The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-12 00:00:00

PUNS.

Ma. EDITOR—May I crave your. attention,
first acknowledging I am one who am very par-
tial to a l'un, and the worse it is positively I
like exceedingly. I can also enjoy a good Pun,
and I shall, therefore, be very sorry if you lend
your columns as a means to exterminate that
witty body at St. John's, yclept Punsters, on ac-
count of a ------, In reply to JOANNENSIS, if
it will not offend him, may I ask if Gentlemen,
regularly bred, and as regularly professed and
acknowledged, never swear? If they do, how
dare he say that it was a misrepresentation in
your Paper, of which he has given no proOf? He
has confidence enough, I see, to say you,will ad-
mit a libel, and he has confidence enough to fancy
that a .Punster at St. John's mast needs be his ac--
quaintaace; yet, alas! the author of Vindkkc
Jodnnenses claims acquaintance with an UUCOO.
scionable punster, who in a moment of anger (ira
furor brez'is eel) can swear, w hen hungry and
faint and beholding all The good things running
past him to the Fellow's table,, he can get none
for himself. Now, Sir, I ask him, if an unfortu-
nate undergraduate, because he is educated as a
gentleman, and called " to the duties of so high
responsibility," (I suppose his friend has taken
Holy Orders now), if it is his.duty, to pay two or
three hundred a year for his education as such,
and have no one to wait on him at table for
that sum. But, another question I, shall ask
him, is whether he has looked at the Calendar,
and will still venture to say, that no other Mr. K.
than his acquaintance can yon, or whether there
is no other Mr. K. but his friend who was likely
to swear? The cap seems to have fitted ; but
joking apart, it is very ridiculous in JOANNENSIS
to fancy, and much more so in attempting to
make the world believe, that there is not a soul,
whether, a punster or not, in our Universities,
who ever lets slip a , a word you cannot
print at length. Surely JOANNENSIS does not
want to brave you into a breach of literary
practice.

lloping, Mr. Editor, that you will notice this
reply by inserting it in your columns, and continue
occasionally your enlivening selections, of puns,
&c. &c. I shall, as hitherto, always remain
.for
them, a

JOHNIAN WAITER.

ANECDOTES, &c.

THE COMPLAINT--DRYDEN'S wife complained to him
that he was always reading, and' took little notice of her, and
finished her remark with Saying, "I wish I was a book, and
" then I should enjoy more oryatir company."--" Yes, my
" dear," said the Poet, " I wish you were a book—but an
" ilmanack, I mean, for then I should change you every
cc year."

ON SLEEP —Sir THOMAS BROWN informs us in his Re-
ligio Medici, that though he was of a most'saturnine corn-.
plexion, he had frequently composed comedies in his sleep,
and laughed himself awake at the jests of them. He adds,
that such was his opinion of the peculiar power and vigour of
the soul in sleep, that if he could command her operations in
such moments, he would choose them for his devotions, and
for all his more important undertakings !
GALLANT BON-MOT.—A fashionable Countess, asking a
young Nobleman which he thought the prettiest flower, roses
or tulips? He replied with great gallantry, " Your Lady-
ship's two lips before all the roses in the world."
A. FAULT INCANDLES.—RALPII ii-EWITZER, ordering
a box of candles, said he hoped they would be better than the
last. The chandler said he was very sorry to hear them com-
plained of, as they were as good as he could make. " Why,"
says RALPH, " they were very well till about half burnt doWn,'
but after that they would not burn any longer." • -

