The Sun.
London, England, 1811-10-05 00:00:00

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We have before presonttd :to oilr readers some
extract, from arriod cat work .published in Ame-
rica, entitled Salmavnli, which, in poiflt of hu-
mour, good sense, and knowledge, is highly credit-
able to the authors. A gentleman, named LAM-
ABRT, has collected the whole of the . papers wlycli
constituted the work in question, and his introduc-
tory Assay i$ characterised by judgment, übserva-
lion, and a .liberal siiittt., Much has been written
on the .habits, principles, and general character
of Anierica, and though Al.r. LAMB4ItT has given
strne reason for exciting a hypincion that he looks
ith a more favourdbleseye on the people of that
Government than, according to most accounts, they
appear to dekerve, yet we shall not imitate their con-
duet towards Great Britain, but set the'm an exam-
ple of a more liberal* temper, by inserting; the (01-
h,viag exiract frdm Mr. LAISIBERT'S to the
alluded to.,

" The manners, habits, and customs, of the Atm-
ricans beat so great a resemblance -to• our own, that
to detail the.one is almost to give a description of
the other. ',Society in America has its .distinctions
like•thOse in Europe::. Equality is not to be found
in ,themetvi‘warld,„any more than -itt the' old it is
only the absence of titles of Nobility
.that renders
the Americans more on tr level with each Other than
the inhabitants,ot ,Eorope. Society, for the -must
parti• is divided int!, three cla,ses he first is co.in-
po%ed of lite Cons' laved auttiofiries and .got eminent
.oTfieers,—divitiett,-4awyers, and physicians,7-00i-
eers awe artny god y,---LindholciLqs, and pew.
pie of independent prperty,—r;th plan 1,
Tic7ititcr,s, and ukrcluthise... .vcoud, comprises

the retail dealers, small tnerehania, ctiltiiraforl, and
Platiters,—Subordlnate officers of thegnvernmenta.;=.
and -the is fermi 'Members of the' three 'professi
onS. The third cotisileS of inferior !Mitsui, and the ,
labouring Classes of the Giminutlity, '
" The first class associate tOget her in a style of
'elegance and splendour little interior to Europe ant ;
and in sofne instances superior 'to those in a siMilsk
station of life. Their houses are fUrnished with'esery
thing that is useful,- agretable, or ornamental ; and
many ate fitted up its thelasteful magnificence of the
fashion. The gentlemen dress invariably in
the English costume;, but the ladies, particularly at
New York, are More disposed to adopt the light,
various, and dashing drapery of the Parisian belles
thab the modest and becoming attire of. our English
-females, who possess the happy art of improving on
E"tench fashions. • Nevertheless there are many of
the AmeriCan ladie4 who give a decided preference
to the 'Engliih costume, particularly at Boston and
Philadelnnia, where the manners of the people are
less relaxed than :at New York, Charleston; and
other'cities I not, however, that -there is anything
the least -unbecoming in the attire of the ladies of
thuse,places ; on the contrary, whatever preference
they may give to' French faihions, they always avoid
that indecent and disgusting exposure of the person
which prevails among the PatisiatiL

•" The females of The United States are elegantly
made, and in general handsome, The lily. indeed
predominates More, than the rose, yet few have oc-
-casion for cosmetics to *heighten their charms,-.-*
Tome travellers who have denied. the American fair
sex the advantage of good teeth have, I think, teen
extremely illiberal in their remarks. In the course
of my tour through tha; country, 1 met with out
kw instances Of mditrerern teeth among the females,
The . men, indeed, are more liable to that ; . defect
though n.,t to :the event which some 161:elk:Pi
would ittsinuate. The pretnture kiss of teeth is in
t n acknowledged by the AMericans ; and the sob.
-jeci has been Mulish. d in their pintosophical
ties; inicao'sc, however, has never been satialaCtori•
iy ascertained.
".The styie"of 'living among persons:of the first
class is spienclid'and lashiunable. Many of the prin-
cipal merchants and people of property haVe elegan;
.equipages ; anti those tvho have none may be ac-
commi7dalcd with hondsoine carriages and horses at
etit! h*qty-siiibis. Iti soine dt the cities there are
seAerai stands of hackney-coaches. The - winter is
passcd in ai-roond of .entertainnients and amuse.
ments :—at 'theatre,—public assemblies,—phi-
losophical and experimental ures,—concert s,—
halls,—tea and card- parties,—cariole excursions,—
and other recreations peculiar to their respective cli-
mates.

Little business appears to 'be done in the towns
befo: e nine or ten 0:lock in she miming::: most of
the merchants and pe01,.1. ,a trade dinti"ai twOl
others, who are less engaged, about thredibutfour
tive.u'eloel: is ustratly the lashionable hour !or
dining. Tbc gemlenien of the-Northern State4‘are

Nitta' to the buttie,,but pot to e*cess : and at pi-
tate .dinner-parsies. they , seldom sit mote than a
couple at hours drinking wine. They, frequently,
!cave the table one after the 'other, and spend the
evening at a tea or card party at some othif houtht.

