The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-29 00:00:00

tATERARY REVIE+V.

ANNUAL BIOGRAPHY and OBITUARY for 1818, Bro.
LoxGmAN, Hu sr, REes, OP.ME, and BROWN; Paternoster
Row.

We resume our attew ion to these interesting
records of poSthunions Biography, which we lately
noticed, and which, as far as we can judge, pre-
sent a candid, liberal, and impartial estimate of
.Ihe •I'ersoms whose 'charm:lei s and conduct it
respectively introduces. The present volume
contains the Lives of •

The Dukes of "Marlhorougli tiortlininberiand.
The Earls of Goilforil,•Rosconanon, Eglititomi, and ftotbes.
Viscount Gort, I,ord St. John of illetioe, "Lord Arnodol.
The hiwager Miiichioness of Sligo, the 'Countesses of
'Uxbridge, illherrnarle, and Viscountess Nev,eonien.

Paroierts—fir Joseph Maatey., Sir William Wolieley, Rev.
Sir Adam (;or(loo, Sir \Vui, I'. A. A:Court, Sir Wm.ltraes,

.4; i• .It,w, Paloo.r.
P4ticiarts—Dr. Wm. Sa•in.ikrc. Dr. C. Cowbe, Dr. Motiro,
of Eclttsiotrgh.

Orators--Messrs..Ponsonhy, Curran, Hunter, and the Hon.
Henry Erskine.

Litton*? Tfcn—Sir Herbert Cruft, Drs.Thontson and Disney,

David Williams, &c.

The Work is interspersed with original .docu-
ments, specimens of poetry, letters, &c. and ac-
companied by an analysis of recent Biographical
Works, together with silhouette Portraits of. dis-
tinguished characters.
DUKE or MARLBOROUGH."" This Nobleman
appears to have found Blenheim nearly in ruins ;
for the'mansiois itself was rapidly int 6 a
state of dilapidation, and the grounds around it
were become rude and uncultivated.

" The genius of capability, Baomee, was now
invoked, and a new world speedily created. A
noble wall, that cost lON/. a mile, and could not
now he built for double that SUM, was erected to
secure the boundatiesmt an extensive park, which
was speedily converted into an ornamental farm,
prorincieg not only grass but corn ; ‘vbile deer
and cattle of all sorts and descriptions, either cal-
culated to convey an idea of grandeur or utility,
were wandering about its pastures ; the gardens,
too, were laid Out anew, and bath these and the
adjacent country rendered accessible by the finest
walks, kept in the neatest order that ever my eyes
have beheld. The home view had hitherto been
grossly deficient in point of water, without which
»either grandeur nor true beauty can possibly
exist ; but as if by magic and the hand of a great
master, may lay claim to something approximat-
ing to enchantment,—the scene was suddenly
changed, and the bridf'e of the Rialto, which had
hitherto crossed a dry ditch, now beheld a river
flowing beneath its lofty arch. The valley was
also flooded, and the Glyne taught to pone forth.
its living waters into a lake extending over two or
three hundred acres. Bays, and ports, and road-
steads, and harbours, now seemed to terminate
the curve of. this noble expanse; while a little
fleet, masted, rigged, and fitted out, so as to re-
semble a navy, floated on its glassy bbsom. It
was ;Ims the late Duke of MARLBOROUGH for ma-
ny years employed both his wealth and his leisure.
Nor ought it to be forgotten, that Blenheim it-
self, maker his auspices, assumed an aspect at once
more magnificent; the principal apartments were
new hung and new furnished, the noble hall was
re-embellished, the beautiful little chapel was ren-
dered more worthy of the Deity there worshipped,
virile tire grand and extensive library was adorn-
ed with an invaluable unique bust still in high
preservation. The present Duke, who is said to
possess a fine taste for books will not fail to keep
up and augment this princely collection.
" It has already been stated,. that his Grace's
father, to whose tutor, the learned JACOB BRYANT,
be presented a handsome annuity, always evinced
a decided taste for mathematics ; and the son
front early youth exhibited a predilection for a noble
-science, which is intimately connected, with and
indeed regulated by, the former. tie accordingly
,ordered an observatory to be constructed and fit-
ted up at Blenheim, which he furnished in a
--manner worthy of his skill and munificence. Nor
.were his studies of a selfish kind, for he extended
his love of astronomy so as to prove beneficial to
the- most distinguished of our English youth.
A.ccordir.gly the Duke presented one of the finest
and largest telescopes that could be produced by
the most accurate mechanics in Europe,—those
-etf the British capital,—to the University of Ox-
toad; tire grand curtains in the picture gallery
are also a donation from him."

