The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-16 00:00:00

AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

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commend as being best adapted for gilding, but as they
have been known to endure in the highest state of perfec-
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to give every possible satisfaction, pledge their word to re-
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affected by the weather within the space of twenty years, if
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Sign and Figure Carving.

In 18mo. price 3s. 6d. boards, with a Portrait by Scriven,
MEMOIRS of LEWIS HOLBERG,
Written by Himself; now first Translated from
the original Latin.

" This is the lively and sentimental life of a Professor of
Literature—a man of learning, humour, and invention. It
is peculiarly full of incident, anecdote, and adventure, asi
well as of those points of a literary nature which mark the'
author. The translation, for facility and elegance, exceeds
any translation we remember."—Atlas.
" We shall be greatly surprised if the Memoirs of Lewis
Holberg do not become quite a popular book in our
language, more especially as the translation has all the;
naivete and gracefulness of an original composition."—:
London Weekly Review.
" This life of Lewis Holberg is, for quaint humour, for:
a manner of making common events seem almost extraor-i
dinary by the happiness of his style, and for his candour,'
judicious criticism, arid shrewdness of character, one of the'
best of the autobiographical series."—Tyne Mercury.
Also in 1 vol. 18ino., price 3s. 6d., boards, 1
MEMOIRS of JAMES HARDY VAUX, a Swindler,
and Thief. Written by Himself.
" He contrives to interest us in the fortunes of one whom
we could not regret to see hanged. That he should do
this, is not perhaps so remarkable as that he ,should do it
in a composition which, for natural fullness and simplicity
of style, force of delineation, and ease and finish in the
management of details, and in the conduct of the whole
narrative, can scarcely be exceeded. The man who ac-
quires the art of describing events by industry and study,
lean never arrive at that happy facility which distinguishes
!the historian by nature. Such is, extraordinary as it may
!seem, James Hardy Vaux, Swindler and Thief, whose
,memoirs might be entitled-.4toderick Random his own
ISmollett."—Atlas.

Printed for Hunt and Clarke, York•street.

