The Sun.
London, England, 1817-11-29 00:00:00

PREFERMENTS.

The Duke of Northutnberhthil has been pleased
to appoint the Rev. Henry Walter, B. D. Fellow
id-* St. John's College, Cambridge,- and Mathema-
-0611 l'rofessor in the East India College, Hert-
ford, to be one of his Grace's Domestic Chap-
lains.
The Lord Bishop of Carlisle has been pleased
to present to the •Itev.- ----- Jackson, Curate of
()why, the Free Grammar Schohl of Maphenby,
And ivith "the privilege of retaining the 'same
curacy.
The Rev; Charles Wood, Fellow of Baliol
College, is presented, by the Masters arid Fel-
lows. of that Society, to rhe'ReCtory of Tendring,
Essex, vacated by the death .of the Rev. John
Barnes.
William Williams, Clerk, Rector of Flyford
Woreestershire, was 'on Wednesday in-
stituted, by the Lord Bishop of Worcester, to the
Rectory of FLouselench,.void by the death of Ed-
ward Dolman Cooper, Clerk, the late incumbent,'
on the presentation of Sir Charles William Rouse
Boughton, of Deeonshire-plqce, in the county of
Middleiex, and of Dowuton Hall, id this county,
Baronet.

CATASTROPHE AT RAMSGATE.---'A most call•
mitons event took place atßamsgate on Thursday
morning', about six o'clock, by-the falling of an
immense quantity of Cliff,.between that place and
Broadstairs. Four marines, belonging to a party
who were upon the
,look-out for smugglers, were
unhappily buried under 'the falling tnass three
others narrowly escaped. The moment the dread--
fol accident was made known,' Mr. Gotty:of the
Harbour, sent all the men under his charge to
.assist with others in removing the chalk, to come
-at the bodies. The chance of linding any of the:
poor fellows alive is very remote, as nothing but
being in some cavity of tLe Cliff could save them
)front instant death. The marines 'missing are:one
serjeant and three privates'. About two o'clock
two of the bodies were dug out; in a-dreadfully
mutilated state, from the astonishing pressure.

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[PRICE SEVENPENCE.

DUNDEE, Nov. 21.

Here, as in every. part of the kingdom, the fate
Of the Prfocess CHAILOTtE hai beennlame•;tetl
with general atid.untlissembled regret. Oh Sun-
day, few of the •iiihabitants'were ,to lie i,eetyin
public except in black- elotlirs ; the Magistrates
and Clergy -went to Church in. full mount-log.;
there Was hardly a pulpit in• town, if them was
even Ime,.from which some allusiOn, more orles
,particular, was not made to this melanCholy
visi-
tation. But it was only, we Inlieve, in conse-
quence of .a suggestion by_the Reverent! HoRS-
LEY, of Abe Scottish •EPiseopal Chapel, that the
Magistrates,and the Established Clergy agrvt;tl to
have public worship hi all the churches on the day
of the &loyal funeral. This, however', was done ;
the shops were Ant fromA I till I o'clacic,;• during
which,, the.ichurchtsand chavull:of all denomina-
tions were opens I for ‘'t.vt. ekercises.
HonsLc Id! not , 7 the mean time tc
practice what he recom %Yr 'llOl if fr-
ciiiiartlj, hatFoccasidn'to notice this fine pleacher's
dominion over the. feelings ;

pressiveness, and grace, in the adaptation tt pass-
ing events to the great uses Of r‘l4,,,ious and moral
teaching. -On 'the prtsent or:casion, both the
matter and the manner of his di,.courses were in
:he highest degree pallwic ; and on t spe-
cially, when he addressed himself to the sympa-
thies of our eormt»on matore,--Inting up the shroud

