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'I'm: King and Queen bad a small dinner-party On Sunday, at St. Ja!nes's Palace. In the evening, there was a concert—not of sacred music ; but in which 3Iadesnoiselle Grisi, and Signers 11 ubini, Tam- burini, and Costa, ' performed several delight fill compositious," as the Court Chronicler had it, from Rossini's profane opera, Assedio Corinto. Lord Wynend had a reason for withdra‘ving his Sabbath. bill ; Mr. Poulter's, No. 2, now waiting for it third reading, must be thrown under the table, or burnt in the kitchen of Mr. Speaker.
Their Majesties had company to dinner again on Monday ; among whom were the Princess Augusta, Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke of Argyle, the Marchioness Wellesley, the Earl and Countess of Denbigh, and the Earl and Countess Howe. On Tuesday, the King and Queen, with a large party, attended the perfolmance of the Messiah at Westminster Abbey ; and entertained dinner company in the evening.
The King held a Levee at St. James's on Wednesday. At the entre, Mr. Abercromby was presented by Lord .Althorp, as Master of the Mint; and Captain Byng, by Earl Grey, as Lord of the Treasury. The general levee appears to have been thitily attended. Among the company, were the Earls of Warwick, Howe, Darlington, and Westmoreland, Lords Stormont and Rolle, and Major Fancourt. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earls of Warwick, Digby, Abingdon, Howe, and many other noblemen and gentlemen, presented addresses to the King front various places in England, expressive of warm attachment to the Established Church, and gratitude to his
Majesty for his late speech to the Bishops. The Archbishop of Armagh presented between twenty and thirty similar addresses front Places in Ireland. The Queen left town for Windsor on Thursday morning. This day, it is fixed, her Majesty embarks for Germany. She leaves Woolwich between nine and tell, accompanied by the Earl and Countess of Denbigh, and a distinguished party. The Lord Mayor, as Conversator of the Thames, with several of the City Companies in their barges, wait upon her Majesty as far as the jurisdiction of the City extends. The King is to return this afternoon to Windsor; where he proposes to reside during the remainder of the season.
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