The National Register.
London, England, 1821-06-17 00:00:00

SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1821.

• fed, and the whole is consequently much higher. The
velvet with which it Is ornamented is unlike the old one,
which is purple; it is a beautiful crimson colour. The
whole is surmonntbd by a pearl of immense value.
The Globe, to be held in the left hand of his Majesty,
when seated on the throne, is pronounced to be of very
ancient workmanship; It is pf gold, richly ornamented
'with dimmed', rubies, emeralds' and pearls.
The Kea nee- ptre has a rich cross on the top, and
appear; to be of the same style and date with the above;
on the top of it is a large amethyst. - -
The Gold Staff of Edward the Confessor, which is to be
carried before. the King, is a beautiful specimen of the
workmanship of that are, and cannot fail of attracting
the attention of the curious.
The Golden 'Eagle, which is to contain the oil for anoint-
ing, is very curious and ancient, and appears to have been
made anterior to .the Confessor's time; the Spoon belong-
ing to this ancient vessel is of curious workmanship, and
embellished with coloured stones.
His Majesty's Coronation Ring is of plain gold, with a
large ruby violet, on which is curiously enchased a plain
cross, or cross of St. George.
The gold enamelled Bracelets, which the King will
wear on his wrists, are extremely curious, exhibiting the
chaste taste of our forefathers, and are undoubtedly of
great antignity.
The Golden Spurs are confidently said to be the identi-
cal ones worn by William the Conqueror; the form and
decorations are in a style of peculiar elegance; they have
no rowels, but a single point at the top. •
Two Swords of State, and one of Mercy, are to be car-
ried before the King, the hilts of which are very elegant ;
the last is pointless, and seems to convey a silent and reli-
gions admonition.
The Salt of State, which is to be placed in the centre of
the dinner table, is in the form of a castle with.towers,
richly embellished with various coloured stones, elegantly
chased, and of silver richly gilt. This, it is said, was
presented to King Charles the Seconti by the City of Ex.
eter, and used at the coronation of that Monarch. There
will be twelve other Salts of an enormous size, richly
chased and gilt, arranged round the State Salt, which
cannot fail of producing a grand effect when placed on
the table.

The large silver-gilt Wine Fonntaia will display a cn-
riot's feature of the arena...". of aneieut times.
There will also be several splendid, classed, sad gilt
dishes, embossed with vat-ions devices, many bf them with
religions subjects; flagons, chalices, and tankards, ail of
exquisite workmanship.
' Besides the regalia which have been already described, the
following have been prepared for the purpose of being used
in the solemn forms of the approaching coronation :
! Tee ScEPTa6 Vk IT II a DJA.E.—Titis differs materially
from the sceptre with a cross, which was described in the
last article. It is mit wrest lied, but of an even surface ; it
it is pure gold, three feetseven inches in height, three inches
in circumference at the handle, and two inches:lntl a quarter
at the top; the pommel is adorned by a fillet of diamonds
and precious stories of dillerent sorts; the ball or globe at
the top is ornamented by a hand or fillet of rose diamonds;
alum the ball is a small cross, which is surmounted by a dove
with extended wings, as the emblem of mercy. For this
sceptre, his Majesty, in the course of comp!) Mg with the
different forms required, will exchange the hall or globe of
empire. The sceptre with the dove will then be held iu
the left hand, while the right bears the sceptre with the cross.
Three swords kill he borne naked before the King in the
proce.,,ion, besides the Sword of State which, has been
already mentioned. The latter will be carried singly and
the nearest to his Majesty's person, but will be immediately
preceded by the Sword of Justice to the Spirituality on the
right hand, the Sword of Justice to the Temporality on the
left, and the Sword of Mercy in the middle. The Sword of
Mercy, or I • less sword, known in the heraldic account
by the 11111111, of ceirtetaa, is the principal of the three swords
in di;riity ; tae length of its blade is SI inches, the breadth
almost two inches; the handle, which is covered with line
gold wire, is four Melte-slung, besides the pommel, of an inch
and three quarters, which, with the cross or gum d, is plain
steel gilt; the length of the truss is eight inches. This
sii 01 d , for the purpose of mow erhig allegorically to its
name, is made to appear as thotrgh its point were broken of.
The scabbard is 'covered with rich brocaded cloth of tissue,
with a ferrule, hook, and cape.
The second sword in dignity, that of Justice to the Spi-
rittialit), is a pointed sword, but considerably more than
the third ; the leisgth of its blade is forty inches, the breadth
rut inch and a halt; the handle is covered in a similar man.
user to the former, with fine gold is ire; it is also of the same
length, and in all tither respects (nut mentioned) it ctiiners.
The third sword in dignity, the Sward of Justice to t re
Temporality, is air extremely .lutrii pointed sw the
breadth of its blade is sue Mel) and tlirce .:u irters, tire lenAth
forty i.:clys ; arid in every other respect it resembles the
Sword ofJustice to the Spiritualqy.

