The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-22 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE PARTIES

The Earl of Sefton gave a grand Dinner yesterday, to the
Leading Members of the Opposition.
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset entertained a distin-
guished Party on Saturday, at their house in Park-lane.
The Marquis of "Stafford entertained a Party of Distinction
yesterday, at his house in Cleveland-row.

Covent Garden Theatre was honoured on Saturday evening,
with•the presence of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta,
to see the much adrpired inelo-drama of Cherry and Fair Star,
for the third time since its performance.
Yesterday afternoon the Princess Augusta rode to Kensing-
ton, on a visit to the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Sophia.
The Marquis of Conyngham, Marquis Londonderry, Lord
Mountcharles, Sir William Knighton, and Mr. Walker, the
apothecary,, are to attend his Majesty to the Continent.—The
Marchioness of Conyngham and Londonderry are to join the
Royal escort at Paris and at Vienna.
MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCES IN HIGII LIFE.—A young
and wealthy Duke is again named for the daughter of a certain.
Marchioness.—The Earl of Denbigh has been putting Sher-
borne Castle in order lately,preparatory to his marriage.—Lord
Viscount Stopford, son of the Earl of Courtown, we hear, is ex-
pected to lead to the hymeneal altar a sister of the Duke of Buc-
cleuch.
Lail)? Gresley has announced to her friends that she is at
home, on Monday the 29th inst. and every succeeding Monday
during the season. The Concert which is to be performed at
ker Ladyship's is not to take place till the 27th instant.
'Lord Kinnaird and his family are residing at Rome, where
the. Noble Lord forms the centre of a circle which comprises
all the talent and fashion of that renowned city.
By the sale of the furniture and the materials of Wanstead
House, and the letting of a consjderable portion of the land on
building leases, Mr. Long Wellesley will add upwards of
10,0001. per annum to his income.
Sir William Johnstone Hope has removed into the Admi-
ralty House, lately occupied by Sir George Warrender ; and
Sir George Clerk will occupy the one which Sir Henry Hotham
quits.

THE CHAPEL ROYAL.—The KING attended
Divine Service yesterday at the Chapel Royal, St. James's,
and heard a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Edridge, from the 4th
chapter of St. Matthew, and the Ist verse. The Church Ser.:
vice was read by the Rev. Mr. Holmes, the Sub-Dean ; the
Rev. Mr. Hayes, and the Rev. Mr. Barham.—The Te Deane,
&c. was King's, in 1) ; the Sanctus was Dupuis', in D; the
Anthem was " Cod is our hope and strength," Dr. Greon ;
admirably sung by Messrs. W. Knyvett, Nield, Molincux,
Clarke, Hawes, Evans, and Roberts. The verse part by the
four first Gentlemen.—Sir George Smart presided at the organ;
Mr. C. Crosdell at the violoncello, as Lutanist to the King.—
The Bishop of Lincoln attended as Clerk of the Closet.—At
the close of Divine Service Col. Stephenson, the Surveyor-
General, and Mr. Mrsh, of the Lord Chamberlain's Office,
attended his Majesty to view the Court rooms of the Palace,
which have been repaired, altered, improved, and decorated.—
The King was accompanied by the Princess Augusta, who also
attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal. His Majesty
entered and returned from the Palace by the Garden entrance.
A number of persons, respectably dressed, lined the Mall, to
make their obeisances, and to pay their dutiful respects as his

Majesty passed.
BRITISH INSTITUTION.--This Institution,
which does honour to the taste and liberality of those distin-
guished Patrons of the Arts by whom it was founded, closed
its winter Exhibition on Saturday last, much to our regret,
and, considering the peculiar merit of many of the productions,
and the general excellence of the whole, to the regret of the
public also, as we are of opinion that its attraction would have
been unabated for a longer period. But we presume that it
has been closed for the purpose of preparing for another exhi-
bition of the same kind. It would be unjust to conclude with-
out paying a tribute to the attention and courtesy of Mr. YOUNG,
the Keeper, and to the taste, judgment, and impartiality, which
characterised the general arrangement.
THE FINE AtiTs.—The Society of Painters in
Water-Colours on Saturday gratified the connoisseurs with a
private view of their annual exhibition at the Egyptian-Hall,
Piccadilly. It is with much pleasure we state, that there is no
appearance of decline in that elegant branch of art, but that it
fully maintains the standard of excellence which it exhibited
last year. We have not room to particularize the several
works ; yet it is but just to state that the productions of
FIELDING, PROUT, ROBSON, W. TunwEn and other art-
ists of well-known talents, are highly creditable to themselves,
and will be very gratifying to the public.
LORD BYRON.—We are requested, by a cor-
respondent, to correct some mis-statements which have got into
circulation on the subject of the late increase of fortune to
which Lord and Lady Byron have succeeded by the death of
Lady Noel. The following particulars, we are assured, are
correct :—" The late Lord Wentworth left, by will, a life-
interest in his Leicestershire estate (about 6,0001. per annum)
to his sister, Lady Noel, at whose death it was to descend to
Lady Byron, for her life only, and consequently to Lord Byron,
in right of his wife, during her Ladyship's life. At the period
of the separation between Lord and Lady Byron, it was agreed
to by his Lordship, that should he, by Lady Byron's surviving
Lady Noel, ever come into possession of the rental of the estate,
a friend should be named by Lady Byron, to meet a friend on
the part of his Lordship, and that their decision should fix
what portion of the rental should be appropriated to her Lady-
ship's sole use. Lord nacre, on the part of Lady Byron, met
Sir F. Burdett, on the part of Lord Byron, and they have de-
cided that one moiety of the net annual produce of the estate
shall be appropriated to her Ladyship."—( The Times.)
The play of Kenilworth has been produced at
Dublin with great success ; we subjoin an extract
from The Observer paper of that city, on the
subject of Mrs. Burces Queen Elizabeth:—
" Mrs. Burrx was the representative of Elizabeth, and gave
us, both in dress and demeanour, a lively idea of the virgin or
virago Queen. The imperious passions of one invariably ac-
customed to command—whose decisive oilier precluded the
possibility of disobedience—whose love and tenderest feelings
were subservient to her state and dignity as a monarch—these
and all the prominent attributes with which history has in-
vested this Royal artd extraordinary personage, were delineated
by Mrs. BUNN with a force, brilliancy, and truth of colouring,
. that place her high on the list of histrionic artists."

