The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-18 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

Sir Herbert Taylor and Col. Stephenson are the
executors of the will of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York,
the final codicil to which was added the day before his Royal
Highness's death. These Honourable Persons have already en-
tered upon their functions, by endeavouring to ascertain the exact
situation of the pecuniary affairs of the Royal Duke, up to his
demise.

It has been remarked as rather extraordinary that
tradesmen should, ever since the Duke of York's death, have kept
their shop-windows partially closed; while in private houses,
where little or no inconvenience would have been experienced, no
such mark of respect has been shown.
It is due to the memory of that Illustrious Prince,
whose loss we must all deplore, to state, that on his Royal High-
ness being applied to by the Secretary to the Society for the Relief
of Distressed Widows, applying within the first month of their
widowhood, his Royal Highness in the most kind manner com-
plied with the request, enclosing a donation of ten guineas. The
date of the letter is the 2d of December last. _

The Funeral of his late Royal Highness the Duke
of York being fixed for Saturday next, in respect to that solemnity,
it is ordered that the Surrey Fox Hounds, which were appointed
to meet at Lock's Bottom, shall not hunt on that day.

THE DUKE OF YORK'S COFFIN.—A Correspon-
dent observes that there must be a gross error of the Press, in the
description of the lamented Duke of York's coffin. It is stated to
be " covered with Genoa velvet"—surely the word Genoa must
have been inserted by mistake, for genuine (English) velvet—for
at the very moment that all the parishes are called upon to contri-
bute to the relief of our starving manufacturers, a glaring impro-
priety stares us in the face, when we read that foreign materials
are used upon so melancholy an occasion, and one so truly National.
A meeting of the corporation of the borough of
Leeds was held on Monday. at which an Address of Condolence to
his Majesty, on the death of his Royal Highness the Duke of York,
was unanimously agreed to.
We understand that at Ahnack's next Wednesday,
the ladies will wear black crape over black satin, and at the second
ball black crape over white satin. —Brighton Paper.

Prince Esterhazy is arrived at the Royal York
hotel.—Brighton. Paper.
Mr. Canning still remains here : several messengers
have arrived at his residence, and also at Lord Bathurst's this
week.—Brighton Paper.
Lord and Lady Haywarden and family are arrived
at 83, Bedford-square; Captain Weymouth, 73, Bedford-square;
Mrs. Cornyn, 17, St. James's-Street; Mrs. and the Miss Gents,
from Slindon House, at 11, Regency-square.—Brighton Paper.
Sir Alexander Malet, Bart. arrived at the Foreign
Office on Tusday night, the 16th inst. bringing despatches from
his Majesty's Ministers at St. Petersburgh and Berlin.
Lady Charlotte Bury arrived in town yesterday,
from Worthing ; we are happy to learn that her Ladyship left
Lady Uxbridge in a state of convalescence.
We have great pleasure in stating, that his Grace
the Duke of Montrose, who had been indisposed, is in a state of
con valescence.--Stirling Journal.
Yesterday the Despatches were closed at the East
India House, and delivered to the Pursers of the fol-
lowing ships, viz :—Duke of York, Captain Robert
Locke, and Herefordshire, Captain John Clarmont
Whiteman, for Bengal and China.
The late Mr. Gifford left one work behind him,
which will, probably, be most acceptable either to his Executor,
Dr. Ireland, or to Mr. Heber, viz. :—his copy of The Quarterly
Review, with the names of the authors, and the price paid for
each article inserted in the margin.
The venerable Mr. Clowes, of Manchester, who
was contemporary with Mr. Baron Garrow, at Trinity College,
Cambridge, and is supposed to be nearly the oldest Minister of,
the Established Church now living, has lately written and publish-
ed two more works in support of the doctrines of Baron Sweden-
borg, the eminent Swedish theologian, and founder of the New
Jerusalem Church.

On this day of the month, in 1788, the first Go-
vernor of Botany Bay, Arthur Philip, Esq., arrived
in the ship Supply, commanded by Captain H. L.
Ball ; the Sirius, Golden Grove, Borrodaile, and
other convict vessels, arrived next day. They all left
England the 13th of May preceding.
Yesterday the General Committee of the National
Society met at the Vestry-room of St. Martin's in the Fields.—
Present—His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord
Bishops of London, Exeter, and Llandaff, and the Right Non. Sir
John Ficholl. Several grants of money were made, and seven
new schools united to the Society.
The recent Old Bailey Sessions have been the
shortest ever known, the whole of the trials having been gone
through in little more than four days.
It is in contemplation to form a new turnpike-road
between Guildford and Bagshot, which will much shorten the
distance between,Cheltenham, Oxford, Reading, Windsor, and
Brighton.

