The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-01 00:00:00

TRIAL OF HIS MAJESTY'S COINS.

A meeting of the Lords of his Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council was held yesterday morn-
ing, at his Majesty's Exchequer, at Westminster
Hall, for the purpose of having different portions of
the coinages coined by the Right Hon. Thomas
Wallace, the late Master and Worker of his Ma-
jesty's Mint, assayed by a Jury composed of twelve
members of the Goldsmiths' Company, who had
been summoned for that pUrnose, by virtue of a
warrant from the Lord Chancellor.

Their Lordships assembled about ten o'clock;
those present were--the Lord Chancellor, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the President of the Board
of Trade, the present Master of the Mint, Sir
George Cockburn, the Right Hon. Wilmot Horton,
and the Right Hon. Hugh Elliot.
Mr. Buller wa; in attendance as Clerk of the
Privy Council.
The Jury were then sworn, and were addressed
by the Lord Chancellor in a speech of some length,
respecting the duty they had to perform, of ascer-
taining that the proportion of pure metal and alloy
had been strictly attended to in the different speci-
mens of coinage they would have to make trial of,
and also whether the coins were of the exact weight,
as ordered by the Act of Parliament for regulating
the coin of the realm.

At the close of his Lordship's address the Jury
retired to an apartment where the pix of the Mint,
containing specimens of the different coinages had
been placed, having been brought from the Tower
for that purpose.
An equal quantity of the eoius were distributed
to each of the Jury to make trial of, and portions of
the, metal of which the coins had been made were
melted, in order to ascertain the rate of pure metal
and alloy used in the coining.
Their Lordships, after the Jury had retired, se-
parated, and in the evening dined with the members
cf the Goldsmiths' Company, at their Hall, in Ba-
singhail-strect. His Royal'Highness the Lord High
Admiral presided at the dinner.

SIR ANTHONY HART.—It is stated that the
new CHANCELLOR will arrive in this city on Thursday
next, and that temporary apartments have already been'
ordered for his reception. Sir ANTHONY has passed his
sixtieth year. He is a widower, and has an only daughter,
a young lady of great beauty and accomplishments, who is
to accompany him to this country.—Dublin Freeman's
Journal.

CHARACTERISTIC:III the sketch of Lord
NO RBU RY in the present number of the New Monthly Ma-
gazine, the writer observes, that one of his Lordship's
favourite volumes is the lsrewgate Calendar.

At the Monthly Market, in this town, on
Saturday last, there was but a thin supply of cattle, which
went off at no increase in the prices of last month. Sheep
met a very dull sale.—Taunton Gottrier.
FATAL COINCIDENCE.—At the Fleet-street
and Holborn corners of Fetter-lane, there a. a two pork-shops,
and it is no less distressing than true, that the proinietor
of each has met with an untimely end. Mr. PARKER, kst
Sunday, by his own hand, and the other, a few years
back, by being chopped up in his own sausage machine !
the works of which accidentally caught the wretched man's
clothes, and he was literally broken to atoms : though
some time ago, the circumstance may be fresh in the recol-
lection of many of our readers.

Monday morning, three king-fishers were seen
flying on the road leading from Salisbury to Alderbury,
when one of them suddenly disappeared. On looking
round, it was observed hanging on a thorn bush ; having
struck the thorn with such force that it went directly
through the left eye into the right. It was in beautiful
plumage and is preserved by a gentleman in the state in
which it was found.-•-Bath Herald.