The Sun.
London, England, 1811-10-31 00:00:00

TO THE; 1, k in,
Sth,
art observer on what
,passe,s ..getwt.l 0%; 10
thoSeyirclea that ore ealied, tho `CVvi,ld,." it is im-
possible not to see, that the tide 01 opinion, pre-
indices, and praet iceq,haksepastated into t w/o strong
Wand almost equally impetuous entrents.fleaving in
the midst but a slow and gently ripling stteam,
that sleds it, quiet way through gravelly .Oreaks,*
or friendly °petting fissures left in the forsaken bed,
over which once flowed the powerful, because
-united, torrent of public decision, on morals, man-
riers,'and conduCt. To pursue this figure (for being
mnre than a /Me of the old school, I think meta- '
,
phor, however formal, a inure happy, MOM! of ex-
pression, than modern can!), let me by the one di-
vision typify the dissipated,leadeis of fashion, who
decry reasoning as ..prosing, and piety as Uletllo-
- whose idea of (*firth includes noise. and
Whose test of wit is bitterness ; whose , furthest
stretch of courtesy is.to lerbear aggres•ionoind who
are ashamed of, nothing but the suspicion of being
vulnerable to shame ; who, , demanding unbounded
toleration for every fatuity, or vice, or lolly, of their
own invention, are the most intolerant of all sects ;
to the scruples which the less-dating may have re-
eeivcd from early prejudices, once called virtuous.
other division I suppoSe the, Ei angelics, those
clanwiti to soar above humanity, and to contemn
its I, cal interests, scarcely afford ex satiric that can
be of gilieral benefiJ, until society; ,by gradual eer-
rettion, is better prepared for that more perfect
system, which I grant, "a consummation `de,
voutly to be wished," but hardly is at present com-
pletely to be attained. In the middle stream
place. the moderate, who, if they cannot be as good
as they wish, endeavour to be: as clear as they Fan
.frbm otrence in themseltes,, or giving scandal to
Qt brass.
kir earthly tastes I.villencnruber even the linear
spirhs, mud dt,embodied, and that whilst we are
doomed to tread this earthly globe, We must be con-',
tent to mix ROrnet Soliely 08 it is, and in it,!
direct our, reason and our talents to render it, if pos.,
sibk, more like tO what it ought to be. Ibis not
by avoiding nett the giddy we can hope to ipflu-
ence Olean; with this view., it is more useful to Ms-
cever sources intellectual pleasure, tree from re•
proacli, and yet alluring to faney, than to attempt
to put doi.en all pleastnes that arc not accompanied
by profilred spiritual instinetion.
Time fashioeables are charged; and 1 fear with
Justice-of having lowered the standard of stage tit-
rbellence, 'by the frieolitiesi. not to say abiurditius,
they patronize, in preference to
"produCtions of solid
• . :•:, • •
The -11vangefics' are accused of forbidding us all
Theatit-s, •stid desiring'm translate us, by Is sort of
instaotaneous mitade, from all t hat is weak, into all
that is lerfxt. should ittink it better,-iii the pre-
sently-ate of Ihings,.,to aim at operating a gradual
amendnieni in as e and manners, for where taste is
.e.Otrect, ntannerecatittot nentietisiNe.-.7:Morals glow
out of these,„ and the mind aunt hears w ill be thCas
prepaid' fur higher, triotiveS; ptiluting to niz;ber
Ariews. •
Instead then of closing our Theatres, and repro.
.batittOoth performers and ;nutlet:et!, would think
that .man des,:rved well of his asuntry,'whoo would
etephiy his genius and knowledge to inStrtict the
igeorant iii the. origin of the drama—to teach them
what..it was, and to endeavour that it Might again
become a school for morals: Its dignity was. Sop-
ported-th•rough ages, With .which I Oat We could
scivantageoudy compare our own. • It'is by de-
grading 'the stage, and depreciating its proreasors,' that
your over righteous have alarmed mndesty from re,
presemb.g iidopelice ; for how few, comparatitely
nt superior clOtns, venture . upon suet) a "sea of
troubles."' ...Nlanly genies is repelled train efforts at
excellence in a field, where, until confessed merit
extorts ) oar suffrage, cord scow is perhaps only
n)e(llitt e public awards to his most all XitiUS SWAIM
'the Dip etions urged against Theatres can, in a
(;,teat ii.easurei be avoided ; but even 'such as they
are now; to the pure-in heart they present no 81 o 111
• Wit% block ;• and! fear- the depraved will find, or
Create OppOi 'unities every where, to seek their as-
, wastes in evil.
Opinions justly go for hide, where fact does not
warrant their truth, The teprvietittittoll itt Cuvent.
Gaitlett last Saturday„. -wits-as line a lecttire mis ever
• was. combined OH the philosophy of the human
berot, and the nevet-failing resources of religion,
and a good Cot:wit/Me.
To a mind at all inibited with feelings of philan-
thropy, it was a happiness:to see assembled, evert in
these degenerate days,(so called), an audience as ap-
paretttly oistinKuished, as it was iititelrous, Witness..
alierformance that could not present a single al-
lurement for dvitiated ,••eye, or a coirtjpt • heart.
,`.l he apptnhation of this audience was attested in tire
A nest form of ~symputry -titict good taste. The
.Strain's; (except Momenta of alitioSt 'itiVoluntary
butane. of applause) was reverential to the Genius !
,Ciertioir of England's own held !
alike flattering to the two first performers, that have
tier trod-thestagc;-or evertuay. It. can scarcely' be
necessary to say, that ,Mrs. Sinouto end Mr. Khst-
, hes !lave attained a. point of excellence, where' few
eilti hope LID follow them..
• ..
of study, of practice,' of experiment, on
tE eir own feelings, and the pa;,ions they,sdileeSs
themselves to—opportunities of obstrt mg closely
.the great whom they. often 'pocntray—lor fru-
man -nature in given 'circumstances is ever urn.
(ono, and will ever. be Susceptible, of time same
these,* ACeomp.it►icd by 114;
sclvantaa,es- naittrer, has -:bestowed upon !them
tit height, form, &Int counterthice, COMbine to pre.
nt to' public taste such an assemblage of mite.
rat genius, acquired insi merlon, sod accidental
I).iness, -as we can scarcely .:hope to, meet again,—
But if we decry the lancet, and call us produce
poison, - who will become-the rdsper4 mu.,
who stw t tic /Pritsey and Catherine Of la.L Saturday
sliest by their own feeling whetherthe result-was
correptron,lo their souls. - 'I would send my
stn to learn from I olsey's arrogance, his Crafty Curt-
and Inittnesecp chsgraccEJlie dangers -of am-
tyiion, 'pet-sued through crooked paths. I would
bid him, if so utifertonate in hits pursuits, -and so
fivertakcii in his carter,at least to imitate:that in.

