The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-02 00:00:00

ANECDOTES, &c.

EXTRAVAGANT LOYALTY.—Among the Addresses pre-
sented upon •the Accession of James 1., was one from the
ancient town of Shrewsbury, wishing his Majesty might reign
as long as the sun, moon, and stars endured. " Faith, mon,"
said the King to the person who presented it, 44 If I do, my
eon then must reign by candle-light."
LORD HALIFAX.—It was a saying of this Nobleman, that
when men of quality become scoundrels, it was no wonder at
all if scoundrels should be made men of quality. He used also
to say, that where a little rogue would deserve to be fined and
imprisoned, if a Lord should be guilty of the same practices, I
would have him hanged, out of respect to his quality.
OFFICIAL DIGNITY.—When Mrs. BRACEGIRDLE, the
actress, complimented Mr. Secretary Craggs upon his liberality
to Mrs. Centlivre, to whom he sent 20 guineas, on her dedicat-
ing to him her farce entitled The Humours. of Elections and
mentioned that his generosity appeared the more extraordinary
as the farce had not been acted ; he replied, that be did not so
much consider the merits of the piece as what was becoming a
Secretary of State to do.
AMOROUS DOTAGE.—COLLEY CInDER, in his old age,
excited the ridicule of the Green-room, by endeavouring still
to spew ofF his amorous propensities, and to profess the ardour
of love for a young actress, who was equally persecuted by
another elderly gentleman. A young Lord, who also paid his
addresses to the lady, looked on (libber's pretensions with such
contempt, that on seeing him and his brother rival hobbling
after her into the Green-room, smirking, bowing, and smiling,
I he said, " Here comes 'Susannah (her name) and the two
Elders."
DRAMATIC ANGEL—When BEN J°Nsns'S comedy of
the New Inn did not succeed on the first night's representation,
he printed it with this title-page—" The New Inn, or, the
Light Heart ; a comedy never acted, but most negligently
played by some of die King's servants, and more squeamishly
beheld and censured by others, the King's subjects, 1620.
Now at last, set at liberty to the readers, his Majesty's ser-
vants anti subjects, to he judged." In an ode annexed to this
play, he openly arraigns the public for want of taste, and threa-
tens to quit the stage. In a similar strain Peter Hanstead,
the author of a comedy called The Rival Friends, performed
before the King and Queen on their visit to the University. of
Cambridge in the year 1631, states it in his title-page to have
been " cried down by boys, faction, envy, and confident ieeib-
ranee, approved by the judicious, and exposed to the public
censure by the author," and inscribed " to the, right honourable,
right reverend, right worshipful, or whatsoever he be, shall be,
or whom he hereafter shall.call patron."
MILITARY SYMPATIIY.—Sir RICHARD STEELE has, in
his preface to the Conscious Lovers, taken notice of a General
Officer's weeping, in a front box, at the scene between Indiana
and her father; on which occasion he relateS Mr. Wilkes, the
comedian's, just observation upon it—" That he was certain he
would tight never the worse for that." When the play of Venice
Preserved Was revived at Drury-lane theatre, about 80 years ago,
one of the grenadiers, who was posted on the stage, was observed
by the audience to be at times deeply affected at the performance.
Atseveral ;;;peeches he seemed agonized,by distorting his body,and
though the spectators several times laughed at him, he remained
with fixed attention to the scene. But in the last,where one friend
stabs the other on the scaffold, he could suppress his feelings no
longer, but burst into a flood of tears. The audience were so
affected with the soldier's simple honest heart, that they loudly
applauded him, and a Noble Duke (then at the head of the
army), who was behind the scenes, sent for him, and gave him
a guinea, stating that " he was perfectly sure he was an honest
and brave fellow."

GREAT FIRE OF LONDO NT.—T his day is the
one hundred and lifty,ninth anniversary of the Great Fire of
London, which broke out on Sunday morning, September 2,
1666, 0.5., and, being impelled by strong winds, raged with
irresistible fury nearly four days and nights ; nor was it mas-
tered till the fifth morning after it began. There is a descrip-
tion of this tremendous tire in a rare tract, published in the
year 1667, entitled " Vincent's (ion's Terrible Voice in the
City," which begins as follows :—" It was the 2d of Septem-
ber, 166 d, that the anger of the Loan was kindled against Lon,
don, and the tire began ; it began in a baker's house in Pud-
by Fish-street-hill ; and now the Loan is mak-
ing London like a fiery oven in the time of his anger, and
in his wrath (loth devour and swallow up our habitations.—
It was in the depth and dead of the night,: when most
doors and fences were locked up in the city, that the fire
did break forth and appear abroad like a;mighty giant re-
freshed with wine." It has been said that this fire, which
began at Pudding-lane, ended at Pye-corner. The lofty pillar
at the bottom of Fish-street-hill, is a monument set up in com-
memoration of this dreadful fire; but the origin of it, as thereon
detailed in a Latin inscription, is much mis-stated. Pope has
said of this monument—
Where London's column, pointing to the skies,
Like a tall bully, lifts its head and lies.