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HOME CIRCUIT, LEWES, Auo. 14. x.
• AGGRAVATED BURGLARY.
(From the Boston Gazette).
DEATH OF THE PREMIER.—A brief period on
, Henry Norman was indicted for a burglary and
ly
!robbery in the dwelling-house of Nicholas 'Yeomans,
has elapsed since we recorded the sudden destruc-V at Maresfield, in the night of the 13th of May last:
tion of the mental powers of an exalted Statesinan.;.,A man, named Henry Hart, had been jointly indiet-
whose public talent and private amiableness ed with him for the same offence, but as against him
secured the esteem even of the jarring parties in the': the Grand Jury threw out the bill.
s,
Senate. But while lamenting this event a bright`' The prosecutrix, Mrs. Yeomans, a very aged
.i:'
rl woman, was the first witness called. She stated, T,
star of future hope and promise gleamed in full radi
that on Sunday evening, the 13th of May; she and
ance upon the world. The congratulatory echoes:,zher husband, since dead, were the only persons in
iron the event have scarcely yet died away upok their house ; her husband was confined to his bed by
our ears. Excited by the promising aspect the green (;illness, and she was reading the Bible in the adjoin-
,scions of liberty acquired fresh vigour. The con_ P ing room. There was a candle burning in each room. •
tinental despots of Europe trembled on their thrones.t:Between 11 and 12 the door of the room she sat in,
The hundred isles of ancient Greece and the youngliwhich opened into the road, was burst open with
republics of the new world, hailed it with enthu-L great violence, and two men rushed in the room,
Isiasm. The serfs and bondsmen throughout thet' each armed with a bludgeon. They were both
world viewed their thraldom with feelings of in.[lstrangers to her, but oFie of them she had since ascer-
dignation, but with a hope that its boundary was tained to be Norman, the prisoner. Norman came
fixed. At home a retrenching expenditure pro- ',up to her and said, " Don't wag or stir; it will be
wised to relieve the burdens of the people, and :worse for you if you do. If you make a noise,
a liberal policy ensured the encouragement of genius, x have your brains out, and cut you down in two—stir
am) the_ success of talent. It imparts a melancholy ;`,,if you dare; there are more outside to help me." ",
satisfaction to the mind thus to dwell on the late Alarmed at these menaces, she remained silent, and
glorious prospect ; but alas! it is past. George
.:Norman then asked what money she bad ? §he
Canning—a simple title, but in its simplicity more ~replied, only a few halfpence, and put her hand into!
ennobled than if dignified by the fading honours er:',her pocket for the purpose of giving him what money
a coronet—lives only in the memory and affections she had ; when he said, " Curse your hand ; take
of his countrymen and of the civilized world. The :it away, and let me put mine in." He then put
postscript in our last number announced the danger- "'his hand into her pocket, and emptied it of its
ous illness of the Premier, and at four o'clock :contents, which he put into his own. The other
on Wednesday morning he expired ; his dying::'man, who had stood by all this time, then
breath proclaiming his wishes for the welfare -.reached down a watch which was hanging over the
of that country which he had laboured for mantel-shelf, and gave it to Norman, who put that '
through evil and good. report during his ex- also into his pocket. The other man then went
istence, and to his unremitting zeal for which the outside the door, where he continued, apparently-on
cause of his death may be partly attributed. Mr. the watch; and Norman, having repeated his threats
Canning was justly designated an universal genius ; of destruction if she moved from her chair, went
the most beautiful specimens of modern oratory into the adjoining room, where her husband lay in
flowed from his lips, whilst the most elaborate (lea- bed. She could hear distinctly where she sat all
tions became stripped of intricacy by his explana- that passed in the other room ; she heard Norman
tions. He lived in the most important era of mo- go to the bed, and with abusive language ask her
• dern history, and the youth of the present age par... husband for his property; he replied he had none;
ticipated through his medium in a portion of the Norman said " Curse you, let's -see what sort of a
intellectual fire which kindled into enthusiasm the shirt you've got on ; I'll have that shirt off your old
minds of Pitt and Fox, of Burke and Sheridan. He; back ;" her husband replied, " Oh, pray don't abuse
formed the connecting link which bound the present';. ; pray don't strip me ;" she then heard two
age to that splendid triumph of oratory; and amongst blows given, and heard Norman say, "If you stir
the many proud names which still are left to us, he or make any alarm, you shall both be done for :"
shone " the noblest Roman of them all !" both the men then came into the room where she
was, and stripped it of all the property it contained,
and they then both went away, Norman saying,
" If you dare to raise any alarm, I shall leave some
men to watch you, and they shall do for you both."
In about an hour or two she went to Mr. Wheatley,
a friend, who lived a little way off; and be came and
examined the house, and she described to him then
very particularly the person of Norman ; the next
day, being Uckfield fair, she and Mr. Wheatley
went to the fair, and there, among a large crowd of
people, she pointed out to Mr.Wheatley, Norman, as
the man who had robbed her, and he was imme-
diately apprehended ; when pressed as to her
knowledge of Norman's person, she swore most po-
sitively- to him, saying—" As sure as God created
the world, I am sure Norman is the man."
Mr. Wheatley confirmed the evidence of the last
witness, so far as it related to himself.
The Jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, found
the prisoner guilty, and the Learned Judge, in the
most impressive manner, immediately passed upon'
him the awful sentence of death, beseeching him to
look for mercy to a heavenly Judge, as it was ime
possible that any mercy could be extended to him
on this side of the grave.
The case excited considerable interest. The pri-
soner, as be was being removed from the dock, so-
.emuly asserted his innocence; but he heard the sen-
tence of death unmoved.

(From the Exeter Alfred.)