~'. ..
~.

:

nate grandeur of soul, thou ',t removedfrom
trust, lienbet the King, who displac,d, nor the
Nobles who reviled, could abuse. 'l' lue, wds
;•t %vas not by a mortal kunt,----it washy
tiAings.; ht4everdistant, must come at last.
IPCilseys Own heart was de -weight that pullet him
'clown—he fell, and he allo,Ned that ' he had nt)t
served his Gild so iltithfully as he bud served I
King." Whaf'a leSson ! how poAvrtully given
" not to put our trust in Princes:" but let us own'
that ltolsell wlis so personifiecLas vo'suipasSi per-
hapq, even the conception of the poet : to those
who were present, to partieularise is supertluous—to
those who were not, it would be impossible. We
can only say, go, See, hear, and feel-'—hurnan
state—btu-6m pride—human cuttning--4mman dis-
appointment—and huwan sutferiug, cab never be
pictured in finer, truer colouring. The groan of
his wounded spirit was no aspiration of the lungs—
it w.is the heart's atering—of what the heart only
could feel or convey; and perhaps its ale& cannot
be completely estimated by any who have not been
deeply touched by the 'g sharp arrows oloutrkigeoui
fortune." , :

Mrs..St'nppxs's Catherine was worthy of the
Wilsey, by whose deep
,arts alone such a woman
could have been put from her royal seat : -I would
kad ttty daqhter to witness berstory—thet.getterous
`but fatal insprt.sdence of her teal for public good
her dignity, her troth, her in:tguanimityylier.ehris-
iian' ojt. I would note to her:eaelt tine definea•
tiOn of Cuth:?/ine.s most: true, most at-
niost enviable ; for it s t', afliictihii eley'at.
iog 'her to beatitude : her open enmity to Wolseg--
her obvious .eensures othint weir the latent. Cause oi
her undoing : what a lesson for the due intitiage.
of swell the purest formic. influence
Seems almost impostsble so point out peculiar
happiness where was
.SO great, t hat admiration
for the ntiress could but but uti.ugle-with our sym-
pathy with the Queen. At every closing scene,
where the momentary illusion Was di.sipated .by our
sober thought, we could no try extlaim-,--` Ah,
.yes! :she means theselo be the last recordS of her
powers, .and gives forth all tier strength to Stamp'
'upon our memories. and hearts the last infpres...
skills of, her genius. she wishes us to retaini."—
Who.did not feel the irresistible gormand...of son-,
scions worth and superibr station, when her finger
proudly beauned the enemy, (rout wliontlfer 'avettt-
ed eye turned in -disgust,---who not admire her
firm rejetitiort 01 him as her judge'....wha did not
applaud the true greatness which quitted, disdained,
conteinned,•antitenotinced the snuck trial; 'that
salted virtue by a show of justice---who ever fib
the restlessness of consuming les rr, or experienced
the half-delirious starting from unsettled sleep,. or
watched the deathbed ut a sainted friend, and did
not feel the tt ut h, the nature, this magnanimity, of
her dying sci.ne. What an angel's eye she ,turned
on the hottest CrOyttteeti, when pitying her departed
euemy, lbestowing a tear upon ins tall, she applaud-
tbe fait hfol itartator of his "sufferings and. chsrac-
ler, and wished HS true a record of her °wit, Nu
