The Sun.
London, England, 1817-06-23 00:00:00

ttttniitte torittirmeraiive &ace, PeoclActive of
Gratitude, and expressive of Christian
trophy. And how shall theic effects he prodio:ed
unless that Beilthug, while it displays the causes,
•shikll itself contribute to perpettiate the rea'rilts?---r
lff Militaty or Marine Schools at.t the contents
of the Ts °pity of 'Watelloo, those Sliools
Partly produce the affect I destribe. If Libearies,
:3eltuols of Science, or of the Arts, are etichiled
within it, they will likewise partly slim those ef-
fects: A Buildink for sititilar perposes irith the
British Museuni (anti if it were hot for' a partial
incongruity in time, what if the Brit isiuMnseom it-
self, absorbed in the treater MeMorial, regitlarly
exttyuled over iti is Mule grounds, and forming
l„tepositories and Schools, of Antiquaries, Sciences,
end Arts, witli a Colinnu in the centre, if you
please, towering to the shiei, and with spaces tor
processions and annual celebrations of the great
event) should forth the Monument of Waterloo r
A continual gift to the country of such sotirces of
instruction, 'and an assurance, under that roof,
4f their perpetual protection, would stipply a con-
stant theme of national gratitude to the Victors
Of Waterlog, and a constant stimulus to national
feeling, which would cease only with the Nation
itself. This would distinguish the Monument of
that day from all other Trophies and Monuments
ipt the world. This would express the national
sentiment, and satisfy the uational mind. This
'Vault! assure the foreigners who visit our land,
that we are not insensible of the valour of the
heroes who guard us, or ungrateful to the wisdom
df the Statesmen who guide us ; but that we ap-
preciate War by its necessity and its justice, and
Vietory by its increase of social security-
. From these reflections on what the .English
Nation feels it might and ought to do, I return
unwillingly to the thoughts of what report states it
is
about to do ; or to speak more properly, what is.
shout to he done under its name. Two Towers (it is
said) are to arise, °tie square, one round, (adorned
and tasteful, as they must be from the eminent ta-
lents of the Architects who have been selected
for the execution of them) not combining their
ittt-
pression on the spectator, but separated, by con-
siderable distance, from each other; not in the
Metropolis,' but its vicinities—they are to ascend
nearly to the clouds, and within them, the travel-
ler., if he has sufficient strength, may ascend as
high—when he has climed to the top of an inter-
nal staircase, he may look out at a narrow win-
dow, and see London, or the adjacent villages !
Does the Genius of England slumber I—What re-
ference have such designs to the triumph of Bri-
tain, to the national achievement of Peace, to the
Victory of Waterloo I—But these Towers, it is
said, are raised in honour of the'Army and the
Navy that conquered there and at Trafalgar i
The. Trajan and the Antonine are of as much
worth, and to the *erne effect. But ours ,will be
by far the higher. So much thee worse. If the
principle is faulty, the farther it is extended, the
worse is the result,
.Besides; the•Trajari tend An-
toning Columns fully answered their real purposes.
They were raised to dkplay the glory of the re-
spective Etnyerors. They bore their names, and
spread them through the Lllojt ha of men. %%Nulty
end personal glory found their amplest meaaure
zit contentment, the Sole end for which 0103 e fro
pities were erected.

Sumptuous Towers and Stnircases can rival
nothing but the trophies of Egyptian darkness.—
The Pyratnidi of Atria would be their only equals ;
expensive, enduring, useless'; doomed tosurvive the
gratitude, thelthowleite, and almosithe ttientory
oldie People who raised them, because Tradition
ends in ,thern no daily snstenance ; because the
names they celebrate are passed away and for-
gotten ; ,autl because they have no connection
with the hearts or the interests of mankind.,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

PUBLIUS.

COURT OP CHANCERY, JuNz 2!.

THE OPERA-HOUSE.
The subject of perforthing French Plays at this
place was again brought forward. After the Colin-
sal on both sides had been heard, and it hail bees
stated by Mr."slmts that the license had not been
obtained without laying every thing before the
Lord Chamberlain,
The LORD CHANCELLOR 'said, the single ques-
tion was, whether it was making such .a use of the
Opera-House as the policy of insurance permitted.
He could not determine that point without seeing
the policy. lie knew the Opera• House hail been
Used for other purposes besides Italian Opeual
not only had the Concerts of Ancient Music been
-performed there, bit: it had been the place where
the Knights of the Garter, and the Knights of
the Bath, had given their halls and assemblies.
Air. MILLS went for the policy of insurance,
hut us he could not ;obtain it till Monday, the
matter stood over.

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The mortal remainstu or the celebrated havers
LOISA and An.A.nn,—i,vliieli were transferred
during the revolution to the Museum -of Petit:
dugustins, in l'aris, have been deposited, by ordcr
of Government; in the church of St. by
where a solemn office fur the repose of their Soul!,
was performtd Oft the IGrlp. of June.
Thunder was distinct!). heard for more rli2n half
ate boor, (luring the ecessive heat of yel.teiAy
aftertition, but not a drop of rliin fell. ti(l- wd hs
HPY qiite,,thig Visible, not a cloud inter-
cepted the rays of the sun.'
'rho thermorneter.exposed to the Netti 1, Itt 4i.VO
o'clock, tot Thuraday last, ,stood at 83 tlegreei,
is Nolegi.ces above the,usuel summer heat.
SifoOkiNG Acorteiyr.--Stiturday a shoking ac.
eldent lapperred ar' Mr. Johes?;4 rottoii,isonitrac-
cpryi ituttle City-toad. John Batty, one of. the
%iorkimeti iitentliog an extensive maehine tr,ed for
°Pintitng lam w
p-cotton, .hielt was going at the
,rtSte of 460 turns a inbuilt, by some accident; tis,
.he Will taking- up tome or the cotton, ry rog.of.one
-0i the whtelt ettoght'bohl of his shirt sleeve, add
itistantly drew his arm" ford the works, antigTound
out tor 'its aboulder ; Iris head was ertishtd
dj.- the body eves drawn in after, wlyieli ectseti
the math the it ,sibp, j The deceased was albung'
clot), with a wife and roma.