The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-30 00:00:00

TRIAL OF THE PIX.

On Monday the usual ceremony ,on this busi-
ness took place. The Lord Chancellor, and se-
Vera! Members of the "Privy Council, met at ten
o'clock at the Exchequer, to swear in the Jury
(who are taken from the Court of Assistants' of
the Gish!smiths' Company). After the Lord Chan-
cellor bad given the charge, they adjourned to the
Court of the Duchy of Lancaster. As the monies
to be counted and weighed were very consider-
able, the charge was not so long as formerly, and
most of the Gentlemen had been lately 'on the
same business. It was four o'clock before the
assays were reported. The quantity of gold and
silver melted was 21b, each, taken, in certain
proportions of the pieces of the coin, promis-
cuously from the monies found in the Pix, which
amounted,
In,eoht; to 6,951 sorereigns, 2,219 half ditto, and the gold
coined was 6,434,0321. 10d., between July 15, 1817, and
June 13, (518.
The silver monies in the Pix was '2,934 half crowns, 3,447
shillings, 1,538 sixpences ; silver coined between 3d of June,
1817, and May 21, 1818, 1,57;7,96.21.
Making a total, including the trial, 111 h July, 1317—Gold,
7,137,7111.; silver, .1,646,071)}.; besides 88ib. weight of
Maundy loonies.
The assays were tried against the standard
pieces in the Exchequer, and were found to agree
with them to the greatest exactness. It appears
that the remedy is not so large as formerly, as
such the greatest care is necessary, or the Master
of the Mint might be seriously injured by a loss
on the coinage. This is the largest'coinage ever
executed at his Majesty's .Mint. The Lord,Chan-
cellor received the Jury's leport at Goldsmiths'-
hall, and with the other Members of the Ptivy
council Las alsoithe Officers of the Mint, &c. diucd
with the Warden and Jury at the same place.

none opposing him or his measures,• but those
who panted for profit or preferment. In 1702,
Queen Anne was said to favour the Tories in her
choice of Ministers, and a rivalship among then
soon succeeded, calling themselves friends to
Church and Monarchy, but heartily despising the
Republicans in•politics, as ,seitmatics in religion,
and enemies to its establishment, not as Roman
Catholics, hut English Protestants. So under
George I. and 11. similar parties existed for simi-
lar Purposes, from the first appointment of Mr.
Pitt and Mr. Legge to the beginning of the pre-
sent reign, when that super-eminent lump of
moral virtue, Mr. Fox, was taken under the
wing of Lord Bole', who turned out Mr. Legge,
and put Lord Barrington in his place. He
superset 11 Lord Holdernesse for the Duke of
Newcastle, alto was coadjutor to Mr. Pitt, ;Ind
with Lord Temple resigned, being succeeded by
Lord Eg,reniont ; then the Duke resigned, and
Lord Bute was made first Lord of the Treasury,
who turned out all hut the Doke of lholford, and
struck the Duke of Newcastle ont of the Council
list ; but. no longer able to resist the country
party, he retired. Mr. Geo. Grenville succeeded,
and the Duke of Bedford was President of the
Council, Lord Sunds Secretary of State, Mr.
Charles York Attorney-General, who resigned to
Mr. Charles Pratt. These %vete the changes of
party early in this reign. All since would have
been repose, except for Mr. Charles Fox, the son
of the virtuous old one. He rose up as Member
for Westminster, and Man of the People, whom
be made Lords paramount of Parliament,- in.order
arrogantly to oppose a superior of worth and
weight in. Mr.. Pitt, the son of the great one.—
Dratying into the vortex of his false politics, a
proud, scornful, commoner, blown up With self
conceit,
,tire son of old General Grey, and two or
three other political. merry-andrews ; he headed
an opposition the most illiberal, insolent, and un-
just, ever known before. They called themselves
liThigs, and forme'd a club of the name, the leaders
whereof were, a mere faction ; the rest no more
than adherents, without knowing why, or being
able to define the name, beyond the colour of
their lively in blue and .buff. Mr. Fox's princi-
ples'were pernicious, and inflammatory as his and
his party's conduct and speeches were, they were
darkened by Mr. Pitt, and large majorities. Not
one motion of his gross opponents was ever
carried: but they are no mor, than troth, and
those who followed op the political measures
of that true Whig, Mr. Pitt, have saved the
country, to the eternal shame of the Foxites,
who are shrinking into notniTtg. They acted
in party more like nialignants Than a party
on principle, and glorious would be the day
for thint, and their well-wishers, would they but
cheek their unavailing spirit, and by harmonising
with the powers that be ; cease to strike where
they cannot wound, and never more find fault
where .they cannot mend. would stifle the
struggle of one party over another, encourage
wholesome- opinions, moierate argtinteuts, aunt
sound judgments, persuading each that its anta-
gonists may sometimes be light, and balance the
scab of praise and blame between them, with a.
pleasing equipoise, %%hid}, with -the legal privi-
leges and prerogatives. of the Crown. would
strengthen the Colistitotion. A misled people
would not then throw up their greasy caps, and
brawl out Reform, Liberty. Equality, nor their
Deluders proclaim them to be the only supreme
power itt the Stave. Better would it be to, tell.
them, that 'though they are the cause atoi might
of Government, they are not to snhvert and rie-
stroy it whenever they please. To say so is sedi-
tious. Yet these Reformers strike at the power ,
Of the Crown, and would .pert the nobility and -
gentry in. jeopardy. Theo indeed- would 'their
popular leaders be in danger, and the pea-pie,
their stalking hors'e, being incapable of Govern-
went, and unstrained by authority, must call in
a set of military tyrants, instead of their legal
and limited Monarchs.

