The Sun.
London, England, 1807-08-24 00:00:00

1114RGATE, AUGUST 23.

The arrivals at this place for the last week ex-
ceeds every thing in'onr memory. Yesterday morn-
ing the packets brought us 300 visitors. We have
Plays, Masquerades, Balls and Concerts for their
amusement. Miss. SMITH, of Covent-garden
Theatre, Wnow our great attraZilion. She has per-
fortnkl Belvidera, and recited CoLLINSIS Ode, with
great effect. She has also appeared in Airs. Oakliw
with equal success, and again recited the Ode. A
very numerous audience attended her. Theatre
is well supplied with performers., This morning,we
had an addition of. 150 visitors.. There are a troop
of Equestrian Performers at Ramsgate, so that this
town and its neighbourhood will, provide entertain-
meats enough, it our w isitoss will bring money.,--
The Lady-birds continue to swarm 'among. us,
and we are not without an abundance of other
insects of a larger size.

Mrs. LITCHFIELD had a very numerous audiehce
on iter benefit nn Saturday at the'Ellymarket Thea.
Ire. The Play was The Stranger, and the Farce
The Allies of a Day. In the, former, YouNo and
I.lrcitnat.o obtained great applause, and in
the latter she acquitted herself with great spirit 'as

Mr. GREEN, of Sorner's Town, has a dog, of a
breed between the greyhound and the Newfound.
laod kind, who feels uneasy
,every morning till he
has hail a glass of gin with bread snaked in it ; and
when tli 0%% tier takes the dog with him to hunt, he
never fails providing him with this exhilirating drop.
Fifty guineas have been offered, but refused, for
this ,singular animal.

Oct Tuesday last WILLIAM ADAMS E q. M. P.
,CToiness, was unanimously elected Recurder of
tat Born

At the commencement of Mr. PITT'S last Admi-
nistration, the dilapidated-state of the Navy became
the objet-1 of inquiry, and the then Board of Admi.
ralty immediately gave orders for 'laying down eigh•
Ships of the line, of 74 guns each, on the vacant
Slips in the King's Yards : these, we understand,
will be all ready tiir launching in the ensuing spring,
The Dublin Evening Post states, that Mr. CIESAR
COLCLOUGH, elder brother of the late Join; COL-
ccouon, Representative for the County of Wexford,
and killed in a duel by Mr. ALcocK. has received
permission to return to Ireland from France, where
he has long been detained a prisoner by BONAPARTE.
•

JOHN WILSON CROKER. 'Esc', M. P. for Downpa-
trick, and who is so likely to distinguish himself in
the Senate, is an Irish Barrister at 'l'Bo4, and se-
cond sou of JOHN Cnottea, Esq. formerly of Cork,
but now Revenue Surveyor General,o(
Gentleman eminent- on account of his literary qnali-
fications, and knowledge of Ireland, and also for a
most convivial and philanthropic disposition.
.Though "Mr. DIBDIN'S new Comedy of Errors
• Excepted was avowedly a hasty production;
.written
chiefly for the .purpose of giving'novelty and variety
to the season; at the Haymarket, it bears the marks
of original. humour ; and, if laughter be a•test of
dramatic merit, the public have given • abundant
proofs in its favour every time it has been performed.
CASINER, the young flarpist, who lately camp from
France under the proteetion of Colonel MACLEOD,
Was brought up under the cape •of the celebrated
Madame Dtt, GENLIs, to whom be is said to be near-
ly related. He is about 16 years of age, and the
first performer on the harp that ever appeared. He
does not perform professionally, and therefore is
followed with great eagerness by the musical world:

On Friday evening a party of Gentlemen at
.t
Tavern in the neighbourhood of Newgate-streat,
made a bet that a young man, then in company,
Who is not more than live feet four inches in height,
did not run round the pavement ofSt. Paul's Church-
yard three times in ten minutes, but to the astonish-
ment of above two htindred spedat?rs, he perform-
ed it in the short space of eight minutes and two
seconds.

PECK Hili4 FAta.--Saturday a qui lam Attorney,
Who had rendered himself odious in the neighbour-
hood of Peckham, was roughly handled by' the po-
pulace at the fair.—lt appeared he haelAbreatened a
notorious depredator who kept an E. 0. table, with
information, unless he was - permitted to shale the
spoil. The Swindler not wishing any other to par-
ticipate in the fruits of his industry, refused to com-
ply ; a quarrel consequently ensued, and the speda-
tars took a decided part against the qui lain, who
was peltel with dirt, and compelled to fly, from, the
fury of his assailants, much bruised and disfigurech