The Sun. — London, England, 1817-11-24 00:00:00

'THE LATE PRINCIFSS CHARLOTTE. The London Gazette of Saturday contains the official account of the Funeral of the lamented Princess CHARLOTTE, which is the same in every particular as aat which has already appeared in THE 5uN....." Thus " (adds the Gazette) " it bath pleased Almighty God to take out of this transi tory life, unto his Divine mercy, the late Most Illustrious Princess Charlotte Augusta, Daughter of his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales., Regent of this United Kingdom ; Consort of his Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick, Duke of Saxe, Margrave of Misnia, Landgrave of Thu ringia, Prince of Cobourg of Saalfeld; and Grand daughtev of his Most Excellent Majesty George the Third, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith ; whom God bless and pre - - serve with long life, health, and honour, and all worldly happiness." PRINCE LEOPOLD. CLAREMONT, Sunday, Non. 23.—Divine service was performed this morning by the Rev. Mr. HAM.. WM), the Rev. Dr. SHORT having been obliged to leave this place on Friday, to attend his duty at Westminster Abbey, as one of the Prebends of that Collegiate Church. Prince LEOPOLD, his attendants, and the principal part of the domestics,. were assembled on the occasion. SymptoMs of, the typhus lever had begun to appear on Prince Leopold, occasioned by his very low state, but which were very happily discrivered; and by timely applications their progres s prevented.. His Serene Highness rode out on Friday and yesterda - : . for• about two hours, at a slow pace. 'He is now free from any syMptom of fever, and is considered well in health, hut in a low state. The Bishop of Sa lisbury paid his firtt visit of condolence yesterday. The meeting was very affecting, the Reverend Prelate having been Preceptor to the Princess for a number of years. Another affecting and distress 'lug scene took place oa , theyisit of Lord and Lady Ossuiston, who have just returned from abroad. The Bishop of .London also paid a visit of condo lence. The surrounding neighbours, and those who had the honour and delight of the acquaint ance of the Princess and Prince, have been very kind and solicitous, as well as the public charac ters who have been announced, in paying visits of condolence in their anxiety and solicitude for the welfare and health of Prince Leopold. A hatch ment, with the Prince s s's Arms, as a memorial of the death of the owner of the house, has been placed in front of the mansion-house, over the centre of the grand porch. A similar one has been placed in front of Catnelford-hausg, in Lon don. Our communications from all parts of the coun try. detailing the observance of our good Prin cess's burial-day, are so numerous,. that our limits wiYl only permit us,to give partial extracts there from. Amongst other places, DE A L. was conspi mon) in its demonstrsoions of sorrow and respect for the memory of our departed saint. Not only were all the shops, banks, and other places of busirress closely shat, but a great number of pri vate houses closed their windows, and tire inhabi tants, with one accord, gave themselves up to religious exercises; appropriate, affecting, and truly pious discoorses were deliVered by the re ipective Ministers at the Parish Church and Chapel of Ease, to congregations crowded to excess ; nor were the Protestant Dissenters less forward in testifying their grief and respect ; their Meeting Houses were clothed in the garb of woe,‘and the solemn services of the day were performed in the midst of lamentations fervent and sincere. The Mayor and Corporation, its full but mournful pro cession, attended divine service at the Chapel of St. George. The ships in the Downs, and the . itßg-staffs on shore, hoisted their colours half mast high ; and from 8 till 9 o'clock iii the evening 'erinute guns were fired front. Samlown Castle, the church bells were muffled; and, in shout, the demonstrations were so general and