The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-30 00:00:00

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WINDSOR, DEC. 30.—Various distressing reports
have been in circulation both last evening and this
morning respecting the Duke of York ; and that his
Royal Highness is much worse we have every reason
to believe, from the circumstance of his MAJESTY
having again left the Royal Lodge this afternoon for
London, to visit his beloved Brother.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited the Princess Augusta last evening, at Frog-
more Lodge, for the purpose of communicating to her
Royal Sister the serious indisposition of the Duke of
York.

Yesterday, about half-past two o'clock, the King
arrived at the residence of the Duke of Rutland, in Arlington-
street, in his travelling chariot-and-four, from his Royal Lodge,
in Windsor Park, to visit the Duke of York, with wham his
Majesty remained tillkhalf-past four o'clock, when the King left
town on his return to the Royal Lodge.
TIIE DUKE OF YORK.—We feel great pleasure
in stating, that, upon making inquiry at the Duke of Rutland's
house, in Arlington-street, at one o'clock this morning, we were
informed, that " His Royal Highness was rather better."
The Report yesterday morning, of the state of the
Duke of York's health, was—" His Royal Highness has had a
good night's repose." The last account of the Royal Duke yes-
terday evening, was—" His Royal Highness is a little better."
Expresses are frequently sent by the Medical Gen-
tlemen attending the Duke of York, of the state of his Royal
Highness, to the King, at the Royal Lodge, in Windsor Park.
The Princess Augusta, we regret•to say, has been
confined to her room, at her residence at Frogmore, by a slight
illness, arising from a fall._ _ _

The Marquis oF Clanricarde entertained Lords Wil-
liam and Henry Hervey, Mr. and Mrs. Canning, and a distin-
guished party to dinner, on Thursday, at his house, in St.
James's-square.
The Marquis of Hertford, as Lord Warden of the
Stanneries, has appointed John Wallis, Esq. of Bodmin, his de-
puty fiw Cornwall, in the room of the late Mr. Vivian.
Ysterday morning Mr. Haviland, one of the King's
Messengers, arrived at the Foreign Office, Downing street, with
despatches from Madrid.
The Earl of Liverpool's health has lately much
improved. The Noble Earl came to town on Thursday morn-
ing, and had a consultation with the Cabinet Ministers *he were
in town. In the evening the Noble Earl returned to Coomb-wood,
Surrey.

ARRIVALS.—Sir Charles Coote, Bart. in Con-
naught-place, from Ireland ; Sir Thomas Williams, Bart. in
Brook-street; Captain and Mrs. Herbert, in Grosvenor-place,
from Bath ; the Earl of Besborough, at his house in St. James's-
square, from his seat, Roehanipton, Surrey ; Captain and Mrs.
Brenton, in Lower Grosvenor-street, from Paris ; Major Ric.
ketts, at Fenton's lintel, St. James's-street, from a tour ; Capt.
Knowles, at ditto, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Emmerson, at
ditto, from their seat in Somersetshire,; Edward Maraud, Esq.
Mrs. and Miss Farrand, at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street,
from Yorkshire; J. Dauncey, Esq. at ditto, from Notts; St.
George Caulfield, Esq. at ditto, from Berks.. _

.
NGES.—Lord Viscount Palmerston, for St.
John's College, Cambridge; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Methuen, from
Cossey Hall, for the Parade, Brighton ; Mrs. Ongley, from a
tour, to Biggleswade ; Mr. Arthur Chichester, for Coolhurst,
near Horsham, in Sussex ; Mr. Thomas Fitzberbert, from Pic-
cadilly, to Swimmertun Park, near Stone, in Staffordshire ; Col.
Wariter, from Froome, Somersetshire, for Bath ; Lord Viscount
Exmouth, for Teignmouth, from Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Shipley,
from Ramsgate, for Great Pulteaey-street, Bath; Colonel Aston,
from Brighton, for Portsmouth ; Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, from
Nortballerton, for Bath ; Major Sandys, for Portsmouth ; the
Duke of Devonshire, from the Earl of Carlisle's• ea at, Castle
Howard, Yorkshire, for Wortley Hall, Sheffield; Dowager Lady
Ellenhorough, for East Grinstead ; the Dowager Countess of
Carbampton, for her scat, Payne's Hill, in Surrey; Baron Fogel,
from his house in New-street, Spring-gardens, on a tour ; Major
Maitland, from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for
Devonshire; Capt. an] Mrs. Mellish, from the Bath Hotel, for
Brighton ; Wm. Meyers, Esq. from ditto, for Brighton.

