The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-20 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1827.

By the Author of " Brambletye House," " The Tor

Hill," &c.
" Fie on ambition ! Fie on myself ! that have a sword,
and yet am ready to famish. These five days have I hid
Ine in these woods, and durst not peep out, fur all the
country is laid for Me."-SIiAKSPEARE.
Printed for H.r,ry Colburn, 8, New Burlington-street.

VERY FAST AND SAFE TRAVEL-
LING to BIRMINGHAM and LIVERPOOL, Day
and Four-inside Coaches, which keep good Time,
FROM THE SARACEN'S HEAD INN,
SKINNER-STREET, SNOW-HILL, LONDON,
The following Light Post Coaches, Mails, &c. set out from
the above Inn :
Birmingham Tally Ho ! in 13 hours (driven through
with two Coachmen only), Morning, through Redburn,
Market-street; Dunstable, Brickhill, Fenny Stratford, Sto-
ney Stratford, Towcester, Weedon, Daventry, Dunchurch,
Coventry, and Stone Bridge, to the Castle Hotel, Birming-
ham, to Shiffnall, Wellington, Bridgenorth, Shrewsbury,
Shelton, Oswestry, Nantwich, Tarporley, Bangor, Chester,
and Holyhead.
Birmingham Royal Express, in 15 hours and only two
coachmen, every Afternoon, four Inside, through War-
wick, Leamington, Southam, Daventry,Weedon, Towcester,
and Stoney Stratford, to the Saracen's Head, Birmingham,
early the next morning.
Barnstaple, Southmolton, Crediton, Cholmley, Tiverton,
North Lawton, Hatherleigh, Oakhampton, Torrington,
Chumleigh, Ilfracomb, and Bideford, every Morning.
Bath and Bristol, through Chippenham, Caine, Marl-
borough, Hungerford, Newbury and Reading, every After-
noon at one; arrives at the Greyhound Inn, Bath ; and
Landon Tavern, and Swan, Bristol, early next Morning.
Boston Mail, to Louth, through Royston, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Stilton, Peterborougb, Deeping, Spalding,
Spilsby, Alford, and Great Grimsby. Evening, at half-past
Seven, Sunday, at a quarter before seven.
Cambridge Mail, through Ware, Buntingford, Buckland,
and Royston. Evening, at half-past seven, Sunday, at a
quarter before seven.
Carlisle Express, only one night on the road, to Penrith,
and Whitehaven, with a Guard all the way ; through Ap-
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direct Coach to Carlisle.
Chester, through Newport, Wlaitchurch, Nantwich, Tar-
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Coventry Tally Ho ! every Morning at half-past six,
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Dover and Paris, Morning by Canterbury and Chatham.
Dorchester, in 14 hours only, through Egham, Bagshot,
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five and eight in the Morning.
Dartmouth, Morning, to Newton Bushel, Paignton,
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lan, Salisbury, Stockbridge, Sutton, Basireptoke, Black-
Water, Bagshot, and Egham.
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Hu': Express, through Northcave, Howden, and Don-
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"Rockingham" in the Afternoon at two.
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Leeds Rockingham, Afternoon at two; through Baldock,
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ford, Stamford, Greetham, Grantham, Newark, Tuxford,
Markham-Moor, East Retford, Bawtry, Doncaster, and
Ferrybridge ; arrives at the Golden Lion Inn, Leeds, next
Afternoon, at three o'clock, in time for the Bradford, Hali-
fax, Skipton, and Huddersfield Coaches. With four Coach-
men only.—Luggage and Packages only 2d. per lb.
Liverpool and Staffordshire Potteriesot Morning at half.
Vast six. With four coachmen only.
Liverptiol Umpire, in 27 Hours only, Daily at One ;
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terworth, Hinckley, Atherstone, Tamworth, Litchfeld,
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ford, Warrington, and Prescot.
Liverpool Royal Express, in twenty-six hours, with four
coachmen only, through Prescot, Warrington, Knutsford,
Congleton, Newcastle, Stone, Rudgeley, Lawton, Litchfield,
and Stafford (only one night on the road), every afternoon ;
arrives at the Saracen's Head, Liverpool, next afternoon.
Manchester and Altringham, morning to the Moseley
Arms and Swan Inns.
Manchester to Congleton, Newcastle, Walsall, Wolver-
hampton, and Knutsford, light four inside Coaches.
Marlborough and Swindon, through Maidenhead, Read-
ing, Newbury, Hungerford, Ramebury, and Albourne, with
one coachman enly. The nearest conveyance to Lambourn,
Purton, Wootton Baseett, and Pewsey.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Under-Line, Morning and
Afternoon. Only one night on the road.
Plymouth Umpire, io Falmouth, Truro, Bodmin, Ash-
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Sheffield Express, and also the Rockingham, through
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Southampton Union, to Lymington, Lyndhurst, and
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Water, and Bagshot, every morning, and arrives at the
Coach and 'gorses, and Vine Inn, Southampton, by five,
a delightful conveyance to the Isle of Wight, Jersey, Guern-
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On Thursday last, GEORGE FERGUSON, Lord
HEADLAND, one of the Senators of the College of Justice,
died at his country res:;lence, near West Calder. He re-
tired last year from the arduous duties of his office, after a
service of twenty-seven years. He was, we believe, up-
wards of eighty years of age.—Edinburg4 Paper.

