During the short sitting of the House of Lords yesterday,
the Duke of Wellington was seized with sudden illness. The following particu- lars are by a correspondent of the Tunes- " Last .vening, the Duke of Wellington, as usual, was in his seat in the House of Lords even before the commencement of public business ; and he went there in an open carriage. About half-past Eve o'clock, and while Lord Brougham was speaking, the Dukesuddenly rose from his seat, as if to quit the House by the door near the Throne: the circumstance, however, did not attract any particular attention until his Grace dropped his hat, which he kicked before him, appearing anxious to get it out of his way, so that he might pick it up at the further end of the House, and thus escape observation as to the state of his health. It, however, did not go far, when his Grace kicked it again ; and it went near Lord Redesdale, who was sitting on the woolsack near the table. His Lordship immediately rose, as if to assist his Grace in getting the hat ; but as the Duke was by this time staggering, and not stooping for the hat, Lord Brougham called across the table that his Grace was ill—to sup- port him lest be should fall—to lead his Grace out of the House, and to send for a surgeon immediately. Several Peers surrounded the Duke, and be quitted the Haute, chiefly supported by the Earl of Aberdeen. They found, on getting_ into the Long Gallery, that his Grace could walk, but with considerable diffi- culty. The attack was one of giddiness. His Grace, however, bad perfect self-possession, and could converse. On hearing that the carriage nearest the House should be put in requisition to convey him to his home, the Duke ob- served that his own carriage was there, and that he should prefer going away in that. It however was not immediately forthcoming; besides, as it was the open one, (his Grace's newly-invented carriage,) and the Lords near his Grace urged on him the imprudence of proceeding in such weather in that vehicle, Lord Beresford's was called for ; but it also was not within sight. There was one close to the entrance of the House of Lords, which proved to be Lord Brougham's close -body carriage. It was immediately ordered up, his Grace handed into it ; and it forthwith conveyed the Duke towards his residence. Most- of the Opposition Peers directly left the House for the purpose of following the- Duke. It was surmised by those who knew his Grace's habits, that the giddi- ness resulted from that abstemiousness in regard to food, especially during re- markable changes, which, it was intimated, too often characterizes the Duke's mode of living."
At ten o'clock last night the Duke was a great deal better, and had._ enjoyed some hours of refreshing sleep.
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