The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-04 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS.

On Saturday the Marquess of Hertford was
introduced to his MAJESTY by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, upon his appointment to his
mission to St. Petersburgh. It was understood
that the Noble Marquess took leave of the KING.
His MAJESTY gave audiences to the Duke
of Clarence, Mr. Canning, Lord Farnborough,
the Marquess of Anglesey, and Lord Forester.
Yesterday his MAJESTY received visits from
the Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Glouces-
ter, and the Princess Sophia.
The KING gave audiences to the Lord Chan- i
cellor, Mr. Canning, the Duke of Leeds, and
Marquess of Anglesey.
Yesterday morning early a guard of honour,
and an escort of Light Horse, left town for
Greenwich to receive the Queen of Wurtemberg
on her arrival, and to conduct her Majesty to
London.

The Duke and Duchess of Clarence arrived
at their residence in the Admiralty, on Saturday,
from their seat in Bushy Park.
Yesterday the Duke of Sussex, the Princess
Sophia, and the Duchess of Gloucester, visited
the Princess Augusta.
On Saturday the Duke of Clarence and the
Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess
Victoria and Feodore, visited the Princess
Augusta.
The Duchess of Kent, the Princesses Vic-
toria and Feodore, and the household of the
Royal Duchess, attended Divine Service yester-
day in the private chapel, at the King's Palace,
at Kensington, which was performed by her
Royal Highness's Chaplain.
Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador,
and the Marquis de Palmella, the Portugue4e
Minister, visited Mr. Canning yesterday, at his
residence in Downing-street.
The Lords of the KING'S Privy Council had
a meeting on Saturday, at the Council Office.
Several appeals were argued before their Lord-
ships.
Prince Lieven gave a grand entertainment on
Thursday, at Asliburnham-house, Dover-street,
to the Duke and Duchess of Clarence. Among
the distinguished persons invited to meet their
Royal Highnesses, were Prince and Princess
Esterhazy, Princess Carolet, the Duke of Port-
land, Count and Countess Woronzow, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Conyngliam, Marquis
of Anglesea, Mr. and Mrs. Canning, Count
Potensky, Count Medan, the Countess of
Westmeath, Lord Strathaven, Miss Fitzcla-
rence, &c.

The Duke of Clarence and the Princess
Augusta visited his Majesty on Friday.
The Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess
Augusta left town on Friday morning in a chariot
and four, with outriders, on a visit to the Prin-
cess Sophia Matilda, at her residence on Black-
heath. Their Royal Highnesses, after partaking
of a dejeuni" with their royal relative, returned
to town in the afternoon.

The Princess Augusta entertained the Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stanhope, and a select
party, to dinner, on Thursday, at her residence in
the King's Palace, St. James's.
The Duke and Duchess of Clarence honoured
Sir Wathen Waller and the Baroness Howe with
their company to dinner, on Friday, at their seat
at Twickenham.

Lord Bexley transacted business on Friday
with Viscount Goderich.

DIUD.—On the 4th inst., at his house, in
Upper Wimpole-street, John Boucher, Esq.
The new spectacle which is intended to sur-
prise the visitors to Vauxhall, on the first even-
ing, is an accurate representation of the Battle
of 'Waterloo, with all its horrors, which has been
prepared for representation under the immediate
superintendence of that very clever artist, Mr.
Farley, of Covent-garden Theatre.

Madame Vestriaas renewed her engagement
with Covent-garden for next season at 17/. 10s.
per night !
Romeo Coates is daily "strutting his hour on
the stage " in one of the promenades of the Tuil-
leries. His chanticleer is crest-fallen.
Sir C. Flower the other day, hearing of the
marriage of Mr. Hooke??? to Mrs. Gill, at Wal-
ton, by the Rev. Mr. Fisher, asked very slily if
it was Walton-on-Thames

Luttrell, in reply to some one who was prais-
,ng the Classical Estcourt'a Ale Licensing Bill,
said he would not have ale run down except in
the way it ought.
Cobbett says that lie provoked Mr. Hobhouse
by calling him Sancho ; Mr. H.'s friends say
that he, in return, was going to discipline Mr.
C. as Sancho did Dapple (his ass).
LORD NORBURY.—it will be seen by an
account of a trial, that the report circulated on
Saturday, on the alleged authority of Peter
Jackson, relative to the resignation of Lord
Norbury, was not correct. The veteran Noble-
man was, yesterday, in the Common Pleas, ad-
judicating and cracking jokes, with as much
credit to himself and advantage to the public, as
has been witnessed in his Court and under his
auspices, within the lust five-and-twenty years.
He just made one mistake, equal to that of taking
the whiskey-seller for a linen-draper. The ques-
tion at issue was, whether a horse was living or
dead. If it were manifest that the animal was
either living or dead, there would be nothing to
be tried. The Noble Lord, however, not seeing
the matter in this light, and misconceiving the
drift of Counsel's arguments, said on one occa-
sion, " You are all, gentlemen, agreed that the
horse is dead !" Upon this the gentlemen whose
business it was to anew that the horse was alive,
took their exceptions with no measured emphasis
or animation. " Well, gentlemen," said the
Noble Lord, " leave it amongst you !"
The reader will sec how the thing was settledat last. We can only say, that from beginning
to end it was a curiosity
!—Dublin Morning
Register.
LIBEL.—III the Secondaries' Office, Cole-
man-street, on Saturday, an action was brought
by a widow named Porford, a wornin in
humble circumstances of life, against Mr.
Chapman, who is the proprietor of the
Kent and Essex Mercury, to recover a
compensation in damages for a libel, imputing
to the plaintiff that she had sold the dead body
of her husband for the purposes of dissection.
The damages were laid in the declaration at two
hundred pounds, and the defendant had suffered
Judgment to go by default. Mr. T. J. Wooler
attended on the part of the plaintiff; and in the
course of his libelspeech took a distinction between
3 • the public press upon humble and pri-
vate individuals, and those published through
the same channel on persons holding rank or
official situations, which they might expect as a
sort
of drawback from the advantages their emi-
nence affortlia them. Mr. Talfourd contended
fr
that the statement in question could proceed
om no malicious motive, and therefore nominal
damages would he sufficient to vindicate the
plaintiff's character. The Jury found for the
plaintiff--Damages 2001.