The National Register. — London, England, 1812-05-03 00:00:00

THE NATION AL.IIEGISTER. 27$ TILE COURT AND TVORLD OF FASHION. THE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM.. Thursday, the Queen held a Drawing-room at St. James's Palace. It being the first which her Majesty has held since the King's Birth-day in 1810, and there having been no Court for the Ladies during a lapse of nearly two years, great preparations were made by the higher for their appearance on this occasion. The public splend.mrs of the Court were likewise considerably increased on this revival of them, by the invitations of the Prince Regent, which were issued to the number of 400, to a magnificent entertainment given in the evening at Carlton— boute, by his Royal Highness, to her Majesty, the Princesses, and the Nobility and Gentry. The Palace of St. James's and the vicinity bore rather the appearance of the celebration of a birth-day, than the hold ing of a drawing-room in the usual manner. Her Majesty, and the Princesses Augusta and Mary, arrived at St. James's, form Bit ck ing hani kouse, about one o'clock, to attire in their Court Dresses, the Royal jewels having been erevious!y brought thither from the Bank. After partaking of some refreshments in the Duke of Cambridge's apartments, they proceeded with their attendants through the gallery and the room, and entered the grand council-chamber, where her Majesty re ceived the company, and the numerous persons who had the honour of being presented. The Prince Regent went from Carlton-house to St. James's Palace, and appeared in full state for the first time since the eatablh•liment of the Regency. His Itlyal Highness paid his respects to his Royal Mother, in the grand come:II-chamber, and remained in the dra t.virig room half an hour. Their Royal Highnesses the Priatceuol Iraiz , s, the Duchess of York, the Duk , s of York, Clarence, Kent, Cumberland, Cambridge, and Sussex, their Highnesses the Duke of Gloucester end the Prinee;s Sophia of Chou: e ster, and his serene Highness the Duke ut Brunswick, v% ere also present The presentati , ins to le r Majesty were very numerous, and consisted mostly of ladies. The Stlte Rooms were much crowded by the unusual fullness of the attendani:e. MAY 3 this sc , son of the yeilr, is made of sarsnet, and furs are wambri tube seen unless they are round a pelerine of satin to suit the eulour of the dress they arc worn with, and this bordering is then generally of swans. down : the Parisian method of wearing the hat and feather, or bonnet and flowers intirely of one colour, is much adopted.—The bonnets are in various forms, lAA the sempetress bonnet takes place of the cottage ; it ties under thz: chin with long and broad strings, which crossing under the chin are brought to the summit of the crown, where they tie and form a how.—The ineke of the gowns, frocks, and slips, have varied but little within thi:se last three months, only that in full dress the robe is made rather lower in the bat I than formtrly. Iligh morning dresses conti:Ate to be made to lace up the front of the bust with cordon of various colours, to suit the robe over a stomacher of the same material as the gown.—White crapes embroidered with silver and bright coloured sorinets, such as Ilurgundy, rose colour, Maria Louisa blue, are in universal favour for evening parties; the Maria Louisa blue is a dye of peculiar eclat, between the bright cerulean red the Clarence blue. LANES' DRESSES. Hest MAJE‘TY.—A superb dress of white and jiver, tl:e petticolt composed of satin, epibroidered and covered with draperies ct striped sliver tissue, tzsteailly disposed and ornamented on the outside with a bi oad net fringe in dead and bright silver, forming a very striking and elegant drapery, looped together in different directions with bunches of cords and tassels ; smaller draperies richly ornamented to correspond, completed this elegant dress. Robe, blue and silver tissue, with a stomacher of diamonds, and trimmed with point lace. . Tun PIINCtiB OF WALES.--A superb rich silver tissue .'curt train and petticoat,trimmed round the petticoat and train with a magnificent silver net fringe, with Convex spangles and rich silver drop tassels. The petticoat covered with a rich silver lace net drapery, beautifully em brOidered in chenille, forming• rosus jonquils, hyacinths, and other fancy flowers; body, sleeves, and pocket-holes, elegantly embroidered and trimmed to correspond; the d:apery fancifully looped up with diamonds, enter:ads, and topazes, and other costly strmes, with a superb festoon drain of magnificent diamonds, forming wreaths, stars, and rosettes. Pzit.ctss AcourrA.—A dress of bine crape and silver, the bottom of the dress a bwder of Vandykrs, i:. silver toil, embroide rid with sliver with buit:lirs of flowt•rs ira songks, upon: it : spotted \vitµ oval spatr b ies anti rings, large draperies embroid , reri AVitti wreaths of passion flowers, interniised with wheat rats and Large foil leaves, had an elegant and striking effect; small square draperies on the left side, with appropriate borders, and finished with cords and tassels. Robe, blue and silver tissue. PRlNctss MARY.