The Sun.
London, England, 1816-07-25 00:00:00

ARRIVALS.

Lord %Vallscourt, in Edgware-rvad, from salt-hill t Dowager
Countess of Jersey, at the Pultoney Hotel, Piccadilly, from
Cheltenham.

A frw weeks ago was dugs up In the vicarage
garden ut Orniesby, in Cleveland, a Roman cop-
per coin, about the size of a modern halfpenny.
The impression of the head is very fsir and ilk.
tinct. The iveription round the horsier is partly
corroded, :And erased by the rust. But the follow-
ing is perfectly legible in large moon capitals-..
M 1"IC A 1:4,' S V liS I' A. which I suppose may
be read, Maximus Pontifer Titus Cesar Vespa.
alarms. The other letters are altogether illegible.
On the reverse of the coin is a naked figure
standing in an erect posture looking fir ward,
with peo.hirge wings proceeding from the %honk
dersAnklitliy,ing down before, and the other be-
hind, as low as the knees. There is likewise a
small wills issuing froin the hack part of the head
itt it horizontal position. The right snit is de.
vsted, and seems to be boldint something, but
time atid-rnst have completely obliterated if. Be-
hind this figure the vestiges of eight letters ap-
pear, but 56 indistinctly they are not to he &cy-
phered. The wing at the bead seemed to indkate
the Petasni 'of Mercury, but those at the shoulders
Were no appendages of that Deity. Fortune bad
eight different temples in Bonne. She is some-
times represented wilt) wings, treading upon the
prow of a ship, holding a rshister.in her baud.
Titas'Vespasianas began his reign A. D. 79, and
diet! Sept. I 3th,-A, 81, in the 41st year of his
age, so that it is 1736 yeats Since. this 'piece of
Homey WitS'eitined. It is now in the possession
of the Rev, James Thompson, Vicar of Orinesby,
its Cleveland.

Ac the Qiuttter Sessions held nt Miry St. E.L.
nrrinds, ‘Tittielt eotionettred on Monthly; hetore the
ltee. (ivottoE STOWE, Chairman , ntot rt very full
bench tTf M.sgistrgoes, titere were 71 prisoners on
the calendar for triAl,3o of whom woe ttkr tiotonoY
nssernttling and tle4troying a mole-0)14;h at Mr.
MoneArt'',. of and eiginteu for brvuking
throbittg-tuavithic:.

MEDALS.

