The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-08 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTH YVARK, JULY 6.—We have not any change
a our Market since our last.

MAIDSTONE, JULY 6.—The Hops continue to
look remarkably well and clean, notwithstanding
the length of dry wea►her. They are coming.out
in bur very fast, and are now much forwarder
than have been known for some years.—The ac-
counts from Worcester are very unfavourable,
lice and honey dew are in most of the grounds,
and unless they have rain shortly a verl small crop
is expected.

Amongst the public improvements lately made
in this county, the New Turnpike Road from Sut-
ton Valence through Headcorn :o Biddenden,
• which is just completed, deserves to be particu-
larly noticed. The importance of this undertak•
ing is not perhaps generally known. To the in-
habitants of that part of the County, where hi-
therto• the roads were proverbially bad, and
.in
fact impassable for carriages eight months in the
year, the advantages of haling a good road 'are
sufficiently apparent ;• but the utility of this work
is much more extensive. The distance between
Tenterdet; and Maidstone is now reduced to little
more titan 17 miles : a further advantage al,o
arises from there being but one hill of any mag-
nitude (that.at &moil Valence) throughout the
.whole distance, and the low parts of the road
have been raised, so es to render them entirely
free from all intindations. The Tenterden Stage
Coach will, we understand, take this road at least
once a week in fnture.—(Maidstone Journal,
July 7.)

CITY BUQTNESS.---Yeslerttay the LORD MAYOR

eh! a Cow t of Alderenep at

Roberts, Esq. one, of the Sheriffs Elect, attended,
and gave bond to take upon himself the office on
the 28th of September next. Thomas Wiisoo,
Esq the other Sheriff Elect, attended, and stated,
that„ being a Member of Parliament- he did tint
conceive himself liable to be called upon to exe-
cute that office, and therefore refused to give
bond• The Lord Mayor was, therefore, requested
to issue his precept for the election of another
person. Eight hats of gold, weighing about 840
ounces, Were sworn tO, preTious to exportation.

[PR/CE SEVENPENCr.

FOR THE SUN.

OF POLITIC,4I, SOCIETY.

INTRODUCTION.-SEC

Had it been possible for usio do nothing by
;each other, either in a natural or civil state, but.
what was right, we should never nave been sen-
sible of what was wrong.; but the discovery of
both in tire former, brought us into the latter, to
pursue the one, and avoid the whet-. had we
been wise enough in state of n;'itnre to practise
What was just, Our virtue would have been uni-
versal, and vice unknown. Self-directed ii► 'all
' that was good, to the exclusion of all that was
toil,", nu plthlic Government would have been
thought of, but indiViduals, enjoying their matt-,
ral liberty, would have lived in harrnony. Nata-'
ral equity would have been sufficient, and posi-
tive laws unnecessary. There being no disorder'
or iniquity among th.ern.' Magistrates would have`
been useless, and political power a vlream ; but
the experience of a natural state proving our in-
sufficiency, where social regards did not extend
beyond domestic life, natural reason suggested the
necessity of a social civil one, into which we en-
tered.tfor the protection of rights, and defence
against wrongs. Bert only was established mem
and muum, that this was mine and that was
What, in a primeval state, was common
to ally was parcelled on: as property,.translerable
by gift, eruption; and purchase. Justice was the
offspring, Laws followed, and Governments were
formed to administer them fot• the benefit of the
political: body. These were of various denomipa.
lions, and each preVailed for a time, according to
thecensus of the people, or the extent of their do-
muuou and each fell to pieces 'according to
its weakness and corruption, bat was•severally
revived into a mixture of all. Commonwealths
melted into- Aristocracies, and these into Ithsolote
Monarchies, which, preserving all that.was gOod
in the three respectively, subsided into a limited
state of !King, Lords, and Commons ; one to ex-
ecute, the other to guard, and the last to propose
and supply. As I knc.)w.. of.no Government equal
to this, I shall illumine it in THE Stll/, for the
advantage of the blind, or those who are more
unhappy, as having eyes to see, but will not ;
meaning many within doors, who oppose the best
measures for private purposes, and all without,
who in their ignorance mfinfamy.contend tor• the
worst. I shall hold• up both to observation, and
so easy will be the choice, that whoever readi
will determine, that disappointnient begets fac-
tion, and secret combination, and faction animo-
sity; each producing an opposition to political,
power,' as old and mechanical as the date of our
glorious Revolution.

MONTESQUIEU.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, JULY 7.

War Office, July 7, 1818.

40th Regiment of Foot—Lient.-General Sir Brent Spenter,
G. C. 8., from. the Rifle Brigade, to be Cuionel, vice,Sir
George Oibarn, Bart. deceased.
Rifle Brigade—Major-General Sir .I(ihn Oswald, K. C. B. to
be Colonel:-Cominandatit of a Battalion, vice Sir Brent
Spencer, appointed to the command of the Oth Foot.

Whitehall, July 6:
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has•been pleased,
i❑ the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to appoint
Charles Rnshworth, Esq. to be a Commissioner for the Affairs
of Taxes, vice Thomas Davis Lamb, Esq. deceased.

LITERARY REVIEW.

The ENEIS of VIRGIL. Translated by CuAR LES SYmmoNs,
D.D. of Jesus College, Oxford, 410.

