The Sun.
London, England, 1809-11-09 00:00:00

Oh, Tilbuzina! Tilburina, oh !

We have seldom had occasion to notice in a daily

Paper so ludicrous an example of tile mock-heroic
serio-cowic as appeared in The Times of this Morn-
ing, on the subjed of the recent Naval Pro-
motion. That the old Snake in the grass should
have his spies to scrutinize with jaundiced eyes
into every Department of the Naval , Service,
no one can be surprised ; but we confess
we were very much astonished these prying
Gentlemen should have bestowed so much of their
time and labour in swelling up a real mule-hill to the
shape of a mountain. That notice had been given of
the promotion of Officers who were aCtually dead, we
believe, with the writer of the paragraph in ques-
tion, to be true ; but it is equally true that nei-
ther the Admiralty, the Navy Board, nor the Trea-
surer of the 'Navy, could posibly !mow of such
an event, unless the friends or the agents of the
deceieed should think tit to report their deaths of-
ficially to one of these Boards. The half-pay to
Officers on the half-pay list, is issued halt yearly,
on affidavits of the parties being still living ; but it
does nut follow, that because an Officer, or his
friends, or his agent should fail to demand his.
half-pay at the end of half a year, a year, or
any number of years, that ,his name should
be struck off the list ; the half pay ►s vith-
held till the proper documents are produced,.
and the name remains on the list till the faCt of
his death shall be unquestionably ascertained.--
We think it necessary to state this, not for the ine
formation of the Writer in question, for be is per-
fealy %yell informed on these matters, but that
his readers may not be misled by his misrepre-
sentations. In the case which he instances of
CHARLES COBB, Esq. we believe the fa& to stand
thus : the Ilar-Admiral died in the month of
September last ; the last list of Naval Officers is
dated the Ist of July; consequently his name stands
upon that list ; the next issue of half pay will pro-
bably be in January, when it is also probable the
Agent of the late Rear-Admiral will apply with the
proper documents. for the pay. that might be due to
him at the time of his death ; tberi will his name be
removed from the list. Now, as the late • pro-
motion was not a promotion of sele6tion, but an

aid of grace on the part of Elk NIAJELT,
,an occasion wherein we beliet'e it was 'his

O'2S solicitude to spew his gratitude to Divine
Providence, by bestowing ails of beneficence 0;1
every description of his Subjeas, from the highest
-to the lowest, these ants of beneficence were there-
fore most properly bestowed on 'those aged and me-
ritorious Officers, who stood at the head of their re-,
sPeetive ranks, many of whom in theiryounger days
had been ornaments to the profession to which they
belonged. This, we can assure our Readers, was done
most scrupulously, without favour or afiedion. It
cannot therefore be a matter of the least sur-
prise, nor indeed of the least importance, if
it should have so happened that the Commis-
sions were signed for persons still on the list,
though ataually deceased. We would recommend
the Times not thus to endeavour to mislead its
Readers, for the sake of gratifying a malevolent
spirit, or of holding forth the semblance of its ab-
horrence of abuses which do not exist : in reprobat_
ing those that do, we shall be always ready to join
them.

Mr. WIIARTON attended yesterday at the Trea-
sury, for the first time, as. successor to Mr. Hus-
KISSON.

We are enabled to state positi►ely that there is no
foundation for the assertion of a Morning Paper,
that the Government has received Dispatches from
Marquis WELLESLEY.

Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY ar-
rived at the Queeu's Palace, from Windsor, where
he was received by, the Duke of YORK.
Soon after two o'clock, his MAJESTY held a Pri-
vate Levee, which was attended by

The Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council,
the /First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Colonial, and
War Departments, the First Lord t f the Admiralty, the Pre-
sident of the Board of Controul, the judge Advocate, the
Duke of Montrose, Earl Winchilsea, Lord St. Helen's (in
Waiting) ; and Admiral Sir S. Smith.

Generals—Gordon (Groom in Waiting), Dyot, and Sir
Eyre Come.

Colonels—Drinkwater, D'Arcy, Walsh, and Bunbury.
Captain Herries, And Mr. Fawkener.

The following had the honour of being presented
to his MAJETTY

Rear-Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, upon his promotion.
Major-General Dyot, Lieut.-Col. D'Arcy, of the Royal
Engineers, Lieut.-Col. Walsh, of the 56th Regiment, De-
puty. Adjutant-General, Lieut.-General Sir Eyre Cr.ote,
Capt. Woisley, of the Sith Regiment, and Capt. Berries,
of the ist Regiment of Dragoons, Aides-du-Camp to Lieut.
Urn. Sir Eyre Coote, upon their return irom Wal.chercn...
Lieut.-Col. Bunbury, upon his being appointed Under Se—
cretary of State for the War and Colonial Department.

His MAJESTY held a Privy Connell, at which Mr,:
Jofist MANNERS SUTTON, the late appointed Judi
Advocate, was introduced, and swoon in a Meniber,
and t(;ok his seat at the Right Honourable Board.
accordingly.

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His MAJESTY also held another Council, at which
the itECOLIDgR of LONDON' attended, and made his

rei!ort of the convias capitally conviEted at Justice
Hall, iu the Old Baiicy, at the September SussionE,
when, we understand, a man of the name of Bog-
den, for an unnatural crime, and Sullivan and his
companion, for a rape in the neighbourhood of Pop-
lar, were ordered for execution next Wednesday.
The case of Shepherd, for a forgery upon a Stock-
broker, was not reported.

His MAJESTY gave audience to Mr. PERCEVAL,
and the rest of the Cabinet Ministers present, Sir
DAVID DUNDAS, and Mr. MANNERS SUTTON, who
laid before his MAJESTY the proceedings of some
Courts-Martial.

