The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-21 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.

THE HON. LADY SMITH'S GRAND ROUT.—Her Lady-
, ship gave her second party yesterday evening, at her splendid
mansion, Piccadilly, which was attended by upwards of 500 of
the haul ton. The entrance-hall, saloon, and staircase, were
illuminated with variegated lamps, and decorated with the
choicest flowers. The elegant drawing-rooms are almost match-
less in regard to the looking-glasses and decorations. The large
dining-room on the ground floor was appropriated for refresh-
ments. The tables were laid out with pastry, jellies, and cop_
fectionary, in abundance ; pine-apples, grapes, strawberries,
and every other sort of refreshment, consisting of ices and cool
drink of the rarest kinds, in great abundance. •
Lord and Lady Stewart had a dinner party yesterday at their
house in St. James's-square.
The Countess of Jersey':; rout yesterday evening in Berkeley-
square was very elegantly attended.
Lady Bulkeley had a dinner party yesterday at his house in
Stanhope-street, May-fair.
The Duke of Sussex entertained the Duke of Norfolk,, the
Marquis of Lansdown, the Earl of Albemarle, the Earl of
Surrey, Mr. Coke, and a distinguished party, on Sunday, at
Kensington Palace.
The Marquis of Stafford had a large party at dinner, on Sun-
day, at his house in Cleveland-row.
Earl and Countess Cowper entertained Viscount and Vis-
countess Granville and a large party, on Sunday, at their house
in George-street, Hanover-square.
Lord Ellenborough gave an elegant entertainment on Sunday
to Viscount and Viscountess Falmouth, Mr. and Mrs. Little-
ton, and a distinguished party, at Roehampton.
I Countess Lieven's party on Sunday evening, in Harley-street,
was tery fashionably attended.
The Earl of Mansfield entertained the Duke of Gloucester
and a distinguished party, on Saturday, at his house in Stan-
hope-street.
Earl and Countess Bathurst entertained the Duchess of
Richmond, the Ladies Lennox, and a large party of fashion,
ables, on Sunday, at their house in Stanhope-street.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--.lt is said in the fashionable
circles, that Lord L. Gower will lead in a few days to the hy-
meneal altar the amiable Miss Greville, niece to the Duke of
Portland.

Last night their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Denmark and suite visited Drury-Lane Theatre.

POETRY.

STANZAS.
Long, long my Harp in silence lay

Unheeded and forsaken;
Though zephyrs round it oft would play
Its chords they could not waken.

IIoPE smiling came to breathe a strain,
And rouse it from its slumbers ;
But, pour'd its eloquence in vain
Upon its sleeping numbers.

DESPAIR has brooded o'er its wires
To breathe some plaint of sorrow,—
But vain, to waste its chords, aspires,
One tone it could not borrow.

FRIENDSTIIP its silence strove to break,
And threw kind feelings round it ;
But still unmoved, it would not speak—
Some mystic spell had bound it.

LOVE came at last :—its magic flame
So tenderly was spoken ;
When o'er its strings I breath'd Thy Name
The mystic spell was broken.

Now simple wreathes for thee I'll twine,
Love's wild flowers shall compose them ;
The Minstrel and his Harp are thine
'Till death's cold tomb inclose them.

The PRINCE and PRINCESS of DENMARK this
day visited the British Museum, where they were
received by the Officers of the Institution with
the ceremony due to their high rank, and with a
military salute at the gate.
A HINT TO MONEY-LENDER9.—The follow-
ing curious conversation actually occurred a few days ago, in a
garden attached to a Lunatic Asylum not far from Dumfries.
The interlocutors were the keeper, a very respectable man, and
one of the most manageable of his patients. " Take it easy,
take it easy, Jamie,—you're not working against time man—
and when you come near the border, be sure and keep your feet
offthe flowers."—" The flowers, hurt the bonnie sweet flowers !"
said Jamie, " na, na, I'm no sae daft as that comes to, neither ;
I wad as rune chap MT my ain fingers as crush ane o' them.
There's the Simmer snaw-drap already keeking through its
green sheath, as weel as daisies and primroses, and the
thing that they ca' rocket, although it wad mak but a
puir cracker on the King's birth day —He ! he ! he !
Ay, and there's heartsease, and the rowan-tree, sprigs of
which I aye wear next my skin—the Cane to fleyi awa the
witches, and the tither to keep my heart frac beating. An'
there's ithe: genty wee flower that I gied a bit o' to Tibby
Dalrymple, wha tint her wits for love, and wha said sae
muckle to me through the grating o' liPr cell, about the
gude that t/.3 smell o' a flower wud do her, that could na
find i' my heart to deny her, puir thing."—‘‘ Very well, Ja-
mie," replied the Keeper, " be a good lad, and continue to
dress that little corner until I come back from the Sands." Ou
ay !" rejoined the maniac, " this is 'Wednesday, and you'll
be gaun down to meet wi' some o' your countra frien's.—
It's changed times wi' them, I jelouse. Whaur the public-
house folk used to sell a gallon o' whisky, they dinna sell
a mutchkin now I hear. But that's naething. Their cus-
tomers will get sooner flame to their families, and there'll be fewer
banes broken riding foot-races. But take care o' yourself, Mr.
—, take care that some o' them dinna come Yorkshire owre you.
They'll be inveeting you in to tak' a dram, nae doubt, and
then after making a puir mouth about the badness o' the times,
trying to borrow a little siller frae you. But if I war you, I'll
tell you what I wad do—l wad get twa purses made, and ca' ane
o' them Somebody, and the ither A' the World; and next I wad
put a' my siller in the first, and no a bawbee in the second ;
and then whan ony o' them spak' o' borrowing I wad whup out
the toom purse, and shaking't before the chiel's een, swear that
I hadna a ha'ppenny in 4' the world, until I got it frae Some-
tody ! !"