The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-18 00:00:00

THE BANK MEETING.

The following is a fuller report of Mr. Young's
motion of amendment than given in our Paper of
yesterday :
The CHAIRMAN having put the question that this
Court do adjourn, .

Mr. FLORANCE YOUNG immediately rose to move
an amendment. lie said that it was a matter
infinitely too serious to be passed over without ob-
servation, that they should come into that Court
time after time without being able to extract the
slightest information as to their affairs 'from the
Court of Directors. Some evil, he was afraid, IN ould
arise out of it; and in order to avert it, if possible,
he would again move the string of resolutions which
be bad moved in March last. The nature of those
resolutions could not have been understood; for if
it had, they would not, he was sure, have been ne-
gatived. They only went to submit to the Court of
Directors the consideration of a plan, which was in-
tenJed to put an end to the unpleasantness which
sometimes intruded itself into their Meetings. Ile
wished to have that string of resolutions submitted
to the consideration of the Court of Directors, either
as a whole or a part. It would then be for the Di-
rectors to report to the Proprietors whether they
were calculated to injure the interests of the Com-
pany, or whether they could not be conformed to,
either wholly or in part. With that consideration
on the part of the Court of Directors every body
would be satisfied. It was, however, quite im-
possible to suppose that they could go on from one
half yearly meeting to another perpetually asking
questions and perpetually refused answers. As
they were flying directly in the face of their Char-
ter
and their bye-laws, and as they were running
the risk of rendering their declared dividends illegal,
he did hope that the Court of Proprietors would
allow the resolutions which he had formerly moved
to be submitted to the Court of Directors, in order
that they might report upon them against the next
General Court. If the Court of Directors could
satisfy the Proprietors that no spelt information as
that which be asked for could be properly given,
and if they could satisfy their constituents that it
was right and expedient for them to separate with-
outany information at all, he of course
had obtainingnothing
rn
ore to do than to submit to their de-
cision. He thought it, however, impossible that re-
spectable men, interested as they were in the pro-

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Sept. 15.
There was a good attendance of millers at this morn-
ing's market, fine Old Wheats brought rather more mo-
ney, but there was no improvement in the secondary qua-
lities, and New with difficulty supported last week's cur-
rency. The same remarks will apply to Oats : some
very choke Old reached 3s. 4d. ; the few New at market
'were sold at 3s. sd. to.3s. 6d. We reduce our
.qt;o4-
tions on Old Flour Is. to 21., and New Was of ring 3s.
to 4s. per sack cheaper.

WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b..., Bs. 3d. to 105.'9.1.
Red
- Scotch, Welch, and Manx
Irish, White 9 .1 9 9
--
Red 8 0 7 6
Foreign 9 9 Ii) 0
OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, her 4511, 3 3 3 6
- Irish
- Foreign
BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter, 34 0 38 0
- Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. „, ‘ 4 9 5 3
- Feeding - 4 sl 5 0
BEANS, English, per Imperial quartev . ~.: 42 0 44 0
- Irish, &c..
Foreign
.. . .. . . .
Foreign . , 39 0 42 0
PEASE, EngliTh, per Iniperial quarter 19 0 42 0
_---,..-..- Foreign
FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 5O 0 52 0
- Irish
OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 210Ibs
INDIAN CORN, per 41olb.
RvE, per Imperial quarter
MALT, per Imperial quarter ,R Q O 0
IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Wee...t ending Sept. 14.
Wheat. Oats. I Barley Fleur. . Oatmeal.
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Brls !Irish, &c. Scks. Loads,
8,413 7,i81 167 1, ' I 1,130 igi

ANIMAL SAGAC; TY.—QII Thursday last,
R. WILLIAMS, Esq. residing rit Wolveecote, in the neigh-
bourhood of Qxfor.4l, ordered his bailiff to go into a certain
field to drive out some cattle. On till man's entering the
field, a cow ran at him furiously, which so alarmed h'4n,
that he fled. The cow then stopped and 4:Awed in a,
loud and most distressing mar,;e4•A ris if orixions to gain
his attention. On the man taking particular notice of
her, she wcot to a ditch, where she both looked and bel-
lowed so piteously, that he was induced to follow her, and
when he arrived there he obseTved her calf on its back, al-
most lifeless from its ineffectoal struggles to recover a
standing position. I 4 relieved %he posr animal just in
time to F.a-,re its life, on which the grateful mother jumped
and fondled round him with all the playful
.and expressive
affection of a dog, frequently licking his hand, and mA 4IA
casions since she has taken particular notice g tke pre-
server of her offspring-,—. Cheltenkan?

