The Sun.
London, England, 1817-06-27 00:00:00

GENFAAL 01WER.

Ildialant.General's 01lice, Ediahurgh,June 20, 1811.
or-Oerteral Hope, has grent pleasure lit expressing his
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tithu e rOblitiOU of the general good appearance which the
14. iegitoeut made in the field yesterday, at the half-yearly
and assures Lieutenant-Colonel Ali Gregor that he
1/4114 to report accordingly, upon the i
Prec"Y 6Piearrence of the h.egim.;:tit under ems,a and the
.14 with which the several field nicivettlents were exrcut-
-141 the laurelling in tlirlsi(MS, as well as in line, w,:s.p.st ti-
Kum', and the several formations, and re-forming the
the distances were well pteoe reed.
liati.ue interior rtgolutibus, as to cleanliness in barracks, the
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er"(;erteral is equaily xatisSed with; and he feund the
and Cotepanies' trouts most correctly kept.
1141 kjor.,Generok hopes that the continued good and or--
' c coluttlet garri‘on, as well dir in quarters, will ensure
14113, ddtlt Regiment shut approbation which they hive on all
%ad 14" so ißuly deserved and übtained, during their long
trilutrus services bbrund, where ihtiegullantry hI)Li per-
Le were Su conspicuous on every occ.iliPu•
i3Y Order of Major•Oefteral Hope, commanding hte
Majesty', forces its Noah Britain.
(signed) O. Halt, WAY, Limit...cot.
Uapttty utra IA Ninth Britain.

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11. EDITOR,—The distress of the lower orders
of _the people has been considered as orie of the
cliirf causes of those (list is bances that have ocCa-
Mooed the adoption of a measure which has ex-
cited the furious opposition of Party. It seems
to have been conceived, that this distress has been
confined to the lower classes of the community,
but tire fact which I am going to state will spew,
that this distress was operating also on people of
known rank and of supposed aginence. A- poor
young min, a shoe-maker, who was actually the
Futter COUSIN of a Nobleman at very high
rank, lately applied to this elevated relation for
4unie -assistance, either of a pecuniary kind, or
for his recommendation to some little official em-
ployment which might enable him to support him-
self, a wife, and two children. A celebrated
literary character addressed a letter to the Noble-
man iu question, stating the relationship, and the .
distress of the poor roan, who took the letter
himself to the mansion of his elevated kinsman.
-No notice was taken of the letter, and as the
poor man had long cherished the hope that when
he could summon sip courage enough to apply to
his high and affluent Cousin, he was likely to
ob-
tait4 a consinuable provision for life, be sunk.
ander the disappointment, and absolutely died
broken-`hearted. Now, Mr Editor, is it possible
to suppoVe that if a Nobleman of an ancient and
honourable family was not hiniselt betiding under
the weight of that distress which is considered as
the lot only of the interior orders, he would have
treated with apnatent contempt the application of
in near a Radial, a relation of whose propins
quity there could ifen•- be the smallest doubt,
unless lie were actually incapable of render-
ing any pecuniary assistance to his unfortunate
Cousin. Sir, it is impossible the world is
too apt to give credit to slander, and be-
cause the Nobleman possesses a princely mansion
in town, and another in the counts y, as well as
extrusive landed and funded property, it may he
said that he could not possibly he devoid of the ,
means to assist his unfortunate Cousin. But,
Sir, people should reflect that a Nobleman must live
up to his rank, and conserpiently must keep up a
large Establishment and lordly Retinue. Can it
then be reasonably expected that, with the vast
expellee necessarily attending such an appearance,
which his rank demands, he can have any thing
to spare far eeedy relations.? Besides, it he had
paid any attention to one poor cousin, he might
apprehend that other relations would start up, and
therefore he provably deemed it the IPA' way to
take no notice of any. And now, Sr., for the
conclusion of this story. The poor shoemaker was
buried at the expellee of the literary Gentleman
hefore-mentioned, and the unhappy widow", as the
first means to procure bread for her two children,
di paused of her husband's hag in a raffle. It was
her anxious wish to keep this hat as a renpie of
(mutest c affection, hot she had no other property
ILtt could he ~p,4rtol with the hope sit procuring;
equal tellef 'rue Hatt was' clued at about t twee shut-
lino, hut he, heinane neighbours rated it at six-
teeti, and made arolkerionto that extent. And Isere
let it not be supposed that these neighbours pos.
Sess spore libelaliiy than the Nobleman itr ()nes-
kkr it should be remembered, that they have
not large establishinsios, and a " liveried arol'•
to toippott, in (oder to keep up theif rank in the
Stare_ To 0/meiotic. The literary Gentleman,
who is a celebrated Poet, has, it tiCctlis, written
an Epitaph for the poor shoemaker, who was an
honest, industrious, and mild-tempered man. This
Epitaph, I understand, is written in the lapidary
style, in the manner of Dr. ARBUTHNOT'S mentor-
able composition of the same kind, on the moron-

ous Col. CHARTRES. It is to be supposed tkat the
Epitaph on the poor shoe-maker, while it records
his gentler vistnes, and his melancholy fate, will
express a due sympathy with the Nobleman whose
unavoidable necessity of supporting his rank in
the State, would not allow him to indulge the be-
nevolence of his disposition, in rendering any
pecuniary assistance to his unfortunate kinsman.
VI Nati X.