The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-03-25 00:00:00

rlik E! 4's CO?/R2

Yesterday. at one o'clock. hie Majesty held a
Coast at his Palace in Pall-mall. which was at.
tended by—
His fkgese Hirlistus Prince Philip of Heim Homburg,
sad a Minium from the Emperor of Austria; their Excel-
kacies the Pr Man, Betberlanels, and Austrian Ambassadors ,•
the Bavarian, Swedish, sad Baden Molders; the Lord
Chastener, she Lord Privy Seal, the Pliocene, of the Ea-
(Amines the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Heater Gene-
ral of the °Moaner, the Secretaries of state for the Home
and Colonial Deparomeuts the Charseelko of the Ducky of
insuneter, E srl Abilgrave, the Greet Chamberlain of Eng-
land, the Loist Chamberlain, the Lord Steward of the
Household, llr Hester of the Hone, the Groom of the Seek,
the Treasurer of the Household.

Rath C.atbcart and Shaftesbury.
Ftscosafs—Strangford and Lake.
Lorde--Bining„ St. Helen's, Bewley, Aram, and Clwydle.
The Lord Chief Justice of the Court a Sines Bench,
The Common Serjeaat of the City of Londow.
The Lord Mayor, Sheriff, and Town Clerk of Dahlia.
Jiteronc—O'Naghtett, Langsdurff, Pfeffel, Stsusisid, sod
Biortisieras.
Counts—Urines, Stadion, Schwerin, Walwineen.
Governer Farquhar, the Judse of Ceyloa, lbe Master of
the Ceressonies, Assistant Master of the Ceremonies, Wiessn.
Monier, T , and W. Dundee.

The following Ambassadors and Ministers were
introduced to his Majesty upon various occosione,
by Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colo-
nial Department, in tin. absence of Lord Viscount
Castlereagh. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
conducted by Sir Robert Chester, the Master of the
Ceremonies, and Mr. Chester, the Assistant Master
of the Ceremonies :

Ili; Serene Highness Prince Philip of Hesse
Homburg, Lieutenant. General in the Emperor of
Austria's service, upon a mission extraordinary,
with three of his Imperial Majesty's actual Chan*.
berlaine, Baron 09Nagliten, Count Urban, and
Count Stadion, also Officers in his Imperial Ma.
jelly's army, with a letter of condolence upon the
decease of his late Majesty, and alio a congrato.
letory address upon his Majesty's accession to the
throne of Gum Britain.
The Persian Ambassador, accompanied by his
Secretary and Mr. Morier, took leave of hie Ma.
jesty, previous to his departure.
Prince Eaterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, had
an audience of the King, and delivered hie new ere.
dentials from his Court to his present Majesty.
Baron Fagel, the Ambassador from she Nether•
lands, delivered a letter of condolence upon the
demise of his late Majesty, and a congratulatory
address to his present Majesty, and also his new
credentials from his Sovereign.
Baron Steruheld, the Swedish Minister, had an
audience, and delivered his new credentials from
his Sovereign.
The General Baron de Bjornstierna. accompa.
nied by Count de Schwerin, on a special mission
from the King of Sweden to congratulate his Ma•
jolty upon his secession to the throne.
The Baron Pfeffel, the Bavarian Minister, to
deliver his new credentials from his Sovereign. and
also with a letter of condolence upon the demise of
his late Majesty, and with a congratulatory address
to his present Majesty upon his accession to the
throne.

Baron Langsdorfl; Itesident Minister from
Medea sail Haw. to deliver pis new credentials to
his present Majesty, from the Grand Duke of
Baden and Hesse, and also letters of Condolence
on the demise of his late Majesty. sod congratu-
lations upon his present Majesty's accession to the
throne of Great Britain.

