HONOURS.
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, FRIDAY, JANVARY 4, 1833.
Sr. SAMPAN PALACE, Dee 3.1832.—The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Jou.: CAMPBELL, Esq., his Majesty's Solicitor-General.* * The Attorney and Solicitor-General, as well as the Judges, are always knighted upon their appointments. Sir JOHN CAMPBELL, it appears, underwent the ceremony about a month since ; but the delay in notifying the fact in the Gazette arose from his not having paid his fees (amounting to 1081.) until a few days since. Upon these fees, which are one of the most disgraceful sources of extortion connected with the Crown, inasmuch as they are divided among the servants of the Royal Household—the King's coachman, the King's footmen, the King's barber, and the King's cook—literally, the coachman, the foot- man, the barber, and the cook partake of the spoil—we shall shortly make some remarks, more especially in reference to the absurd effect which attends a refusal to comply with the demand for the payment of them.
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