The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-30 00:00:00

OF THE SPECTATOR.

From a Blacicwood's Magazine" for April, ISM
" North—There, James, lies the Spectator, a
beir weekly Paper of some half-year's standing, or so, of
fire highest merit, and I wish I had some way of strenu-
.?osly recommending it to the reading public. The Editor,
""Ited, is Whiggish and a Pro-Catholic—but moderate,
"toady,' and consistent in his politics. Let us have no
turn-eoats. His precis of passing Politics is always ad-
Mirahle ; his Mercantile Information—that I know on the
olthority of as good a judge as lives—is csrrect and corn-
"Peehensive ; Bliscellaneotts News are collected judiciously
,411.1tinusingly from all quarters; the Literary department
i 8 equal, on the whole, to that of any other weekly periodical.
I nowhere see better criticism on Poetry—and nowhere
nerdy as good
_criticism on Theatricals. Some critiques
there have been, in that department, superior in exquisite
truth of tact to any thing I remember—worthy of Elia
himself, thoigh not apparently from Elia ; and in accounts
(11foreiges Literature, especially French, and above all, of
-rteuch Politics, a subject on which I need to be enlightened,
lava attest no periodical at all equal to the Spectator.

• , Shepherd—The numbers you sent out by deserved a'
17Itt3rou said o' them. It's a maist enterteenin' and in-
struetive-...-a-maist miscellawneous miscellany.
'" North.-:.-And without being wishy-washy—
' Shepherd---Or wersh—
" North—The Spectator is impartial. It is a Lir,
"en, honest, and manly periodical."
from Mr. Buckingham's Address to the Readers of the

Sphynx," May 2.
" It will be remembered, that on the first establishment
of the Sphynx,' its professed object was so to unite po-
httc and literature as to embrace almost all that was new
orloterrating in either, on a plan somewhat between that
"f the Atlas' and the Examiner,' but more nearly
resembliog 'the former of these journals. This plan is
eaktly accordant with that on which the Specta-
bur is conducted ; it being, indeed, the production of
44 original Editor and writers of the ' Atlas,' under whom
that journal enjoyed celebrity at the very time Mr. Buck-
ingham aesturtyd it in so far as a modal. The Spec-
tator preseuts,, perhaps, the most perfect analysis cud
epitome of News that have ever I,tten attempted in a weekly
Paper. Of its Political character, it may safely be said,
►hat,while it is always favourable to the support of liberal
institutions and the happiness of the people, its advocacy
of 'Nose great principles has been marked by a degree of
Prudence, judgment, and good temper, which has obtained
for it the praise of those who bold adverse opinions. And
of its Literary talent, it may as truly be asserted, that no
Periodical of the present dny surpasgi it—in the acuteness,
Iwundness, and fa:rnese of its criticisms ; or in th•. infinite
variety with which its pages eonstsntly abound."

From the " Globe," May 28.

" A Paper distinguished a !none. its weekly contem-
POizarif: for its perception of the ludicrous in manners, and
its pigment, yet not malignant satire upon the foibles of
society."

From tl:e " Harmonicon " for June.

" A Paper supported by first-rate talent."
Atitiu, (in quoting a critique on the Italian Opera)—" The
wiforuth, and spirit, of the annexed observations, which
appear in the Spectator of this date, entitle them
tol, Voice in'my Diary. They ought, and probably will, '
find a corner in every strap-book in the dominions of our
Sovereign Lord the King."--Diary of a Dilettante.
Prom the " Westminster Review," No. XXIII.
" A Paper of admirable variety and excellent manage-
trent.",

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