound constitutional Paper Tin: SUN,' to which the Pro-
testant Community is more indebted than any other London
Paper, for the very able and dispas,doate manaerin which
the claims of the Catholics have been rebutted : it is tine the
Question is set at rest for the present Session ; but, not-
withstanding the voice of Parliament and of the nation
have been so often, and so decidedly, expressed in opposition
to these claims, we arepersnaded their advocates are men of
too persevering a disposition to relinquish their efFurts,whilst
the most distant hope of success remains.
.We therefore.
hope that the opponents of Papal Ascendancy will, when the
question of Emancipation is again brought forward, be upon
their guard, and not become the dupes of the mamteuvres of
the Opposition a second time !"
We shall make no comment on the difference.
between the conduct of the liberal Editor of that
Journal, who is wholly unknown to us, and that
of London Editors in general, farther, than to ob-
serve, that when they extract any article from THE
SUN, they do not mention -it by name, but as
an " Evening Paper," though we invariably
state the source in our Extracts from their
Journals.—With respect to The Leicester Journal,
we sincerely rejoice that a Paper of such deciika
loyalty and literary merit has so extensive a circu-
lation, and we doubt not that. it is highly useful
in checking the efforts of Faction,,and in widely
diffusing sound Constitutional Principles.

On Thursday the General Graham, WuATtiga-
HEAD, from Bombay, bound to :the river, put
into St. Helen's, with foul winds.—She
,sail-
ed (torn Bombay on the- 3d of Jannary„ Cape.
the 15th of February, 'and from St. Helena
the 4th of March. BuoNAPAIITB was living ; hot
more than this (which is•certified by signal daily,.
to the ships which- cruise round the island), e
cannot expect to. learn of him by any ordinary
arrival, di it is known he has not been out ut hia
grounds (rarely out of h's house) these two
•vears, ever spice the arrival of Sir iluncos
Locher. Mr. BARRY O'MEARA, his late Surgeon,
asserts, that sonic months .precious to his leaving
the island, his unhealthy residence, and close
coofinctuenfl,ttad produced 4ymptoms of confirm-
ed hepatitis. The General Grahort.:pr.occeded tor
the River this utorning.—(Portzmouth Paper )

I'hIVAl'E AND At:TfiENTII:

PARIS, biAt 27.

M. Lmarr:P., the Banker and Deputy, Las pub'
lished aLetrer to his Colleagues, in onswer to
the expressions of the Baron DELKSSERT in the
Chamber on the subject of last year's Loans.---
" do not know," says the Baron, " how far I
ought to praise the frankness of thohe who blame
more titan bitterly an operation in which they vo-
luntarily participated; for my own part I declare,
that l woidd have had, no hand in it it I had en-
tertained the least J übt on its legality or pm'
Fiery, or on the loyalty which presided at th°
arrangement of these two operations."
We wish M. LAFITTE would try to lire, rather
than write down public Opinion. We object no:
to a Banker's Errand Bov becoming one of (lie
first Capitalists in Europe : we will even stip..
pose (which is granting a great deal) that 1)-1.
forms an exception to the rule of the ilbhe ST,
PicsßE, that " he never knew a man rise rota
the dunghill to possess a colossal fortune by ho'
nottrable means." We will grant, then, that :KC
Banker, M. LAFITTE, is, as, you all know, an boo
nouralAe man ; yet, when we see a man, no meet'
ter what is his origin, sacrifice every thing t°
vanity 'and selfishness, what are we to think of
him ? The first French Loan was made willt

Mr. BAP,ING, because this patriotic Balker anli
others thought, by refusing it that they could slot'
the wheels of Government, and Octet-ore threo
such a discredit on the Loan, that it was made at
52. ; when% this cunning Lsuac, though be would j
bare nothing to do with it while in the bands all
Go\'ernmenr, instantly 'grasped at as much as ltd
could get of it, as a Loan at 43 per cent, heaa"
par, was certain of yielding an itninenSe pront."a"
Next comes the Loan of 14 milli:sus in A. 1,; Ys
1818; for Which 163 millions were subscribed ;-"'"
and it is on this nominal subscription of 10 tititcs
more than was asked that our shbllow-pa rd
Banker grounded his accusations aga:nst the Mid,'
nister. Few can hare a poorer idea of ill. Cu'B:
%TETT° than ourselves, but on this occasion bt
displayed the greatest wisdom : l,e found. that
persons subscribed for large sums who :itsd scarcely
bread to eat, for every one thought it wet! to 1)4
able to say he had subseribed to the Loan. D=';''
ducting the cl-aitr, the Minister thought be shoala
have real offers sufficient without foreigners e
hence his proud advertisement : but he was not
die dupe of his own vain boasting, and be coo'
eluded the Loan of 24 millions entirely with fa'
reigners. The event proved he was rigA, for at
the very moment LAFITI'd accused him of doing
so, and was making ltonasticed offers of taking
itAtimself, the poor little Loa.. 414 trrillions could
not be filled up with all the tamp y ttforts of tilis
Banking C01u553.3 to assist it—socis as leading all
he could on property of superi4 %rake heitig
pawned with ; yet; with this' it,thoit;;.: Out
betoi e bins, such was the vat kat y e t t tai. mans
that, under the musk afittalotism,aa rasisied the
BaRING's bargaai aaould. be at 7.1 instead of 66'
Mr. B had oCi•I ed him 2 millions of the Loot/.
which the pretended a' delL'acy about accepting'
but which he would not let slip tatough bi°
fingers : and, mat k the patriot's reason—h,. 10(16
it in order to save this last portion of ling,
tune for France. Lout,. XI-V. said, L'Etat.
moi (the State, it is me), and M. Lamas, ..11
France, means himself, for, like all other Char'
latans, be tries to mask his private interest as 41
public good. But he paid severely for his
ranee and his folly, by trying to keep op a falo
alipearance of national wealth,--he and mani
more. were all but ruined last Antiun. So thal
many of the English who had not 'already wide
drawn their money on account of. Iris exorbifani
charges (the Doke of WELLINGTON end .th°
English Ambassador had already' done it)
flocked to close their accounts with his reeling
edifice, for they ceased to have any Confidence it/
his stability, morality, or judgment : indeed, wi-00
confidence could be placed in a man as a financier'
who, in his calculations on the affairs of the
made a mistake of near 60 millions sterling'
and could not Make out bow it was' even Whet)
told of it, until a Junior Cl,:rk in his own 00°
literally beat it into hint.
The Baron DELES!ERT was perfectly right it'll
his assertions—he is a noble character, posseoce
of a splendid fortune, and a superior mind ; 10
r,ither seeks nor avoids popolittity, which is 9
much the idol of LAFITTE, that, not beitag 91}16
'to obtain kin the regular way, he has recourse°
the lowest system of quackery, but he is knovy%
The CoHONATION is decidedly fixed for t%
2th August, when the Court hopes dl,O to " •
able to announce the birth of a NINO{ of 5°
HOUSE OF 1:3OUnBoN.

• Yestercky the LOlll3 CHANCELLPIt bad n"„
diel)qe Of the PHIN cp. REGENT.
LEC)PoLD of SiXe Cgiblira tiPlt Ct)
Utl Sottacitty from Parit.