The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-04-23 00:00:00

WITH MISS MOONE.

If Hymen has °freed so beauteous a boon,
And made you, by marriage, the Vas in the Moons"
Remember, the loveliest of Rowers has its thorn,
AuaHiatt the Moon, yet she stills mounts an no►a.
ARNO.

TO KITTY.

Dear Kitty, in thuse sp4rklisiy eyes,

Two link orbit I view,
Jost as the glittering stars arise
la yonder sky of blue.
See how they shed their brilliant light,
Reflecting as they shine;
So thy sweet eyes, diviuely bright,
Their lustre shed uu mine!

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THE PRINCE REGENT'S COURT.

Yesterday, at three o'clock, the Prince Regent
held a Court at Carlton (lunar. His Itoyal High-
ness also held a Privy Council, winch was attended
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord President of the
Council, the Lord Privy Seat, she First Lord of the Tarn.
pull., the Secretary of Stair for the Home Department the
Master General of theOrilnance, the Piesidesit of the Board
of Control, the Master of the Mint, the Lord Ckamlscrlaiu,
the Lord Steward of the Household, &c.

Viscount Chetwynd attended as Clerk of the
Council.
At the Council it 'was said that the coiewnt of the
Regent in Council was passed to ihe. ►narriage of
the. Duke of Cambridge, hut we du out pledge
°unwires to the correctness of it.

Count SCIIOIIbIIIBI IVAN 'preKelited to the Prince
Regent by Bit ttttt the Bavarian Envoy, anti
Vi.coutit
Flis Royal Highness gave audiences to the Earls
of Liverpool and Ilarrowby, and Mr. Canning.
Lord James Murray was she Lord in waiting;
Adnuial Sir J. Campbell wit,' the Groom in wi g.
The Court broke up a little belore six o'clock

PUB LW MONUMENT
TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE LAMENTED
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES AND SAXE

COBU RG.

The Cenotaph Committee. after maturely eonsiderine the
variutis etuninuoiratious they hare received, and in mart-
mity with what they hare reason to believe is the wish
of the Public, beg leave to stale that it is their intention,
should their feuds be adequate, to constreet the proposed
Temple of the Cenotaph on a scale sufficiently extrusive to
admit of its heiug appropriated •tu the purpoers of Divine
Worship, and coustitotrit a Free Church.

(Fur the Committee)
BENJ. BOTCH, Jute.

Yesterday the Duch**, of GuoucEsTFit 81,11 the
Duke of KENT dined With the QVICEN, Illy Prigs-
twos AUGUSTA. the Princess sod Mince of !hies':
DusamounG, Ste.

Yesterday the Duke of CUMBERLAND *tee
&&&& er to the Directors of the Concert of rlucirut
Music, mud other'. A g the c puny orre—
Ttir Doke 4.f Leeds, Earl Forieseite, asruss Fagel, the
Ambassador faun► the Netherlands, B (Semi's:, Baron
Kraue, Captain Jour•, the Bishop of Oxford, General
lili n, Mr. A. M'Dusoiltl,

Yesterday the Prince of HESSE FIOMBOURG, at-
trotted by O'N AGIITEN, rode out iii a royal
carriage, and vi►ited the LORD CHANCELLOR; Count
Setioanaurt, at Brunet's Ilutel ; the French Am-
bassador, the Simons!' Ambassador, Baron Flom-
BOLDT, the Prussian Slisinter. the Dukes of CUM.
EMMA ND and CLARENCE. Earl BATHURST, the
Afarch iiiii ess of Sst.ssnuatr, &e. &c.
%Volumes!. MtorsoE,—lt is said that at the
rehearsal winch was held at Lord LlYEnPool.'s, Ou
the subject of augmenting the salaries of the Royal
Dukes, who are about " to he given in marriage,"
whet' a certain Yorkshire Lord declared he had
great doubts how the people would bear it ; Lord
CASTLEREAGH, io the true rage of a Theatrical
Alasiager, called nut, 6' Sly Lord ! my Lord ! you
forget your part !"
Towoa, APRIL 22, 1 9 I 11.—Tbe most celebrated
head of MEMNON, King of Abydits, together with
many other relies of antiquity, which have been
sent from the Meditemestran as presents to the
PRINCE BEGENT, are nowt hitirlimg at the Tower
‘l'harf. This colossal head is 'teddy perfect, there
bring only part of the crown chipped nil; and front
its celebrity iii arecesit lure, most form a truly
gratifying acquisition to the already extensive col-
lection of antique. in tins country. The exploits
and death of MEMNON are handed down by 1103IER
to posterity in the Iliad.
NEW OFFER.—II is said, amongst other Mgr.
Mous devices, a !mechanic ut Blrllllllg Listll is torrid.
lug a light kind id armour for the present Ministry,
which, he avers, '‘ will be a perfect security, let
them act as they will." It consists, as we have
heard, of a light steel covering, stuffed within, asset
a large kind of envelop fur the head, which, accord-
ing to the artist's opinion, will be a complete
guard; and when they get into council, lie then
adds, "they 'nay lay their heads aside .1"
BARN A 'rkoLimpr., Esti. who hos, by the last
Gazette, been removed from the 58th regiment of
foot to a corstetcy w the Scuts (fives, is the eldest
son of the late Captain TRUE LOPE, a Ito so gallant.
ly lost Isis late in the Lite war, and nephew to the
late Getter.' Fount) Bowes, who w..s equally un-
fortimate—in every thing but their reputation.
The Rev. Hutu' FooRD, Vicar of Foxholes,
h::s been instituted to the loving of Stainer, hear
SciirlmronAli, on the presrutittiiiii of %V. J. DEtii-
SON, Esq. the unties- of thut estate.