The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-24 00:00:00

ROYAL PARTY AT BRUSSELS.

The following Court paragraphs from the Belgic papers,
respecting the movements of the ROYAL PARTY collected at
BE ussEr.s, may be read with interest :
" BntrasELs, SEPT. 18.—The Duke and Duchess of Cla-
rence arrived here yesterday, and will remain some days in
this city.
" SEPT. 19.—Their Majesties the King of the Netherlands,
and the King of Prussia, the Queen of the Netherlands, and
their Royal Highnesses the Pukes and Duchesses of Clarence
and Cumberland, the Princes and Princesses of Prussia and
the Netherlands, set out this morning from Terveuren, and are
gone to examine the great basins and public works at Antwerp,
as well as every thing else that is remarkable in that city.
" SEPT. 20.—The King of Prussia and his sons, with our
Royal Family, have been this morning to visit the field of
Waterloo. It is remarked, that the Prussian Generals (Blucher
and Bulow) whose manoeuvres completed the triumph of the
great day of the 18th of .June, have been already earned off by
death. Napoleon has, terminated his career at St. Helena ; so
that of all the Generals-in-Chief who commanded on that day,
the Duke of Wellington alone remains, who is indisputably the
greatest Captain in Europe. The Minister of the Interior has
given notice that the lectures in the Philosophical College of
Louvain will commence on the 17th of October, and that pupils
in indigent circumstances who desire to enjoy stipends may
apply to him."

The Princess Augusta left Bagahnt Park, where her Royal
Highness had been staying on a visit to the Duchess of Glou-
cester, on Thursday, for her Royal Highness's residence at
Frogmore. The Duchess of Gloucester accompanied her royal
sister, on a visit to the Princess, for some days.
His Royal highness the Prince of Salerno, who lately left
Paris, arrived, on the 15th, At Frankfort, on his way to Vienna.
He is accompanied by Prince Pynatelli.
Yesterday morning the Earl of Liverpool left his residence
at Whitehall, in his carriage and four, for the Royal Lodge,
Windsor Park, on a visit to the King.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town for Beckenham
on Thursday afternoon.
Lord and Lady Dufferin have left London for Ballyleidy,
county of Down.
Mr. Plunkett, accompanied by the Hon. Mrs. Plunkett and
suite, left Kingstown harbour for Liverpool, in the St. George
steam-packet, on Tuesday last.
His Honour the Vice-Chancellor is at present residing at the
Bath Hotel, Boulogne-sur-Mer. Amongst his other occupa-
tions he daily employs himself in reading French with a native.
The Duke and Duchess of Rutland and family are expected
on Monday at their seat, Cheveley Park, Newmarket, from
Belvoir Castle.

The Earl and Countess of Clanricard are expected in town
next week from Ireland.

George Byng, Esq. M.P., Mrs. Byng and family, were ex-
pected to arrive this day at their seat, Ni7rotham Park, from
Ireland. _
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- Viscount Dudley has arrived at his seat, llimley Hall, Staf-
fbrdshire, from a tour.
We understand that his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, on
receiving the melancholy intelligence of the death of Mrs.
%Wellesley Pole Long► %Voilesley, was deeply affected ; and it
is much feared that that circumstance will prevent his Excel.
lency from honouring the Lord Mayor's dinner with hi■ pre.
sence.—(Diiblin Patriot.)
Extract from the will of the late Rev. D. Parr :—" I give a
ring to the Rev. Robert Hall, of Leicester, as a mark of my
reverence for his exemplary virtues, and my admiration of his
sublim. and hallowed eloquence."

Died, on the 12th instant, aged 78, at Carmes,
near Montereau, at the estate of the Marquis de FOUDRES,
Count ANTOINE PHILIPPE de LARDENOY, Lieutenant.
General, Governor of the Tuileries. He was born in Luxem-
burg, and was a model of fidelity and honour, having passed
his life in the service of the Bourbons. He commenced his
career as Page to Louis XVI. was afterwards an Ensign in the
Guards, and in 1780 was Colonel of the second Regiment of
Queen's Cavalry. In 1788 he was named Colonel of the
Provincial Artillery Regiment of Strasburg. He emigrated
in 1791, and with a number of Nobles of Champagne,
whom he assembled at Treves, he organised several Com-
panies under the command of General d'Allonville, and
fought at Maestricht in the year 1793. Some time after.
wards he entered the service of his Britannic Majesty, as
Captain of the First Company of French Gentlemen, and em-
barked at Bremen in the same year to assist the King's cause
in La Vendee. lie returned to France in 1814, with the title of
Field Martial, and was successively named Lieutenant-Gene-
ral and Military Commander at Toulon, which he was forced
to quit on the 28th of March, 1815, but resumed on the 28th
of July following, and restored order in the place, for which the
inhabitants thanked him in a memorial which they presented
to the Kin... On the 11th of April of the year 1816 he was
appointed 'Governor-General of Guadaloupe, which was sur-
rendered to him in a very solemn manner on the 25th of July
by Sir .lames Leith, who was the former Governor. On his
return to France lie was appointed to the Governorship of the
Tuileries, which post he held at his death, which he met with
the same firmneu he had displayed in his lifetime,

POETRY.

