The Sun.
London, England, 1818-12-05 00:00:00

MR. HORSLEY'S CHILD.

Besides the letters mentioned h our Paper of
Yesterday, a Lady obligingly called on 1.17r5.
iioast.Ey with another letter received from her
brother at Bremen, dated the 24th ult. contain-
ing much interesting informality, on the subject
of the " Recovered Chiid." Of this letter the
following is a copy :

" Bremen, Nov. 24, three o'clock P. M.
" Mr. Horsley, of London, whose son was stolen from him
about three weeks past, sent last Sunday, from Leer, an ex-
press on to this place to may friend, Mr. Coleman, the British
Consul at Bremen ,stai ing that be was thenin pursuit ofCharles
Rennett, the person who cat tied the child off; and presumed,
by the time, or before the express reached Mr. Coleman, that
the said ReQuett would he in Bremen, requesting him to use
every exertion to ailirehend the villain. Mr. Coleman re-
ceived the letter at five o'clock yesterday morning, and as
soon it was day-light set anon; the business. He discover-
ed that a person answering the description given of hint by
Mr. tiorsley, in his letter. had come from Leer, I think, last
Tl.nrsday, and went to the Loudon Hotel with the child.
After stavii, there about an hour, he went down the river, to‘
a place celled Vegesack, left the child there, and returned to
Bremen, to engage a passage in the American ship Pallas,
boo .:'. to Baltimore, for which he was to pay '2lO Spanish I
dollars, for himself and child. lie quitted this on Friday, at
about three o'clock, went down to Vegesack, and on Satur-
day proceeded still farther down the river to Braake, there
to await the captain of the ship, to proceed to sea With the
first fair wind; which would hare been the ca!e this after-
noon, or to-amt.-ow morning.

•,
" Mr. Coleman having learnt the foregoing, would not
trust a messenger with an order to apprehend tha unfeeling
thief; ,hut set off himself, at 1 t o'clock yesterday, for Beaks,
He had asked use to dine with him as yeSterday, souse days
ago, and accordingly I went yesterday. Mrs. Coleman imme-
diately informed sue that he was under the necessity of going
to Braka, for the foregoing reasons. . 1 however dined there,
and stayed till late its the evening; when, at half-past :en
o'clock, we were informed by the servai:t that two strangers
wished to speak with the Consul ; we immediately concluded
that it was Mr. Horsley, who in Isis letter observed he should
follow the express as soon as possible. In fact, it was so. We
immediately informed him how far Mr. Coleman had pro-
ceeded, and that there was every likelihood of the child being
recovered. I went over with hint to his hotel, advised hin to
remain there, and wrote a letter to Mr, Coleman, enclosing
the Bow-street warrant, and by an express sent it oft to
Braka.

'• This morning at day-light, an express came up from Mr.
Coleman, stating he had recovered the child, and secured
Bennett; requiring at the same time, if Mr. Horsley was in
Bremen, that he should come down to him to Braka, to
prove before the Magistrate there that he is the father of the
child! Mr. Coleman's brother-in-law (Mr. Berners, fro :o
Frankfort) and myself immediately went over to the London
Hotel, and informed Mr. Horsley bow to proceed—had a
carriage procured for him—went off at ten o'clock—and pre-
sume that by this time he has the child in his arms. He will
probably not return here till to-morrow afternoon, as some
Judicial proceedings must be fulfilled for the securing of Ren-
net►, aad obtaining the child. Before Mr. Horsley left tc•wle
this morning, I advised him of the mail from Cuxhaven leav-
ing this at five o'clock for England; he immediately wrote a
few lines, and gave them to Mr. Bcrners, who has sent them
tc,:t he Post-office.

"You wii!, my sister, on receipt of this, call on Mrs.
Horsley, and assure her of the safety of Mr.. Horsley and
child. It will be doing an act of humanity, which we should
ourselves wish done to us in a similar situation."

