The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-05 00:00:00

tuition ; Oncl I shall, therefore, give you, with the greatest
respect and cordiality--Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Bent, and the rest of the Royal Family.-7(Loud and
vehement cheering, followed by a salutb of 'guns.) -
Sir R. OTWA4Z again rose and said,—Gentlemen, the
tine of our distinguished visitor is limited, and I hall,
therefore, be brief. I have now the honour to propose to
you the health of our illustrious visitor, the hero of a
thousand battles, Marshal Soult.—(lmmense cheering.)
Proud as lam of distinguished station which I hold in
our beloved Queen's service and household, I am hardly
less proud of the honour of receivingun board her Majes-
ty's ship the illustrious stranger who sits on my right hatid
hero to ithtim may justly be applied the words which
were once applied to Washington the Cincinnatus of
America—

" Cradled in arms, a soldier from his birth,
He stands the awe and glory of the earth."
(Loud cheers.) These lines are perfectly appropriate to
our distinguished visitor, who, I trust, will carry with him
to France such impressions of the reception he has met
with here, as must cement more closely than ever the ties
of amity and friendship between thp icy° , countries.—
( Hear, and cheers.) it was once said by Frederick the
Great, King of Prussia, that if he wore King of France
not a musket should be fired in Europe without his per-
mission. If this be so, now that we have established un
alliance perpetuel entre France et r Angleterre, I have
no fears that the peace of Europe will be for many
years disturbed. I speak in the presence of many military
and naval officers, and perhaps it may be said arinst my
own interests, for our trade is war ; but I am for peace—
(Hear and cheers)—lasting and perpetual peace, between
the two great nations of France and England. Gentlemen,
I have received many proofs of the honourable and gene-
rous character of the French people- and the sword which
now hangs by my side is ari illitstralion Of this feeling On
their parts ; for it was presented to me by the French in-
habitants of Martinique, as a mark of their esteem, at a
time when England and France were hostile to each other.
—(Cheers.) I now give you, with every feeling of respect
and esteem, the health of his Excellency Marshal Soult,
Duke of Dalmatia, and may he long live to enjoy his
well-
earned laurels.

The toast was drank with three times three, and great
applause.
A salute of cannon followed, and a gust of wind having
carried the smoke through the cabin windows, the gallant
Admiral observed that be would make do apology to the
Marshal, as the smell of gunpowder must be familiar to
him, and must be reviving to the heart of an old soldier.
Marshal SOULT placed his hand upon his heart in acknow-
ledgement of the compliment, and immediately rose to re-
turn thanks for the honour paid him. He had received the
most cordial and flattering reception in every part of Eng-
land, and he should not fail to report to his Sovereign, the
kind and cordial manner in which his old friend Admiral
Otway had welcomed him at Sheerness. He hoped that
peace and friendship would be hereafter cultivated between
England and France ; that all rivalry, except the generous
rivalry of two friendly Powers in the arts of peace would
cease, and he felt much pleasure in drinking the health of
all the Naval and Military Officers present.—(Cheers.)
The Abittram. then proposed the health of _.Sir Philip
Durham, Coriarnandef-in-Chief at Portsmouth, who had
come over expressly from that station to do honour to the
Gallant Marshal on his departure from this country.—
(Cheers.)
Admiral DURHAM returned thanks. In the name of
the military, naval, and civil departments of the port, he
begged leave to return thanks to the Marshal and his
friends, for the honour they had conferred on them, in
visiting the docks and arsenal of Sheerness.—(Hear, hear.)
He could assure the illustrious strangers, that that atten-
tion on their parts would not be lost upon the English
people:—(Cheers.) He wished his Excellency and suite a
safe and speedy passage home ; and when they returned to
their able and enlightened Monarch, whom he had no doubt
providence had sent to them for the regeneration of France,
and the peace and happiness of Europe, he trusted they
would be able to tell him, from the reception they had met
with in every part of England, that the British nation was
not insensible to the honour he had done it in sending such
a representative.—(lmmense cheering.) He was aware
that the Marshal was pressed for time, and as many com-
pliments had been already paid him, much better than 'any
he could express, he would merely conclude by wishing his
Excellency health and happiness.—(Great cheering.)
Marshal SOULT rose and said, that he regretted ex-
ceedingly being obliged to depart, but he could not retire
without giving them the " Health of Lady Otway and her
amiable and lovely daughters."—(Tremendous cheers.)
Sir ROBERT OTWAY returned thanks in an appropriate
•
manner. •