LINES on the LION FIGHT at WARWICK.

He that has wander'd through that land of taste,
Where the proud wonder of a thousand years—
Rome's Coliseum, o'er the gloomy waste,
It's giant form in mould'ring grandeur rears !

And, musing, stretch'd upon the grassy floor,
Once the arena of the savage fight,
Dy'd deep by man and beast in streams of gore,
polish'd Romans gloried in the sight ;
In fancy viewing, where the tall arcades
Tier above tier extend in moss-clad height,
The grave Patricians and the blooming maids
Gaze on the sports below with mad delight ;
While silken awnings shade the burning ray,
And show'rs of fragrance cool the panting breath,
To give luxurious relish to the play
Of strife and blood, of agony and death !
He that has mus'd all this, with honest rage
Has thus exclaim'd—" 0 Rome ! imperial Queen !
Could'st thou—wise, learnsd, the glory of thy age,
Enjoy and revel in the savage scene ?
Thou could'st—for not to thee was then proclaint'd,
By Heralds from on high, good-will to man e
Thy bold and rugged nature was not tam'd,
By the soft mercies of the gospel plan.—
Thy faith was folly, and thy rites were shame,
Thy Gods were men, less worthy far than brutes ;
Some pity then thy savage soul may claim,
For such religion well such custom suits.•'
Thus Rome is pardon'd—but, my Country! say—
Who can for thee, one faint excuse avow ?
Thy heathen pastimes make a night of day,
And CHRISTIAN BRITAIN ill the Pagan now!
BRITAIN, the blest of heav'n ! o'er whose rich gat*
The civil arts their countless blessings show'r—
ln moral science, greatest of the great—.
Renown'd for wisdom, elegance, and pow'r
In pure Religion grace'd above the rest,
With Truth's full knowledge like a cloudless day ;
With hosts of zealous, faithful, pastors blest,
Wise, learn'il, and good, to teach SALVATION'S way.
And, in thy love to man, with zeal profound,
(Gratefiul, as might be hop'd, for grace so high),
Sending the Heralds of the Gospel round,
To ev'ry distant coast beneath the sky !
While thus abroad thou wear'st the shining robe
Of lovely Charity and Faith divine,
As 'twere thy joy to humanize the Globe—
Behold ! at home, what brutal crimes are thine !
See thy green vales by savage sports disgrac'd,
Which e'en the Hottentot would blush to own !
Man mangling man !—life ma a wager plac'd !
A spectacle for demon's eyes alone !
Infatuate land I—from thee the gentle grace
Of soft Humanity, alarm'd, departs :
Blind in the mid-day Suw !—'mid GLORY base !
And brWilied amid the tasteful ARTS !
Nor this enough—but must thou, too, engage
The nobler, wiser brutes to learn of thee
To rend each other with excited rage,
That crowds may gaze and shout with maniac glee!
And having tam'd the monarch of the wood,
Caress'd and fed—and in his gen'rous heart
Rais'd kind attachment—then to drink his blood !
Feast on his tortures !—'tis a traitor's part !
Thrill'd not thy breast with one sharp pang within,
When with superior virtue, kind as brave,
The noble-minded beast rebuked thy sin,
And those, by thee devoted, sought to save?
Oh Britain !—rouse thee, lest this dread abuse
Of light and mercy, benefits and love,
Provoke ETERNAL. JUSTICE to let loose
Some fearful visitation from above !
Call on thy Senate ! wake thy alum'bring laws!
Redeem thy name ! and show thou still cans't feel !
Protect the race of brutes, support their cause !
A cause well worthy of the Patriot's zeal.
MARTIN ! proceed !—thy gen'rous task pursue,
And ev'ry honest heart shall aid thy plan :
Hail ! first of conqu'rors ! gifted to subdue,
Not empires—but brutality in Man!
..s The above excellent Poem is, we understand, the pro-
duction of a Gentleman of Leicester.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE, &c.

