The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-24 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.

The Marquis of Camden entertained the Duke of Rutland
and a large party at dinner yesterday at his house in Arlington-
street. •
Viscount and Viscountess. Granville gave an elegant enter.
tainment on Saturday to Lord John Thynne, Lord Howard de
Walden, Sir J. and the Misses Copley, Mr. Wilmot, M.P.,
Mr. Montague, &c. at their house
•in Bruton-street, Berkeley-
square.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdown entertained a
select party of friends at dinner yesterday at Lansdown House,
Berkeley-square.
Lord and Lady G. H. Cavendish entertained a large party of
distinction at dinner yesterday, at Burlington House, Picea-
I dilly.
Sir Watkins William Wynn, Bart., entertained a distin-
guished party at dinner yesterday, at his house ia St. James's-
square.
The Earl of Darlington entertained a large party at dinner
yesterday, at his,house in St. James's-square.
Yesterday the infant son of Colonel and Lady Eleanor Low-
ther was baptized at their house in Bruton-street, Berkeley-
square, on which occasion they gave an elegant entertainment
to a large party of distinguished personages. In the evening
her Ladyship. had a large party of fashionables.

INVESTITURE OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER.
The London Gazette of Saturday contains the detailed account
of the ceremony of investing his DANISH MAJESTY with the
insignia of the Order of the Garter. The Right Hon. A. J.
FOSTER, the British Minister at the Danish Court, and Sir
GEORGE NAT..En., officiated on this OccagOn, as the Plenipo-
tentiaries of his BRITANNIC MAJESTY. At the termination
of the investiture the DANISH MONARCH, wearing the en-
signs of the order, gave an audience to the Plenipotentiaries, at
which their suite were severally presented • and immediately
afterwards they had the honour of being introduced to her Ma-
jesty the QUEEN and the PRINCESSES. A grand dinner was
given at the palace after the ceremony, at which were present
the Queen and Princesses, the Princes of the Royal House,
the Plenipotentiaries, Ministers of State, and other persons
of distinction. His Highness the Prince FERDINAND, owing
to the King's absence from indisposition, was pleased in his
Majesty's name, to drink to the health of the KING Or ENG-
LAND, Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter : the
-first Plenipotentiary then drank to the health of the King and
Queen of DENMARK; and his Highness afterwards, in the
King's name, drank to the Knights Companions of the said
most noble Order.

WANSTEAD HOUSE.—The sale at Wanstead House pro-
ceeds with great spirit. The plate, which is of the most mas-
sive description, produced fifteen shillings an ounce. Upwards
of twenty thousand pounds were received to Saturday night.—
At last it is settled that Wanstead House shall be pulled down.
After the sale of the furniture and fixtures, the materials will
be brought to the hammer.
THE LATE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD.—The Will was
opened on Friday. The present Marquis is named as one of
the Executors. Report states that the Dowager Marchioness
will have ten thousand a-year. The funeral procession left
Hertford House, this morning at six o'clock, and proceed.
ed by easy stages to Ragley Hall, in Warwickshire, wherein
the body will lie in state ; and thence be conveyed to the fa.
mily vault in the vicinity ; the Seymours have no mausoleum
at Sudbury, nor have they any seat there. The Widow in-
tends passing the residue of the summer and autumn at Rich-
mond.
To-morrow the Princess Augusta, the Duke and Duchess of
Gloucester, and the Princess of Denmark, accompanied by Ad-
miral Sir Harry Neale, embark about 11 o'clock, in the Admi-
ralty barges, at the
Tower stairs, and proceed to inspect the
London and West India Docks, and then to view Greenwich
" Hospital.
The son of Marshal Soult will shortly, lead to the altar of
Hymen, the beautiful niece of the Duke of Caulincourt, with a
fortune (given her by her uncle) of 700,000 francs, about
30,0001. sterling.
A letter from Hamburgh, dated the llth inst. states, that on
the Bth of June his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Swe-
den and Norway arrived in that city, under the assumed name
of the Count de Schonen. He was received with military ho-
nours. 'As soon as he entered upon the Hamburgh territory a
corps of Lancers presented arms, and then headed the caval-
cade of the Prince into Hamburgh, theartillery upon the ram-
parts firing at the same time a Royal salute. His Royal High-
ness was greeted in the most cordial manner, the inhabitants
remembering the contrast presented by his father's Govern-
ment when in power in that part of the world, to that which
they subsequently experienced under Marshal D. His Excel-
lency M. de Signeul, the Swedish Minister, had made prepara-
tions to receive the Prince, and lie accordingly alighted at the
Swedish. Hotel. On the evening of the 9th, his Royal High-
ness visited the theatre. On the 10th he was invited by the
Senate to partake of a grand entertainment at the Hotel de
Ville. And on the 13th it was expected the Heir to the Swe-
dish Throne would prosecute his journey, by way of Hanover,
to Brussels.

MELANCIIOLY SUICIDE.—On Saturday after-
noon an Inquest was held before T. STIRLING, Esq., Coroner
for Middlesex, at the private dwelling-house attached to the
brewery of Messrs. Mantel and Cooke, ale brewers,Duke-street,
Bloomsbury, on the body of John Cooke, Esq., the second
nerin the firm, who, on Monday last, shot himself through the
temple, and, on the Friday morning following, expired from the
effects of the wound. The first witness examined was Thos. Stone,
an assistant in the brewery. He, in conserence of the illness of the
deceased, slept in the same room with him for above a week, and
on Sunday night week, wentto bed, and was awakened about half-
past:2 o'clock by the report of fire-arms ;he immediately arose,
and found.that Mr. Cooke had shot himself through the right
temple; he alarmed the family, called Mr. Mantell, and procured
surgical assistance. The deceased for some time past, since the
death of his wife, has been in a deranged state.' Mr. Plumb,
surgeon, attended him, and found that he had shot himself
through' the right temple, and that the ball had passed
through both temples from right to left, and fractured the skull
on that side. A day or two after the ball was extracted there
was not the most distant chance of his recovery. Another me-
dical gentieman proved the attending the deceased prior to his
committing suicide, and,:described him as labouring under de-
bility, and, from the derangement of the digestive organs, un-
der temporary insanity. Mr. Mantell, the other partner, also
proved beyond any doubt the insane state of the deceased for
some weeks past. The Jury returned a verdict of Insanity.
A Mr. BECKM ANN, of Gottenburgh, has just
published a Prospectus, setting forth the incal-
culable' advantages that must accrue by under-
taking a mercantile Expedition to the East Indies
and China, upon the plan he recommends. The
detail we are not, acquainted with, but not less
than 60 or 70 per cent. profit is reckoned upon,
and a much greater, should events turn out pro-
pitiously. •