The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-25 00:00:00

AAMY.

MILITARt MOVEMENTS.... At an early bout-'this
morning the metropolis displayed a considerable
degree of bustle and gaiety, in consequence of the
.several Battalions of the different Regiments of
Foot. Guards doing the London and Windsor ditty
changing their stations. The second Battalion
of Grenadier Gnarls will relieve the first Batta-
lion, doing duty at Windsor ; the first Battalion
will then go into quarters tor the winter. The
second Battalion of the third Regiment will (I!)
the Tower duty, and the first Battalion of the
same Regiment will he star ioaed iu Portman Bar-
racks, and the Coldstream Guards will occupy
those at Knightsbridge for the winter. The ex-
cellent discipline of this part of the British Army
has long been proverbial, but on the present oc-
casion, the 'cleanly, soldier-like appearance of
this large body of fine handsome young men,
preceded by time several Bands, and the weather
being particularly auspicious, had a most impos- •
ipg and interesting effect.

FOR THE SUN.
' Mr. EDITOR,—If the allowance to Subalterns
of Militia were pan, quarterly, as the Half-pay is,
it would be very advantageous to a deserving class
of men.
HINT.

-WARREN' HASTINGS, ESQ.--'This Gentleman
died on the 26!1i inst. in the 86th year of his age,
at his seat, Daylesford House, Worcestershire.
His conduct as Governor-General of India is too
well known to need any observations in thi, place,
but that be- was the victim of pereecotiDn can
totruty be denied It is sufficient to remark, that
after a long-protracted vial, he was honourably ac-
KEW, AUGUST 24.--,atutday afternoon the dof every charge that the spirit of Party had
PRINCE REGENT avia.ed here from the Stink brought against
.him This Gentleman was a Doctor
house at Hampton Court, and dined at the of Civil Lavv and a Member of the Privy Coon.
Palace. His Royal High-e•s left Kew at ten ail. There was an extraordinary vicissitude in the
o'clock, with the Duke and Duchess of Kent, for •life of Mr. HASTINGS. On returning from his
Kensington • Palace. Yesterday morning the t first employment to India, in which he bad dis-
QUEEN was pronounced better. About one o'clock f played considerable !dents, but had not risen to
her Majesty entered her garden chaise; and rode i any important station, he was by no means in
in Kew Gardens for a considerable time. Her l affluent circumstances, and.bemg well qualified
Majesty was accompanied on foot by the Duchess iby classical attainments for the education of
of Gloucester, the Princess Augusta, Genersal youth, had relinquished all ideas of revisning the
Taylor, and Mr. R. Keate. This morning the I East, and had resolved to open a school He, how-
Duchess of Gloucester and Prowess Augusta ever, consulted a mend on the occa*ion, who
took an airing in Richmond Gardens. The knowint: his talents, and sit icipating success from
Dowager Countess of Carmgan, and her sister, their exertion, advised him to apply to the Direc-
Lady Caroline, paid a visit to her, Majesty and tors of the East India Company for a new ap-
the Princess, pointment. He succeeded in his application, and
at length arose to the high situation of Governor.
General of Italia, in which he acquitted himself
so well as to excite the respect and esteem of the
Native Powers, and to secure the approbation of
the company at home, by enlarging the posses-
sions and exalting the character of the British
Empire.

A series of Sierra Leone Gazettes, down to the
latter End of June, ~ave arrived. The anniver-
saiof .be Battle of Waterloo was commemorated
by a p bite dinner, given by the Officer's of the
Gait I,oh to the Governor. Among the company
present happened to be the Rev. C. F. WeNzEL,
a Prussian Clergrymati, who, upon the health of
Prince BLUCHER beiog dra. k, returned thanks in
the name of hip illtktrious countryman. He said,
" he had seen BUoNAPARTE at the head of a
powerful army enter Berlin as a conqueror, and
he thanked Gon tie had lived long enough to see
his country free. He honoured England, and
was proud that his country had manfully suprort-
ed the Het o of Waterloo "
As a proof of the btiekness of manufactures in
Aberdeen, and of the returning proverity of the
country, an advance of from 10 to 15 per cent.
has just taken place in the prices of weaving at
that place.
At an Ordination held at the Cathedral of Li•
merick, on Sunday, the 16th, the following
Gent lemenwere admitted into orders :