The Marquis DE MORNAY said they could not take
their leave without again thanking the brave English
people for the kind and hospitable- reception 'they had met
with. He trusted an opportunity would be afforded
himself and his countrymen of repaying it at some future
time. He would give them, with every feeling of sincere
regard, the health of the English people, and the English
• and French Navy united.—(Great cheering.)
His Excellency then took his leave, shaking hands cor-
dially with Sir Robert, to whom, he said, he had been in-
debted for one of the happiest and most delightful days he
had passed since his arrival in England, and that he should
not fail to report to his Majesty Louis Philippe the atten-
tions lie had received.
It was rather a curious coincidence that at the moment
the Marshal rose to propose the health of Lady Otway, a
servant entered the cabin with a magnificent bouquet of
rare exotic flowers, as a gift from her Ladyship to his.
Excellency.
The distinguished visitors then left the ship in the Ad-
miral's barge, under a salute of guns, and about one o'clock
the French steam-boats got under weigh.
On passing the Howe the yards and rigging were manned,
the Marines and guard of the 56th presented arms,
the band playing the National Anthem—three loud
and hearty cheers were given by the officers and crew—the
cheering was re-echoed from the piers, and the other vessels
lying in the harbour—and these were followed by the
discharge of cannon, forming a most brilliant and apg
propriate close to the visit of his Excellency to this
country. Notwithstanding a heavy shower of rain was
falling at the time, his Excellency and suiteNemained upon
the deck of the steamer, returning the salute of the British
man-of-war, and the last gun from the steamer ha I not
ceased to reverberate when the party were far down the
river, on their way to the French coast.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
will entertain a party at Moor Park, Rickmanworth, to-
morrow. Since the period when the Noble Marquis enter-
tained William IV. and his Queen a sum considerably more
than 30,0001. has been expended on the estate.
The Marchioness of Normanby is entertaining a
family circle at Mulgrave Castle, Whitby. Lord Mulgrave
and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Liddell, from Eslington
Hall, are among her Ladyship's visitors.
The Duke of Leeds is expected to arrive at the
Clarendon Hotel to-day, from Ilornby Castle, for a few days,
on business connected with the affairs of the late Duke. His
Grace will return to the north preparatory to his annual visit
to his shooting quarters, Mar Lodge, in Aberdeenshire.
In 1815 I fully satisfied myself of the Carrion Crow's
inordinate partiality for young aquatic poultry. The cook had in her
custody a brood of ten ducklings, which had been hatched about a fort.
night. Unobserved by anybody I put the old duck and her young ones
in a pond, nearly three hundred yards from a high fir-tree, in which a
carrion-crow had built its nest; it contained five young ones almost
fledged; I took my station on the bridge, about one hundred yards from
the tree. Nine times the parent crows flew to the pond and brought
back a duckling each time to their young. I saved a tenth victim by
timely interference. When a young brood is attacked by an enemy, the
old duck does nothing to defend it. In lieu of putting herself betwixt
it and danger, as the dunghill fowl would do, she opens her mouth and
shoots obliquely through the water, beating it with her wings. During
these useless movements the invader secures his prey with impunity.—
fl aterton's Autobiography.—Quarterly Review.
SOUL T AND ALLAN CUNNINGIIAM.—Our
good friend Mr. Allan Cunningham was introduced to Marshal Soult,
and as the interview was interesting, the reader, we should suppose,
will be the reverse of displeased to peruse a hurried note of it, given
as nearly as possible in his own words :—" I saw him at his residence
at Portland House; he received me kindly, took me by the hand,
d me on a sofa beside him, and said he was indebted to his friend,
thiaecßaron de P., for making us acquainted. I said I had desired to see
a man. of great and strong talent by Nature, and not by Act of Pal lia.
ment , that I had long admired him for his generous tribute to the me-
mory of Sir John Moore, and looked upon him as one of the noblest.
minded of our foes. He smiled at this, and turning to me said—Foe !
was your foe, at least in the coarse sense of the word; I was
never
taught to respect you in the sternest of all schools, the battlefield; and
it was only yesterday I told your young Queen that Britain and France
had tried the sword long enough to each other's harm, and should now
try what friendship could do, and thus ensure the peace of Europe. I
bowed and replied—Marshal, you are still in the field; you have won
other countries by the sword, and now you come to conquer us by cour-
tesy. As I said this he pressed my knee gently with his hand, and made
some allusion to poetry. He is a noble martial-featured man, tall, too,
and vigorous; and I thought of Austerlitz and many a bloody field as
Ile shook hands with meat parting. But we are not to part yet ; he has
sent me a card for his great ball of this evening (fith July) when I will
again see, I feel assured, the same simple, easy, courteous man I found
during the interview I have attempted to describe."—Dumfries Courier.
ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON IN
1815, BY A LADY OF TILE COURT OF LOUIS TUE XVHL—The Countess
de 81-- no sooner saw Lord Wellington than she fell deeply in love
with him. His eagle-like countenance completely captivated her. The
lady's royalist sentiments might certainly have some share in this en-
thusiasm ; but, be this as it may, the poor Countess was in love. When
in company with the Duke she sighed and assumed all sorts of lan-
guishing airs. She no doubt thought it a very fine thing to have a hero
for her lover. At length a rendezvous was solicited and granted ; but
its result did not appear to convince the lady that the Duke was quite as
amiable and gallant as he was reported to be. She was greatly enraged,
and she spoke of the Duke in the most contemptuous terms, There
are some things which a woman can never pardon ; when the Countess
heard that the Duke had received the baton of a Fr-neh Marshal, she
said that he deserved a cudgel rather than a baton. Only those who
witnessed the state of things in France in 1814 and 1815, can form an
idea of the extravagant political fanaticism which then
prevailed, and
which in several instances was converted into love. The above story I
had from my friend the Viscountess de Vatt--, who was exceed.
ingly intimate with the Countess de Bl—. I communicated it to
the King, who Was much amused by It,