R. AD.4IR, ESQ. versus 771 E BISHOP af
WINCH ESTE It.

In consequence of the above-named Bishop (who
was private secretary to ‘Villiam Pittj) having
in the memoirs of his late master, Which he Ims
recently published, reflected most tayiLlostitiably and
most fillsely, us well upon the memory of the late
Mr. Fox ti. 4 upon the character of Mr. Adair,that gen-
tleman, with u delicacy of feeling which the Bishop
was neither entitled to expect nor capable of appre-
ciating, addressed to him a pritale letter, in which
he pointed out to him six grws lusts:gees of misr
represeniation, which he trusted the Rev. Prelate

Paler Sid. 4

would correct; but in a long, wordy answer, the
Rev. Lord evaded this just demand, and thus forced
Mr. Adair to do himself justice by publishing his
refutation, which he has done in a manner the most
satisfactory to every unprejudiced
_ mind. He shews
that his journey to St. Petersburgh in 1791, was
ilettimined on, totally without the knowledge of • .
Mr. Fox ; and to prbve at his conduct while there,' • .••
was not regarded as hostile to the measures of the
existing government, he Metes the application that
was made to him by the immediate successors of Mr.
Pitt in office, to undertake a moat important diploma..
tic mission accompanied by the signification of his
Majesty's pleasure to confer on him a mark of his royal
approbation of his services : and he mentions this, he
says, because " where to repel the detraction of less
honourable adversaries, a man may, without impu.
tation of a silly vanity, bring into court the testi-
mon)? of the chiefs by whom they were disavowed-7
Mr. Adair concludes his masterly Letter with the
following just and well-merited description of the
leigned Prelate's work.
•TFrom such materials, my Lord, my friends may read'vrithout
a blush the story of my humble public life. Different indeed
arc those which you have collected from your imperial theme;
and different the use to which you have put them. It is by no
means clear that you do not stand criminally responsible to me
for the manner in which you have atoned me, by name, of an
offence little short of high treason. For the present let this pus.
You have done it, possibly, for the purpose of injuring Mr. Pox
rather than myself. It is for this reason that I am more pe-
remptory in my demand of justice for him; and if for no other.
it is because he was the rival of Mr. Pitt, that, by the courtesy
of generous competition, your Lordship would be bound to grant
it. You have made yourself the historian of Mr. Pitt. and of the
eventful times in which he governed. You have had access to his
papers. Authorised by him. In his last moments to look them
Over widrthe Bail of Chatham, you had the means of tattering a
work to this world with unexpected pretension• to veracity. With
such materials, it might have been hoped that you would have
felt somet;t of the,pride of your task; that Vogt mind eSlionsi-
ing itself your @Object, you would have castaway with scam
alt to both:lad front the ruin of an adversary's glory. It
hefts that, hlingssappie to 14r. Pift.
yam would ha the am in
berkas you poll* to be &oilier
with for the 411•01/111111ed hum their
severe simplicity to fidget alt paltry eye t piiiihad false lines, and
sham doors, and showy
_meretricious contrivances to phase a bar.
barons taste. If this did not equam with your scheme. you must
have been aware, at least, of the responsibility belonging to the
new character in which you were about to appear, and that the
same authority which enabled you to stamp the seal of truth on
your facts, imposed on you aho the duty of advancing none
which you should not be ready, as well as able, to substantiate.--
All these considerations you have passed by in search of the meant
of injuring Mr. Fox. You have not even disdained for this pur-
pose a partnership with the faithless amanuensis who lust
published the charge against him. Yet this man bore no malice
to Mr. Fox. What he did was under the keen influence of
hunger. Why have you participated in his act ? And arc you
content with that share of its merit which leaves you only whet he
disclaims in it ?
6* But when documents are to he published, you do not linger
in the race with him. Like all ordinary life writers you gt t
proseseion of family papers, you have gone on in the usual
remine of book making, selecting those which, in your jutig•
mot, exalt Mr. Pitt; and others which exhibit his opponents
as traitors to their King and country. In doing this you have
Wm touched by no shame, no feeling, for the dead or the living;
yes have been withheld by no doubts of the moral rectitude of
what you were about, no sense of constitutional duty, no reverence
for stations the most exalted, or for obligations the most binding.
Under no provocation from conflicting interests, you have,
deliberately and advisedly. brought forth into open day matters
which the constitution itself has guarded with the most scrupulous
jealousy from the sight and even from the knowledge of our state
parties. You have dipped your arrows in forbidden venom and
shot them forth at random, to light as they list on a Britisu
Parliament, on the chichi of die old nobility of ;he land, on a band
of commoners, in knowledg; in virtue, m d sintetested public
spirit, inferior to none of theme predecessors at the proudest hour
of their struggles for the independence of their house. You, too,
my Lord, like the plunderer of Mr. Burke, have put forward a
mighty name, under whose cover you brand all these illustrious
individuals in a mass with the galley slave inarksof a uksekkaT
AND Li MPH firci Pi. F.oFACTI o fe,contederated for theirown private
ends to subvert the constitution and di: laws, anti deficient even
in the rummers of gentlemen. Nor is it the least uf Jour offences
that in this part of your work you have placed public men, to
whom honour is every thing, Et a situation In which their
loyalty is the only security fru their silence. For myself, I
not be provuktal by the surreptitious developeinent of thee
mutters, to say one word upon their tendency ; sure tint the night
person in whoie name they are so indecently promulgated, never
would have written to ]tit confidential servant what fie was not

