The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-26 00:00:00

PROPOSED CEMETERY.

MR. .tniton,—l beg leave to notice in your
excellent paper some suggestions which appeared
in it from the Morning Herald a few days ago,
on the subject of providing places of sepulture in
the environs of London, in the manner of the
cemetery ,of Pere La Chaise in Paris.

About two years ago there appeared ,in one
of the London Papers a letter, on this subject,
full of good sense and taste, which deserved to
be remembered, more than it appears to have
been.' If the recommendation which it contain-
ed of transplanting the idea of the above cemetery
to the environs of our. Metropolis, and preparing
burial-ground for its inhabitants in the neat and
ornamental, manner of the above celebrated re-
pository for the dead, had been adopted, the dis-
gusting exhumation now taking place .at St.
Martin s chtirch would have been unnecessary ;
and as it is very possible that this operation may
be even dangerous to the health of the inhabit-
ants, it might be as well to enquire by whose
authority it has taken place. Churchwardens
and parish officers seem now to be invested with
power- over the living and the dead in the most re-
markable
,manner, and while the management of
the poor, the most difficult of all the branches of
political economy, is left:in their hands, it is not
to be wondered at that it should be left to
then to turn over the bones of the dead at their
own discretion, for we have not heard even of a
Vestry, with its usual oracular wisdom, being
called to sanction this business. Among the
numerous improvements upon all old systems
that have lately taken place, one would have
thought that discontinuing the interment of the
dead, in the midst of the dense population of
crowded cities, would have been one of the first,
as it is surely not one of the least, necessary im-
provements. How burying, indeed, within the walls
of a church, should ever have been the custom, or
that it should continue to be so, in any place
where precautions for preserving the health of the
inhabitants are attended to, is much to be wondered
at. But the church-yard of St. Martin's is so
confined that it can hardly. hold sufficient fresh
graves * to account for disturbing the old ones ;
therefore, without knowing more of the matter
than I do at preaerit, I must suppose that the
clearing of the ground in St. Martin's church-
yard, is not for fresh graves, but for the purpose
of preparing the immediate vicinity of this hand-
some church, for the appearance it is to make in
the fine area of which it is to constitute the
chief ornament. In this predicament, the inha-
bitants of St. Martinis parish are naturally point-
ed out as likely to approve the plan recommend-
ed in your extract from the Morning Herald,-
and in the letter to which I have alluded, of *e-
lecting some spot, we, will say bordering on the
New or Kilburn 'Roads, for their burial-ground,
which by its arrangement and judicious planting,
might ,he made ornamental to the district, and
soothing to the fancy by its serious but not un-
pleasing aspect. If' such a plot .of ground was
to be so disposed of; the utility of its purpose, and
the good taste of its execution, would soon be
imitated, and a regular succession of cemeteries
for the dead might be formed on the verge of the
New-road, along the high and airy situation on
the east and west of the Regent's Park, to which
they might approach, making it the centre be-
tween them. The style of our small buildings
is so mean and bad, that almost any occupation
of the ground to prevent their accumulation
would be an advantage ; and as it would be a bad
compliment to almost any country church-yard,.
'to imagine that such an -object occupying their
place, would not be considered an 'eligible' sub-
stitution, such an elegtint cemetery as that 'of
Pere la Chaise could not but be highly orna-
mental in that district. When we look at the
new burial-ground of Marylebone, we must ac-
knowledge that it is the very' antipodes to the
One just mentioned. It seems to have been
planned and executed in the true tradesman like
style of our busy metropOlis, where time will seldom
adrnit of taste, and has the appearance of a naked
burial-ground, that has been rapidly filled 'by a
plague, where the seriousness and melancholy of
death and. its concomitants are usurped by its
desolation and deformity.
I will not occupy at present a larger space in
your valuable columns,' as I shall have perhaps oc-
casion to return to the subject.
Staffordshire, Sept. 23. C.

On Friday last, as Captain Lawson, of the
15th Hussars, late of No. 2, St. John's-wood-square, was
driving down the Park-road in his chaise, accompanied
by his wife and two children, on his route to join his regi-
ment at Canterbury, he got down for a moment to speak
to a friend, the horse took fright and ran down the Park-
road, and was, with .11-melt difficulty, stopped near the
Windsor Castle Tavern by two soldiers and a labour-
ing man, but not before both the children and Mrs.
Lawson were thrown into the road ; the youngest had its
jaw-bone fracttired, and the other aeverelfinjured on the
right knee and leg, and Mrs. Lawson received several
severe contusions of the arms and face: fortunately the
driving-cloak came in contact with the wheel, which bin-
dered in a measure the rapid progress of the animal. Mr.
Lucas, surgeon, of Taunton-place, Regent's-park, rendered
the sufferers all the assistance in his power, and the Cap..
tarn found it expedient to leave his family with a friend, as
they were unfit to proceed further, and he being obliged to
join his regiment.