On Friday last the Commonalty Society took
their annual excursion down t e River Medway.
T.e Worthy President, CHARLES BaeNCHLEY,
Esq. give an elegant 'while breakfast, at the Bull
Jon, at which upwards of one hundred of the
rincipal inhabitants of this town and neighbour-
hood were present ; the company afterwards pro-
ceeded, with a band of music and the banners of
the Society, to the barge, which was tastefully
decorated with evergreens, and about nine o'clock
Aailed from the wharf, amid loud cheering, and
the salute of guns, sNhich was repeated at inter-
vals, till they arrived at New Hithe, when the
party disembarked, and amused themselves with a
variety of sports ; the most facinating of which
was the lively dance on the green turf, in which
many a pretty lass from the surrounding neigh-
bourhood joined. Soon after two o'clock the
signal gun announced the hour of dinner, when
the company, which had now increased to upwards
of one hundred and fifty, repaired on board and
partook of an elccellent repast, prepared by Mr.
IVickhant, of the George Inn, in this town. After
the cloth was removed, the President gave many
loyal and constitutional toasts, which were drank
with great applause. The day was much en-
livened by the numerous pleasure boats that ac
companied the barge, and in the afternoon a party
of Officers of the 90th regiment came up the
river, attended by part of their band, with the
Kentish bugles, who, as they passed, played the
national Air, " God save the King," in the finest
style imaginable, which they afterwards repeated,
on passing them at Aylesford. The barge sailed
from New Hithe, on its way home, about four
o'clock, and arrived here a little before nine,
when the company landed and paraded the dif-
ferent streets, with flatus, music, &c. having spent
the day in the most pleasant and agreeable man-
Per possible,--(ltiluidslone Journal, July 28.)

ihe OICIGIN and PItOGiIESS of the PRESCH

REVOLUTION, iron'. 1788 to 1816.

VilliT "111.1

CONCLUDEDw'

The Treaty of Peace with Atistrfe, made at
Campo Formio, was to enable BLIONAPALItE to
take the command ni the army of EnglantL He
said he had humbled one enemy, and that Great
Britain and the French Republic could not exist
together. The Revolution of the 4th September
drove Lord MALrusnoav from Lisle, and BoonA-
PARTIeS entrance into Lombardy was announced
by a Proclamation ending with these words
" Nations of Italy, we are come as brothers, to,
break• your chains, protect your property, religion,
and customs." To prove this, he levied on the Mi-
lanese 6,000,000 sterling, plundered their ch urches,
and -confiscated their religions funds. At Pavia
his troops defaced the tomb of Saint Augustin,
which forced the people to arms, who surrounded
the garrison, and made them prisoners, but of-
fered them no violence. In revenge, on his
march to the. Mincio, he burnt BenascO, and
massacred 800 of its inhabitants. He then took
Pavia, and ordered all persons to be shot 'who
did not lay down their arms. At Modena. be
signed a Treaty, whereby the Duke was to pay
12 millions of livres ior neutrality. Ho then ar-
rested and robbed him of 200,000 chequins, per-
mitting him afterwards to sign another Treaty,
called un convention de surete. He broke his
Treaty of the preceding year with Tuscany, and
took Leghorn, in older to seize our property
there. Genoa, though acknowledged to be neu-
ter and friendly, was called upon for a loan in
1796, and in May 1797 to encourage a conspi-
racy against its Government, whiCh being stifled,'
he called an aggression againSt the French. He
withdrew the Minister, and forced the council to.,
abdicate their functions. On the 6th June., after
the conferences at Montebello, he settled their
new form of government, and demanded seven
millions of livres for it. His attack on Rome in
1796, ended in a Treaty in 1797 at Tollentino,
which was afterwards broken by his brother Jo.
/ant. When he approached Venice in 1796,
which had been wholly neuter, be declared that
it was to deliver the finest country in Europe
from the iron yoke of the proud house of Austria,
after driving the enemy behind the Mincio. In the
spring of 1797 he subverted the government of
this city, and exacted three millions of livres, and
three millions worth of naval stores, .with three
ships of the line. He then ransacked their ar-
senal, library, and Palace of Saint Marc, and im-
posed contributions on the inhabitants. In four
months afterwards, this Republic, which he unit-
ed to France, he transferred, by the Treaty of
Campo Formio, to that iron yoke of the proud
house of Austria, from which he had before professed
to deliver it. Then followed hisexpedition to Egypt,
of which he was the planner and betrayer. He or-
dered those whom he left behind hint to'inform the
Turks that he went there with no hostile design,
though he regrets the failure of his favourite ob-
ject, to colonise Egypt as a territorial acquisi-
tion. His hold on France was by the sword, not
the sceptre, as a foreigner and usurper.
All this, superadded to his former and subse-
quent progreis, as exhibited in the foregoing pa-
pers, constitute the original French Revolu-1
tionists a set of human savages, delighting in
human blood ; and their intruding successor
liar, a coward, a robber, an atheist, an impos-
tor, and a coquin, who after attempting, by all
the. means of villainy, to grasp the world, only
embraces the shadow of a shade. Like BAJAzET
the Turk, utter all his violence, perfidy, and de-
vastation, he reigns in a cage, devoid of all sym-
pathy except what madness would excite, and
the tenderness of thllt self.sufficient, polite, and
impartial Journal, The Morning Chronicle.

