Star. — London, England, 1821-07-31 00:00:00

4. •. - *. la: 1 is. ' a . • .VENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1821. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Bank Stock 230--Irish 5 per Cents. nothing done. 3 per Cent. Reduced 747 s 75 1 / 4 75 3 per Cent. Cons. 74 1 /s 74 74 5 /s 3/ s 3% per Cent. 85 1 Y l -4 per Cent. 93% n s per Cent. Navy, 107% 108 107 Long Anus. 19 1 / 4 5-16. India Stock 230—India Bonds 5Ss. 565. pr. South Sea Stock, 82—Exchequer Bills ss. 3s. 4s. pr. Consols for Acct. 74% % % 1/, % 34 1/2. Two Mails arrived in the course of this forenoon from Holland, with Papers to the 23d and 28th in= stant.—An article from Petersburgh, of the 3d July, states that the new Spanish Ambassador, the Cheva lier de SALMON, had not yet been honoured with an audience of his Majesty the EMPEROR, in the same manner as the other Foreign Ministers have who bad arrived during his Mansry's absence. His MAJESTY, it seems, wishes to wait till the political relations between Spain and Russia are more deci dedly established. We must confess ourselves at a loss to understand what is meant by this reserve. Can there still be a party, either out of Spain or in it, which entertains criminal hopes? The King of SWEDEN set out from Stockholm on the 17th, on his journey to Norway, accompanied by Admiral CEDERSTROM, General Tawasr, and many other persons. It is thought his MAJESTY will not be at Christiana before the Session of the Diet is closed. His MAJESTY has appointed a Regency, consisting of two Ministers and two Counsellors of State, for the time of his absence. A Swedish Journal has lately published a very long article, tending to allay the apprehensions of those who are afraid that differences may arise be tween the people of Norway and Sweden. The corps which is to be encamped near Christiana, and which are to be reviewed by the KING,M ill consist partly of Swedish and partly of Norwegian troops. Four Swedish brigs passed the Sound on the 16th, steering towards Norway. Some frigates and fifteen gun-boats were expected to follow. The King of PRUSSIA arrived, on the 17th ofJuly, at Potsdam, in good health, from his visit to the pro vinces on the Rhine. The late attempt to raise the Constitutional stand 'ma in the Prussian dominions, is thus noticed in the Berlin Gazette. It is amusing to observe the finesse with which it is attempted to be shewn that the pro jector of the scheme must have been out of his senses : 41The news of the unhappy infatuation of young Von H-, who has made public a truly insane invitation to rebellion and disorder, has everywhere excited indignation, mingled with pity. His father served with distinction in the Prussian army, but died early, and the education of four children re mained to be directed by the :nether. A sense of the father's services induced the King to shew parti cular favour to the widow. The eldest son followed his father's footsteps : the confidence of the Monarch placed him in an enviable situation near the throne, and he maintained himself in it with honour. The youngest son (who is the one here in question) also served in the war against the French with dis tinction and courage. But the violence of his passions hurried him into an attachment contrary to the approbation of his relations, at a time when he had not obtained any employment. He lost all command of himself and bccame raving mad. Remote hopes, and employment of his disor dered understanding, restored his reason in the sequel. Ile obtained an office in the Administration of the Forests, in which he had shewn himself skilled._ Having been from his youth of an eccentric disposi tion, it is most probable that he has relapsed into the mental alienation with which he was formerly of flicted." The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this fore noon.— The Journal de Paris makes the follow•ing quotation from the Journal de Lyon of the 24th inst. o' Persons who are said to be well informed, speak of a Con vention already concluded, in vittue of which a great Sovereign of the North will be recognized as Protector of the Greek Con federation.—The report of a Secret Treaty relative to the parti tion of Turkey, assumes every moment more consistency." A letter from Nuremberg of the 21st July, states, that " All hopes of seeing the differences existing be tween Russia and the Porte arranged have vanished. The Divan has not even shewn any desire of ac cepting the proposition of mediation made by the Austrian Internuncio. In this state of things a Ma sifesto from the two Imperial Courts on the affairs of Greece is expected to make its appearance imme diately." It is stated in the same letter, that a courier from Vienna had brought intelligence to Nuremberg, that the corps of Prince CANTACUZENE, stationed in Up per Moldavia, had beaten several Turkish detach ments, and that Jassy had of new been occupied by the Greeks. A German Journal has published a very long Sup plication from the Protestants of Hungary, addressed to the Emperor of AUSTRIA, in which they complain of a great number of grievances relative to. the