MONTESW rIEU-.

(P.S. in the next.)

LITERARY REVIEW.

The .ENEIS of VIRGIL. Translated liy CtIARLESSYDOIONS,
D.D. of Jesus College, Oxford, Cm.

Velle videmilr, et in niediis conatibusswgre

SUCCiditntiS ; NON LINGUA VALET.

It Hyrum', St. Paul's Cbarch-yard ; and J. 'PORTER, Pall-

Mail.

On the first appearance of this new translation
of the great Roman Epic, we were induced to
cad it, as well by our love of classic poetry, as
by our respect for the name of the Anthor Our
perusal of the work exacted tour immediate appro-
bation 5 and we could not hesitate to announce
and to recommend it to the public. For the
purpose of communicating our own conviction of
its merits, in the fairest, and at the same time

in the.most impressive manner to our Readers,we
adopted the obvious plan of comparing paragraphs
from its pages with their correspondents in the
only translation of the "Eneis which can now be
regarded as living, the translation, we mean, by
DRYDEN : and, in the execution of our scheme,
we determined to omit all the weaker or more
faulty parts of the eider Bard, and to select his
most brilliant passages aloue,when we confronted
his page with that of our contemporary. This
design of ours is now completed ; and following
DRYDEN through all those books which were his
own especial favourites, and which certainly dis-
cover the happiest efforts of his genius, we have
opposed him in his fullest power to his antago-
nist ; and we doubt not that our Readers have
concurred with us in assigning the palm to the
latter. Here, then, we might properly take our
leave of the subject, but we are induced to linger
on it for a few additional minutes, by the Preface
and the Notes, which begin and terminate this
splendid volume of our contemporary, and which
we conceive to be entitled to tie attention, in an
equal degree, of the scholar and the general
reader. In the Preface, besides an able‘ defence
of rhymed against the advocates of unrhymed
verse, will he found some curious remarks on the
subject of English rhythm, in its reference to
our Epic numbers; and in the Notes are many
observations which strike us with their novelty,
and are honourable alike to the erudition and the
taste of their Author. In confirmation of our
judgment in these instances, we are tempted to
make extracts both from the Preface and the
Notes : but from the former we cannot detach a
passage %vial) we can accommodate to our limits,
anal from the latter we feel ourselves at a loss to
select. We are induced, however, to offer the
following annotation to our Readers, as it sup-
plies, with consiaetable ingenuity, that single
bemistic in-the rEneis, in which the sense has
been lett imperfect by its great Anthor.

389—" Here Fame reports to startle our !Yelief," &c.