FRANCIS PRRCEVAL ELIOT, Esa.—On Sunday
last this Gentleman died, in the 63d year of his
age, at his house in Portman-street. He was the
nearest representative of an ancient family, and
allied to the present Earl of ST. GP.RMANS. Mr.
ELIOT was formerly Colonel of the Stafford Mi-
litia, and for many
.years, until the period of his
decease, was one of the Commissioners of Audit
in §onaerset-House.—ln the death of Mr. POce-
y.at.. E;.zoT society 'taa tryst a valuable member,
.literature a distinguished scholar, his country an
able advocate, the select c.rcle honoured by his
notice an elegant companion and a true friend,
a-d his family a kind husband and an indulgent
fa; her. As a member of society, Mr Et:for was
at once animated yet sedate, the most brilliant
though the most unassuming of his companions ;
fond .of social intercourse and gayer than the
gayest, yet temperate in his habits and admirable
in his inclinations. He was one, of those few
men in whom the pride of ancestry was divested
of prejudice, and truly dignified. The least at-
tention shown to him was received with thankful
sensibility, 'hut he cot;ferred the most important
favours in such a way as to divest the gift of
every thing humiliating, and to appear obliged to
.the party who accepted it.—Mr. ELIOT was a
true patriot, an able financier, a zealous politi-
cian,. and a warm deft nder of religious institu-
tions. His attachment to Government, to use his
own words, was bedded zn principle. The Consti-
tUtion of the country, and the Monarch who pre-
sides over its Councils, were dear to him ; he saw
the errors of democracy, and at a time when a
want of zeal was generally conspicuous, stood
forward to supno, t last labours were
confined to The lEgis, a Weekly Newspaper, in
which he had a cons derable interest. Ten clays
before his death, the columns of that Paper were
enriched with a most masterly refutation of infi-
deliiy; and only two days before he expired, the
first part•of a nervous but temperate article from
his pen, on foreign politics, appeared in the front
pages. It was writ-?en at a time when the body
was diseased, but the mind retained all its vigour.
Alive only ;et his country's good, Mr. ELIOT
never relaxed in :Nia`public labours ; his last unfi-
nished-essay was to have been continued. Alas !
who shall now continue it ? The grave is open to
receive him. When the day shall arrive on which
the continuation of his Essay should appear, the
Patriot, the Philosopher,._ and the Christian will
be fast moulderinar', into that Parent earth from
which was moulded the form that so long de-
lighted us. But .there is a consolation even in the
Most afflicting visitations. He died the death of
the righteous; without pain, and anxious only
for the peace of a long-beloved and faithful wife,
and for the welfare of a numerous family ; he
blessed and recommended. them to Heaven, end
then sunk on the bosom of his Saviour. The
writer of this article is influenced by no common
motives; Mr. Entor was his friend, and nearly
connected with hint in an important undertaking.
This feeble tribute to his memory is inadequate
to his virtues ; but it is a lesson to all who desire
to imitate the Patriot and the Christian, and learn
from. this example that "an honest man's the
noblest work of GtA." Life is divested of its
most bitter cares by the exercise of genuine phi-
losophy, and death is stripped of all its terrors
when it approaches the bed of the man of virtue.

Deacons—ROW Croker, James Morton, jun. Charles
Minchin, hatntfel O'Sullivan, Richard Henry %Vail, and John
%%Witty. •

Priests—Rev. Edward Maynard Deany, and Rev. John
Hume Hart.

The Edinburgh Tile Are wa3 to re-open on Sa-
turday la't, and Miss BRUNTON, who is engaged
for Rix nights, was to per oral Letitia Hardy.
AlisS STEPHENS is entitled to perform a few
nights at Cork, and is to commence on Thursday
next in Polly Peachum.

JOHNSTONE, or as he is generally stiled Jack
Johnstone, is engaged for fourteen nights at Li-
verpool, and was to appear last night as Dennis
Brulgruddeiy. Mrs. DAVISON is performing with
great soceess at the same place.
Mrs. BARTLEY has been warmly patronized at
Birmingham, publicly and in private.
A few nights since, in the Glasgow Theatre,
Mr. SWAN, as Mercury. in sliding down a steep
rope from the tipper gallery to the stage, had the
misfortune to get his arm fractured.
One of the Glasgow coaches was overturned
on Friday, between that place and Lock No: 16,
by which accident a Gentleman was severely hurt.
Mr. W. NAPIER, of the Theatre Royal, had his
thigh broke—Mrs. Moss and Miss STANFIELD
also of . the Theatre, were slightly hurt—and
scarcely one of its numerous passengers escaped
without injury. The vehicle was proceeding up
an asc►"nt, Wit& it ti c; horses, on being urged for-
ward by the t►irned ..uund, and the coach
°verse:.

BENCH OF MAGISTRATES AT CAMBERWELL.—
On Satorday, Snow, the constable, brought be-
tore the Magistrates an interesting young
wo-
tnan of great personal beauty, whom be
found wandering about Peckham fair late on
Friday night, and who gave the following account
of herself :—She stated, that her lather is a. man
of independent fortune in Derbyshire ; that a
young man, named Burgess, had for a consi-
derable time paid his addresses to her, but her
father not approving of the connexion forbad
him his' house, and enjoined her to discontinue
the intimacy. S •e, however, was induced by the
persuasions of the sung man to leave her home,
and accompany, him, to town. All the property
which she had brought away with her was en-
trusted to him. Without their waiting at any
place in London, on their arrival trota Derby,
her lover took her to .Peekharn Fair; and on
Friday evening, about nine o'clock, as she
was ascending the steps to enter one of the
shows, he disappeared, and she had seen nothing
of him since. At the time Snow saw her she was
wandering about the fair in a state of distrac-
tion. The Magistrates ordered that she should be
admitted into Camberwell workhouse, until it was
determined what steps were necessary (0 be taken
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to enable her to return to her friends.

The Dn'ke of Sussex is expected to install Mr.
COKE as Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons'
at Norwich, in the October Sessions' week.
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