It is said, that when the father was introduced,
with other Gentlemen, into the room in which
his child was, the little fellow no sooner set eyes
on him, than, bursting into a kind of hysterical
laugh, and ribbing into his arms, he at last got
his tongue to articulate—calling out, " 0 Pa !
my own dear Pa !'•
The unfeeling thief, Rennett, when he found
his hellish purpose frustrated, and himself arrest-
ed, implored mercy in the most abject and hu-
miliating terms. He is in safe custody ; and the
necessary measures for transmitting the base
wretch to Englaild are in progress:.
It is stated that Rennett and the child. were ac-
tually on hoard the vessel, ready to sail for Ame-
rica ; and that hut for the proMpt and most
praiseworthy vigilance of Mr. Coleman, the Bri-
tish Consul, the villain would in all probability
have got off with his prize.

The mourning for her late MAJESTY was very
general on Sunday at Edinburgh. The appear-
ance of the children of the City Hospital was ex-
tremely neat. The boys of Heriot's (who were
ail in new cloathing) and Watson's wore knotted
crapes round their left arms, and the girls of the
Merchants' and Traders' Hospitals, had their
bonnets decorated with black ribbons, and wore
black gloves.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday an Inquest
was held at the Eagle and Child, Shoe-Line,
near the Workhouse, before THOMAS SHELTON,
Esq. Coroner for the City of LOndon„on view
of the body of a child only six weeks old, who
was accidentally killed by being run over by a
hackney coach the preceding day, nearly facing
Furnival's Inn, Holborn. The mother of the
child attempted to cross the street with it in her
arms, when she, not being. quick enough in
passing, was accidentally struck by the pole,which
knocked her down, and the child was thrown
out of her arms, when the coach wheel passed
over it and killed it on the spot. The mother
escaped unhurt. Verdict-4ccidental Death.
Thursday the labourers employed iu digging for
the purpose of forming the sewer in Bhekman-
street, Borough, .found a human skeleton at the
distance of nineteen feet from the surface of the
ground.

POETRY.

ODE TO THE GENIUS OF FRANCE.

titaNtE! where is now thy boasted power,
O'er rival Monarchies to tower
Thou (Lir' st net grow assume high airs and vapotte:
Where is the eemet's fearful blaze ?
How faint its fire-.—what feeble rays!
Surpass'd in splendour by a faithing taper.

Where are fiat-bottomed boats and prames,
With troops to terrify Oid Thames,
KnocL down the To",er, heroically daring,
itob the rich Bank, tear by the roots
The firms of DatimmoNn, MoRLAN 0, COUTTS,
RoTHSCUILD, the monied Israelite, and BAR/NO?

Where is the Chief who led thy wars ?
Nacot.Ecrst does not thank his stars
For giving rocks for bed and contemplation;
From whence he looks with longing eyes
Towannis bear PARTS, that with sighs
Laments the loss of hint and depredation.

Storn treasures now are all. retn riling**
The TUILLERIES in deepest mourning:
To each vain Frenchman what a galling sight!
Dead the gay blossoms of her hopes,
Sad PARIS o'er the ruin mopes,
And damns the British lightning for the blight.

Alas ! how fall'n surd:, how low !
Quite prostrate, with a face of woe:
From Pity's eye not bonour'd by a tear—
What compliment will Justice pay?
I Lent the anger'd goddess say—
" Slave of a mad ambition lie thou there !”
Somers'-Town.

4' This Poem, we understand, was written soon after the
restoration of the BounuoNs, and when restitution was made
of the plunder of other countries.

EPILOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS.

WRITTEN BY A FRIEND, SPOKEN BY MRS. GLOVER.

May Mrs. GLovett venture to appear?
She neither uses nor speaks daggers here ;
She comes quite tame, iu the old English way,
'Jo hope you all have—wept at our new Play.

7'allitt no more, I tread on English ground ;
There's pride, hope, courage, in the very sound;
Myself your debtor, many a changeful year
Fur generous kindness—never changing here,
I come to ask that nimblest now for one
Unknown,—or but by this night's fortunes known,
To cheer a youthful votary of the Nine,
And fill his heart with gratitude—like mine.