Sir William Stainer, Bart. the Right lion. the
Lord Mayor of Dublin, the High Sheriff of Dub.
lin, Garrott Neville, Esq. and Mr. Molesworth
Green, the Town Clerk of Dublin, the Depute.
tion of the Corporation of the city of Dublin,
were introduced to his Majesty to present Ad-
dresses voted by that Body upon the demise
of the late King, and a Congratulatory Ad.
dress upon his Mjesty'a accession to the throne.
They were all most graciously received with marked
attention from the King. and his Majesty was gra-
ciously pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood
on the High Sheriff, now Sir Garrett Neville.
These Gentlemen all wore their official robe.. The
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor carried his wand of
office, mod wore his splendid gold chain and orders
atti•clied to that high office in Dublin.
Governor Farquhar was introduced to his Ma-
jesty to take leave, on his return to his government
of the Mauritius by Earl Bathurst.
Viscount Strangford was introduced to the King
by Earl Bathurst, on returning front his Majesty's
mission in Sweden.

Richard Ottley. Esq. was introduced to his Ma.
jesty by Earl Bathurst. upon his being appointed
one of the Judges at Ceylon. upon which occasion
he received the honour of knighthood.

His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which Vis.
count Strangford, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord
Henley, Lord St. Helens, Earl Cathcart, Lord Ar.
den, Lord Binning, Mr. Trevor, and Mr. W. Dun.
das, were introduced, and sworn of his Majesty's
Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their
seats at the Board accordingly.
Viscount Chetwynd atteuded as Clerk of this

At the close of the Council Newman Knowlyr,
lE•ri. the Com Serjeatit of the City of London.
wll6 admitted, to make a report of convicts capi-
tally convicted at Justice Hall in the Old Briley.
the Recorder being unavoidably absent from itidit.

- The Court did not break up till • quarter past
seven o'clock.

The Lord Mayor, the High Sheriff, and the
Town Clerk of Dublin, catue to Court in the
Lord Mayor of Londoo's carriage and four horses,
with three footmen iu full mourning, bags, &c.

Au improvement is making to the entrances of
the House of Commons ; the passages are to be
widened, and the door-ways heightened, that when
the new Parliament assembles, the Members n►ay
walk in upright, and nut be obliged to stoop and.
/eau sideways, as they have been co►npelled to do
heretofore.

CRISP, THE PEDESTRIAL—This extraordinary
man, whose pedestrian feats it. London and various
pails of the country have gained him the appella•
lion of the Champion of Lowland. is, technically
speaking, knocked up. in consequence of over-
exerting himself, a short time 2p, on Hampstead
heath.

• .4 • . . 9.41

tAIW INTEtLIGBNCE.

