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The Duke of Wellington has been resiously ill. He caught a ss- vere cold at Strathfieldsaye. asd was seized with spasms on his remit to Apsley house, on the 23d. On the :Nth. three or four physicians were constantly in atteedence upon him. He kept his bed for three days, but is now considerably better. Lord Diriorben and family have just arrived in Paris from Italy, where they will take up their residence for some time.—Galignani's illessengrr.
Mr. Edward Ellice is now in Spain. Ile landed, we understand, on the South coast.— Courier.
Sir Charles Vaughan, lately our Ambassador at AVoshington, has arrived in this country. Pressous to his departure, be was invited to a public dinner at Washiugton, which was attended by the functionaries of the Government and the principal inhabitants of the American capital.
As Earl Spencer has held office, and does enjoy a pension, the follow- ing note respecting one of his ancestors may be amusing to many of opr readers. "The lIonourable John Spencer was second son of Charles, third Earl of Sunderland, by Anne, his wife. second daughter of the great Duke of Marlborough. He was the favourite grandson of old Srsah, Dutchess of Marlborough, who left him a vast fortune, having disinherited to the utmost of her power his eldest brother Charles, Duke of Marlborough. The condition upon which she made this be- quest was, that neither he nor his heirs should take any place or pens sion front any Government. This condition was, however, set aside. He was the ancestor of Earl Spencer."—Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann edited by Lord Dover ; vol. I. p. 100.—Northamplon Herald. [Earl Spencer does not receive a pension.1 Mr. Belfe has been paid 430 guineas for his opera of the Siege of Rochelle, by Cramer and Addison.
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