The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-05 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The 63t1 (West Suffblk) Regiment of Infantry has com-
pleted its augmentation establishment.
Detachments belonging to the 33d, 74th, and 79th Regi-
ments of Foot, embarked on the 22d ult. at Dublin, for North
Britain.

Detachments belonging to the 55th, 60th, 69th, 95th, and
97th Regiments of Infantry, embarked on the 22d ult. under
the command of Staff Serjeant Byrne, at nublin for Liverpool.
Detachments belonging to the 10th Hussars, the 2d, 6th, Bth,
12th, 13 h, 18th, 20th, 21st, 27th, 28th, 30th, 31st, 36th, 39th,
41st, 43d, 44th, 4,%th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 54th, 59th, and 64th
Regiments of Foot, and the Royal Staff Corps, embarked on
the 25th ult. under the command of Staff Serjeant O'Doherty,
at Dublin, for Bristol.
The Depot of the 99th Regiment of Infantry is now on march
from Portsmouth for Manchester.

On Tuer4lay last the East Kent Regiment of Militia was
disembodied in this city, after 28 days training and exercise;
at the close of which they were reviewed by Colonel S. E. Saw-
bridge, Esq., who was pleased to express his approbation at the
steady and soldier-like manner in which they performed the
first section of the drill at open order, then at the following in-
stant forming a column of companies, by closing to their front,
marching past in slow and quick time,
.forming close columns
in rear and front of the two flank companies ; the battalion
then commenced marching and advancing in line, and retiring
in that able manner, which many military officers observed
would not disgrace any corps in the service.

INDIAN ARMY.
GOVERNMENT GENERAL ORDERS.

Pardon of, the Barrackpore Mutineers.
Head-Quarters, Calcutta, April 22, 1325.
Sir Edward Paget is pleased to announce to the Army of this
Presidency the following act of grace, which he has thought
the present a fit moment for carrying into effect :
The deep sense of abhorrence and indignation, which his
Excellency is assured, has been felt and expressed throughout
the Native Army, at the mutinous proceedings which occurred
at Barrackpore on the Ist of November last, has impressed the
mind of the Commander-in-Chief with the satisfactory convic-
tion, that the actors and abettors in those disgraceful proceed-
ings stood entirely alone, and unsupported in their disloyalty.
Satisfied, therefore, that the ends of justice have been attain-
ed, that the rules of discipline and subordination, so shamefully
violated on that occasion, have been amply vindicated, and that
the devotion and attachment of the Native Army stand unim-
peached, his Excellency is persuaded that the present occasion
affords him the gratifying opportunity, without committing the
interests and discipline of the army to the slightest risk, of ex-
tending an act of grace in favour of those unhappy men, who,
having been apprehended, tried, and condemned to pay the
forfeiture of their lives for their guilty participation in the late
mutiny, were consigned, through motives of clemency, to the
mitigated punishment of labour on the roads for certain terms
of years.
To these individuals the Commander in Chief, with the con-
currence of the Right lion. the Governor General in Council,
hereby proclaims a free pardon, in consideration of the merits
and services of the army of Arracan and Assam.
With this act of grace, his Excellency trusts he may never
have occasion to recal to his own, or the public recollection, the
occurrences which it has been his painful duty to advert to in
the foregoing remarks; and, in order that every trace of them
may be obliterated, his Excellency is pleased to direct, that the
body of Bindah Tewary, Sepoy, who was sentenced to be hung
in chains near the spot where the mutiny took place, may be
removed.

TILE STOLEN Ktss.—A whimsical circumstance
occurred a few days back at the house of a fa-
shionable dress...maker, at the west-end, in the
immediate neighbourhood of Saint James's.—
A gentleman, dressed in the first style of
fashion, rapped at the door, about one o'clock
in the day, and requested to be shown the
apartments announced to be let by a bill in
the window, and was ushered up stairs for that
purpose by the niece of Madame, the arbitress of
taste and fashion. Satisfied with the suite of
rooms intended for his use, he desired to b..
shown also the dormitory intended for his servant,
whither he was also attended by his fair conduc-
tress, whose answers to his numerous questions
happening to be breathed between lips irresistibly
inviting, he actually ravished a kiss—the young
lady's delicacy took the alarm—down she flew to
her aunt—the old lady's indignation (that of a
maiden on the wrong side of 40) knew no bounds,
and up she flew or rather stumbled to the " saucy
fellow," whom she met descending, smacking his
lips to a roguish tune, and his boots to the time
of the view holla ; and whom, she as quick-
ly as her insulted virginial feelings would permit,
showed to the door ; but ere he could pass the
threshhold, a lusty bang on his back sent him
stubling into the street, where he would have had
a cold kiss of the stones, but that one of the flaps
of his coat was fast between the door and the
door-post. In vain did the amorous seeker
of lodgings beg for God's sake to be re-
leased—in vain did he by turns stamp, kick,
and curse, pray, beg, and beseech ;—the
door remained fast ;—the ladies continued
inexorable—the crowd increased—the gentleman
groaned—the little boys shouted—the last ago-
nies approached, and with a knife drawn from his
waistcoat-pocket, the unfortunate beau cut—not
his throat—but the skirt from his back; twisted its
fellow round him, jumped into a hackney, threw
himself back on the seat, and withrew himself
from the gaze, but not from the roaring laughter
of the assembleo mob.

