The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-24 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE AND MISaLLANIOtIS.

BRIGHTON, FEB. 22.—His MAJESTY is progres-
sively advancing to the complete re-establishment of
his health, and the cheerfulness of all classes of our
residents is undiminished. The following was the
reply to enquiries at the Palace up to the:latest hour
this evening
" The KING, after having; passed a very good night, has been
much better to-day."
The report yesterday, that " Mr. Canning was quite
well," has been most amply and pleasingly confirmed
to-day. The Right Hon. Secretary went in a sedan
chair to the Pavilion this afternoon, where he was
honoured with an audience of his MAJESTY.

The Earl of Egremont is most favourably convales-
cent, and no relapse is anticipated.
Lord Howard de `Walden left his name at the Palace
yesterday.

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester arrived at
Gloucester House, Park-lane, yesterday morning, from their seat
at Bagshot. On her way to town, the Royal Duchess stopped at
the King's Palace, Kensington, on a visit to her sister, the Prin-
cess Sophia. Their Royal Highnesses have come to town for the
season.

Letters were received at the Foreign Office, yester-
day, from the Duke of Cumberlanel, to his Majesty, which were
forwarded to the King at Brighton.

EARL OF LIVERPOOL.—His LOrdShip'l Medical
attendants, Sir Henry Halford, Sir Astley Cooper, and Dr.
Dreyer, had another meeting at half-past nine o'clock, last night,
and held a consultation which last half an hour, when they re-
ported that " hip Lordship was a little better than he was in the
morning."

The Marquis of Clanricarde, Under Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, arrived at the Foreign Ofnce yesterday
afternoon from Brighton. His Lordship brought a number of
official papers with him from Mr. Secretary Canning, who is ex-
pected to come to town this day. The Marchioness of Clanri-
carde accompanied his Lordship to town, and proceeded from the
Foreign Office to their residence in St. James's-square.

Mr. Serjeant Vaughan this morning took the oaths
in the Lord Chancellor's private room, upon his elevation to the
Bench, as one of the Barons of Exchequer, in the place of Mr.
Baron Graham, who has resigned.

We are happy in being able to state that Mr. Hue-
kisson is better.

The Duke of Norfolk gave a Grand Dinner on
Thursday, at his house in St. James's-square.

The Marquis of Salisbury had a dinner party on
Thursday, at his house in Hanover-square.

The Earl of Charleville entertained a distinguished
Party to Dinner yesterday, at his house in Cavendish-square.—
Her Ladyship had an elegant circle of the haut ton in the evening.

The Marquis of Hertford gave a splendid Dinner
on Thursday to twenty-eight persons of distinction, who remained
till a late hour.

Earl Harrowby, Lord President of the Council,
went over the interior of the new-intended Council Office yester-
day afternoon, which is in a very forward state.

_
On Wednesday the Hon. G. Berkeley had a grand
day's pigeon shooting at Cranford Bridge. The party consisted
of twelve excellent shots, who after the day's sport retired to the
Lodge, and partook of the Hon. Gentleman's hospitality.

Lady Salisbury, Mrs. Hope, Lady Gwydyr, and
Lady Belfast, are at home one day in every week, where a few
Fashionables meet early and retire soon after twelve o'c.lock.—
Princess Esterhary, Lady E. Stewart, Lady Gower, Mrs. Arbuth-
not, Lady Tankerville, Lady Jersey, Mrs. L. Fox, and Madame
Falck, are the Ladies who usually meet.

Mr. Robarts, M.P. has taken the celebrated and
beautiful Villa of the EaH of Peshoroz.;ii, at Roehampton, for a
year.
THE SERPENTINE RlVER.—Crowds of Fashion-
ables ,ere promenading on the Serpentine yesterday. We no-
ticed Lady Londonderry, the Duchess of Leinstrr, Lady South-
ampton, Prince Esterhazy, General Grosvenor, Mr. C. Greville,
Lord Chesterfield, Mr. H. Vyner, Col. Russell, Col. Bulkley, &c.

When am one told to the Duke of Cumberland a
very improbable story, he heard him with politeness and attention :
" Can you believe," was said to him, " what this man has told
you?"—" The gentleman," said the Duke, " may believe what
he pleases; but I hope he will indulge me in the same liberty."
Literary Gazette.

READING MEN.--One of the Halls of Carnbridg3
lately contained a number of men from Reading schoc:. A wag
observed, that it must be the most learned of all the Halls, as there
were so many reading men in it.

Lord Derby once applied in the Green-room to
Mr. Sheridan, for the arrear of Lady Derby's salary, and vowed
he would not stir from the room till it was paid. "My dear
Lord," said Sheridan, " this is too bad ; you have taken from us
the brightest jewel in the world, and you now quarrel with us for
a little dust she has left behind her."

DINNER TO WILKIE, THE ARTIST, AT ROME.
—A grand Dinner was given on the 16th ofJ!nuary last at Rome,
to David Wilkie, the Painter, on which occasion an immense
number of Artists were assembled, His Grace the Duke of Ha-
milton in the Chair. On Mr. Wilkie's health being given among
the earliest toasts, that Gentleman rose and addressed the com-
pany in an eloquent and impressive speech. Thorwaldson the
celebrated Danish sculptor, was present, as were also the Hon.
Colonel Grant, of Grant, Sir Robert Liston, Sir W. Forbes, and
sir Francis Mackenzie.

The Duke of Marlborough, when he got old,
usually passed the evening in a room which looks upon one of the
courts of Blenheim House. I know the room from long habits,
because it was that which was appropriated to be my bed-cham-
ber, after the death of the old Duchess of Bedford, whenever I
came to Blenheim. In that room he played regularly every even-
ing at chess. When be was beat, the old man sometimes shed
tears : " Every one," he sobbed out, " every one can beat me
now."—Literary Gazette.

ELOPEMENT.—The ever pointed arrow of " the
wind-swift Cupid" has produced, during the last week, an event
likely to create a considerable portion of chit-chat in certain cir-
cle ~ We have heard, from a correspondent on whose veracity
we place the greatest reliance, that Mr. Robinson, the newly-
elected opulent representative for the city of Worcester, has eloped
with Miss M. Read, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of a
wealthy merchant residing at Poole, in Dorsetshire.— Cheltenham
Chronicle.

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the injured and antlered husband, brimful of punch and passion.
In a few minutes, however, his wife had contrived to appease him,
and, after adroitly despatching him on some business or other
down stairs, drew out her Lothario from his undignified conceal-
ment beneath the bed, and dismissed him with divers tender sa-
lutations. So far, so good—the gentleman departed in high luck
at his successful exit ; but the dignified gravity of our history is
disturbed by the assurance, that, in his haste to re-equip himself,
he had jumped into the wrong breeches. Now, it was well ob-
served by Mr. Place, the enlightened tailor and metaphysician of
Charing-cross, that clothes differ as much from each other as their
wearers, and that you may walk down Regent-street without see-
ing two pair of inexpressibles exactly alike. So thought our ad-
venturer, who, in somewhat less than ten minutes, had discovered
that he had not only put on the wrong breeches, but had also got
possession of the wrong purse, his own being well stocked with
sovereigns, while the one which he now possessed was most truly
poetic in its deficienco. Thus ends the case at present, which we
have here detailed in consequence of the beautiful and beneficial
moral it inculcates ; namely, that if g
entlemen will go n-wooing,
to the manifest injury of their neighbours' foreheads, a just Pro-
vidence will not fail to visit them with its severest condemnation.