The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-21 00:00:00

ANECDOTES, &C,

REMARKABLE DAY.—Yesterdny was the Anni-
versary of EDMUND, King and Martyr. He was the last
titular King of Bast Anglia, a country then comprising Nor-
folk and Suffolk, and part of Cambridgeshire, but he was only
tributary King to Ethelred. This Sovereign and his immortal
brother Alfred, attacked and repulsed the Danes; upon their
first landing to invade England. These barbarians, however,
recovering from their panic and defeat, soon forced their way
into East Anglia, where they gave battle to and entirely routed
Edmund, at Thetford. This unfortunate Prince, falling into
the enemy's hands, was severely scourged, bound to a tree,
pierce& with arrows, and afterwards his head was severed from
his body. By the monkish writers it is recorded, that Edmund
offered to surrender himself and submit to the Danish yoke,
provided they would spare his subjects, and permit them to
practice the duties of Christianity ; but the infidels refused to.
listen to, him, hence probably he has been esteemed a martyr,
and obtained the glory of canonization. Ttle remains of Ed-
mund were interred of Breadisworth, in Suflblk, since, in con-
sequence, called Bury St. Edmunds, in a Church erected by
-Ins predecessor. The Saint's body was translated to London
in 1010, Suffolk being infested by the Danes ; hut in 11 years
afterwards it was removed to its ancient place of interment, and
Canute erected a stately Monastery and Church, in which it
was deposited. The gifts presented at St. Edmund's tomb
were of immense value, and at the dissolution of ecclesiastical
houses by Henry the Eighth, the revenues amounted to up-
wards of 1,500/. per annum, which at the time was considered
an immense sum.—Yesterday was also the anniversary of the
first Presbyterian Meeting-house in England, being erected at
Wandsworth, Surrey, .1572 ;—of the death of Thomas Shad-
well, dramatist, 1692;—0f the death of Wilhelmina Carolina
Dorothea, Queen of ieorge the Second, 1737 ;—of the defeat
of the French fleet of Quiberon Bay, by Admiral Hawke,
1759; and of great part of New York being burnt by the Pro-
vincials, 177,5.

THE COMEDY OF LE MARRIAGE FORCE OF

MOLIERE is founded upon the folloviing fact :-.--Thecele-
brated Count de Grammont, during his stay in England, had
been greatly smitten with the charms of Miss Hamilton, and
although matters had gone so far between them as to attract
universal attention, the gay Count quitted London, on his way
to Paris, without making to the lady the expected offer of
marriage. The brothers of Miss Hamilton -set out in pursuit
of the runaway lover, and overtook him at Dover, fully re-
solved to call him out. They chanced to meet him on the
quay immediately upon their arrival, and called out to him as
soon as they came up with him, " Count, have you not for-
gotten something in London ?" The Count, who guessed
their intention, instantly replied, " pardon me, I have in-
deed ; I have forgotten to marry your sister, and I will go
back with you this instant and do.it. '

POTTER, and after him other authors, who have
written upon Grecian antiquities, consider the lowest part of the
Coilon or pit as the place appropriated to the seats.of the Ma-
gistrates, as it is occupied in our theatres by critics and con-
noisseurs. This appropriation of part of the Greek theatres
agrees with a custom still retained in some countries,.espe.
cially in Sweden, where, in the theatre at Stockholm, the
King and Queen sit it two chairs in the pit, in front of the
orchestra.

De LA MOTTE, the celebrated French drama.
tist, being one day at a coffee-house, heard a knot of critics
abuse his tragedy Lees de Castro—when finding he was un-
known, he heartily joined them. After they were tired with
decrying its merits—" What shall we do with ourselves this
evening?" said one. " Suppose," replied Dc la llottc, "we
.go to the seventy-second representation of this bad play."
WILLIAM ARCHBISHOP of YORK, and Lord
Keeper,: when he• was vindicating King James against the re-
monstrances of the Commons, in 1672, said—" As the sun in
the firmament appears to us no bigger than a platter, and the
stars are but as so many nails in the pummel of a-saddle, by
reason of the enlargement and disproportion between our eye
and
.the object : so is there such an unmeasurable distance
between the deep resolution of a Prince, and the shallow to-
prehensions of common and ordinary people, that as they will
even be, judging and censuring, so they must needs be ob-
n9xiout to error and mistake."

•
BLACK PROFILES " rider" for a Glasgow
house in, the muslin trade lately passin through Manchester,
was induced by the cheapneSs and excellence of Mr. Percival's
black profiles to expend a shilling out of his own pocket (for
Glasgow houses do not allow the expellee of portraits to be in-
cluded. in .'s travelling expenses") upon a likeness of his own
physiognomy. The profile, " frame and glass included,"
found its way to a relation of the " rider's" who lives in the
village of .Carstairs, near the splendid gothic mansion recently
erected by Henry Monteith, Esq. M.P. The picture had all
due honour paid to it, being hung over the chimney-piece of the
only room In the domicile of the rider's friend. One day a
moorland far Mer not very distantly related to the celebrated
actress, Mrs. Bunn, whose father is a native of that part of the
country, taking his " kail" with the rider's friend, was shown
the picture, and asked, "Do ye ken wha that is ?" " Ken !"
said the farmer, " how should I ken ? I ne'er saw a black-
moor a' my days but ane, and that was Mr. Monteith's
flunkey."