ANECDOTES, &c.
GUN POWDER PLOT.
[FROM TIME'S TELESCOPE FOIt 1826. 'l]
This day is kept to commemorate the diaboli-
cal attempt of the Papists to blow up the Par-
liament }louse.
From a Burlesque Poem on the times, published at the be-
ginning of the eighteenth century, with the title of Hudibras
Redivivu:, it appears that the (so called) Popish plot was com-
memorated with much more ceremony about this period than
at present. The author very sagely commences his description
of this fete of the canaille with the following lines :
However, whether known or not,
How 'twas begun, the plot': a plot,
That serves the rabble to remember
Upon the Fifth day of November;
A pious time, when ragged pope:
With pasteboard crowns, and paper copes,
Arc hoisted on the people's shoulders,
To please fanatical beholders.
A general illumination seems to have taken place in the even-
ing. Preparatory to this, however,
About the hour of six,
The boys are stealing tubs and sticks, •
And lustier mob, to please their maggots,
Are begging pence to purchase faggots.
I gazed about from side to side,
To view the city's zeal and pride,
Expressed in candles, shining round,
From four to twenty in the pound.
The effigy usually carried about, on this occasion, was in-
tended to represent the Pope. A long horse-hair beard was at-
tached to a frightful mask, and the head was surmounted by a
tripple crown. The image had on, also, a surplice made of
ragged linen--
Given by female saints, to cover
His scare-crow holiness all over !
A procession of dirty boys followed this effigy, as Cardinals,
with paper mitres on their heads :
Each in his dirty right hand bore
Crossed lath, instead of crosier •
And from their left a necklace hung,
By their fanatic mothers strung.
• Not yet published.

All the BARBAROUS NICK-NAMES given to
places and islands in Greece, and introduced into
modern geography, to the great annoyance of tra-
vellers, have been principally owing to the Ita-
lians. Thus Athens itself received the strange
appellation of Scathes, although, fortunately, it
never lost its old name among its resident citi-
zens, nor ever fell into the state of desolation and
desertion which has been falsely ascribed to it.
LAWNS AND CAMBRICS.—ShortIy after the in-
troduction of coaches, the knowledge and wear
of lawns and cambrics was introduced by the
Dutch Merchants, who retailed those articles in
ells, yards, Sze. ; for there was not then one
shopkeeper among forty durst buy a whole piece;
and when the Queen had ruffs made thereof
for her own princely wearing (for until then the
Queens and Kings of England wore fine Hol-
land in ruffs), there was none in England could
tell how to starch them ; but the Queen made
special means for some Dutch women that
could starch, and Guillham's wife was the
first starcher the Queen had, and himself was
the first coachman. Soon after this the art of
starching was first publicly taught in London,
by a Flemish woman, called Mistress Dinghen
Van der Place ; her usual price for teaching
the art itself being four or five pounds, and 20
shillings additional for chewing how to " seeth
the starch." At this period the making of lawn
ruffs was regarded by the populace as so strange
and finical, that thereupon rose a general scoffe
or bye-words, " that shortly they would make
ruffes of spiders webbe."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET THIPD OCTOBER, OR HOUGHTON

MEETING, 1825.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4.

Sir J. Byng's Skirmisher, Bst 71b, beat Mr. Lee's br. f. by
Smolensko, list T.Y.C.-5 to 2 on Skirmisher.
Ld. Orford's Orion, Bst 61b, beat Mr. Wilson's Tarandus,
Bst 71b, T.Y.C. 100, h. ft.-6 to 5 agst Orion.
Ld. Exeter's Palais 'loyal, 9st 31b, beat Mr. Greville's
Flounder, Bst 41b, T.Y.C. 100.-7 to 4 agst Palais Royal.
Sir. Wortley's Scandal, beat Mr. Wyndham's Camel, Bst
51b each, D.M. 200, h. ft.-5 to 4on Scandal.
Sir J. Shelley's Leila, Bst 91b, beat Gen. Grosvenor's The
Palfrey, list. First half of Ab. 51.25 sov.-2 to lon Leila.
The Audley End Stakes of 30 sov. each, for horses of all ages,
(two yrs old excepted,) A.E.C.
lA. Anson's Sligo, 4 yrs, Bst 21b - 1
D. of Grafton's Cramer, 3 yrs, 7st 21b - - 2
Mr. Hunter's gr. f. by Walton, out of Lisette, 3 yrs, Est 81b 3
Three paid.
7t04 on Sligo-4 to 1 agst Cramer.
lA. Anson's Ina, Bst 131 b, rec. ft. from D. of Grafton's
Lilias, 7st 71b. T.Y.C. 100, h. ft.
Mr. Molony's Cinder, lOst, agst Mr. Pickford's c. by Abjer,
out of sister to Petworth, 7st. T.Y.C. 50. h. ft. Off by consent.