The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-23 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE AaRI VA LS.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock, at Harrington-
house, from Oakley, Bedfordshire; the Earl and Countess of
Derby, and the Ladies Stanley, from Knowsley-hall, near
Preston, Lancashire; Earl of Glengall, in Lower Grosvenor_
street, from his seat in Ireland ; E. Ellice, Esq. M.P. and
Lady Ellice, in Nesv.street, Spring-gardens, from Brighton •
Air. llobhouse, M.P. from the Continent; Mr. Calcraft, M.P.'
in Hanover-square, from Corfe-castle ; Mr. G. It. Pillips, M.P.
in Hill-street, from:Chickitell; Mr. and Mrs. George Byng,
and family, in St. James's-square, from Paris; Sir William
and Lady Duff Gordon, from Brighton ; Sir George Staunton,
Bart. in Devonshire-place ; Sir George Warrender, Bart. from
Scothuid.
CSIANGES.—The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, from St.
James's-square, for Woburn-abbey ; the Dowager-Duchess of
Richmond and the Ladies Lennox, at Hastings, from Good-
wood, Sussex; Earl and Countess of Caledon, at their seat,
near Tonbridge, from Wimpole-hall, Cambridgeshire; Earl
of Clanwilliam, on a tour ; Earl Gower, on a tour; Viscount
Dawne, at Comick-hall, Yorkshire, from a tour; Viscount
Middleton, for Pepper-harrow. Surrey ; the Countess of Car-
narvon. at'Petworth, Sussex, from a tour ; Lady Mackintosh,
for Hastings; the Hon. W. Lamb, V.P. for Alelbonnte, near
Derby,

The inhabitanta of Wevbridge have erected a monument to
the memory of her ROyal Highness the Duchess of Yonx.---
It consists of a simple column of considerable elevation, and
records on its tablet, in feeling and affictionate expressions,
the virtues and great benefits this village derived from the tai-
-1 perintending care of her Royal highness. There are on one
side of the column some doggrel verses, which might advan-
tageously have been omitted. The .-column is placed in the
broad way opposite Lord..Portmore's estate, not far from the
entrance to Oatlands Park, on the Weybridge side.
The Christmas Dall„.hehl at the Devon and Exeter Sub-
scription Rooms, on AVednesday evening last, notwithstanding
-the inclemency Of the weather, was. attended by most of the
fashlonubles of the County and city.
The Philharmonic Society's first Concert for this season took
place on Thursday night, and notwithstanding the unfavour- •
.able state of the weather was very numerously attended. The;
excellent selection, and the admirable style in which the Over,
tures, Glees, and Miss Sugden's Songs, were performed, highly
delighted the audience; and we regret our limits will not allow
us to enter more • fully into the particulars.—The complaint of
the coldness of the room Mr. Chanted the arehitect will imme-
diatelY remedy, by the introduction of stoves with air-pipes,
and which desirable addition would haVe been made but for
the room's being engaged till the day on which the Concert
took place.—(Leede latelligeneer, Jut. 'el.)

P Q E T 1{ V.

LIFE. '
Life's but a winter's day, short, cheerless, cold ;
A tale of trouble, just begun and told !
'2li but a vapour, vanishing While view`d,
Or floating bubble, which our hopes delude.
'Tis like the snowdrop, drooping in its bloom,
Whose early birth-ensures an earlier tomb.
'Tis like,the rose the hawthorn props and bears,
Which budS, eSpands, delights, and disappears.
'Tis like the herbage of an eastern scene,
Scanty and bare, and russsetcre 'tie green !
Or as the dew on, the bespangl'd lawn,
Offspring of night, and short-he'd as the dawn ;
Or glirmniring meteor; which the Ihney fires,
FolloW'd 'when Seen, and when o'erta'en-expires.
'Tis like the tinge that gilds.an cv'hing cloud,
Which night envelOpes with her sable`shroud !
Or like the bow, forni'd by a wat'ry sky,
'nigh clouds disperse, and all its glories, die
ottsstissamm..