...evinced would be Jae r.-11 from the sight of all oilier men ;
equsdly sure that Mr. l'itt himself, ti.uud,th pressed by hu.tile
majorities to the ground, would have cut otf his rigut has.d
sooner than he would have divulged wlt.t been bo 4:ollllllU-
nicated.
Of the value of you: history, however, this
dignituty of die church of smiglroLi doct;spiiat.
of truthantl charity is no snore; will we s.ie mita
pat tyseeretary, the self erea.ed executor, who ISO
Isis friend to get at the seere_s of his Severvgn,
both to maraet to the best bidder.

•,," We have addicimhd pleasure
encrcased publicity to these facts, beau
had the honour of being known to M
years (through the person4l intro:kJ:tit
the mu:A amiable Veers of the Realm,
always heard his diplomatic integrity
lauded most highly by those who were
potent W form a correct estimate of the:•

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31itiperial aaaritailtent.
Hou,Lor LORDS.
WEDNEsIiAY. JUNE 13.
Sir .1. MACINTOSII and tev.:ral members from the Commons
brought up the inivately stealing bill, also the bill to prevent
robberies on navigable rivers and canals, which were read the
first time.
On the motion of Lord SI nmourit, the house went into a
committee on the bill to regulate the court of king's bench and
common picas in Ireland.
The Earl of DONOUG II MORE rose in the said committee,
and again expressed his opposititn to the bill.
Lord SIDMOUTH said, the passing of the bill would be
hailed with jay and gratitude in Ireland.
The Earl of I.l:lEltlCii was convinced that the kill would be
emitiderul a blessing. The people of Ireland, man to man,
would be fur this bill, because they had sanartcil under eztortion
and oppression during a considerable. number of years.
The LORD CHANC ELL( llt stated his opinion that the
duties could not be so well performed when salaries were paid as
when tees were paid; at the same time he had no objection to
give the system proposed in the bill a trial.
The bill finally passed through the committee, and was reported.
After sonic further routine business, the house adjourned.

THUItaILIVY, JUNE I I.
Lord HOUS presented a petition from the Landholders
of Stitiolk, complaining of a..ricnlttiral distress. The pe-
tition was read and laidon the table.

