The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-26 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

DRURY-I. AN E.-The historical Drama of Wil-
liam Tell was repeated last ❑ight with great •suc-
Cess. It was followed by a new farce intitled
Grand Papa. The fable was'founded, as usual,
upon a love adventure, but the spirited acting of
Mrs. YATES, Miss I.' PATON, TERRY, G ATTIE,
and Mrs. IlAtmowE, did not enable it to obtain
a favourable reception. It was, however, an-
nounced for repetition, but amidst so clamorous
an opposition, that, if repeated, it is not likely
to be more successful.
COVENT-GA ROES.— The Lord of the Manor
was last night represented for the benefit of
SnicLAtit, and we were glad to find that
this able Singer, and respectable man, bad
a very numerous audience. The piece was
highly indebted to the exertions of himself, Miss
PATON, I♦'liss TREE, Miss LOVE, PEARMAN,
FAwcETT, BLANCHA nu, and CHAPMAN, and was
much applauded. The vocal Performers in ge-
neral had encores. After the play Miss PATON,
without the assistance of the band, sang Castle
Carey, and was encored. The farce of The Irish
Tutor followed. CONNOR was so diverting in the
Chief character, that he was obliged to repeat 'his
Violin Concerto, and his whimsical dance.—The
burletta of Midas concluded the whole. StNcr.Ant,
as usual, gave so much pleasure to the audience
in 't Pray Goody," that he was obliged to sing it
three times. _

IIAYMARKET.-AS You Like It was repealed
last night, and Madame VESTHIS fully confirmed
the favourable impression which her first per-1
formance of Rosalind excited, and justly received
much applause. Mr. Mu nc was not equally suc-
cessful in his repetition of Jaques. He too evi-
dently copies the peculiarities of Mr.MAcaEAny,
and is in general too formal in his action, and too
precise in his utterance. Let him throw off
imitation of any thing but Nature, and rely on
his own conceptions, and then he will be more
intitled to public favour. We were sorry to see
Mrs. Ilumnir again introduce an apple-or a turnip
in her Audrey, which her talents might render
very diverting without such a coadjutor. She
received a proper rebuke last night from Air.
J. ItussELL, in Touchstone; for raising a laugh
when she began to mumble her vegetable ally ;
• his part of the dialogue would have been lost
if he had not made a full stop, and resumed his
part as soon as her ludicrous avidity ended. The
Theatre was well attended, and the play was
warmly applauded.

The Bishop of Dunii,tm has presented a libe-
ral donation of books to the North Shields and Tynemouth
Scientific and Mechanical Institution ; amongst Which are
Johnson's, Paley's, 14ocke's, Bacon's, Franklin's, Cowper's,
and other works; a General Biographical Dictionary, in 1
vols. ; with Jenyns, West, Lyttleton, Watson, and Addison,
on the Evidences of Christianity. T. W. Beaumont, Esq. M.P.
has presented to the same Institution a donation of 10 guineas,
and become an annual subscriber of I/. Is. Nearly one hun-
dred persons have already enrolled their names as members of
this useful Institution. _ . _

