The Sun.
London, England, 1816-06-27 00:00:00

BIRTH DAY CELEBRATIDN,AT FLORENCIt

FLORFNCE, Jima Toesday, the 4th Inst.
Lartt- BvaoutEtzSit,his Britannic I%Ni:sty's Mi•
nister.at this place, gave a grand 18te to celebrate
.51•ereign's Birth-tidy. tit was attended by
most of the Nobility and foreigners oldistinction
at Florence. `!'he Ball began at ten. o'clock in
the evening, in a great Ball, magnitireFoly
ed up, and lined with orange trees. A somptucno
supper for 300 persons was served ip the mast
elegant stile Omit twelve ; atter which the dant-.
lug was resumed with the highest spitit, anti last,
ed till past four o'clock in-the morning.

NEW PLNITIINTIARY, ITT LLISANIC.—On TuesdAy ,
several Noblemen and Ladies of distinction visited
thisextensivc prison, and went over the different
cells which were then ready for The reception" of
the female convicts. A deputation of the Com-
mittee of the House of Commons arrived about
half past three, and inspected every part prepared
for the prisoners. The 'different task-masters. and
mistie.iSes, and female turnkeys (the''thaliT`tUrit-
keys not being yet appointed, excepting the gate-
keepers), tnok their keys and different appoint-
ments. Yesterday morning, at three o'clock, 40
female couvicts, under sentence of transportation
for seven -and fourteen years, and for life, were
carried in caravans, chained together, from New-
gate to I3lackfriars-bridge,,there put on board a
barge prepared to receive them, and conveyed nn-
der a strong ghard of Police Officers by „water. to
Milibank,- where they were landed, and conducted
into the yard prepared for them ; they were then.
classed, and thewn tn'their respective cells, the
doors being all numbered along- the galleries.—
Those that cannot, read will he instructed ; they
arc to go daily to chapel, and afterwards attend
to their respective works ; one-eighth of the
earning of each prisoner will be given to them on
leaving the prison, but none during their stay.
One-third will be given to the task-masters fur
their time and'attention, and the residue will be
•divided amongst the turnkeys, &c. iu lieu of sit.
lary. There will he no male .prisoners received
for some weeks, their cells not being yet ready.

HACKNEY-COACHMAN.-=At Queen-square Of
flee, the driver of a hackney-coach summoned the
&id of Westmeath, for refusing to pay him his
legal fare. The Coachurmt stated, that his Lord-
ship, when` he engaged him, said he should pay
him by 'time ; he took out his watch, and told,
him what was the time of the day, and then he
drove off. His. Lordship kept him just one hour
by his own Watch, and 'tendered hint 2s. which
he refused, having drove his Lordship three mileS,
which entitled him to 35., •and he understood he
bad the option of charging either by time or dis-
tance.—Mr. CocaunouN skirl, that a Coachman
might certainly chnrge iii the way by which he
could get most, whether it was by time or distance.
His Lordship's servant attended for him, ant! the
case was put of for a final decision to-day, and,
the servetut was metered to leave monies for, the
expence, &c. which the Magistrate said should be
returned to his Lordship, if the decision was IA
his favour.

Mr. SAbLra the Aeronaut, 'has arrived in
Cork, accompanied by Miss TtlomPs'ost, who
ascended from Burlington Gardens with Mr.
SAbuta, jaan. itir. St hes with him two balloons'
olextraordinary dimensions.
Mr. KEEN, according to report, is engaged. for.
three. nights to perform in 'Operatic Characters, at
the new English Opera-house, and is expected to
wake his appearance there very shortly.
INVERARY, MAY I9.—A few days ago, Sir
ALEX. M. LOCK/lAA? and his, coachman were pre-
cipitated from the baronche box of the carriage,
when going between laverary and Dalmaly. '['he
servant escaped without any injory but we re-
gret to state, that, from being thrown upon the
wheels, and the tore one passing over Sir Alexan-
der's chest, he lies dangeronsly lil &t inverary.
The accident was occasinned by the wheels
eorniog in contact with a taro stone which had
rolled upon the rind in a eery narrow part of it.

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(No. CX XVII.)
GLEcARivs, 3 Vol iit o. Sccoon Edition, Jima V' OM»

t.N, CenduiL-stita.

