The Sun.
London, England, 1818-06-20 00:00:00

NATION a. NIEDALS.

We have bad occasion toni,tice the origin and
.prottress% of the NATIONAL MEDALS brought for-.
ward by a Gentleman -named Muote: He was
induced, as we stated, twptoieri this woilt, by the
series of Medals in which BITONAPAETE endea-
voured to eternize the remembrance of his afro-
mews. lii the series of French Me-
dals. IitIONAPARTE, with his tvinal vanity. was
the constant Hero, and his Profile was engra
veil
on all. Mr. MUDIE, on the other hand, has given,
in his series of Medals, truly national- portraits of
eVery distinguished Character, Military or Naval,
of •his Country, who was ent...,•-iged in any of the
izrt 100111111 s which at length produced the de-
liver tore E mrope, and of such branches of the
I{(!vFatniiy.as were in .any in,oner connected
with time snimiect.—The French Tyrant, with his
usual insolence and falsehood, ascribed the nip-
tore of the Treaty of Amiens to England, And
therefore had a. Medal • strnirdt: to perpetuate the
alleged repregent,ng E 'gland as a Bull
Do. • ::)g, the Treaty with his teeth, and shew-
tog mm, the obyet se, the rapidity of his verig(ance
sciting on Hanover. There was s figure of
Victory, seated on a horSe at- lull speed,. without
reins, stretc!itig her hand, which held a lanrel.—
This Medal was purehaSed in France wilt get at
avidity—a proorof its entrsity to England. Ykto
ties wire worn out on his occasion. Mr. MUDIE,
by way of a counterpart' to this koasting and fal-
lacious Medal, has ju:t produced one which re-
cord 4 time ri tort, ot Hanover to the House of
BetttowtcK in IRI4 Hi itemnia is represented as
.rated with dimity, amid freding two. Hanovelian
Horse., emblem•itical of the support and protec-
tion afforded by Ibis Country. Time other side has
a portrait 01 tke Duke of CAMBRIDGE, as G‘ver-
'tan of the riestoted Kingdom of Hanover, This.
3'ledal', is ad, oat), brought forward at the pres.,nt
moment, %%lit,n the Duke has been tendered more
conspienonsly popular by his marrilge, but it hears
no Maas of baste., and in point of ingenious alle-
gory and finished winktnanship is equal to all the
others, which constitute so gratifying a proof of
British Elerui-qn

_ - -
THP. RABBLE LANDIDATU yecter-
'day played oil a ve'l y ready-witted trick upon his
antagonists, the Burdettites.—A man came to the,
Hustings, a very tattered sort of mbject, blind of
one eye, and extremely drunk :—a friend of the
latter party %visited- to secure his vote, but HUNT,
conceiving be had the better right to him of be
Iwo, wit in his claim. In the mean time, somr
person seeing the condition of the man, ojected
to his voting on any side, being unfit to take an

oath ; on which the High'Batliff sent all aficer
onserye whether he could repeat the words of
it. 'Chia he at last, after much stammering, ac-
complished, and'he gave his plumper to HUNT—
The latter having secured this point, jumped on
the outer rail of the Hu•tings, and, in order to
be revenged on the party who had attempted to'
rake Away his voter, he thus addressed his audi-
ence GetOrme!), abnan came here just
vo•e for me, and that .Agent of Sir .PHANcrs
BURDETT, %vim talks so melt about the, Liber-
ties of the People, that Mr. PITT, of house job-
bing memory—look at l itn, Gentlemeo—ohjected
to his voting because the poor man is blind"--(laying
his hand on his" breast, and taking care to omit
the word drunlc).—The fury. of the mob, on
hearing this,~ became Unbounded ; Mr. PITT
jumped forward to address them, and to asset t
that he had made no objection whatever to
• the voter, but all his attempts , to be heard
were vain : torrents of the most scurrilous
abuse were vociferated on the unhappy archi- -
Arc', who was tletiounced in the Most horrid tttms
by Hunt's Gentlemen, who dettranded an apology
.for his inhumanity to the poor blind; anti the
pewee-officers Were at last obliged to interfere to
prevent a'riot. •

Thursday night, about 12 o'cloelt, Mr. EvA NS,
Snrgron folds Majesty's Navy, arrived ►+t the,Se-
cretary of State's Office for the Colonial Depart-
ment, with dispatches from New Soutli Wales
antrCalcuum,