A public meeting is to be held on Friday
next under the auspices of the LORD MAYOR, for
superseding the employment of climbing boys.—
Every friend of humanity must take a lively in-
terest in the laudable designs of the benevolent
men who have stepped forward to meliotate the
condition and to lessen the sufferings of these
poor boys; and we doubt not that the. public
will gladly obey the call now made to their good
feelings.
Among the various works of Art that are al-
most diurnally claiming the admiration and .pa-•
tronage of the Public, there is one that from its .
very nature lays claim to both so powerfully,
that we should feel ourselves guilty of some in-
justice did not we contribute our share of exer-
tion towards gaining it the celebrity which it de-
serves—we allude to Mr. STativr's SyLvA But-
TANNIA, a magnificent collection of Etchings,
giving the " Portraits of Forest Trees, distin-
guished for their antiquity, magnitude or beauty."
Such a work may be considered as one of na- ,
tional interest, and accordingly we find it pub-
lished under the express patronage of his MA..
JESTY, and supported by a list of subscribers
including a great portion of the noblest and most
distinguished names in the Kingdom. The exe-
cution of the plates is admirable. They form a
complete series of Views of Forest and NV nod laud
Scenery, and long after the beautiful and re-
markable trees they represent may have bowed
•their leafy honours to the dust, Mr. STRUTT's
delineations and descriptions of them will be
valued by the lover of nature and the topogra-
pher, whose works they are well calculated to
illustrate.
Mcr„%NCHOLT A cctnENT.—Yesterday evening
an Inquest was held at the King's Head; Ranaleigh-street,
Pimlico, on the body of Mr. John Jeffery. it appeared that
on the Ist of May the deceased and a person named Bradford
were returning to town from Kensington, in a one-horse chaise,
and when they arrived near the Half. Way-house, a stage-
coach, drawn by four horses, ran furiously against the chaise,
broke both the shafts, stove in the front, and the deceased and
his friend were thrown out. The deceased was taken us in-
sensible, and conveyed to his house in Pimlico, where he died
on Monday. The night was uncommonly, dark. when the ac-
, cident occurred, and it rained heavily. The coachman stopped,
said the coach belonged to Mr. :3exton, and that he came from
Brentford. When informed that he would be answerable for
the accident, he mounted his box anti drove ofiY, and no one
knew who he was, nor had he been since discovered. All the
witnesses said the accident was the effect of gross negligence.—
The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death"—Deo-
dand 2(ll.—The unfortunate deceased, who was in his 213th
[ year, was a Clerk in the South Sea House, and was in a few
weeks to hare been married to an amiable young female.

One of the superstitions among
the lower
classes in Devonshire is, that any individual neglecting to kill
the first butterfly he may see for the season will have ill luck
throughout the year. The following recent example is given
by a young lady:—" The ether Sunday as we were walking to
church, we met a man running at full speed, with his hat in
one hand, and a stick in the other. As he passed us he ex-
cluimcd, I sha'n't hat'en now, I blieye.' He did not give us
time to inquire what he was so eagerly pursuing ; but we pre-
sently overtook an old man, whom we knew to be his father,
and who being very infirm at upwards of seventy, generally
hobbled about by the aid of two sticks. Addressing me, he
observed—' My zin a took away wan a' my sticks, Miss ;
wan't he ebble to kill'n now though, I blieve." Kill what ?'
said 1. 4 Why, 'tis a butterfly, Alias, the furst hee'th zeed for
the year ; and they zay that a body will have cruel bad luck if
a ditn'en kill a furst a zeeth.' Dorset Chronicle. )
Mr. IlocAr4.—This unfortunate gentleman has
succeeded in effecting his escape from this coun-
try, and is now on his way to America, having
embarked at nowth on board a pleasure boat on
Tuesday last, in which lie was conveyed round
to a northern port, where an American vessel was
lying-to for him) and which he succeeded in
..
gaining, when she immediately set sail.—(Dub-
lin paper.)

,t-' 4—t
(-.. 4,—. --4„i.
vt • \ -,r, ,
7,----, ~ , `-; ‘„t-A-4-t•-,---., ) s' '-0 r•••.• •
iv-;;t:- ,:"-- ..-7'..:1:;:;-1Y" 41..',,A('1 16-,-;‘':- ' --V3l*---
••E=,i: /-: ,i.
'.-(',•
',-, ''''''.2., • rr 4,!---i-N, ,•-• , .. ;
e4.7,41.•,_:x4:;?fr
. -§w:.-, ,-_-,-, i, i • --..4.4,..._ ,F 5.0,,, \o- ,_. , rt....7-0-1,,,„,,-,
' iv-tr, f,,,,,,,,:.k-.„ r,• , , ,_„.„,.,i,.?...,..w.
_,,,,-- ~.
„-c• -i • =.l. 0 ,Ir v., r -
•4,.. ' • - • ..., ') Pr - --V 1%.• re. , 1
I Nrw ...: •1. oh , -,.. -orc.;;,-,,'.-- ,
, A
) ~,,,,..,,....,„....., _..........:
ri :i.%
~ ~, r
41,
, 4r, ab . Irri 016
11

THE KING, &c.