Timis episode, of the meeting of lENEAS with
HELENUS U11(1 ANDROMACHE, is interesting and
pleasing in a very high degree. It was not wholly
Li creation of our Poet's ; for DioNvszus of Oa-
licaroassus (1. 51) relates that 2-ENEAS, having
arrived at Buthiotus, a port of Epirus,went, with
a select part of his forces, two days' journey from
the coast, fur the purpose of consulting the
Oracle of Dodona ; and that be there filund
Ha-
Lr-NUS and his Trojans. In this account DIONY-
Slos followed, no doubt, some of the earlier
writers of Greece ; and VARRO, as be is cited by
SEavios, reports nearly the same circumstaoces•
With the materials, thus ready to his hand,
VittGit. constructed the beautiful episode now be-
fore us, by which the best affections of the human
heart are very powerfully engaged and delighted.
The circumstance of tENEAS finding ANDROMACHE
offering at the cenotaph of HECTOR, is most hap-
pily conceived ; and what passes at the nnex-
pected interview is told so forcibly, and with so
much of the truth of nature, as most strongly to
excite the sympathies of our hearts. When AN-
DROMACHE refers to the loss of CREUSA on the
fatal night of Troy's destruction, it has been
'asked how she could become acquainted with this
fact in a state of captivity, as she was, and dis-
tantly sundered, till the present moment, from
lENEAS., and the Trojans who had escaped with
him ? To us there seems to be no difficulty in
me case. The loss of CREUSA, the (laughter of
Patasr, and the wife of 114:SEAS, must have been
known to several of the Greeks ; and by some of
then) it would naturally be communicated to their
Trojan captives ; if, indeed, these were not more
immediately informed of it. We must. recollect
that the hero traversed the city with the hope of
recovering her ; that he even saw the captives in
time portico of JuNo's Temple ; that he made the
streets repeatedly re-echo with her name. Is it
possible, then, or, at least, probable, that her
loss should be unktiown to all the Greeks; to all
the Trojans, yet surviving in the town ; or to a
Princess so nearly connected with her as ANDRO-
MACHE, who, when the tumult of her own dis-
tress had subsided, would kqmiire, with natural
solicitude, about the fate of every member of that
Royal Family to which she belonged ? The he-
tnistic Queue tibi jam Troia----, in which the
sense as well as the verse is imperfect, has exer-
cised the ingenuity of more than one to supply it;
and the attempts, as is well known, have most
egregioosly failed. Many years ago, as this page
of the ./Eneis was under our eye, it occurred to
us, in our idleness, that the verse, with per-
fect reference to the place which it occ!ipies,
might be thus made out : Qum tibi, jam Troia
iuccusa, dens obtulet orbum : and when we reflect on
it, even at this distance of time, we cannot discover
any objection to-which the proposed supplement
is fairly exposed. The expression of—dens ad-
/mat oris, occurs in the line next but mi, before
it ; and, in the wanton indulgence of conjecture,
we might almost suppose that VIRGIL had written
time verse as it is here supplied ; and then, erasing
that portion of it which too nearly resembled
what so closely preceded, had left it thus de-
fective ; and, in the interest of his subsequent
progress, had eventually forgotten it. his nugis
da vegium, lector.

We received yesterday the Paris Papers of Sun-
day last, and this morning those of Monday. The
Moniteur of Sunday presents a remarkable confir-
mation of what we have stated respecting the
Conspiracy, it containing a Royal Ordonnance,
dismissing the Baron de VITAOLLES from the
Privy Council, and his office of a Minister
of State. No cause is assigned for this measure
in the Ordonnance, nor is any explanation given
with regard to it in the Journals of Monday,
but this very silence proves that the dismission
can only have originated in one cause, namely,
what we have already mentioned with respect to
the Conspiracy.—The following are extracts :

PARIS, JULY 26.

ROYAL ORDONNANCE.

" Louts, &c.

" The Baron de Vitrolles will cease to form part of our
Privy Council, or to continue on the list of our Ministers of

State.

(Signed)

" LOUIS.

" Dated July 24." (Counter-Signed) " RICIIELIEIJ•
The King transacted business yesterday successively With

tL Mir;isters of rinanco, of General Police, and the Count
de P:adel, Director of the Administration of the Household.
The Duke de Feltre had the honour of paying his respects
yesterday to his Majesty, to Madame, and to the Princes.,
The departure of the Court for Rambouillet is fixed for to-
morrow. The King returns to St. Clot(' on Wednesday, and
to Paris on Saturday.

The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland are gone to Spa,
from whence they proceed to Aix-la-Chapelle, and then. to
Paris.

The Earl of Harrowby and the Prince Esterhazy are ex-
pected immediately.
Lord Co.:hrane and the Duchess of Meiningen arrived at
Calais en Tuesday last; the former proceeds to Paris, but
remains some days at Boulogne.

FIVE PER CENTS.

Saturday

77 f. 60 c.

Dr.FERRED STOCK
of the 2241 larch, 18 7, B7 f. 75 c.
:22d Sept. 1817, 85 f. 75e.
9.2(l,Nlarch, 1818, 63 f. Doe.