Ht was a tyrant whose oppressive violence
Ruin'd those be should protect;
Whose wars, whose slaughters, whose assassinations,
The sin of cowards,—
Whose faith, so often given, so often violated,
Have been the offence of heav'n and plague on earth.
CLIO.

CAUTION.-011 Monday William Harper, a jour-
neyman shoemaker, was convicted before the Ma-
gistrates at the Tolsey, in this city, of being con-
cerned with several others in a combination
against their masters, for the purpose of forcing
them to pay an increase of wages, and was for
such offence sentenced to one month's imprison-
ment. His companions have for the present
eluded punishment, by absconding from the place.
(Gloucester Journal.)
MILNATHORT, JULY 22.—Saturday last, a se-
rious accident occurred here to one of the coaches
running between Perth and Edinburgh. In pass-
ing through this place, the heavy six-seated
coach, called the Waterloo, having the full com-
plement of passengers both outside and inside,
broke down in consequence of the axle having
given way, and was completely overturned. Se-
verel of the paseengers were much injured, some
of them having their limbs broken, and others
being so much bruised that they are still confined
to bed in a dangerous Ways

The Paris Papers of Sunday last, wh►ch were
due this morning, Lave not arrived.

There is, we understand, no truth whatever
in the report,' circulated on the alledged authority
of a Whaler, that the Expedition to the North
Pole was seen on its return, nor do we believe
that any Whaler which -has yet arrived had any
communication with the ships composing the Ex-
pedition. The reports circulated, therefore, have
been merely caught at second-hand. The Expe-
dition might have been seen standing sowbelly or
westerly, because, it an Opening could not be
found in one part of the chain of ice, which usually
stretches across from Greenland and Spitzbergen,
they would doubtless coast along its edge to look
for an opening in some other quarter.

The Monarch, FRANKLAND, arrived at Ports-
mouth, on 29th June, in lat. 34. 19. N. long.
66. 35., was brought-to by the Venezuelian pri-
vateers General Harris, --, and Capt.
BELECHE, under English colours, who ordered
the Captain on board with his Papers, and when
under the privateer's quarter, she hauled down the
English, mad hoisted a white, red, arid, blue flag,
with eight blue s'ars in the corner of the white.
Captain FRANKLAND gave the officer of the pri-
vateer coffee, sugar, &c. at which time they
conducted themselves well, but subsequently
sent their boat on board and plundered
Captain FRANKLAND of his silver watch, gold
ring, seals, &c. and various other articles, and
took away two of his crew (WILLIAM USHER, an
Englishman, and NICHOLAS 1-IERKING, an Ameri-
can). \Vi►ile the privateer was plundering the
Monarch, a strange ship hove in sight, which the
privateer immediately made sail after, Captain
FRANKLAND following, to endeavour to regain his
people, and put the ship on her guard, hut when
up with the privateer found she had brought the
ship to, and prevented the crew from answering
when be hailed them, and fired several guns at
them, but, owing to its being dark, they did not
hit the Monarch. The ship proved to be the
Clifton, SHAND, of and bound to London, who
was also plundered of notes and gold to' the
amount of 701. One of the passengers of the
Alice, HoDGsoN, for London, which was in com-
pany with the Monarch, was plundered of his
watch and 1231. by the same privateer, and one
of the crew of the Alice, named JOHN WILLIAMS,
deserted into the privateer.

EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM AN OLD

CORRESPONDENT•

Port Royal, Jamaica, June 7.

Arrived at this port a few days back, the pirate vessels
Decrubador brig, of 18 gnus, 87 men, and La Conche
schooner, of 5 guns and 50 men, captured on the coast of
Africa by his Majesty's ship Cherub, G. W. WILLI s, Esq.
Captain:, the former having plundered a Portuguese brig—
the latter for plundering the English ships Diana and Nimble
of London. La Conche, when captured, lost 2 men killed
and several wounded—Cherub none: the brig made no re-
sistance, her crew being very sickly; the whole of the ()dicers
dead (supposed murdered) They bad 570 slaves on board
when taken. These vessels left Sierra Leone on the Ist May,
in company Wilh the Cherub, which bas gone down the coast
in quest of another pirate, called the Caraquina brig, of IG
guns, 7o men, for plundering the brig Eliza, II;LL, of Li-
verpool. Previous to their departure from Sierra Leone,
they report the arrival there of Governor l`il`CarerHY, from a
visit to our forts in the Gambia. The expedition to the inte-
rior was going on very slowly; they have no hopes of its ever
succeeding. During the Cherub's stay at Cape Coast, she
was visited by the Prince of AsffaxTEE, then on a visit at the
Castle,
who was highly amused and gratified, it being the
first ship he ever was on board of.
The Cherub's prizes, on their passage to this island, off St.
Domingo, fell in with the Independent Squadron, consisting
(if 45 sail (different descriptions), under Admirals IlaroN and
MIRY. They report them to be in riu sort of order or disci-