The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-15 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

WINDSOR, DEC. 14.—Yesterday his MAJESTY
was engaged the whole of the forenoon, and until two
o'clock in the afternoon, with public business, when
he forwarded cue of the Messengers- in waiting from
the Royal Lodge, with despatches for the Home and
Foreign Departments. At half-past two o'clock his
MAJESTY entered his phaeton, followed by pot of
his suite, in the double-bodied phaeton, and took
nearly two hours' exercise in the Great Park.

It 'is expected that his MAJESTY will.leave the
Royal Lodge on Saturday. for St. James's Palace,
where he will hold a Council, and receive the Re-
corder's Report, and that he will return in the even.
ing to the Royal Lodge to dinner.
It is said that his MAJESTY intends leaving the
Royal Lodge the first week in the ensuing month for
the Pavilion at Brighten►, but no decisive order has
been yet issued to that edict.
This afternoon, at half-past two o'clock, his MA.
1 ESTY again visited the Castle and inspected the
works.

The Duke of Wellington and Lord Fitzroy Scinter,
set, were yesterday, at Woolwich, inspecting the prepetatione
which are making, in the Royal Arsenal, to embark the eqttipa
tnente, destined for Portugal.

The Earl of Westn►orl ind visited the Duke of
York yesterday.

The Marquis de Pahnella, the Portuguese Arnim!".
sador, transacted husinels yesterday with Air. Secretary Canning/
et his office in Downing-street. .

Earl Bathurst, Mr. Wynn, and Mr.
,Huskisson,
had a consultation yesterday at the. Foreign Office, with Mr. Se-
cretary Canning.

The Countess of Essex entertained yesterday the
Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury and a select patty to dime* lit
her house in Hill-street, Berkeley-square ; in the evening bee
Ladyship had a card party.
Lord and Lady F. L. Gower leave town to-morrow,
for Lord Wharncliffes seat, Wortley Hall, Yorkshire.
Charles Bonaparte, Prince of Monsignano, was
present at the Meeting of the Zoological Club of the Monona So-
ciety on Tuesday evening.

Amu VA Ls.—The Duchess of Bedford and family,
at Camden Hill from Brighton ; the Dowager Marchioness of Sa-
lisbury, in Arlingtoe-street, from Hartfield ; Lord Lynedoch, at
his seat, Cosgrove Priory, from the Marquis of Anglesey's seat, at
Beaudesert, Staffordshire ; the Rev. Mr. Austen and rattily, af.
Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from their seat in Wilts; the
Rev. George ‘Vaddington, and Mrs. and Miss Waddington, at fhe
St. George's hotel, Alhemarle-street, from Lord Somers's seat,
Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire ; Lady Lovaine and the Hon. Miss
Percy, at Read's Hotel, LoWer Grosvenor-street, from Brighton ;
John Arkwright, Esq., at ditto, from his seat Hampton Court,
Herefordshire ; Mrs. Paul Methuen, at ditto, from Hastings ;
Charles Arkwright, Esq., at ditto, from his seat in Derbyshire;
Admiral Sir George Eyre,!at the Brunswick Hotel, Jernsyn-street,
(late Blake's) from South America ; Mr. and Miss Lister, and
Mr. J. Lister, at ditto, from Lincolnshire ; Nugent, Esq.
and Mrs. Nugent, at ditto, General Coglan and Mrs. Coglan,
at ditto.

DEPARTURES.---The Marquis of Salisbury, from
Hatfield, for Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart.'s, seat, in Suffolk ; th•
Earl and Countess of Clare, from Cheltenham, to the Marquis of
Exeter's scat, Butleigh, Lincolnshire,. ; Mr. cud Mrs. Dolphin
and family, from Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-street, from their
seat in Gloucestershire ; Captain and Mrs. Hughes, for Brighton ;
Sir Joseph Copley, Bart., from the Clarendon Hotel, Bond- street,
fur his seat, Sprotborough, York•4hire ; Lord Acheson, from the,
Brunswick llotel,

Mr. Sinclair is at present performing in Edinburgh.
An elopement from \Vainfleet took place on Tues-
day : the young pair, on their way to the North, passed through
Stamford.--Lincoln Mercury.