so genuine, that the remembrance of them, and of the occa sion which gave rise to them, will live in this town to the latest posterity. Our Correspondent writes ns, that on Wednes slav, the day on which the Funeral of our much lamented Princess CHARLOTTE , took i Place, every mail( of affection and respect was observed in the towns of Milford,- Pembroke, and Haverfordweat, the shops being shut, and business _entirely 59.5-pended. pended. At the latte r plaee,,, the church hells bad muted, and kept tolling at intervals for several days ; at the different chapels and places (*.worship there was a thronged attendance, and some very impressive and apprOpriate discourses. .-I.3vere delivere4;;in . the evening, the Mayor and CprporatiOn, accompanied by all the principal &c. together with an itimiense number of the inhabitants, a . tended Divine Service at St. Church, wi e , .e a most • excellent sermon was givers by the Rev. Mr. TuomAs, the Rector,. Ore text from the 7th chapter of Ecclesiastes, 2d verse— ' It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the liouSe of feasting." The whole of the day was observed with that solemnity suited to the melancholy occasion, and clearly evinced the deep concern which this ever-to-be-lamented event has impressed upon the hearts of all ranks in the neighbourhood.' - ISLE or WIGHT,—We must apt, in our notice of the testimonies of sorrow and respect exhibited on Wednesday last throughout the Kingdom, omit to ment on the Inhabitants of the Isle of Wight. The ti tgs on the• various buildings & and those of the shipping in Cowes harbour, were all lowered half-matt, and minute guns were fired from the torts dmiug great part of the night.— 'l'hesc were but the out ward signs of the feelings with which every heart was oppressed. Divine Service was performed in all the Churches, and appropriate discourses delivered in most of them. Au excellent one %;a3 preached by Mr. HICKSON at the Chapel at West Cowes. To the general impression made in the neighbouring Parish Church of Whippingharn we cannot do justice-- - - the service was performed by the Rector, Arch. deacon Hoot, Cbaplain to tbe PRINCE REGENT. His manner and tone in the Prayers, and sotae most appropriate Lessons and Psalms, were beyond expression touching and solemn, and appeared to produce an effect on the Congre gation greater than any thing we have ever be tore witnessed. The text of this most eloquent and affecting Sermon was taken from the 15th chapter of Job.—" A dreadful sound is in his ears : in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him." LY INGTON, A NTS. —A vast concourse of people attended Divine Service at Lymington Church, on Wednesday last, where a most im pressive Sermon was preached on the death of the Princess C WMALOTTE.— It is thought that upwards of a thousand persons were present. The seve ral Dissenting Chapels were likewise numerously attended on this melancholy occasion, and it is with pleasure we record this striking instance of loyalty and affection, when we recollect the gross at tempt which was made last Spring by a few mi serable Jacobins in this town, to sully its fair reputation and respectability.—We regret to ob serve there was not on ‘Veduesday last any Ser vice at Milford Church, which rather surprises us. FRANKFORT, Nov. 15.—Mr. LAMB, the English Ambassador, ltas transmitted this morning ,to the Senate of our free city, the letter of his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT of Great Britain, notifying the death of her Royal Highness the Princess CHARLOTTE, his daughter. • BRUSSELS, Nov. 19.—A funeral service was per formed thismnrniug in the Protestant Church of the'Arreient Chapel of. the Court, on account of the death of--lier Itoal.,Highness the Princess CnAttitmEirAVALEs; All the English who were present at This pious ceremony were in deep mourn ing ; a part of the• Church -was hung with black, fitted •up Avit ‘ h crape. The • silence and devout grief of-all7Who were prsent, gave to this cere mony an air of gloom and •solemnity.