The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-12 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE AND MTSCELLANEOTJS.

WINDSOR, MARCH 11.—His MAJESTY attended
Divine Service at his Private Chapel at the Royal
Lodge this morning.
The temporary weakness occasioned by the slight
fit of the gout his MAJESTY experienced at Brighton,
has entirely subsided ; his step was remarkably firm ;
and we have great satisfaction in being enabled to
state that he is now in the enjoyment of perfect health,
and will in a few days resume his accustomed out-door
exercise.

We regret to state that Mr. Secretary Canning was
indisposed on Saturday and yesterday. The Right Hon. Gentle-
man received visits yesterday from Lord Granville, Lord Morley,

and a number of other persons of distinction.
Earl Harrowby transacted business yesterday at the
Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
On Saturday the Duke of Wellington transacted
business at the Foreign Office.
Mr. Huskisson's health, .we are happy to say, if 3
improving, he being now able to take airings in his carriage
On Friday he paid a short visit to Mr. Canning.
The Grand Duchess of Tuscany was lately delivered
of a third daughter, not having yet bad a son,which occasioned an
impromptu from an Italian improvisatore—that ,u the Graces
had appeared, Cupid would not be long behind.
Lady Wellesley is to leave this city on the 10th
instant, on her way to Leamington, where it is said the "Irish
Court" is in future to be held. Rumour has it that his Lordship
is to accompany the Marchioness, and to proceed from thence to
London, where he intends being present at the debate in the
House of Lords on the Roman Catholic Question, on which sub-

ject it is said that his Lordship's opinions have undergone a very
considerable change within the last six months.—.—Dublin Even-

ing Mail.
The death of his Excellency Count Joseph Bruns-
sock Von Koranissa is announced in the Austrian Observer.

He is described as one of the most distinguished statesmen a

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Germany ; but we do not think that hisname has ever before
been mentioned in the Foreign Journals.
Lord Amherst, with his suite, reached the ancient
and celebrated city of Benares on the 12th of October, and had
viewed all the magnificent structures which still reflect splendour
on the name of Arungxebe. The Governor-General was received
with great ceremony and hospitality by the Raja.
An interesting Biographical Sketch of the late Dr.
Kitchener, written by a well-known Literary Gentleman, will
precede a posthumous publication left ready for the press by the
Doctor, entitled " The Traveller's Oracle ; or, Maxims for Loco-
motion, being Precepts for promoting the Pleasures, Hints for
preserving the Health, and Estimates of the Expenees of Persons
travelling on Foot, on Horseback, in Stages, in Post-chaises, and

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in Private Carriages."
The scrupulousness of the Dean of Westminster
in fulfilling the bequests in the will of the late Mr. Gifford was so
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rigid, that, to the extreme regret of the lovers of epistolary litera-
ture, he destroyed a most interesting and very extensive correspond-
ence between his deceased friend and the late accomplished Mr.

George Ellis, relating principally to English literature, especially
the distinguished Poets who flourished during the reigns of Queen

