The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-23 00:00:00

CHANCERY RECORDS.

The labour and researches promoted by the
Royal Commissioners on piablio records, have led to the
discovery of a great variety and number of unarranged records
of the Court of Chancery. They have been found dispersed
through the record-office, the chapel, and the room in the White
Tower, in lockers, drawers, and cupboards, as well as in the
great heap (where many charters. were also found), under
the arch in the Tower of the City of London. They consist of
partitions of lands, assignments of dower, writs of seirCfarias to
repeal letters patent, with the pleading thereon ; " of these
latter documents there are 56 issued on behalf of Henry
Prince of Wales, to repeal letters patent of Qugen Elizabeth,
by which she had granted to divers persons sererarof the posses.
sions of the Duchy of Cornwall." There are, besides, many
other curious and valuable doeuments of the reigns of Henry
VII. and Henry VIII.' and various odic: important records
relating to lands. 'When the records in the Tower were. ex-
amined in 180, by order of Parliament, according to the return,
it does not appear to have been known that there were any pro-.
ceedings in the Court of Chancery preserved there, of an earlier
date than the reign of Queen Elizabeth, except some few in the
reign of Henry VII.; and there have since been discoverk;
besides the Alocuments already noted, in an obscure part
&the North Gallery of the Chapel of the White Tower, a series
of those proceedings, consisting of bundles of bills,- answers,
and depositions, during the reigns of Henry VI., Edward IVt
and V., and Richard 111. The great mass uf unsorted records
lying under the arch at the north-east corner of the White
Tower, first discovered in the year PIO, have been taken otlt
and sorted. •The Chancery records.; to the amount, of up.
wards of seven thousand, have since been unfolded, cleaned,
smoothed, .and arranged, in portfolios, under the names
of the several Chancellors ; chiefly during the reigns of
• Henry. 111., I en ry VIII., Ed ward VI „ Philip and Mary,
Queen Elizabeth, and James I. There have already been
found (observe the Royal Commissioners) the proceedings in
eight lnintlred and forty suits, whilst Cardinal- Woliey was
„Chancellor ; the proceedings in 1,5ti0 suits in the Chancellor-
ship of Sir Thomas Audley, and the proceedings in 1450 suits
in the time of Sir N. Bacon.

EDWARD FITZGERALD, ESQ.—We are sorry to
hear that this Gentleman died, on the 3d ofJune,
at Sierra Leone. lie was a victim to a malignant
fever, which hail for some time visited, the Co.'
lolly. He held the offices of Chief Justice and
Judge ,of the Vice-Admiralty Court, and also
•
was Commissioner of Arbitration on the part of
his MAJesTy. under the Treaty for the Preven-
tion of the !4I
_aye Trade. Mr. FITZGERALD was
a native of Ireland, and well-known in. this me.
tropolis as the Editor of The Pilot, an Evening
Paper, which has been extinct some years. fie
was mild in his manners, but of a spirited and
liberal disposition. He possessed poetical talents,
which, if duly cultivated, would have raised his
name to distinction, but the daily labours of a
public print, and afterwards. the duties attached
to his appointments abroad, induced him to bid
farewell to the Muses. -His character was highly
respected by all who had the pleasure.of know-
ing .him his•legal capacity he blended
mercy with justice. •
Pcutyor ROIIERT.I3I.OONIFIELD.---011
day, Aug. 19, at Sheffield, Bedfordshire, in his 57th year, died
Robert Illeoudield, author of the Farmer's Boy,' ke. e.
111* constitution,- naturally weak, had of late years become
alarmingly impaired every fresh attack left him still weaker ;
thelast, it was feared, had he survived it, would have fixed hint
in a state of mental aberration, to which himself and dearest.
friends must have preferred his death. •
A Letter from Switzerland communicates the
extraordinary fact, that- a hetiv y snow storm
visited that country on the 17th ult. The snow
fell for some hours, till it reached the depth of
four. feet. The cattle on the Alps were seriously
incorivenienced by it. It was four days before
the snow disappeared.
A subscription is opened at Hereford in behalf
of the Spaniards, and 271. is already subscribed.
.General QUIROGA'S wife has arrived in Lou.
don, after a short midenee in France, where she met with every
kind of ill-treatment from the Police. In one village she was
asked tive or six times for her passport—in another she was
ordered, to change her residence, because the innkeeper with
whom she lodged had the reputation of being a Liberal.—
Nobody, however, went further than the Prefect of VANN FN.
This Gentleman made Madame QuireoGa come betbre him
while he was taking his coffee. lie told her that the Atonitesir
announced officially the surrender of Cadiz, and he commented
on this news like a Police Officer and an Ultra. Madame
Quinotta requested him to inform her why she was sent for.
The Prefect then told her that Quinoon should have acted
like Monmio., On this she replied with dignity-4' While
there is a single inch ofC
ground in Spain where theon.
stitutiun is obeyed, General Qui ROUA will be ready to
shed the last drop of his blood in its defence ;" and
she went away. - Undoubtedly the Prefect expects the re.
ward of this good deed done in the cause of Legitimacy and
we fancy we arc doiag him a service by making his conduct
publicly known; for though he will be despised by every man
of gentlemanly and delicate feelings, the Missionaries will heap
benedictions on him,.the King will load hint with favours. and
the Drapeam Blanc will immortalize him with its praise.—
( Morning Chronicle.)