[Flom a Curresitansthill

It is soniewhat singular, that-though England
has lung possessed malty valuable collections of
.111etlalt, ancient: and modern, end though
son, out of our most Celebrated writers, lung since
Itarltftetl out the importance of stuck a sptcies of
public record; there has never hitherto bet rs soy
Sevievattemptekto illustrate consideranle i,nd to
torestiog portions of our history. In the Ime of
Cromwell and Charles 11. indeed Simon, an Log-
fish artist, engraved same medals, its a style not
very remote from the perfection of the Cheeks t
anti since that period tt few, and but a few, utedals
of any excellence have been Occasionally struck ;
while ofberitations, ancepartieulatirthe French,
have carefully consigned every remarkable event
in their history' to this easy and obvious mode of
fonmietnorasion. In France there has been ass,
signed to• this irurpose, ever-since the reign of
Henry 111. a particular department of the Mint,
which was always fixed its one of the Royal Pa-
laces ; And Ikon 1639 to the' Revolution, in the
Palace of the Louvre. It had been imagined that
the Vandalism oUthe days of• Robespierre bad oc:.
casioned, • among Many more lanstnteble losses,
the'destructiou of the curions collection of dies for
striking ,medals, which.existed front the clays I
of
houis and it is only. a few weeks since the
Baron- De Poymativin, the Director of the Medal-
lic Ntint,-•annonneed (to the extrelne satisfaction of
the Frencir;public) the reedit:llot this precious.
deposit. ,We. need .uot advert to the studious
anxiety with which litionaparte took care that no
evesit front which he could 'claim the slightest
share:of credit shookd go unrecorded by its ap-
propriate medal. He was aware, that even Ii s
colossal statue in the place Vendome, or Its cele-
brated melt ii, the Carrousel, could not attract
the: attention not' so many observers, and did not
offer: any thiog like to favourable a chance fur
reaching a distant posterity, as these poi table and
permanent; specimens of she art of sculpture.
That any Areat undertaking of ibis kind has not
yet appeared in England can be.owing only to f,e..
toitous causes. Our history has certainly not been
wanting in events deserving celebration, and the
native genius of our artists has not been inferior
to, that of the natives of any other country;
hut circumstances have not concurred until the
present day to bring t age! her the causes tie-
cessary for producing the result of which we
are spCaking. Now, however, !nth a concur.
relict of causes eXists. We have gone slit unit a
war more fertile of great e, eitts by Lantana sea th,:n
any equal pm donof our history. The public )
filled with itimiratiou at such matchless oak vc-
ments, has been led to meditate Oil the most op—
proptiate means uf transmitting them to distant
ages. Our attention, too, has Snell called so the
fascinating powers of art. We have seen the
national importance attached to the ivrea
in painting and statuary which had been colleoted'
together in and have since been rebtured to'
their original owners. The transportatioa of the.
Elgin and Phigalian marbles to user o.t n sh,;i'vs has'
:Itroitted us, we may almost say, living evidence
ut the elfeeiV of art •in perpeteating site mimes
of illus;rioos area and the Memory of glorious
actions. Vet it is obvimis to retnArk, that
medals possess many serrior advautages over
the lArger ptaiductions of the Frtril or the
.eft set. They are less liktly to break or mumbler.
aa ay. They are tuna tier. and tlics el cure -suture
easily transportable. They are at the salute
time susceptible of very high finish it, lite ;meclua-
nieal part, and of striking effect in their Manlier
of relating an event—whilst t lac. vault ilalaeity of
their impressions. renders it tteXt to certain that
they Will pass ,thiongh rau intiaite nionber of
hands, and become familiar to the niinds of uteri
its very distant ages and pount ries. 'They appeal
both to the imagination and
,the judgment I they
operate both as history and as pantry) and thus tilt
up a very important plate its the SySiestt of edtiva.
tints: What more siMple or captivating moth, is
there of impressing ots the memory of youth the
dales and circtimstauces of rernark able events, or.
of enlivening their imagirtatioqs with the lorce of
felicitous allegories and symbols, than is ro
found ina collection of welkehosett tiod welk,
executed tnedalt ? "

These general remarks are particularly appli
cable lit thrs Whyll 1111 tAttetilliX is Illtikiqg to
produce in this country a series. of MedAlv,
Ulus-
tratihc of the evenk of the late war. This 'hay
altaist be considered as an epoili in that' brtoicts
of the British Arts; :Ind when we have on oppor-
tunity of examining 'these productin:ls we
on that groom', devote 'a few rentariss-to then con-
ception and eXecutiOtt..

•
NENDAL, JULY 00.---• The bay harvest_ Vegsn
hitc this S4initore, its consequence of the colchteNs
of the law swing, and the h:iy-inalving has hither-
to advanced hot *lowly, being impeded by the
stet weather of the presort month. ;Utter the lith,
we have had no snore than thrte pyrrecCly 60•
cloys, vlt. the. 11 at, 15th, and 16th, trveglieut unit
stafnetimes heavy rains have litilen vrithin this pc-
Wm!, and the thunder_.-storms, which have
conottantly, moving in every flirettion round this
toWn, inCuntherlausl and Lancashire, •a well its
east anti west of us, halve,' for the )4.4 fort nic,,ht,
kept the barometer it, a .it ate of pert), teal Iketna-
thus, and invaoably In the oight of the
17th,' the Pnercury fell to n d nine
tenths, a circtniistance which may appear almost
incredible at this xeitsnit orthe year ; hut thr oh-
-BVrt'litioll was
.11111 de With a VC; y etiirect
Mettt, Ft W ititprOVVltienis tit Our hers, dgrctilu.
lure would be of wort!, tidvitntage to the fartaiug
intill:st of this vomit ry t”an the discovery of a
method which won't' hciug: tl.c grass crops- tee per-
fection at an curlier period, AVitit the exception,
of December, July sit as, Averagv,.i3 the wettest
month lu the year, and iieaVy s AM, commonly f-114
iu the former part of it. .10 it not poisilde to de.•
vise a plan to discooraee those herbs and grasseo
which Are late in cowing; to maturity, :,11,1 itJ 11110..
tiply such as tire CratAtliOt'd to wake gooti bay ttllti.
COllle to perfect ton soonev,i . . ,

IA Ntiwriiglle stirs---`' The 'into; Of all
the Nrwciv,tte'llatth% are ;low i" I"«'"
mew anti thai confitivito: iti all Ow I.latilot
is pcitonly rettuteit.",