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The Earl of Durham arrived in town from St. Petersburg on Satur- day night. On Tuesday he unsolder] the Queen's Com t at Kensington, and received from her Majesty the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of tie Bath. Ile stgain visited the Queen arid the Ihitchess of Kent on Wednesday forenoon. und 'Torsi toll with them for tin hour and a half ; be afterwards celled upon the Ibtl:e of Sitssex, '1 he King of Hanover left town for Woolwich, %% here he wits to embolic for Hamburg, at six oadoelt on Saturday evening. In the forenoon of that day there was a strong muster of Orange- Tory lords, to take leave of hint at Apsley House.

In a letter to tile Morning Chronicle, Mr. George Wingrove Cooke, author of the History of Party. argues that the Duke of Cumberland acted illegally when he took upon himself the authority anti title of King of Hanover. Mr. Cooke says-

" That the assumption of the sovereignty of an independent kingdom in in- ormsietent with his personal allegiance to the Queen of England, is a proposi- tion too self evident to admit of ilirpute. He has placed himself in a situation which renders him avowedly independent of her authority, and which is liable to bring him into hostile eollision with her arms. Ile has assumed to himself a right of making war and peace with other nations, of raising troops without the commission of his Sovereign, of entering into treaties with her, and of act • fog generally as if he owed no allegiance whatever to the Queen of England. " How has the Duke of Cumberlaud been ideated from the tie which binds

the nation to its Queen? Is it by his succession to a foreign throne? The Jaw knows no such release. Is it by the content of the Queen ? Sorb consent the Queen has no power to grant. ' Natural allegiance,' says our great con- stitutional lawyer, ca mot be no feited, cancelled, or mitered by any change of time, place, or eircumscance, nor by any thing but the naked concurrence of the Legisloture.'—lilackstone's Corn. iv. 87. • • • " If I am light in my view of the case, it is a subject not unworthy the at- tention of the country. The Duke of Cumberland requires to be absolved from his allegiance by au act of the British Parliament, before he can ascend the throne of Hanover. That act would separate hint altogether from England, awl at once decide this question."

The Queen is forming her household of Whig ladies. The Dutchess of Sutherland has been appointed Mistress of the Robes ; the Mar- chioness of Lansdowne Groom of the Stole ; and the Marchioness of Tavistock, the Countess of ,Nlinto, and the Countess of Charlemont, Ladies of the Bedchamber.

Tuesday's Gazette announces that Sir John Conroy, Knight, has been created a baronet.