Velle videmnr, et in mediis conatibus mare
Succidimus; NON LINGUA VALET.

R. HUNTER, St. Palll's CiIIITCII-yard; and J. PORTER, Pall-
Mall.

Now that the din of the Westminster Election
and its turbulence is ended, the Muses may expect
to be heard, and therefore we return with pleasure
to this valuable addition to the stock of British
Literature.

In our last notices of this Poem, we extracted,
from its Elerunth Book, the description of the
death of CAMILLA, in the two translations which
we
,had before us and we promised to submit to
our Readers, in the present instance, that very
animated and vigorous passage, in which the Ro-
man Poet has pourtrayed the rout of the Latian
Cavalry, consequent to the fall of the Volscian
Queen. DRYDEN here shows himself in all his
power, and it will -iemain with our Readers to
determine in what degrees the two English Poets
have, respectively, approached their great ori-
ginal, and have been actuated with the spirit of the
Augustan Bard. Our extract will begin at I. 870,
Disj.ctique cluces, desolatique munipli ,

" The frighted soldiers, when their captains fly,
More on their speed than on their strength rely.
Confused in flight, they bear each other down,
And spur their horses headlong to the town.
Driven.by their foes, and to their fates resign'd,
• Not once they turn ; but take their wounds behind.
These drop the shield, and those the lance forego ;
Or on their shoulders bear the slacten'd bow.
The hoofs of horses, with a rattling sound,
Beat short and thick, and shake the rotten ground.
Black clouds of dust come rolling in the sky:
Aud o'er the darken'd 'walls and rampires fly.
The trembling matrons, from their lofty stands,
Rend heaven with female shrieks, and vet ing their hands.
All pressing on, pursuers and pursued,
Arc crush'd in crowds, a mingled multitude.
Some happy few escape; the throng too late
Rush on for entrance, till they choke the gate.
Ev'o in the sight. of home, the wretched sire
Looks on, and see his hapless son expire.
Then, in a fright, the folding gates they close :
But leave their friends excluded with their foes.
The vanquish'd cry, the victors loudly shout ;
'Tis terror all within, and slaughter all without.
Blind in their fear, they bounce against the wall ;
Or to the moats pursued, precipitate their fall.
The Latian virgins, valiant from despair,
Ared on the towers, the common danger share.
So much of zeal their'country's cause inspired:
So much cAMILLA'S great example fired.
Poles sharpen'd in the flames, from high they throw,
With imitated darts, to gall the foe.
Their lives for godlike freedom they bequeath •
And crowd each other to he first in death."

D lIYDEN.

" The wasted bands, their chieftains overthrown,
Spur to obtain the safety of the town :
Nor, as with death the Trojans scour the plain,
Are any found the conflict to sustain.
Behind then► hang their bows, unnerved and dead;
And the turf groans beneath their•coursers' tread.
A dusty whirlwind, hlack'ning into night,
Rolls on the city, and proclaims the flight:
And, ranged upon the walls, the matron crowd
Beat their sad bosoms and lament aloud.
Who first press forward, as the gates unclose,
Enter, confounded with irruptive foes;
Nor 'scape from death : for e'en within the wall
The hostile spear arrests them, and they fall.
Pierced as they print by the paternal dour,
The threshold blushes with its master's gore.
Some bar the gates, and, harden'd by their fears,
Heed not the excluded victim's prayers or tears :
, And wretched carnage mingles friend with friend,
As one would force the pass, and one defend.
Part, within hearing of their parents' groan,
Are crusted, and•hcadlong in the trenches thrown.
Part, in despair and f►antic with their fates,
Dash their gored steeds against the obdurate gates.
On the high rampart e'en the matrons prone,
In this last exigence, the patriot lore.
Taught by CAMILLA how their sex could dare,
In their weak handS unwonted arms they bear:
St►ike with the pointed oak, made hard by fire;
• And foremost, for their walls, to death aspire :"

SYNMONS.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

REPORT ON THE USURY LAWS.

The SELECT COMMITTEE appointed to consider of the effects
of the Laws which regulate or restrain the Interest of Mo-
ney, and to report their opinion thereupon to the House;
and who were empowered to report the Minutes of the Evi-
dence taken before them, have, pursuant to the Order of
the House, examined the matters referred to them, and

harc agreed upon the following Resolutions :
I. Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
the laws regulating or restraining the rate of Interest, have
been extensively evaded, and have failed of the effect of ins-
posing a maximum on such rate; and that of late years, from
the constant excess of the market rate of interest above the
rate limited by law, they have added to the expense incurred
by borrowers on real security, and that such borrowers have
been compelled to resort to the mode of granting annnities on
lives; a mode which has !teen made a corer for obtaining a
higher interest than the rate limited by law, and has fur-
ther subjected the borrowers to enormous charges, or
forced them to make very disadvantageous sales of their
estates.

2. Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
the construction of Such laws, as applicable to tiie transac-
tions of commerce as at present carried on, have been attend-
ed with much uncertainty as to the legality of many transac-
tions of frequent occurrence, and consequently hrt•n produc-
tive of much embarrassment and litigation.

3. Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Committee, that
the present period, when the market rate of interest is below
the legal rate, affords an opportunity peculiarly proper fur
tint repeal of the said laws,--ZUlb May, 1313.