The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 22.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, the Princess
Royal, the Princess Alice, the Princess Helena, and
the Princess Louisa, left the Castle at half-past ten
o'clock by a special train for Osborne, attended by the
Marchioness of Douro, the Hon. diss Cavendish,
Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Lord Charles
Fitzroy,. Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, Lieutenant-
Colonel Biddulph, the Rev. Mr. Birch, and Mr. Becker.
A guard of honour from the Grenadier Guards
was at the railway station at her Majesty's departure.
OSBORNE, SUNDAY.
Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
and the Royal Family, attended by the usual suite,
arrived at Osborne at half-past one o'clock yesterday
afternoon from Windsor Castle.

The Royal party crossed over from Gosport in the
Fairy, commanded by Lord Adolphus Fitzclsrence.

Colonel Sir George. Coupe r arrived at the Bedford
Hotel, Brighton, on Friday, bearing the condolence
of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent to her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on the
death of the King of Hanover.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer returned to town
on Saturday morning, from a visit to the Speaker of
the House of Commons, at his seat Hickfield,
Hon. Baronet.
Hamp-
shire. Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Cus-
toms, had an interview with the Right
Sir Alexander Spearman had also an interview with
Sir Charles, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Lieut.-Colonel Chads had an interview with Earl
Grey on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sra,—ln giving an account of the artificial leg worn
by the Marquis of Anglesey, you allude to me as the
inventor of it. As Ido not wish to claim what does
not belong to me, I shall be much obliged by your
stating that the inventor of it was the late ingenious
Mr. Potts, who had suffered amputation above the
knee, and though I believe I have materiallyim-
proved the artificial leg since Mr. Potts's day, still
the invention is due to him alone. lam merely his
suc-ressor.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,

FREDERICK GRAY.
7, Cork-street, Burlington-gardens,
Nov. 22, 1851.

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DEATH of the REV. DR. MORGAN, late CHAP-
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died on Saturday last, the 22d instant, at his resi-
dence North-end-lodge, Portsmouth, at the advanced
age of 83 years. Connected at once with the Church
and the Navy, Dr. Morgan's lengthened
of singular interest. The Rev. Gentleman was a son
of Philip Morgan, Esq., of Dyfynog, Brecknock-
shire, South Wales, whose family
was
onewasf of
consi-
derable antiquity, and possessed at the time great in-
one
in-
fluence in the Church. Dr. Morgan entered Jesus
College, Oxford, at the early age of 14 years, and in
a few months afterwards gained an open scholarship
in that university. Notwithstanding his great family
influence in the Church, Dr. Morgan's inclinations
led him strongly to the Nayy, to which branch of
the national service he determined on devoting his
energies, in connexion, however, with clerical duties.
Having taken a good degree at Jesus College, he was
ordained by Dr. Lloyd, Bishop of Oxford, who had
formerly held the vicarage of Dyfynog, Dr. Morgan's
native place.
Dr. Morgan was born at Dyfynog, near Brecon,
in 1769, and was appointed chaplain of the Alfred in
1793, and in the five following years he was four
times in action, viz., in the battles of the Ist of June,
and in Lord Hotham's in 1795, and again in
.the
Bedford in the same year with Admiral Richery, and
three sail-of-the-line, also in the hard-contested fight
of the Mars and Hercule in 1798. For the seven
succeeding years Dr. Morgan was in the Channel
fleet, performing the arduous duty of secretary to
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Cotton. After being a
a year at Hasler, and a year at Plymouth, performing
the duties of chaplain to the hospitals, Dr. Morgan
was, without any solicitation on his own part, spe-
cially selected by Lord Melville to the Chaplaincy of
Portsmouth Dockyard, which situation he filled for
34 years. He thus served his Sovereign for 58 years,
13 of which was hard sea-work. During the height
of the war in this long period of more than half a
century Dr. Morgan invariably earned the approba-
tion and friendship of his superiors.
In conjunction with his duties at Portsmouth Dock-
yard, Dr. Morgan held the rectory of Llanvaches, in
the diocese of Llandaff, and the perpetual curacy of
Talley, in the diocese of St. David's. He was for-
merly vicar of King's Langley, Hertfordshire, to
which he was presented in 1813 by the Lord Bishop
of Ely. He was in the commission of the pence for
Brecon, Monmouthshire, Carmarthenshire, and Hamp-
shire. _ . .

It is well for us who live in times of peace and
tranquillity to be reminded how much we are in-
debted to those who laboured to secure the blessings
of liberty and peace for those who should follow
them. Amongst these benefactors Dr. Morgan occu-
pies a worthy place. In private life his personal
courage, his unblemished integrity, his generous hos-
pitality, his sound good sense, and unaffected piety,
secured him the warm attachment of his many per-
sonal friends.

• APPLICATION OF ELECTRICITY.—A gentleman in
Newport, Kentucky, is perfecting an application of electri-
city for propelling a box containing letters over wires from
place to place, on the telegraphic principle. It is said that
the experiment over wires of 600 yards in length has worked
well.