The'Statue of the late Field Marshal his Royal
Highness the Duke of Yonx, which is to be presented to
the United Service Club, by Members belonging to it, has
been contracted for, and a suitable place for its reception
is preparing in the superb edifice now building for that
Club on the site of Carlton Palace. The Subscriptions
for this Statue, as well as Subscriptions for the Monu-
ment to be erected at Edinburgh, to the memory of his
late Royal Highness, are now receiving by Mr. CAM!-
BELL of Regent-street.

At a Meeting of the Creditors of JAMES
HENTY, it was unanimously resolved—t, That the failure
of James Henty has been the most iniquitous that has
ever occurred in the Stock Exchange. That it has
been attended by unusual circumstances of concealment,
falsehood, and dishonesty, and that his subsequent con-
duct, in refusing to] deliver up to his creditors (with-
out stipulation)sproperty which he had faithfully pro-
mised, in the presence of three individuals, to surrender
unconditionally, has only confirmed the opinion of his
character expressed at the former meeting.—Resolved—
That the Committee for General Purposes be requested
to take such measures as will most effectually expose
such conduct, and express in some peculiar manner the
marked send which the House entertains of the base-
ness and dishonesty of his.behaviour."

CUSTOM OF THE GREEKS.—It does not
seem to be generally known that the studious
among the ancient Greeks were always accus-
tomed to walk into the fields or gardens with a
tablet and stylus suspended by a cord or ribbon
from their neck. When any new thought or
image came over. their mind, their waxen me-
morandum-book and iron pencil were ever ready
to register it, and prevent oblivion. Euripides,
a man df strong passions but severe manners,
was one day looking intently upon one of these
tablets, in the public gardens, when a celebrated
courtezan, who was passing, inquired what he
saw there to fix his attention so ? " Something,"
he replied, " more beautiful than your face.
London Weekly Review.

Upon the descent of Mr. Green's balloon
last week, near Canterbury, an old woman, em-
ployed in a field, observing a huge body making
towards her, dropped her burden, and ran off as
quick as her enfeebled limbs would allow.—The
balloon going in a direct line with the poor crea-
ture, soon overtook ber—Mr. Green told her
not to be alarmed, which only increased her
terror, :and she tried to escape through a hedge,
tearing her clothes and person in the attempt ;
and finding flight by this means difficult, she
offered up a prayer to the Fountain of Mercy,
horribly affrighted at the " monstrous thing."

PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT MADE SCIENCE

IN EARNEST.

We have, in a former number, made several
extracts from this work, and shall now submit a
few more to the judgment of our readers, accom-
panied with some observations on the merits of
the work in general.
The novel title which has been given to it by
the author is calculated to raise the expectation,
and lead the reader to hope for something, not
only uncommon, but unusua4ly instructive and
amusing. To avoid the disappointment of these
expectations needs talents of no common stamp,
and such has the writer shown are his, having, in
short, more than equalled the hopes raised by
the perusal of his title-page.
Few, if any, are the works which can be said
to be wholly free from fault ; and, though we
cannot take upon -our.selves to say this is entirely
faultless, we can, without partiality, assert, that
it has as few faults as any we have ever read, and
contains far more instruction, as well as a.muse-
ment, than any work of a similar nature.
The first extract we shall make is from a lu-
dicrous part of the work. Miss Kitty Ryland,
the heroine of the scene, and one of a coterie of
maiden ladies residing in the village of Overton,
visits London for the purpose of answering an
advertisement for a wife, and there meets with a
disappointment, which wounds her tenderest
feelings, and shocks her delicacy. Not having
room for the whole, we shall pass by the pre-
vious sighings, faintings, and palpitations of the
lady, described with admirable wit and humour
by the author, and proceed to the introduction
of the advertiser in the following manner :

The door opened, and the stentorian voice of Becky
bellowed forth " X. Z., if you please, ma'am."

Miss Kitty instinctively retreated to the farther end of
the diminutive apartment, and the stranger pausing at the
door left ample room between them for the insertion of all
the intermediate letters from A. to Z., provided, indeed,
that they had not exceeded in size the usual proportion of a
child's alphabet.
- "" X. Z., for by those initials is he only yet known to
the reader, was diminutive in stature, and his lower ex-
tremities having received an unfortunate bias in the nur-
sery, might be said, like the feet of the curule chairs, to re-
semble the X., which he had chosen as his first represen-
tative letter; while his whole person, during the operation
of an obsequious bow, with which he greeted our heroine,
described a zigzag, not unlike his second initial,
or the concluding letter of the alphabet. His head
had been liberally powdered, but the rebellious colour of his
hair still blazed beneath the surface, and imparted a tinge
which might be compared to that of the red snow de-
scribed by Captain Ross in his Voyage of Discovery ; nor
was his countenance, perhaps, exactly that which Miss
Kitty's imagination had depicted ; but she had so often de-
clared that where the gem was of the first water it signified
little whether it were set in gold or pinchbeck, that we do
not, for a single moment, believe the first view of his per-
son made the least unfavourable impression."
The writer proceeds in his description with
admirable wit, but we cannot admit more at
present into our limited • columns ; we will,
therefore, pass over -the interview to which the
author has not failed to give great interest and
humour, and conclude this extract by the horror
of the lady when apprised by the stranger of his
vile intention of obtaining the consent of 30 at
Once.