_...--
elk•Ortz, in his atniiing and instructive " His.
tort' qf Greenland," gives us the' Id, low ing ren .'.,
soiling of a Groeidander to a Danish Inigsionaty,
. , .
ant
• . ~
of Con : •
" ft is true isays be to the topouary). we , w6O ignorant
heathens, and atew uothihg !, rid or a !•.iztviour ; and, .iced, who should tell us t .ni all you Lein!? . ?lot yot4
must not. imagine that no : 'fa.rdantier thinks; silent these
things' I mysc/f have often 4kioglit it 1..70,0: (which is a little
boat about six yards long; sharp at the head and stern like a
a weaver's shuttle. in which- thejtireenbunler goes a tishingh
lite
e. hit all its tackle `aLd implementit, does ,not grow into exist,
ence of itself, but nmst be. matle,hy the labour and ingenuity.
of man—and one that does not 'understand it would directly
spoil it. Now, the meanest bird h. far tunre-skill displayed in
its structure than the best kajak, and no man can make a bird:
Bnt the is still a ?aureate! art shewn in the fortnation of a
roan than of any ether creature. Who was it that made him ?
I bethought me, be proceeded from his parents, and they front,
their parents ? But some must have been the first parents ,;.
whence did they come ?' Common report informs me they grew;
out of the earth. But if so, why dots it not still happen that
men grow nice of thckeitrth ? And front whence- did this.: sanit
earth itself, the sea, the sun, tite moon, and:the stars.farise into ? There Mast he some Beirig who made all these!
things--a Bwing-that always was, and can never ctwe to be. 1I
must be inexpressibly-it ore mighty, knowing, and wise, than the;
Wisest man. flethust be very good too, because every thing that,
he has made is m41011;0111, and necessary for us. Alt ! did I;
but know him, bow would I love him, and honour hint ! : Burkwho has seen hinf? Who has ever conversed-with him ? Vet
there may be men, too, that know something of him. 0 Could I but glee!: with such ?---Thereftire, as soon as I heard soli
speak of this great Being, I believed it directly, with all my
heart, because I had so lung /haired to hear it.'"

. ,
Extract of a letter dated York fan. 20.--" We;
expect but a very thin meeting, in consequence of the in 4 clemency of the weather t but all appear to be
_la rftetly
pared to give Cobbett it- proper reception, if lic Nhollia inakti
his appearance m this county. The Vol-kJ/tip,' c:,: lit. sattes,i
that he has recently been made the holder of a small frteho4 at Rufrurth, :t small village about four miles front Verk..,.
NVooler, whom Cobbett has rt.Tommended to attend here,,
is only to copyholder in the count- : -his right.;to address
the county as a freeholder will . probably be diatracti . on;
that account. You will judge of the intensity of the cold'
here, by the fact of the guard- Of One of the London coaches'
having been so benumbed by it, as to have dropped front
his seat near Newark tide morning. The paasengto did not find the lasi they had suataintal tilt they reaelool Tux:Arra
n coach was then dispatched back to find Imo bat tticl not sac;
teed. it was at first supposed that lie had fallen into the 'Trent'
anti was drowned but 'v:: have learned by the mail that this is
not the ease, and, that after sufrering severely front the cold, he'
picked up by one of the coaches that followed his owa."
At the late Kiltnainhatn Meeting that distin.
guished and eloquent Patriot, Mr. 11—e, Kino counsel,
said something rehttive to the indivitlinds " who are about Lord
Wellesley," to, the effect that there is no one, upon whom he can
depend but air. Plunkett,' We understaud that shortly after the
Meeting Mr. B. received a visit front the S—r
Much conversation of rather a cool and argumentative kind,
grounded on the report of Mr. Ir.'s speech that appeared
the papers.;.was the consettuenee. The fi--r pointi,d
to certain expressions, and presaell Mr. B. to avow or disavow
them.. This Mr. B. declined doing, upon the ground that his
compliance would recognise a right in every clbilr in the Castle
to call upon him for an explanation of phrases' not specially
applied to any individual ; and would beside*: ir.volve what he.,
should consider an infringtme.nt of the freedom of discussion.
The departed, giving 11.1 r. B. reason to conclutle
that the affair had not terminated.- In 'some time fliterWittaX
Mr. B. received .'visit' from the elder Alr. scan of a
vi.devant legal functittnary. A conversation ensued, similar in
tendency and result to that which had before taken place. At
the departure of this gentleman Afr.;ll. intimated, as the matter
was sun unsettled, that he would be prepared by ti particular
time, •• to appoint a gentleman to confer with Mr. make S--n, anti
anjarnmgement which might appear expedielit or fleet:J-
ury. This intimation drew front Alr. B—nan observation,
that Mr. B. was not to understand that he had yet come. to fix
upon any definitive. Course of proceeding, and that Arr.- H.
might expect again to bee him. In a short time Mr.
paid a second visit, and cloaed the conference by annotincing
that his friend did nut think himself called upon to proceed fur..
titer, as 11r B. declined explanation on the ground that cont_
pliance would, in his mind, Involve a. surrender of, the freedom
of diseussion,—( Dab/hi %Jerald qj