The Sun.
London, England, 1815-07-22 00:00:00

VA:S:DERVELDE,

To those Who have a•peculiar fondness for TlVia
rine painting, the exquisite specimens of this mas-
ter, in many respects the finest marine painter that
ever lived, will ittrord great delight The general
loiter of the Arta also, %till be much gratified by an
attentive examination of them. It would be well
if certain historical and portrait and hAlldtgeape
pa,inters, would itnrart to their co,ipositions of
colour, somewhat of time sobriety of VANDER-
VELDE.9 lutes, instead of torturing the eye with
raw or inharmonious combinations of reds,ycllows,
and blues, as crude is pine vermillion, orpiment,
and ultrmnarine can make them. Perhaps no mad
ever prosecuted his studies :with more enthu-
siasm than ITANDERYELDF. ; as a proof of which, it
is related of him, that during a fierce engagement
between the English and Dutch fleets of his day,
he penetrated with a small boat into the midst
of the fight, in order to afford- himself an op-
portunity of observing all those circumstances,
the characteristic representation of which has given
him so decided a supeiiority over his competitors.

TIIF, ARMY.

APPOINTMENTS OF AIDS-DE-CAMP.

The following number oIA Nice-de •Camp are to
be employed by General ()Ricers on the Staff, viz.:

AT HOME

Commander in Chief Six
General
Lieutenant-General Two
Major-Gerzral One.
ABROAD.

Commander of Forces
General
Lieutenant-General ..,
Major-General

Four
Three
Tyro
One
One.

Yesterday the Duke of Vora: held a Military
Levee, at his Office iir the Horse Guards, which
attended by

LieUtenant4;eneral Sir John 'Murray, on his return from
Canada; General Sir Juhn Craddock; Major-General Crainr ;
and Major-General Grant, &c. &c.

Dispatches from Genoa, dated the last week in
June, state, that,the British troops were not ex-
pected to move from that place.
The Staff Corps at Ilythe, which had been
countermanded, was ordered to proceed• for im-
mediate embarkation to Prance on Thursday last.
Warrants have been issued by the Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, for embodying thirty regi-
ments of Militia in the ensuing month, in their
'respective Counties.

His Royal Highness the PRINCE RECENT has
lately been pleased, in the name and On behalf of
his Alak3ty, to
.command, that " whenever a
Regimental Staff. Officer shall succeed, without a
regular Staff appointment, to, the chief command
of troop; on any station abroad, by the death or
absence of the Commanding Cfficer, that if such
command shall devolve upon a Field Officer, or
an Officer of inferior rank, the Officer so succeed-
ing to the temporary comtnand shall, when pos-
sessing the yank of Field Officer, receive an al-
lowance of twenty shillings per dicta ;-----rhe same
to be paid for the period during which he shall
actually exercise the command, and in addition to
the regimental poy and allowance. But if the
chief command should devolve upon an Officer
already on the Staff, such Officer is not entitled
to receive any additional rate of pay in conse-
quence thereof.''

ViSHEßY.—Extract of a Letter from
Strauraer, dated the 15th instant :—" 1 am hap
py to inform you, for the information of the trade
in Greenock, that the•llierring Fishery has begun
in this quarter, all along the shore from Port—
patrick to Portnessock, the boats getting from
three 0) ten maze : prices front 2s. to 2s. 6d. per
hundred, The het rings are very fat---from six to
seven hundred to the barrel. The Channel is full
of herrings."

On Friday last, a tneetiog of the coal-owners
was Leld at Newcastle, and a:Committee was ap-
pointed for estahlkhin,, a general and permanent
Fund for the relief of the Fatiiilies of those who
suffer in the Mines. . .

• When the Ci"itards of Mail Coaches begin to rob
the vehicles they are hired to defend, the obser-
vation of tic Roman Poet will incompletely veri-
fied : •

Sed grill custodiet ipsos
" Custodes?
If such the thirst and avarice of pelf; • \
Where is the Guard to guard the Guard kinzself?
Last month, when a man was ploughing in the
neighbourhood of Carlisle, be found a told coin of
AUGUSTUS C/ESAR, in high preservation, with the
following itsseriptions :—Obverse—" Cosar
gvsivs divi f pater patrice." ReKerscf,—" Avgvsti.
F. cos desig Princ. ivvent ci. Caesarcs.
" 'Tis Rn winil blows nobody good."—A gen.
ileum) who songl,t shelter trom the rain at a Lot.
tery Office on Wednesday, was induced, atter re•
maining in the Office some time, to purchase a
Sixtec,,rh of No. 11,17'2, drawn in a few hours
attct, a Prite of 'isventy Thousand rounds