The Sun.
London, England, 1818-10-07 00:00:00

of the artificial style of poetry," and the excel-
lencies of the fatter receiVe a tribute or merited
anif judicious praise. Cllr. HAZLITT regietS that
tie is obliged to touch upon the l'oetsand
so do we. There is more triflitig in this part of
the book thus) ill any other. He is evidently !m-
-ealy in his situation, and would gladly escape
from the close contact of rigid trnicisin. Hence
his retnaiks are frequently any thing else Iliad
criticism. There is something too touch of
the LARKSchool--than;li not in the way of
praise—of which they have their gitantuul we-
ruerura ; but with respect to their system and
opinions, which are not worth the sp4ce be-
stowed upon then!, Of Lord 13YhoN he has
not said enough he (Lord B.) is out of the
pale of authorship and the jurisdiction of the
courts of criticism—his tritintpli is not cif this
age—his glory is too near for its to judge of its
effects ; but Time shall hallow his shrine, when
Critics shall he dumb. and posterity shall give
him his place among the canonized dead, without
seeking his character in the records, or measuring
his genius by that of his Reviewers.

FOR THE SUN,

JEREMY BENTIM,

The severity of a paper which appeared in TH
SU N of the 2d inst. on the subject ot this Gentle
man, raises a wish in me that it is Hot founded in
truth, let the rnssibility ot it be what it may. He
is ar) titter stranger to me ; but if he he, Ls re-
puted, the author of a book in my library, called
" A Fragment on Government," published in
1776, my surprise at his turning his coat, with
its seamy side outwards, will greatly abate, as in
my hie I never read .a work written with so much
presumed superiority and self-sufficiency. Sour
and authoritative, it is one continued attack on
the late Judge BLACKSTON

Heated by the prejudices of his education, and
fancying be saw in the Commentaries of this
ever-to-be-remembered writer an enemy to re-
formation, he took him very unceremonionsly by
the collar, in tones and with feeiings apparent;y
envious and impolite, calling him a Fotesed
champion for religious intolerance, who openly
set his face against civil reform. He strove to
overthrow, not set up, and he selected seven
pages from the Commentaries for his tavuttri!e
pnrpose ; but he failed of success, and his at-
tempt, which he called a war of words, recoiled
on himself. It nearly tell dead-born from the
press, and the effect it had on Sir WILLIAM
BLACt3TONE may be seen in a Postscript to the
Preface of his incomparable book, which is as
under. Mr. 1311NTHAI4 is a dissenter, ut audivi.

NO DISSENTIift.

PosTsCRIPT TO JUDGE ELACKiToNes PREFACE.

" Notwithstanding the diffidence expressed in
the foregoing Preface, no sooner ss as the work
completed, but many of its positions were vehe-
mently attacked by zealots of all (even opposite)
denominations, religious as well as civil ; by some
with greater, by others less acrimony. To such
of these animadverters as have fallen within the
author's notice (for he doubts not some have
escaped it) lie owes at least this obligation, that
they have occasioned him, from time to time, to
revise his work, in respect to the particulars ob-
jected to; to retract or expunge from it what
appeared to be really erroneous; to amend or
supply it when inaccurate or defective ; and to il-
lustrate sod explain it when obscure ; but where
be thought the objections ill-founded he bath
left, and shall leave the book to defend itself; be-
jog fully of opinion that if his principles be false,
and his doctrines unwarrantable, no apology from
himself C4ll make them right—if founded in truth
and rectitude, no censure from others can make
them wrong."