close not. your Theatres whist you have such mil.
ralists" to attract the young, to delight the calm, amid
spi cal .11 'glance of enthusiasm even over the clouded
faculties of ...go. Those who -Charge WI to visit such
scenes no more, visited them in their youth ; and
the matured perleetion of their character is proof
they were not corrupted in theavt give us pure
pleasures—purity as much as you will, as much as
you can. jhe.cisterns (tom whence' we diaw refresh..
tug waters, but deny us -not the waters.which re-
fresh.

fani, Sir,

Your humble servant,
k• • B.

Oc'tubcr, zB, Ili; v.

Ai3ItICULTUUE.

R 1:: PORT Ff..)l( OCTOBER.

The harvest in the Ntnthern C ies, and in
Scotland,. though tama•naily htte, ha, closed favour-
ably, 'from the continitanc,4:, of tine weatherse long
atter Michaelrnas. Their Whe.:ts, though tin
tordlng plump samples in general, have been itr•
jurea lunch less by blight than South.
'rite wheat hinds throughout kngland have worked
so %Veil for the aeed, ILIA little remains in any dirk,.
tria to be sown. The cary plants slew luiuriahay.
trtim the late rain's. The Potatcre, crops ate likely
to prove large in produce, but those remaining
in strong soils are likely to suffer it the •rains
continue. The Clover Sped Cut late has been
much injured by the mat weather but that which
Came forwarder is expeoted to tutu out
The latter Turnips, front the, rapidity and continu-
ance of their growth, promise to become abundant,
even in remote districts not much acri:stoined to
of:green crops. The voutinutoggrnwth
ot far“ss lierps the Hay: marker stattottartot last
inanth's Although the Gaziers cqmplAin
ot u p cstot prices at Smithfield, for most I.inds,of
meat, the Matchers take; care tbzki the Public shall
profit but htile.from the,
,cause„Of their dkcontent.
We have little or no.variation to time in the value
of Lean Stock. Good Diaught Horses are dearer
than we before remember. The Wool Market re-
mains dull
~ af•'prices which lei but We necessitous
,
grower tieeiris uhrosen to accepti

, -
LONDON • FitSMONS FOR .'I OPT,

',Row, loznutpl44l4teil ‘ftroosivat4V, 411180 IA-

talloNst m4NurAcTuttos, tcc.

FASIIIONS FOR LADIES.

WA LKING. tr, —A aiiiiple French high frock or cam.
knit:, with small to. its round the bottom. liitsioecoat
Qt tine Wiiiioll,,,d/11)14i MOM() 00i*' Otraiitteittett tACIV bide
withrtlaik Bilk irop, anti lined and trintrwil ,viot skin.
Military helmet t;a1) composed ut the same mitertals, and
de;:of,itect (J( the IL'tt aide %Niih a ,ingle voi
114flatdots ot salidon.ctihnited.kitt; an•.l ridiode
VCIVet. With ut nold.--(aloves ut
t.iintrick or pale leition-colouied kid,
CAKAI AGE. COSTUASA. —A litaiti high morning robe of In-
dia muslin, with an it fa (ire bordcr Qt NCI:1110.A oft ut
tint tea, A. Freneti wrapping toter ut grey or blosiont.
coloured tiitk, Minified edtitely round with stl,4l)bdown.
I lair in'ctinttt•vcliett cuits and t wisted
.baytis. Beehive. hate
composed ut the saithe material as the coat, with strings of
ternop,ettinuted lilybtnnl and ornamented w it it Iwo curled us-
trial ft itheri. Halt-boot* of bull silk, anti kid glove* of, t
lemou -colour.