The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-22 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

Ma. EnrToa,-=-The Grand Series of Medals
now in pro 4ress by Mr. AIUDIE, to illustrate and
record the most remark ;hie events in the late war,
being in professed rivalry and opposition to the
French Series of BUONAPARTE, I am of: en led to
contrast them, and there certainly is nothing
which strikes an observer more forcibly th in the
different spirit which pervades the different under-
takings. In the French series the Emperor is ail
and every thing, who appropriates to himself all
the honour• and glory. which by any manner and
through any means accrued to the French arms
and pulley. That BUONAPARTE was a wonderful
man, and possessed a grater porion of talent
titan perhaps any individual of his time, I 811)
certainly tbspos.d to believe ; but without the
constellation of talents which he collected around
him in the cabinet and the field, he certainly never,
could have inflicted on the world a tythe of the
misery and mischief for which he most he an ob-
ject of execration and abhorrence while history
exists to tell his exploits. In the British series,
the pervadiug spirit is to honour every one to
whom honour is due, and when completed the
series will present the portraits aims antious of all
the great and leading minds who have been dis-
tinguished in this most eventful period. Five new
Medals have just come out. The first records the
memorable victories'otour naval " thunderbolt of
war," NELSON, most approptiaiely typified by
Britannia grasping the Trident of the Seas, and
annihilating her enemies with the thunder of Jove.
The modern Coeur de Lion, the undaunted Hero
of Acre, Sir SIDNEY SMITH, follows, whose
splendid exploits on that spot, classical to English
glory, is shadowed out by the representation of a
Camel seeking the protection of a Lion from the
attacks of a Tiger, who retires, 11.:111,al in his
attempt. This was the first serious cheek Buo.
NAPARTE ever met, and thus Mr. Mutate's series
will record the commenceinent of those obscura-
Lions to which the star of NAPOLEON was doomed„
when coming in conflicting contact with that of
Britain, from its eclipse in Syria to its extinction
at Waterloo. Next are recorded the melancholy
honours of Corunna, when a retreating and in-
ferior army extorted the respect of an enemy,
little accustomed to admit merit in an opponent.
The spirit and execution of this design are en-
titled to high commendation ; the face of the
fallen General (Sir Jous I%litoae.) is worthy of
peculiar notice. The triumphs of legislation suc-
ceed those of war, and the happiness ►vhich the
lonian Isles have experienced in passing under the
dominion of England, are expressed by seven Fe-
males dancing around the British Standard, which
waves its bright broad Cross above them, the
symbol of peace anti the harbinger of safety. No
Medal in the NAPOLEON series can be brought in
competition with this, either for the beauty of
the design, or the number of figures introduced ;
and the execution is worthy the design. Last in
the list of the new Medals is Lord WELLINGTON'S-
era of defensive glory, when in his lines of Torres
Vedras he extended the shield of British protec-
tion over the capital of our ancient Ally, and
saved it from the remorseless fangs of INlAssebiA,
who found on that occasion that NApoLsoN's
orders " to drive the English Leopard into the
sea" as easier spoken than accomplished. Little,
to be sure, did it then enter into any person's
dreams, that these same Leopards should at no
very distant period drive him into that element,
and keep hint there into the bargain.
These exertions of Mr. Alunte, for the splendid
completion of his patriotic undertaking, merit
the highest praise, and I trust will receive it in
the best manlier in which the public should give
it, by their subscriptions to his series : and I hope
this will be done so as to induce Mr. MUDIE to
extend the number of his Medals, that he may
be able to include in it all " the minds that thought
for Britain's weal," as well as " the hands that
grasped her victor steel ;" those that planned let
battles, with those who fought thent,whose merits
are at least equal, if not superior, and more es-
pecially those of the great '' Pilot," by %a hose
exertions while living, and the ascendancy of
whose policy and principles when la; n from us,

he sacred ark of our Liberties anti Constitution

has been saved and secured to us, and, let us

rust, to our remotest descendants.

'Jr. Muntes arrangements for his remaining
Medals are most probably made 'ere this ; but
should they not, I would very respccunlly suggest
for his consideration, the propriety of including
the great Master Spirit an►ong those whose

hours for England's welfare he has chronicled for

.uttire ages.

AMICUS.

*** We readily insert the above, because we
consider this series of Medals as a monumen► of
national valour and patriotistn, and because, in
point of art, it is not unworthy of the subject,
and we can hardly pay a higher compliment to the
merit, of the execution.

SUDPEN DHATHS.—^OII Friday evening, as Mr.
Dawson, Beadle of Bishopsgate parish, was walk-
ing along that street, he fell down in an apo-
plectic fit, and expired immediately.—On Friday
morning, Mr. Moran, a Custom-house Officer.
residing in Broad-court, Drury-lane, whilst pre-
paring for business, was taken with a giddiness
in his bead, and died very shortly afterwards.
Saocmtiq ACCIDENT.-Ve!terday an inquisi-
tion was. taken at the King's Arms, Charles-
street, Goswell-street-toad, on view of the body
of Joseph Kirkman, son of Mr. Kirkman, the
brewer. It appeared, that-the deceased fell into
a mill, which is situate in Charles-street ; that it
is worked by a horse, and the deceased, who was
only nine years old, was playing in the mill-track,
when, by some accident, he was knocked down,
and pulled into the mill. Thomas Head, a man
in the employ of Mr. Kitittneo, having instantly
observed the accident, pulled bith,oht, dreaelfuliy
mangled•; his head was almost torn to atoms,
and he was quite dead. The accident hap[iene4l
about four o'clock on Saturday last ; and the
Jury, satisfied no blame attached to shy indivi-
dual, returned their verdict " Accidental Death."