The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-15 00:00:00

IIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1854.

hued, and compelled to submit to the directions of the
Visiting Committee. This was an offence never to be
forgiven. He accordingly holds himself up as a perse-
cuted man and Newton as his persecutor, spitting out
his venom in all directions, and even scrawling his ma-
lignant and vindictive comments on the margin of
those friendly letters which he had received from
Newton. These comments have been diligently re-
corded by Mr. Bailey, and received by the Quarterly
as gogpel proofs of Newton's moral delinquency
Mr. Whewell has undertaken the task of vindicating
the fame of the great philosopher ; and there is not a
man living; it is universally allowed, better qualified to
appreciate his character, whether it be regarded in a
philosophical or moral point of view. Mr. Whewell
thus concludes a careful examination of the question :
" I shall conclude, leaving it to the reader to decide
whether the blame of intemperate virulence of feeling,
and irrational violence of conduct, does not rest solely
with Flamsteed,—whether
.Newton's philosophical
and moral character do not come out from this exa-,
mination blameless and admirable, as they have al-
ways been esteemed by thinking men; and whether
the Reviewer has not shown extraordinary ignorance
of that part of scientific history which he has pre-
tended to elucidate, and unaccountable blindness and
perverseness in the use even of the ex parte evidence
which he had before him."

EXPEDITION OF CAPTAIN ROSS.

The following official letter respecting the vessel de-
spatched to the relief of the whalers supposed to be detained
by the ice in the Northern Seas was on Saturday afternoon
received by the Secretary to Lloyd's : _

" Admiralty, Feb. 13, 1836.
" Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Com-
mittee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, that a letter has
been this day received from Captain Ross, of his Majesty's
ship Cove, dated Stromness (Orkneys), the sth inst., reporting
his having, notwithstanding the long continuance of heavy
northerly gales, reached the long. of 31 deg. W., and lat. of
59 deg. 37 min. N. ; but in consequence of the injury done to
the ship by a heavy sea having struck her, carrying away her
bowsprit and otherwise damaging her, he had been compelled
to return to Stromness to refit.

(Signed) " C. WOOD.
To W. Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's."
Extract of a letter from Stromness, dated Feb. 11 :
" His Majesty's ship Cove, off Stromness, Feb. 5.
" Jan. 28. —At half-past four this afternoon a heavy sea
struck the_ship, carried away her bowsprit (more than five feet
and a half in circumference), split her stem, carried away the
knees, and did other damage. Many men's hearts failed, but
the rest behaved very well. Had the sea struck her on the
broadside, she must have gone down. The shock was terrible.
Jan. 29. —Busy making the ship as safe as possible, going be-
fore the wind for the Orkneys. What we shall do when we get
there, I don't know. I hope that the Admiralty will give us
a sounder ship to go on with. Oh, the poor fellows in the
missing whalers !"

BRIGHTON-SUNDAY:

Their Majesties, Prince Ernest of Hesse Phillipsthal, Prince
George of Cambridge, the Royal Suite and Household, at-
tended Divine Worship in the Palace Chapel this morning.
The Countess of Mayo Was the Lady in Waiting, and the Rev.
Dr. Foord Ilowes the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting.
Prayers were read by the Revs H: M. Wagner, assisted by the
Revs Dr, Everard. The latter preached from the Ist Peter,
4th chapter, Bth verse j and the choir sang an anthem, composed
by Marsh, from the Collect of the days
This afternoon the King and the Princess Augusta drove to
Shoreham by the upper road, returning by the coast.
The Queen and the Landgravine also drove out this after-
noon, and, we believe, attended Divine Worship at St.
George's Chapel.
The King, being free from the pressure of State business
yesterday morning, took advantage of the mild and beautiful
weather and drove out with the Queen on the Lewes-road.
Their Majesties passed through the Earl of Chichester's park
at Stanmer, and drove over the Downs, returning to the
Palace by way of New England Farm. In the afternoon,
the weather continuing unusually fine, the King drove to
Shoreham in company with his Royal sister, the Landgravine
of Hesse Homburg. Her Majesty in the afternoon, accom-
panied by Prince Ernest, Countess of Mayo, Miss Hope John-
stone, and Lord Elphinstone, walked from the Palace grounds
across the old Steyne to the Chain Pier, where her Majesty
remained for nearly an hour. Having condescended to make
some purchases in the Chain Pier saloon, the Royal party re-
turned to the Palace. Her Majesty had no domestic attend-
ants with her.

The Royal dinner party on Friday evening compriesd Earl
and Countess of Cavan, Sir Thomas Bradford, Lieutenant-
General Sir Thomas Montresor, Hon. Colonel,Howard, Ad-
miral Sir James Whitshed, General Gascoyne, and Hon. Cap-
tain Campbell, R. N.
Yesterday evening their Majesties entertained to dinner Lord
Teignmouth, Marchioness and Lady Elizabeth Cornwallis,
Hon. Colonel Howard, Bishop of Lichfield, Mrs. and the
Misses Ryder, Lady Elizabeth and Miss Talbot, Lieutenant-
General Sir William Keir Grant, Lady Frances Somerset,
Rear-Admiral Sir Edward King, Mr., Lady Sarah, and Miss
Bayley, Hon. Captain G. Poulett, and the Hon. W. and Mrs.
Ashley.

Prince George, accompanied by Viscount Falkland, joined
the East Sussex Fox Hounds yesterday, which threw off in
the neighbourhood.
The following distinguished persons called at the Palace
yesterday :—Admiral Sir J. Whitshed (to take leave), Cap-
tain Towe, Mrs. Concannon, Lieut.-General Sir Thomas
Bradford, Right Hon. Richard Lambert, Earl of Cavan,
Captain Vansittart, Marquis of Bristol, Lord Fitzgerald, Sir
R. and Lady Wilmot, Lady Fraser, Earl and Countess of Be-
verley, and the Ladies Percy.