The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-27 00:00:00

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backgrounds of romantic sceneY•

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ortNitoNs of THE PRESS.
" 'The likenesses are admirale."—Times.
" It is, in truth, a second se%"—Morning Herald.
" The features are admiraly delineated."—Morning Chro-
nicle.
~ A perfect fae-simile of tt sitter."—Morning Advertiser.
Miniattrre Bust and case IL Is.: Fill-lengths, 2/. 25.;
Groups, 10s. 6d. for each aditional Portrait.
Licenses granted to use tl.' patent in counties and towns.
Mr. Beard (Sole Patento), Royal Polytechnic Institution,
Regent-street ; 34, Parliaient-street, Westminster ; and 65,
King William-street, City.

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SUPPOSED WRECK OF THE MAGNET ',LOOP
OF Wart.—ln the Borsaltalle, of the 21st inst., ap-
pears an account of a vessel having been raised,r
nea a place called kios,
tialendA.rtaagkneent,
1809, by Captain
isnitooopAolfaaulma,i,
a ,
which, it is supposed
connanded during a e war of
Morris. She mount(' two 9_pounders and sixteen
30lb. carronades. Fri
m her appearancet is surmised
that she has been man. years under water. A number
of cases, containiiht spike nails, and a quantity of
clothes, have been saved. Of the latter the linen
portions
are rotten,
Pit the woollen, on the contrary
(particularly the rue cloth) is in good preservation.
The most curios. circumstance Is the excellent
state of the worn of three silver watches found
in the cabin, ss'lija it appears, after the inspection
of a watehmakt, are capable of being repaired.
The remains of a aan's body was discovered in the hold,
but the conditionof which is not stated. Her bowsprit
is gone, and, Iron the damage to the bows, it is supposed
vessel. She is
she must have Len run into by a large
built of oak, art copper-fastened, and is represented to
be worth the excuse of raising her.
ROMAN INsEIPTION DISCOVERED, AT BATTLE •
BRIDGE, NEW-PAD.—A Roman inscription has within
these few dap past been discovered at Battle-bridge,
otherwise, by a absurd change of denomination, known
as King's-cross New-road, St. Pancras. This discovery
appears fully to justify the conjectures of Stukeley
and other an quaries, that the great battle between
the Britons oder Boadicea, and the Romans under
Suetonius Pitlinus, took place at this spot. Faithful
tradition, in se absence of all decisive evidence, still
pointed to thtplace by the appellation of Battle-bridge.
The inscriptin, which, in parts, is much obliterated,
bears distinct,' the letters LEG. XX. The writer of
this notica hs not yet had an opportunity personally
to examine i, but speaks from the information of an
antiquarian icnd. The twentieth legion, it is well
known, was file of the four which came into Britain in
r4aa of Claudius, and contributed to its subju-
' gationa Tle vexillation of this legion was in the
army of Stetonius Paulinus when he made that vic-
torious staid in a fortified pass, with a forest in his
rear, again t the insurgent Britons. The position is
sketched b) Tacitus ; and antiquaries well .know that
on the high ground above Battle-bridge there are ves-
tiges of 1/anan works, and that the tract of land to
the north ‘ais formerly a forest. The veracity of the
folowing passage of the historian is therefore fully
confirmed I)iligitque locum artis faucibus, et a
tergo Silva elausum ; satis cognito, nihil hostium nisi
in tronte, tt, apertam planitiem esse sine metu insi-
diarum.” Ie further tells us that the force of Suetonius
was composAl of " quartadecima legio, cum vexillariis
ricestmarus et e proxunis auxiliares." Tacit. Annal.
lib. xiv. S. that, almost to the letter, the place of this
memorable engagement seems, by the discovery of the
above inscrirtion, to be ascertained.—From a Correspond-
ent of the Lterary Gazette.
The harvest has commenced in the counties of
Devon and f;ornwall, with excellent prospects. Many
fields of wheat in the immediate neighbourhood of these
towns have then saved, and if the weather continues fine
as at present, of which there is every prospect, the
sickle will bein general use in the course of next week.
It is the genemlly received opinion, that finer wheat has
not been seen for many years.—Plymouth Herald.
TIIE HAIVEST.—The weather is auspicious, and to-
day the first fruits of the harvest in this neighbourhood
will be reaped in a field near Bideford. We are rejoiced
to say that the result of subsequentinquiries confirms the