Yesterday her Majesty gave a most splendid fete
at Frogrnore, in celebration of the birth-day of her
Royal Highness Princess Augusta Sophia. The
morning was ushered in by the ringing of bells ; and
at one o'clock the Royal Blues and Stafford .Militia
fired a feu de joie in Windsor Little Park, which
was answered by a discharge of 4 1 guns from the
Round, Tower. At half past two o'clock his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales arrived ; and at half
past three her Majesty and the ditferent branches of
the Family left the Castle, in their carriages, for
Froginore, and were escorted by a party of the
Royal Blues. The entrance through the gardens
into the house had a delightful appearance. The
sideboards in the principal dining-rooms were richly
ornamented-with gold and. silver, and upwards of
eighty covers were laid. At five o'clock her Ma-
jesty, the branches of the Royal Family present,
and the company, sat down to a sumptuous dinner,
served up in a most magnificent style. The bands
of the Royal Blues and Stafford played during the
evening. After dinner her Majesty, and most of
the company, r&ired to the drawing-room fronting
the lakes, in the gardens. The whole apparatus
used on the late happy occasion of the Jubilee was
left standing, togerher with, the addition of upwards
of two thousand extra lamps. The beautiful temple
and temporary bridge, opposite the garden, in front
of the house, were most fancifully and brilliantly il-
luminated. The preparations being nearly the same
as on the Jubilee day, it is unnecessary to enter into
a detail of them ; but the fire-works ,were more bril-
liant, and the triumphal cars were much improved,
and immediately on their arrival at the bridge, with
Britannia preceded by Neptune with his trident and..
a band of music, a rocket was thrown into the
temple, by which it was instantaneously set on fire,
and at the same moment ascended, as it were from
Britannia's car, a large beautiful star, with an elegint
medallion of the King, surrounded by circles of
variegated lamps, and elevated at such a height
above the templeas not to be injured by the flames.
On the top of the temple were the figures of Forti-
tude, Piety, and Virtue pointing to heaven, and the
eve of Providence directed on the medallion of the-
King. The burning of the tereple presented a
noble arid pieluresque scene. At eight o'clock the
witok. coocluded, wtten the Queen and company
t-.irod to the Castle. Upwards of two hundred
of invitation were issued.

morning his MAJESEY, Princesses Au-
GUSTA SOPHIA, accompanied by Lady ELY,
Lord SOMEaVILLE, General SPENCER, and Colonel
TAYLOR, took an a rwg it) Windsor Park, and re-
turned IQ the Ptlace at L“,:tvt!o'cl,ck.
The QUEEN and Princess E.Liz,inwrn rode to
Fr-gmore, to inspca the preparations for the cele-
bration of toe Fnnccss AUGUSTA'S birth day, last
evening-.

On Tuesday afternoon, about half-past two
o'clock, the Princess AMELjA, accompanied by her
Ruyal Sister, the Princess MARY; the Dukes of
CUMBERLAND and CAMBRIDGE, arrived at Windsor
from Weymouth, in the Prince of WALES'S travel-
ling carriage, attended by Lady GEORGINA Mua-
RAY and Dr. PorE. The carriages stopped at the
Princess of 'WALES'S house in St. Alban's-street,
where hcr MAJESTY and the Princesses were in rea-
diness to receive them. We are extremely sorry
to say the Princess AMELIA appeared very unwell
and feeble, so much so, that she was carried from
the carriage into the house wrapped up in blankets.
The QUEEN and the rest of the Royal Family left
her Royal Highness a little before Lour o'clock for
the Castle. About five o'clock, his MAJESTY Vitiit-
ed her Royal Highness, and remained with her till
past six, when he returned to join her MAJESTY
and the Royal Family, at their desert after dinner.
The Princess AMELIA, we understand will remain
at the house in St. Alban's-street, on account of its
being very quiet.
A quantity of specie, destined for the payment of
the garrison of Walcheren, &c. was ort Monday es-
corted through Canterbury, by a party of the Life
Guards, for embarkation at Deal.

QUACK. EXTRAORDINARY.—The following is a
copy of a letter, dated Market Raiser-1, Oat. 2

" Market Raisen has been crowded toy these last
ten days, past all belief ; hundreds of people have
come from all parts of the country to witness the
far-famed skill of 'a quack doator, whose account of
himself is, that he was never born, but taken out
Of the side of his mother, and that he is the seventh
son of a seventh son, for seven generations, and
that hii mother was a seventh daughter. Many
very genteel people even come to h!m, and posi-
tively assert that he cures all disorders by his touch ;
he licks their sores, breathes into their mouths, &c.
&c, makes the blind see, the dumb speak, and the
deaf hear. He is such a figure as perhaps you
never beheld; he parades the streets accompanied
by a fiddle, a fife, a drum, and several men with,
ribbons to their hats ; he has a long black beard,
walks without his coat, with his waistcoat unbutton-
ed, and his stockings about his heels ; he takes very
little money of his patients, and yet spends a great
deal; he gives a dinner or supper every day to the
poor ; he has six attendants, to each of whom he
gives a guinea a day ; hiS daily expeuces are suppos-
ed to be about twenty pounds. All the inns here
are very much crowded; many people have not been
able to see him. He went in a post-chaise and tour,
a few days ago, to visit a 'patient out of the town ;
when he got to the town end on his return, the
horses were taketifrom the chaise, and he was drag-;
g(-:d into the town by men, amidst the huzzas and.
acclamations of the mob, ringing of bells, &c. indeed
they look upon him as something more than human ;
he pretends to much religion. I understand that he
Was taken up at Lincoln, and committed tO the
Louse of cAleation as a vagrant.",