DEATII OF MR. CANNING.—The above announce-
ment, much as we have been accustomed, within
the last few years, to lessons on the mutability of
all human affairs, comes like an unexpected visits- •
Ition of that all-wise Providence " whose ways are
past finding out." The space is very brief since we
were called upon to perform a melancholy task, in
recording the demise of an illustrious branch of the
House of Brunswick; .and we have this week to
present to our readers the facts of a severe national
calamity, in the death 'of that distinguished and ac-
complished Statesman, Mr. Canning. Little did
we think, and little did England contemplate, when
the wheel of fate had reached that point which ad-
vanced him to the pinnacle of honour in a nation's
view—to the most elevated station that even his
Sovereign could have raised him ; and less, per-',
chaps, did he himself consider, through his rapid and
unprecedented progress to the exalted sphere he
at length attained, the instability of man's glory here
—that the shaft of death might quickly fall upon him,
and, in the plenitude of earthly splendour, " hurl
him from his high estate." But this truth is now
verified to us in one of its most impressive forms;
'and we have learnt how evanescent and how fleet-
ing are the triumphs of this world—that the life of
• man is a vapour,.which appeareth for a little time,
and then vanisheth away—that nothing beneath the
canopy of heaven is certain but our arrival at " that
• bourne from whence no traveller returns."
• It might be justly said, that one of the most
; splendid geniusses that ever illumined the human
mind was born with Mr. Canning—as a Statesman,
Poet, and PhiloSopher, he has not been excelled, if
equalled ; and the whole of his public career gives
evidence, that he 'possessed endowments of the
highest order. By deep political research, he learnt
how to fulfil the various important duties which the
circumstances of this country have called upon him
to perform, with so much credit as, perhaps, ever
fell to the lot of any man so placed; and, in the
midst of the most powerful opposition that has, at
any period, existed in the British Cabinet, he became
Premier of England, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and First Lord of his Majesty's Treasury. That
his dissolution was hastened by this accumulated
weight of office admits not the slightest doubt—the
strongest bodily health, with a less sensitive imagi-
. nation, might have been impaired by the excitement
that has attended his latter days. It is not our
province, while eulogising the virtues of this de-
parted Senator, to throw his failings back into the
shade, where they may not be seen ; but aware, as
we are, that too frequently " the evil which men do
• lives after them," and -that " the good is oft interred
with their bones," it is our duty to lament him—
t and we do so with sincerity. We mourn his being
taken from us, as the loss of one whose life has been
passed in the service of his country—history will
tell the errors into which the imperfections of his
policy have led him, without our assistance at the
present solemn crisis, when every feeling, save those
of profound respect and reverential awe, should lie
t dormant in our bosom.

JARDINE AND WIFE V. BIGGINS, ESQ.

This was an action against a Magistrate for false
imprisonment. Plea, that sufficient had been ten-
dered to the plaintiff for the injury sustained. Re-
plication, taking issue on the sufficiency of the
amends tendered.
The Jury were of opinion that the amends ten-
dered were sufficient, under the circumstances, and
therefore, under the Learned Judge's direction, they
found their verdict for the defendant.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.--DURHAM, Ave. IS.

BARNES AGAINST HODGSON.

This was an action for a libel. The defendant
pleaded " not guilty," and a justification as to pare
of the libel.

Mr. BROUGHAM said, the plaintiff was the house-
steward and agent of Lord Darlington, and had the;
great misfortune to incur the malice of the defendant,
now a shopkeeper at Staindrop, but formerly agent
Ito the late banking-house of Mowbray and Co. Tin
banking-house of Mowbray and Co. failed in July.
1815, and twelve years after that, the defendant
without whispering one word of displeasure to the
plaintiff, thought fit to invent the foul slander for
which the plaintiff sought reparation. The de-
fendant demanded a sum of 141. 1.55. of the plain-
tiff, Who was assignee of a Mr. Ruddocks, from
whom, it seems, the money was due ; and because
the plaintiff refused to pay it out of his own funch
—and there was no reason why he should so do—
the defendant—trumping up a story which, if true,
must have been twelve years old, and which, up to
the very time that his threats were unavailing to
procure the money from the plaintiff, he had not
breathed to any living soul—gave it under his hand
that " the plaintiff came to him the day after Mow-
bray and Co. stopped payment, and asked him to
procure as many of Mowbray's notes as he could, for
he, the plaintiff, would give 10s. in the pound fot
each note, as he had an opportunity of making 11
good thing of it; for, from the recent remit-
tances he had from Lord Darlington, it would ap-
pear that he had had the notes in hand." This wai-
the libel complained of, accusing the plaintiff witl
desiring to buy the notes at 10s. in the pound,. in
order that he might charge them in his account:
with Lord Darlington at 20s. in the pound. A
more foul and abominable accusation was neve,
made against an honest man.
The Jury retired for about an hour, and then fount
a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages, 501.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY, in his charge to the jury,
adverted to some complaints respecting the misap-
propriation of certain charitable funds for the relie
of insolvent debtors, and requested their particular
attention to the subject.