On Saturday last an unfortunate accident occurred
at Middleton of Balquhain, parish of Inverary. Among the usual
Christmas sports, firing at marks is a good deal practised ; and a
loaded gun having been carelessly left at a door, a boy of ten or
eleven years of age took it up, and, when examining the lock, the
gun went off, and the contents were partly lodged in the cheek of
an intimate playmate and foster-sister, who lingered in great
agony for a short time, and expired without having spoken a
word.—Aberdeen Chronicle.

Several families of distinction are said to have been
endeavouring to obtain houses in the neighbourhood of Southamp-
ton, with a view of wintering there ; but could not meet with any
adequate to their establishments.
The Bridgewater and Taunton Canal was opened
last week; and the first merchandise conveyed on it was brought
by the Hope, one of the London and Bridgewater shipping ves-
sels, which had arrived from London, after a voyage of eight days.
Saturday having been fixed for the adjourned Ses-
sions at the Guildhall, Westminster, previous to the demise of the
Duke of York, it is now doubted whether the day can be altered.
TURNPIKE TOLLS.--The Commissioners of the
New Act, or their agents, have begun the duties of
their office, which commenced on the Ist January, by
doubling the tolls heretofore paid by the proprietors of
the short stages, running in and out of London.
A new Tragedy is in rehearsal at Drury-lane
Theatre, in which Kean is the hero.

Mr: Peakel;;;; new Drama, which is to be acted
at Covent Garden Theatre in the course of the present season.

Frederick Reynolds, stimulated by the success of his
old friend Morton, has engaged with the Lessee of Drury-lane
Theatre to write a Comedy, in which Miss Kelly, Dowton, and
Liston are to have prominent parts.

Dr. Johnson, whilst composing his Dictionary, sent
a note to the editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, inquiring the
etymology of the word curmudgeon, which having obtained, be
thus recorded in his work, his obligation to the anonymous writer :
—Curmudgeon, s. a curious way of pronouncing caur ~chant,
an unknown correspondent. Ash copied the word into his Dic-
tionary—Curmudgeon, from the French caur, unknown, and
mechant, correspondent.
It is computed that the different new works now in
contemplation by the Middlesex County Magistrates, if all carried
into effect, will reqnire county rates amounting to upwards of
200,000/.
By a recent decision of the Judges on a case laid
before them by the Board of Taxes, it is determined
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Sir John Pringle, in one of his works, mentions
his having cured a soldier of the daily use of the Dog and Duck
water, which in former days stood where now stands the Bethlem
Hospital, and was celebrated for a medicinal spa, as well as being
a public-house of great resort. A French physician, who trans-
lated this passage of Sir John's, said, " that the cure was effected
by administering an excellent broth made of a dog and duck."

INGENIOUS TRANSLATION. -A youngster at St.
Paul's School, who has an inordinate love of play-going (and who
is intended, we hear, from his exceeding promise, for the London
University), was construing but the other day the first ode of
Horace, when he came to the passage—

" Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympieurn,
" Collegisse juvat."
Struck with the difficulty of these lines, he paused awhile, then
characteristically went on—" There are some who love to kick up
a dust at the Olympic in a curricle." After all how true is the
proverb, that genius, like murder, will out.

LYING IN STATE of the LATE DUKE of YORK.,

The crowds assembled in order to Ivitaess this most imposing
ceremony, reached from Temple-bar to St. James's Palace;
every avenue in the neighbourhood was thronged to excess, and
the crowd, to within a hundred yards of the public entrance, was so
dense, that the steam arising from the perspinition of such an un-
precedented mass of living beings, rose up into the air like vapor
from a cauldron.