'" lit the Southerw States, a more extravngant
syle &living is adopted by the inhabitants, portico-
idriy the, planters and cultivators ,possessing large
estates. , A degree of showy o,tentation is maintain.
ed among them highly flattering to strangers, Who
always meet with whearty welcome at 'their tables
Every arricle that, the. market • can supply is to be
totind at their festive bo,rrd. The w :11'e flows in
abundancel and nothing affords the southern g n-
denten greater pleasure t ban to see their gue.rt•rirrop
gradually under the table btier dinner. Hospitality
is indeed their characterhtte while the cash 13Sis ;
when that is gone, they retire in their ' Plantations,
where every thing is made sub,ery ten r to the can-
flat ion of cotton, Tice; or.tobacco,f, the next year's
round of dissipation. It has' been obserVed, 0.4 the
southern gentleman ate too' a, t to tioUrt b. away tr,,-

un t4e proceed:i.ot an attletpaied crop, that 1,„
they are generaily a-year a-i ead of ' their iiicome ;
and; thilugh pu.ssessing must wxteilitive etiafts, are

9tten tot hble .to command a single, dalkr. -They
are of or:antic:, always in debt and, though the
,traders' who re ide--at Charleston, Saiiint,ah, and
otner.lowns to thb southward, charge extrakagantly
bighler their goodm, yet it is whit dithcull they
realize an independency, in consequence of the 1.-ng
credit they ate canipelled -to sive, and the bumber
bal.Arbts winch they incur, This iitittrioLib ex.
;wags:nix: and uyant'ot principle considerably lessen.
.tow our,' ttltt upittton whichotte «hoold otherwi,:e
be apt to entt rim') of the hospitality and generosity
of the Americans, in the southern parts of the
• United States. The northern merchant is, gene-
rally speAmg, a inure subitat)tial eharaMer than the
• sothein plainei'. :He is plain to
,his nirtniiers, of
honest 'principles,,, and indusmous habits it he
does- not display so much app.trent hobritality to-
w3sids strangers, be treatb them with' ease an:l po.
tactless ; and what lie-does offer is °tiered in the
brit 01 titendsnip."

ur. be continucd 1

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On Sonday week the-wife of Mr. 121,... PRTHItK,
a respectable fartuer'in the neighbourhood ot
lirad-
min, was round sating on the road , side, quite
dead. She wa4 returning on, horseback from a
place.of worship, avid it is suppoied 'that being
taken suddenly ill, she alighted.; as,; from .the pos-
ture in which she was found, silting her hand
to her head, it is net probable that she tell liom the
horse.

~.As William Davy, late of Taunton, k; ho bad
been in the employ of Nlessrs.'Brice and Co. wag.
~‘i,Uti-oisters, for 14 years, was driving his master's
w
": , . •+ i • .
• 116,611 last wee%, to Cullompton, he was over.
taken by two drunken men with. carts, Tsvhodrove
furiously. against him, and, beat .him down under the
horses, by which he wad so.dreadfkilly. britised and
torn, that he died on the Yritley folloWihg, leaving-
a wife and five Bina!l children, whose-sole depend-
ance for support wika on him.
A trout of rernarliabbr dituentinns at present in.t.
habits the Clyde, at Itiankertorri:..and. may be seen
front the to ^f the Anidge 'every day when the'
water is trantiNVent: It has been known to the,
inhibitantsbe adjacent parishes for nearly twenty.
years, durinTwhich time it hakelnded every artifice,
.11od 14 Ingenuity of thelpor trona has devisstd- fur -
its d'estrudion.

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N. B. The last four days are in October.

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CAAB'RIDGE, Ocr. 4.

want

The Rev. Dr. Riclid tiettlitgd, Dintty Itegi,l4
Piot shoroi.Diviniiyi 111,d b'elitiw of Tohity Col.ege;
is elected a Sento!: Fenny a the Society; in t 4.4
room of the late Dr. itaine.

The ftet. Caeur,,e 1.4'1-edert4iTrav,ely.. M.A. nzsign.
ed the office ot Sync or utor ut Trinity Coliegc.uti
Mtchaeltnns.day. The, lionoargbie tumtiwr, in which
tic 'leas fulfilled the duties ut than itnportart. situ I-.
tion, has inauced the Members of Oval So-ciely 10
rutvr in u• 0 subs, riptioo (as the he kt of ‘yhtch. iii
illuhtrious Chancellor ut the Unvetsity) tor thci:
purpose.ut prese.nting !din piece ot plate a 4
a testimony of theirs respect and waren, is
occeeded in the office ot Tutor by the Rev. r.1:11.)",-
mas Young, M. A.
At a private prdnutiou held by the Right 11..5v,
the, Lord ilsitop of on Sunday I a,t, tit ilso-
Chapel of Trinisy College, time Rev. NYilitain
land, M. A. Fellow of that Society, wits orkiamt tl
Priest.