non execution of Treaties and Conventions, by which their civil and religious rights were stipulated. Some very alarming accounts have been received SIR WALTER SCOTTS - ACCOUNT OF THE; CORONATION. The following interesting letter has appeared in the Edinburgh Weekly Journal, from which it is quoted in other Scotch Pape►s as being " no doubt the production of Sir WALTER SCOTT." We also give it a place in the same belief. It bears, we, think, strong internal evidence of proceeding from his pen: M• LONDON, JULY 20. " SIR—I refer you to the daily papers for the de tails of the great National Solemnity which we wit nessed yesterday, and will hold my promise absolved by sending a few general remarks upon what I saw, with surprise, amounting to astonishment, and which I shall never forget. It is, indeed, impossible to con ceive a ceremony more august and imposing in all its parts, and more calculated to make the deepest impression both on the eye and on the feelings. The most minute attention must have been bestowed to arrange all the subordinate parts in harmony with the rest ; so that, amongst so much antiquated cere monial, imposing singular dresses, duties, and cha racters upon persons accustomed to move in the or dinary routine of society nothing occurred either awkward or ludicrous, which could mar the general effect of the solemnity. Considering that it is but one step from the Sublime to the Ridiculous, I own I consider it as surprising that the whole ceremonial of the day should have passed away without the slightest circumstance which could derange the ge neral tone of solemn feeling which was suited to the occasion.—You must have heard a full account of the only disagreeable event of the day. I mean the attempt of the misguided Lady who has lately fur nished so many topics of discussion, to intrude her self upon a ceremonial, where, not being in her pro per place, to be present in any other must have been voluntary degradation. That matter is a fire of straw, which has now burned to the very embers; and those who try to blow it into life again, will only blacken their hands and noses, like mischievous children dab bling among the ashes of a bonfire. It seems sin gular, that being determined to be present at all hazards, this unfortunate Personage should not have procured a Peer's ticket, which, I presume, would have insured her admittance. I willingly pass to pleasanter matters. The effect of the scene in the Abbey was beyond measure magnificent. Imagine long galleries stretch ed among the aisles of that venerable and august pile—those which rise above the altai: pealing back their echoes to a full and ma , gnificent choir of music —those which occupied the sides filled even to crowd ing with all that Britain has of beautiful and distin guished, and the cross galleries most appropriately occupied by the Westminster School boys, in their white surplices, many of whom might on that day receive impressions never to be lost during the re-t of their lives. Imagine this, I say, and then add the spectacle upon the floor—the altar surrounded by the Fathers of the Churchthe king encircled by the Nobility of the land- and the Counsellors of his Throne, and by warriors, wearing the honoured marks of distinction bought by many a glorious danger ; add to this the rich spectacle of the aisles crowded with waving plumage, and coronets, and caps of honour ; and the sun, which brightened and sad dened as if on purpose, now beaming in full lustre on the rich and varied assemblage, and now darting solitary ray, which catched, as it passed, the glit tering folds of a banner, or the edge of a groupe of battle-axes or partizans, and then rested full on some fair form, the Cynosure of neighbouring eyes,' whose circlet of diamonds glistened under its in fluence :—lmagine all this, and then tell me if I have made my journey of four hundred miles to little pur pose. Ido not love your cui bond men, and there fore I will not be pleased if you ask me, in the damp ing tone of sullen philosophy, what good all this has done the spectators? If we restrict life to its real animal wants and necessities, we shall, indeed, be satisfied with food, clothes, and fire; but DIVINE PROVIDENCE, who widened our sources of enjoyment beyond those of the animal creation, never meant that we should bound our wishes within such narrow limits ; and I shrewdly suspect that those non est tanti gentlefolks only depreciate the natural and un affected pleasure which men like me receive from sights of splendour and sounds of harmony, either because they would seem wiser than their simple neighbours, at the expense of being less happy, or because the mere pleasure of the sight and sound is connected with associations of a deeper kind, to which they are unwilling to yield themselves. Leaving these Gentlemen to enjoy their own wisdom, I still more pity those, if there be any, who (being unable to detect a peg on which to hang a laugh) sneer coldly at this solemn festival, and are rather disposed to dwell on the expense which at tends it, than on the generous feelings which it ought to