The Sun.
London, England, 1818-11-24 00:00:00

BOoK V.

"After the distress and stor-a-ny passion of the preceding
book, that which now opens presents us with tranquil de-
scription, and refreshes. us with the chearful spectacle of
heroic games. These, indeed, nearly jat their conclusion,
are interrupted by an incident of a❑ alarming nature. But
the mischief repaired: a scene of much beauty and repose
succeeds ; and we are gratified by seeing the hero landed,
after all his toils, upon that coast which had so long fled be-
fore his pursuit; and brought within sight, as it were, of the
plaCe of his ultimate destination. The games are generally
drawn atter those in the-twenty-third book of the Bias: but
they are varied by the hand of a master; and discover no-
thing of the tame servility of a copy. As a chariot race was
ill adapted to the circumstances of the Trojans, crowded
into small vessels in their passage over remote seas, and
consequently not well supplied with chariots and with horses
',though of the latter indeed they were possessed;, a galley-
race is suhstitnted for the impracticable game; and we are,
as I think, benefited by the suWitution. In the galley-
race there is touch novelty, various incidents, and excitement
of interest: The defeat of the boastful challenger, in the
fight of the cestus, gratifies our wish of seeing insolence
chastised : the prodigy which distinguishes the flight of the
arrow of Ac sr Es is new and surpris►ng; and the mock war-
fare of the equestrian boys (the• Lust's Trojce), which is alto-
gether the prodi,ction of Vract t„ is in a high degree enter-
taining. But though the games constitute the principal
subject of this book, they do not occupy more than two-
thirds of it; and its remaining portion is appropriated to
matter of it very different and a very important nature. The
sacrifice at the tomb of ANCHISES; the burning of the Trojan
ships; the apparition of ANCHIsES to his son; the conference
of VENUS and NEPTUNE; the exulting career of the God of
the Trident over the tranquillized waves ; and the safe phs-
sage, under h►s protection, of lENEAS to Comm, are circum-
stances of much interest and beauty. But, after all, I will
confess that this book of the /Eneis- is not one of my 'mime
favourites. Its immediate situation, between the fourth and
the sixth, is perhaps injurious to its effect. Mien the mind
has been agitated with the pathetic, or elevated by the
sublime, it will not be fully satisfied with any thing which
leaves it in repose, and unremoved from its natural level."

t .
PERTH, Nov. 13.—The Archduke MAXIMILIAN
of Austria and suite arrived in this city on the
evening‘of Friday last. The arrival of this illustrious
st ranger having been duly announced to the Provost,
his Lordship, atteuded by the Magistrates, waited
upon his Imperial Highness the following morning,
to present him . with the Freedoth of the city,
and express the deep sense - entertained of the
honour of ' receiving within ' this ancient burgh
a member of the-august family of Hapzburgh.
The Provost politely offered to attend his
Imperial Highness, to inspect such objects in
the city as might be deemed worthy of his
notice ; but his Highness deciined this mark of
attention, and satisfied himself with putting a few
general questions with regard to thestate of ma-
nufactures, &c. in the town and neighbourhood.
His Imperial Highness made but a short stay
here, and proceeded in the course of the day to
Dunkeld House. On Wednesday forenoon, his
Imperial Highness the Archduke Maximilian and
suite arrived at the Buck's Head, Glasgow.

