The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-24 00:00:00

SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1827.

FEAST OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY.

THE ANNIVERSARY of this FESTIVAL
Rill be held on TErcamer, the 10th day of May next.
The SERMON will be preached by the Rev. JOHN HUME
SPRY, D.D., Rector of St. Marylebone. The Rehearsal of the
Music will take place, as usual, on the preceding Tuesday, the Bth
of May.
Temple, March 8, 1827.

J. 11. MARKLAND, Treasurer.

rHE LONDON AND WESTMINSTER
WINE and SPIRIT COMPANY, No. 16, STRAND,
opposite St. Martin's Church, have constantly on Sale-
Per Dozen.
port, Vintage 1820 279. to 30s.
Ditto, Crusted
Ditto, five to eight years in bottle 4Bs. -,to 565.
Sherry, Pale and Brown 279. to 365.
Ditto, Amontillado ' ' .
Cape, from
Madeira, Neat India
Ditto, East India .. 4Bs. to 609.
Teneriffs, Lisbon, Vidonia, and Mountain SOL to 365.
Ducellas
Claret, St.- Julien ,
425. to 489.
Ditto, Lafitte and Margaux '•72s. to 965.
Sparkling Champagne .
Ditto, and teaming. of the first quality 9os. to Ks.
St. Peray, dry and sparkling
Chablis
Hermitage, Red and White 72s. to 84s.
Moselle, Sauterne, Scc sos. to 60s.

Oid Tom, Jamaica Rum, Cognac Brandy, Fern-tosh, &c. per
imperial measure, at reduced prices.—Bottled Stout, Cider, Perry,
Burton, and Edinburgh Ales.
filir All goods must be paid for on or before delivery.
Letters (post-paid) to be addressed to William Godfree and Co.
No. 16, Strand.

grandly, in the rising sun, was attended by the shallop of
tne Thames Navigation Committee." Precisely at seven
o'clock, the Lord Mayor, who had previously dressed,
shaved, and put on a clean collar, made the best of his way
in top-boots towards the river, when "the populace thickly
stationed on the road through Which -his carriage was to
pais, instantly announced to all who thronged the margin
of the river, that—THE LORD MAYOR WAS COMING !
" Mercy on us, what a grand national event ! ! our child-
hood has been often thrilled by that_ stirring old Scotch
song—" The -Campbells are coming ;" but never yet
were we so paralysed as by the i..4.7a that the Lord Mayor
was coming; had we seen-him, we should most assuredly,
in our present delicate state of health, have expired on the
spot. To return—" in the second boat, at the moment of
embarkation, was his Lordship's yeoman of the house-
hold, together with the cook, who was busily engaged
'preparing a fire in a grate fixed in the bow of the boat."
We here pause an instant, to express our admiration of the
chaplain's pictorial abilities. Can any thing be more ex-
quisitely picturesque ? he gives 'nu a landscape, adorned
not only with the usual accompaniments -of wood and
water, but heightened by a fat City barge in the fore-
ground, a Lord Mayor to the right, a " respectful
crowd " to the left, and a distance made up of a beef-
eater, a cook, and a kitchen fire. At about nine o'clock
the voyager reached Sanford Lock, where they made
their first discovery, viz. that Lord Harcourt had a pretty
seat at Nuneham Courtenay. "It is to be regretted,
however," says our Reverend Historian, " that we were
at breakfast when the vessel reached Nunelmm"—conse-
quently the party must have been very appropriate judges
of the beauty of Lord Harcourt's seat. On reaching Ca-
versham, they beheld two country savages shambling along
on things resembling what in our country of Middlesex
would be called ponies. "So mightily pleased was the
Lord Mayor with their uncouth appearance, that he hailed
one, and asked him to be the bearer of a message to
Reading. The fellow Seemed to feel as he never felt before.
An honour was about to be conferred upon him alone—to
be the avant courier of the Lord Mayor of London."—
Minds
of sensibility will readily appreciate the extacies of
this unsophisticated bumpkin. It is not every one, even
in polished life, who has had the good fortune to see a Lord
Mayor, how much more, then, must be the delight of a-semi-
savage who has unexpectedly witnessed a genuine bona fide
one ? We ourselves havebeheld nothing greater than a She-
riff, a real Sher! which sight, notwithstanding, had a visi-
ble effect on our sensitive feelings; indeed, it is but lately
that we have got over the impression. On reaching Hen-,
ley, we meet with the following choice bit of description :
" The morning had hithert6 been overcast, but the sun,
which by this time had risen considerably above the hori-
zon, now began to shine out in all its beauty, and displayed
the banners (towels, we presume,) which waved over the
vessel—that is, the city barge—with considerable effect."
How beautiful, and yet how natural; is there any thing in
Claude finer? we conceive not. To heighten the sentiment of
this exquisite paisage, we find Ald. Birch a few lines fur-
ther on, quoting verses addressed by Denham to the river
Thames, from which circumstance we hive made two im-
portant discoveries; first, that Aldermen can quote poetry
in spite of their prosaic circumference ; secondly, that they
can be sentimental, notwithstanding their devotion to din-
ners. - Our limits here warn us to a conclusion ; let it suf-
fice to add, that after a long and perilous voyage down the
Thames to Richmond, in the course of which they narrowly
escaped shipwreck at-Windsor-hriOge, a storm at Datchett,
starvation at Twickenham, (to which pace they were com-
pelled to put in for provisions, having been actually kept
three quarters of an hour without food of any description,)
the whole party cast anchor at Richmond-bridge, where
they were finally and safely landed, to the infinite delight
of the natives, and satisfaction of an admiring naetropolis.
Thus ends this memorable voyage, which,in point of science
alone, has conferred incalculable benefits on England. By
it we have learnt that there really is such a place at Oxford,
(the- bare existence of which was before a matter of dis-
pute,) that it is somewhere in the 50th degree of latitude ;
that its inhabitants, though cannibals, are yet, generally
speaking, tame and may be approached with safety ; and
above all that, notwithstanding its distance from the Man-
sion-house, it is far advanced in civilization.

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Ilminster.