WINDsOIt, MAY 25.—Official information was last evening
received at the Royal Lodge, that his MAJESTY would arrive
there.on Thursday (to-morrow), to Dinner, and, in consequence
the.. greatest possible exertions are making for his reception.
His Majesty will entertain a large Party of distinguished
Visitors at the Royal Lodge during the Races ; and several
'spacious apartments have been fitted up at Cumberland Lodge
for their accommodation. His Royal Highness the Duke of
York. will, as usual, occupy Frogmore Lodge, the seat of his
• Royal Sister, the Princess Augusta, during the Race week. The
Royal Duke is expected on Friday or Saturday next to dinner.
The Earl of Harrington, Governor of Windsor Castle, will
entertain a large and distinguished Company of Visitors, at
the Round Tower, during the Races—The Earl of Sefton will
also have a large Party at his seat, Stoke Farm, Bucks.—No
circumstances can possibly be more promising than the present
for an unrivalled display of rank and fashion,.next week, at
Ascot Races. The sport expected far exceeds that of former
years, being the first of several new stakes, Ike. and a great
number of horses have already arrived. Through the personal
exertions of Mr. Jenner, Clerk of the Course, the ground wax
never known to be in better order ; and should the weather
continue favourable, it will have more the appearance of a
bowling green than that of a race course.

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
Emily, Marchioness of Londonderry, from her seat, North
Cray, Kent ; Sir William and Lady Congreve, yesterday, from
a tour on the Continent ; Balfour, Esq. at the Cleveland Ho-
tel, from his scat in Scotland; Richard Norris. Esq. at Fenton's
Hotel, St. James's-place, from Hastings; R. Rushbrooke, Esq.
at ditto, from his seat in Suffolk ; J. W. West, Esq. at ditto,
front • Leicestershire ; Mr. and MrS. Dymock, at Jordan's
Hotel, St. James's-street, from a tour; Lord Dunally, at
Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs.
Wilkinson, and Miss Williams, at ditto, from Wales; the Earl
of Miltown, at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, front
Paris ; lion. Richard Bingham, at ditto, from Paris ; Colonel
Stead, at ditto, from Berks ; the Count and Countess de Sails,
rt the Waterloo Hotel, Jertnyn-street, from Bath ; Sir John
Smith; Bart., and Ladies, at Nerot's Hotel, CliWord-street,
front Dorsetshire ; Airs. Mansfclt, and Ladies, at ditto ; Sir
Neild O'l)onnald, at ditto ; Mrs. Hulton and Ladies, at ditto ;
J. Staples, Esq., and Mrs. Staples, at ditto ; George Buller,
Esq., and I',lrs. Buller, at ditto; J. Hornby, Esq., and Mrs.
Hornby and Ladies; at ditto.
CHANGES —Lord and Lady Somers, from the St. George's
Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Ramsgate; Mrs. ('hannon, front
Icklefield. House, Hens, tbr Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. Scourfield,
front the St. James's Hotel, for their seat in Wales ; Captain
and Mrs. Payne, from the British Hotel, for Paris; W. W.
Salmon, Esq. and Mrs. Salmon, from Nerot's Hotel, for South-
ampton House, Devizes; John Bateman, Esq. and Ladies,
from ditto ; Close, Esq. Mrs. Close, and Miss Close, from
ditto, for Lancashire; Mrs. Payne and family, front ditto, for
Paris.

ARP IVALS AT CUELTISNIIA M.—Lady Sherbrooke, Lady
Tare, Capt. Saunders, Rev. 'l'. B. Woodmand, Capt. Hunting,
Major Barnes, Lieut. Coyer, Capt. Grantham, Capt. Mitchell,
Capt. Griffith, Major Hawes, Rev. R. Heath, Rev. 31r.M organ,
tiir .J. Packington, Colonel Hughes, Capt. Ridley, Capt. Cal-
yersh, Copt. Gray, and the Rev. Mr. Wellerd.—Messrs. What-
ley, Bailey, Corneille, Hammet, Fuller, C. T. Taylor, Gil-
lingham, F. Beaty, F. Whitmore, H. Wltatling, &c.

• • FASHIONABLE PARTIES.
Yesterday Mr. Secretary-Canning entellained the Cabinet
Ministers to dinner, at Gloucester Lodge, Brompton.
Lord and the Honourable Miss Kenyon, gave a grand ball
and supper, on Tuesday evening, at their house in Portman-
square, which was very elegantly attended.
Lady Bose gave a grand rout on Tuesday evening, at ha
house in Palace-yard, which was attended by upwards of 300
of the Haut Ton.