• The following charactetistic : anecdote. of, the late much deplored Princess I.4AWLOTTIC, was in troduced by.the Rev. Mr. Jay, in his most affecting discourte on the sad event &littered at Aigyle Cl,upel, Bath, on AVednesday. The eloquent preacher vouched for its authenticity—having re ceived it• trout an undoubted source :—About a month since the Princess was walking with her Royal Consort in the pleasure grounds at Clare mont, when she accosted the eardener, with her usual condescension and familiarity, and among many other questions asked if he could read—" Yes, Madam," was the reply—(for she never suffered her domeqics to address her in any other manner.) " Have you a Bible ?" No Madam." " Then" rejoined the Princess, `; I'll give you one." She immediately went to the'house, and returned with a Bible, which she presented to the poor fellow— having written his name in it, with these words subjoined—" From his friend Charlotte." WOOD DUTIES.—The apprehensions entertained at the outports, that a Duty on Colonial Wood will be imposed, and that a reduction will take place in the present Importation Ditties on foreign 'Timber in the next Session of Parliament, appear to have greatly increased, from the communica tions which have been received there (luring the present month. We understand that the merchants connected with the British Colonies have fore borne to send out any orders to prepare cargoes of timber for the next season, from the uncer tainty which prevails as to the real intention of Government on this subject ; ;ri consequence of which the ship-owners have not been able to ob tain agreements for Charters for their ships ; which from the depressed state of the coal•trade, and the great glut of shipping in other trades, will occasion vast numbers of .the ships hither to engaged in the trade to British North America, to be laid up from the want of employment. Should these fears of ship-owners be realised, many of the principal ontports will be so overburthened - with poor, that their inhabitants will not be able to pay the rates for their maintenance, and the greatest distress will he felt in all the maritime districts. We, therefore, trust, that the anal de termination of Government on this question will soon be made known to the extensive Interests 'affected .by it, and that every protection and en onuragement will be given to our own navigation and to the King's dependencies on the American Continent. HEIIDONIADARY. Sunday, Nov. 2.3.—+TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.— Sun rose.,at 57 minutes past 7 o'clock; set at 15 minutes past 4. St. Clement the First'Bisbop of Rome, who is men tioned by the Apostle Paul.—Old Martinmas•Day. Full Moon at 4 minutes before 10 o'clock at night. Monday.—Transit of Venus first observed, anno 155. Tuesday.—St. Catherine's Day.—Dr. Watts die , l, ann• 1748, and bas a Tablet is Westminster Abbey, though huried in .Bunhill-fields.—Daylight has decreased 8 hours and 14 mi nutes past 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Wedaiesday.—The tremendously Great Storm, anno 170:3, in memory of which calamity a sermon is annually preached on this day. TAxrsday.—Thomas Harmer, the learned Illustrator of Bib lical Rites died, anno' 1788. Friday.--Michaelmas Terns ends. No less than 14,000 houses destroyed by lightning at Petersburgh, anno 1780. Saturday.—Portuguese Court Memorial from the Peninsula, to Brazil, anno 1807, whither the Archduchess Leopoldiue has sailed on a matrimonial expedition. • ' The following . Gentlemen have been called to the degree of Barrister at Law by 'he Honour able Society of Lincoln's Iti:—Sitium Frazer Cooke, Augustus Pechett, ‘Villiam Henry Darby, Thomas Bernard Birch, James Lewis Knight, Charles Villas Ellis, and Charles Burmester, Esqrs. The Festival of Easter, which tometimis falls so late as the 2.)th of April, will, in the ensuing year, ISIS, fall on the earliest possible day, viz. 22d March. This circumstance will not occur again till the year 2285, a period of 467 years.