The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-31 00:00:00

ARRIVALS IN TOWN'.

Miss Elliot, from Lincolnshire; Lord Nugent, from Berk-
shire; Sir F. Burdett, Bart. from a tour to Ramsbur; Manor,
Wilts.—At the British Hotel—Mr. and Mrs. Grattan and fa-
mily, from France; Dr. and Mrs. Bridges and family, from
Oxford; Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins, from Staffordshire.—At
the St. George's Hotel—Mr. and Mrs. Melville and family,
from Oxford ; Mr. and Mrs. Salmon, from Surrey.—At Ne-
rot's Hotel—The Rev. Mr. 'Wilson, Mrs. 'Wilson, and Ladies;
D. Morel, Esq. and family, from Oxford ; Mrs. and Miss
Johnson.

A lIIIIVALS AT CIIELTtIVHAM.—The Prince and Princess
Rasoumoffsky, Lady and Miss Acton, Major Mathewson,
Major Littler, Lieutenant-Colonel Patrickson, Lieutenunt-
Colonel Henry Murray, Lieutenant-Colonel Combs, Rev. J.
Jones, Hon. P. St. John, Major ThoMpson, Major Peason;
Captain Plumage, Captain Tudor, Dr. Benson, .&c. ; Mr. and
_Mrs. Striven, Elliot, APGarel, Stafford, Smith, Dwariss,
Cionipton, Cox, Moore, &c.

The luggage left by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
at the apartments of the Duke of Cumberland, in St. James's
Palace, was sent off on Monday, morning to Hanover. -Yester-
day morning the remainder of their Royal Highness's house-
hold in London set off fOr the same destination.
On Monday last the Earl of Liverpool steam-packet arrived
at the Tower, from. Ostend, with his ExCellency the Dutch
Ambassador'and suite on board, and about fifty passengers.
On Sunday last the Lord steam-packet arrived at
the Towla, from Calais, with Lord Forbes, Lady Bloomfield,
and other persons of distinction on board; and about seventy
passengers, and several carriageS.
Lady Noel Byron and her daughter are amongst the recent
arrivals at Southampton.
' The Earl and Countess of Grosvenor have arrived at their
seat, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, from a tour.
The King of France sat to Sir Thomas Lawrence on Sun-.
day, at noon.. The picture is for his Britannic Majesty's
gallery.
There. are 1,200 visitors at the Saratoga springs ; among
them, Joseph Buonaparte and suite, who ;mend staying there
during the warm weather.—(Saratoga Sentinel.)

THE ALMACK'S OF OXFORD-STREET.
•
Several inhabitants of the Panisx.of Alattr-La-BoNNE at-
tended yesterday at the Police Office, to request the interfe-
' rence of the Magistrates to suppress what they were pleased to
call a crying nuisance, but what we should rather denominate
a ftiddling one, in Oxford-street. It appears that a certain
Signor ANTONIO—not exactly the gentleman whose pound of
flesh cuts such a 'figure in The Merchant of Venice, but one
who appears to inherit his good-natured propensity of intro-
during his friends to partners—had made divers preparations
for opening a ball in Oxford-street ; and Much to the horror of
the polite in that recherche quarter, the tickets were, as the
Irishman says, " to be sold free, gratis, for nothing at all."
The mere prospect of the very miscellaneous rabble that this
would produce, terrified the Oxonians, who, like Tony Lumpkin's
friend at the Three Jolly Pigeons, appear to hate what's low ;
and they remained in a very unpleasant state of suspense until
last Monday, when the Italian Signor actually committed the
felonious act in question, and gave the ball. A large party..._
and select, no doubt, on the principle of selection observed in
asking to the wedding feast, after those who were bidden would
not come—assembled. Music Lind dancing were the order of
the night, and parting was such sweet sorrow, that the cons-
Party did not break up until six in the morning. Delightful as
this was to 'all concerned in the amusement, it was any thing
but delightful to the neighbours, who, it would appear, had no
sould fOr music. '!'hey. declared they could not sleep with the
noise, as they barbarously denominated the harmony, and came
to beg, that as the Signor had given his company a, ball, the
Magistrates would give him the rout.
Mr. GRIFFITHS inquired if money had been taken at the
door, else he could not interfere:
It appeared that the Italian had guarded against this. You
paid nothing, it seemed, for the ticket of admission; you were
admitted free as air ; but for a coffee ticket you were charged
two shillings. This was somewhat like the old delusive ad-
vertisement,
" Beefsteaks for a penny," which drew many a
hungry epicure to the bait ; who, on calling the bill, was always
much disagreeably undeceived by finding " cookey" charged a
shilling.