Lady George Cavendish has issued cards of invitation for a
bail, on the 3d June, at Burlington•4louse.
Lady Melville has issued cards of invitation for a quadrille
ball, on the 3d June, at the Admiralty.
The Countess of Grosvenor has issued cards for a grand rout,
on die oth June, in Lower-Grosvenor-street.
W. Egerton, Esq. M.P., gave a grand dinner on Tuesday
last, at his house in St. James's-square, to Lady Louisa Grey,
Sir A. Edmonston, Sir John Chetwynd and Lady, and Miss
Sykes, Admiral Curzon. Mr. Mrs. and Miss Angerstein,
Mrs. and Miss Bowman, Mr. Powis, Mr. C. Sykes, Mr. Lang-
ham, &c.
Lord Bridport had a grand dinner party yesterday, at his
house in Wimpole-street.
The Bishop of Exeter entertained a distinguished party to
dinner yesterday, at his house in Great George-street, ♦Pest.
Lord Sherbourne had a dinner party yesterday, at his house
in Lower Grosvenor-street. •
Sir Robert Preston, Wm. Peel, Esq., the Earl of Suffolk,
11. Clive, Esq., the Dowager Countess of Cork, Mr. Weyland,
and Lord Holland, had dinner parties yesterday.
Lady Henderson Durham -opened her elegant mansion in
Hill-street, Berkeley-square,. yesterday evening, to a brilliant
assemblage of distinguished tashionables of upwards of 300,
the kind attention of her Ladyship and gallant Admiral Sir
Philip, were courteous and unremitting.
The Earl of Derby entertained the Directors of the Antient
Music and a large party to dinner yesterday, at his house in
Grosvenor-square.

The Duke of York, the Princess Augusta, the Princess
Sophia, and the Duchess of Gloucester, visited the King yes-
terday.
Yesterday the Duke of Wellington had an audience of his
\laiesly•
Prince Leopold honoured the Italian Opera House with his
presence on Tuesday evening.
31 AnniAar: Is HIGH LIFE.—The lion. Mr. Stourton is
shortly to lead to the Hymeneal altar the Hon. Lucy Clifford,
third daughter of the Right Hon. Lord Clifford.

A HoAx tiros AN ANTIQUARY.-Many of Ili
remember PINKERTON'S imposing upon the literary world the
second part of " llardyknute, ' published in his select Scottish
Ballads as a genuine Legend, and that after having said, in his
dissertation, " I am indebted for most of the stanzas, now re-
covered, Of a lady in Lanarkshire," this in-
„memoryed himself the author of the forgery.
,e
_.zi?its gentleman
to the
confe
The more recent, but equally successful, attempt of the late
GEORGE STEEV,ENS, to foist upon the Antiquarian Society
a rude inscription, in Saxon characters, manufactured by
himself; upon a stone which, by chemical process, had assumed
the semblance of age, excited ridicule at the tune, at the ex-
pence of the venerable sages of that illustrious body. A
hoax has been lately practised upon a Learned Magistrate
in a neighbouring county, whose historical labours in the
publication of a new Edition of the very rarest of our
County llistories, do him so much honour. The occur-
rence runs thus :—The ingenious Editor, during the last
thirty years, had in vain sought for a portrait of that eminent
Statesman, Sir RALPH SADLER, who was born in Hertford-
shire, as a desideratum to complete the illustration of his his-
tory. Having at length given up the pursuit in depair, a
Learned Friend of the Magistrate, whose laborious and splen-
did armorial achievements will perpetuate his tasteful research,
made an etching from fancy after the manner of the period in
painter of the time, affixed
aborioas and amiable Editor
which the Statesman flourished, with the name of Manx
ttobt it;it n
he which e
bbirtaet,ie ttl
op ot rhter a t
as a genuine portrait of Sir RALPH SADLER. Nothing
could exceed the grateful acceptance of this relic by the
topographical enthusiast, who circulated the important dis-
covery with uncommon industry. A seeming ratification of
the supposed reality of this portrait occurred about a fortnight
back, in the sale of GARIIICK's engravings and other gems, at
CHRISTIE'S Rooms, when sonic ingenious person or another
had -managed to insert a copy of this etching into one of the
lots of miscellaneous prints. 'The Print Collectors, ever on the
alert, soon made the discovery which was whispered about the
town two or three days befbre the sale, and when this !mile-
scribed lot come to the hammer, the competition to pur.
chase it occasioned the contemptible scrawl to be knocked
down for the sum of four pounds and ten shillings, at which it
was bought by an eminent house in the city. The author of
this hoax, whose love of truth is proverbial, having enjoyed hisjoke,
and
in which, with infinite giNd nature, lie
confessed the invention. It is due to the hiStorian Of Hertford.
shire to state, that he is now equally ankious to do away the
the
impression o
learned
n lltl wgisis h
tirlgte, to
carry
this false discovery was calculated to slake, by re-
aiait any further, wrote a letter to
ti • tOWct1 f.)
lacing the whole story to his .friends,--:(.,,l,lQrnin • •

