The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-27 00:00:00

VIE KING, ttc.

Witunon, OCT. 2fl.—The Royal Lodge now exhibits a
daily decrease of those rural attractions which combine during
the summer season, to render it so desirable a retreat. The
autumnal tints which the varying foliage of the plantations in
the Great Park presented at the commencement of the present
month, are rapidly giving way to the sombre hue of Novem-
ber, while the falling leaves thickly strew the sequestered rides.
'Lis MAJEsTY, however, does not relinquish his daily exercise,
which experience has proved to be so conducive to his health ;
and under his tasteful direction, improvements still continuo to
be made in the more retired parts of the Great Park. A num-
ber of roads have been completed in different directions, which
for years have been lying waste ; and thus combining ornament
with utility, another benefit is added to the many which Wind-
sor has derived from the residence of its Sovereign.
THE FAln.—Vesterday, at twelve o'clock, the announce-
ment of our October Fair was made by the Magistrates, and
the usual scene of din and bustle took place. The weather
being more favourable than usually happens on this occasion,
the early part of the fair was graced by the presence of the
fairest inhabitants, either to witness the travelling exhibitions
of wonder, or present a fairing to their friends. In the even-
ing, 1,
the company became more numerous, and less select ;
country visitors tumbled in by wholesale. The Fair taking
place in the High-street, it required no small degree of exertion
and perseverance to penetrate the dense crowd (who excited by
the wonders of the animal creation, which were exhibited by
two rival menageries, or attracted by the tempting display
of fancy articles presented in a long line of booths) blocked
up every avenue. Early in the evening, however, the town
began to resume its usual state of quietude, and before
eleven o'clock, the immense crowd had entirely dispersed,
without, we aro happy to state, the slightest tumult or dis-
order.

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
fiord and Lady Holland, and family, at their house in Sa-
ville-row, for the season, from Holland House ; Lord I)ynevor
and the lion. G. Rice Trevor, in town, from Barrington Park,
Oxfordshire ; the Right lion. Stratford Canning, at Greillon's
Hotel, Albemarle-street, from Kent ; Viscount and Viscoun-
tess Downe, and family, at their house in Charles-street,
Berkeley-square, from *Worthing ; Capt. Storey, at the Wa-
terloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Ireland ; Sir W. Hothrn,
Bart. at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from Bath ;
31. Gray, Esq. at ditto, from Dublin ; Lady Cope, at ditto,
from a tour ; Lady and the four Misses &bright, ut ditto ; on
Sunday last, Mr. Jekyll, with his eldest son, from Italy and
Paris, anti the numerous friends of the former will rejoice to
hear that his health has been completely restored by the ex-
cursion.
CHANGES.—Lord de Clifford, for tighroke Park, near Chud-
leigh, front a tour ; lion. William Clitthrd, for Trusitam
in Lincolnshire ; General Sir William Cockburn, Lady and
Miss Cockburn, from Brighton, to their house in Lansdnwn-
crescent, Bath ;M. J. Datincey, for Swansburn,,near. en,s-
low, in Buckinghamshire; Rev. J. Carr, for Norwich; Sir
Edward Blount, Dart., from a tour, to %Von:ester ; Capt. and
Mrs. Boldero, from itarnsgate, for Boulogne; Lady and Miss
Macdonald, from Brighton, for Ramsgate; 31rs. anti Miss
Wadhum, from East Cowes Cottage, for Brighton ; Major
Lambert, from Cheltenham, for Bath ; the Hon. George Petre,
from Preston, Lancashire, on a tour; Sir Thomas Barrett
Leonard, Bart., on a tour ; 31rs. and Miss Manners, from
Scarborough, for (lath; Col. Ronald ;Mcdonnell, of Clan-
ronald and Glengarry, from Glengarry Cottage, in Perthshire;
Mr. and Mrs. l'orteous, from llarrowgate, for Bath ; °Lady
Laura Tollemache, on a tour; Mr. C. Milner, flout Doncas-
ter, on a tour ; Captain Heaviside, from Buckingham, on a
tour; Col. Lowther, M.P., at the Earl of Lonsdale's seat,
Cottesmere, Rutlandshire, from Westmoreland ; Baron and
Baroness tie Roebeck, from Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square,
for Cheltenham ; Colonel and Miss Bligh, from ditto, on a
tour.

