General Lord G-nv-e affumes to himself the entire command of the firft divifion-being fecure from any poffibility of furprise in his rear, which is fortified by an immenfe redoubt, he propofes to attack, en maffe, on Tuesday, the 4th of May. The fecond divifion will be divided into four columns. The first, under the orders of Lieutenant-general W-d-m, will confift of the grenadier companies, and, under the feint of a fkirmith, will make a real attack on Monday the 3d of May, by an attempt to penetrate the enemy's centre. The fecond, commanded by Major-general El-t, confifting of the lightest troops, will, on Wednesday. the 5th, endeavour to turn the flank of the enemy. The third, under the orders of Major-general E—1 T-mp-e, confifting entirely of heavy-armed infantry, will, on Thurfday the 6th, advance on the Malta fide, as rapidly as it can, and under pofitive orders to muffle its mufic. This column may, as occafion ferves,. now and then be made ufe of as a diverfion. The fourth, under the direction of that fcientific officer Major-general Doctor. L-r-ce, to whom the heavy artillery and the lumber troop are exclufively intrufted, will, on Monday the 10th, thunder on the enemy, and has pofitive orders to take every advantage of their being found fast asleep, or abfent from their quarters. Major-general T-s G-nve will command the referve, which, though ufually intrufted to officers of the first rank, is for fpecial reafons given to him. He will be ready to do his best in fupporting any part of the line that may appear to be giving way and will be particularly vigilant in fecuring the rear of the commander in chief, in cafe of unforcfeen accidents, from any infult. The The communications between the two divifions to be kept up as well as poffible. It being generally understood that the enemy will referve himself for a general action on the 11th, or perhaps the 12th of May, every artifice and firatagem is to be had recourse to, which may afford a chance of bringing it on on an earlier day. If he refufes his centre, his flanks muft, if pos-fible, be turned; and every effort in the interval made to gain as much as poffible of his pofition. Against an enemy fo wary and determined, efpionage must be employed to its fullest extent. Our force being small, every thing muft depend on concert, unanimity, and difcipline. Any officer commanding a column to be broke, who fhall be convicted of not having the Quartermafter-general's inftructions in his pocket. I (Signed) SIR, General L-d G-NV-E. Quarter-mafter-general COBBETT. AN OLD PORTRAIT MODERNIZED. HAVE enclosed for your perufal the portrait of an ancient Roman orator. The artist's name is Tacitus; perhaps the moft mafterly painter of human character in all antiquity. If you fhould perceive any refemblance. in it to fomething you have feen in modern times, and think it may amufe a certain defcription of your readers, you have my leave to infert it in your Chronicle. For the fake of thofe to whom the ftyle and manner of Tacitus may be but little or not at all known, I have annexed an English verfion, with an obfervation or two intimately connected with the subject :— "Fine "Fine anni U. C. 779 exceffit Quintus Haterius, fenatoria familia, eloquentiæ quoad vixit celebrata. Monumenta ingenii ejus non perinde retinentur; fcilicet impetu potius quam cura vigebat; atque ali um labor et meditatio in pofterum valefcit. In Haterii canorum illud ac profluens cum ipfo fimul extinctum eft."-Taciti Lib. IV. Ann. TRANSLATION. "At the end of the 779th year of Rome died Quinctus Haterius, defcended from a family of senatorial rank, to the latest period of his life an orator of celebrity. He left no monuments of his genius to future ages; for he owed his high reputation to a forcible and impofing manner of haranguing, rather than to the depth of his reafoning and the finished ftructure of his orations. Some orators, by industry and an exertion of their intellectual faculties, have tranfmitted their names with glory to pofterity. In the cafe of Haterius thofe fonorous tones and that unceafing ftream of well-tuned periods for which he was eminent, finally perifhed with himself." Such, Sir, of your readers as have been prefent in the Houfe of Commons on an occafion of great debate, when our principal fpeakers think themfelves. called upon to enter the lifts, will be at little fofs to determine to which of them the likeness applies. Haterius, according to Seneca, was a fort of Alarm. ift: it is faid of him, that he could by the force, rapidity, and tumult of his. eloquence infpire his audience with fo lively an image of a form, that they fancied they faw every thing in uproar and combustion, the fields covered with devaftation, the villages in. flames, and the peafants flying for fafety; and, when he had wound up his. hearers to the highest pitch of terror, he would paufe, and fay to the next perfon to him, "Quid exhorruifti, adolefcens "" Why are you fo terribly alarmed, young man ?" Haterius 66 Haterius lived to the great age of 90 years, and was a diftinguished pleader in the reign of Auguftus. Auguftus, who at times was fond of a joke, obferved one day in the heat of one of Haterius's pleadings, Nofter Haterius fufflaminandus eft." "Our friend Haterius fhould be trigged like a cart-wheel on an inclined plane." He was doubtlefs an extraordinary character; but it thould feem both from Tacitus and Seneca, that in the eftimation of fober men, with all the brilliancy of his rhetorical talents, he was not a man of found intellect. It does not appear that Haterius was the author of any great calamity to his country; he was indeed notorious for his timeferving adulation of Tiberius; but he died before the worst times of that reign, and probably his oblique fophifticated oratory did no other harm to the public than misleading occafionally the courts of law, or perverting the judgment of the fenate in private caufes. But, had Haterius lived under a form of government analogous to that of Great Britain; had he been firft minifter, and at the head of the Treafury; wanting foundness of understanding, having no love of truth for its own fake, or rather valuing himself for his dexterity in the art of difguifing error; he might have left a monument of his genius founded in disaster and difgrace, if not in the ruin of his country. London, July 16. THEOPHRASTUS. ILLUMINATIONS EXTRAORDINARY, [From the fame.] WE yefterday amufed our readers with a defcription of a vast variety of devices and conceits which diftinguished the general illumination on the proclamation of peace, We understand, however, that there were fome very entertaining ones which escaped Qur our notice, or were couched in a prudent mystery, or concealed altogether from vulgar obfervation. We fhall juft mention a few of thefe by way of fupplement to the record of a rejoicing fo important in the national annals. We begin with MR. P-T'S ILLUMINATION. The illumination of this great minifter resembled the character of his eloquence. The canvass on which his transparency was difplayed, was large and capacious. There prevailed in the whole piece, however, a fort of chiar-ofcur ftyle, which might increase the effect, because, in the opinion of moft, it conveyed no determinate objects or ideas to the mind, and it is well known that obfcurity is one of the fources of the fublime. Mr. P-t's tranfparency, like his fpeeches, was therefore fublime, becaufe few understood what We are afraid to confefs that our explanation is pillaged from the original programme of the piece. was meant. The main key to the allegory, was the infcription (feparate from the picture) in a fort of variegated lamps, which happily imitated what was intended, no doubt, letters of blood. The words were Deliverance of Europe. In explanation of this fentence was feen an effigy of L-d H-kefb-y, with a tiny fcroll of paper in his hand, as the proof and fanction of the motto. He was furrounded by fome ftrange fimplelooking people, resembling faces we thought we had feen fomewhere. Bonaparte, on the other hand, was exhibited in military ftate, giving orders to proftrate Batavians, Italians, Swifs, and Germans, in the coftume of their refpective countries; while he occafionally caft a frown of indignation, and nods of command towards the pageant ambafladors of certain fovereign princes. The contraft between the puerile elation of L-d H-kefb-y, and the dark, frowning, inexorable countenance of the military fovereign, formed |