The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-07 00:00:00

SOCIETY for PROMOTINP'CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE:

Yesterdayse'nnigbt a numerous and very respect-,
able Meeting. of the " District Committee for the
Dtaury of DroXfOrd, in 'aid of the Society for Prci
turning Chritian Knowledge," was held at ,the.
Old Town Hall, in Portsmonth, at which a va-
riety of important business Was transacted. A ReL
port of the ProCedings 'of the Committee was
re'lidi and ordered to be pint:ed. The accounts
were audited 'up to the end, of 1817, and several
new Subscribers Were added to the list. It air.
Reared, tTial -Otis itioit 'useful and excellent Instt-
ttition • has distributed 'throughout, this populous
dis! rict, iViihin these three years, nearly 200.0
Bibles and Testaments, 3SOO CoMmott Prayer
Boas, whit about 4090:Tracts; illustrative of-tile
rifttly Christian Doctrines and Discipline of the
of tnglend. It still profetse-s itself ready
to sirppl‘,. the Scriptures and
the poorer classel of the community 5 and tie.
penck'With confidence on the henevolctite-of the
l'uklie •to enable it to continue its exerilons-, till
flee iteressity for them shall have ceased to' exist,
Ln addition to the former bePositaries or the
Books with the secrEtaries at Piirtsmoutli and at-
rateham, a third will be established at Gosport,
at the residence of .Nr: Harper, in order to 136-
litate the distribution iti that ininsedir:'te
At this sleeting Mr.Ttirtier, of Port,motith roost
handsomely • presented the Committee with 70
Bibles, 240 Psalters, abet upwards 61'200 .I.te-
ligious Tracts.
theSecretariet of 'the bistrici Committies
will transmit to us the Reports made at their re-
spective General Meetings, they shall be itnme-
diately inwted in THE SUN free of charge.

LONGEVITY.

Died, earlyyesterday morning, in his apart-
men6 in St..lione's'P'alace, Mr. ELDRCD, iu the
100111 year of his age. He was Page of the Pre-
sence to King,Geoaott the Second, whidi office
he May be said to have filled during three reigns;
and althciugli he filled it correctly, being very at-
tentive to his duty;' yet, extraordinary to relate,
he never received any promotion. He was much
respected and esteemed
.by all the attendants at
Court, and was very attentive to the. females who
were admitted into.the State-tooth, in St. James's
Palace; Of which he had the control on Court
days'. He poSsessed a great' flow of spirits till the
last, and had •soinerhing to say to every person.
At other times, when he was inclined to pass
jokes upon hiseating•alid=drinking., 'it would be of
a reverse Oscription, -by saying, he never got a
good dinner but. in the wait season, meaning,. as
'much as•he could eat, and then he got a feast, as
his bOard wages Wet e.bot seveupence-halfpermy a.
day, which he reckoned a fast► He ate and drank
very heartily ; his favourite, beverage was porter,
and he would often drink as much as three quarts
in a day. When he drank spirits, it was British
Rein, and, occasionally, be toob; gin and water; he
'smoked tobacco incessantly, his favourite dinner
seas a rump steak, of which he would eilt a poufid, •
and this course of life he continued till kbolit a
fortnight 'past. His b,,dily 'strength did not fail
him till very lately. At the last time, or the last
but one; that the PRINCE REURNT went in state
to the Chtsl)el Royal,' he caviled one of the heavy
massy maces before the Prince; as a Deputy S'er-
jeant at Arms. His principal exercise during the
last fifty years has been walking from St. James's
Palace to the nei`glibourhood Tothill-fields, near
LS4DACuESISAIiIIS•IIOII'SCS, to receive the weekly
rents of small houses w hick he owned, and, to
purchase his own food. He would walk through
several. markets, or go to a number of butt:ll6.s'
Shop's in '`the =streets till -he could meet with a
ramp of be I in a particular state of cutting,, to
get a rotnp teak that vrould,Please him, and took
that or any tAfing'else'he.Purclkaied Lome tor
:folr' his servant to cook. `His wite has been
dead severe' years. Mr. ELnahn was extremely
obliging and accommodating to every person who
had the pleastire of knoWingnhim, by whom he will
ninth ' `