The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-17 00:00:00

for the purpose of being distributed, under the
superintendance of Local Committees, among
those peasants who had been obliged to sell their.
Stack) who are now little better than paupers,
and who will never otherwise emerge from
tbeggary, notwithstanding all the fine Resolu-
ns of the Mansion House Committee about
fisheries and manufactures ! "—This language is
at least not very grateful, when 'the great sacri-
fices and great exertions of the Committee are
Considered, to say nothing of the incalculable
blessings which were actually conferred by them
na -the distressed districts. We think that the
article containing it must have. slipped into the
Paper to which we allude, without the know-
ledge of its able and intelligent Conductor.

It is whispered in the political circles, that
14°'d PALMERSTON has signified' his wish to retire
trorn the War Department, and that he is to be
34"ceeded by Lord WILLIAM BENTINCK. It is
added, that Lord PALMERSTON is to be raised
to the English Peerage.

TILE KING'S Coutur.---Yesterday, at three
'"'clock, his MAJESTY held a Court at his Palace
Iq Pall-malls which was attended by Earl
%titurst, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of
Westmoreland, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the Treasurer of the Navy, Mr. W—Wynn, tha
Duke Of- Dorset, as Master of the Horse, and
Lord' Charles Bentinck, Lord St. Helens, and
Hilgrove Turner were the Lord and, Groom
Ia Waiting.—MS Majesty held ,a Privy Council,
4t whidi Air. Canning kissed hands, and received
the Seals of Office from his Majesty, upon his
b
eing appointed Secretary of ..State for Foreign
Affairs, in_the room of the late. Marquis Lon.
from
was further prorogued
‘Tclui the Bth of October- to the 26th. November.
1r • Asslieto:n' SMith was sworn in Lord Lieute-
liaut of the.- County of Carmarthen. Earl
4thurst was President of the ,Council in the
absence of the Earl of Ilarrowby.—The Council
Ajrc'keup about four o'clock.

• .
'M Mr. CANNING had an audience of the KING
before the Council, and the Earl of LIVERPOOL
•
(.1 an audience after the Council.
Tbe RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR had an audience
the KING yesterday. .
On Sunday morning, at twelve o'clock, the
buke of YORK left town for Sudburn Hall, the
I:esidence Of the Marquis. of AIERTFORD, on a
shooting excursion.
„,
LIE DUKE OF ‘VELLINoTo&.--The complaint
Which recently affected. his Grace, and which
at one time .threatened the most alarming conse-
reences, had its seat in the ear, and instead of
byrelieved, was, it is said, greatly augmented
u.Y the
.application of too powerful a remedy,
Which. produced a violent inflammation. Timely
peaes were, however, adopted, and we have the
Leasure to hear that he is now happily out of
• aanger.
Yesterdayo morning, at an early hour, the scene
,considerable buStle. Several Noblemen's
and cages crowded the road as early as ten o'clock,
in ,ncl soon after the Earl of LIVERPOOL drove up
travelling carriage and four. Ilis Lordship
ernained with the Duke till about half-past
Iten7 He then left Apsley House, for Carlton
se-lace, where his Lordship attended, to be pre-
t!t_at the Cabinet Council.
hMr. CANNING cannot 'appear in the House of
°lnmous for some time after its next meeting, as
tie ivacates his seat by his acceptance of Ministe-
saa`eh nilice ; and the writ cannot be issued an
cases but by order of the House.
Letters from the Rhine state that there is the
mostli Promising appearance for the approaching
isTage, such, in fact, as was observed in the year
fr 41) the famous Comet year. The accounts
th°`n Russia, too, speak in wonderful terms of
esfertility of the soil this year. Every where`'
e field-fruits have ripened much earlier than
ean;l4l' Rye was harvested in some places as
hitjh'as the beginning of July, a circumstance
,T,"erlo unknown
1 •
burgh ship Concordia, dispatched from Ham-
theist
by the Rhenish West India Company on
May last, arrived safe at Port-au-Prince,
Poe'
a fine passage of 45 days. On the 26th
di,n,r, however, M. HOLZSCHUE, the supercargo,
(4.14 of the yellow fever. The Company are
1.1: Y. expecting the first returns. The specula-
able 11Pon the whole, is represented as favour-
(sa' The expedition to Vera Cruz and Mexico
.vatY the last letters from Elberfeld) is so far ad-
coleu that it 'is expected to sail in October. The
at 4.l„Pany think of having a third establishment
'aenos Ayres.
Thestaut Hamburgh Correspondenten of the 3d in-
cea„ very' justly contradicts the assertion re-
ape"). made in the Dutch Papers regarding the
Ivaseli_e On board the Lutine frigate. No subsidy
the ring conveyed to Prussia ; on the contrary,
qua„,r.ignte in question was bringing over a large
Mrcq,itY of silver for the use of the Commercial
scare;", at Hamburgh, there being then a sad
1,,,i4Y of specie there.
st ue widow of the illustrious CONDORCET died
Week at Paris.
leirtr Countess of DUNDONALD, we are sorry to
forta2 Was so much indisposed during the last
her night, that she was confined to her bed, and
affe_c,!se was deemed so hopeless that she took an
itleistienrgv2ze of her mother, her husband, and
preparing herself for death with
her
_l,l?nst perfect resignation. Soon afterwards
bowoisorder took a favourable turn, and she is
This IPParently likely to be filly recovered.
Ady is
der a most exemplary character, and as
fatnil eath would have involved an affectionate
feel Y and many friends in deep affliction, we
is great Pleasure in stating that at present there
eve
ornament toss
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rY reaon t
hopeindtohmaetsstliice l long be an