He was not formed to captivate ; his person was,
lititflehbeett‘evrertehannoat paoetpicoaeltidcaanlgolelra,
ic)laucSmhhesel:i,irsitiolivsnaes,
manners disagreeable, and his temper
feeble and vacillating. The Delia, who is intro-
duced into his elegies, and the Phillis of hi- • .•.
toral ballad, was Charlotte Gravei,- sister to t :e
Graves who wrote the Spiritual Quixotte. There
was nothing warm or earnest in his admiration,
and all his gallantry is as vapid as his character.
He never gave the lady, who was supposed and
supposed herself to be the object of his serious
pursuit, an opportunity of accepting or rejectiirg
him, and his conduct has been blamed as am-
biguous and unmanly. His querulous dr.:clama-.
tions against women in general ha.d neither
cause nor excuse, and his complaints of infidelity
and coldness are equally without foundation. He
died unmarried.
When we look at a picture of Thomson, we
wonder how a man, with that heavy pampered
countenance and awkward mein, could ever have
written the " Seasons" or have been in love. I
think, it is Barry Cornwall, who says strikinpls,‘
that Thomson's figure " was a personification of
the Castle of Indolence, without its roaoance,"
Yet Thomson, though he has not given, any po-
pularity or interest to the name a a woman, 13
said to have been twice in lave, after his owe
lack-a-daisical fashions Ho was first attaehed
to Miss Stanley, who died young, Rod upon
whom he wrote the little elegy,
Tell me, thou soul of her I love, &o.
He alludes to her also in Summer, in the pas-
sage beginning
quiet,ed band,
and
And art thou, Stanley, of
Itihooli•gsi,„
con-
stant,e lady's coldness, or want
His: bsuetclovilidetllioevret).73s
of fortune, pr,::vented a union, is not clear ;
probably the latter. The object of this attach-
ment was a Miss Young, who resided at Rich-
mond ; and his attentions to her were conti-
nued through a long series of years, and even
within a short time before his death, in his
forty-eighth year. She was his Amanda ; and if
she at all answered the description of her in
his Spring, she must have teen a lovely and
amiable woman.
And thou, Amanda, came, pride of my song ;
Forma by the (races,, loveliness itself !
Come w:ittA those downcast eyes, sedate and. sweet,
Those 1.0010 demure, that deeply pierce the soul,
Where, with the light of thoughtful town mix'd,
Shines lively fancy and the feeling lltArt
Oh, come! and while the rosy-forated May
Steals blushing on, together ket us tread,
The morning dews, and gather in .o,eii prime
Fresh "looming &WU; to trace thy braided hair.
And if his att;..ithment to .fler suggested that
beautiful d,seription of iiornestie happiness with
whic'4l, his Spring concludes
But happier they, the happiest of their kini,
Whom gentler stags unite, &c.
who would not grieve at the destiny which de-
Pied to Thomson pleasures he could so elo-
quently describe, and so feelingly appreciate ?
Truth, however, obliges me to add one little
trait. A lady who did not know Theinson per-
sonally, but Wewets enchanted.with his " Seasons,"
said she eauld gather from his works three parts
of 14,s character : that he was an amiable lover,
an excellent swimmer, and extremely abstemious.
ashlldliwie rferom those cooldf
Savage, who knew the poet, could trot help
laughing at this picture of a man 'who scarcely
fi 'who indulged
.aanntainn; t-ikio t the
aNkvia water Like
good-naturedlik' hea ta cat ;and love
bona
talv.sivv
ah owl? who
tained without trouble him-
self in every possible luxury, which could be oh-
ouble ! He also died unmarried.
uil favouriteose , , of
Love
er
Elegies"sentimenital
greialt
Ay
on the toilettes of the Harriet By roes and, So-
phia Westerns of the last century, was an ami-
able 'outh3 ". very melancholy and gentleman-.

like," who being appointed equerry to Prince
Frederick, cast his eyes on Miss Dashwood,
bed-chamber woman to the Princess, and she
became his Delia. "i he lady was deaf to his
pastoral strains ; and though it has been said
that she rejected him on account of the small-
ness of his fortune, I do not see the necessity of
believing thfs assertion, or of sympathising in
the dull invectives and monotonous lamentations
of the slighted lover. Miss Dashwood never
married, and was, I believe, one of the maids
of honour to the late Queen.

Thus the six poets, who, in the history of our
literature, fill up the period which intervencd
between the death of Pope and the first publi-
cations of Burns and Cowper—all died old ba-
chelors