awaken. The expense, so far as it is national, has gone directly and instantly to the encouragement of the British manufacturer and mechanic; and so far as it is personal, to the persons of rank attendant upon the Coronation, it operates as a tax upon wealth and consideration, for the benefit of poverty and in dustry; a tax willingly paid by the one class, and not the less acceptable to the other, because it adds a happy holiday to the monotony of a life of labour. " But there were better things to reward my pil grimage than the mere pleasures of the eye and ear; tor it was impossible, without the deepest veneration, to behold the voluntary and solemn interchange of vows between the king and his assembled People, whilst he on the one hand called GOD AL/41011TE to witness his resolution to maintain their laws and pri vileges, while they called, at the same mom en t, on the DIVINE BEING, to bear witness that they accepted him for their liege Sovereign, and pledged to him their love and their duty. I cannot descnbe to you the effect produced by the solemn ) yet strange Mix ture of the words of Scripture, with the shouts and acclamations of the assembled multitude, as they an swered to the voice of the Prelate, who demanded of them whether they acknowledged as their Monarch the Prince who claimed the sovereignty in their pre sence? It was peculiarly delightful to see the King receive from the Royal brethren, but in particular from the Duke of York, the fraternal kiss, in which they acknowledged their Sovereign. There was an honest tenderness, an affectionate and sincere reve rence, in the embrace interchanged between the Dul;e of York and his Majesty, that approached almost to a caress, and impressed all present with the electrical at Madrid frdm the Spanish possessions on the Terra Firma of America. The Negroes are said to have re volted at Guayra and Guadalquivil, and that they had proclaimed the independence of the Slaves, after a horrible massacre, similar to that which took place in St. Domingo. The Europeans settled in these two cities had taken refuge at Puerto Cabello, abandoning their proper ties, and some of them even their families. French Five per Cents. Friday, 85 f. 85 c. NEST COWES, JULY 30. The moorings were laid down on Saturday even ing nearly opposite to his MAJESTY'S cottage here, for the Royal George yacht to anchor. As soon as his MAJESTY arrives at Portsmouth, he will imme diately embark and sail for West Cowes. His cot tage is prepared for his reception, should he wish to go ashore; but, if the wind be favourable, he will sail for Dublin without delay. Mr. PELHAM sailed yesterday in his beautiful yacht, the Falcon, for Spithead, in order to be pre sent to receive his MAJESTY on his embarkation.— He has three or four guns on deck to participate in the Royal salute, and intends, if possible, to keep up with his NlAresrY's yacht during the voyage. But if the wind be propitious, the Royal George is so amazingly swift a sailer, that she will outstrip all the private yachts, and will render it difficult even for the convoy to hold her in view. The whole of the Yacht Club will be at Spithead this evening ; but it is not yet certain how many of them will attend the tso to Ireland. Their vessels are all well filled with brilliant visitors, the friends of the distinguished owners; and the Falcon is so much crowded, that some of the Officers are obliged to sleep on deck. THE PRINCESS AUGUSTA. RAMSOATE, JULY 29. Her Royal highness the Princess AUGUSTA and suite arrived here last evening, about seven o'clock, and having alighted at the Pier House, her Royal Highness was received by Captain M'Cuu.oett, of his Majesty's ship SEVERN, who escorted her to the boat, amidst a concourse of several thousands of spectators, who thronged the Pier and Yard. As it was low water at the time of her arrival, the Admiralty yacht had been moored at a short distance from the harbour; her Royal Highness embarked in the SEVERN'S boat, accompanied by Baton LINSINCEN, we believe, the Officers in full uniform, and crew neatly dressed hr the occasion, and was rowed off, greeted by the cheers of the assembled multitude. A cold dinner was provided in the yacht, which sailed soon after she was on board, and as the wind was fair, she will most probably reach Ostend this morning. Her four carriages and luggage were sent by the Eliza packet, Captain FOSTER, which had been hired for the purpose. Twenty-one rounds of can non were fired by the Pier guns, and a salute was given from Wellington-crescent when her Royal Highness entered the town. A great number of flags and oak boughs were hung across the streets through which she passed in her way to the Pier, and every mark of joy and respect that could strew the attach ' ment of the inhabitants of Ramsgate to the Royal Family was exhibited on this occasion. The Marquis Of LONDONDERRY, Lord MARY BOROUGH, and several other official Gentlemen, as sembled yesterday morning, between eleven and twelve o'clock, at the Earl of LIVERPOOL'S house in Whitehall, where they continued till nearly two, when they adjourned to the Foreign Office, where a Cabinet Council was summoned to meet at two o'clock, The Council continued an unusual protracted discus sion, their deliberations not terminating till a quarter past six o'clock. Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL and Viscount SID MOUT!I had audiences of his MAJESTY, at his Palace in Pall-Mall. The KING received visits yesterday from the Duke of YORK, the Duke of CLARENCE, the Duke of C.l NI BRIDGE, the Duchess of GLoccEsTEn, and the in cess SOPHIA. Yesterday the Duchess of KENT, accompanied by the Princess VICT3RIA and the Princess Eia.,ootte, vi sited the Duchess of CLA RENCE. The reigning Duke of SAXE MEININGEK, accom panied by his sister the Duchess of CLARENCE, %vent yesterday to view the Royal Military School at Chelsea. Mrs. HOPE'S Rout last night, in Mansfield-street, Cavendish-square, was attended by upwards of •3(X) distinguished Fashionables. Lord and Lady Dynevor and family leave town on Thursday next, for their seat, l)ynevor Castle, South Wales. The 31archioness of Huntly and family left town yesterday, for Scotland. _ . The Earl and Countess of Wemyss and the Ladies CharteriN left the Royal Hotel, S. Jatne.,'s-street, on Sunday, for their seat in Scotland. Lord and Lady Montague and the Ladies Scott left The mas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, yesterday, for their seat, Long Ditton, Berks. Prince Nicolas Eaterhazy and suite leave town on Saturday next for Ireland. The Earl and Conntess of Scarborough and family have left town for their seat in Nottinghamshire, for the season. Sir George Cooke, Bart. left town yesterday for Portsmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Herry Baring and family left their house in Berkeley-square yesterday, for their seat, Somerley House, near Ringwood, llants. George Wilbraham, Esq. and family left town yesterday, for their seat in Cheshire. Arrivals at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—Hon. Admiral Woodhouse, from a tour; Hon. Miss Codrington, from her seat in Surrey. Departures from ditto :—Earl of Meath, for his seat in Ire land ; Sir Edward and Lady Elizabeth Baker, for the German Spa ; Captain Haggerstein, for Scotland ; Hon. Mrs. Grosvenor, for her seat near Southampton ; A. Wright, Esq. for Cambridge; H. Hammond, Esq. for his seat in Kent; Commissioner Briggs, fbr Kent. _ - _ - Sir Simon and Lady Clarke, and family, left town this day for their seat, Oak Hill, Herts. Departures from the Brunswick House Hotel, Hanover square Prince Partanna and suite, for Sicily ; Count Zamoisky, for Poland ; Rev. Mr. Westcomb, on a tour; C. C. Western, Esq. M.P. for his seat in Essex. Arrivals at ditto : Sir Charles Blois Bart. from his seat in Suffolk ; Captain Blake, from Irelan d; M'lCnight, Esq. from ditto. Prince Hatzfeldt and suite left the Clarendon Hotel, Bond street, yesterday, for Berlin. Departures from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street : Sir Wm. Parker, Bart. for his seat in Suffolk; J. Shuttleworth, Esq. for his seat in Lancashire. The Mayor and Aldermen of Oxford have left the British Hotel, Jermrs.atreet, for Oxford. l ovum rut, ouushuus itccouur.o u4vc Peed received I H ote l, Jorwyn.street, for Oxford. a caress, and Impressed all prese conviction, that the nearest to the Throne in blood, was the nearest also in affection. I never heard pl at ,. dits given more from the heart than those that were thundered upon the Royal brethren when they we re thus pressed to each others bosoms-4 wa s tion cf natural kindness, which, bursting out amidst ceremonial grandeur, found an answer in every B r i. tish bosom. The King seemed much affected at t hi s and one or two other parts cf the ceremonial; evert so much so, as to excite some alarm among th„ e who saw him as nearly as I did. He colopletely covered himself, however, and bore (genet aliy s K ;, , „ . ing) the fatigue of the day very well. I learn from, one near his person, that he roused himself with great energy, even when most oppressed with heat and fs. tigue, when any of the more interesting parts of th e ceremony were to be performed, or when anything occurred which excited his persona/ and immediate attention. When presiding at the Banquet, amid tl;e long line of his Nobles, he looked 'every inch a and nothing could exceed the grace with which accepted and returned the various acts of homage rendered to him in the course of that long day. 6 , It was also a very gratifyin:., spectacle to th ost who think like me, to behold the 's lluke of Devonshi , e and most of the distinguished Wing Nobility a s , ern . bled round the Throne on this occasion ; giving a n open testimony that the difference s o f po l e i cal nions are only skin-deep wounds, which assume at times an angry appearance, but have no real effect on the wholesome Constitution f the coantry. " H you ask me to distinguish who bole him best, and appeared most to sustain the character e sez to the assistants in such a solemnity, I ti.o e n o ; „i. tatan to name Lord Londonderry, who, in the n.ly nificent robes of the Garter, with the cap at, j h plume of