The Sun.
London, England, 1801-07-16 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH, JULY 14.

THE ROYAL FAMILY last night went to the
Theatre to see the Play of The Mowitainerrs, and
the Farce of The Spoil'd Chill, in which Master
WORDSWORRif performed the part of Little Pickle
with great spirit.
This morning the KING and Attendants walked
on the Esplanade before breakfast.
At eleven o'clock_the Rorrn, FAMILY, accom-
panied by Earl RostAN; Earl and Countess of I.lx-
BRIDGE and Daughter, Lord and Lady AUDLEY,
Lord and Lady-RoLLE, Mrs. GRANT, and Mss.
DRAKE, embarked from the Pier in His Majesty's
Barge to go on board the Queen Charlotte Yacht.
When the Yacht came opposite the-Pier Head a
Royal Salute was fired from the Charlotte, when
the Attguttut, Hydra and Fortune followed the
ROYAL FAmmr-tan their-aquatic exctusion, which
was the first this season.

Two Hamburgh Mails still remain due. f
It •is said, that by command of the DUKE of
YORK, circular. Letters have been sent to all the
Commanding Officers of the different Volunteer
Corps of the Metropolis and its vicinity, to muster
in Hyde-Park on,Wednesday- next, the 22d instant,
to he reviewed by His Royal Highness, who will be
on the ground at ten o'clock.
Yesterday a Court of Direaors was held at the
East India House, which adjo-urnecl at six o'clock
till Wcdnesddy nem.
It was reported at Vienna, when the Post of the
24Th came awa7, that the English had taken Alex.
andria by storm. This report, however, was not
very generally credited.
MOR EAU has such a high charmer among the
Military in France, that if he is really upon bad
terms with BONAPARTE, the latter has in him one
of the most formidable enemies that hits yet risen
against him, It is hardly, however, to be sup_
posed that they will come bziap open rupture, for a
contest for power would, probably, in the end,
are be
the ruin of both. The Jacobins, at present,,
" not loud, but deep," in their designs, and con,
stantly on the watch to take advantage of any op..
portunity, and bring their principles into aCtiori
against the dominion of any Individual.
MONSIEUR, and some of the higher Nobility _of
France are, it is said, invited to Wobuin. Mr,
Fox, of course, will not be of the Party, as he haft
so often shewn a marked antipathy to the unfortn..
nate House of Bourbon.

Since Mr. Fox made his memorable attempt at a
joke, about a lack boot's jack-boot, several itinerant
dealers have carried boon through the streets in re.
commendation of klaching. We have not heard
whether this sable conqaund is dignified by the name
of Mr. Fox, as inventor or conswner, but certain it
is, that few men iu the world have a greater skill
in blackening.

A difference, we understand, has arisen between
a certain Political Preacher and a certain Patriot.
The Clerical Politician, it seems, contributed two
guineas to the memorable Subscription for the
fuondam leader of the Blue and Zittirsftiad. A
subscription has recently been On foot for the
Priest, and the Patriot was expelled to contribute
his mite in return. The Patriot, however, declined,
apparently adverse to any Subscription except in fa,
your of himself. If it were possible that a certain
Sermon "should ever get into a Second Edition, the
whole of .this interesting dispute would, perhaps,
be detailed in Copious Annotations, but at present
the matter is muggied up for ,the honour of .thi
Party,

Mr. ERSKINE on a late trial made a very good.
humoured allusion to his late disappointment of the
fortune left him by a political admirer; he was in 3
great degree deprived by-the want of a due cowl-
nor with legal formality. This we regret as much
as his warmest partizan, as far as it affects Linz
personally.

It has lately- been the ton, among People of Fa.
.shion, to .order a Supper at the Star and Garter at
Richmond Hill, on Opera nights. This high-47,y4
repast was to be ready at twelve o'clock, but the
Company seldom contrived to come earlier than four
in the morning, and this silly. dissipation is likely
to continue to the end of the Season.

The description given on a late trial, of one of
the Creditors of the famous Miss RoaEaTsoN, was
such as most'of those who had the misfortune to by
conneEted with her inigtg envy : " a man,,, said
the Counsel, " who had as good eyes as any ote,
and who did not gape and let people steal the teeth
out of his mouth."

From all the accounts that have hitherto tran-
spired respeding " the life, charaeter and behaviour"
of Miss koa E aTsoN, the 'generous Patroncrs of Black.,
heath, it seems hardly probable that she could have
chosen .any scene of action throughout the United
Kingdom in which she would have had her designs
suppertcd by so large a portion of amiable credulity.
A Madagascar Savage now amuses • the good
people of Paris as the successor of that of Avey-
ron. He is about 20 years of aage, lives on raw
meat, rejels all cloathing, and is both deaf and
feeble, He utters a weak cry when in distress,
and has been known to swallow both stones and iron.

LITERATURE,-.-Those who amuse . themselves
with the " Follies of the Wise," or at least of those
who arrogate to themselves that title, will find mat-
ter for Mirth in hearing that the Authors of the
new Dictionary, which is :o settle the French lan.
guage, and to give stability w the phraseology
shall think proper to adopt, have stumbled at the
threshold, and been puvhied and thrown into a state
of altercation by the letter A. The Dictionary of
the Academy has stamped as classical these phrases.:
" There were in the Assembly from four to jive'
women" (six a Sept femmes)—" The distance from_
my country-house is four or five leagues" (4 ou s
lieues), Now, say some of the Institute, these ex-
pressions are absurd, as there can be no fralion of
a woman, and there may be of a league ;
.the ex-
pression should therefore be reversed. It is hardly
necessary to observe, that if part of the Literati
think so, the other part are decisively of a different
opinion.