The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-27 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

The Earl and Countess of Jersey and family, at their house
in Berkeley-square, from Paris • the Earl and Countess Craven,
from their seat in Berks ; Lord and Lady Crawley, .at the Cla-
rendon Hotel, Bond-street, from,their sea in Surrey ; Sir Tyr,
Whitt and Lady Jones, at their house in Park-street, Grosve-
nor-square ; E. L. Charlton, Esq. at Hodgson's Hotel, Dover-
street, from Ludford Park.
DEPARTuiuEs.—The Duke of Devonshire, from Chiswick,
for his seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire ; the Countess of Dysart,'
for her seat in Surrey ; the Earl of. Tyrconnel, from Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, for his seat in Ireland ; Mr. and Mrs.
Nichol, from ditto, for their seat in Wales • Viscount Conyng-
ham, from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street; the Earl of Behnour,
from ditto ; Booth, Esq:- from ditto ; Jones, Esq.
from ditto.

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.
The Marchioncss of Lansdown gave ,a splendid rout on Mon-
day evening,\ at Lansdown House, Berkeley-square, which w,ls
attended by upwards of 300 distinguishedfashionables.. .
Viscount and Viscountess Granville gave an elegant enter-
tainment on Monday; to the Duke of Wellington, Count and
Countess Lieven, Count P. Lieven, Earl and Countess Cow-
per; Earl Clanwilliajn, &c. at their house in Bruton-street,
Berkeley-square. In the evening her Ladyship had a small fa.
shionable party.
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On Mmiday evening the Marchioness of Salisbury gave her
second grand assembly at her house in Arlington street, which
was attended by upwards of 400 persons of the first distinction
and fashion.

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A Correspondent states a circumstance, which tends to
strengthen the report of a transfer of the Royal Library 9f Eng-
land to the Imperial Library at St. Petersburgh. A certain
Great Personage commanded Mr. B— to remove the books,
which constituted the Library at the Palace at Kew, to Buck,
ingham House. J%ir. B. receiving this message from a third
person, and himself feeling, as he thought, the impropriety of
the measure, hesitated to carry the command into effect, unless
he had an order in writing. This hesitation created much dis-
pleasure in the highest quarter, and the books were perem-
torily and in haste removed. Surely this choice and very
select Library is not included in the contemplated bargain.—
(Morning. chronicle.)

PHI LOSOPH [CAL EPIGRAM.
Says the. Earth to the Noon you're a pilfering jade,
What you steal from the Sun is beyond all belief ;
Fair Cynthia replies, Madam Earth hold your. prate,
• The reel'iver is always as bad as the thief."

• ,
- WESTAIINSTEIL ABBEY.—On Sunday West-
minster Abbey, during the performance of Divine Service, was
open to the public for the first• time since the Coronation.—
What attracted universal attention, was, the beautiful and im-
pressive appearance of the Abbey, in consequence of the aisles
and the several monuments and tpmbs having been wholly
cleaned, with astonishing niceness and particularity ; they all
display as much freshness as if they were only just raised.
The whole of the renovations and repairs reflect the greatest
credit on those under whose superintendence' they have been
conducted. To secure the monuments from injury, by being
approached too closely by the spectators, and also to secure an
equal sight to all persons, neat railings are placed in different'
directions, so as to prevent the public from crowding ton closely
around any particular monument. Within ,the Poets' Corner
entrance is placed a board, on which is painted the sums that
visitors will have to pay (amounting in all to two shillings),
who desire to inspect the curiosities on week days ' • and it in-
forms the public that no extra remuneration is to be given ;
and any report of misbehaviour, or violation of these regula-
tions by the servants of the Cathedral, will be received and at-
tended to by the Dean or Senior Prebendary. This regula-
tion, of course, abolishes the custom of making offerings at the
shrine of General. Monk, on the exhibition ,of which, after all
demands had been paid, the public used to be exposed to new
demands for the benefit of the attendants.

During the late tremendous gales, Holyhead
harbour was crowded with outward-bound vessels.; among them
a schooner bound to Corunna, with a Spanish General, his staff,
and family, consisting of 30 persons. It appears that this of-
ficer held a high official situation in the island of St. Domin-
go, and owing,to the late commotion amongst the sable gentle-
men of the place, he was obliged to leave it, with his wife, chil=
dren, officers, &c., upon a very short notice, and got on board an
English brig, bound to Liverpool, where he hired the above
schooner, and was detained at the Head by contrary winds.—
(Morning Paper.)