The Duke of YORK has left the Duke of IttiTLAND's,
Cheveley Park, for the Duke of Guarrox's, Emitun Hall.
Friday, Earl Gill: Y passed through Sheffield, on his way to
Wentworth House, to pay a visit to Earl FITZWILLIABL.

ANECDOTE or ittinws.—(From Me l'a;slry Advertier.)
—The followinji anecdote of the Ayrshire Bard is, we believe,
genuine, and hitherto unpublished. On a visit to a certain sea-
port town in this country, Burns entered into a warm discussion
on religions topics with a person named Andrew Turner, who
was famed for Deistical principles, anti what John Bunyan
would have denominated an " ill favoured" countenance.—
The Poet was worsted in the tegument, at which he felt nettled,
and vented his spleen in the following impromptu :
It happened Once upon a time,
The de'il got stuff to teak' a swine,
And laid it in a corner •
But after that he chang'd his plan,
An' made it something like a man,
An' ett'd it Andrew Turner.

An anecdote is related of General °TWAT
who had been many years in the service with the rank of Co:-
lonel, during which time several junior Colonels had got regi-
ments over his head. His friends frequently entreated him to
state his services, and to petition the KING (GEORGE II.);
he resisted their importunities for a considerable time but being
at length prevailed upon, he desired the Chaplain of the regi-
ment he served in to draw up a petition, which being done and
sent to the Colonel, he took notice that it concluded with the
words " and your petitioner shall ever pray." He sent for the
Chaplain, and told him that he had made a mistake, and
imagined he was presenting a petition for himself by the man-
ner in which he had concluded it. He desired it to be altered,
and insisted that the word pray was unfit to come from an offi-
cer. It was to no purpose that lie was informed of the usual
mode of drawing the prayer of all
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to Court, and presented it to the Elmo, who was amused with
the novelt of the conclusion, and the honest bluntness ess of the
Offi I cer. n the course of a few weeks a regiment became vacant
which was given to OTWAY, in opposition to the Ministers,
who had promised to provide for a friend possessing some in-
terest In Parliament.
BALLOON ASCENT.—Extract of a private letter, dated
Pongee, • Oct. 25:--" Mr. GREEN having announced his in-
tention of ascending from the fortifications of this place on
Saturday, the 16th inst., wind and weather permitting, there
was a great assemblage of persons collected to gratify their cu-
riosity, but, notwithstanding every preparation was made, the
Committee were of opinion that it would be highly danger-
ous to make the attempt, owing to the continuance of the
high wind, and particularly its blowing from the northward,
which must have wafted the balloon over the British Chan-
nel, to the imminent risk of the life of the aeronaut. The
populace behaved with becoming moderation on the occasion,
and nothing like that riotous disposition with which similar
disappointments have been attended in other places was shown
here. Mr. Green, auxious that the public should not be disap.
pointed again, made known his intention of making the attempt
this day at two o'clock, when, the weather being good, and the
wind blowing from the south-west, on the third gun being fired,
a large concourse of persons had the gratification of witnessing
the ascent of the balloon, in a very . gradual and majeatic
style, to the height of about half a mile, when it continued to
sail in a N.E. direction, and was in sight fur 26 minutes, at
which time it disappeared in a distant cloud, having passed over
Langstone-harbour and Havant, towards Midhurst. I%lr. Green
was accompanied in his aerial excursion by a gentleman whose
name we could not learn, but who we understand is an officer
of the engineers. We trust that this attempt, commencing un.
der such favourable auspices, will not have so lamentable a ter-
mination as has lately attended similar efforts. The Mends of
the travellers are anxiously waiting to hear of their sans landing
on terra firma."
Tug LOST PEDIGREE.---A gentleman well
known on the turf, once purchased a horse, when in Dublin, of
an Irish dealer, of a very famous breed. On returning from
Ireland, he found, that by accident, he had lost the pedigree,
upon which he wrote off instantly for another copy, to which
the dealer, in his anxiety to oblige him, replied,—" That, in-
deed, he was sorry it was lost, because he had no copy ttf it,
but he would send him another as good."
A singular fact in geology has been this week
disclosed while boring for soft water atilte foundry of Messrs.
Cawood, at Leeds. For the first 30 ythe boring irons were
not affected in any manner out of the usual way ; beyond that
point they became possessed of a highly magnetic power, which
continued till the irons had penetrated to the depth of 60 yards ;
afterwards the attraction ceased, and the boring is now pro-
ceeding without any effect being protluced upon the iron out of
the ordinary war.