The intended graini ceremony of laying the first
itolle of the St. James's-street Pandemonium has, we understand,
been dispensed with; hen having acquired notoriety enough already.
Mr. Ward, the acting Manager at the ManChestel
Theatre-royal, is at length retiring. He has disposed of his share
in the lessees property in the concern, to lifessrs. Lewis sod
Banks, and ceases to have tily farther interest in the theatre, est-
cept that of a proprietor.—Manchester Chronicle,

N'Ve are gratified to learn that the hpleudid speech
of Mr. Canning, 011 the King's Message, will be forthwith pre-
malted to the public in a corrected shape ; together with one
vered at a dinner given to that Bight lion. Gent:eman, by th♦
British merchants at Lisbon, in 18144 and which has never yet
been published.

The preparations for the erection of the King's
Statue have at length commenced. On Saturday last the work
men, under the direction of Mr. W. Ranger, began- excavating
the ground on the Steins for the foundation of the pedestal, which
will be five feet high, the apex of the statue being 21 feet front
the ground, a height that renders it absolutely necessary the statue
should be placed some distance from the spectator. We have re-
ceived from a correspondent, who signs himself Philo-teelintie, a
long letter, recommending that tlw statue should be placed in the
centre of the footway leading from Castle-square to St. James's-
street. We have not room for its insertion; and as the site hes
been chosen tinder the immediate direction of Mr. Chantroy, we
can scarcely believe he should select any which was not appro-
priated for the purpose.-7/3righton Gazette.

Notices yet continue to be posted up in the town
of Athlone and neighbourhood, threatening destruction to any
Roman Catholics who deal with a notehtant elopl:eeper or
brewer, &c.

The works for the protection of the esplanade at
Weymouth, which vat so much injured by the severe storm which
occeirred in the month of November, 1824, are now completed,
and in such a manner as bids fair to render them in (Mute im-
pregnable to the effects of wind and tide.

'.ll-ie termagant Lady A-- laving► complained to T.
Hooke that the " villain" her husband had died and left no will.
—.4 Your Ladyship cannot wonder at that," returned the wag,
" fur you left him no will Of his own while he wet alive."
Straw is become so scarce in some of the western
counties, as to be at double its usual price ; and in Devonshire
many farmers have been driven to use fern for litter.

CURTOUB PIIENOMENON.—Yesterday in the twi-
light of evening, a hat was observed on Wing in the neighbour-
hood of this city ;--a circumstance almost unexampled at this
seliAoll. —Edinburgh Observer.

At Cambeckhill, parish of Irthington, on the 25th
ult. after a short illness, Mr. John Bell, aged 85. Jane Bell,
wife of the above, died on the 21? d of October last, aged 71. In
the autumn of 1805, the vsa tapped for the dropsy (with which
disease she had been many years :ircvious to that time afflicted),
by M,. James, surgeon, of Carlisle, when he took from her
thirty-six quarts of water ;lion that period she underwent the
operation forty-seven times, all which she bore with great Wien"
and resignation ; and teas mostly capable of walking about, and
working at her needle, &c. till within a few days of her death.

Ewho ryas ilfirsri'i°nn(lieltSliTatBc.—pre:lessu'eci°lr Ice asked (Dr.
the l
/
in
the
mastership
ashimteschool at Norwich? Ile said it was Barnabus Leman, an honest
iporapeerrr)
man, but
mu(t;evit'.ina
tlhonu,t learning, and very tyrannical in his discipline.
This an had the impuderwe to publish, by a half-guinea sub-
scription, what he called on ' English Derivative Dictionary,* in
quarto. lie pretended to find a derivation for every word in
Dutch, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. No matter
what the word was, however culinary or vernacular, ha undertook
to find its etymology. Coining to Pig's Petty-tots' (a Norfolk
hut it did not stop hint ; he wrote, as it now stands in the
b"'n'anyko,f, idl7atessiin'gettt:-rtifie'ers—t ofa socking-pigs),
ofn -viv'higil'ch' thei lAvausthaolritotfletlpiiisilDi";
tionary its e:leeway fond."
Another instance of wilful fire-raising has occurred
in Ayrshire. This is the third case of the kind in little users
than a month. The dwelling-house and byre on the farm of
Whiteridden, about a mile from the village of Kilbirnie, were con-
sewed to ashes on the morning of Sunday se'nnight, and that*
who discovered the tire attribute it to nothing but the hand of an
incendiary. Robert Love, the tenant, and hie three brothers,
Andrew, Archibald, and Daniel, and a man of the name of Mal-
colm M'lntyre, a relation of theirs, have been taken into custody
on suspicion of having sotne concern in this transaction, and the
matter is under the investigation of the Sheriff.--Edinburyli
Weekly chronicle.