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THE CORONATION.

COPT OF A LETTER FROM LORD HOWARD OF
EFFINGHAM TO BIR GEORGE N•YLER, CL•GEN-
CECIL
No. 9, Manalleld•strcet, July 24, 1821.
INtr DRAIRSIIR—EncIosed 1 transmit for your informetion,
and that of the Gentlemen of the Heralds College,• letter 1
yesterday received from Lord Sidmonth, by which you will
perceive his Majesty has condescended to expres. his hich
•pprolsation •r the arrangements made io the Earl Marshal's
Department, iii
.the late august ceremony ofhis Majesty's
Curonetion. 1 remein, my deer Sir,
Your obedient faithful Servant,
Sir George Hayler, Clarenceua, HOWARD.
Heralds College.

Whitehall, 21st July, MIL
My Lego-1 am commanded by his Majesty to express
to your Lordship his Majesty's high approbation of the ar-
rangements made by your Lore/ship ist the department of
Earl Marshal of England, for the august ceremony of his
Majesty's Coronation, and of the corrector,* and regularity
with which they were carried into effect. To Use exemplary
manner in which these dillies were perfurmcd by your Lord-
ship, and by those Officers who acted under your lordship's
authority, his Majesty is graciously pleased to &mender that
me order and dignity which ro peculiarly distinguished the
ceremony are in a great degree to be aarribed, and A hare to
req•est that your Lordship will common rate Unite per-
sons tints referred to, the sense which has Majesty leas cues-
descended to express of their makes,.

I have the lin 1111 l tr to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant,
(Sig owl) Sl OMIOU IH.
The Lord Howard of Effingham,
&diet, as Earl Marshal of Englutd,
lac. &c. &c.

yew/Pool, AIL? 28.
On the day in which every part or the United Kingdom
celebated with such geonine &Thugs of joy his Majesty's
Coronation, the loyalty of the Isle a Wight was eminently
distinguished. This town was throughout the day a scram
of gaiety and rejoicing. At noon the Vectia yea-
mans, cavalry, under the command of Sir Leonard
Woreley Holmes, Baronet, proceeded with their band
to join the troop+ in garrison at Albany B Its.—
After firing kferi-da joie, the corps returned to the town,
and at fonr o'clock were joined by many respectable inha-
bitsub at the Sun hen, where upwards of one hundred sat
down to a splendid dinner. Sir Leonard Holmes preaided,and
the fervour with which his Majesty's health was given and re.
cetved, was the strongest iodirstion of the feelings of loyally
and attachment that prevail. ii. •I'he rejoicings were not con-
fined to the Sun Ism ; at the Rugle lon upwards of 40 gen.
H. men assembled to commemorate this happy event. Sir R.
Bassett filled the Chair, soil the true spirit of loyalty which
was evinced by every one fully puurtrayed the real attachment
of the inhabitaols of this place to their King and Country.
The Hon. C. A. Pelham moat liberally supplied the Gan-
t ison, sod other chimera, with aeration from his pink, at Ap-
puldorrotribe. The people al4, were nut forgotten, by the
geoerosity of our ever to be•rrapeeted Representative, Sir
Lettoasd Holmes; they tendon opportunity of drinkluga lung
and happy reign to our gracious Sovereign.
An illumination the most hrilli•at ever witnessed in this
town, closed the evening. It would be scarcely possible in a
short statement of this description, to give a correct out-
him of every device exhibited on this occasion, hut we
should be wanting in taste were we toot to mention the bril-
liant at the Guildhall, Dowager Lady Holmes,
and Dr. Moore's; together with the full-length transparent
portrait of his Majesty is his coronation robes, painted by
the son of Mr. Booty, and exhibited at his father'. house.
About ten o'clock some +ray fine fire.works were set of
from a stage erected in Si. Jaosee.-nquare, and notwithatand-
iug the crowds assembled in the street, the day concluded as
it began, with the 'cement harmony, and without being
clouded by a single accideut. On Friday mods( there was a
splendid ball nod supper at the Guildhall. By permission of
the Corporation, Oils elegant room, with the market under-
lit sill, was, under the superintendence of Capt. Le Maumee
and Robert Choke, Esq. fitted op with the greatest taste.
The ball was raider the tolinensate arrangement of the
Right Hou. Lord H. Seymour, the Hon. C. A. Pelham, Sir
Fiiawilliam Barrisigton, Bart , Sir L. W. Holmes, Bart.,
Sir W. Oglander, Bart., Col. Rosa, C.O. the commanding
officer of the garrison, G. Ward, E.q., ft. Simeon, Eaq , and
W. W. Anwyl, Esq., Wm. Moore, Esq, ■lid Capt. Otway.
The principal families of the island, and officers of the
gamines*, were joined by the mu.' respectable inhsrataats
of the town on this festive occasion, nod the bri.lisncy of
the scene could only be exceeded by the joy which every one
appeared to experience. The conversion of the Market into a
sapper room displayed a taste which was scarcely possible
to have hien expected in the short space in which it
wa■ finished. Here, by the ■rrangmenta of the Stewards,
an elegant cold collation, with horns, and every deli•
racy liberality could supply. was to be boated in profusion.
The impression made by this *erne of pl oil gratifica-
tion will be lung felt. 'lliose to a mule advanced state of
life will rifled on it with satisfaction, a. having given ex-
pression to that true spirit of loyalty which exists hi this coun-
try, and the more juvenile of the party will, with delight,
call back to their recollection the day on which the Monarch
of a
.free and powerful nation ratified the solemn compact
between him and his people.

The great losses stistamed by the speculators in
providing seats for spectators sit the late Coronation,
constitute • topic of general conversation. The
high inters required. sod other causes, have been
assigned for the disappointment which the parths
have suffered; hot the great and principal cause,
we apprehend, will be found iu the excess of the
supply beyond the necessary coostimption. It is
estimated that accominoilstion was provided for
70,000 persons; hut admitting the population of
the metropolis to be, including the temporary in-
flux of strangers, upward• of 1,200,000, it was
not sufficient to produce 70,000 persons of an age
and inclination, and means to occupy so many
seats, even at a moderate price. The speculators
should hove also considered, that the exclusion of
females from the procession would necessarily di-
m►nish its attractioit. The larger speculators are,
of enurse, the Kreuter losers. The Grand Central
Pavilion cost stela 7,0001. ; 3,000/. was to be paid
to the Comtnis.tioners of Improvement for the site
on which it was erected. and the proprietors, we
understand, hope that the latter sum will not he
demanded, in consequence of their heavy loss. In
fact, the money taken will not pay the expense of
taking clown the budding, and defraying the pre-
vious advertising and extra expenditure, excluding
altogether the cost of the inwerials end of con-
structslig the frame-work. It would be invidious to
detail the particular nist.nices in which utter failure
attended the building speculations in the vicinity
of ilVtstuu,,,,ter Abbey—the failure was universal,
and the actual losses in the temporary erections
alone will not fall short of forty thousand pounds;
and to these must be added the losses upon all the
minor and incidental +peenlotions for providing re-
freshinentv.

On Tuesday last the Officers and Privates of
the Windsor and Eton troop of the first regimeot
of Bucks yeomanry, had a dinner at the Swan
Inn, Windsor, to celebrate his MAJESTY'S Coro-
nation, and also to testify their due sense or the ho-
nour they had expesinced in personally attending
the same..
Letters from Q141:4041001 thee* has been
presented to 'a _phstel pan of abet town au infant,
eighteen months loltY, ilefirictero. tougn es. •