MADRID, JULY 14.—1 n consequence of a confirmation of
the prevalence of plague at Tangier, where at the end of
June it carried off eight persons daily, the most rigorous pre-
cautions have been adopted to prevent its introduction into

Spain.
BnEsLAtr, JULY EL—There is reason to believe, that the
Russian negociations at Constantinople will be successfully
terminated.

The Emperor of Russia is expected, after leaving Aix-la-
Chapelle, to visit Vienna, and then to return by Warsaw to
Petersburgh.
AUGSBURGII, JULY 18.—The Emperor and Empress of
Austria arc expected in the course of a month at Munich.
l'ETEnsnunou, JUNE :-:o.—General Wittgenstein has set
out to take the command of the troops lately under the orders
of General Bennigsen.

General the Count Osten-Saelien is appointed Genera! in
Chief of the first Corps d'Arrn&, in the room of the late
Field-Marshal the Prince Barclay de Tully.

[RECEIVED THIS MORNING.]

" PARIS, JULY 27.---The King received yester-
day, at St. Cloud, the Foreign Ministers, Mini-
sters of State, Military Officers, &c.

" A fire broke out in one of the Kitchens of
the Chateau at St. Cloud, at nine o'clock on
Saturday evening. It arose from the bad con-
struction of one of the ovens. By the aid of the
firemen, however, it was got under in a very short
time, with but little damage.

A fire broke out about the same time in the
ancient Church of Saint Magloire, serving as an
orangery to the Chamber of Peers. The flames
were, however, soon got under by the activity of
the firemen, with the loss only of some of the
woodwork and flooring.

" Lieutenant-Generals the Count Molitor, and
the Count Lanusse, and Marechaux de Camp the
Count de Vergennes, and the Count de Cheffon-
taine, have been appointed by the King to in-
spect the troops stationed in the 16th military
division during the year 1818.
" Forty houses were destroyed by fire on the
14th instant, at Molaus, in the arrondissement of
Lnire.

" The 22d inst. a wolf-was killed in the village
of Cailleau, near Saint Loubes, but not before it
had dangerously wounded six persons.
A girl. named Boulard, in the Commune of
Marsanne (Drome), who had been bitten by a
mad wolf, was taken ill on the 2d inst., the
Gist day after the accident, with symptoms of
Hydrophobia, and died in three days.
" Madame V--, of Caen, declared by the
Tribunal of that city to be guilty of adultery, has
been .sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
" HANOVER, JULY 15.—A Rescript has been
received here, addressed by the Prince Regent to
the Duke of Cambridge, in which the Prince

Regent declares himself Colonel-in-Chief of the
Hanoverian Guards, Infantry, and Cavalry, and
appoints the Doke of Cambridge Colonel-en-
Second.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are ex-
pected here about the middle of August.

" VIENNA, JULY 15.--One of the first mer-
chants of Presburg has failed for 3,000,000 cur-

rency.

" STOCKHOLM, JULY 10.—The departure of
the King for Norway is fixed for the 26th inst.
" During the last fortnight there has been no
rain here, and the heat has been almost insup-
portable."

From the latest intelligence that we hare re-
ceived respecting the contest between Spain and
her Colonies, and from quarters on which we can
rely, we are induced to believe that the struggle
will be protracted to a much greater length than
seems to be generally supposed, but that ultimately
the Insurgents must be triumphant. Indeed, front
the nature of things, the progress of principles,
and the course of events, it is hardly possible that
there should he a different result. It, therefore,
becomes the Government of Spain to reflect on
the probable consequences of a vain attempt to
retain a Sovereignty, which, if it could be re-
covered, could only be possessed for a few
years, and then he irretrievably thrown off
It seems, therefore, to be the true policy of
Old Spain to enter into an amicable newt-
ciation, and to secure to herself the commerce
of those vast tracks of country, the population
of Which is increasing every day by births and

eoigrations, and, perhaps, the comrnerclid 3(1"11;
tage may well atone for the loss of a precari°ble
and expensive domination, which at last must
inevitably lost in the progress of society, 811(1('
those political principles which are universally in
culcated, anit too eagerly adopted by the •Inuiti
tulle.

