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himsel as a popular monarch and a worthy gentlenian may be supposed to do, in a neighbourhood where his high office is duly honoured and his per- sonal character sincerely esteemed. His Majesty and his excellent Queen were present on Monday at Brighton Races ; and were as much pleased as if they had been witnessing the Doncaster St. Leger. They ndeed witnessed a much more enlivening sight----a numerous and grati-
fied people--gratified, too, in the best of ill ways, by the exercise of that kindliness and condescoasion in their Sovereign which is equally blessed in him that gives and in him that takes. The Queen is sitting for her picture to Sir William Beechey ; so we may soon expect to have a genuine likeness of one who is the object of universal admiration. His Majesty has had a slight attack of rheumatism in the hand ; which has, however, been relieved by bleeding with leeches. The Princess Eliza. beth is recovering from the effects of the accident in her knee. The Duke of Cambridge will, it is understood, leave England for his govern- ment in a week or two; not before it is time, if the rumours of dissatis- faction in Hanover be well founded. His Royal Highness has very handsomely subscribed 500/. in aid of Mr. Arnold's new theatre. The young Prince does not accompany his father to the Continent ; he re- mains in England for education.
THE KING'S VISIT TO GUILDHALL.—It has been the practice on occasions of the visit of a King to the City, to appoint a Christ's Hos- pital boy to address his Majesty, " at such place as the Committee shall appoint." This has been hitherto done by resolutfon from the Corpora- tion, but it is not, we understand, the intention of the Corporation to introduce that ceremony. The inconvenience likely to result from de- taining his Majesty on a cold November day in St. Paul's churchyard to listen to an oration, strikes the citizens as a very good excuse for such an omission. It is, however, in the power of the Governor of Christ's Hospital to add that to the other honours with which his Majesty is to be received, and a meeting was to take place at the Hospital, to consider the propriety of adhering to ancient practice in that respect. His Majesty left it to the Corporation to fix the hour for the entertain- ment, and the hour of four was appointed, in order that the public might see the procession in all its splendour. It has been stated in many of the papers that the Lord Mayor is to meet the King at Temple Bar, and conduct him iuto the City and to Guildhall. This statement is errone- ous. 'When a King enters the City of London upon a visit, he enters without the ceremony of knockiug at the gates at Temple Bar. He then goes on straight to Guildhall, where he is received by the Lord Mayor under the porch, and is presented by his Lordship with the City sword, the Lord Mayor being the King's representative in the City, and the feast being his Majesty's feast, although paid for by the Corporation. The King then returns the sword to the Lord Mayor, who bears it be- fore his Majesty to the Council Chamber or other room appointed for the reception of his Majesty, where the Recorder of London reads an address in the name of the City. It is at this period of the ceremony the King presents the Lord Mayor with a Baronetcy. The following address of George the Fourth, when Prince Regent, to Sir William Dornville, on the occasion of the grand entertainment to the Monarchs in 1814, will be read with some interest. It is a verbatim copy from the City records:— " It has always been the custom when the Sovereign paid a visit to his faithful City of London, to confrr a mark of favour on its Chief Magis- trate. At no period could this be more properly done than on an occa- sion so advantageous to the country as the present, when the long- desired return of peace, which was the sole object of all our efforts, has been so gloriously achieved by the valour of his Majesty's arms, in con- junction with those of his Illustrious Allies ; nor. could it be conferred on a person more truly worthy of it, by every public and private virtue, than your Lordship, and I have great satisfaction in having the power to confer a signal mark of the Royal favour upon you." His Royal Highness was then graciously pleased to order letters patent to be pre- pared for granting the dignity of a Baronet to the Lord Mayor, who kissed hands on the occasion. Sir Samuel Fludyer was Lord Mayor when King Geerge the Third visited the City. On the day of the approaching entertainment, the Lord Mayor's procession to Westmin- ster will take place between nine and ten o'clock in the morning, and will commence, not at Guildhall, as has been the custom, but at the Mansionhouse, for the purpose of enabling his Lordship to return be- fore two o'clock to the Guildhall to receive the King, who, it is expected, will leave St. James's for the City between two and three o'clock. His Lordship will proceed direct to Blackfriars Bridge, where he will go on board the City barge. It is his Lordship's anxious wish to sail from the Tower, in order that he might have the opportunity of passing from the Mansionhouse through his own Werd—that of Langbourn ; but there will be high water at London Bridge soon after nine o'clock, and the utmost difficulty and inconvenience must attend the effort to go against the tide under the arches. All idea of grati- fying the people of Langbourn Ward, must, therefore, be given up. A great deal has been said about the probable expenses of the approach- ing entertainment, but it is believed they will not exceed those incurred when George the Third dined at Guildhall. Upon that occasion the total charge was 6,8981. 5s. 4d., and it is confidently stated that a more magnifi- cent entertainment can now be given for that meaey. The prices of turtle and fish were then enormously high, and the members of the Corporation had, several of them, particular reasons for employing particular persons to supply the materials. In fact, the whole " concern" was what it never can be again, a "downright job." Wines were sent in, and no questions were asked about the quantity drank. This is not the case now in the City ; there is, in fact, a spy upon all the luxuries of the Corporation.—From the City Circular in the Daily Papers.
