be Court.
THE announcements of the motions of the King and Queen during the week seem to have been few, and those few owe little to the pen of the describer. The Court Journalist, like the Court Poet, seems desirous of converting his office into a sinecure. The only fact recorded is the King's coming to London on Wednesday ; where he was visited by the Duke of Cumberland and the Princess Sophia, and his return to Windsor in the evening. Why he came or why he went, we are left to conjecture. In the mean time, it is comfortable to know that their Majesties are in good health, and—this is but a report, however—that they mean to give ocular proof of it to their loving subjects by a visit to the Theatres before they go to Brighton. May we be there to see!
The Dutchess of Gloucester is still seriously indisposed. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart." Of all the daugh- ters of George the Third, the Duchess of Gloucester is said to be the most affectionate and amiable, and yet a line and a half is the sum of the notice her long sickness receives.
It is understood that the Duke of Richmond, Lord Frederick Fitz- darence, and Colonel Fox, who have been recently appointed extra Aids-de Camp to the King, are not to receive any emolument from the post. The Duke of Richmond has retired from active service by the sale of his commission, though his Grace retains the command of the Sussex Militia. Colonel Fox is a loser of 7001. per annum by the sacrifice he made to political. etiquette, in resigning his EquerryahiP the King when Ministers resigned. Morning Herald.
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