Aye, this is England—well its signs I know,
Beauty above, around me, and below :
Such cheeks of rose, such bright bewitching eyes!
Well may the kneeling world give you the prize!
Where, where on earth, does woman wear a smile
Like Ours, ye glory of " TIIF GLORIOUS ISLE?"
But bless me—what, two nondescripts together,
That sfse—a pile of ribband, straw, and feather;
Her back a pillion, all above and on it
A church-bell? cradle? tower?—No, faith, a bonnet!
Ave, and an actual woman in it, able—
Rouse bil.ter tongue—to ::sake that tower a Babc::

Now for the he, the fellow nondescript:
Whence has that mockery of man been shipt ?
Have Ross or BUCHAN brought him to console
The quidnuncs for the passage to the Pole ?
While, on her iceberg, howls some Greenland squaw,
Robbed of her pretty monster till next thaw !
No, Paris has the honour. " Ate yue oui."
Voila"—the air, grace, shrug,—smell of Paris !
France gave his step its trip, his tongue its phrase,
His head its peruke, and Isis waist its stays !
The thing is contraband. Let's crush the trade;
Ladies, insist on't—all is best home-made.
All British, from your shoe-tye or your fan,
Down to that tantalizing wretch—called man !
Now for the compound creature—first. the wig,
With every frizzle struggling to look big :
On the rouged cheek the fresh-dyed whisker spread,
The thousandth way of dressing a calf's Lead.
The neckcloth next, where starch and whalebone vie,
To make the stave a walking pillory.
The bolstered bosom, all ! ye envying fair,
How little dream you of the stuff that's there !
What straps, ropes, 'steel, the aching ribs compress,
To make the Dandy " beautifully less."
Thus fools, their final stake of folly cast,
By instinct, to strait waistcoats come at last.
Misjudging- SHAKsezAttn! this escaped thine e7e,
For though the brains are out, the thing won t die.

And now,- farewell ! But one word for the Bard,
The smile of Beauty is his best reward;
Then smile upon him, you, and you, and you !
I see the Poet's cause is won. Adieu !

THE THEATRES.--We forgot to mention yes-
terday, that the new Tragedy of Brutus was
written by Mr. flowann PAYNE, a Gentleman of
well-known literary and theatrical talents. It was
repeated last night at Drury-Lane Theatre before
a very numerous audience, with confirmed success.
The dying scene of Lucretia was omitted, and
other cnrtailments have been judiciously made,
but it still requires retrenchment to give it a more
forcible operation on the feelings. Yet as the
piece is generally imbued with poetical_spirit, it
should be given in its original state when pub-
lished. ,

COVENT- GA RDEN.— The Rivals was followed
last night by Rose d'Amour, in which Miss BEAU-
MONT again niade a highly favourable impression
on the audience.

ARMY.—Yesterday afternoon the 3d Battalion
of Grenadier Guards, cruder the command of Cc!.
D'OYLaY, marched into London. This fine body
of men formed a part of the Army of Occupa-
tion in France, and landed a few days since at
Ramsgate, and having proceeded aslar as Dart-
ford they received orders to change their route,
by crossing the country for Windsor, where they
arrived on Tuesday, to attend the furnerat of the
late QUEEN. 'fb-y marched into town with a
full band, which, with their fine soldier-lily: ap-
pearance, had a most imposing effect, and at-
tracted the notice of an immense number of spec-
tators.

On Thursday morning, about ten o'clock, the
Duke of Yoax proceeded from his apartments,
Windsor Castle, in his regimentals, cap, &c. of
the First Regiment of Foot Guards, to the Infan-
try Barracks, attended by Colonel COOKE and Co-
lonel UPTON, and inl)ected the third Battalion
of; his Regiment, who 'arrived there on the lg.
instant front France, to attend the funeral of the
late QUEBN.

FOR ME SUN.

tralcAL ERRORS.--(LETTER M.)