'fie Rev. Mr. N kv PrrerioN—Lord KING said,
lie lard in his hand a petition of considerable importance
to the Clergy, as it effected die rights of the great body
of citrates. The petitioner complained, that having been
presented to the rectory of 131atlierwick, in the county of
Northampton. Ire found it necessary to apply to the bishop
of Petei borongli, the diucesiau, for a licence to do the
diify. Refine lie could obtain the said licence lie *as
called upon to answer b 7 doctrinal questions propounded
by the right reverend diocesian. Refusing to answer the
questions he was rejected, and refused a licence. lie then
applied to the Arelihishap of Canterbury, %vim declared
the right of the bishop of Peterborough to examine and
require answers to the questions proposed. The petitioner
bad then no right at law, and was obliged to apply to this
House, praying their lordships to investigate these 157
questions, as being unconstitutional. The nolile lord
said Inc understood the 57 questions were put fur the oor-
pose of ascertaining the religious doctrines of candidates
for coracles, not their ability to discharge the duty. It
most be obvious that evi I y clergyman proved his ortho•
dux), by aubscribing to the thirty -nine &sticks of faith ;
yet the right reverend prelate of Peterborough said,
unless you answer my S 7 questions, you shall not enter
my diocese. It was in the opinion of the noble lord a
mockery to tell the unfortunate petitioner lie was obliged
to submit to this new test, alter his real sentunents on re-
had been ascertained. The great object of the
Clint eh of England was to obtaiu peace, quiet, and order.
Nothing could promote that object noose than contiiiiiig its
members to the 39 articles of taitli. The noble fond cited
the opinions of several learned divines in support of his
statement, that the subscription of a clergyman to the 39
articles was sufficient qualiiication far the office of priest,
and concluded by ~,,, %nig the petition be read.
The petition of the Rev. iI. W. Neville was linen read,
making the siatemeid which the noble lord had introduced.
The Bishop of PKFERBOROLIGIi absei ed, that
their loi &hips could not, consistent with the respect due
to the established church, discuss the propriety of the
questions the petitioner hail made the subject of com-
plaint, especially as those questions were prescribed l.y
the forty-eiblitli canon. Su long as the canon gave the
power he had exercised, the I loose would not make any
alteration. No temporal authority had hitherto dictated
to bishops their inOlie of examining for admission to holy
orders. It was consequently unconstitutional to interfere,
and the House could not entertain the opinion. The
member of persons refused licences because they would
spot answer at all, amoutited to tau. There were at that
time only two candidates—one for curate, the other for
holy orders, and that was the mighty matter to Set the
House of Lords in motion.

Lord KINCSaili, the only question was, whether the
eighty-seven questions were certainly a regular set of
leading questions, and the answers were the test on which
the candidate was to be tried. He moved that the petition
do lie on the table.

Lord CALTHORL'E supported the petition.
The Earl of HARRO %V BY expressed an opinion that
the House could not anti .taro the subject.
Earl GREY said the impression on his mind was, that
the coinplai,it was well futitolcd. The questions as he tin.
derSIOIRI them, were to exclude Calvinists horn the estsbw
fished chinch.
The Bishop of PETER BOROUG II spoke to order, and
declared the IllithltlMA acre Mil, used to detect a devia-
tion t tile established church. and to explain the 39
a: tides according to the literal meaning.
After some tin titer observations on the part of Earl
Grey, the pei unto was l ejec•w I.—Adjourned
FRIDAY, JUNE lb.
MARQUIS CIIOLAIONDELEV ♦ND Miss. DANSR a. LOllO
CLINTON.—The bowie gave judgment in this important cause,
in favour of Lord Clinton, by which his Lordship s title to the
immense estatui in Devon and Cornwall is confirmed.: _

The Royal assent was given to the crown lands' revenue
imptovenient bill, the Irish law courts' regulation, the Irish nisi
pnub regulation, the Irish rate of interest. and several private
bids. The commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of
Shafte.sbury. and Earl Bathurst.
Mr. iIYMOILE, from the Nicholas Bay company, presented
accounts relating to that establishment.
The Irish insolvent debtors: bill was read a third time and
I.J Yd.
SLAVE TRADE.—The I\larquis of I.ANSDONE adverted to
several papers laid on the tame by a noble load some time ago,
relating to the slave wade, and moved t:ie !Arne be printed
for the use of the house —Ordered. The noble marquis then
gave notice of his intention to submit a motion to the house
on the subject of the foreign slave mule ou Wednesday next.
The navigable rivers and canals' irobbery prevention bill was
read the first time.
The Marquis ofl.A NSIMW NE gave notice that he should
move the second reading of the stealing in the daelling house
punishment bill on Thursday next.
On the 'widow of the EMI tit tiIIAFTESISURY, the house
stijouthod to Monday.

DOUSE OV COMMONS.
NI:UUICSI.AY, JVNII
The irollbe io the day named ton the utljourniticeit,
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