Elizabeth-and James I.
Mr. Peter Moore, the late member for Coventry, is
now in the custody of a sheriff's officer, at 92, Chancery-lane, on
the suit of Sir John Perring and Co., the bankers, upon a bond
for 5,0001. to which he signed his name as one of the directors of
the Cornwall and Devonshire Mining Company. There were five
other directors who became joint sureties with him to the bond,
namely—Lord Palmerston ; Mr. Sullivan, his Under Secretary at
the War Office; Mr. Barrett, M.P. ; Mr. Phillip Perring; and
Mr. Aston. Lord Palmerston and Mr. Sullivan have paid their
proportions of 800/. each. Mr. Barrett's privilege as a Member
of Parliament protects him ; and Mr. Aston is otherwise, we be-.
lieve, not personally responsible. Mr. Moore positively refuse* to
pay, declaring that he is neither morally nor legally responsible.—
Morning Herald. • .
The Marquis de Laplace, Peer of France, and
Member of the Academy of Sciences and of the French Academy,
-*died on the sth inst. "He was in the '7Bth year of his age. The
Members of the former Academy met in the morning at the usual
hour, but it was unanimously resolved their sitting should not be
held. M. de Laplace has left a son, the heir to his title, who
commands one of the battalions of the Artillery of the Guard.
MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY.--On the 19th
ult. at Enniskillen; Mr. John Dorroloch, aged eights', to Miss
Mary Maguire, aged eighteen—Majority in favour of the Gentle-
man, sixty-two!
The Proprietors of Vauxhall intend, next season, to
abolish entirely the out-door orchestra department of the enter-
tainment, which, ever since the first establishment of that fairy
scene, has employed the talents of our most eminent vocalists.---
Burlettas and Ballets are to be substituted ; and those are to be
given upon a grand scale. Mr. and Mrs. Fitawilliam are already
engaged ; and Moncrief, instead of Planchet, is to -write and con-
duct the Burlettas.
Miss Jarman will make her next appearance in the
character of Mrs. Oakley, in the Jealous Wife.
A gentleman• makes his first appearance this even-
ing at Drury-lane as. Othello, and Miss Brothers is to perform, for
the third time, Desdemona.
Mr. Thomas Moore's comedy will be brought out
at Covent-garden immediately after the return of Mr. C. Kemble
from his provincial tour.
Poole's new comedy, forthcoming at Covent-garden,
is an alteration of Shirley's play of the Gamester. Ward, Jones,
W. Farren, and Madame Vestris, are to have the principal &a-
racter3.
UNWORTHY MY NOTlCE.—Frederick the Great,
King of Prussia, was informed that a person had attacked his
character—" Has he the command," said the King, " ofloo,ooo
men ?" Being answered in the negative, he said, Had he
100,000 men, I would declare war against him ; as he has not,
I can do nothing against him."
BARON VAUGHAN.—The judicial demeanour of
the new Baron of the Exchequer has excited very general appro-
bation. • His active watchfulness of the interest of a prisoner—his
patient attention to Counsel—and his general suavity of manners,
induce a conviction thiat a better selection, to exercise the import-
ant functions of an independent British Judge, could not have
been made from the Bar,—numerous and talented as that Bar UK-
doubterily is. Of his humane disposition there can be no question,
and it was evinced on more than one occasion during our late As-
sizes, but in no instance in a more marked manner, than whilst
the Jury were deliberating on the guilt of Giles, convicted of
forgery. Addressing Mr. Jervis, the very able counsel for the
prosecution, he said, " I am sure, Sir, in the event of a verdict of
Guilty being returned, you will not blame me if I postpone pro-
nouncing- judgment till the morning, and the more especially if I
should entertain any doubt on the case. I think I have put the
question to the Jury as I ought to do, and you must allow some
degree of feeling to myself, in being for the first time placed in so
distressing a situation."—Becks Chronicle.
The following anecdote has excited a good deal of
sensation in Prussia :—An actor of the Berlin theatre happened
to be at St. Petersburgh to recover a legacy. Happening one day
to mingle in the crowd of spectators assembled to enjoy a sight of
the Empress while she was descending the stair of the palace to
go out. her Imperial Majesty noticed him at the moment she
was about to enter her carriage, and direeting him to be called
forward, she asked him he were not one of her countrymen,
and if she had not seen.him at Berlin. The Actor having repliedin
the affirmative, her Majesty asked if there was'any service she could
render him. Confounded with so much goodness, he requested
the favour of being present at the festival of the Coronation at
Moscow. Her Majesty promised that he should. Next day he
was not a little surprised to see a handsome equipage stop before
his lodgings, to conduct him to Moscow. He went to that city,
where he was lodged and entertained at the Empress's expense,
and admitted to all the fetes to which the Coronation gave occa-
sion. He was then conducted back to Petersburgh in the same
way, without the journey's costing him a farthing.
ANECDOTE.—The following anecdote affords a
curious picture of the manners of the times in which it occurred.
In the year 1286, a sow devoured the child of an artificer of Falaisa.
in Normandy, celled Janet. The circumstance having come to
the knowledge of the Judge, he condemned the animal to mar
publicly the lex talionis. The child had had its face and arm
torn ; the sow_was mutilated in the same manner, and then bun
by the common hangman. The execution took place in the pub-
lic square, in the presence of nil the people. The judge presided
on hoc seback, and in the full dress of his office. The father of the
victim was compelled to be present, as a punishment for not hav-
ing more carefully guarded hi,. child. When the animal was
brought out, it was habited in a man's dress, with a cloak, breeches•
and gloves ; and a mask on its face representing a human coun-
tenance. The remembrance of this absurd farce was preserved by
a fresco paipting, which, within the last six years, was still visible
in the church of the Holy Trinity at Falaise.—Literarif Gazettes