The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-09 00:00:00

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'must, theretorg; destentl,tai:khe task of proving bite ab-
surdity of the cksege. fißTrof:wish to urge, as an argu-
ment, the absoltite-waot of medicines to which the army
was reduced by the rapacity of an apothecary; nor the
indignation felt by General Bonaparte, when he learned
that this wretch, instead of employing his camels to trans-
port pharmaceutic preparations, he loaded them with pro-
visions, upon which he expected
_to derive a profit. The
necessity-to which we were driven.of using roots as a sub-
stitute for opium, is a fact known to the whole army,
Supposing, however, that opiutin had been as plentiful as
it was scarce, and that General Bonaparte could have icott-
tempLated the expedient attributed to him, where could
there be found a man sufficiently determined in mind,•or Fo
lost to the feelings of human nature, as to force open the
jaws of fifty wretched men on the point of death, and
thrust a deadly preparation down their throats ? The
most intrepid soldier turned pale at the sight of an infected
person ; the warmest . heart dared not relieve a friend
afflicted with the plague; and is it to be credited, that
brutal ferocity could esecute what the noblest feelings re-
coiled at? or that there should have been a creature savage
or mad enough to sacrifice his own life, in order to enjoy the
satisfaction of hastening the death of fifty dying men, wholly
unknown to him, and against whom he had no complaint
to make? The supposition is truly absurd, and only
worthy of those who bring it forward in spite of the dis-
avowal of its author. . .
:oiCl,Yev'n, had created and
I return to the infected men: They followed the steps
of the army, held the same road, and always encamped. at
a short distance from its bivouacks. General, Bonaparte
had his tent pitched near the sick every night, and never
passed a day without visiting them, or seeing them file off
at the moment of departure. These generous cares were
crowned with the happiest results. The march, the per-
spiration, and above all, the hope 10 which the General
had restored them, completely eradicated the complaint.
They all arrived at Cairo perfectly re-established
F;intihliesalh.e.
Speaking incidentally m the coisirasvealoyf
olblisserl‘viees,
(tmihooal iitrbspt
peace
af Napoleon'seNeap‘%omise oi
theiitolinaiset tp.e.terhlli pnfoll
organized it military generation in France, he had
taught his soldiers to look up to waralooe for prefer-
ment; had formed a nobility:which was produeed alone
from it, and who would necessarily complain when all
prospect of further honour was closed. Besides, in
times of peace a nation has leisure to think ; this
would never have suited Napoleon, who was scarcely
yet a legitimate Sovereign ; his business was cleariy
to dazzle the judgment of his subjects, and it was
this necessity for keeping up a stimulus, to which t? t-
fin-st army-in the world goaded him, that lured
him to his destruction in Russia. We might en=
large further on this topic, but our limits warms us
to a close. Suffice then to say, that the volumes
before us, bear throughout the strong impress of
truth and authenticity, and if read with a due recol-
lection that the author leans rather too warmly 014
the side of Napoleon, will enable the reader to form
a just and even impartial estimate of his character.

LIFE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. acts, 18528.
This is the thousand and first repetition of the
old story of Mary Queen of Scots : and, if it does
not much increase our stock of intelligence on the
subject, it is at any rate penned in a light, rambling,
and amusing style. As far as we have had leisure to
examine them, the materials seems %veil digested,
and the introductory portion descriptive of the policy
of Henry VIII., and his endeavours to promote is
marriage between the young Stuart and the Princ-,
of Wales, are very pertinently abridged from Bober( -
son. We recommend the work as an amusing arid
instructive treatise to young readers of historv.-

ART OF PROLONGING LIFE.—LoNnoN, 1S 2S,
This was one of the eccentric Dr. Kitchener',
latest publications, and blends sound sense with
quaintness; humour with common-place; the stalest
information with the strangest originality. Alto-
gether it is like one of the Doctor's Dinners, a
bodge-podge, each ingredient of which, perhaps, is
valueless in itself, while the whole forms a pleasant,
and right-welcome repast.

OUR VILLAGE, Vol.. lII.—LONDON, 1928.

