The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-09 00:00:00

A.NECDOTHS, &c.

NATHANIEL LEE.—This unfortunate author
spent the last four years of his short existence
in Bedlam. One day a sane idiot of a scribler
' was marking his calamity, and said, that it was
easy to write like a madman. The poor lunatic
immediately answered, " No, Sir, it is not so
very easy to write like a madman, but very easy
to write like a fool."
VANITY.—A French Poet inquired of one of
his friends what he thought of his last publica-
tion
? " I have finished the fifteenth canto,"
replied the friend, " and I do not hesitate to af-
firm that I have never read more beautiful and
harmonious poetry in the French language."
" I beg pardon," replied the author, " there it
one thing in the language which I must confess
is superior."—" Oh ! perhaps you mean Phedre,
or Athalie ?"—No, I mean my sixteenth canto."
NAPOLEON.--Napolco►► was passing the old
horrible road along the Echelles de Savoye
with his engineer. On a sudden the Emperor
stopped, and pointing to the mountain, said, " Is
it not possible to cut a tunnel through the en-
trails of yonder rock and to form a more safe and
commodious road beneath it i"—" It. is possible,
certainly, Sire," replied the man of science.
" Then let it be done, and immediately," replied
the Emperor.
HIGH AUTHORITY.—Mr. CURILAN was once
engaged hi a legal argument ; behind hilo flood
his colleague, a gentleman whose person was re-
markably tall and slendor, and who had origi-
nally intended to take orders. The Judge ob-
serving that the case under discussion involved a
question of ecclesiastical law ; " Then," said
Curran, " I refer your Lordship to a 'Vet autho-
rity behind no., who was once intended for the
church, though, in my opinion, he is litter for the
steeple."

AN ELDERLY LADY, in a declining state of
health, was advised by Dr. Hunter, who relates
the anecdote, to take lodgings in a village near
town. She agreed for a suite of rooms, and com-
ing down stairs, observed that the balustrades
were touch out of repair, and said they must be
mended before she could think of coining. " 0
no, Madam," replied the good natured landlady,
" that would be quite useless, for the undertaker's
men hi bringing down the coffin would break
them again immediately."
Sett WILLIAM DA wEs, Archbishop of York,
was fond of society, and at table relaxed himself
by punning. Dining with his clergy for the first
time after the death of his lady,he said he feared
they would not find things quite so comfortable
as in the time of his, dear Mary, and added with
a sigh, " she was indeed mare pacilieum."
Curate who well knew the lady's temper was none
of the sweetest, ventured to say, " Aye, my Lord,
but she was mare morleam first." The Arch-
bishop could not disguise his admiratiou,of the
joke, and within two months gave the Curate a
living worth 2001. a year.
Soon after the death of NELSON, a man in the
fleet who was ordered to pipe attempted to com-
ply, but failed in bringing, out the shrill tone;
his Commander ~:aslonished, again asked him
to pipe, upon Ivlich he made another attempt,
but still unable to do it, the poor fellow threw
down his pipe and burst into tears, exclaiming,
" Poor Nelson's dead—l cannot pipe !—God
bless him ; many a hard battle have I fought
with him, and many a dreadful storm have I wea-
thered with him, but he's done at last—God bless
him for ever."

R EMA RIC ABTA: HISTORICAL MEMENTO.—The
statement lately made, that the tree is still standing in the New
Forest against which the arrow of Sir WALTER TYRREL
glanced, and killed King WILLIAst RI) r us, is incorrect, as
it appears that about the year 1745, the tree alluded to (then
645 years old), became so decayed, that the spot would, per-
haps, have been forgotten, if sonic other memorial had not been
raised. Before the stump was removed, a triangular stone was
erected by the Right Hon. John Lord Delaware, who then re-
sided at Boldrewood Lodge, in the New Forest. As the stone
is greatly mutilated, by pieces having been repeatedly broken
off by those who have regarded them as relics of antiquity, the
following is a copy of the inscription, which, however, is now
illegible :
Ois the firs: side.—" Here stood the oak tree on which an
arrow, shot by Sir Walter Tyrrcl at a stag, glanced, and struck
King William IL, surnamed Rufus, in the breast, of which
stroke he instantly died, on the 2.d day of August, 1100."
Second side.-..." King William 11. being thus slain, was laid
in a cart belonging to one Purkes, and drawn front hence to
Winchester, and buried in the Cathedral Church of that city."
Third side.--" That the spot where an event so memorable
happened, might not hereafter he forgotten, this stone was set
up by John Lord Delaware, who has seen the tree growing in
this place."