the Order, walked alone; and by h, face, and majestic person, formed an adeq,ate repre. sentative of the Order of Edward 111. the costume of which was worn by his Lordship only. The Duke of Wellington, with all his laurels, moved and looked deserving the baton, which was never grasped by so worthy a hand. The Marquis of Anglesea shored the most exquisite grace in managing his horse, not. withstanding the want of his limb, which he itft at Waterloo. I never saw so fine a bridle-ha:.,i i„ my life, and I am rather a judge of , noble !tont mauship' Lord Howard's horse was worse bitted than th..)se of the two former Noblemen, but nut so much so as to derange the ceremony of refit- it:g hack out of the 1111 " The Champion was uerfoi !bed (as of right) by young llymoke, a fine-looking youth, but beamg, chaps, a little too much the appearance of a maiden ' niglit to be the challenger of the world in a King's behalf. He threw down his gauntlet, however, aid: becoming manhood, and shewed as much horsen,ae. ship as the crowd of Knights and Squires around him would permit to be exhibited. His armour was in good taste, but his shield was out of all propriety, being a round rondache, or Highland target—a de fensive weapon, which it would have been impossible to use on horseback, instead of being a three-cornered, or heater-shield, which, in time of the tilt, was sus pended round the neck. Pardon this antiquarian scruple, which, you may believe, occurred to tee but myself. On the whole, this striking part of the exhibition somewhat disappointed me, for I would have had the Champion less embarrassed by his as sistants, and at liberty to put his horse on the g rand pas. And yet the young Lord of Scrivelsby l ooked and behaved extremely well. _ " Returning to the subject of costume, I conld not but admire what I had previously been disrosed flinch to criticise—l mean the fancy-dress of the PlivF. Councillors, which was of white and blue satin, with trunk-hose and mantles, after the fashion of Queen Elizabeth's time. Separately, so gay a garb had an odd effect on the persons of elderly or ill-made men; but when the whole was thrown into one general body, all these discrepancies disappeared, aad you no more observed the particular maiiner or appear ance of an individual, than you do that of a saldiev in the battalion which marches past you. The whole was so completely harmonized in actual colouring, as well as in association with the general mass of gay and gorgeous and antique dress which floated before the eye, that it was next to impossible to attend to the effect of individual figures. Yet a Scotsman will de tect a Scotsman amongst the most crowded assem blage, and I must say that the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland shewed to as great advantage in his robes of Privy Councillor, as any by whom that splendid dress was worn on this great occasion. The common Court dress, used by the Privy Councillors at the last Coronation, must have had a poor effect in compa rison of the present, which formed a gradation in the scale of gorgeous ornament, from the unwieldy splen dour of the Heralds, who glowed like huge masses of cloth of gold and silver, to the more chastened robes and ermine of the Peers. I must not forget the effect produced by the Peers placing their coronets on their heads, which was really august. " The box assigned to the Foreign Ambassadors presented a most brilliant effect, and was perfectly in a blaze with diamonds. When the sunshine lighted on Prince Esterhazy, in particular, he glimmered like a galaxy. I cannot learn positively if he had on that renowned coat which has visited ail the Courts of Europe, save ours, and is said to be worth 1:100,000, or some such trifle, and which costs the Prince £lOO or two every time he puts it on, as he is sure to lose pearls to that amount. This was a Hussar dress, but splendia in the last degree; perhaps too fine for good taste, at least it would have appeared so any where else. Beside the Prince sat a good-humoured lass, who seemed all eyes and ears (his daughter-in law, I believe), who wore as many diamonds as if they had been Bristol stones. An honest Persian teas also a remarkable figure, from the dogged and int' perturbable gravity with which he looked on the whole scene, without ever moving a limb or a muscle during the space of four hours. Like Sir Wilful Wit wood, I cannot find that your Persian is orthodox; for if he scorned everything else, there was a Mabo metan paradise extended on his right hand along the seats which were occupied by the Peeresses and their daughters, which the Prophet himself might hare looked on with emotion. I have seldom seen so mall elegant and beautiful girls as sat mingled among the noble matronage of the land; and the waving plumage of feathers, which made the universal head-dress, ' , ad the most appropriate effect in setting off their charms. " I must not omit that the foreigner, who are apt to consider us a nation enfroc, and withont the usual ceremonials of dress and distinction, mere uttialy. astouishej and delighted to the revival feu "s