POETRY.

TIME.
[Extracted
.from the Second Part of " THE COUNTRY MI
NISTER," by the Rev. J. --RETTEEE, of Rotherham.]

Oh! Time, inestimable treasure, none
Thy value know, or prize, till thou art gone :
Youth wastes thy brightest hours in idle dreams,
Basking too long in pleasures sunny beams,
And manhood, careless of thy hast'ning flight,
Oft seeks in sinful haunts a false delight--
Till age, admonish'd by its wither'd bloom,
Sighs o'er thy loss, and sinks into the tomb.

Days of my youth, how o'er my thoughtless head,
On golden pinions ye, like angels, fled :
And such ye were—such fair, unearthly things,
Heaven's brightest lustre on your radiant wings
Oh ! still to memory dear, ye College bowers,
Where I so dally'd with the playful Hours,
Wreathing around their smiling brows fair flowers,
Whilst Wisdom beckon'd to her sober shade,
And warn'd-me oft that flowers were dooni'd to fade :
How, like a child, their brilliant bloom I priz'd,
And Wisdom's grave rebuke too long despis'd !

Instructors of my youth ! as o'er past years
My mournful spirit sheds repentant tears—
Ye who would warmly praise, or mildly blame—
Can I forget each lov'd, each honor'd name ?
Ye were the Foster-Fathers of my youth,
Ye led me to the sacred lane of Truth :
And if I listen'd with too light an ear,
Yet did my heart your warning voice revere.
Long may ye live—long, as your life endures,
Be every earthly blessing richly yours!
My Alma Mater! would that verse of mine,
Around thy brows, one laurel leaf might twine :
But, nurs'd beneath the Muse's fostering wing,
Some nobler bard thy praises yet shall sing,
His tuneful lyre resound thy shades among,
And consecrate thy name in loftier song.

Companions of my youth ! but yesterday
It seems we parted on our deatin'd way :
Yet, since that parting, many years have fled,
And many hopes been blighted—hearts have bled,
That knew no anxious care, or grief, before,
And some, then young and gay, are now no more.
A wanderer one, where Time's revering hand
Huth spar'd fair Greece, the glories of thy land,
Far from his home and friends—and none to save—
Found, on thy classic shore, a stranger's grave.
Another young adventurer cross'd the main,
Indignant at thy wrongs, romantic Spain :
But ah ! too soon in freedom's glorious strife,
Ile lost with thee, illustrious 3loonE ! his life,
Where British valour victory dearly won,
And Fame weeps o'er the laurels of her son.
E'en thou, the gentlest spirit of them all,
In scenes of love and peace wast doom'cl to fall :
The Hymenial torch but serv'd to shed
A mournful lustre o'er thy dying bed—
Not all the prayers of love could change thy dooth,
Not all thy virtues keep thee-from the tomb !
All things below are destin'd to decay,
The noblest—loreliest--soon become its prey :
E'en empires tail—earth reels from her strong base—
Ocean usurps her firmest dwelling place,
Nations, who proudly to the sun display
Their glittering arms and ensigns, pass away,
Whilsythat same sun, with his" immortal eye;
Gleams on the tombs where those proud nations lie.
Glory is but a name—the loftiest bust
Soon crumbles from its height to common dust :
The hrightest wreath—tho' deent'd immortal now—
Fame twines ambitious round her radiant brow,
Pluck'd from the greenest laurels of her clime,
Must wither in the autumn blast of Time !