The Sun.
London, England, 1804-04-05 00:00:00

DUBLIN, MA%cm 2S.

SILVER COIN.

AT a Meeting of the Right Hon.-the Lord Mayor
and Board of Aldermen to take into consideration
the present state of the Silver Coin, they resolved,
that the Lord M.iyor and
.the Superintendant Ma-
gistrate (Alderinan ALEXANDER), he requested to
wait on tile Right Honourable Sir EVAN NETEAN,
Bart. and communicate with him respeding the
same; and then adjourned until this day—and having
again met pursuant to said adjournment, the Lord
Mayor communicated to the Meeting the following
;Letter which he had received from Sir EVAN NE-
PEAN, and which they lay before their Fellow Ci.
tizens :

Dublin Castle, ttjarch 28, 1804..

" MY LORD)

-1‘ the fullest. considerition has been given to
your Lordship's representation of the inconveni-
ence occasioned to the Inhabitants of the City of
by the badness of the Silver Coin, and tile
difficulty attending the purchase of all articles of
small, value..
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" Your Lordship may be assured that it is the•
anxious wish of Government to afford every pos-
sible degree of accommodation to the; inhabitants
that, the circumstances will.admit of, and with that
view measures will be taken for procuring dollars
and, other coin to supply the circulation ; but, from
a variety of, considerations, it must be obvious to
your Lordship, that any measure of that nature
cannot be carried into execution for a considerable
time to come. In the mean while it appears ex-
pedient, that the impossibility of procuring an
immediate supply, and the necessity for some cir.
culating medium, until such supply can be pro-
cured, should be generally understood ; as an opi-
nion, that- the Silver Medium now in circulation
would be immediately cried down, has probably in
a great measure occasioned the refusal to receive in
payment this Coin.
" It must be obvious that greater loss must be
suffered by dealers of all descriptions, from the
stagnation which wc,old be occasioned by stopping
at once the currency of this coin, without any other
medium to supply its place, than could be suffered
by a continuance of the praetice which has so long
prevailed, and that the labouring people and the
poor must suffer severely.
" I have the honour to be,

" My Lord,
44 Your L9rdship's most obedient, •
" Humble Servant,
t‘ EVAN NEPEAN."
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, &c.
" Dated the :19th day of March, 1834.
" By Order,
" ALLEN & GREEN."

THE LATE DUKE OF ROXBURGH.—The Family
of KER, one line of which was represented by the
late DUKE of. ROXBURGH, is of Norman extrac.
tion.—The first who bore the name in Britain at-
tended the Conqueror hither, and settled at Kershall
in Lancashire, in which cOunty'bis descendants still
fiourish.—TWo brothers, 6lied RALPH and . Ro-
BERT KER, came to Scotland about the year 1330,
but whether they Were of the. English family, or
diredly from Normandy, is unknown.—The for-
mer settled at Kershaugh, near Jedborgh, from
whence one of his successors removed to Fernihirst
the latter at Cessfurd.
Ker of Cessfurd was first dignified with the
title of Lord Ker by King James the Sixth, and
afterwards in 1616, with that of Earl of Roxburgh.
Robert, the first Earl, married a daughter of Sir
William Maitland .of Lethington, and by her he
had three daughters, the eldest of whom was mar.
ried to John Earl of Perth ; he married, secondly.,
Jean, daughter of Patrick Lord Drummond, by
whom he had a son, Henry Lord Ker, who died
before the Earl his father, leaving a daughter, who
married her cousin Sir William Drummond, youngest
son to John Earl of Perth.—He, in right of his
wife, was second Earl of Roxburgh, and from him
the late Duke was lineally descended.

Great diaputes subsisted anciently between the
Kers of Cessfurd and of Fernihirst, as to the right:
of Chieftainship, in which both parties often aP.
pealed to the sword, the usual argument by which
questions of precedency were de'termined by feudal
Barons. In latter times, most Antiquaries have
agreed with Sir George M'Kenzie, in deciding in
favour of the Kers of 14-erniliirst, because their
arms have no difference either in charge or tinturc
from those of the Norman Kers.
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The present Marqnis of Lothian is chief of the
Fernihirst line, and likewise repre‘:ents the second
branch of the Cessfurd line, in consequence of the
marriage of Sir Wikliam Ker, eldest son of Robert
Earl of Ancram, great grandson of Sir Andrew Kest'
of Fernihirst, with Ann Countess of Lothian, great
grand-daughter and heir of line of Mark, second
son-of .Sir Andrew Ker of Cessfurd.

On Saturday, a little girl, between eight and nine
years old, the daughter of Mr. Reynolds, Engraver,
in Poland-street, having been left alone in the back
parlour, her clothes caught fire; by standing too
near the stove, and she was quickly enveloped in
flames :• her screams brought a young man, who was
up stairs, almost immediately to her assistance,who,
on entering the room, pulled off his coat, wrapped
it round the child; and succeeded in extinguishing
the blaze, hot the unfortunate infant was so shock-
ingly burned, that. it languished a few hours in the
greatest agony, and expired. Mrs. Reynolds, the
mother of the child, was out of town when the acci-
dent happened, and is at this time ignorant of the
dreadful calamity which has befallen het family.
On Monday the Coroner's Inquest sat on a view of
the body, when the evidence was given to the fore-
going fats, and the Jury found a verditi—Acci-
dental Death.