EDITOR,--1 ta ve studied, with some dile
gence, the ancient Greek, and occasionally com-
pared the modern with it ; but tht re IS a preva.
lent dialect of Greek, in this country, which I
confess is beyond my comerehensiou. This may
be called the Cockney dialect; of puffs or advertise-
ments. So fond ate we of seeming learned, that
no new invention can go duty?' without a pre-
tended Gret k name to set it off; -whirl) name,
however, is seldom composed according to any
rules of ancient Grammar, but according ro the,
rule of Empiricism, or quackery. This visitatiuu
has been long coming upon us. I remember, in
my youth, being startled witivEidophusicon. Be-
fore 1 had well recovered from that alarm, came
Panorama, now adopted and confirmed as an Erie.-
lish word. Then came • the yet more forniiitable
Phantasmagoria, then Eidouranion, Holophusicon,
and I know not what besides.
Really, Sir, most of these svordswonld have
puzzled DemosTicieNes, bust they are- pure attic
to what have since arisen.
.The greatest trial of patience 1 have met with
from- this Cockney dialect, has been in passing
through Welbeck-street, near the bottom of
which, on a high wall, is inscribed, in large and
fait Greek characters, AIATAAAMOPOT. What
it was intended to signify, no inqiiicy has enablM
me to discover; for I cannot hind 11,1 the House
so inscribed is now any thing but a Sale Aeent's
Office. Nor will etymology or analogy assist us.
It -61 i is meant as a preposition, then 7altantopou
mast be intended for a-cOtaercepou But ytt,,,t will
be the meaning ?—" Through the liken-If:1e " -
What then is to be done through the miserable ?
Shall we presume that the Cockney writer meant
FOR the miserable, and'that it was originally in-
tended for an infirmary,- 'or some place of relief ?
If the whole was meant for one word, as it is
certainly Written, it is still less possible to guess
about it ; so remote is it from any known primie
tine or compound in the ancient lanenage.
Having digested, as well as we could, this and.
other enormities, very lately we have been as-
sailed by a new Corkneio Gratrism, or Grceco- cock-
ncisni. A new musical instrument his ht eh in.
vented, the boast or which is the pe•eliar sv' et.
ness of its tone. This quality is doubtless in
tended to be intimated to the public hy the name
bestowed upon it, which is CEttephone
. Belt
alas, in this unhappy compound, the two first
syllables have no relation to sweetness. They
are analogous rather to the two first syllables of
CEdiptd, which imply the swelling of a living
limb, from violence or disease. Phone, in-
deed, does ,mean sound or voice ; bet adipus
himself, so famous, an enigteatist, mieht be
puzzled to say what the former.part of the word
had to do with the latter. si-IF.5c, sweet, was pro-
bably the word aimed at. But that, written in
English characters, would be Hedys and, if the
compound could be tolerated, it would beHedye
phone, or Hedephone, if taken from the feminine..
A friend of mine, who is passionately fond of
sweet sounds, but is also a classical man, has told
me that he has constantly resisted the attraction
of the advertisethent, and the moderate
demanded for Are exhibition, because he caul('

not suppose that any thing worthyof notice.could
he produced by a-persoll send* out and persist.
ing in so hoFrid a barbarism.' "If it he a regular
ptodure of the cockney dialect of Greek, it would
be a kind thing if
,those who speak or write that
'patois, would tell the world by what rules or ana.
logies they proceed ; tha! we may no.longer tor-
ment ourselves by vain search in a language which,
though admired, seems here to be fory.fit'n.

GitZeULLTS.

CC/Riot's ti Eli Rhw MEDAL.—A most curions
and valuable. Hebrew Medal is now in the nos.
session of Mr Carley, el the Parade, in this
city. An inscription, in Syriochaldaic chatmcter.,
is distinctly perceived on the obverse, which pun-
port3 to commemorate the Resurrection of the Re-
deemer Jesus ; a'head of whom is on the reverse.
The materials of which it is composed are brass,
with'illto;alloy of silver. It is apparently much
worn, though quite legibleuas the letters look as
it they bad-beetrfortned in a very dee.p dye. Fro
all inquiries made, this is, probably, the 'only
brasS Hebrew Medal known at present. •One of
a very similar kind, distinguished also'by-go in-
scription of the same import, was-discovered in
the Island of Anglesea early in the last century,
but was lost by the person who was entrusted to
convey it to Oxford. Two of the like sort were
seen at Rome in the days of Leo X. 1512, and
were even then reckoned an invaluable %indica-

tion of the truth and history of Christianity. The
person from whom Mr.• Corlett procured this va-
luable and interesting historical evidence of re-
ligion, is not at this moment within the range of
that Ge,ntleman's inquiry, so that our inability rr)
learn where it was discovered is much to he re-
gretted. If it was found in Ireland, it will, ito
doubt, give rise to much speculation, and pro-
bably revive the opinion, that this kingdom was,
at an earlier period than is generally thought,
blessed with the light of Christianity. As we
are likely to procure a Jac simile of the inscrip-
tion and head, we shall gladly give them insertion
in our columns.—(Cork Chronicle.)

The large sum of One Million Five Hundred
Thousand P6uncls is iovested in debentures by
the several Saving Banks throughout the king•
(low.

The deposit of 201. for Scroggins and Martin
was to be made 501. last night, instead of 2001.
as stated by mistake. The whole money, 1001.
aside, is to be made good at Burn's, the Rising
Sun, in Windmill-street, on We 3d December,
for the fight on the Bth.