A Latin inscription also recorded the visit of his late Ma-
jesty to the spot; and the repair of the stone by John Richard
Earl Delaware, 1789. This stone stands in the bottom of a
tine pleasant vale, about a mile from Stony Cross Inn, eleven
miles from Southampton, on the Ringwood and Poole road.—
. Soon after Rufus's death a small oratory was erected near the
road (with a large stone cross near it), where masses were per-
formed for the repose of the King's soul; but this was discon-
tinued very early. Leland and Camden notice it. The site is
not known, and the tradition would be soon forgotten, were it
not that the inn is named thereafter. The family of Purkes
still reside in the vicinity. A few years ago the last remains of
the cart which conveyed the body of the King to Winchester
was burnt in a solemn manner, the whole family of nukes
standing round the fire' exclaiming at intervals, " there is the
last of old Rufus." Rufus's stirrup is still preserved in the
King's house, at Lyndhurst; its width, at bottom, is 10A
inches, and measured all round, it compasses two feet seven
inches. It was formerly applied as a test for ascertaining what
dogs kept within the forest should sutler expeditation e. cut-
ting off'three claws of one of the fore feet). If a dog could not
be drawn through the stirrup, he was to undergo this operation
to render him unfit to pursue deer.

Tr►e FIRST PLACE of Wonsmr in the A CIIO
POI.IS of Athens was the sepulchre of Cecrops ; upon which
spot the Parthenon was afterwards erected. The Athenians
preserved his tomb in the Acropolis, and that of Ericthonius,
with religious veneration. Bence Clemens is of opinion, that
tombs were the origin of all their temples.

It is reported that, one of the steam-goats in-
thended for Greece has proceeded to sea. Last week a signal-
gun was fired at the pier at Brighton on a steamboat bein g
observed, which was supposed to be the Dieppe packet. The
fishermen :shortly reported it was a steam-boat proceeding to
the Mediterranean.

FATAL QUARREL-An Inquest was to ken
before \V. JOYNER Ews, Esq. one of the
Coroners for Gloucestershire, on Saturday
se'nnight, at the Fishponds, near Bristol, on
view of the body of George Pearce, a lad about
sixteen, who was stabbed by a fellow-labourer
in the coal-pits at that place. Having quarrelled
about a candle wi►ich Pearce had broke in attempt-
ing to snatch from his companion, Wm. NVilliams,
the latter made a desperate thrust at him with
the pointed part of the candlestick, wh►ch entered
his hack, passed through the lungs, and penetrat-
ing the heart, he died instantly. Verdict—
," Wilful Murder against Wm. Williams."

LORD NUGENT
AND THE GIVENAPPE MINING COMPANY.

