The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-24 00:00:00

iusiness.

"He (Paley) said, ' I have often thought that if I
was to turn swindler '—Boswell, if I remember right,
makes some whimsical remark on Johnson's beginning
with Sir, I have often thought that if I were to keep a
seraglio:" let us not be hypercritical, nor suppose that
seraglios, or harems, were the frequent subject of medita-
tion to one of these worthies, or swindling to the other.
Paley said, however, I have often thought that if I was
to turn swindler, I would try to swindle in the character
of a dignified ecclesiastic. It would be quite a new
thing, and nobody Auld suspect it. Bishops, however,
are too well known: it would not be safe to pretend to be
a Bishop. Even an English Dean might appear in pro-
priii persona, and push one out of one's place : but an
Irish Dean ; aye, that would do very well : even the titles
of Irish Deans are, many of them, unknown in England ;
for example, the Dean of Aghadoe. Well, I would take
a house at the west end of the town, or in Marylebone,
and I would have a fine brass plate on my door, on which
should be inscribed, in grand uncial letters, ' Dean of
Aghadoe.' fhen I would wear a short cassock—nothing
to be done without a black apron. So I would begin to
run in debt ; nobody would refuse to trust the Dean of
Aghadoe: 1 would order in goods—every sort of thing
that could be easily disposed of; and before I had ex-
hausted my credit, before any one began to suspect, I
would be off, and the Dean of Aghadoe would be returned
non inventus."

One more anecdote, and we have done.

" Paley spoke of Dr. Ogden, author of ' Sermons on
Prayer :' he did not think highly of Ogden's works, but,
as he had acquired celebrity as an author, an account of
him was interesting. Ogden had the strangest tone of
voice I ever knew; a most solemn, drawling, whining
tone; be seemed to think he was always in the pulpit. I
met him one day in company with a friend, who said,
' Ogden and I went into the country yesterday to dine
with What had you for dinner?' Nothing
but a boiled leg of mutton :' to which Ogden subjoined,
with a cadence as if concluding a sentence in delivering a
sermon, No capers!'"
The anecdotes we have selected from this
very entertaining volume, will we doubt not, act
as a whet upon our readers, and induce them to
make themselves more intimately acquainted,
with:it. They will derive, as we observed before
much entertainment from its perusal, and glean
besides many quaint and curious particulars, il-
lustrative of the literary manners of the past
century. For ourselves, we have only to express
a hope that this will not be the last work we
shall receive from the same pen.

The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND
gave a grand dinner on Saturday at their residence in
the King's Palace, St. James's, to Prince and Princess
ESTERHAZY, Baron BuLow, Baron REDERN, and a select
party. Their Royal Highnesses, accompanied by Prince
GEORGE, and attended by the Countess SCHLIP-
PENBACH, Colonel POTEN, and the Rev. Mr. JELF, left
town about one o'clock yesterday afternoon for the seat
of the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE is Bushy Park.
About four o'clock the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE,
with the Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND and Prince
GEORGE, attended by their suites, visited the young
Queen of PORTUGAL at Laleham : it was understood for
the purpose of taking leave of her MaJEsry previous to
her departure for the Brazils. The Royal party returned
to Bushy to dinner. Among the nobility who called to
make :their inquiries after the Royal Duchess were
Viscount STRANGFORD, Mr. and the Honourable Mrs.
HOPE, Lord GLENLYON, Sir JAMES SIIAW, Colonel CA-
VENDISII, &C.

The Directors of the Royal Hospital at
Greenwich, under whose direction the award of prize-
money is made, have during the last month held their
sittings on that branch of service in town, where in future
the meetings will be held, it having been determined to
abolish the sittings at Greenwich. The Treasurer of the
Navy for the time being will preside at them. At the
meeting of the Board there were present, in addition to
the Treasurer of the Navy, Viscount LOWTHER, Lord
AUCKLAND, &c. The Commissioners held another meet-
ing at the Navy Office, Somerset House, on Saturday.
Viscount STRANGFORD transacted business
on Saturday at the Office of the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.

The Princess SOPHIA visited the Duke and
Duchess of CUMBERLAND on Saturday.

Mdlle. SONTAG is giving concerts at most of
the large towns, in company with her sister. They have
been at Birmingham, Manchester, and other places.
The receipts of Covent-garden Theatre, it
appears, last season, amounted to only 41,777/. ; 78,610/.
per annum Mr. HARRIS states to have been the average
amount under his management.