The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The birthday of the Duchess of Gloucester was cele-
brated yesterday at Gloucester House.
About one o'clock ,the Queen, attended by Miss Hope
Johnstone, the Maid of Honour in Waiting, arrived at
Gloucester House. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess
Victoria, Prince George of Cambridge, and other members
of the Royal Family, also paid Ongrattilatory ViSits tO the
Royal Ditchess. In the evening the Duke and Duchess
of Gloucester gave a grand dinner to their Majesties and a
select circle. The party consisted of the King and Queen,
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, the Dukes
of Wellington, Rutland, Argyll, and Dorset ; the Duchess
of Northumberland, Earl of Belfast, Earl and Countess of
Kinnoull, Earl and Countess of Denbigh, Earl and Coun-
tess Howe, Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Earl of Jersey;
Earl and Cotintest; Brownitiw, Earl arid Coiiritss of
Lord Maryborough, Lord Hill, Lord Adolphus Vittclaretice,
Lady Caroline Legge, Lady Isabella Thynne, Colonel Hig-
gins, Colonel Currey, and Captain Boyd.
After dinner there was an evening party. Many of the
Nobility and Gentry left their names at Gloucester House,
for the Royal Duchess in the course of the day:
The King gave audience yesterday to Earl Grey, Lord
Hill, and the Right Hon. Edward Ellice.
His Majesty, attended by the Earl of Albemarle, and the
Earl of Erroll, inspected the Royal Mews, at Pimlico, yes-
terday.

A Cabinet Council *as held yesterday afternoon, at the
residence of Viscount Althorp, ill Downing-street. It
was attended by the Lord Chancellor, Earl Grey, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, Earl of Ripon, Viscount Melbourne,
Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right Hon.
Charles Grant, Viscount Althorp, Sir James Graham, the
Duke of Richmond, Lord Holland, arid Lord John Russell.
The Council were near two hours in deliberation.

Prince Talleyrand and the Spanish Minister, visited
Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Foreign Office.

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ARRIVALS:

The Earl of Egreinont, in Grosvenor-place, from his
seat in Sussex ; the Earl and Countess of Jermyn' in St.
James's-square, from Putney Heath, Surrey; Lord Francis
Egerton, at his seat, Oatlands, from a tour ; Mr. and
Mrs. Hope Johnston at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-
street, from Scotland% Mr. and Mrs. Sanders, at ditto,
from the Isle of Wight ; H. Clive, Esq., from his seat,
Barham, Wokingliam ; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Digby, at
Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, from Hants the Rev. D.
Martin, Mrs. and Miss Martin, at Hawkins's Hotel,
Dover and Albemarle-streets, from Yorkshire ; Captain
and Mrs. Macklean, in Grosvenor-street, from Brighton ;
Mr. and Mrs. J. Knox, in Park-lane, from Leamington,
' Warwickshire • the Earl and Countess of Wilton, in Gros-
venor-square, from Croxton, Leicestershire; Lord Dacre,
in -Chesterfield-street, from the Hoo, Hefts ; the Mar-
chioness of Winchester and Lady Cecilia Paulet, in Caven-
dish-square, from Arnpool House, Hants ; the Marquis of
Exeter, at 'homas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Burgh-
ley, Lincolnshire ; Lady and Miss Montagu, in Hamilton-
place, from Brighton ; Sir Matthew and Lady Tierney,
in Bruton-street, from Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Dun-
combe Shafton, in Lower Brook-street, from Buckworth,
Huntingdon ; Lord Bolton, at Mivart's Hotel, Lower
Brook-street, from I-lackwood Park, Hants ; Lady Mus-
grave, at ditto, from Uppingham, Rutland ; Walker Fer-
raud, Esq., and Mrs. Ferraud, at Marshall Thompson's
Hotel, Cavendish-square, from Yorkshire ; the Solicitor-
General of Upper Canada and Mrs. Hagerman, at ditto,
from Brighton; James Bourne, Esq., and James Moss,
Esq., at ditto, from Liverpool; Robert 11. Clive, Esq., at
ditto ; J. Sherwood, Esq., at ditto ; Captain Hinde, at
ditto; Sir Trayton and Lady Drake, Eliott at Mrs. Hal-
ford's, in Piccadilly, from utwell-court ; Count de Sur-
villiers and suite, at Fladong's Hotel, Bond-street ; Count
des Vandes, at ditto, from Hastings ; Colonel and Mrs
Bourchier and family, at ditto, from Berks ; Hon. John
Dutton' at ditto, froin Sherborne. Castle ; Rev. Mr.
Prichard, at ditto ; Rev. Mr. Harrison, at ditto ; Rev.
Mr. Rooke, at ditto.
DEPARTURES.