.of the coflined Princess, and from the chambers of
death prodaiming the uncertainty, the miseties,
the errors, and the duties of must have
been a stout heart which refusi:il to throb, a verb
eye which could withhold a tear. On Wednesday,
thev,hole parts of the service,--rthe psalms, the
lessons, the voluntary, and the new anthot com-
posed by Mr. Smierit,.•—were most' appropriate and
characteristic. The subject of the sermon was the
beatitude of mourning;---'whet her for sins, for the
miseries of humanity, or for the trials, con ections,
and just pdguiints of•Ginl on persons and nations.
The removal of wise and virtuous Ponces was one
mode of ,national correction ; and could we.he at
any loss to account for the causes of such a chas-
tisement ? in what annals of our coun'ry Were
dissipation, luxury, and debauchery, carried to 'a
'greater height among the upper ranks, than in
the, present day ; when were discontent, beggary,
fraud, robbery, and murder, mote common among
the lower ? '

It wonld"be unfair, were this the proper place,
to analyze these sermons ; as we have heard that
Mr. Hoaseey has been asked to publish them:
But we cannot forbear attempting one bold pas-
sage near the end of the last.; which has a severe
,hot well-,rnerited local application : for why pre-
tend to celebrate the day at all, unless it were done
in tho rm.. (Sc-
lect Wednesday for the purpose, if not because
that..was the as,evening Was, the hour, ap..
pointed for the funeral rites ?
if a hand could now write on yonder wall
the names of-those among us this day -who before
4he return of ano.ther.year shall have their bodies
in the grave and their sin)! before God, we would,
think, consider deeply ; ft seriousness would
then "be impressed upon out minds, befiie.ing those
who are so tar.on thejr journey to the church-yald
or the damp vault, where Corruption sits Vic(O- •
rionS on her mouldy throne, and the very worm
wt tread upon triumphs over the proud lord of the
creation. , •But though no such miraculous warn-
ing is to be expected, the one we have received is
little less calculated to make as strong impressions.
Would -to-God, 'tharhere, as in the Metropolis,
we had determined taxonsecrate the -remainder of
,this,day, to devout mediiations tu) them There it
time enough for gaiety, time enough for pleasure,
time enough for business,-,-therm is, sa s the wise
man, • a time for every thing.' And surely one
halt day spent in abstraction from our worldly
ebncerus, uould have better suited the solemn oc.-
casion on which we' are noWassembled—would
have better shown our respect for the memory
of cur- departed' Princess,—would more feel-
ingly have evinced our, sympathy in the grief
of those illustrious mourners, over whose pale
and sorrow-worn countenances the funeral torch
will throw its flickering glare, when we shall hate
returned to our pleasures and to our merchandise;
busy in time little interests which have earth only
for their, object, or dissipating. the hour at the
' table of some idle, silly game of chance—that
melancholy hour in which the last obsequies shall
commit all that is mortal of our royal sister to
its lost abode !- This should not have been. Nor
will it be, With any whose feelings on this occa-
sion •are properly' awakened. If our sorrow
be
not mere formal sorrow—if our mourning be not
the external garb ,and mockery of woe,--we shall
retire pensive and considerate to our .homes ; we
shall neglect for a few hours the business, or rhii
world, to fix our affections on the treasures of a
better. We ,shall have no relish either 'tor
table of conviviality or the busy hom of mew.'
The windows of our merchants and the doors of
the hospitable will remain alike cloged.
Imagi-
nation watransport us:into. thepresence 'of
,the.
arAlicted mourners, and marshal us,among the, fo-
neral train. There, when we have slowly-paced
through Windsor's vaulted
.aisles, we shall stana
before the repository'of the royaldead. We shall
hear those solemn), yet hunsiliating sounds,' tart')
to earth, ashei to ashes, dust to dust !'—these,
too,„ over the form of. one irho,, had she lived,
would have been a queen What availed), them,
the strength and pride and pomp of this worl?
But shall we not learn wisdom from this solemn
' scene I Shall we not reap greater, gain from such
workings of thought, than any, we con obtain frOm
three
,or four more hours of worldly -traffic, or
from any interchange of gay society with living

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