17 FEBRUARY 1844, Page 11

The Sun stated on Thursday, that the Duke of Wellington

had been taken ill on the previous day, and had nearly fallen off his horse on re- turning to Apsley House, into which he was carried. The paragraph went "the round of the press," with occasional but doubtful contradic- tion. The following characteristic letter appears this morning— "London, lath February 1894. "Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to the editor of the Times newspaper.