Lord Dundas, from Hertford-street, May-fair, for his
seat, Marskehall, Guisborough, Yorkshire; Lord Newbo-
rough, from Pall;mall, on a tour ; Colonel and Mrs. By
and family, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for
Tunbridge Wells ;, Mr. and Mrs. Divett, from ditto, for
their seat in Devonshire ; Captain Doyle, from Ra'gett's
Hotel,-Dover-street, for Brighton; Mr. and Mrs. William
Lawrence, from Albemarle-street, for their seat in Nor-
folk ; N. Dickenson, Esq., and Mrs. Dickenson, from
Marshall Thompsan's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; Mrs.
Hippesley Cocks, from ditto ; Edward Jogs, Esq., and
Mrs. Ings, from ditto ; John Buckle, Esq., from ditto ;
Rev. C. G. Hutchinson, from ditto; Hugh Hornby, Esq.,
from Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street, for Cumberland;
P. Button, Esq., from ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy Scu-
damore; from ditto, for Brighton ; George Lucas, Esq.,
and Henry Lucas, Esq., from ditto, for Bedfordshire.

SIR JOHN MOORE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

gut,—The number of the Edinburgh Review, just pub-
lished, contains a critique on the life of Sir John Moore,
recently published by his brother, which is well deserving
the attention of every man whO values the honour of the
British soldier, and the true glory and greatness of his
country. Ido not coincide with all the expressions in this
article, some of which appear to bear too severely on Mr.
Moore ; nor do I wish here to allude to its political senti-
ments. But in this do I most fully and entirely concur
with the opinions it expresses ; that Mr. Moore's work
does not give that full and impassioned and animated por-
traiture of his heroic brother which justice and the public
interest alike demand. If Sir John Moore's generals are
in existence, and if they possess the merit ascribed to them,
is it just, is it fair, is it right, to veil from the eyes of the
valiant the delineation they contain of the- mind and soul
of one of the greatest men who ever adorned the page of
history, modern or ancient ; of a man who in a refined age
exhibited a model of those severe virtues which would
have done honour to a primitive people, and, combined
with those virtues, science the most exact, talents the most
exalted, judgment the most correct, and heroism seldom
equalled, never surpassed? Mr. Moore's life of his brother
is little better than an almanach of Ms days—it gives,
indeed, the meagre skeleton, but where is the ani-
mating spirit? It is mechanically correct, but where
shall we find in it the soul of the hero ? It gives a
parade recital of facts ; but it does not give us Sir John
Moore, collected amid a thousand difficulties, unmoved in
the front of danger ! A good chronicle it may be of some
of the events of his life ; but in vain do we seek in it for
that vigour and energy which may kindle in the breasts of
posterity the vivid flame of honourable ambition ! Moore
was emphatically " a soldier ;" his life, as the general order
at the time of his death well expressed, " was spent
amongst the troops ;" for the discipline of the army ; for
the honour of the country ' for the sake of those embryo
spirits, who like Moore or Nelson may look forward to
glory, as the recompense of danger and of hardship, let
us hope that the features of his gallant soul may be fully-
laid before the public gaze, in all the grandeur of their
original proportions ;—that his life and actions may be
handed down to posterity ; not as mere matter of rote for
the biographer or chronologist, but as a beacon to other
ages ; how like him, patriots and soldiers may live with
honour ! how like him they may die with glory r!
Your obedient servant,
ALPHA.