encouraging statement in our last, viz., that the wheat
harvest, if not. abundant, will produce an average crop ;
and it is gratityang to add that the general opinion, ex-
pressed from all quarters at the late meeting at Bristol,
was, that the claps would not be so much below an ave-
rage through the country, as was feared a few months
ago, the filling of the ear being particularly good.—
North Devon Jokrnal.
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—The following dis-
tinguished personages have lately honoured Mr. Beard's
Photographic establishments by sitting for portraits :
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Esterhazy, Dukes of
Sutherland, Argyle, and Marlborough ; Marquises of
Exeter, Stafford, Worcester, Douglas, and Westminster;
Earls Spencer, Craven, Shaftesbury, Ross ; Lords De
Tabley, Monteagle, Listowel, Jeffery, Vivian, Beau-
crloerlll,;:ekln(gthesetr, I'u'Al eY. General),
Parke ; Sirs Frederick
nerall
Attorney James Clarke, and G.
Cockburn. Many of the duplicate likenesses of the pre-
ceding hat of Roialty and the Nubility are exhibited
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among Mr. Beard a specimens, and serve admirably to
show the almost unerring precision of his peculiar sys-
tem of photographic delineation.
THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE, " MASSA-
NIELLO."—We are requested to state that the new histo-
rical romance of " Massaniello," edited by Horace Smith,
Esq., author of " Bramb/etye House," &c., in 3 vols.,
is published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marl-
borough-street, and may now be had at all the libraries.
Mr. Colburn has also just published-1. The Manoluvring
Mother, by the authoress of " The History of a
Flirt," 3 vol.—`_'. The Lottery of Life, by the Countess
of Blesaington, 3 vols.-3. Passion, and, Principle, edited
VOL.
by Captain Chamier, 3 vols.-4. f School for Wives,
lay the authoress of "Temptation, 3 vols.-5. Joseph
Rushbrook, by Captain Marryat, cheaper edition, 3 vols.,
21s. Also just ready, 6, The Czarina, an historical
romance, by Mrs. Holland, 3 vols.
MISS 13uaN 's DIARY,a
thesiiiglo:
tr interest
this new volume of Miss Burney s 'Third,
Diary gives,
relative to the insanity of George the
anti the ex-
traordinary scenes which it occasioned in the domestic
life of the Royal Family, this portion of the work con-
nd c i nosit 4.—ln addition to
y, of the details which
con-
tains characteristic anecdotes of . a large number of
distinguished individuals, who dill not figure in the
preceding volumes. Amongst t.hem, be found,
Charles Fox and William Pitt, Sir 1 hilip Francis (the
reputed author of Junius), Mr. Wyndham, Lord Chan-
cellor Thurlow, the Princess Daschkaw, the celebrated
French savans, Sausure and Lalande, Mrs. Jordan, Bun-
bury the caricaturist, Archdeacon Tucker, Dr. Stai
gin ticet, &c. ; and among the
.array of Courtiers,
Court Beauties, and Fashionables, .we find the Duchess
of Ancaster, the Ladies Holdernesse, Harcourt, Mul
grave, Bathurst, Plymouth, Carmarthen, Howard, Au-
gusta Campbell, D'Oyley, Sze. ; Lords Baltimore, Ports-
mouth. Chesterfield, Walsinghap, Mulgrave, Courtown,
Bathurst, Salisbury, Mountnorriss, &.c; &c.
THE LIGHT OF ALL NATIONS.-1 he efforts of Air
Bush lest year to construct the " Light of all ,Nations," it will
be recollected, were frustrated by failure. Consequently, lit,
caisson has been since reconstructed; and about three weeks'
ago he succeeded in getting it afloat off Deal beach. a'
Expecta-
tion was raised to the highest pitch that success this season
would crown his efforts. Unfortunately, however, the other
day the caisson again broke down, but whether this accident is
likely to be fatal to the project, or otherwise, we have not heard.
RETURNED TRANsPoRTs.--During the last few
days a tabular report of the names of convicts who have escaped
while under transportation at Hobart Town, and which was
printed at the above colonial possession, has been forwarded to
the various police courts of the metropolis. The document is
dated the Ist of January, and is subscribed by Mr. Forster, the
chief police Magistrate. There are the names of 445 convicts,
with the description of their persons, the length of their trans-
portation, and the situations that they have run away from.
The rewards for the recovery of the convicts amounted to
between '2l. and 51., with the exception of three cases, in which
rewards of 1501. and 100/. were offered.