ENGLISH CONFIRMATION AT, BOULOGNiE.--(13011-
LOGN L-S En, A LTG. 29.)--Sbarcely had the commotion
occasioned by the departure of the Duchess de Berri subsided,
when the arrival of the Right Rev. Bishop Luscombe in our
town occasioned an unusual excitement amongst its lively inha-
bitants. His Lordship iuTived from Calais, where, and at other
towns, he had been administering the rite of confirmation, for
which' purpose be visits Boulogne. Yesterday, after morning
prayers, the Bishop delivered an eloquent charge, preparatory
to the confirmation of the young persons in the English Consu-
lar Chapel, which was this miming crowded by various spec-
tators to witness a solemnity so novel in this place. The prayers
having been read by one of the asistant Chaplains (Rev. Mr.
Burry), the Rev. G. Symmons (Chief Minister of the Esta-
blishment) addressed a most excellent discourse to those who
were to be confirmed ; at the conclusion of which 148 young
persons (chiefly females) received the holy rite in the customary
manner. An able farewell address from his Lordship ended
this interesting and truly impressive scene.. All the respect-
able clergymen in the town assisted at the ceremony, and after-
wards attended the Bishop to the Rev. Mr. Symmons's, where
his Lordship resides. His Lordship leaves Boulogne to.mor-

row for Dieppe_
STEAM NAVIGATION EETWEEN DUBLIN AND
LivErtrooL.—The number of passengers between this port
and Dublin has latterly increased to a height which never could
have been anticipated. At this moment there are no less than
eight large steam-vessels employed in the trade, and many
more are preparing. As the intercourse is expected to increase
yet very considerably, a London Company have just taken an
immense plot of ground, situate on the banks of Dublin har-
bour, between the city and Kingstown, which they purpose
laying out immediately, and building cottages on it, after the
Brighton fashion. This, with the a%:sistance of another Com-
pany, employed in erecting an establishment of hot and cold
baths contiguous thereto, must render Dublin, in addition to its
other attractions, a fashionable watering-place ; and we doubt
not that many families will go to reside there in the summer
season, the communication being now reduced to a certainty,
and the vessels as comfortable as they possibly can be.—(Liver-
pool Courier.)
A VETERAN, named ROBERT MENZIES, died lately at
Perth. Menzies, in 1758, when only 16 years of age, enlisted
in the 76th regiment. Ile first faced an enemy's lire at the
siege of Bellisle, where he was wounded in the leg ; and
he was also present at: the capture of the Islands of Mar-
tinique, Dominica, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent's, from the
French ; and at the taking of the Island of Cuba and the
city of Savannah front the Spaniards. He was 'discharged
in 1764, in consequence of the peace ; but next year he
joined the seventy-first regiment, which was soon after sent to
America. Menzies was at the battles of Long Island and
White PlOns, besides some other severe skirmishes. In 1777,
he was at the tight of Brandy Wine ; aud, in the subsequent year,
at the siege of Savannah, in Georgia.- In 1779, he fought at
Prior's Creek ; and he next formed one of the army which was
besieged at Savannah by the Americans and French under
Count d'Estaing, where he was wounded in the shoulder. In
short, it would seem from the memoir before, that this hardy man
shared in nearly all the hardships of that bloody but useles war ;
for we find him next at the battle at Camden, next at that of
Cowpen, and then at the engagement of Guildford Court. He
formed one of the army under the Marquis Cornwallis, when
that Commander was forced to surrender to the patriot forces
under Washington and Rochambeau. When the prisoners were
sent home, Menzies, who, in the course of his long services, had
reached the rank of Quartermaster-Serjeant, was discharged
with a pension of one shilling per day ; which those at the
head of the affairs of our army refused to augment, because he
could not produce his first discharge, which was buried with a
relation to whom he entrusted it, and who was killed at the
fatal landing on the shores at Boston. Menzies had two sons,
who were both killed in battle. Ile has left a widow nearly
70 years of age, very destitute. His remains were followed to
the grave, among others, by four veterans who shared nearly
all his fortunes while in thei Fraser Highlanders.
A ram was slaughtered last week by Mr. Fen-
ton, flesher in Perth, of which the horns, instead
of rising separately from each side of the head,
branched off from the main horn, which projected
from the forehead, similar to the description of
the fabled unicorn. The rain was reared by Cap.
tain Jaffray, Balvaird Castle, and was the only
instance of the kind remembered by the oldest
flesher.7—(Caledonian• Mercur.y.)