The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-26 00:00:00

GEYER AZ F ASI4.

121,11M:1141r being the Da y appointed by the
command of His Iltst sTsi•, for a General Fast and
hi
humiliationblin before the Divine Majesty, to implore
s g and assistance on the Arms of the King,
by sea and land, the Volunteers met generally in the
Churches and Chapels adjacent to the places at which
they Were raised. The House of Lords set the ex-
ample' and Went to Xing Henry the Seventh's Cha-
pel, in the Abbey, where they heard an excellent
sermon preached by the Right Rev, the Bishop of
Gtottssa. The House of Commons having
adjourned over to Monday next, that House did not
SIP
go in Form
is to
howe any place of Public Worship. The
Secs, went in amt, veer,
accompanied by about 4.0 Mem_ to which he was escorted bSt. Margaret's Church, to
yal Volunteers y the City of Westminster
Lo, the Hon. col. EDEN. The Rev.
Dr. JACKSON, pursuant to the appointment he for-
merly received, preached, on this occasion, an excel-
lent sermon from Proverbs, chap, iii, v. s and 6.
The Hon. Artillery Company went to St. Paul's,
where a sermon, appropriate to the occasion, was
preached by the Lord Mayor's Chaplain. In con-
sequence of the accident which his Lordship met
With, lie could not attend. The St. James's Volun-
teers, in consequence of St. James's Church being now
under repair, and the neighbouring places of worship
being already engaged did not go to any Church cola
as Volunteers. At St. Martin's there was a
most excellent sermon preached by the Rev. Dr.
litast•ruar, to the Prince of Wales's Volunteers, and
a very numerous and respectable congregation.—
The Texts were in general chosen from the Old
Testament, with a view to assimilate the condition
of the chosen People to the present state of this
Country, and to recommend that a similar reliance
should be placed on GOD b
present in-
stance, and to y us in the
infuse a similar degree of spirit and
unanimity into the minds of the
people. Dr. HA-
MI LToN':, Text was exceedingly well seleded from
the 3d Chapter of the Prophet Ezekiel, and the gth
Verse; the words,
'r As an adamant harder than
flint have I made thy forehead : fear them not,
neither be dismayed by their looks
ous houNe." ,though shay be
a rebelli The Duke of NORTHUMbER-
LAND was among the congregation. The Old St.
George's went to the Pdrish Church of Sr. George's,
Hanoversquare ; the New St. George's, or Duke
of Gloucester's, to Grosvenor Chapel- The Sc.
Clements, or Prince William Frederick's, attended
the Service at St. Clement's, and heard also an ap-
propriate and excellent Sermon on the 6th Verse of
the 4th 'Chapter f ra
In short, most
0. ...aeuteronomy.
of the Corps about Town went to their respective
Parish Churchs, and the day was concluded with due
soleonity.

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Kin This morning-came on to be tried in the Court of
g's Bench, the Adion brought by Mr. PeuNKET,
General Solicitor. of Ireland, against Mr. Con.
"?for a Libel. The Jury found a Verdid
for the Plaintiff—Damages 5001.
Al 3 it "DENBURGH Hot; s F.—The Theatrical
on Thorn at this splendid Mansion were attended
--en: day last by a considerable number of fie.
sumnable visitors. The first Piece was Poor Nod-
dle, a translation from the French by the MARGRA-
VINE of AesseAcu„ which we have already noticed.
In this Piece, the have
Na, Mr. K. CRAVEN,
Mr. KER PORTER, Mr. NIXON, and young CHAT-
TERLEY, exerted themselves with great success.
The second performance was a Pantomime, entitled
The Release of Eblis, the composition of which is
attributed to Mr. K. CRAVEN. Mr. K. CILAV EN,
IVIC.KER PORTER, CHATTERLEY, Mt. MAYNARD,
and the MAR GRAY INF, supported this Piece with
interesting effe6t. A very magnificent supper follow-
ed these enteitainments, quite in the style of Eastern
luxury, and the company, which consisted of a very
elegant audience, testified high gratification whole of this varied
mid sumptuous fete, at the
,p. KELLY, who is the regular Composer of the
11:tymarket Theatre, was requested to furnish the
Music to the new Billet on the subjed of SHAY-
tP RARE'S Tempest, but modestly declined the task,
though the merit of his compositions in The Hero of
the North, and other popular pieces, would have fully
warranted more confidence in his own powers. The
offer was then tendered to Mr. CONDELL, who ac-
cepted ir, when he understood that KELLY had
absolutely declined the undertaking.
It is said char the Aristocrat-I,a seventy-four, is soon
to he employed against Mr. PITT. "f his We cunsider
as idle rumour, as Mr. PITT is impregnable, in the
R. 1 NC'S SHIP the Old Britannia.
, A half letter has eppeared in some of the Morn.
tug Papers, said to have been addressed by a Great
Personage to a Learned Lord. It Was at first sup.
nosed that this helpetter was written by the deli-
cate Plen4o, of half-letter notoriety; but the sus-
picion was soon removed, as the half-letter alluded
to:etshe:tugh etesterious, has meaning.
;torn Ir " sumevvitat ludicrous to see, in the accounts
Milan,
that there i 3 n intention of offering
the
Cr°74112 V-4"iSeerety to the Founder'ofthe Italian
Republican. The complaint which the Opposition Writers
vent against the exercise of the Royal Prerogative,
in the appointment of the new Administration, must
'remind the world of the Jacobin- discontent et the
-o,eto given by the the
to the late King of
4,nee ; which discontent produced a repeal of that
l'eto. the' overthrow of the Monarchy, and all the
horrors that rendered France a scene of bloodshed,
and has convulsed
Some Man every State in Europe.
ale a atstrip
ale. t St rtno
dvertised for
slij, by an unknown Author, within t Quere—Do they not comehe Medicine Ae.t, under the head of Sopori-
fies p
A Widower advertises for a yruij who can write.
ne wAild probably find it much testes to obtain urie
who can Make her mark.
It is a fadt not generally known, as adverted to
in the Strietures upon an historical Review qf the
State of Ireland, that OLIVER CROMWELL 46 first
aually accomplished a legislative union of the two
Kin
: for Lope() w, in his Niemoirs, informs
°lf that by the famous it instrument of Govern. f
den „t
drawn up by CROMWELL a Parliament was
summoned for the three Kingdoms, now United into
?tie Commonwealth ; that thirty Members were al.
lotted to' Ireland, who were elected accordingly,
11'd tat as re land,
of that Kin dom in the
Peliale, et tieild at Westminster." g )