, THE LA‘l'E SERGEANT LENS.—This Gentleman,
whose death we yesterday announced, was so de-
servedly distinguished in his profession, and so
highly esteemed in private life, that we sincerely
hope that some of his legal brethren, who are able
to appreciate his attainments and render justice
to his personal merits, will endeavour to pay a
due tribute to his memory. He finished his edu-
cation at Cambridge University, and about the
year' 1776 commenced his professional career in
the metropolis. lie had been esteemed as an
elegant scholar and a perfect gentleman before he
left'his College, where he had attained the honour
of being Chief Wranger. He arose by due de-
grees into high estimation, as a learned and elo-
quent Pleader,•not with any of that theatrical
vehemence and affected sensibility which are
too often found among the candidates for legal
celebrity, but by the gradual.developement of
great intellectual powers, combined with a tho-
rough knowledge of law and of mankind, and,
however ardent in support of a cause, he always
maintained that impressive amenity of manners
which characterised the gentleman as. well as the
powerfal advocate. It is well understood that
he might have obtained:high honours in his pro-
fession, but •he was above all osteutation, and de-
clined Whatever offers of that nature were pre-
sented to him, as well on the ground 'of political -.
consistency, as of his connections in
private life. He had, a year or two ago, been
visited by a severe malady, which required chi-
rorgical assistance, and be ivas attended by the
most eminent • Medical Professors of the clay.
He bore the operation that was deemed neces-
sary with the patience and fortitude which might
be expected from a calm, firm, and resolute mind,
and he rewarded the Gentlemen who attended
him with a grateful and even princely liberality.
The effect of the disease, and the nature of the
operation, though it removed the immediate
cause, gave, however, a shock to his constitution,
from which he never recovered, and induced him
to resign all professional pursuits. His person
was an expression of his internal nature. Ile was
Gentlemanly in his appearance and manners, and
placid in his countenance. 4 Inc justice to his
memory it may be fairly said, that the Bar never
lost a more estimable member, o,• Society a more
valuable ornament.

HAARLEM, AUG. 8.---To.day h►s MAJESTY
honoured with his presence the exhibition of the
National Manufactures and that of Paintings.
lIisMAJESTY spent four hours in the eXhihitiori
rooms, and repeatedly expressed his satisfaction
at the perfection of the• National Manufactures.
The Neapolitan General PEPE, Who has for
some time past resided in Brussels, is remarked
only for the prudent circumspection of hiS con-
duct. Ile sees nobody, avoids all society, and
acts in all respects as his situation.requires. It
is thus the General answers the attacks directed
against him.

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THE KING, &c.
WINDSOR. AUG. 1 L—Yesterday and this day his MAJESTY
again visited Virginia Water, where he dined, and.after sailing
about and fishing on the Lake returned to the Royal Lodge
between eight and nine o'clock. Her Royal Highness the
Princess Augusta left Froginore Lodge this morning for Lon-
don : her Royal Highness will return to Frogmore to dinner in
the evening. The largest Party ever entertained by his Majesty
at the Royal Ledge -is expected to-morrow: Among others the
following will be present—the Duke of York, the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, Duke and DuChess of Oloucester, and
the Princess Augusta ; Dukes of Wellington, Dorset,.and De-
vonshire ; the'Foreign Ambassadors, Earl and Countess Liar..
court, Earl and Countess Mount Charles, Lord and Lady
Maryborough, &c.
BRIGHTON; AUG. 11.—Tile Duke of YORK, a day Or two
before his departure from Brighton, -entered the slap of a
tradeswoman to make some purchase, and, agreeably to his
constant custom, entered familiarly into conversation with her.
Emboldened by-the condescension of the Duke, she ventured
to ,express her attachment to his person, and. to 'assure to his
Royal Highness how much " she loved and honoured him for
his noble defence of the Protestant Religion." The Duke
kindly assured her of his satisfaction that the course he hadfelt
it his duty to pursue met with her approbation. She *then
asked his Royal Highness why the King did not come to
Brighton ? an interrogatory to which the Duke'deelared his in-
ability to give a positive reply; -and after some further dis-
course,' took his 'departure, leaving the.good woman not a little
gratified at .the honoUr which had been conferred upon her.
The above is only one out of many instances that might be re-
lated of the condescension and anbility, winch at all times
mark the demeanour of the Duke of York when visiting
Brighton. His Royal Highness every day during his walks,
used to enter the shops and converse in the same unrestrained
manner, attaching to him the hearts of all whom he thus.met.
The Bazaar, too,. has been in the same way honoured by the
visits of his oyal• Highness, who has more than once made
purchases at the different stalls.. The Prince and PrincesS Ras
sonmskey and suite arrived here on Tuesday, but have since
left for Portsmouth.- Tuesday night the Duke of Brunswick
visited the theatre. Among the recent arrivals are Earl Mu&
caster, Sir H. and Lady Sawyer, Sir H. Vivian, Lady Ramsden,
Admiral Curzon, Hon. I".•Tolleinache, Hon. Mr. Vatigha'a,
Sir W. and Lady Cooper, and Sir C. Forbes ; and among the
departures are the Earl of Egretriont . ( Lard Lieutenant of
Sussex), for Petworth ; :Sir Jas. Hope, Sir E. and Lady Cole-
brook, Sir T.A. Pearce, and Lord and Lady Coventry.

