The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-05 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

WINDSOR, JULY 4.—His MAJESTY left the
Royal Lodge yesterday afternoon at half-past two
o'clock, accompanied by the Duke of Dorset, in his
pony phaeton, and followed in others by the Lord
Steward, Lord Graves, Sir Andrew Barnard, Mr.
Freemantle, &c., and drove to Virginia Water. His
MAJESTY and party spent the greater part of the
'afternoon fishing in the Lake, which abounds with fish
Of every description, and often affords most excellent
sport.. At five o'clock his MAJESTY landed, and dined
with his visitors and suite under the Royal Marquee,
the private band playing at intervals during dinner.
After which, his -MAJESTY again embarked on board
the royal boat, and continued his excursion until nine
o'clock, when he returned to the Loyal Lodge, and
passed the remainder of the evening with his distin-
guished guests.
Yesterday the Duke of,Dorset and Mr. Freemantle
arrived on a visit to his MAJESTY.

His MAJESTY is expected to visit Virginia water
again this afternoon.
At half-after three o'clock this morning the Ist Re-
giment of Life Guards left Windsor for London, and
at five o'clock the Royal Horse Guards arrived at the
Barracks in their stead.

The Duke of York continued better yesterday.
His Royal. Highness took an airing,, as usual, on
Monday afternoon, in his carriage. The Duke of
Sussex, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess
Augusts, visited their Royal Brother yesterday.
Prince Polignac, the French Ambassador, transact-
ed business yesterday with Mr. Secretary Canning, at
his office in Downing-street.
The Duke of Wellington transacted business at the
Foreign-office yesterday.
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Moor Park, in Hertfordshire, one of the most
splendid residences and domains in this country, is
shortly to be brought to the hammer.

The literary habits of Mr. Southey, the Poet Lau-
reate, and newly-elected Member for Downton, are
thus described by a contemporary :—" He rises early,
and writes or reads till breakfast time. He reads or
writes after breakfast till dinner ; after dinner till tea,
and from tea till bed-time—

And follows so the ever running year.
With profitable labour to his grave.'
On Derwent's Bank, beneath the foot of Skiddaw,
study serves him for business, exercise, and recrea-
tion. He passes from verse to prose : from history
to poetry ; from reading to writing, by a stop-watch."
How will Parliamentary hours and habits suit such a
man ?

Mr. Southey is returned from the Continent, and
is at present in town. He has written, we under-
stand, a letter to the Earl of Radnor, expressive of
his sense of the high honour which the noble Lord
has so unexpectedly conferred upon him ; but at the
same time stating, that, with his very limited income,
he does not think it would he prudent or right in
him to take his seat in the I-louse of Commons for
Downton.
RIDING SLOWLY! RIDING SLOWLY! ! —The
late Richard Owen Cambridge was famed for very
hard riding along the turnpike-road. When far ad-
vanced in years, however, he was met by King George
the Third, walking his horse very iently down-hill.—
" 'What, Cambridge ! Cambridge !' observed his Ma-
jesty, " Riding slowly, riding slowly !"—" Sire," re-
, plied the old gentleman, " I feel I am going down-hill
very fast."
The same gentleman was the author of a periodical
paper called 4, The World." In an absent fit, during
service one Sunday at church, be continued sitting
when the congregation were standing up, and was
roused by his lady, by this exclamation :—" Mr. Cam-
bridge, what are you thinking of?"—" Of the next
world, my dear."

A disappointed candidate was interrogated by a
friend who met him in Pall-mall, as to the result of
his visit to the borough of " Why," said the wit,
" I'm returned."
THE MARVELLOUS.-..-Me have found the follow-
ing stated as a fact in the Journal du commerce de
Lyons :—Dr. James Hotham, of Morpeth, Northum-
berland, returning from Switzerland, is stated to have
reported that a most extraordinary event had lately
passed at the foot of Mount St. Gothard, a league
from Aizoli, in the valley of Levantine. At the bot-
tom of a kind of cavern, the body of a man, about
thirty years of age, was perceived under a heap of ice,
proceeding from an avalanche. As the body seemed
to be as fresh as if it had been stifled only half an hour
before, Dr. Hotham caused it to be taken out, and
having had the clothes pulled off, ordered it to be
plunged into cold water. It was then taken out,
covered with a crust of ice, and placed first in luke-
warm water, and then in some water still warmer—
afterwards it was put in a warm bed, and treated as
usual in cases of suffocation, by which means anima-
tion was restored. What was the astonishment of
every body, when this individual, having recovered the
use of his faculties, declared that he was Roger Dods-
worth, son of the antiquary of the same name, born
in 1629, who, returning from Italy. in 1660, a year
after the death of his father, was buried under an ava-
lanche. Dr. Hothain, according to the same account,
is stated to have added, that Mr. Dodsworth feels a
great stiffness in all his joints, but that by degrees they
will become as flexible as before the accident. If Mr.
Dodswortb, fully recovered, should pass through
Lyons to return to his country, after 166 years' ab-
sence, it may be predicted that he will attract in the
highest degree the public curiosity.