ROYAL NAVY, &c.
The Alligator, 28, at Deptford, is ordered to be commis-
sioned.

On Thursday the Fanny transport arrived at Portsmouth,
from Malta, with troops and returned Government stores. She
left that island on the 22d February, when there were there his
Majesty's ships Rochfort, 80, (Vice-Admiral Sir Graham
Moore, K.C.8.), Dispatch, Chanticleer, and Adventure. - She
is under quarantine.
We learn by letters from Jamaica (received by the Parthian)
that the Tribune frigate, Capt. Willoughby, C. 8., and the
Nautilus, 18, Capt. Isham Chapman, were soon to leave the
station for England. The ships composing the squadron were
thus stationed:—Sybille, Captain Jos. Rowley, at.Porto Bello;
Falmouth, Captain Edward Purcell, at the Spanish Main ;
Tamar, Sir William Wiseman, Bart. at Vera Cruz ; Pyramus,
Captain F. Newcombe, C.B. ; Esk, Captain E. L. Warner ;
and Nautilus, Captain Chapman, at Barbadoes ; Tribune,
Captain Willoughby, C.B. ; Tyne, Captain Godfrey ; Suri-
nam, Captain Crole ; Carnation, Captam Walcott ; Bustard,
Captain Wigston ; and the Icarus, Captain T. Herbert, at
Port Royal—(Hampshire Telegraph.)
Captain Godfrey, of the Surinam, has beeri posted into the
Tyne, vice Captain K. White, invalided ; Lieuts. tWigston
and Crone, of the Sybille, promoted to Commanders into the
Surinam and Bustard (the latter vacant by the death of Capt.
W. G. Martin.)
On Wednesday the Parthian, Captain W. Lloyd, came into
Portsmouth harbour, to be paid off. •
On Tuesday the ship Minerva, Captain Bell, sailed for Ho-
bart's Town, Van Dieman's Land, and New South
Wales.—
She took about thirty-five passengers, natives of North Britain,
for the former place.
Capt. Henry E. P. Sturt is appointed to the Tartar frigate,
to be commissioned •at Plymouth for a foreign station. Mr.
James Boyle is appointed Surgeon of the Cyrene:
The following officers of the Tribune have died since that
ship has'been on the Jamaica station :-Lieut. Charles Mur-
ray, Sir. Thomas Dunlof, Surgeon; Messrs. H. B. White
and Finucane, Assistants; Mr. R. Baker, carpenter; Mr.
Brown, gunner ; the Rev. John Luby, Chaplain ; Sir. Row-
ley Hamilton, Midshipman ' • and about 90 seamen and marines.
Lieut. G. R. Tayler, of the Esk, and Mr. T. K. Savory, Pur-
ser of the Sybille, died on the same station.
On Thursday the Cameleon brig, Lieutenant Witham (ten-
der to the Apollo yacht), brought into Portsmouth the smug-
gling yawl-rigged vessel Ann, of Portsmouth, burden about 30
tons, with six men, and a cargo, consisting of 150 tubs•of spi-
rits, four bales of tea, and one bale of silk goods. She was
captured at the back of the Isle of Wight by the smuggler
mistaking the Cameleon for a merchant vessel: Four of the
men being found fit for his Majesty's service have been put on
board the Queen Charlotte, whence they are to be sent abroad
for five years.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—On the 9th March last, at
six o'clock, A. 311.5 a countryman who was employed gathering
sea-weed on Irris shore in the parish of Clonmauny, county of
Donegal, found a bottle which had been thrown out by his
Majesty's ship Fury, Captain Parry, in lat. 62. 8. N. long.
62. 27. W. The countryman, anxious to ascertain the con-
tents of the bottle, conceiving it contained something which
might be valuable to him, instantly broke it, and found a
paper, on which was inserted the following, in seven different
languages :
_ _ Hi! Majesty's ship Fury.

" Set off July, 1821, lat. 62. 8. N. long. 62. 27: W. At
One, P. at., moderate breezes from the northward, dull misty
weather. Hecla in company.

" W. PARRY, Commander."
The paper he gave to Mr. Chichester, who immediately
;ransmitted it to the Admiralty..
The shore where the bottle was found is in lat. 55. 15. N.
Long. 7: 28. W.