The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-23 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

The Earl and Countess of Coventry and family, in Picca-
dilly ; the Countess-Dowager of Clonmel and the Countess of
Beauchamp, in Portman-square, from Brighton; Countess
Spencer, at her house in St. James's-place, from her seat,
Althorpe, Northamptonshire; Lord and Lady Morpeth, at their
house, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, from Viscount Granville's
seat, Wherstead-lodge, Suffolk ; Lord Henry Bentinck, in
St. James's-square, from his father's (the Duke of Portland)
seat, Welbeck, Notts; Viscount and Viscountess Granville,
at their house in Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, from the
• Wherstead-lodge, Suffolk; Lord Lilford, in Grosvenor-place,
from his seat, Atherton-hall, in Lancashire; Mr. and Lady
Georgina Grenfell, at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street,
from a tour ; John Wes:comb, Esq., at the Clarendon Hotel,
Bond-street, from a tour ; Robert CoF.,n, Esq. at ditto, from
' his seat in Sussex ; the Earl of Errol, at the Royal Hotel, St.
James's-street, from the Duke of Clarence',,, Bushy-park, Col.
Brown, at ditto, from the lonian Islands ; Lieutenant Wyn-
yard, at ditto, from the Jordan Islands ; the Honourable Henry
Hutchinson, at ditto, from Ireland ; Thomas Fitzgerald, Esq.
at ditto, from a tour; Hon. George Stuart, at ditto, from Scot-
land ; Capt. Nugent, 7th Dragoons, at the British Hotel, Jer-
mya-street, from Bath ; Captain Davy, R.N. at ditto, from a
tour ; Col. Thoytes, at Gould's Hotel, jermyn-street, from
his seat near Reading; Leveson Gower, Esq. at ditto, from
Worthing ; Mrs, Ferguson, at Marshal:. Thompson's Hotel,
Cavendish-square; Adam Cumine, Esq. at ditto, from Scot-
land; Mrs. Cobb, at ditto, from West Wycombe; J. W.
Smyth, Esq. at ditto ; S. Weymouth, Esq. at ditto, from
Bath ; John Wright, jun. Esq. at ditto; James Conolly, Esq.
at ditto ; W. W. Brown, Esq. at ditto ; J. Crosbie, Esq. at
ditto.

CHANGES.—The Duke of York, at the Earl Verulam's seat,
Gorhambury, Herts, on a shooting party; the Duke of Buck-
ingham, from ‘Votton, Bucks, for his seat, Stowe ; Earl of
Beauchamp, from Brighton, to Madresfield, Worcester ; Vis-
count Althorpe, from Wiseton Hall, Yorkshire, for beaming.
ton, Warwickshire ; Cant. Percival and Mrs. Percival, from
Marshal Thompson's Hotel ; Duncan Malcolm, from ditto, to
India ; Henry T. Mayor, Esq. from ditto ; F. J. Woodyeare,
Esq. from ditto, to Doncaster; S. Gist, Esq. from ditto, to
Worcestershire.

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.
A. C. Boode, Esq. entertained his Excellency Baron Fagel,
and a distinguished party to dinner on Wednesday, at his house
in Brvanstone-square.
The Earl and Countess of Harewood have been keeping open
Lrko
trhouse at their mansion-house at flarewood, Yorkshire, where
true English hospitality has been enjoyed for some time past
during the present festive season.
C. W. NVynn, Esq., M.P., has issued cards of invitation for
a grand dinner-party on Thursday next, at his house, White-
hall-place.
Earl Verulam has a large party of Noblemen on a shooting
party, at his seat, Gorhambury, Herts.
at his house in
Count T ?even had a select party to dinner yesterday, at Ash-
f sdileleot.rpeth had a dinner party yesterday,
Pa
burnhan, House. •
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MR. LAMBTON AND MR. PEMBERTON