OXFORD. SEPT. 23,

TICCLISTASTICAL PREFERMENTS.—The Lord Bishop of
Winchester has collated his youngest son, the Rev. R. Prety-
mans to the rectory of Elingdon Wroughton, Wilts.—The Rev.
Charles Pasley Vivian, B.C.L. to the vicarage of 'Wellingbo-
rough, Northamptonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Chas.
Pryce ; patron, J. Vivian, Esq. Portland-place.

At the Eleventh Council of William Slatter, Esq. Mayor of
this City, holden in the Council Chamber, on Monday last, on
the motion of the Mayor, it was resolved, that plate, of the
value of 109 guineas, be purchased, under the direction of a
Committee, and presented, with a suitable inscription, to Thos.
Henry Taunton, Esq. as a lasting token of the grateful recollec-
tion of this House of his many eminent and gratuitous services
rendered to the City during the time he acted as Deputy Town
Clerk.—That the under-mentioned Gentlemen compose the
Committee for carrying this resolution into effect, viz. the Mayor,
Town Clerk, Mr. W. Butler, Mr. W. Joy, Mr. T. Dry, and
Mr. James Hunt.

On Monday last the election of Mayor and Bailiffs of this
City took place at our town Hall, when William Slater, Esq.
the present mayor, was re-chosen, and Messrs. Deodatur Eaton
and Crews Dudley were elected Bailiffs for the year ensuing.
The instances of the Chief Magistrate of this city serving two
years together have been very rare ; a similar circumstance has
not occurred since the Mayoralty of Sir William Walker,
Knight, in the years 1683 and 1684. It appears by the copy of
an ancient Monument in St. Peter-le-Bailey church, (in the
hand-writing of Mr. Alderman Fletcher,) that John Sprunt
was buried there, who was Mayor of Oxford in 1402, and
again in 1405, 1406, 1407, and 1408; he died July 17, 1410.
At a Meeting of the Commissioners of the Thames and Isis
Navigation, held for the 6th District, at Oxford, on Saturday
last, Thomas Henry Taunton, Esq., was unanimously elected
Vestry Clerk, in the room of his late father, Sir W. E. Taunton,
Knight, deceased ; and on Wednesday last Mr. Taunton was
also elected Steward of the incorporated Company of Cord-
wainers, in the room of his late father, who held the situation
upwards of 50 years.
On Monday last Alderman Churchill was elected Mayor of
the borough of New IVoodstock, for the seventh time.

THE LATE WEWITZER..—Tha disappearance or
removal of the remains of the late Wewitzer, has, since his
death, occasioned various conjectures. He died a few months
since in Wild-court, leading from Drury-lane to Little
Wild-street, where he had resided for several years, in apart-
ments at a private house, the landlord of which kept a chand-
ler's shop opposite, and to whom he was indebted fo rent
and necessaries. His death was discovered by a lad, his
daily attendant, who did not sleep there, and who on en-
tering his apartment on the morning found ,him lifeless,
apparently sleeping in his chair. Wewitzer was an annu-
itant of the Guvent-Garden Theatrical Fund, the Direc-
tort of which, on hearing of his death, and knowing his
circumstances, sent instantly a coffin, and gave directions for
his funeral, which, it was supposed, would have been at-
tended by several of his former theatrical associates. Ile
had two sisters one, Lady Trawley, now living at an ad-
vanced age in Ireland, the other in affluent circumstances,
residing near Finsbury-square, with both of whom he had
latterly no intercourse. The last, however, on hearing of
his death, sent also a coffin, with different orders for his_
funeral, and strict injunctions that it should not be of a
theatrical description, meaning neither at the expence of the
fund, nor to be attended by any actors. At this juncture his
landlord conceiving from the marks of respect shown, there was
a prospect of being paid, consulted an attorney, and his re-
mains were arrested. This having reached his friends, re-
course was had to stratagem : two persons declaring iem-
selves an attorney and sheriff's officer, called at the place,
with attendants, bearing a third coffin, who, desiring the
presence of the landlord, addressed him with—" I believe
you imagine you have legally arrested the remains of Mr.
Wewitzer. The person, I understand, who acted as your
officer touched the coffin." "He did," replied the landlord,
" and said I hereby arrest the body of Ralph IVewitzer."
" Then let me tell 'ou," said the inquirer, " he arrested only
the coffin, which of course you may retain, and may it be of
service to you ; but I, as you observe, actually touch the body,
which I arrest, and shall instantly remove." This was done_.
and the comedian was, as privately as possible, interred the
next morning in Bunhill-fields burial-ground.