The Sun.
London, England, 1804-06-11 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, just 7;

IN, the eyenibig.of His Majesty's Birtlt.d an
entertaitireent in the usual style of liberality and
elegance, was given by the Lard Provost and
Magistra•f!s, in the Parliament House, where a
grtar. vinnher of the first charaEters in the Coun-
try attended. After the Lord Provost had given
a variety of extremely appropriate Toasts, His
Grace the Lord Lieutenant of the County pro-
posed the health of " Earl MOIRA, out brave
and illustrious Commander in Chief—Long may
we have amongst us an Officer who has added so
much to our security, and under whose command
all descriptions of military men ih this Country
have so much confidence."

Earl Mot►tA replied, with great animation, near.
ly to this effed: " Gentlemen, The feelings of
my hOrt will not permit me to receive in silence
the flattering compliment which has now been paid to
Me by the Noble Duke. I only beg leave to set his
race right in one particular. That which his
Grace has been pita'sed to ascribe to my, exertions,'
Scotland has done for herself. On my arrival
here, I found every thing already done which could
be effeEted by native courage, by unity of spirit,
and by discipline. All that remained for me was,
to appteciate and report to Government the high
charatiel• of the Troops under my command, and
to dire .their operations when they shall- he re-
quired. I am certain I have not over-rated their
merits. I again declare my perfed confidence in
these troops, arid my convi&ion, that if ever the day
shall arrive when the Enemy shall dare to -put his
threats into ekecution, he will only afford them a
fresh opportunity of justifying the charader which
they now enjoy. I► will be an arduous, a rough
'day ; but tvtether I survive it or not, it will be a
day more glorioui for Scotland than any that stands
recorded in any period of her history."

_ .
/At a later period of the evening, the Earl of ➢AL.
ICE ITH addressed the Chair

" MY LORD PROVOST,

" I confess that the Toast which I shall have the
honour of proposing to you, has peens in a great mea-
sure forestalled ; for much has already been said of
patriotism, much of spirit, much of honour ; senti."
tricots indeed likely to rise in tiv;t.brcasts of Britons
on this auspicious day : but I cannot resist the pre-
sent opportunity-of giving as aTo " The Yeo-
manry and 'Volunteers of the three United Kingdoms
—may they ever continue
.to evince the same spirit
and patriotism that have always atluated them ;"
such, indeed, as are not to -be found in the ancient
records of former ages, nor are now to be met with
in the degenerate state of the world, except in these
happy isles. The Princes of degraded Europe bend
before that haughty Despot, whosp ambition knows
no bounds ; but I trust, that as, during the last
and present War, our brave Yeomanry and Volun-
teers-have manfully withstood the insulting threats,
and utmost efforts of the masters of. Republican
France, under whatever whimsical denomination of
Directories or Consulates, so they will not now
truckle to the same degraded power, -though deco.
rated with the title of Imperial."
When the company separated, the populace took
the horses from Earl Morß A'S carriage, which con-
tained also the Doke of BUCCI.EOGH, the Earl of
DALKE ITH, and the Logo AnvocATE, and having
taken away the horses, they drag fed. the carriage to
his Lordship's house in- Quecti-st meet. The carriage
was followed with the loudest -acclamations, by an
immense concourse of people, who continued to cheer
this great and worthy eharaCier, till at last his Lord-
ship appeared at the window, and thanked them in
the most polite and eloquent terms for these distin-
guished marks of their respel and good will. The
crowd then quietly dispersed ; and it is but justice
to say, that in the course of our remembrance we
have never known the King's Birth-day pass over
so perfeetly free from disorder of every description.
The evening concluded with a brilliant Assembly,
at which were present every person of rank and
:fashion in this city and neighbourhood.

RICHARD WHARTON', Esq. 13 appointed Comil-
troller of Excise, in room of the Hon. ARTHUR
DUFF, -resigned.
At a meeting of friends last week at Stewart-
town, in Ayrshire, there were four persons present
of the same name, who stood in relation of great.
grandfather, grah.l.father, father, and son—four
generations in the direa line of descendants. The
great.grand.father is ab3ve 90 years of age, and in
the fullest possession of his mental faculties.