" Of thirty !—oh the Turk—the deceiver !" ejaculated
Miss Kitty, as she fell back in her chair, so violently agi-
tated as to alarm her companion.
Why, my dear madam, my dear madam,—good gracious,
she is in hysterics—what am I to do ? Here, Betty, Betty,
help ! help !"
" La! la! what can the matter be ?" cried Becky, as
she popped in her head at the door. " Grace defend us !
why, if Miss Ryland ben't in the sterricks !"
" So saying, the humane girl rushed towards the
afflicted damsel, and by the flapping of her duster raised a
wind that would have worked a mill; but, Unluckily for
Miss Kitty's face, not only the air but the dust as set in
motion by the operation, and the pallor of RTr counte-
nance was) exchanged for the hue of soot."
We will now leave Miss Ryland, after her re-
covery, to her own concerns with X. Z., and pur-
sue our extracts, making another short one of a
scientific nature—not so much for interest as be-
cause it is short, and will, therefore, better suit
our limited columns, and because, being a philo-
sophic disquisition on the' simple and elegant
game of the shuttlecock, it will afford an excellent
proof of the possibility of extracting useful in-
', formation from the most trifling toys and
amusements. ,

" Papa," exclaimed Tom, " I hare been considering
whether there is any philosophy in the game of shuttle-
cock."
" There are two circumstances connected With ite
flight," replied his father, " which certainly will admit of
explassation upon scientific principles ; and I should much
like to hear whether you can apply them for that purpose.
The first is its spinning motion in the air ; the second, the
regularity with which its base of cork always presents it-
self to the battledore ; so that, after you have struck it, it
turns round and arrives at your sister's battledore in a posi-
tion to be again struck by her, and sent back to you."
" I perfectly understand what you mean ; but I really
am not able to explain the motions to which you allude,"
said Tom.

" The revolution of the shuttlecock, about its axis, en-
tirely depends upon the impulse of the wind on the oblique
surfaces of its feathers ; so that it is often necessary to
trim the feathers of a new shuttlecock before it will spin."
" I understand you, papa; the force of the wind, by
striking the oblique feathers, is resolved into a perpendi-
cular and parallel force, as you explained to us when we
considered the action of the wind upon the kite."
" Exactly ; every oblique direction of a motion is the
diagonal of a parellelogram, whose perpendicular and pa-
rallel directions are the two sides. Having settled this
point, let us consider the second, via, bow it happens that
the cork of the shuttlecock always presents itself to the
battledore ?"

_
" I should think," said Tom, that the cork points the
battledore for the same reason that the weathercock always
points to the wind."
,t Admirably illustrated," exclaimed his father, " the
cork will always go foremost, because the air must exert a
greater force over the lighter feathers, and therefore retard
their progress."
We might extract many other passages equally
amusing and instructive ; but we think enough
.has been done to convince any ogle of the use-
fulness of the work, and shall therefore only
add a few general observations.
In introductory works of, science, dryness
and obscurity are frequently a disadvantage,
and too often disgust the mind of the young
student instead of giving him a taste for scienti-
fic studies and pursuits. The author, however,
of the work now unaer our notice has happily
avoided this, by blending the delighful with the
instructive—and' so admirably has he disposed
his resting places,, as we may style those portions
of his book which are not employed in scientific
diSqUisitions, that no sooner does the mind begin
to flag and become weary of study, than it finds
its attention diverted from the abstrus,eness of
science to the lighter incidents of the novel, by
which he is refreshed and supplied with new
vigour to peruse the philosophical pages of the.
next chapter, and is carried forward as it were.
by short stages and long baits to the end of

journey, without being fatigued by the occasional
roughness and difficulty of the road.
It is not, however, to the method alone that
our praise is due—the style, too, demands our
admiration. The whole is written with ease and
elegance ; and while the author, in his scientific
lectures and antiquarian disputes, displays the
depth of his erudition—he proves by the well
arranged incidents of his novel, that he is an ac-
complished scholar, an enlightened moralist, and
an expert and skilful novelist, well read in the
weaknesses and foibles of human nature, and
possessed of great knowledge of the world and
its manners in general.
Such is our opinion of the work and its author,
and we feel convinced that every unprej•tdiced
and candid reader will agree with us in the com-
mendations we have thought it but just to be-
stow upon him, and own that he has honourably
and fairly won the ineed of praise allotted by the
poet to him who succeeds in instructing while
he amuses—

" Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci,
Lectorem delectando, pariterque monendo
Hic meret sera fiber Sosiis ; hic et mare transit,
Et longum noto scriptori prorogat MUM."