PA Ills, AUG. ig.—At length it is known where
the agents Cleret and Mustard have taken re.
fuge ; they are in England. Cleret left Paris in
the disguise of a valet-de-chambre to a tender
beauty, whose postillion had orders to drive full
speed. The noble English belle, by the aid of
her livery, easily eluded the vigilante of the
Police of Calais, and the illustrious bankrupt
arrived at London without experiencing any im-
pediment. Presuming upon the impunity which
the British laws afford to him, he audaciously
frequents the Parks and Theatre ; and, on the
day of the closiqg of the. King's Theatre (Opera),
he was conspicuous in the pit, by the richness of
his attire and fashionable airs. Mussurd has
reached Southampton incognito.---(The Elate.)
Mr. BACKOOVSE, of Wells, has invented a ma-
chine for beating books, by means of which as many books
may be beaten in one day as would take two men 'a week in
the ordinary way ; and the operation is performed with ease.
It is rather singular that the number of pounds
weight of tea, and the number of bushels of malt, consumed
annually, now nearly correspond.
LATE ATTACK. ON M lignnocits.----It is a
singular circumstance that the hat by which Mr. Ilorrocks's
life was preserved from the attack of the desperate maniac
Ryding, had been returned by that gentleman to his hatter,
on the ground that it was too high-crowned, and made of
too hard and heavy materials. °Die hatter requested Mr.
Horrocks to wear it till the Monday, when he promised
it should be exchanged. On the Sunday, the attack was
made by Ryding, and there could be no doubt in the minds of
those who saw the bat in Co&rt, that if it had not been both
very high-crowned and very hard, the blows of the cleaver must
have fractured Mr. llorrocks'a, skull, if not killed lum•ort the
spot. The blows were struck with amazing force, anti no ordi.
nary resistance could have defeated the design with which they
were inflicted.

HALLOONS.—In the campaigns of 1793, the
French Generals made balloons useful in military movements.
Theyhad no less than 28 ascensions in Belgium, and at the
battle of Ileums Gen. 111onut.ol. remained two hours elevat-
ed in a balloon. He sent 'Gcn..l.ovuu,tar two letters written
20(1 fathoms high in the air. They enabled him to gain a
battle, upon the success of which depended the conquest of all
Belgium.

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FASHIONABLE CHANGES.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs, Agar Ellis, from Lord Owydyr's
seat, Drummond Castle, N. 11., On a visit to Earl and Countess
Gower, at Dunrohin Castle, Sutherlandshire ; the Countess of
Glengall, from her house in Lower Grosvenor-street, for her
seat, Caher Ireland ; Leveaon Gower,
Esq. from Reddish's
Hotel, Jertnyn-street, for Cheltenham ; Captain and Mrs.
Cartwright, from the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street, for
Worthing.
AILITIVALS.—The Earl of P.lesinton, at his seat, Mountjoy
Forest Lodge, Tyrone, Ireland, from Italy ; the Earl and
Countess of Bristol and Family, from their scat in Putney ;
Mdjor and Mrs. Ogle, at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle;
,street, from their seat in Herts ; Barnard flunkey, Esq. at
toag's (Claremont) Hotel, Bond-street, from his seat, Leather-
head ; Colonels Donellon and Beckwith at ditto, from Paris
General and Mrs. Bradshaw, ait Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-
street, froth Bath.

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.
The Earl of Listowell gave a grand entertainment, yester.
day, at Kingston House.
Mr. Charles hills gave an elegant dinner, at his house in
Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square.
Lady Johnstone had a small 'evening party, at her house in
Great Cumberland -place, on IVednestlay evening.
The Hon. Mrs, Basil Cochrane entertained a select circle in
Fortnm:Agit:use, on the saine night.
Mrs. Mitchell invited about sixty fashionables to a rout on
Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Howard had a card party in Gloucester-place, last
night.
Mrs. Seton Harper gave a concert of vocal and instrumental
music, last evening, in Baker-street.

Mr. Baron Garrow has just returned from a trip to Paris.
Mr. Serjeata Onslow and a long list of brother Banisters are
now on a visit to the French capital.

POET It Y.

TIT! MIRACLE-NO MIRACLE.