DEPARTURES FROM TOWN, &c.
The Duke and Duchess of Rutland left Belvoir 'Castle on
Wednesday, for their seat, Baslow, Derbyshire; Lord A Ivan-
ley. for Brighton ; Lady Caroline Lamb, for. Paris ; Lord and
Lady William Russell, for Roehampion ; the Hon. Henry de
Roos, for. Brighton ;• Earl Talbot, tbr his seat in Staffordshire ;
Chaloner Mese, Esq. for his seat, Portnal Egham ;
Fuller, Esq. for his seat, Carleton .Hall, Suffolk ; the Earl
and Countessbf Scarborough and the Ladies Vane, from (Bent-
worth, in Lincolnshire, for Sandbeck, in Yorkshire; Lord and
the Misses Kenyon, for Gredington Ellesmere, Flint-
shire ; Lowager Countess of Harcourt, for St. Leonard's Hill,
Berks.; Sir James and Lady Langham, for Cottesbrook, in
NortharnotOnahire; Dowager Lady Grantham, for Putney
Heath ; Baron Maltzahu (Prussian Minster), on a tour ; Lady
Pulteney, on tour ; Dowager Lady Tancred, on a tour ; the
Duke and Duchess of Somerset and Lady Elizabeth Seymour,
for Pomeray, :Devonshire ; Sir Montague Cholmeley, Bart.
and family, for his seat in Lincolnshire.

• ARRIVALS IN TOWN.
Mt..and Mrs: Dawson, at•their house in Manchester-square,
from their seat, St. Leonard's Hill, near Windsor; 3lr. and
Mrs. Thompson, at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, from
Bath; 11. Willoughby, Esq. M.P. and Mrs. Willoughby, at
the St. George's Hotel, ,Albemarle-street, from their seat in
Notts ;• Colonel Brown and Colonel Carmichael, at Stevens's
Hotel, Clifford=street, from Corfu.

The Duke of Cambridge honoured the Marquis of London.
derry with his company to dinner, yesterday, at his residence in
Hertford-street.

On Wednesday night the Duke of York arrived 'at Audley
House, in his carriage and four, front the Pavilion, Brighton.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spent Wednesday.
evening with the Duke of Sussex, at his apartments at the
King's Palace, Kensington.
Yesterday morning the. Princess Augusta, attended by Miss
Ilrynyard; arrived in town from her residence at Frogrnore.
Her Royal Highness was visited in the course of the day by the
DucheSs and Prince George and Princess Augusta of Cam--
.bridge, and the Princess Sophia: The Princess Augusta after-
wards dined with the Duchess of Cambridge, at the residence
of the Duke of Cumberland in St. .James's Palace, where there
was a select party to Meet her Royal Highness. •
. The Princess Augusta, the Princess SoPltia, and the Princess
Sophia Matilda, paid visits yesterday to the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived at his residence
in Downing-street, yesterday, from Beckenham. The Right
Hon. Gentleman dined with the Marquis of Londonderry in the
afternoon.

• The Dowager Marchioness 'of Salisbury. entertained an ele-
gant party of fashionables on Wednesday evening, at her house
in Arlington-street. _

DOVER, A ITG. 11.:.-Arriired this day froM Calais his Ma.
jesty's packet Fury, with his Highness the Prince Narislikin,
Grand Chamberlain to his Majesty the Emperor'of Russia, the
Princess Narishkin, and -a nunierous suite, on their- way to
:London..--Lord Sidmouth and his family are arrived this after-
noon, to embark to-morrow morning for Calais on their way to
Brussels,'from whence they proceed op a tour along the Rhine.