On Monday the Rev. \-Villiarn Boihind, iII. Ai
of Trinity builege, was presented by
Nias er and, Fe lows of that Society, to the tiLar,i,p)
of Swineslivad in the County of Lincotri, acaut 1.4
the cession of the 1.1-v. James Wiiiiam Dc.ltf, now
Re,tlor of North Rune on in Norfolk.

Itobinson. Gilby, Henry hide,
Thomas. Shaw Brandreth, and John Caster, Esqrs.
Bachelors of 4rts, of, Trioi:y. College; were on
Tuesday elected, Fellows of that the
Rev. 'rtions .Barnahy, B. A. Trinity Colnei
was on, the same day elected a ,Condoct

Ar Hofelt..,;—eo lefashioneo critics have endea-
voured to throW ridicule on this phrase, when it
veal, on fashionable invitations to fema:e pardei ;
but when they consider how 'selctotti the fair teistess
is. likely 'to be at htime, they will, perhaps, be
duced to add, that it is proper and 'leeeisary. •
Yesterday seinnight,,betWeen, GI and, six o7clOA,
le the moruing, John FloraWilkie:ton, committed
to Ipswich Borough gaol for kburglary, trade his
escape from that prisonfeecernbered with his home'
into the adjoining gar len.pf Sir W. I kes, bet Witt
retaken in. the. fields the same evening.
FORTUNATO ESCAPB.—..The tult !levier yet,
been informed of the parrie,klnrs or Major 'Brooke's;
of the 48,th Regiment; intrepid mode of esertne trom
the prkon of the Inquisition at Svvilld, the Geninse
man who favoured us wit ti the first nceouri,',. hal
given • the following sing ,lar deg Oe the
evening of the Gih of S tiv, an nektriWri
who had never been seen in t7,e prison betore, eu
terra it, end satil'to Major ,Brooke, " Sir, I tree
days ago saw sou through the iron' bars of those
windows, 'since which time I have not been able
to rest night or day, in the hope of effede,g yomb
escape, leil by an impulse I cannot- actount for i he
then pulled tioni his shoulders 1. Spanish cleak, not!
from strider that a hat, also an old ‘waistcuir from his
pecket, and a pApr or.paltlt ; sating, *' Sit, i he mode.
re now yet dangerous, but we must he desprr.,tc, arid
it dare tiy, 1 • will return to yotl to the
of he evening." He theritieliatted, 111(1 returned 7.e..
cording to promise, 'when he (bung the 'M jor reatte
dressed, nod disguis'cd by ,l le paint, and telly deter-
mined. the Spaniard tuert-said, he 0- OUld r;() about
.20 yards in trent, as, 'should t, ey he detected, he
inevitably wc,ultf, be pie to death, and most protrabiy
the Major, in the scuffle that would rustle; as they
arranged to sell life as dear as possible. •Ftse British
Officers, besides Major Brooke—Captain Milian,
.I„iemenants Ellwood, and Marshall, I,f the.
48th, and Ensign Leslie, of the !7th regitnebt,Weee
confined, and Crowded into a small under gioond
room, tilled With vermin and filth, an uli rotten bee
and coarse filthy sheet each, fiv e sentinels °ter then:,
one at each window, one at the first door, one•iii,tL',.
centre of the passage, one at the outward door, nail
a feroog.Officer's guard in the passage, all of whit It
he passedi.obliged occasionally to put his hand gent ft
against some of them, to get hy. He concealed
self in. the house eithe same Spaniald until the et•en..
• ing of the 2rtth July not having &term invd ran what
route to eurttue ; when, finding that a re% nal of 6000
teals, and a aitureion under the French Governtnek
at Seville, wasprfored for his detealion, and promise
otnot punishing any person coneeroeci, he deeteed :t
high lime tOlet nut of the place., and ect.ordeig,y
succeeded.in passing the guards of the city, and on
the bridge over the river Goadalqiiivir, getting
into the .mountains, and perfOrmed a journey et noir
400 miles, sleeping every night among the
wounded and.exhausted as he was, with three cute
and flaeturesi and graeed•by a ba:l, the whole in
the head. justice duets sai) the kitichess of
the Spaniards, wherever they dared shew it to him;
and indeed to every English prisoner, was yet, erne;
and. where'the Men dared not come; they sent their
women with all manner of relief' to our priiooer.i:
He further states, 'Major Brooke teOeitea from thj
French Free Masons lodge,, as a brother trio:ton,
every kindnt sit they could skew, by uttering hem,
money and necessaries, or any other comfort riser
• the society, could afford hint. •

• COAL MARKET, Ocr.4
Shitis at Market. Ships sold. l'►itt.
Si Newcastle . . . di . 4is. 6.1 to ids. id.
3 Sunderland . •a 495. 64. to —s. e4l