The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-19 00:00:00

RAMSGATE, AUG. 17.

This being the Anniversary of the Birthday of
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the in-
habitants are preparing to celebrate the event by
illuminating and decorating the shops and other pub-
lic places with flowers, laurels, &c.

The banners of England are waving at all points,
and at the usual time a Royal salute will be fired
from the cannon at their stations, and it will be a
day of rejoicing. His Royal Highness Prince
Leopold arrived at Piermont on Thursday afternoon,
paying a visit to his beloved sister previous to his
Royal Highness's crossing over to the Continent for
a short period. On his return we believe his Royal
Highness will honour us with his presence for a
time. The inhabitants of Broadstairs are also pre-
paring to testify their respect by a grand display of
variegated lamps, and other demonstrations of an
illumination this evening.
On Saturday her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, accompanied by the Princess Victoria, who
is looking in high health and very lovely, and the
Prince of Leiningen, attended by the Baroness de
Letzin and Sir John Conroy, honoured the town
with a visit. Her Royal Highness is looking ex-
tremely well, and the Princess, our most likely future
Queen, is much grown since we last had the haP-
piness to see her.
Ramsgate is this season honoured with much
good compa►►y, but first-rate houses are still " to be
let." Amongst the elite that sojourn here are his
Grace the Duke of Newcastle and noble family;
their Graces the Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's,
the Misses Burdett, &c.; her Grace the Duchess of
Manchester, her Grace the Duchess of Roxburghe,
Earl Teynham, Lady Louisa Grey, Lady E.
Bentinck, the Count and Countess Waterstaff, and
Count Banderburcb.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

CHANGES.

Sir John and Lady Smith for Newport, in the Isle of Wight ;
Colonel Raphael, in St. James's-place, from the lonian Islands;
Mr. and Mrs. Norton, from Elton Manor, near Bingham, to
Studley Park, Yorkshire; Miss Wykeham, from the Waterloo
Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Brighton ; the Countess of Onslow,
at the St. George Hotel, Albemarle-street, from her seat, Clan_
don, Surrey ; the Dowager Countess of Dartmouth for her seat,
Blackheath; Captain Deffell, in Pall-mall, from Wirtemberg ;
Capt. Maclean, in Conduit-street, from Sicily ; Mr. Benyon de
Beauvoir for Culford Hall, Bury St. Edmund's, Mr. and Mrs,
Courtown, for East Cowes, in the Isle of Wight; Mr. R. Raikes,
on a tour ; Lady Walsh and Mr. G. Digby, on a tour; Sir Henry
Lambert, on a tour; Major Armstrong, in Clarges-street, from
Dublin ; Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan, for Nelson's-crescent, Ramsgate ;
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Carleton and family, at Talke's Hotel
(late Miller's), Jermyn.street, from Tunbridge Wells; the Rev.
George hinge, at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from a
tour; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Throckmorton and Miss Pilgrim, at
the Burlington Hotel, from Chelmsford; Edward Lyon, Esq. at
ditto, from a tour; Lyon Winder, Esq. at ditto, from a tour;
Captain and Mrs. Burton, in Pall-mall, from Brighton; Sir
George Talbot, Bart. from Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook and
Davies-streets, for Paris; Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Tracey, from
Dover-street, for their seat in Gloucestershire; Captain Clayton,
from Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle-street, for his
scat, Stone Hall, Sussex ; Captain Hyde Parker, from Fenton's
Hotel, St. James's-street, for Hampshire; Mr. and Mrs. Sher-
wood, from Wimpole-street, for their seat in Devonshire; the
Rev. Mr. Cumming, from Symmons's Hotel (late Jordan's), St.
James's-street, for Bath.

The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND,
accompanied by Prince GEORGE, paid a visit yesterday
morning to the Princess SOPHIA, at her apartments in
the King's Palace at Kensington. The Duke of GTou-
CESTER joined the Royal party, who remained some time
with the Princess. The Duke of GLOUCESTER afterwards
proceeded to his residence in Bagshot Park.

The Rev. Mr. JELF, tutor to Prince GEORGE,
performed divine service on Sunday morning, and preached
an excellent sermon, in the private chapel attached to the
Royal Lodge in Windsor Park, before his MAJESTY, the
Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND, and the Royal suite
and household.

The Hon. W. TEMPLE, Secretary of Lega-
tion to the embassy of Lord HEYTESBURY at St. Peters-
burgh, arrived in town at a late hour on Monday night
from the Continent, bring;ng despatches from Lord HEY.
TESBURY for the Ea!' of ABERDEEN. Mr. TEMPLE at-
tended yesterday at the Foreign Office, and had an inter-
view with his Lordship. Prince LIEVEN, the Russian
Ambassador, and the French Charg6 d'Affaires, waited on
the Noble Earl in the afternoon, and had a conference
with his Lordship, which lasted upwards of an hour.

Despatches were sent off yesterday evening
from the Foreign Office fur Mr. GORDON, our Ambassador
at Constantinople, and also for Mr. DAWKINS, our resident
in Greece. The messenger by whom they were sent took
also despatches from the Colonial Office for Sir FREDERICK
ADAM, the Lord high Commissioner of the lonian Islands.

The Spanish and Prussian Ministers, the Mi-
nister from the Netherlands, and the Marquis de BARBA-
CENA, had interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN yester-
day, at the Foreign Office. The Neapolitan Minister
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office.

The LORD CHANCELLOR has filled up the
♦acancy in the fifth list of Commissioners of Bankrupts,
occasioned by the death of Jpiir ligEvE, Esq.., by the
appointment of CHARLES KNIGHT Muuumr, Barrister-at-
Law.

The LORD MAYOR, accompanied by one of
the Sheriff'', two Gentlemen of the Committee of the new
London-bridge, and the Deputy City Itemembrancer, at-
tended at the Treasury yesterday, and had a long confer-
ence with the CI-JANCELI.OII, of the ExcgEquEß,