Lately, a slave in the West Indies, who had
been married to another slave by one of the missionaries, at the
end of three weeks brought his wife back to the clergyman, and
desired him to take her again. The clergyman asked what was
the matter with-her ? "Why, Massa, she no good. The book
say she obey me. She no wash my clothes. She no. do, what I
want her to do," The Minister replied, " But the book said
you were to take her for better or for worse." " Yes, Massa,
but she all worse, and no better. She bad too much, and no
good at all."
• A man applied at the doors of the Crown Bar Court, during
the late AssizeS at Exeter, for admission, but was refused, upon
which he fell into a violent passion, declaring that he must and
would come in, for that he was a prisoner ; this proved to be
correct, for, on entering the Court, ha surrendered himself, hav-
ing been at large on bail.
jlktivito.—The great match made by Mr. Boulton Hawker,
of-Littleford, Suffolk, to drive 'five horses seventy-four miles in
five hours, was undertaken early on Monday morning on the
Bury St. Edmund's-road, over twelve miles of ground. The
stake was for 200 guineas, to make the best of his way. He
started in as light a sulkey as could be placed upon wheels, and
did each 12 miles as follows :—the first, in 47 minutes 10 se-
conds ; second, 48 min. 50. see. ; third, 49 min. ; fourth, 54 min.
20 sec.; fifth, 47 m'in. 22 sec.; sixth, 50 -mM. 18 sec.—The race
'was won easily, with four minutes and fifty-seven seconds to
spare. One of the hind springs of the vehicle broke in doing
the fourth twelve miles, 'which occasioned a delay of more than
five minutes in tying up, but Mr. Hawker soon recovered his
lost ground.. Betting was 2 to 1 on time.
Tine BARCLAY IVIATCIL—Mr. SOMMERVILLE, who has
been trying the match of 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours, at Danee,
in Oxfordshire, resigned on Saturday, after labouring at-it for
more than five weeks. He was too lame and, too much ex-
hausted to proceed. It was for 200 guineas. We have never
as yet heard of the match being accomplished except by Cap-
tain Barclay. .
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Tim =WEATnEu.—The Caledonian coach set
off from this town on Thursday morning, but was unable to
proceed farther than Dalwinnie, owing to the depth of the snow,
of which there was a heavy fall after the boistczeus gales of the
last week. The coach from Perth to this, town has been re-
tarded by the same obstacles.—(lnverness Courier. )
SERVANT? CHARACTERS.—It may be useful to
caution housekeepers in givingor receiving characters 'of their
servants. There are, it seems, a set of persons wlio put on for
the occasion a decent and respectable appearance, and probably
adopt a respectable name, in concert with a servant discharged
for misconduct, and who when applied to give 'a very excellent
character, and, if it succeeds, they receive 31. or 41. as a remu-
neration, and the falsehood is discovered often when too late.—
The penalty of 5001. for giving a false character would assured-
ly attach to such persons, but they are of course never after-
wards seen ox known.

Cun,ious APPLICATION.—Yesterday, a man of
a goodly appearance, and of a rubicond face, that gave evidence
of his having deioted himself greatly to the jolly god, presented
himself in the course of the day, at the Mansion-House, to the
City Marshal, to make a vow ,of eternal sobriety ! The oath
which he proposed to take was fairly engrossed on parchment,
but contained no engagement or penalties in case of fai-
lure ; it assigned as the motive, the wreck of his business, from
his having drank too often and too deeply of blue ruin, &c. &c.
The Marshal was somewhat perplexed by
.this novel applica-
tion, for his inclination not to thwart so virtuous a resolution
was counterbalanced by the irregularity of the thing, and the
want of that security by which the performance of so extraor-
dinary an engagement could rationally be expected to be secured.
He stated the case to the Lord Mayor's legal adviser, to take his
opinion ,upor; the matter. When the application was announced,
there was a burst of laughter at the expense of the unfortunate
- wight, who had for a long time lingered about the
_place before he
could summon sufficient courage to make public application.
It was immediately rejected, • as a thing which no man had in
his power, much less one who had sacrificed so largely, and
whose first step, in all probability, would be to " treat his re-
solution," and to drink an extra bottle to the success of it.—
The unfortunate applicant appeared, upon the rejection of his
oath, to give himself up as a loft man, and retired through the
crowd with a face full of despair and disappointment.

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