Prince 110 HE NII.OIIE, Prince 11011ENLOWE
Your miracles are not uncommon'
If all your prayers no farther. go
.Than to produce a talking. woman
Prince Ilonrsl.ollE, indeed, indeed,
No miracle is this you're shewing..
No ! if you seek a coqror's meed,
You'll stop their tongues, not set them. going!,

ON A DULL PREACHER,
wzrost TEXT WAS " WATCH AND PILAW'
By our Preacher perplexed,
How shall we determine?
'Mitch and:pray, says the text,
do to sleep, says the sermon.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXF0111), A uo. 22.--nn Tuesday last Mr. William Rosser
Williams, B. A., -Scholar on Mr. Michel's Foundation,
Queen's College, was elected Fellow of the cone Society.
The Rev, (J. M. Coleridge, of
,Christ. Church, in thfsT.Tni.
versity, to the Prebendall stall of Whitchurch, in the Cathe:
drat of Wells, vacant by the death of the Archdeacon of Nor;
wick. •

The lion. and Rev. W. Eden, M.A., to be one of the Six.
Preachers in Canterbury Cathedral ; patron, the Archbishop.
The Rev. W. Knatchbull, 8.])., to the Rectory of Aiding.
tonctuuSineeth, Kent. _ _ _

Thd Lord Bi'shop of London has conferred upon the Rev.
Dr. Jones the living of BetMint,' Middlesex.
The Rev. James Wood, D.D. has been presented by John
Lucius Dampier, t:sq., the Patron for this torn only, to the
Rectory of Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, vacant by the
death of the Rev. Benjamin Holmes.
Perim Rev. John tieffry Browne, A.M., Chaplain to the
Right lion. Lord Viscount Dillon, to the Rectory of Kidding. ton, In this county, on the presentation of his Lordship.
The Rev. Francis Rose, A.M., Citrate of Bulkington, and
Assistant Minister of Bedworth, Warwickshire, has been in-
stituted to the Rectory of Woughton, Bucks, on his own
' petition.
3lts. Davis, widow of James Davis, Esq has presented the
11ev. James Davis, 11. A., and Scholar of University College,
to the Vicarage of .Chepstow, in tlke county of .Alontuoutli.

Ma. KEAN.—There has been a controversy,
among the Correspondents of The Cork ridver-
tiver and The Cork Mercantile Chronicle respect-
ing the theatrical merits of Mr. KEAN, as well as
between the Editors of those Papers. The' for-
mer Editor seems to have much the advantage in
judgment and taste. Ile acknowledges the merits,
and points out the deficiencies of this fortunate
actor. The other Editor is more of a panegyrist
than a critic, and, as a proof that his judgment is
not very sound, he speaks in high terms of Mr.
KEAN'S Lear, a character in which even the
more judicious of his London admirers admitted
that lie was by no means successful.—The Gork
Chronicle says " It may be said that in these
scenes (of Lear) SIIAILSPEARE did a great deal
for KEAN, but I answer that KLAN did a great
deal for SHAKSPEARE !!:" After this critic
bigotry, or rather folly, what can be thought of
the writer. It is, however, proper to state, that
this senseless rant came for a Coirespondent of
Ithe Paper. It may fairly be said, that if Mr.
KEAN had confined himself merely to those cha-
racters for which he is fit, his popularity, arising
from his spirit rather than his judgment, would
not have declined ; but Romeo, Hamlet, Don
Felix, and other characters requiring elegance
of manners, were certainly quite unsuitable to
'his talents and general habits.
KING CILUILES'S Pnayea boob.--Consider-
able interest was excited in Dumfries, last week,
by the sale of a valuable library, the property of
the late J. Busby Maitland, Esq. of Eccles. Not
a few of the books were rare and curious, and in
general they brought handsome prices. An old
folio prayer-book sold for 101. after a keen contest ,
between a nobleman and a professional gentleman.
On a leaf of this volume, which bears the Stuart
arms, is written " King Charles' Prayer Book,'
and it is said to be the identical copy which his
Majesty read from on the scaffold, in his last and
trying hour. It farther appears to have be-
longed to Dr. John Hutton, physician to King
William, and a native of Carlaverock, near
Dumfries. The same distinguished individual
bequeathed his library to the Presbytery of Dum-
fries, and purchased, besides, an estate in the
parish of Colvend, which cost only 1,0001. but
which now adds about 500/, per annum to the
session funds of his native parish,
TUE CLERICAL Gows.—Mr. Suckling, a
clergyman of Norfolk, having a quarrel with a
neighbouring gentleman who insulted him, and at'
last told Doctor, your gown is your pro-
tection," replied, " It may be mine, but it shall
not be yours;" and, pulling it off, thrashed the
aggressor.

The Manchester Chronicle ritivertiqes nine yun-
away husbands, who have left their families chargeable to the
parish of Salford,