IVlr.GairriTtie..—Was every body obliged to take this
coffee ticket ?
Applicant.—They would not be let in otherwise. Gibbs,
your officer, was there, and he can confirm what I am saying. -
Gibbs, on being they called, scratched his head, and said,
that all the other officers had received a ticket, and that he went
with his wife. It was, please your lirorship, a very genteel
place—very--and as for improper women, so far from them
being that I turned out half a dozen of them by the advice of
Mounseer Hantoniar himself.

Mr. Guirrrnis.—Was the coffee actually given ? -
A young gentleman, in a rather soiled shirt, volunteered his
evidence, and said that he had no coffee, nor had he seen any
body else get any. Ile gave his two shillings, and arcil for
nothing but the dancing, of which he had lots; there were
three or four hundred ladies and gentlemen. As for drink
there was indeed plenty of beer, (aliquor, we should think,
more congenial to hops than coffee).
On this statement Mr. GRIFFITHS issued his summons for
Signor Antonio to attend this day. In trying bins we hope he
will not forget Portia's speech in the case of his great name.
sake—" The quality of mercy is not strained," Jcc.—(2lforn-
ing Paper.)

P 0 F Tit P.

THE DEAD SOLDIER.
Il sleeps ! The hour of mortal pain
And warrior pride alike are past,
His blood is mingling with the rain,
His cheeks are withering in the blast.

This moral there was a bright hue there,
The flash of courage stern and high ;
The steel has drained its current clear,
The storm has bleach'd its galland dye.

This morn these icy bands were warm,
That lid, half showing the glaz'd ball,
Was life—thou chill and clay faced form,
Is this the one we lov'd ? This all !

Woman away, and weep no more,
Can the dead give you love for love--
Can the grave hear ? His course was
The spirit wing'd its ray .above-

Wilt thou for dust and ashes weep !'
Away, thy husband lies not here.
Look to yon heaven ! If love is deep
On earth—'tis tenfold deeper there.

I
Mr. Cll.tur.ts LUCIF:II pIJONAPARTE has-pub-
lislted in Philadelphia the first volaine of his'. SUpOement to
Wilson's American Ornithology," in a style worthy of the
subject. Mr. Say's " Entomology" *as sLyposed to be the
most splendidly executed book that had appeared from the
American press. Wilson's work, until Mr. Say's, took the
lead ; but Mr. Buonaparte's exceeds in magnificence both of
those publications.—(daicrican Paper.)
MAJ-on. Asnat.:.---A pen sketch of a young
gentleman in a sitting posture, executed by this
unfortunate and gallant officer, supposed to be
intended for himself, has • been preserved by an
American officer of the war of 1776, In Newhaven
(United States.) It was sketched while he was
in prison, a short time previous to his death, and
is said to be very bold and spirited. It is about
to be engraved : a circumstance which reflects
some credit on the feelings'of the possessor.
EXTORTIONr.—At Queen-square Officer this
day, Mr. 13E1.1.Awv, belonging to the House
of
Commons, preferred a complaint against a wafer-
man named Patterson, for an impudent extortion.
It appeared that Mr. B. arrived on Monday s'en.
night from Scotland, in the City of Edinburgh
steam-boat, and engaged the defendant's-wherry
at Blackwall, to convey himself, two other gen.
tlemen, man servant, and his luggage to West-
minster Bridge, and on their arrival there he de-
manded 14s. for his fare, the legal fare being only
3s. 6d. Ml. B. said he always acted liberally to
Waterman, and, had he not made such a demand,
he should have given 10s., which he considered
very handsome. The defendant admitted. the of-
fence, and was. convicted in .a fine of 205., and
9s. 6d. costs.

