The National Register.
London, England, 1820-06-04 00:00:00

SOCIETY FOR TII ENCOURAGEMENT OF
ARTS, MAINUFACTU'RES, AND COMMERCE.

The distribution of the rewards of this Society took
place on. Tuesday, for the first time, at the Argyll Rooms,
and perhaps never since the institution- Was formed
was thecereitiony graced with so much rank, fashiun,
and beauty.
Soon Mier twelve o'clock, his •Royal Highness the
Duke of Susses, President, entered the room, and though
the company seemed absorbed in the contemplation of
the different performances of the candidates in polite
arts, which were appended to the walls, and those of
mechanics, which covered the table, a universal expres-
sion of joy beamed in the countenance of all. His Royal
Highness, whose minority of disposition cannot be too
highly estimated, most gracefully, we may say, benig-
nantly, hawed to the company as he passed to his
Glair, and the business of the day now commenced.
- Mr. Atkin, the Secretary, here read a most classically
and highly interesting ezord.Ul4l on the rise and progress
of ate innitittiou, very particularly referring to its
commencement.
The premiums were theft presented.
His Royal Highness, tin several occasions obverted
the exertions of the candidates, and was particularly
complimentary to those (and we observed several) who
had urea before him on former occasions in the same
eltaNcters.
To Mr. J. Perkins, who was hotionred by three of
the Society's medals, for inveutions of the first enwie-
(lattice, he was store than usually happy. Thc candi-
date alluded to is a most i1161110t14 American, and his
Royal Highness observed, that as President of She
Society, he highly participated in tne oal iunal
which had et &need itself tm the occasion; that the
rewards here bestowed, pinned, that men of science were
happy to recognize Awl CllCUUlit'e the satuequalification,
be it Irmo wow c y ti iii i,ht.
To Mr. ‘Vitt. Hardy .:1410111er ingenious mechanic, pre-
vious or handing him sir l.rennurn, he observed, he felt
die hi nest graidicatiort tit theet;Lag him there, and he
knew trim to tie one tit nit: tin", closet and lumen
workmen in the world.
Ills Royal Higliness eulogized the company for their
attendance, telicitously Muer% ing, that the society had
gained a great paint, if the distribution Lad ensured
tile smiles of Ladies, as thuse Gentlemen, in all probtt-
.I,lllv, who weie not already members, wouhl serve the
institution by UCCOIIIIIIg so, iu COLLII,IIIIICIII to 111411
feelings.
A well selected band of music occasionally relieved
the ceremony, and those gentlemen who officiated as • "
managers, did every thing to contribute to the gratification 4a
f the dal.

18!

THE QULEY.

A letter from a Gentleman at Geneva, to a Cortes-
. pandent in town, which affords sonic interesting mat-
te' as to the state of her Majesty's health, and as to the
manner in which she had been received in that town.
After describing the unexpected arrival of her Majesty,
and the curiosity which her presence had excited, he
sacs:—Sonde of us Eilailsinnen felt it Our duty m pay
our respects to the dor:it Exile, and sent an humble
request that we might be allowed that honour. Her
Majesty was so much indisposed as to be incapahle
of
seeing us, but we were ultimately favoured with all
audience. Her Majesty received us with great conde-
scension and affability, aild made particular inquiries as
to when we heard trout England, of which she ex-
pressed herself a devoted admirer. She spoke with a
sort of enthusiasm of the people and of the country,
and said that her heart yearned with affection towards
the one and the other. She said she never should for-
get :the kind, liberal, and enthusiastic sentiments of
respect which had been politico her while in London—
at a period when all hope, save that founded upon the
consciousness of her own innocence, had fled. A
young gentleman, son of Mr. Alderman Wood, was
present; he had before spent some hours with her Ma-
jesty, and in alluding to the honourable exerticins of
lethal., in layout of an almost friendless woman,
sue seenitzd almost affected to tears. Her country—fur
/she said she hail none other but England, now that the
grave had swallowed her father, her mother, and her
brother—was the unceasing topic of her allusions ; and
she seemed to look with confidence to a triumphant re.
turn to what site emphatically called ' the bosom alter
people.'
" Her person, since she left England in 1814, seems
to be a good deal changed. She is nut so fair as she then
was, nor is she so stout—there is an air of melancholy
!angina about her manners, which renders her very in-
teresting. It is thought she will remain here for sonic
time. •She lives almost entirely secluded."
The arrival of Alderman Wood in the town of Calais
produced among the English inhabitants (about 1,000
in number) a considerable ferment. it was at once
. concluded that the long existing doubts as to the arrival
of her Majesty were about to be solved, and the sub-
sequent departure of the worthy Alder.inan, in compay
• with Lady Hamilton, on the road towards Paris, con-
firmed the belief that her Nlajesty would ultimately
come among them. This beliel led to a consideration
as to the way in which she was to Le received.—
Many were for evincing those sentiments of attachment
in the strongest manner; but, in order that the matter
might be arranged in a proper way, the following cir-
cular was issued on Wednesday.
" Elsa MAJESTY flit QUILLS' Of EVOLAND.—Infor.
loation having been received of the °beide intention of her
Majesty Caroline. (11,101111.11 to pana through
as in her way to Dover. kis swam* . that the English
isbabkants resident here any .stead a pirblie _meeting to be
beldeslas the Silver Lios, Ise Need, es Thursday evening. at
'eves &clerk, for the peeress of %gift Isla misidendica the
course which it may be ospoShmt le adept, skim view so pay to
her lifejimy that mews slob* is doe ass iwu British ',Ara
to one Liaise* illnierMse wok. at is the milissadnoiof
whose bosottr and lousy every Itsolhimsm isset hal as impe-
rative duty.
Calais, tsd May. MD."
Independent of the private circulation of the above
notice, it was likewise exhibited at the English reading.
room, and several gentlemen expressed their intention of
attending the meeting. In the course of the day, how-
ever, a person holding an official situation under the
British government, and who had previously rendered
himself somewhat unpopular, discovered the announce-
ment, and, it is suppcned, immediately proceeded to lay
an information before the Mayor, as, in ten minutes
after he had been seen reading it, the proprietor of the
reading-room was cited before that gentleman.—
The Mayor, who conducted himself with great polite-
ness', asked several questions as to the persons by whom
the notice had been prepared, and by whose orders it had
been stuck up. The answer was, that one of the sub-
scribers to the reading-room had left it, and that, in
placing it mi his window, he (the proprietor) was un-
conscious of having been guilty of any offence. In
return, he was informed that it was contrary to the laws
of France to summon a public meeting without the per-
inisssion of the municipal officers; and limber, that the
exhibition of the notice in question without a stamp,
was improper. The May or filially declared his inten-
tion to send the paper, -.vith a copy of which he was
provided, to the Picket at Arras, which he has accor-
dingly done, and thus the matter at present rests.
This proceeding soon obtained publicity, and excited
something like alarm in the breasts of 'Lose who had
intended to have met ; but their views were still further
frustrated by the landlord of the Silver Lion refusing to
let them have a roam in his house—a circunitatice
which is attributed to the influence of the saute official
gentleman to whom we have already alluded. Goner
these circumstances no meeting took place, nor is it y •
determined what course will he pursued, either upon t
part of tile British residents or the French authorities
in the et tin of her Majesty's Anital.
It is reported that an order has been inserted iu the
orderly-book w the Castle of Dover, that, it. the es cut .•
the arrival of her Majesty, a salute is to be tired from.
the guns in the batteries