THE IRISH SHEARERS.—ThOSe Irishmen
who came over to this part of the country in such num-
bers, about two months ago, in search of work at cutting
down the harvest, are now returning to their own country
in nearly equal numbers. Almost every steam boat which
leAves the Broomidaw for Ireland, is well filled with this
class of passengers. Such of those poor people as were
obliged to return, in consequence of having come over be-
fore the harvest was ready for cutting, and who could find
no employment of ally other kind, went back in a more
dwehstiotaurtee
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to see them have but little use. It is, however pleasing . .
umbrellas, one would think that, considering. their
evince that taste which the purchase of such articles Indi-
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BATTERSEA.--It may not be uninteresting tc,
some of your readers to know, that'the parish of Battersea
wertil, Lambeth, Camberwell, Peckham, Streatham; was formerly Very extensive, and included part of
Toot-
ing,%ridg-
and Clapham, and that the inhabitants are entitled to
enclosing,village
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right of hedebote and firebote on Penge-common, about
seven miles distant from the parish, which common is now
itself
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mill, which formed a
there is no place near London, where so few alterations or .
impriWernents have been made. The tell taken at Bat-
tersea-bridge is almost a barrier, and prevents a free inter-
course with the inhabitants at Chelsea, place which
forms as striking a contralst as Dover and Calais. The in-
habitant" of Battersea may, bowever; congratulate them-
selves at' the management of their affairs without a select
vestry. Longevity is proverbial bere, and as a proof of it,'
notwithstanding its numerous inhabitants, ,one Doctor is
sufficient ; and—what perhaps will astonish you more,
from the good understanding which in general prevails-
-
there is only one lawyer to be found in the village. 1

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

Whitehall, September 24.

The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal; granting the dignities of
Viscount And Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain.and Ireland unto John William Viscount Dudley and
Ward, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten,
by the names, stiles, and titles of Viscount Ednam, of Ed-
nem, in the county of Roxburgh, and Earl of Dudley, of.
Dudley. Castle, in the county of Stafford.
The King has also been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of
Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland unto John Frederick Lord Cawdor, and the
heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names,
stiles, and titles of Viscount Emlyn, of Emlyn, in the
county of Carmarthen, and Earl Cawdor, of Castlemertin,
in the county of Pembroke.

War-Office, Sept. 24, 1827.

sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain Francis
Westenra, from the half=pay, to be Captain, vice Hon.
John Kennedy, who exchanges, receiving the difference.
Dated Sept. 13, 1827.

7th Ditto—Cornet John Edmund Thewles to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Trotter, promoted. Sept. 6.
John Lewis Duntze, Gent.' to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Thewles. Sept. is.

17th Light Dragoons-.,Cornet Ai Douglas to be
Lieutenant, by p'archase, vice Welch, promoted. Sept. 6.
William Wentworth, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Douglas. Sept. 6.
let or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant
and Captain Samuel Long to be Captain and Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Barrett, who retires. Sept. 18.

Ensign and Lieutenant Richard William Astell to be
Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Long. Sept. 18.
John Adrian Hope, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant,
by purchase, rice Aetell. Sept. 19.
14th Regiment of Foot—Captain William John Pyre
Gore, from the half-pay, •to be Captain, vice Hall, pro-
moted. Sept. 13.

43d Ditto—Captain John Green Amos, from half-pay
40th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Thomas Tierney, placed
upon half-pay. Sept. 6.

47th Ditto--Captain Duncan Campbell, from the half-
av, to Ix Captain, vice James Hutchinson, who exchanges.
Sept. IS.

76th Ditto—Lieutenant-Colonel William Leader Maher-
ley, from the 96th Foot, to he Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
John Wardlaw, who retires upon half-pay. Sept. 13.
92d Ditto--"-Ensign John Hughes, from the 61 et Foot,
to be Adjutant with the rank of Lieutenant, vice Deane,
deceased. Sept. IS,
96th Ditto—Lieutenant-Colonel James Fullerton, from.
the half-pay, io be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice liaberley, ap-
pointed to the 76th Foot. Sept. 13.
Ceylon Ileginient--Philip John Borton, Gent., to be
Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Grant, promoted.
Sept. 13.

Cape Corps (Cavalry)—Lieutenant Stephen John Welsh
Fletcher Welch, from the 17th Light Dragoon., to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Massey, apix)inted to the LW
Foot. Sept. 6.

UNATTACtiun.-The under-mentioned Lieutenants, ac-
tually serving upon full-pay in Regiments of fife Line,
whose commissions are dated in the year 1811, have ao-
cepted,promotion upon half-pay, according to the General
Order of the 27th December last.

To be Captains of Infantry—Lieutenant William Payne,
from the 33d Foot. 15th September.
Lieutenant Anthony Vaneroson Smarmll Forbes, from
64th Foot. 15th September.

STAFF.—Quartermaster Frederick Kinkie, on half-pay
19th Light Dragoons, to be Acting Adjutant to the Riding
Establishment of St. John's Wood Barrqcks, with the
temporary rank of Cornet in the Army while so employed.
September 6.

MEAroaaNnum.—The date of the appointments of Sur-
geon Ayton, from the 91st Foot, to the 84th Foot, and of
Surgeon Lamert, from half-pay Ist Royal. Veteran Bat-
talion, to the 91st Foot, has been altered from the 31st
May, 1827, to the Bth July, 1827.

Office of Ordnance, September 24.
•
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Lieutenant Daw-
son Warren to be First Lieutenant, •ice Duncan, retired
on half-pay.