Egham Races commenced on Tuesday. The company was unu. sually
numerous and fashionable, notwithstanding the weather was very unfavourable. The King and Queen, and a brilliant party, came in nine carriages. It is unnecessary to give the particulars of the running, as it was not remarkably good, nor was the betting high. A deputation of the inhabitants of Egli= and the vicinity presented an address to the King, thanking him for the plate of a hundred guineas, which his Majesty had granted. The King was extemporaneously delivered of the following most gracious and elogneet reply to the address— He most deeply felt the dutiful attention that induced this acknowledgment of an act, prompted on his part by a de-ire to show that he was sensible of the munificence and loyalty of a Parliamcet and a people that had not only enabled hint to posses+, as a residence, that ancient and magnificent castle, the pride of Englishmen and envy of foreigners, but to follow the dietates of his heart in furthering the wishes and promoting the happiness of every class of his people, whether of the gentlemen of large fortune, or of that class (looking towards the inhabitants of Eghatio) which he should always consider as forming that most important connecting link in a chain that binds the heal t of a Sovereign to the interests and enjoyments of his people. Ile considered this to be a na- tional sport—the manly and noble sport of a flee people: and he deeply felt the pride of being able to encourage these lei:gimes, so intimately connected with the habits and feelings of this free country. Ile could not help adverting to the spot on which they were now assembled to enjoy an amusement so truly national—a spot which derived such a peculiar claim to our veneration from the circumstance that here arose that first dawning of liberty so dear to his hcatt—so dear to the heart of every one of his people—that neither Ile nor anybody could be present without calling to Mind that here it was that our liberties were obtained and for ever sector!, and that we were here to enjoy those libertics awl sports which he would with his utmost power in every way protect and foster, anti in so doing, never lose sight of the welfare and enjoy- ment of every class of Lis people, from the highest to the lowest.
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