liar; erat in votisitc.
Ma. EDITOR,--it his ever been among the
number of my wishes to see such a translatio
of the Old Testament from the original language
in which it was written, as should be free from ma-
nifest inconsistencies, darkness, and indecencies,
• so that my daughters might read it without a
blush, and my sons without disgust. At ten
years of age, first opened it in its present ver-
sion, uninfluenced by parents, misses, or school-
masters, under whose trammels I received no di,
section; but; unawed by authority, I was left (0
think and judge for myself. Nullius addiclus
rare in verb(' magistri. This is my 'rejoicing, and [
have tbonght and judged accordingly, untainted by
spiritual fallacies, and with a love of our Constitu.
(ion in Church and State, which I deem the best in
the eivlized world. As my years.inereased, what
I found occult in this book, the first that was
ever made known to me by men, I passed over,
and lamented that after the various translations, I
could depend on none as indisputably true As a
history of the Jews, in its present English, I
paused and pondered over it as the best I could
procure. I went through it in Latin and French
also, and sorry am I to say, that they to me were
preferable, and forced me to infer that the. He-
brew language must be out.of the reach of human
ken, when so many attempts had been made to
give the world a literal and verbatim translation
without success. This left me to my own con-
struction, end to imagine that. what was written
by the holy pen-men, who were divinely inspired,
and had a spiritual intercourse with the Deity,
was misrepresented; or that they might have (iris-
taken the voice of God, and embodied it erro-
reously. If we are to believe that the Hebrew
ianguapt,e is incapable of variation, and that, as a
dead one, it was fixed, never to change in idiom
or dialect, like a living one, there would be no
contradiction in it, and we should read it as the
most endear of all histories, giving it full credit
for ail it relates, without being able to deny it,
any more than we can the Commentaries of Caesaror the Annals of 'racist's ; but when it abounds
in errors 8;1(1 obscurity, if we believe them to be
sacred, we should be insane, by derogating front
the perfection of the Deity, and reducing his om-
niscience to the presumptuous ignorance of Wall:
Looking at the present faulty English Translation,
I am filled with doubts as to the veracity of seve-
ral parts of it ; arid my wonder ceases, that ever
since it has been in the hands of the people, as a
fruit of the Reformation, it should be treated with
indifference, and in their common parlance be
converted' into jests 'and proverbial sayings. if
any of it 47 translations had been echoes of its ori-
ginal,' its contents would not have excited asto-
nishment, nor would any one have put it aside.
This as a truth results from the conflicts of Trans-
lators and the tyianuy of Popery. I forbear to
give instances ; hut I must declare, that of the
three Old Testaments in my possession, not one
is satisfactory
,in the whole. They appear to
be the feeble perforeterices 4:f meet n r.-hum too
much trust has been reposed, for giving its in our
own tongue the Word of God, transfused through
the mortal senses of his chosen creatures, men ;
and this from their creation to their destruction,
and subsequent deliverance from Egyptian bon-
dage, their journey to the promised land, their
relapses into idolatry, their repentance and sin,
down to their captivity in Babylon, under Hosea
and Zedekiah, by Nebuchadnezzar and Salmana-
zar ; their restoration by Cyrus, and their total
dispersion on the birth, doctrine, and death of the
Messiah. A Nvork, thus handled by the weakness
and arrogance of unhallowed men, has swelled
my wishes to see it, if possible, as recorded by its
Authors, not as mutilated and misunderstood by
its Translators, who, having been deceived them-
selves, have deceived their Headers, and left theta
to believe in the word of man instead of the word
of God.

Have we an Old Testament in English that can
be called a fac-sintile copy of what came from the
pens of the Writers under the name of the Yenta•
tench ? In substance we read in Genesis an ac-
count of the Creation to the death of Joshua ; its
Exodus the tyranny of Pharaoh over an inoffen-
sive people, and their deliverance by divine inter-
position; in Leviticus, the order and offices of
the Jewish Priesthood ; in Numbers, their jour-
nits and incidents through the Wilderness; itt '
Deuteronomy, the law and ceremonies of Moses
repeated, with. exhortations to better obedience,
and thanks for Divine favour ; in Joshua, an ac-`
count of his wars ; in Judges, the condition of
Israel in Canaan, from the death ot Joshua to the
death of Eli ; in Ruth, a virtuous woman, who
slept at the feet of Boaz ; in Samuel, a history ot
himself and Eli under Saul and David ; in Kings,
a history of the Jewish Monarchy to the captivi-
ty ; in Ezra, a continuation of it ; in Nehemiah,
his journey and stay in Jerusalem, for twelve
years, to rebuild it in Esther, a beautiful cap,
rive, and her influence over a King who had repu-
diated his Queen Vashti for disobedience; in Job,
his patience ; in Psalms, David's heathen philo-
sophy ; in Proverbs, lessons ; in Ecclesiastes,
wisdotn ; and in the Canticles, the songs of Solo-
mon. All of which I collect from the current

