The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-20 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

WINDSOR, I)EC. I9.—Yesterday his MAJESTY
was confined with public business the greater part of
the day, in consequence of which he did not leave the
Royal Lodge.
This day his MAJESTY'S attendants and phaetons
were ordered to be in readiness at the usual hour, when
it is expected that his MAJESTY will again visit the
Castle. It is said, that his MAJESTY is very desir-
ous for the completion of his suite of apartments,
which arc expected to be ready for his reception by
the latter end of next summer, or early in autumn.
The 67th Regiment, which marched in here on
Friday last, are, it is said, under orders for embarka-
tion for Portugal. They have only just arrived from
the East Indies, where they have bee►► twenty-two
years, and two companies of them are not yet landed
in England.

The KING, according to a private letter from
Brighton, received yestekday, is now expected to arrive at that
place on the 2d of January.
On Monday and yesterday his MAjEsry's Royal
Christmas Bounty was distributed to eight hundred poor, aged,
and infirm men and women, by Mr. Manby, the Secretary to
the Lord High Almoner, at the Almonry Office, in Scotland-
/
yard._

Yesterday several official Military Gentlemen trans-
awed business with the Duke of York.

Yesterday afternoon Prince Polignac, the French
Ambassador, transacted business at the Secretary of States Office
for Foreign Affairs for a considerable length of time.
The Duke of Gloucester will succeed the Duke of
Wellington as Governor of Plymouth.
We regret to _say the 17.,arl of Liverpool continua,

Monday evening Mr. SecretAy Canning had a se-
lect dinner party.
DOWNIWG-STREVI4; -DEC. I9.—The Chancellor
of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of a Bank of England
note for 1/., No. Q 2,953, dated Dee. 29, 1825, forwarded to
him in a letter frous Penzance, 'of the 13tIt Instant, and has di.
recta the same to be paid into the Exchequer.
His Honor, the Master of the Molls was re-elected
on Saturday, Member of the University of Cambridge without
opposition.

• Aftftl VALB'.—The Earl of Albemarle, hi Hano-
ver-square, from Quislenham-Hall ; Lord Viscount Palmerston,
in Stanhope-street, May-fair ; Mr. Gage Rookwood, in Picca-
dilly, from Barnes-Terrace, Surrey; Gen. Smith, of the Royal
.Artillery, at Hyde Park-corner; Mr. Ricardo, in Grosvenor-
street; Mrs. and Miss Acton, in Park. street; Hon. Geo. Petre,
from Italy; Lady Williamson, in Baker-street; and Mrs.
Riddell, in Montague-square ; Mr. Fred. Molyneux, in Park-
street; Lady and Miss Boyle, in Green-street, Park-lane; the
Earl and Countess of Ca.ssillis, at their house in Privy Gardens,
from their seat, St. Margaret's; Sir Thomas and Lady Baker, at
Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from their seat iu Worcestershire;
Lord and Lady Kirkwall, at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street,
from Geneva the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Murray, at ditto, from
Surrey; Lord Macdonald, at ditto, from Hants; Admiral and
Mrs. Wyndham and family, at ditto, front Suffolk ; the Hon. St.
George Caulfield, at ditto, from Ireland ; Lord Wm. ,Montague,
at ditto, from Russia; Lord Mandeville, at ditto, from Hants.
CHANGES.----The Duke of Devonshire, from his
sent, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, for the Earl of Ca' rlisle's seat, Cas-
tle Howard, Yorkshire, for the holidays ; the Earl of Brecknock,
for hie father's (the Marquis of Camden) seat, Bayham Abbey,
Sussex ; Lord Althorp, for his father's seat, in Northamptonshire;
Lord Charles. Manners, for Belvoir Castle ; Lady Elizabeth Palk,
for her seat, the Rectory House, Enfield ; Mr. Wookiche, Sur-
geon-General to the British forces embarking for Lisbon, for Ports-
mouth ; Sir Thomas Gage, Bart. from Paris, for Florence; Cap-
tain Gordon, from Hounslow, for Portsmouth ; the Marquis and
Marchioness of Ely, and Family, front the Burlington Hotel, Old
Burlington and Cork-streets, for their seat, Bifrons, Canterbury ;
Lord and Lady Brudenell, from ditto, for Grantham, Lincoln.
shire ; the Earl of Lauderdale, from Warren's Hotel, Regent-
street, for Dunbar, N.B. ; Ltird John Hay, from ditto, for Scot-
land ; Sir Charles and Lady Hill, from ditto, for their seat in
Hants ; Sir Thomas and Lady Adana, front ditto, 'fur, their seat
in Somersetshire ; Sir Evan Murray IlPGregor, Bart. from
Warne 's Hotel, Conduit-street, fur Portugal.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India lionme, when Capt. Samuel Serie was sworn into the
command of the ship Inglis, consigned to Bengal and China.
'Miss Paton has left town for Brighton in the hopes
that warm sea bathing will entirely reinstate her health.
We learn, by, a private letter from Naples, that
Madame Pasta is seriously ill, having, it is said, ruptured some
small vessel in her lungs.-
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Among the rumours in circulataon, is one of Mr.
Lamb, our .Ambassador at Madrid, haring quitted that capital for
London, and of Ferdinand having actually declared war against
Portugal.

