The Sun. — 1823-10-06 (London, England)

YOUNG WATSON.—The Colombian Oblerver, a Philadelphia paper, of the lid of September, in Its obituary gives the account of the decease of this young man:— " At Mount Vernon, Bullit county, Kentucky, on the 9d Aug., of a bilious fever, Dr, Jas. Watson, jun. a native of England, aged 27 years. On account of a speech he made some years since at a meeting at Spa-fields, Dr. Watson, his father, and Thistlewood and others, were arrested and committed to prison, charged with treason. Thistlewood and two or three others were executed, the elder Watson was acquitted, and Dr. Watson made his escape to this country. He eventually settled in Tennessee, and about two years since was arrested in Nashville, charged with breaking open a store, was tried and sentenced to he hanged, but was pardoned by Governor Carroll, who, it is said, was convinced of his innocence. After his misfortune in Tennessee, Dr. Watson wandered from place to place, until within a few weeks of his death, when he settled in Mount Vernon, with a view of commencing the practice of physic. lle was an eccentric character, and as eloquent and persuasive as he was eccentric."  Our charming little Theatre, once the centre of fashion and the attraction of all the beauty, gaiety and gran. deur of Ireland, has been coverted into a hay-market and corn-store. The grand saloon, or green-room, is fitted up as a butter-crane, and the colonade fronting the Parade, is, we are told, to be laid out in huxters' shops and cobblers' bulks.. For the latter purpose the upper lot is said to be already set. Whether the great revolution which has taken place in our Southern Theatricals be owing to the lack of money or a change of taste we shall not pretend to determine. But no 'Theatre m Ireland was ever so famed or so honoured as that of Kilkenny, and, in the revolution to which we refer, none has suffered with such a fall. The Patrick-street Theatre in Cork is converted into the uses of the Society of Arts. The Limerick Theatre has been trans. formed into Catholic Chapel, and that of Wexford in to is Dissen ting Meeting /louse. But the Theatre of Kilkenny—Oh, what a falling off is there 1 That stage where Peers and Parliamentarians, and all the genius of rank, " strutted their hour" before the charms that might warm the bosom of an anchorite is now covered with sacks of corn, while, in the space filled with those charms, more dazzling than the blaze of wealth which encompassed them, you may buy a hundred weight of bay ; the passages through which Pecreses sailed in all the pride and splendour of nobility, is to be filled with the retailers of pigs' offal and the menders of soles; and the noble saloon, which has been trod by thousands in the mazy dance and tranquil promenade, is now to exhibit scales where the magnificent lustre once sparkled, and the new master of the ceremonies is to be a taster of butter. Such are the revolutions in all things sublunary. We have seen Princes turned into paupers, and Monarchs made the laquies of a military adventurer—but, oh, wonderful, wonderful. and still more wonderful, we have seen the Senate-house of Rome, the banquetting-hall of Macbeth, transformed into a corn-scare--the Theatre of Kilkenny' where lovers have been made happy, anti Kings have been murdered turned into a hay-loft l—( Lein:ler Journal.) The foundations of the building at the British Museum, for the reception of the library lately presented by his Majesty, are now laid. They are very_ extensive, and of immense thickness in particular parts. The edifice will be completed in about five years. A number of men are daily employed in Hyde Park for the purpose of fanning the ride upon Mr. M'Adam'a principle, by breaking Kentish rag stones. It will be thus improved from the entrance, to Kensington-gate. OsnonNE, the bookseller, bought the whole of Lord Oxronn's library for 13,000!. His Lordship gave 18,0001. for the binding of only the smaller part of it. FUSEL', the painter, whose life was for some time in the greatest danger, is removed from his apartments in Somerset-house, to the house of his friend the Countess of Murmurs. Mr. War. Cox holds a bet with Lord