—A dress of pale pink twilled sarsnet, erngrotstered with silver in wreaths and bunches of passion flowers, and ornamented with draperies of beautiful Wild lace, relieved by smaller draperies in festoons of pink sarsnet, embroidered with wreaths of large passion sowers in dead and bright foil, and ornamented with superb bunches of fringed tassels. This dress was peculiarly beautiful, from the deli cacy of the colours, and the intermixture of the blond lace . ' silver flowers. Robe, pink and silver, trimmed with blond and diamonds. Tuesday, I)is Royal Highness the Prince Regent held a Levee at Carlton House, width was but thistly attended. Wednesday, her Majesty held a C. on in her Drawing-room, when Count Ferdinand De Nunez, the new Spanish Ambassador, watt intro diced to her by the Duke Del Infantado, and Earl Morton, the Queen's Chamberlain, and Cal. Desbrowe, her Vice-Chamberlain, conducted by Mr. Chester, the Assistant Master of the Ceremonies. Ills Excellency delivered his credentials, and was most graciously received. Lady Mary Poulet and Miss Onslow were introduced to her Majesty by the Countess of Macclesfield, the Lady in Waiting, as Ladies in Waiting► to the Princesses, in the rooM of Lady Cranky and Lady Ely, redigued. FASHIONS FOR MAY. The mantle called the Badajoz Cloak, and the Pilgrim's Hat and long Mantle of fine kerseymere, are universal, and the present pelisse, in sonsplisitce with ancient custom, which renders velvet very QUO, at CITY ADDRESS. Tuesday, the. Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, Sheinri, and Common Council of the City of London, waited upon his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, at Carlton House, with the follow ing Address and Pet din', which was read by John Sylvester, Esq. the R ecoeder TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, RE. •GEN r OF Tim UNI FED KINGDOM oe GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, THE HUMBLE AND DUTIFUL ADDRESS AND PETITION OF THE LORD MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND COMMONS OF THE CITY OF LONDON, IN COMMON COUNCIL ASSEMBLED, MAY IT PLEASE. VOIJR ROYAL HIGHNESS, We, the Lord Nl.iyor, Aldermen, and Ceinnions of the City of Lor d n, in Common Council asseuibled, humbly approach your Royal Highness, dutifully to represent our deep sense of the ditlicuities and dangers impending over the country, and anxiously to invite y >ur tn. ne-fic. ut attention to the complaints and grievances of your afflicted, but faithful subjects. Font teen mouths have elapsed since your Roy.) Highness acceded to the Regency of these kingdoms, at which time we felt it our duty to submit to you a 'statement of abuses which hild taken root in the various department.; of he Government, the speedy correction and removal of which we deemed essential to the prosperity and safety ef the Empire; and we now again present qurselves before your Royal Highness to express our unfeigned sorrow, that during this interval no efficient measures have been adopted by your Ministers calculated to satisfy the wishes and wants of your people, le .t that on the contrary, the same malpractices and 'the same false principles of Goveintnett have been tenaciously pursued and enforced, thereby adding con tumely to injury, and extinguishing the spring of Public energy in a free nation. We have continued to witness the same system of prof . igacy in the expenditure of the Public money, the same system of g ,.... t erang - by undue influence and corruption; the rsine system of •.clie:iOn in regard to tiie circulating metlium and fiances of the coin , try ; the t.atne p , -strut of arbitrary and grievous assessment and coffee bun of the taxes, by which industry is thwarted and liberty violated; the same sy.stem of introducing into the country foreign stops; the amt system of persecuting the press, by which the value of free ills cession on national topics is lost to Prince or people ; and finally the tame system of coercive restrictions on the freedom of commerce, by which many of our merchants and manufacturers have been involved in ruin, and flourishing districts reduced to beggary. A$ faithful and loyal subjects, and as the Representatives of the fi rst City in your Empire, we feel the deepest affliction in being thus com pelled to reiterate this enumerati of the malpractices and mistaken principles of your Mioisters; we should, however, compromise that sense of public duty, and that character of frankness which appertain to us as Freemen Ati Britons, were we to disguise the truth, and for bear to express our c.tiviction, that your confidential adviters Lave plunged this great and once flourishing Empire into an abyss from which we can be rescued only by radical reform, and a total change in our domestic government and foreign policy. In a crisis, therefore, which involves the destiny of the greatest Em pire of these or past times—of an Empire which is blessed by Pro vidence with unequalled' natural advantages, and which possesses a people that in all ages have bravely secured their prosperity on the solid•basis of public liberty, we feel that we should justly merit the reproaches.ot our country and posterity, if, at such a crisis , we were to refrain from laying before your Royal Highness a faithful repre sentation of the public-grievances, and expressing our henitions fur the_ welfare and the very existence of the Nation; We, therefore, pray,. That your Royal Highness will be grac iously pleased t painful kooe o dismiss from your Councils those Ministers who have proved themselves so ua . deserving of the canfidenoe of your People, and call to the administra tion of the Government men of public character and patriotic prink MI 10 • 1 " OM m, tior con 0;11 by 1 WA exi Sct V; a thi