tfO4lllT OP acmcsar, twooLo.s
Fatear, less Ant to.
•
INTENDED MARRIAGE IN YIGM LIFE
'de twenty el eta moose asaut.ov,
a Miner and a Ward of Mowery, grad tAr 11,m.
LAOT toVenrst. also Mawr.
A petitiso was presso to the Lard
teller some time beck by Lady Greeley, the irirob..,
of the ward of Court. praying that tine r-rt •A
Coventry, the Collates, of Coventro, awl use
John Coventry, their son, might be ititrainint ter
injunction front siding and w.sisting, Of ellcs:y.
ragtag a marriage between the ward. who i,
years of age, and Lady Sophia Coventry,
youngest &tight* of the Earl, who is o.lv if
years of age. His Laisfelsip beard the Coo ~..1
the petitioner in his private room at lll'eutiolower
Hall.
Mr. WcwitalLL this day said, It, had to
cause why the prayer of the petition Arnold nut
granted. He had advised hie noble 4i-64% sius
consisted of WI the parties of the Cementer
gaily set forth in the petition, to lay t'ONVV
cuasstaece of their conduct, and of the trans:utile.,
eves le every letter that was written oft tlxeauili•et,
before his Lordship; they had done so, earsionst
did they SIROSIM W? It appeared that him r
Cheeky the ward, wee the reprtsentetive of an
ancient &wily, sod on becoming of age, would be
in the possession of a large estate. 111 April last
year, he kft the University of Oxford, luiui,K
finished his studies, sod went to Worcester,
where the family of the Earl of Coventry et to
at the time. He was introduced to the fanii'r
for the first time, he was invited to dine,
there was not a general invitation gives him to
the house of the Noble Earl, as charged in the
petition of Lady Greeley. After the return of
the noble family to their house in Piccadilly, the
ward visited them. and was invited to dine. and re.,
ceived, in the same way as any other persun of the
same rank would have been. The Noble Earl',
family in the solemn went to Cheltenham, tool
they supposed by one of those secidetsts which
people in a similar station of life meet, they tett
the ward. and the Hon. John Coveutry brusight
him home to dinner with him. Shortly afterwards
the ward wrote a letter to the Noble Earl,
his permission to pay his addresses to Lady Sophia,
which he answered as • father ought, that if his for.
tune watt of that extent. to as to rushes sollietaritt
on his daughter sufficient fur her rook in I,ta, mod
his, the ward's friends. approved of the marrow, he
would have DO objection. The ward, iii answer 1.•
this letter. sent the Noble Earl his rent-roll, soil
referred him to his solicitors for the truth of it. lie
did apply to the solicitors, and they cosifirmed the
statement of the rent roll, and informed lion
that Earl Beauchamp was the guardian of the
ward, on which he wrote to that Noble Fail,
and informed him of the circumstances, and Fe_
ceived for mower that he could have 110 4,k)j1.1'
tion to the marriage, but that the ward csti'a
not make a settlement on Lady Sophia, ii,tll,
he obtained his full age of el. The Ent of t',•-
veutry immediately informed thy we'd of the u..-
swer he bad received from hilt guardian, rod at 11,r
same time represented to him that he could not
consent to any marriage between 1 suit
Sophia HMO he became of age. It appeared tl.at
afterwards there was a corrrapontlence beta'ei
Lady Creaky and the Countess of Coventry, tit
which the latter assured her Ladyship that t n pot
of her family would consent to a marriage wilt ref*
son, the ward, before he became of age. Ile ttot.A
ask his Lordship, now he was in prosession of tine
facts, what were in them that was derogiitioy
the chatacter of the Noble Ilimse of Coveot!y.
He was at a loss to know what order his Lordship
could make in such a ease as this without it wee tei
dismiss the petition with costs.
Mr. SUADWIJ.L followed HO the same side.
The ATTORNIT-GRNERAI., Counsel for Eel
Beauchsnep, the guardian of the ward, said he
was instructed by his Noble client to say, that he
did not pee any thing improper iii the intended mar-
riage of the ward and 'Lady Sophia wine he 113.1
obtained the age of 41. and that he believi-il it oev.r
was the intention of the Earl of Coventry, or no).
part of his family, that the mariage should take
place before he obtained that age.
Mr. HART, Counsel for Lady Greeley, stated
that it never was charged by his chew that h.e
noble family of Coventry had entered into ts c ins
/piracy for the purpose of getting the ward to
marry Lady Sophia, it utits only alleged y
had given such an acquiescence that would pronsotd
it. He was the last person that would wish to say
any thing disrespectful to any person, whither nt
high or low life ; but would it not have been
aop-
posed that a man of high honour, such us EMI
Coventry was represented to be. would, on the
ward applying of ban by letter to slithers i+"4
daughter, Lady Sophia. have immediately iii!Oroo-d
Lady (iresley of the circumstance ; but he dill in t,
sod iu lact did not decline the stam-di ne
ntas-
riage until lie was informed by Earl I:eauclirtio;,
that the settlement on Lady Sophie coul.l ma be
made uutil the ward became of age. lle would
concede to hi. Learned Friend, that it was also the in-
tention now of Earl Coventry that the marriage should
take place uutil that time arrived. But that doi th.t
make it the less necessary fur his Lordship to 1,-
terfere by injunction, or some other order that 'aim ',l
prevent the intercourse between the ward awl Lids'
Sophia being kept up. If it was proved that the m. 21-
riage was contemplated to take place before that
period, his Lordship would be bound to prevent ti ;
mid what was the distinction, if the ward was al-
lowed to visit Lady Sophia up to the time of his
attaining that age, for lie would get-so entangled
that the moment he was legally authorised to act
for himself. he would be compelled to carry the
marriage lido effect. Under these cousiderattot
he trusted his Lordship would grant the prayer (4*
the petition.
The LORD CRANCELLOR observed. that lie
Would give his judgment on coming into Court 011
Monday morning.

BIRTH.
0. Wedenay WA, et Colurneyolinee, Mr.. Henry W«t-
MrWt, of • doeilwer.

Pstam.
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