The Sun.
London, England, 1820-06-05 00:00:00

[FROM A CORRNSPONDENT.I

We are certain that our Readers will thank us
for introducieg then) to an Au,itor who unites
the profundity of a BACON, wiih the discrimina-
tele of a THEOPURASTUS, and the wit of a VOL-
TAIRB. Those wen know the world will read the
pages of LACON for amusement, and those who
lieu,. it not for instruction. None of the pot traits
fl ,tier, but they are most of them correct, and like
all other great Masters, LAQON eminently pos-
sesses the art of producing trons the fewest touches
the hest effects. The French will no longer ar-
rogate td themselves an hitherto undisputed su-
periority,, in the sententieus style of delineating
manners and Men ; and we anticipate an early
period when ROUCHFOUCAULT and Li BBUYBRE
will give the first place to an Englishman, even
on the banks of the Seine, should he be SO fortu-
nate as to meet with a traesiator able to give a
full and' (air effect to his introduction. On read-
ing the Preface to &icon, we were so struck with
the exuberance of the point, and the acuteness of
the remarks, that we began to fear the author
had exhausted so much energy in the diludiurn,
that he would have none left for the combat : but
on proceeding to the body of the work, we soon
discovered,that we were mistaken ; to use an old
adage, we found that we had reckoned without our
host, for that the mansion was quite worthy of the
vestibule, anti the &finer of the grace. But the
author of Lacer stands not in Peen of being ex-
tolled, but of being examined, and he will soon
have almost as many peneeyrists as readers. We
lane: et that the occupation of our columns will
not admit of our bringing forward any of the
heavy artillery of Laeon ; we must therefore con-
tent ourselves with the selection of a few of his
volligeurs and tiralleurs
" In all societies it is advisable to associate if possible with
the highest, not that the highest are always the best, hut
because if disgusted there, we can at any time descend ;
but if we begin w/th the lowest, to ascend is impossible.—
In the grand theatre of human life, a lox ticket tikes us
through the house.

64 Meu will wrangle for religion; write fur it, fight for it,
die for it, do any thing but urn for IT.
" None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to
keep t hem ; such persons cor.t secrets, as a spend►htift co-
Vets money, fur the purpose of circulation.

" The Sun should not settpon our anger, neither should
he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely ; but
forget rarely. I will not he revenged, and this I owe to
mine enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

"Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exafts the
hardest service and pays the bitterest w4gcs ; the service is—
to watch the success of our enemy ;—its wages are to be sure
of it.

" He that abuses his own profcssieh, .will not patiently
bear with any one the to do so. And this is one of the most
subtile operations of self love ; for when we abuse our own
profession we tacitly except ourselves ; but when another
abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the CASE.
" Some frauds succeed, from the apparent candour. the
open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness, that is.
thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite
suspicion, and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared
to the star, they are discoverable by ilarkne.se, and bidden
only by the light.

"The excesses of our youth are drafts upon onr old age,
payable with interest about thirty years after date.
" None-are so seldom found alono, and are so soon tired of
their own company, as thoie coxcombs who are on the best
terms with themselves; •

" The fruc motives of our actions, lihe the real pipes of
an organ, are usually concealed. But the gilded and the
hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for shew.
" Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her
ghost.

" In order to know a man onserre how he wins his object
rather than how he loses it ; for when we lose our object,.our
pride supports us; when we win it, it betrays us.
" Always suspect a man who affects great softness of
manner, an unruffled evenness of temper, and an enunciation
slow and' deliberate. These thimzs are all unnatural, and
bespeak a degree of mental discipline into which he that has
no purpose of craft or design to answer, cannot submit to
drill himself. The most successful knaves are usually of this
descril&nn, as smooth as razors dipped in oil and as sharp.—
They affect the innocence of the dove, which they have
not, in order to hide the cunning of the serpent, which they
have."

We can assure our Readers that the longer ar
ticks are fully equal to this srimplc of the shorter
ones, and that the physical principle has been re-
versed ; for they du not lose in acuteness what
they gain in comprehension.
uihor of .17,ypocrisy,