The stifled screams of thousands of well-dressed females were
scarcely heard in the loud, monotonous, but overpowering hum, re-
sulting from the mere movement of so swollen a tide of life.
Constables might be seen in all directions, attempting to drag ex-
hausted individuals from the crowd, most of whom were deprived
of some portion of their dresses. A company of the 17th Lancers,
under the command of Capt. Burroughs, was on duty to pre-
serve order, but their exertions were insufficient to controul the
feverish curiosity that every where so distinctly displayed itself.
Long before day-break hundreds were assembled round the en-
trance, and the first rush was so tremendous as to sweep away a
party of foot soldiers who had been previously stationed in the
avenues. At 11 o'clock the public were admitted ; on mounting what
is called the Ambassador's staircase the balustrades were hung with
black, and a row of the Yeomen of the Guard were stationed on
each side. Silver sconces, each holding two wax candles, the
dim light of which, added to the sombre solemnity of the scene,
were placed at equal intervals. The chamber itself was fitted np
as a tent (after the model of the Due de Berri's) with black
hangings. The avenue for the public to pass round, admitted
about four abreast, and Officers were stationed at stated distances,
to prevent irregularity. The coffin was covered with crimson
velvet, richly embroidered with gold ; but was in part hidden
from the public view by the richly embroidered velvet pall, on
which was placed the coronet (and, we believe, the sword) of the
late lamented Royal Duke. At the bead and at the foot sat two
gentlemen of the Royal Household, ciao in dress mourning,
with black wands in their hands. On each side of the coffin
were six grenadiers stationed in a reclining position with arms re-
versed ; next to them was a circle of ensigns, with mourning sashes
and holding the British banners. From the upper part of the tent
was suspended a large chandelier, filled with wax-candles, and two
tiers of candelabra on the floors. The outer arch was composed
of Military Officers, in the costume of deepest mourning. The
whole spectacle was the most solemnly impressive we ever beheld,
and forcibly recalled to our minds the following splendidly appro-
priate lines of Sir Walter Scott :
When a Prince to the fate of a peasant has yielded
The tap'stry waves dark round the dim lighted hall,
With escutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded,
And pages stand mute by the canopied pall.
In the courts, at deep midnight, the torches are gleaming,
Through the proudly arch'd chapel, the banners are beaming,
Far down the long aisle sacred music is streaming,
Lamenting a Chief of the people should fall.

The Lord Chamberlain was in attendance during the entire
day, presiding over the ceremony ; and great praise is due to the
gentlemen belonging to his Lordship's office, for the manner in
which the arrangements were made, by which the public curio-
sity was indulged to the fullest extent.
The only Noblemen that we observed amongst the vast multi-
tude who visited the state-room during the day, were the vene-
rable Lord Stowel and the Earl of Belfast.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

FROM LLOYD'S.—(Tmis DAY.)

DEAL, JAN'. 17.—Wind N. by W.—Arrived his Netherland
Majesty's brig Zwaleem, from Curacon, with mail and despatches ;
his Netherland Majesty's ship Zealander, Captain Lucas, from
Batavia, who put back yesterday, has sailed at 3 r.n.—Passed
through the Downs, the Ostend mail packet, from Dover.
PoarsmourN, JAN. 17.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Duke of
Kent, for London ; his Majesty's ships Highflyer, Nightingale,
Rose, and Cornelian, from a cruise. Sailed the Atlas, Hine, for
Bombay and China ; Caesar, Watts, for the Cape, Madras, &c. ;
Madeline, for the Mauritius ; Sir Everard Paget, for Madras and
Calcutta; Denmark, Hill, for New South Wales; Countess of
Harcourt, for ditto ; and the whole of the outward bound, except
the Christiana, Whyte, for Jamaica, which ship will proceed in
the morning, as soon as her bowsprit is complete ; his Majesty's
ship Arachne, for Vera Cruz, will proceed in the morning.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 16.—Arrived the Bohemian, Atkinson ; the
Hopkinson, White, from Demerara ; and the La Felice, for this
place. at the Studewall Roads. The Levant has put into etude-
wall Roads, with loss of anchor, cable, &c.; the Brothers, Gilbert,
from Leghorn, which was on shore on West Hoyle, has been got
off, and taken into Hoylake.—The guard of the Holyhead mail
brings the following report :—That an American ship, laden with
Indian corn, and some specie, was lost in Holyhead Bay ; crew
saved, (supposed to be the Panther, from New York) ; also that
a brig of war was lost at Holyhead ; and the mew also
saved.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 16.—Wind W., fresh breezes, and thick
hazy weather. Sailed, the Swedish brig Josephine, for Guernsey.
CORK, JAN. 14 and 15.—Sailed, his Majesty's store-ship In-
dustry, for Lisbon ; and Marine• convict-ship, for Kew South
Wales, with male convicts.
Ptriteuxu, JAN. 16.—Wind W.—All the ships reported
yesterday as having sailed, are put back by contrary winds.

The Perseverance, from Gaiusborough to Newcastle, was to-
tally wrecked near Sunderland, on Sunday.