— The different moveable feasts and terms, and the summer circuits of . the Judges, all which depend on the falling of Easter, will be early in propor tion. On Monday evening last a melancholy accident happened to Mrs. RELLEY, wife of Mr. RELLEY, baker, at Haverford west ; she had gone op stairs, and whilst attending to a fire there, it is supposed she was attacked with a fit, and falling across the fire, was so dreadfully burnt as to ren der all medical assistance of no avail. She sur vived the accident about twenty-four hours, under the most agonizing pain, and then expired. POETRY. THE FIRST GREY HAIR. BY EDMUND L. SWIFT, ESQ. Ah! stranger !—Do I see thee nor? The slow, but certain !mild thou Of gathering care : Thy colour on my changing brow Duth Well declare, That youth retires in rapid vane, Aid age brings foremost in its train The first Grey Hair. Thou wilt not long be thu's alone, Through my dark tresses singly shown In contrast pale; Too soon their lustre will have flown; And soon must fail, Even as the Summer's richest wreat h Must droop the chilling blight beneath Of Winter's hail. I will not blame thy presence, though It spoik—alack !—the goodly shew, Wherein I prided; And. which, amid its tipen'd Thou halt derided : It were no grace, wittri Ilion art by, To mourn the fleeting vanity, So sorely chidtd. And 'twere 'of wisdom little proof, To pluck thee frinn the growing woof Of ceaseless fate : - I cannot keep the hour aloof, That tells my date ; Nor lengthen by one vain pretence 'Mr bound, assign'd by Providenco Te.mortal state. 'But I will give thee welcome Glad in the coining change to find A lesson true And, if it throws upon my mind Thy sober hue, One serious hour will teach me snore, Than all my youth had learn'd bofore, Or manhood knew. Grey hairs upon man's head are sent, . Like stars into the firmament, To show the night : Themorn is past, the day is spent, Of Time's swift flight ; Their sun had set beyond recall Yet virtue will restore to all A morn more bright. ' • Nay, as I moralize with thee, , Another of thy kind I see, And yet another; And each cloth come as suddenly, As came its brother.— Oh, friendly Time, I thank thee for This mild and silent monitor, My pride to smother. Yes, I will spew thy pallid sign, And own its earliest token mine, Without a sigh ; As my dark curls their place resign, Even so will I. Give younger men their passing pleasure, No►• fondly rest mine age's treasure, In vanity. I love thee, kind unflattering friend, So warningly thy hues extend Along my brow; The timely lesson that they lend, I'll learn it now : It were a simple chance, to wait The hoary hairs which hastening Fate May not allow. I have not urged thy coming, by The waste of harmfutrerelry ; Then, while I bear The lot of all humanity, I'll grret thee fair And welcome, in my fortieth year, The friend that comes so true and near Aly first grey hair. THE EPITAPH ON HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES, SON or KING JAMES L WHO DIED NOVEMBER 6, 161 1.? , -AGED 18 YEAR 3• Reader, wonder think it none, Though I speak, and am a stone. Here is 'brined celestial dust, And'l keep it but in trust. Should I not my treasure tell, Wonder then you might as well, How this stone could chose but break, Having never learn'd to speak. Hence amazed;—and.ask not me, Whose these sacred ashes be. Purposely it is, concealed ; For, if that should be tevealed, All that read would by and bye Melt themselves to tears, and dye. Within this marble casket lies A matchless jewell of rich prize ; Which Nature, in the world's disdain, But shewed, and then put up again. REGISTER OF FASHION. FASHIONABLE CHANGES. The Duke and_ Duchess of Northumberland, at their seat, Sims House, from Alnwick . Castle T the Earl and Countess of Darnley and family, from Pail's, for Rome; the Earl and Countess of Cowper, for their seat, Pansenger, Herts; Lady Elizabeth Lowther, at her father's, the Earl of Lonsdale's house, in Charles-street, Berkeley-square; Lord Boston, fop his seat, in Berks ; Marquis oc . Camdpn aed the Ladies Prattr at the Wilderness ; the Earl and Cenntess of Thanet, for their seat, in Kent; the Earl of Portarlingtoa, from the St. Peters burgh Hotel, Dorer-street, to his seat, Emo Park . , Ireland. BATH Anntvw, Nov. 21.