... The title page .tells not whether this he history
Or romance. biography Or fable, real life Or inka.
Binary character ; or. R Mixture •ot all. We have
perused these three colones, anti at the end of
them are just its wise in this respect as
.we were
at the beginning.. ,If t&ogether the , Work of
fancy and the delineation of feelings generated by
dwelling on factitious circumstances, we cannot
complimeet the author on. the bias of ;mind' dis—
played ; and if the: incidents, or the greater part
of them,
,tire fattuded on. fact, we ate.still in a
worse, plight, for .we most then tooeht the de-
pravity, and execrate the wickedness of bunion
nature. ,
. Before 'proceeding to a review of Glenarrone
we,will state whet Rumour says of it.
Blmont: ascribes it to the .pen of a married
Lady of;; high rank, and of great notoriety. Ru-
mour affirms, that it, is the portraiture of livine;
characters hang in the frame of a novel, and act
accurate, though impassioned account of recent
transactions, which agitated (if we can use thee
Onril when speaking of so frivoloos a race) the
fashionable world, and, we may add, disgraced it.
Alimenr has attached to every feigned tunic in
the, book the belief that it aims at certain wen-
knowe e'isons;,erul in all companies we hear It
mom. eay, • that Glenarvon, ()Antie , the h itt-
cess.of Maileg3scar,:tend Avondale, &c. are suchend such a one, thus :gibbetted by the incensed
uutlit.
This is, however, partially denied in a, I)re.
face to the second ; arid we are assured that
though r',onte of the satire is levelled agaiest ac-
/nal vice, aod some of the anecdotes are literelly
true, yet that the darker shades laid on the pic-
tures, anti the deeper guilt imputed to individieds,
,are fabulous. If this he so, tee observe again •
that it is eminent injustice end cruelty to cite Sep-
posed persons, since the public cannot decide .where
the true ends and the false begius, and the world
is too reedy to believe the worst ; and it' it be not
so, the Composition is beyond expression dread-
ful and horrible. •
The intellect of the writer appears to be verg-
ing on madness, and an understanding of en-
comtnon strength to be utterly lost itt mazes of
eyrie.; lawless and uneovernahle passion StVlll3
ie have overthrown kotible edifice ; a con
t ion of abandoned piincipJes, and en Intercoms*
,with the indescribably vicious, seems to have
wrecked at mice the domestic happiness, the in-
terual peace, the present welfare and tee future
hope of e Being, who, lint fur this fatal contact,
would !lace been An orilhOMilt to the female sex,
anti an 'honour to linmateity.
We speak trot to I,t(V'Ae a Wounded heart ; .
but there arc tends half advocated in this book,
evil there are doctrioes which if it does not leaitt-
tale it palliates in their eonseeeences, tcltirh,
if they could be seffered to pass withoet. repro,
‘eteulti lav desolate the whole circle of
social joy, stud' bla-t every fwiedation on which
the bliss of civilized matt depends. ,
Adultery so beditened with sentiment that it
looks more like the tvork of inevitable du tine
than the guilty act ot.a.depraved wife and mother ;
'tnicitle- almost eicetVied; •,iitti the Plirenzi'ed act Of .
unbridled shame represented as it mere :teeth of
the frailty of nature sitiking under iiillitti,,ns too
heavy to be borne ; crimes of the most nionsiirouS
tlye, with murder in their train, callously avowed
and gloried itt by the Man who: is still, after these ,
damned confessions, held up as the object of love
and adoration to the booing of this 'abhorrent
tale and the Whole of her sex;----such are the
chief points dwelt upon in the story here pre.;
sented to an indignant world.
If we were asked "is there anyldanger to un-
informed minds in reading this work I'' we shottla
answer none; for the extravance of . its wieked4.
ness is so great, the extent of its intinitrality so
disgusting, and the tone of its reasoning so lama's
tonal, that it is likely to excite no, sensations but
those of unmingled horror and detestation.
This is it :grateful opinion to hold, since the
speedy run to a Second Edition slieWs that it
teed with'avidity, and has excited an interest snore
than common throughout the country.
The story itself certainly possesses considerable
attraction. l. :Even ,wit bout the scandal ett ached tai
its supposed, allusions, it would arrest the ;Wen-
tion ; but when to this is added the idea of th'e
truth of its incidents, of which we lenteut to
say there ,is too much internal, evidence, it is
hardly possible to conceive a peblieution with to
more irresistible. quint to perusal. The profane
ravings which deform several parts, and the sh"ock-
ittg unsettledness of moral principle which per..
YticieS the whole, are so clearly not inveotion,'
but reality, that while .we :look with dismay on
tldir developement, we cannot help being led
into a strong feeling for the parties thus tossed,
as it were, on the billows of u burning orean..
It does not occur to us that we could be :stay
extractrender what we have said of Glentervort
more intelligible to our Readers. Front a eon
fleeted narrative of this kind, it i not eroy to see.
parate a sample which will afford env adequate.
fouedation, for jedgieg of the whole. Lord Ole-
narvon is a systematic, Cold.blooded, callous, •tiott
unprincipled lihertines-delighting in the rein of
which he is the cause, and like a demon deceiv-
ing the virtuous and beguiling them into- crime,
less for self.gratifieation, then for the hellish,
triumph of glorying ineheir tltiivilftal, ne is, in
short, the Attostle of Modern Metaphyiticks, end
his cursed. carreer may be refet red to es it practi-
cal illustration of these not I.SoClift tool anti,Chriss
14111 doctrines... ntis guilty of several murders,„
-(tone at Flerence..soeb as Lord Bytom describes
in the. Giaotn), anti in the novel ahatoloos
country after the seduction of Calintlia, acid the
perpetration of many diabelleet offences.
The scene is laid in frayed an Loudon, anti
'the part:of the narration which belongs to ilea
Emerald Isle" is highly tontentic and curio:4,ly
constructed iu the plot. The London portion of
the story'.. possesses More of common oVelirreilcOo
and ail we,shall say of it is,' that if StiCti hi it de-
scribes are in truth the tuatortes, the follies, the
vices, and the crimes of exalted life, those have,
much reason to pour out their heartfelt thanks to
Heaven, which has platted thou iPt a lowly statihn,