The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-15 00:00:00

10 THE SIT\:I.

PRIVA FE CORREq3ONDENtE.
Cat .k Sac Lupctird.—Par;s, Buri6 1, 1820.

MY DEAR FRIIIND-I tc setid you all

the news of our grand Capital, which languishes
in this sweet vi ,let seasod, doling the ib4ence of
mir grand Prrjec,or. Yet I can assure you), that
plots'are as active here, as before our great roan
crossed the line, in3tead of stopping at the end
of it.

You must know, big keep it as a great secret,
except publishing it, as the Tithes and Chronicle
• do with their Secrets, that there is great teason to
believe that a Certain Royal Duke sacriti:Td him-
self just to please his party. The assassin ac-
knowledges that he was bribed to it--and pray,
where could the linonaparrists, or the Liberals,
find money to pay an assassin ? Depend upon it,
that the Doke stood in the way of the assassin
when he struck the blav—then, how could it be
otherwise ? he not been there, he might
have been alive and well to_d„y
Now I think I have proved that as clear as the
six hundred and fifty Wiled and wounded at Man-
chester, by about fifty Yeomanry and Dragoons,
or twelve a-piece for each—pretty well for a mu-
dery Butadil !! ! In a month or six weeks, you
will hesr a great deal about a blow up or two at
the Thoilleries and Louvre; but I know all about
it. I saw the poor Duchess and her waiting maid
go into a grocer's shop. nn pretence of buying
gunpowder tea, and come out, each with a pound
of gunpowder in her hand, laughing heartily at
the intended explosion. Depend upon it (that is
the way I think that the Times gives its best in-
formation)--depend upon it, the Duchess merely
wishes to nighten herself into a miscarriage, in
order to be sent back to Naples !
I have the best information that KOTZEBUE'S
death was in consequence of a conspiracy between
him and SANDT, only there was a slight .mistake
in the execution, for SANDT was to have been
stabbed, and not KOTZPBUE!

1 understand you have had published in your
dull foggy capital a life of that '' interesting and
energe•ic Youth," togethe;r with his portrait in
your print-shop windows—that is right—who can
tell but some of your interesting and energetic
youths may have taste enough to copy the print,
and chew their love of the art ; and perhaps ob-
tain a merited place at the next public exhibition
by the favour of the Hanging Committee!.
Depend upon 'it, this is all as true• as if you had
read it in the Times or Chronicle. Your's,

DENNIAD XAOH.

CURSORY THOUGHTS.

Why is a certain Classical Maiden Speech thought to be like
a gnat gun badly pointed?
Because it was thought to go wide of the tnark.
Why is the recent Classical quotation of an M.P. thought
to be like a burning match ?

Because it is thought that the Maiden Speech, so like a
great gun, could not have gone off without it.
Why is it thought that the u►►successful Candidate for a
Northern County, laughs too much at Royal Rat-catchers ?
Because it is thought that Ministers, in their thirst after
place, may take that place also; and that the laugher would
have no objection to. he caught in the trap be laughs at.

THE PARK.—The promenade in Hyde Park yes-
terday exceeded any thing of late years seen in
til,• circles of the bran monde. In compliment,
nO doubt. to tl►e appto.act.ing Coronation,-the
Ladies displayed a more than usual proportion of
drems of Royal blue, with boots of the same.

The Earl of CHATHAM'S departure for Gibraltar
is at present ruspended, from what cause has not
yet been declared.

Mr. WALTER BURRELL is at present so much
indisposed as to be unable to attend to his Parlia-
mentary duties. _

Saturday last being the birth-day of his Most
► F„iit,l„l Majesty, the occasion was celebrated in
the Chapel of the Portuguese Legation in the
morning ; and afterwards by a s,'mphious dinner
given by his Excellency Conde DB PALMCLLA to
a nfimetous party of Portuguese Gentlemen, or
fof,ia„ers connected with that Government, whe-
ther Civil or Military. During the dinner a nu-
merous band of music pla),ed in the garden. At
the usual hornr several toasts were given, viz
" His Most Faithful Majesty the King."—" His
August Consort the Queen, and the Royal Fa-
His most faithful and ancient Ally the
King of Great Britain."--'' The Portuguese Army
in the Old and New World," &c. &c.
It is not trite, as has been stated in several Pa.
pert, that Mrs. BEECHER (the late celebrated Miss
O'NaILL) is afflicted with a complaint in her eyes.
Her actual case is however a heavy one ; but the
expiration of nine months from the date of its
origin, will, we hope and trust, nut fail happily
to delirer her from her present situation.
Mr. WARDE, Mr. FARREN, Alr. BEDFORD, and
Miss GREEN, of the Bath Theatre, are said to be
engaged by Mr. Halms fog the opening of the
Dublin Theatre, under the new management.
Epsom Races commence on Wednesday next,
and the greatest race day in England will be on
'Thursday, for the Derby stakes, for which are
expected to start.

On the evening of the 28th nit. as Sir JotiN
TRCL LOPE, Bart. D. C. L. cat Caseivick, near
Stamford, was returning from a meeting at
Spalding, in company with Colonel DENSIIIRE,
he was suddenly thrown from his horse in Little-
worth Drove, and pitching on his head, eras
killed on the spot.

REMAINS OF A GlANT.—Lately, as Rome work-
men were employed in excavating Knightstone
flock, at Weston Super-Mare (an Island lately
purchased by Mr. Howe, of this ci►y, for the con-
struction of Hot and Cold Baths), the skeleton
of a man of enormous statnre was discovered, a
tew feet below the surface, and near it an antigoe
earthen vessel, containing bones of smaller size ;
the tan anti the skull of the lamer skeleton were
unfortunately broken to pieces by the carelessness
of the workmen, hut many of the bones ary pre-
served in tb.e haunts of the curious. Conjecture
is very busy as to the antiquity of these remains,
and the character of t he gigantic personage whose
frame they once held together,—(Bristol Journal.)