The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-21 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE AURI VA LS.—The Duke of Manchester, at
the Clarendon Ilotel, from his seat, Kimbolton Castle, Hunt-
ingdonshire ; the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans, in Saint
James's-square, from their seat, Gatton, Surrey ; Lord and
Lady Burghersh and family, at the Brunswick house Hotel,
from the Earl of Westmorland's scat in Northamptonshire;
General Powlett, in Half Moon-street, Piccadilly, from his
seat in Hants; Lord William Montague, in Berkeley-square,
from his father's the Duke of Manchester's seat, Kimbolton
Castle ; Lord Ellenborough, at Thomas's Hotel, front his seat
at Rochampton ; Robert Williams, Esq. M.P. Mrs. Williams,
and family, at ditto.
DEPART URES.—Couhtess Mengden and Miss Milbanke,
from Marshal Thompson's Hotel ; George Macqueen, Esq.
from ditto; Hon. B. Craven, on a tour.

The Marquis of Londonderry left town on Monday, after the
Council, for his seat, at North Cray, Kent.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke are on a visit to the
Earl and Countess Caledon, at their seat in Ireland.
Lord and !Lady G. H. Cavendish and family are expected
to leave town to-morrow, for their seat, Ilalker, Lancashire.

When Mr. PITT, the first Earl of CHATHAM,
lost his commission in the army, on account of his
political behaviour, Mr. LYTTLETos (afterwards
GEO►tGE Lord hyTTLEToN) composed the fol-
lowing lines :
Long had thy virtue mark'd thee out for fame,
Far, far, superior to a Cornet's name,
This generous Walpole saw, and griev'd to find,
So mean a post disgrace that noble mind ; •
The servile standard from thy freeborn hand
Ile took, and bade thee lead the Patriot band.

SINGULAR ROBBERY.—The coins recently de-
posited by the hand of the Right Reverend the Bishop of
CHESTER, within the foundation stone of the new church at
Ashton-under-Line, were a few nights since very ingeniously
extracted from the cavity of the stone, and a scrap of paper,
containing the following lines, was found in the place of them :
" This stone the curious fact revealed
" That various coins were here concealed ;
" And told the world in language fair,
" A Bishop's hand had plac'd them there !
" To make such information known,
" It must have been a clever stone ;
" So clever—that it p'rhaps can say,
" Who 'twas that stole the coins away."
(Sheffield Paper.)

CHuncit PILEIrtRMEIiT.—The Rev. thigh Jones, M.A.,
has been appointed to the perpetual curacy of Shrigley, near
31acclesfield, by the Lord Bishop of Chester, upon the presen-
tation of William Turner, of Shrigley Park, the patron of this

Lying.
SOHO-SQUARE was first called MONMOUTH

SQUARE, or place, and the celebrated Duke of
that name had his house on the South side of it ;
and in the neighbourhood is Monmouth-street to
this day. Upon the Duke's defeat and execu-
tion (Anne 1685) the square was ordered to be
called King's-square, and a statue of King Charles
If. set up in the middle of it. It is so called in
Strype's edition of " Stowe's History of London,"
and King's-square, court style, keeps the name.
But the partisans of the Duke of Monmouth re-
senting this, and willing to preserve a distant re-
membrance of the unfortunate Duke, called it
Suho-square—that being the watch word of the
battle in which the Duke was taken.
The practice of marrying by a ring for the fe-
male, was adopted from the Romans ; the bride
was modestly veiled, and after receiving the
nuptial benediction, was crowned with flowers.
During the year of our Commonwealth, when the
Established Church lost its authority and sane-

titv, it was customary for the banns of marriage
to be proclaimed on three market days in New-
gate Market, and afterwards the parties were
married at the church, and the Register states,
that they were married at the place of meeting
called the church.—(Sce the Register of St. An-
drew, Ilolborn, during those years.)
To be " on one's Legs again."--A wealthy

merchant, who had become bankrupt, was me
some time after his misfortunes by his friend
who asked him how he was going on ? " Pretty
well," said he, "lamon my legs again." How !
already ?' " Yes I have been obliged to part
with my coach and horses, and must now walk."
CAPITAL. PUNISHMENT IN SPAlN.—[Extract of
a Letter, recently written front rittoria.]—" The
species of capital punishment it (the proposed
penal code) recognizes is the garrote. I was
curious to see death inflictesl, and I confess I
had no notion that it could be caused with so
much humanity. A man should witness such a
spectacle, as his opinion as to the best mode of
its infliction may one day or other have an in-
fluence. The extinction of life seemed the affair
of an instant. The victim occupies a seat whiJi
is attached to an upright post, an iron collar is
placed round his Deck, and strangulation is pro-
duced by turning half round a multiplying screw,
which brings the collar close to the post. I ob-
served no convulsion—no movement of agony.
The garrote is as expeditious as the guillotine,
and it sheds no blood."
As some workmen were lately employed in
digging a cellar on the slope .of the Church Hill;
Buckingham, they discovered a part of the foun-
dations of the old Castle which formerly existed
there, and which was built, according to the
Saxcn Chronicle, by EDWARD the Elder, in the
year 918. The wall itself was of very consider-
able thickness, and was composed of unhewn
stones of the cornbrache limestone kind, which
still abounds in the neighbourhood. So far back
as 1670 we find that no traces of the Castle re-
mained, as it was then made a bowling-green of,
which appears to have been much frequented by
the Gentlemen of the county.--( Buckingham-
shire Chronicle.)
Sunday morning the body of a respectable looking middle-
aged man was found at low water lying in the mud, at the foot
of Allhallows Stairs, Upper Thames-street. He was dressed
in a black coat, buff waistcoat, blue trowsers, shoes, and
gaiters. His shirt was marked W. D. S. There was nothing
whatever found in his pockets. An Inquest was held on Mon-
day night, at the Steel-yard Coffee-house, on the body. Ver-
dict—Found drowned.
A few days ago, at the baptism of a child near Annan, who
was a twin (the other having died), there met on the occasion
five gossips who had all recently been delivered of twins ; and,
what is equally extraordinary, two of the said gossips them-
selves were hems.—(Carlisle Journal.)

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