Sir H. 'Correll .Adjutaut-Geilentl 1 Sir W. Gm-
dun, Quartermaster-General ; and Sir Herbert Taylor, Military
Secretary to the Duke of York, transacted business with his Royal
Highness yesterday. The Royal Duke signed a number of official
documents.

The 10th Regiment of Foot embarked, in three
divisions, on the 20th inst., on board the Layton, Signior, and
Zephyr, transports, at Cork, for Pottugal.
It is confidently stated at Paris that the Ultimatum
of England and France was transmitted to Madrid on the 15th
instant.

Newfoundland Papers to the 6th instant, mention a
report of the reignation of his Excellency the Earl of Dalhouisie,
in Canada, and that he was to be succeeded by Sir James Kempt.
William Griffin, Esq. having been compelled by
the ill state of his health, to retire from the situation of Secretary
to the Board of Ordnance, his Grace the Duke of Wellington has
been pleased to appoint Richard Byham, Esq. to succeed him.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the following Captains were sworn into
the command of their respective ships, viz.—Captain William
Hay, Charles Grant, for Bombay and China; and Captain
Alfred Chapman, Marquis of Wellington, for Bengal direct.
A Board of the Lords of the Treasury was held
yesterday at the Treasury Chamber.
Alain Chartier, who was Secretary to Charles VII.,
and a Poet of some eminence in the commencement of the loth
century, was considered to be the ugliest man of the age, and was
deformed. He nevertheless claimed homage at the bands of
beauty ; for the wife of the Dauphin (Margaret of Scotland) hav-
ing occasion to pass through the apartment in which Chartier
was sleeping, she was observed to kiss him. On much surprise
being expressed, she replied—" I did not kiss the man, but the
mouth from which so many valuable sayings have issued."
The Rev. Mr. Harrison, who figured so conspi-
cuously in the agitated polities of 1818, 19,' and 20, has been ap-
pointed by a respectable body of dissenters, in Stockport, as their
111inister.—Doncostcr Gazette.

A brazier, at Berlin, is applying for a brevet for the
invention of a machine, by which he means to extract twenty
pounds of christalised sugar from a barrel of corn, of the Berlin
measure. We await, impatiently, for the result of this' discovery
which must be of such importance to European agriuulture.—
Waterford Mirror.

We' are sorry to learn, that William Laurie, porter
to Messrs. Scott and Spears, merchants in Leith, left their pre-
mises about half-past three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, with
their horse, for the purpose of washing his legs in the sea ; the fog
at that time was very dense, and as neither man nor horse have
since been heard of, it is feared they are both drowned.—Edin-
Gurgh Paper.

VERDICT OF TILE CORONER'S INQUEST ON THE
',ATV Mr. Bitic.—c, We find that said John Brie, late Barrister-
at-law, was killed on the morning of the 26th December, ISMti,
at a field called the Dean's-well Dairy Field, in the Parish of St.
George, and Comity of Dublin, by a bullet, fired front a pistol,
at said time and place, by Mr. William Hayes, of No. 23, Graf-
ton-street, Dublin, in a duel fought then and there, between him,
the said John Brie and William Hayes, and that Mr. David Fitz-
gerald, of Mabbot-street, and Mr. William Gregg, jun. of Kildare-
street, Dublin, were then and there acting as seconds, aiding abet-
ting, and instigating, the said John Brie and William Hayes to
fight said duel, said Mr. Fitzgerald being rtecond to Mr. Bric, and
Mr. Gregg being second to Mr. Hayes, and that said Mr. Hayes
had fled for same shooting and firing."
SUICIDE AT POININGTON, NEAR SIIERBORNE.
--Mr. Hugh Andrews, of Poinington, a large farmer, was visited
on Sunday afternoon last, by the Rev. Mr. Lyon, of Sherborne,
who found him complaining of pain in the bead. The observa-
tions he made appeared to Mr. Lyon so incoherent, as to induce
him to recommend that Mr. Gray, the surgeon, should be sent for.
Mr. Gray arrived between five and six in the evening, and found
Mr. Andrews at tea, expressing his fears that some person intend-
ed to do him injury. Mr. Gray endeavoured to tranquillize hint,
and recommended that he should be bled. Mr. Andrews said be
thought it would do him good, and left the room followed by his
sister. On reaching the back yard he eluded the latter, and going
into a small garden, precipitated himself into a deep well. A ser-
vant, who heard the sister shriek, going to the spot whence the
noise proceeded, heard him, to use his own expression, socking.
Further assistance being sought, a young man descended the well,
suspended by a rope, anti taking down a lantern, be met with the
body. Much difficulty was found in extricating it, awing to the
depth of the water, the state of the body, and the narrowness of
the well. It was brought up, however, in about an hour, and
the usual means were resorted to for restoring life, but without
Act.