Yesterday Mr. COOKE, one of the Directors of
the Gwenappe Mining Company, presented himself before Mr.
Alderman Cox, at Guildhall, and expressed a hope that the
worthy Magistrate would allow him to read and swear to a state
ment which he had prepared to submit to the Lord Mayor that
morning, but had been prevented from so doing in consequence
of his Lordship's having left the Justice Room at an early
hour. The statement he held in his hand was a complete refu.
tation of the letter published by Lord Nugent., denying that he
ever held any shares in the Company, or that he ever authorised
any one to sell shares for him. Mr. C. said that he had travelled
200 miles, and had not slept for three nights in his anxiety to
defend his character, upon which a slur had never been attempted
to he cast until now. He had a letter, addressed to Mr. Stewart,
under Lord Nugent's own hand, on which he would not utter a
single comment, but which he was sure would appear to be a most
unaccountable contradiction of his Lordship's public letter. In
consequence of that letter to Mr. Stewart, he (Mr. Cooke) had
waited on Lord Nugent on the 13th of Sept., when he found his
Lordship engaged with company—he supposed a dinner party.
He sent up a card, stating that he had the honoar to attend relative
to the GwenappeCompany,and requesting to know when heshould
tind his Lordship at leisure. Lord Nugent immediately left his
company and came down to him, and so far from turning his heel
upon him, as might be inferred from the style of his Lordship's
recent letter, he remained in conversation nearly an hour and a
half. As to the management of the funds of the Company, it
would be put beyond doubt in a day or two, at a meeting of the
shareholders that was about to be called, that there had never
been the slightest misapplication of the money, the Directors
having paid out of their own pockets every shilling of their ex.
pences ; and with regard to the objects of the Company, he was
sure it would yet be seen that the calculations of profit had
been greatly within bounds.
Mr. Alderman Cox said, his application appeared to be not
as to any fraud committed upon the Company, but entirely a
personal question of veracity between himself and Lord Nu-
gent, of which he, as a Magistrate, could take no cognizance
whatever.

Mr. Cooke said, he merely wished the Worthy Alderman to
hear the statement he was about to swear to, that it might find
its way into the newspapers, as the statements before the Lord
Mayor had.

Mr. Cooke then handed up the orCginal letter from Lord
Nugent to Mr. Stewart, upon seeing the signature on which,
he said, the check clerk at Messrs. Coutts's had expressed him-
self as having no doubt whatever that it was his Lordship's
hand-writing, but on ascertaining Mr. Cooke's object, had
begged not to be mixed up in the contention.
[The document to which Mr. Cooke was sworn was to the
same effect as his present and former statements on this subject.]
The following is a copy of Lord Nugent's letter to Mr.
Stewart :

Pall-mall, Tuesday Evening, Sept. 13, 18t5.
SIR—I have waited all yesterday and to-day, and have re-
ceired no communication whatever relating to shares, nor have
I received from Mr. Cooke the check for the account which has
been so unaccountably, and upon so many different pretexts, so
long delayed. After this sort of conduct on your part, I must
desire that my name may he instantly withdrawn from the
Gwenappe Mining Company, and may not be used in any one
of the forthcoming Companies, of which you spoke to me.
I am, Sir, youts,
Jr. 3 Stewart. (Signed) NUGENT.
I must also desire that the check may he sent immediately
for the amount of the shares you was commissioned to sell for
me.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
—wessm.—

WORCESTER AUTUMN MEETING.—TIII7IISDAY.•
Sweepstakes of five soy. each, and 20 added. Mile and quarter
Mr. Pickernell's Baroness, 3 yrs - - 0 I 1
Mr. Tomes's Tripoli, 3 yrs - - - 2 0 2
Mr. Willow's b. f. by Ambo, 3 yrs - - 1 2 3
Mr. Bartley's b. c. Congeon, 3 yrs - - 0 3 4
A Sweepstakes of 5 soy. each, added to a Cup, value 23 sov.
Mr. Thorne's b. g. 4 yrs - - - 1 1
Mr. Pickernell's b. g. 4. yrs - - - 3 2
Mr. Corbett's b. g. 4 yrs - - - - 2 3
Mr. Turk's c. m. 6 yrs - - - - 4 4
Sweepstakes of 7 SOC. each,, with 20 added.
Mr. Griffith's Palatine, 5 yrs - - - 1 1
Major Gore's Hesperus 5 yrs - . . 4 2
Mr. Howe's Warwick, 4 yrs - - - 3 3
Mr. Astley's Belmont, 6 yrs - - . - 2dr
A Sweepstakes of 6 sov. each, with 20 added, for horses not
thorough-bred, was won by 3lr. Deakin's Cock Robin beating
9 others.