—Lord and Lady (le Clifford, Sir W. and Lady Barker, Lady Morrison, the Ladies Stanhope, Lay C. Thynne, Hon. Colonel Brown,, Hon. W. and Lady E. Campbell, Hon. Major Murray, Colonel Berkeley, Lieu tenant-Colonel Kaye, Colonel Pearson, Major Bowyer, Ma jor Leaky, Major F. Manic, Major W. Richards, Captain and Mrs. Bulger, Captain Bowyer, Captain Coleman, Captain and Mrs. Fuller, Captain Kennedy, Captain Nicholas, Cap tain and Mrs. Rhodes, Captain Wyles, Captain White, Cap tain Yates, Dr. and Mrs. Boliver, Dr. Kearsley, Dr. White, Rev. Dr. Jennings, Rev. Lloyd and Mrs. Crawley, Rev. N. Dunn, Rev. W. Dickson, R.ec. Mr. Harerfield, Rev. Mr. Janres, Rev. Mr. Ogle, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Pottinger. Rev. J. H. Ridley, Rey. Mr. Royse, Rev. S., Smith, 'Rev. Mr. 'ferry, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Wetherell. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE CHACE. The Quorndon Hounds ;ill meet on To-morrow, at Bree don Clouds; Wednesday, at liarborough ; Friday, at Wimes wold; Saturday, at Crooby—each morning, at half-past ten o'clock. Sir Bellingham Graham's Hounds meet To-morrow, at Twycross ; Friday, at Arbury; Saturday, at Highau►; Monday, at Barr—each morning at ten o'clock. Lord Scarborough's Fox Hounds will meet this day at Bal hrough ; on Wednesday, at Wheatley Hills; and on Friday, at Sandbeck Park=-at ten o'clock each day. The Bidsworth Fox Hounds meet To-morrow, at Staple ton ; on Thursday, at Hemsworth ; and on Saturday, at Ham pole—at ten o'clock each day. Sir Henry Crewe's Fox Hounds will meet this day, at Gres ley Church; and Thursday, at Langley Priory—at half-past ten o'clock each day. Mr. Mrynell's Fox Hounds will meet To-morrow, at Rol leston ; and on Friday, at Shirley Park—at half-past ten o'clock each day. SHIP NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. Arrived yesterday the Anna -Bella, HALBRow, from Flamborgh, and the following from the Downs :—. l lrundel, for Grenada ; Oakes, for St. Vincent's ; and West Indian, for Antigna. Sailed yesterday the In trinsic, Castle Larhjan, Syren, Nor:olk Hero, and John, fort he West Indies ; Kite, for Hayti ; Welsey, Prince George - , London, Clarkson, Sir Godfrey Vtrebster, Stranger, Dorothy Fostcr, Nesbitt, and'Echo, for Jamaica ; Lush ington and Caroline, for St'. Kitt's; Thames anti Colonist, for. Barbadoes ; Betsy, for -Madeira ; Mary, for Bengal ; Enterprize and Nantiits, for Grenada ; Cambridge, for India ; Ceres, for the Coast of Arica . ; and Grace, for South America. Put back to-day the Colonist ; and several ethers, about 20 sail in the whole, are returning front Yarmouth and Cowes, where the.y anchored yes terday. Sailed to-day the Lord Mu'grave schooner, fur Gibraltar, with ordnance stores. MILFORD HAVEN; NuV. 21.—Sailed last even ing the Frceling packet, Capt. lIUGHEs, with the mail and passengers for Waterford ; the Dolphin cutter upon a cruise ; Mediterranean Packet, DEAN, for Leghorn ; and Ann, from Bristol for Jamaica. Nov. 22.—The Gower packet, Captain GRAY, sailed last night, and the Auckland packei has just arrived with a mail froM Waterford. Remains his Majesty's ship Britotnart, Captain PAsco6.. COWES, Nov. 23.-- , --Several ships came to an chor the night before last from the Downs, and sailed yesterday. To-day they have put back. and several brought up within the Wight, and others gone back to the Motherbank. HARWICH, Nov 22.—Arrived the Auckland packet .from Holland, and Henry Freeling packet from CuxhaVen.. Sailed the Castlereagh packet for Holland ; Beaufoy packet, forCuxhaven ; and Charlotte packet, for Gottenburgh—all with DRAL, Nov. 23.