The following are sonic further particulars of the dinner ceremonial from the Times of this morning.—The Royal party will cline at the grand table at the upper end of the hustings, at which none but mem- bers of the Royal Family will be seated. A superb canopy is to he placed over the seat in which the King and Queen will be placed. The Ladies-in-Waitieg will di ne at the Lady Mayoress's table, in the old King's Bench. The table for the Lord Mayor and Aldermen will be spread in the lower hustings. There will be a table for the Privy Counsellors, and others of the Nobility, on the right hand near the upper hustings, and another fete the Foreign Ministers on the left. In 1761, on the upper end of each table was placed half a side of cold roast beef, in which were fastened flags bearing the Royal arms, and those of the City; this form will, it is said, be observed on the present occasion. Eight tables will be allotted for the Common Council in the body of the hall, at the end of the Lord Mayor's table. Four aldermen of the committee will set on the dishes, and, with the Lords-in-Waiting, attend at the Royal tables. The Lord Mayor will stand behind the King, as if in the quality of Chief Butler, and the Lady Mayoress will wait on her Majesty in the same capacity. After the removal of the first course, and while the second is putting on, the Lord Mayor will hand to the King, and the Lady May. cress to the Queen, a glass of wine to their respective Majesties ; then the Common Crier will proclaim aloud to the company that his Majesty has drank "Prosperity to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London, and the trade thereof." The music will instantly perform the National Anthem "God save the King ; " after which their Majesties will dismiss the Lord Mayor and Lady May. oress from further attendance. Tine Lord Mayor, ELS soon as he has got to his table, in return for the honour done tine City, will give, through the Common Crier also, "I-health and long life to their Majesties," when the music will again strike up. The healths of the other members of the Royal Family present will follow at the Lord Mayor's and the other tables, but not in the same ceremonious manuer.
THE QUEEN'S NEW STATE CARRIAGES AND LIVERIES.—Three splendid new state carriages have been built for the Queen by Messrs. Beaters and Pearce, in Long Acre. The body of the Queen's is painted a rich crimson lake. On the door and end panels are emblazoned in double shields the arms of their Majesties, encircled with the garter, and motto, " Hani soit gui mat y pense," and a wreath of oak leaves, sus- pended to which is the George and Dragon. On either side the sup- porters, upon a hanthenne gold pedestal, are introduced the rose, thistle, and shamrock, the whole within a splendid crimson mantle surmounted with the royal diadem. On the quarter panels mid rails are displayed her Majesty's initials in a cipher, surmounted by a crown. The car. riage part is painted a vermilion colour and gold, and most nobly carved. The chasing, namely, the coronets at each corner of the car- riage, the door-handles, fiee. are executed in a most masterly style. The interior is lined with light blue striped silk, manufactured, at the Queen's special desire, in Spitalfielde, with rich silk lace to correspond. The hammercloth is very elegant, and ornamented with the Royal arms. Seven other new carriages (private) are in a forward state at the same establishment. They are very neat and plain ; the bodies are of crim- son lake, with merely her Majesty's initials, surmounted by a crown, on the panels. Twenty new state bats for her Majesty's servants have been furnished by Griffiths, in Bond Street. They are cocked hats, of a simi- lar shape to those of our late Monarch ; they are magnificently trimmed with elegant gold plate, brocade lace four and a half inches wide deeply scolloped, the whole edged with rich chain edging, composed of gimp gold; the imperial crown and garter star are tastefully wove in the lace, and to the corners of the bat are suspended elegant bullion tassels, and a gold loop to correspond. The lace, which is of an entirely new manu- facture, was executed by Fox, at the corner of Bedford Street, Covent Garden. The state liveries are in a state of great forwardness at Willis's in St. James's Street, but are not exposed to view at present. The ai- guilettes for the liveries, made by Smith and Trimmell, in Piccadilly, are formed of very rich gold cord, with large bullion tassels and chased tags ; on the badge, splendidly embossed, are her Majesty's initials, dis- played in a cipher upon rich Genoa blue velvet, surrounded with laurel leaves formed with gold, and surmounted with the imperial diadem. The dresses for the King's pages, to be worn on state occasions, have been prepared by J. Meyer, in Conduit Street. The state coats are of superfine blue cloth, lined with white silk ; the breasts, skirts, and pocket-flaps, thickly decorated with four-inch gold lace, manufactured by the desire of his Majesty, with the rose, thistle, and shamrock, beauti- fully embroidered in it. The waistcoat and breeches are of white ker.. seymere, decorated to correspond with the coat. There are in all twenty- eight suits. The lace was manufactured by Messrs. Smith and Trimmell. It is said that the state carriage will be used and liveries worn for the first time on Lord Meyor's day, when their Majesties go in state to Guildhall.—Court Circular..
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