Tin CUSTOM HOUSE,—Wn are authorised to
state, that the paragraph inserted in this and other pipets, copied
from a morning paper, stating that this edifice was "again giving
way," is wholly void of foundation. So far from this being the
ease, the repairs of the foUndstion are nearly completed, and in
an substantial and satisfactory a inatitter, as to preclude every pos..
tibia apprehension as to the security of any part of the building.
(From a Corrospondeut.)—." Why iliayou," said
Mr. Canning to Mr. IL, " approve of the Address?" og Be-
cause I knew foreign loans were at an end ; and if a war should
takuentprly.sc,e,_l
,TigAhntd how did
principal
heispmpternanrir. il
fora
.loatnhaint
you in
approved so warmly of certain parts of my speech..—.you that
never spoke a word in my praise before ?" Because, to
tell you the truth, I have had no opportunity of making
speeches for some time, and if you were once fairly en-
gaged in a war, you would soon he committing wonders,
and then I should have fine opportunities of blowing yos
up,"—.." Well, Sir Thomas, and why were you silent on.
the occasion ?"—." For a good reason... 3 maw affairs were in a
right train—l have been long sick of those discussions about the
Corn Laws, and was convinced that war was the only means of
putting an end to: them,
the day, and I shall know bow to manage you in future."—
rlerel."—” Self interest, said " Mr. Canning, is the order of
a
Morning Herald. and raising the price Corn to its pro.,
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THE ARMY.

Lieutenaitt-General Sir G. L. Cole will be appointed Colonel
of the 27th (Enniskillen) Regiment of Foot, vice the Marquis of
Hastings, deceased.
Lieut.-General Sir Thome, Brisbane will be appointed Colonel
or the Blth (Cumberland) Regiment of Infantry, vice Lieut. -
General Sir L. Cole, appointed to the 27th Foot.
The let and Qd divisions of the 63d Regiment of Infantry em-
barked, on the 16th and 17th Instant, at Portsmouth, on board
the Melville, and sailed for Portugal. •
• The whole of the Ist battalion of the Grenadier Itegiment of
Guards have sailed, on bOard the Gloucester, for Portugal-
The let and Qd divisions of the 2d battalion of the Ed Regi-
ment of Guards embarked at Portsmouth on the 17th lad lath
instant, on board the Wellesley, and sailed for Portugal..
The 10th Hussara have received orders to magic the the 22d
inst., from Oxford, for embarkation, at Portamoutkftsr-Portugal.
The Ist division of the 12th Hussars marched yesterday, and
the 2rl division will' march to-day from Honnslow, foe „embarka-
tion, at Portsmouth, for Portugal. •