The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-03-24 00:00:00

THE KING'S COURT.

Yesterday at one o'clock his Majesty arrived at his Pa-
lace in Pall-mall in his travelling carriage and four, from
his Lodge in Windsor Great Park. The King was re-
v ivr! his arrival by his Equerry and other attendants
i r writing. In a short time after his Majesty received a
visit from his Riyal brother the Duke of York. The
King afterwards proceeded to hold a Court, which was at-
tended by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the
Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the three S.'cretaties of
State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master-General of
the Ordnance, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
the President of the Beard of Trade, the Lord Chief Jus-
tice of the Court of King's Bench, the Master of the Horse,
the Groom of the Stole, es:. Treasurer of the Household,
the Duke of Northumberland, the Recorder of London, &c.
Mr. Vaughan was presented to the King by Mr. Secre-
tary Canning, on his return from Switzerland, and on his
being appointed his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America.
The Duke of Northumberland was presented to his Ma-
jesty by Mr. Secretary Canning upon his being appointed
to a special mission to the King of France at his corona-
tior.

Mr. George Ricketts was presented upon his being
appointed a Judge in India, when he received the honour
of Knighthood.
His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which the Duke
of Northumberland and Mr. Vaughan were introduced,
and sworn in Members, when they took their scats at the
Honourable Board accordingly.
Same alterations were made in the pricked lists of
Sheriffs.
The Recorder of London was admitted into the presence
of the King in Council, and made his report of the thirty
convicts capitaUy convicted in the February Sasions at
the Justice Hall in the Old Bail, y.
His Mej sty gave audiences to the Earl of Ilarrowhy,
the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Dorset, tl e Duke
of Northumberland, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Secretary Canning,
and Mr. Secretary Peel.
The Earl of De la Warr and Sir Hilgrove Turner were
the Lord and Groom in waiting.
The Court broke up about half-past five o'clock. Soon
after His Majesty left town on his return to his Lodge in
Windsor Park.

The ship erspentersof Li►erpool have turned out for an
tdranceof wages.
The total value of silk goods made in France does not
Sze cd 4,200,0001. of which about 1,200,0001. is exported,
the trade having of late rather diminished.
A piece of ground attached to the residence of Count
San Antonio, at Brighton, was on Saturday knocked down
for 8,5001.; it had a frontage of eighty feet, and altogether
one single acre of land. The cost of the ground 25 years
ago was 512/.
Miss Foote performed at Bristol on Monday evening,
the ps•t of Letitia Hardy, in the Belle's Stratagem, to
a crow.l, d audience. The receipts were upwards of 210/.
She returned after her exertions post to town.
The Constilationnel remarks of M. de Villele, that if he
is rot a good financier, he is, at least, ot good arithmetician;
fur be has taught the emigrants addition, the fund-holders
subtraction, the bankers multiplication, and Frenchmen
dicisi, n.
Da. Rocr it LONG.—This famous astronomer, walking
tne (talk even:ng with Mr 13,,nf0y, of Cambridge, and the
I Ater coming to a short post fixed in the pavement, which
in the earnestnea of conversation he took to be a boy stand-
ing in his way, said hastily—" Get out of my way, boy !"
" That boy, Sir (said the Doctor, very calmly), is a post-
-1,4y, who never tunas cut of Ids tray for any body."