version, as a chymist would ore from its dross\-

Mr. BELLANY, therefore, disdains- to baptise
errors, contradictions, and absurdities, by the
name of sacred. His study is to remove them,
and make the Old Testament in Hebrew speak as

it was written, neither to add to, or diminish

from a vowel point in it. It is this that has pro•
doted the critical censure of a competitor for pub.
lic favour towards a Bible of his own. It ought to
be known for what it truly is, to shew the power
and grace of the Almighty in his theocracy, to the
end of that final redemption and titivation which
Christianity promises.
But Mr. BELLAMY is abused by his critic ! Have
patience, Sir, he cannot hurt you with the wise,
and fools will not read him. His strictures are

compliments, and his abuse is praise, which will
increase the circulation of your work, and esta-
blish it as on a rock, against which the gates of
it canot prevail.

STACK/MUSE.
[To Ls contbaued.l

rtiOVINCIAL JOURNALS.

_~

We 'lately copied some judicious observations
Iron' the York Chronicle, and we have extracted
the following just and liberal article from the
`:same respectable Journal of the sa
" The Sovereigns and Plenipotentiaries at Aix--
la;Chapelle have completed their important la:
'bouts. Every one who wishes -for the long con-
tinuance of peace in Europe, will read with pleat
sure the official documents. They contain a sum-
mary exposition. of those wise and conciliatory
prticiples which have animated the Allied 'Coun-
cils, ever since the preservation of the tranquil-
the of the world has been deposited as a sacred
trust in their hands. They now make a .B°lcm-it
tippeal to them as the guides by which they have
steered their past course through a stormy pe-
tiod, and as the regolators of their future conduct.
)n this consolatory assurance we-hope batious
are destined to find a long career of happiness and
ros:oo ity. -France, it will he seen, is admitted,
,„,,:er the gu3rantee of her legitimate Soveleien,
into this noble contederacy of crowned heads, the
basis of whose onion is the conservation of the
general good. Never, perhaps, has there been
an era in the history of the . world nine aospi-
dons to the consummation of this great ti ork,
which seems to realize what has till now been
held the dreams of a romantic phdanthlupy
as well as subjects, have ',yen instructed
by severe ordeals in their mutoal advantages. All
the wild theories of visionary legislation, and of
political perfectibiley have had their day ; they
have been tried and found wattling. IVearied
will) successive disappoititmews, the nations of
Europe de, ire no longer
,ro be fooled with Speen-
latioos built noon dowries which have no identity
with the passions, the interests, the real virtues
anti weaknesses of 1111111 all nature. They have
paid deatly for the childish credulity with which
they received the empirical suggestions of their
too often crafty, though sometimes misguided,
regeoerators. Henceforth, we apprehend, they
will be content to follow, and not seek to moron
the gradual march of society. They will avert
teeir eyes from the gli tering unsubstantial ware
of sophisters, and accept the only boon which
'moire has placed within the reach. of man, the
capacity of progressive amelioration. We shall
doubtless be deafened, as heretofore, with the
vol.gar clamour of purblind, or the insidious decla-
mations of designing, politicians ; who will conti-
nue to tell us with admirable gravity, and still
snore admirable effrontery, of the inherent, the
indissoluble vices of Monarchical Govensnent.
Be it so. While the balance of universal ittstice
is held with a steady hand, while Europe r-eposes
io the pe:-iee she has nohiy won, while nations
ptosyer, while liberty diffuses itself co-ordinately
with intellectual and mold! refinement, while the
voice of glattiess is heard, while the arts of peace
tire cultivated, we shall listen with more of pity
than of indignation, to those who, from the dic-
tates of a bad heart, or a weak head, strive to
deform 'hat paradise, from whose calm delights
They are •pli-eecholed. After the dark and stormy
and calamitous times in which we have lived;
after having witnessed front doy to day, from
month 'to month, and year to year, only the
bloody course of wars engendered by perfidy and
aurbitiott ;- after having been satiated with mi-
-series and devastations, it is indescribably delight-
fill to contemplate, as emanating from the.athi-
t era of hotpot! happiness, declarations such as we
this day publish, so expressive of good will to-
wards mankind, and so identified with honest
principles, that they have only to be left to their
own nee operation to produce all and more than
the most benevolent imagination can picture to
itself of social felicity."