• to
The combinations at Manchester, &c. beg°
wear a serious aspect, as may well be expected
when a vast number of persons are out of eniPl°Y;
ment, and exposed to all the vices that idlel'est
engenders. If they are not so riotous at Presehle
as to excite alarm, it is highly probable ib'it
mischief is brewing, and with so many sediiiov
Agitators as are unhappily spread all °ver the
country, (one of the dreadful effects °f too
French Revolution) may be expected to boot 5°
to
into action, . unless due measures are adopt st
avert the evil. We are assured, however' "to
Government have adopted every possible ale°
protect the country.

The Dublin Evening Post has given such it re'
t Car'
presentation of the interview between the be
poration of Dublin and Mr. PEEL as might A
an
expected from a Paper devoted to Jacobinisru it
POPERY. That Paper of the 25th inst., soYs'
oil
Mr. reCeptiota) was every thing but gra-
~
Mr. PEEL entered in silence—made a COldld
formal bow—heard the address read in silence ,
ea
read his answer with some agitation ~/
with the same freezing formality, and retired', ve
We have no hesitation in saying that tve
119
this to be a false representation of what really
passed. It is, indeed, too improbable 610 i
to gain a momenta' y credit. The Corporsti°°e,
Dublin, much to their honour, paid a
rited tribute to a Gentleman who essellt:%,,
served the Country. Their address was Ju
proper, and dignified. Mr. PEEL's ahsWe',
0
Th°6
respectful, manly, courteous, and noble• psi
who know his character and his manners 11.1 or
give him credit for a very di'ff'erent heballoot
from that which is so illiberally imputed t°
yle
in the Jacobin Print. alluded to. It is Pr°111:00
that Mr. PEEL felt the compliment which
0
paid to him by so respectable a b°mlsig'
the Corporation of the Capital of the oaf'
ter Island, and received it with an esfr` f
ort
sion of manly gratitude and esteem, c.aotif
of his own character, and of the dignified of
-ft °
who addressed him. But the cloven
pope
Faction appears in what is said in the same
se to
after Mr. PEEL'S Answer, which it profesio,
receive with " unfeigned satisfaction ! 56(
"it is manifest that it is a Reply—not t"a As
poor People—but an Address to the I•biti°°'
, 't•
such the Nation ‘vill receive and appreciat' 10r Po'
This is an involuntary compliment to the -
ration and to Mr. PEEL, for the abuse Of svdtlifr
Paper is a proof that the object of it is c'er.`
ferent front the source, and to Mr. 11°1"fer'
shoving that his mind was too enlarged t°
look national interests in personal court's/.
pet'
alr
have no doubt that the Corporation and ,--- that
were highly gratified with each other, roe
e
their harmony will not be disturbed hYJetir °lo!,
liguant.misrepresentations of a factious
•tnPI"
The CITY Jacontrcs exult in their tri rot'
having secured for Mr. Watalimati a Seat i
tot 50
liament and an Alderman's Gown.—We gren ersO0
much dissatisfied at the elevation of this riiticsl
to a Seat in Parliament as some of our P°).,,ia"
hie
competitors seem to be, on account ot and
a retail trader. This is a trading conotrY
blb°
every class of industrious persons w•'°
State,anti
for the State have an interest in the eooo'
are virtually included in the general rePr 0 too
tion. Whether a man is a Merchant or
hel3tri. a ALIA/
he may be considered as implicated in t
eficf,
interests of the country, and, if he acts bY ag
ar
it matters little whether he deals by wh°lesa
src
a
retail. The retail body, all over the a
rllpsee
numerous beyond calculation, and
Rep,
reason why they should not have a •des,
tative as well as other classes•
noalefj,
person accustomed to the retail °`
likely to be better informed than 111("31 filw
re 1 firrlls' tot'
men who succeed to great commeia or f
doteoi,
„Ot9
are too proud, too luxurious, too to
the P'-
ignorant, to do more than receive . ,
business themselves, o
and therefore cleoPyentlella°
subordinate Agents. Many subjects nlsi e;
legislative inquiry which a practical
agi
tient 5110 bi'
qualified to illustrate, and Par'
1100
,
consist of the collective hoar"'dae
ld
e
tG
lity of the country. We ha%, e 311 0
share
mach to shew that we do not Siret
;qt gr. lie
proud but vulgar prejudice aga•n•
, for his WO°
MAN, merely as a "tau ironer, at (
10 ge°'
rienee in that respect will aft )1( 11°11 o'o
if t vie
tages over most of the Members ono AO
s d
Commons. His political sentiol
ent
tioll ; for to
ate the main objects of caasiderg the 7, 'de
.
plus In the mischievous design-
q Of