—Came down from the River, and sailed yesterday, with the - whole of the o►tt ward-bound, the Favourite, for Grenada ; for St. Thomas's ; Ann, Reward, Asia, and Eclipse, for Jamaica. Came dowit from the Ri ver to-day the .Duke of Bedford, for Gibraltar ; George, for Honduras ; Cornwallis, for the Cape; and Lord Wellington, for Madras. Arrived the Aberdeen, FENWICK, from Quebec. . 'Fat.turtoTH, . Nov. 2l.—Arrived the Dotal], EDWARDS, front London for Bengal, and the Olive Branch, ANGLE, from London. Sailed yesterday the Lady Raffles for Bengal ;, Sappho HALL, for Bombay ; Jane, Hlcxs, and Liberty, OLDRIGR, for Seville. The Dove, for St. Mi chael's, did not sail, as reported, on the 18th instant. THE TEIEATRES. DRURY-LANE.— , —.The Selection of Sacred Music_ which was brought forward, so honourably to tlie feelings of lovalty and benevolence of .the Corn 7. mittee of Management, on Friday, was performed again on Saturday, with all the appropriate so lemn decorations of the interior, so well suited to the melancholy occasion, as well as to aid the general impression on the audience. There was a very numerous attendance, and all went off with correctness and effect. COVENT-GARDEN.—The Castle of Andalusia was - repeated on Saturday at this Theatre. The farce was The Review, arid Mr, DUNNING, who per formed Mingle, in the Bee-hive, took thepart of Caleb Quotem, in the former piece. As this.part is one of Fliwcevi's most successful efforts, Mr. DENNING bad a great disadvantage to encounter, but he vluitted himself with so much spirit as to shew that he is at least a respectable Double. CORN-EXCHANGE, Nov. 24.—Our market was abundantly supplied this morning with all kinds of Grain, and %neat sold at a reduction of from 4s. to 6s. per quarter,- and inferior sorts quite un saleable at that reduction ; Barley is from 6s. to Bs. per quarter cheaper than this day week ; Malt is also dull ; and 2s. per quarter lower ; Boiling- Pease continue the same, but Grey Pease and Old Beans are 2s. per quarter lower ; Oats have also declined from Is. to 2s. per quarter.—ln other articles no alteration. Foreign Wheat - 4 I s. 51s. Fine ditto - - 955. loos. English Wheat - 425. 525. Fine ditto - - - 70 s. 84s. Old ditto - - - !Ms. 100 s. Rye - - - - 325. 3EI, Flue ditto - - - 48 s. —s. 'Barley - - - - I Bs. 20s. Fine ditto - - 425. —s. New ditto -; - - 525. —s. Malt - - 4 - 60 s. Os. Fine ditto - - 80 s. 86s. Whitellease (boilers) 535. 60s. Fine ditto - - - 625. —s. Grey Pease - -38 c. 465. Fine Grey Pease -50 s. Tick Beans - - - 365. 465, Old ditto - - -50 S. 605. Small Tick Beans 405. 48s. Old ditto - -•- 50s. 60s. Feed Oats - - -15 s. 17s. Fine ditto - -- -20 s. 28s. Polano ditto - -15 s. I 9s.' Fine ditto - -30 s. 38s. Potatoe ditto - - 365. Rape Seed 501. 581. per last. Fine Flour - - 755. Ses. •Seconds - . 70s. 755. DUEL IN POLAND.—A meeting was arranged to take place between Prince ADAM CZARTORYfKi, and a Polish General at Buntalan, in Silesia. on the 27th of September. The parties were rivali in thb love of the Princess ANNE SAPIETRA. It was in the .natural course of things that the Prince should be preferred to the General by the Lady in Poland as in other countries : but why the duel should. halt two days behind the mar riage is sornewhat extraordinary. The Prince was married on the 25th, and the duel to take place on the 27th. Thus the prize is won before the battle. Prince ADAM has .for his seconds Gene rals MOLKRONOSKI, GRABOWSKI, and STANISLAUS YOTOCKI those of• his adversary are Generals WOLODKIEWIEZ, KNIAZECWIEZ, and BLESZYNSK. The issue is not yet known. We are , happy to find, that the principle of having a Sinking,Fund in Chari►ies, and other Elemosynary Institutions, similar to that in the Staffordshire Pottery Infirmary, has been very generally adopted in different parts of the coun try. \Ve augur much from it, as it will, in time, render these beneficial Establishments, in a great measure, independent of . ,casual contributions. tt; e li rc - 1 ~~t ii'