Upon the subject of the dispute between these
Gentlemen we have received the following state-
ments, which we insert most readily :
Captain BITRNE, injustice to his friend Mr. PEMBERTON,
deems it right to contradict, in the most unqualified manner,
the assertion of the Editor of The Durham Chronicle, that he
(Capt. Rurne) did not approve of Mr. Pemberton's refusal to
accept Mr. Lambton's offer of a meeting, and that that refusal
was contrar—
yto his advice. Capt. Blame,' on the contrary, has
no hesitation in stating that, in his opinion, no man could have
conducted himself with more firmness and coolness, or with
affair, as far as it has come under Capt. .Burne's observation.
more propriety, than Mr. Pemberton has throughout this
Capt. Burne, at the same time that he acknowledges the cor-
rectness of the letters set forth by Capt. Cochrane and Sir
H. Williamson, begs
to correct that part of their statement
from which it would appear that Capt. Burne went to Lambton
Ball with the notes, Nos. 1 and 2. Capt. Burns went with the
note No. 1; and upon Mr. Larnbton's declining to see Capt.
B. until he had stated his business in writing, he wrote the
note \0.2, and enclosed the other in it. This inaccuracy Capt.
Borne is well aware must of course arise solely from inad-
vertence.
With respect to the altercation between Mr. Lambton and
Mr. Pemberton at the Meeting of the Commissioners for the
giver W
opi arenion., as vi-a Capt. Burne s not present, he can of course
no
Bishopwearmouth, Jan. 19, 1824.
The statement made by the friends of Mr. LAMBTON, and
published in the different newspapers, that " at a meeting of
the Commissioners of the River Wear on the 7th of January,
" some high words passed between Mr. Lambton and Mr. 'l'.
" Pemberton, in the course of which Mr. Lambton said, that
" if Mr. T. Pemberton was a Gentleman, which he (Mr.
" Lambton) doubted, lie (Mr. L.) would give him satisfac-
" tion," is incorrect. Mr. Lambton said, that " if Mr. Thomas
" Pemberton could find a Gentleman to go out with him, which
he (Mr. Lambton) much doubted, he (Mr. L.) would give
" him satisfaction." That these were the words used by Mr.
Lambton, can be proved by most respectable and unexcep-
tionable testimony.
Mr. THOMAS PEMBERTON treats with the contempt they
merit the insinuations which Mr. Lambton has thought fit to
throw out in justification of his declining a meeting suggested
by himself, and he now calls upon Mr. Lambton to substan-
tiate any thing derogatory to his (Mr. Thomas Pemberton's)
character, and which could warrant the course Mr. Lambton has
taken in this affair. _ _

Barnes, near Sunderland, 20th Jan. 1824.
It thus appears that some credit is due to the writers in The
Durham Chronicle for their ingenuity as well as for their activity,
although it was pretty evident that there was something in Mr.
Larubton's conduct in this affair, which it was difficult to submit
to the test of public investigation. It is now explained, and if
Mr. Lambton does not, as we presume he cannot, deny Mr.
Pemberton's statement, we are at a loss to conceive how he will
account for his reply to the message of which Captain Borne
was the bearer. Is it to be endured, that any man, whatever
may be his rank, shall in a public assembly taunt an indivi-
dual with an offer to give him satisfaction, if he can prevail
upon a gentleman to go out with birn, and that he shall then
decline the meeting, and afterwards attempt to retrieve the
consequences to himself by offering to accept the challenge ?
We submit, without the fear of contradiction, that the in-
jured party can accept no such offer, and that he receives
sufficient satisfaction in the exposure of his adversary's conduct.
If Mr. Lambton entertained any doubts of Mr. Pemberton's
character, they should have directed his conduct towards him
in the first instance. It was too late to allow them to operate,
after receiving Mr. Pemberton's challenge. If Mr Lambton
doubted Mr. Pemberton's courage, as we have heard he affected,
his taunting him with the offer of a meeting was unmanly and
dastardly in the extreme.

By his reply, we contend that Mr. Lambton must be bound,
and that Mr. Pemberton had nothing to do with any alteration
in his determination, made at the instance of Mr. Lambton's
friends, after that reply had been publicly posted in the News
Room at Sunderland ; and we doubt not that the insinuations
thrown out against Mr. Pemberton's character by Mr. Lamb-
ton, standing in the situation he now does, will be received as
they deserve by every honourable and unprejudiced mind.

The COMET, which is now but faintly visible
to the naked eye, was observed yesterday morning, at Poplar,
to be about midway between a and i in Draco, near to a tele-
scope star, marked NV in Jamieson's Celestial Atlas, Dec. 66.
N. Right Ascension 14 h. 40 m.; it passed the meridian at
6h. 20 In. A.M. Its course being nearly due north, it will
pass the meridian (below the pole) about 6 h. 14 m. P.M. this
evening, with an altitude of nearly 28 degrees.