ALARMING INTELLIGENCE FOR ALDERMEN.—
Extract of a letter from Stangate Creek, August
28:—" To give you an idea of the strict qua-
rantine we are under here, I will instance to
you the following circumstance:—On our way
down the Mediterranean, between Mahon and
Gibraltar, I caught a quantity of very fine turtle.
I fully expected to have made something, by
sending them to London for sale ; but, to my
great astonishment, the Superintendent of Qua-
rantine would not allow them to come out of
the ship. I have, therefore, been obliged
to kill them, and feed the people upon them.—
I am quite sure, if it were represented in the
proper quarter, some relaxation would be made.
It is a serious loss to me, as no doubt I should
have got from 2s. to 2s. 6d. per pound for them ;
here they charge 61d. per pound for beef. This
is the first time of hearing of turtle being con-
tagious."

ALARMING FIRE.—About four o'clock this
morning the watchman of Windsor-row, BlaCk..
friars, discovered the lower part of Mr. W. Dow-
dens'(the feather-bed factor's) house to be on fire.
He instantly gave an alarm, and the inmates,
'most of whom slept in the rear of the house, with
difficulty escaped out of the first-floor window,
before the flames ascended upwards, through the
shop, and back into the large ware-room. The
two parish engines were quickly on the spot,
and a plentiful snpply Of eater was obtained,
which was soon thrown in large quantities upon
the flames, and several of Mr. Dowdon's neigh-
bour's having exerted themselves with the most
praiseworthy activity, in conveying water through
their houses, the flames were soon subdued, hay-
ing destroyed the entire range of the lower floor
of the house. Mr. Dowden was not insured.
DREADFUL A ccrnr.wr.---On Wednesday even-
ing last, George Wills, Esq., of 25, Gloucester.
place, mounted a very spirited charger, which,
starting instantly at full speed into Upper
Berkeley-street, got upon the footpath, and Mr.
Wills, not being able to control the animal, which
plunged in a desperate manner, he was thrown
with tremendous force against the area railings,
and the animal then darted off, very much cut.
Some of the passengers raised Mr. Wills, but he
was insensible. On being conveyed to a surgeon,
both legs and his left arm were found broken,
and his skull fractured. He was carried home
in this dreadful state, and has since been attend-
ed by Sir Astley Cooper and Mr. Heaviside, bat
'little hopes are entertained of his recovery.
A fellow called at the house of a farmer at
Hoe, near Bishop's Waltham, on Tuesday, and on discovering
that no one was therein, except a little girl, he demanded
something to drink ; upon her stating that she could
not comply with his request, he wok from his pocket
a knife, and taking her - by the arm threatened to
cut her throat, when she had the presence of mind
-to say, " Thank God, here's my master coming," which
caused the fellow to quit his hold and decamp, and'she closed
the door and locked it, when the villain, finding that he had
been hoaxed, returned, and after uttering many dreadful im-
precations, threatened to come again in a few days, and wreak
kis vengeance on the poor girl.
Great numbers of workmen are at present en-
gaged in raising and preparing for transporta-
tion to London, the beautiful freestone found
in a quarry at Pentewan, belonging to Sir C.
Hawkins, Bart., and known in the.neighbourhood
of St. Austell by the name of Pentewan stone.—
The number of hands is, however, inadequate to
supply the quantity of stone required and an ad-
vance of wages has consequently taken place.
Many men are also employed at Cirrngray,
in the parish of St. Austell, in cutting gra-
nite for the new bridge, and other architectural
works in the metropolis,