The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-14 00:00:00

ANECDOTES, &c.

REMARKABLE DAY.—This is remarkable as
the anniversary of the battle of Hastings, 1066
for Lialiol, King of Scotland, appearing to a sum-
mons, and pleading his own cause in Westminster
Hall, 1293—0 f the birth of William Penn, the
founder of Pennsylvania, 1641—the death of
John Henley, the orator, 1756—0 f a great earth-
quake at Cephalonia, 1767—and of the tombs of
the Kings of France, in the Abbey of Saint
Denys, being ordered to be destroyed, 1793.
FREDERICK THE GREAT.—The town of Gris-
senbaeh having been burnt to the ground, Frede-
rick rebuilt it at his own expence. When a de-
putation of the inhabitants thanked him for his
benevolence, he replied, " You have no reason to
thank is my dutS% to assist my subjects ;
for no other purpose am I King."

A DELCH ISA, the wife of Sic Ann, Prince of
Beneventum, was perceived by a man as she was stepping out
of her bath. Determined that the noblest dameS in the city
should share the shame she felt, she invited them all to 'her
palace, under pretext of a bath, and when they were all as-
sembled, caused their garments to be cut off from above the
waist downwards, and in this distressing situation, they were,
by her orders, led publicly through the city. The inhabitants,
justly indignant at this outrage, rose up against Sicard and
Adelchisa, and expelled them both from their city.—ls it not
singular that shame should have suggested a vengeance so con-
trary to modesty in its nature?—True modesty must respect
that of others as much as it respects itself.
FATHER II A RDOUI N, a celebrated Jesuit,
broached the singular opinion that the whole of the works ge-
nerally attributed to anci,nt writers were forged by monks,
who assumed the names of Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch,
Tertullian, Augustine, &c.
MARIA THERESA secured the allegiance of the
Hungarians, after they had struggled for two centuries to throw
off the Austrian yoke, by volunteering to take the following
oath :—" if I, or any of my successors, shall at any time in-
fringe upon your privileges, by virtue of this promise, you and
your descendants shall be allowed to defend yourselves, and
shall not be treated as rebels."
At a PARLIAMENT held at WESTMINSTER, OD
Monday in Easter week, in the 15th of EDWARD 111., it was
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ordered that the Chancellor, and all other great officers, be cho-
sen in Parliament, and that men of evil fame be removed. In the
10th of Richard 11., the Commons compelled the King to re-
move the then Chancellor, Sir Michael de la Poole, without
waiting for judgment upon impeachment. The Commons arc
happily now a_days more courteous to our Chancellors.
LAUGHABLE ANECDOTE.—DROY, a Genevian
mechanic, once constructed a clock which was capable of the
following surprising movement. There were seen on it a negro,
a dog, and a shepherd : when the clock struck, the shepherd
-played six tunes on hiS flute ; and the dog,as if delighted with the
music, jumped up and fawned upon him. This musical machine
was exhibited to the King of Spain, who was much struck with its
musical powers. "The playful gentleness of my dog,"saidDroy,
" is his least merit ; if your Majesty will be pleased to touch one of
the apples which are in the shepherd's basket, you will admire
his fidelity." The King took an apple, and the dog, in a mu-
sical tone, barked so loud, that the King's dog in the room be-
gan also to bark. At this the attendant courtiers, not doubting
that the whole was a musical witchcraft, immediately left the
room, crossing themselves as they hurried out.
THE DAUPIIIN expired in 1765, at Fontaine-
' bleau, in an apartment which overlooked the court-yard, in
which the equipages were preparing to convey away the Royal
Family the moment after he had breated his last. Not atfirst re-
collecting this point of etiquette, he asked what occasioned all
that trampling of horses. He was answered, as the most ready
evasion, that it was soldiers changing quarters. He then only
smiled, without speaking ; but some broth being brought to
him, in that quantity which was then the mode of preparation
in France, he said, on size of the bowl that contained it, 44 If
thoae gentlemen are to wait. till I have drank all this, I fear
they will be tired."

RE-BUILDING OF SAINT PAUL'S AT ROME.—Our
readers will recollect that this Church (one of the oldest Chris-
tian Temples in Rome) was burnt down not many months
back. Cardinal Somaglia, the Dean of the Sacred College, Pre-
sident of the Commission for re-building this Church, has lately
sent a begging letter to all the Ambassadors and other Diplo.
matic Agents at Rome, telling them that his Holiness will re-
ceive with pleasure, all the gifts from the faithful of different
parts of the globe, for the re-building of the Church ; but
that no alteration is to be made in the plan, except such as
the Academy of Saint Luc shall find necessary.