Miss Mitford is, we. suspect, trading rather ton
long upon her village ; she has now completely wort,
it threadbare; nor is there one single description.,
scarcely even a character, that we have not met
with in her former volumes. The little trieldink
streamlet of her invention has run itself dry, there
is not a particle of fieshness or moisture left. A,.
if this were not bad enough; the entire matter—
we believe we are correct in saying so—of the pre-
sent volume is merely republished from former pe-
riodicals. The " Monthly Magazine" our fair au-
thoress has robbed most lavishly—we would say un-
gemerously, were it not for the unbounded venera-
tion we feel for the fair sex—at least one-third of
her present papers have been extracted from that
much-injured periodical, yet not a word is said about.
the transfer, if we except a few indirect words,
which mean nothing, in the preface. Having said
thus much in disparagement, it is but fair to throw
in a few words of praise, with respect to the present
series of Village sketches. The descriptions,though not
new, are yet sufficiently pleasing to bear repetition,
and remind us, particularly the sylvan sketches, of
some of the fine old paintings of Hobbiroa or Van-
dervelde. Adaled to this there is a simplicity about'
them, a force of colouring, that appeals at onets Th
the eye and mind. We have no space for extrael-tts

LOSS OF THE ACTIVE OF PETERHEAD,

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We regret to state the following melarxhoh• pi,
ticulars of the loss of the whale-fishin, ship Active,
Hutchison, of Peterhead, at Icelia. The Active
had gone to Greenland, where she hail prosecuted
the whale-fishing with very little success, having
only seen three fish during her stay, and got the
Only fish, on the kith of 'May, which was killed, at
Greenland; so that, after persevering until the 25th
of that month, without a prospect of improvement,
she then bore away for Davis' Straits, taking her
passage on the east side of Iceland. The weather
was easy until the 4th June, when (the North Cape
then bearing N. by W. distant 4 miles), it came to
I blow a heavy gale from E.N.E. at w
vessel was brought up with both anchsnoirli,sga,s\sVicliF)..e'ide
dragged, so that the crew left her for their proses.,
vation, Nest day, the weather having moderated,
id.reemdsathiliteleitill-agAlnedtpi.a/14.;
they returned, but soon after going on board, the
gale came on again, increasing and continuing with
redoubled violence. No hope of safety now ro-
bmuatininedietioviitlhgethceresivlvipbountetolfsattheofi
jogaati
by a heavy sea,when the unfortunate seamen, eight
in number, were immediately drowned. Their
names are, David and Robert Gray, brothers of
Captain gray,
p
and John Watt,all of Peterhead; A. .itTlAitnhd,.%..l:::::
who
formerlyie euN,(hic;rloernavnteldlacalslfohltio,:et,raitilc:iilsio,rozitt
bfaoletfii'l•tinSietgilit'srlethe°l James
Fla" plagbt'n i'il eeoneseSi 'ddl Scott,
'on:ettitladiniacSl of ainofiloufOuet found
a DanishSmith,
sterling, Aberdeen,
landed
cons complete
vessel, which,
Shetland, from which they were brought to Fraser-
burgh in one of his Majesty's cutters. The accounts
of the Greenland Fishery are so unfavourable, that
there Was every appearance of its being a total fai-
obfectreecraew reachmedeatnhetial:
fai-
lure, the only whale known to have been killed
days
sd the unfortunate Active, which had alsO
got about 500 seals, the country being a close pack.
of ice from the lat. of SO. to 72. with S.E. winds
during M
prospect
of 25th. The Active spoke the Neptune of this pluee
the 9th May, all well, but a clean ship; and on the
...ay to the time of his leaving it on tll,O
20th, had the like accounts of her from the Rook-
for Davis' Straits. The
of success at Greenland, it was supposed that all the
slips which had such orders would leave that fishery
pofreviliowlusd."'Awshtilethereh'x'vd'asseneont the feast jeta":ti
Rookwood was very leaky in consequence of the da-
!nage the vessel • •
sustained at Lerwick, on her out-
about the end of May
ward passage, as mentioned in a former paper, and
Captain Lawson was therefore determined to perse-
vere at Greenland, as he slid not consider it prudent
to proceed to the Straits, from the state of his ship.
Of the Peterhead vessels at the seal fishery----the
Jim:// had killed 3,000; Union, 2,000; and Pr , -
,severanee, I,loo,—.frlberdeeu Chronicle.