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London, England, 1820-05-11 00:00:00

THE ZING'S LEVER.

Yesterday being the day appointed for his Ma-
jesty to hold his first Levee since his accession to
the throne, it excited considerable interest through-
out the empire. An early notice having been
given in the Gazette, numbers were attracted
from Scotland and Ireland, all being desirous
to pay their dutiful repects to their Sovereign,
and although soother Levee is announced for
next week, the Levee of yesterday was the most
numerous ever recollected, all ranks, from the most
ancient of the Nobility to the Commoners of all
parties, being desirous to have the honour of being
present at the first Levee of Ins Majesty King
George IV. to express their attachment to his
person and government, and upon this occasion all
present had the honour to kiss the King's hand.
Although the Levee was not aonounced to begin
till two o'clock, the company began to collect soon
after twelve, and by two o'clock shout five hundred
had arrive.% The company continued to arrive
till near four o'clock, when it was ascertained that
near 1,800 had arrived, being about three hundred
more than were present at the Levee after his pre-
seat Majesty became Regent. The assemblage of
vesterd4y was considered the most splendid of
Noblemen and Gentlemen that ever were collected
under one roof. The dresses were principally new,
and were magnificent. Prince Esterhazy, the Aus-
trian Atilbs.s.olor, the Spanish Ambassador, and
others of the Ainbissadors and Ministers, came
with their servants in new State liveries upon the
occasion.

A Guard of Honour marched into the Court-
yard as usual, preceded by the band, in their State
uniforms, and a detachment of the Life Guards
were stationed in Waterloo-place, with their band,
who played alternately with the other, which con-
siderably heightened the effect of the splendour of
the scene on the outside of the Palace, together
with the magnificent equipages assrenbled, and the
crowds of respectable persons attracted into Pen-
man, to view the grandeur of the Court. A nu-
merous assemblage of tile police were iii attendance,
with Townsend and Sayers at their bead, and we
understand great order prevailed. •
The crowd of company assembled in the state
rooms, in which his Majesty entered al the time
appointed, caused the heat to be excessive, from
which his illaj•sty suffered much, as did the com-
pany generally ; some had nearly fainted, and no
relief could hr affirded from opening the window%
owing to the wind blowing strong and direct into
them, mud although the King experienced consi-
derable inconvenience and fatigue from having to
receive the congratuhoiona of such an unpre-
cedented number (nearly two thousand), his Ma-
jesty is in the enjoyment of such excellent
health, that he was able to go through the
ceremonies of the day without expe►iencing material
inconvenience, and the subject of his Majesty's
good health was a matter of satisfaction to the
company generally.
I Its Majesty received the male. branches of his
own family first in his closet, consisting of their
Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York. Clarence,
Sussex, and Gloucester, and Prince Leopold. The
Duke of I•nrk carried into the closet, on a velvet
cushion, the Orders of the Garter, Bath, St. Pa-
trick. the Thistle, and the Guelphic belonging to
the late lamented Duke of Kent, which the Duke
of York returned to the King. . .

The Duke of Sussex came'in state with his full
attendants, and was received by the guard of ho.
nonr presenting arms, and the band playing God
save the 'Dig( as his Royal nighties,. entered the
grand entrsoce. The other blanches of the Royal
Family entered the Palace by the side door.
General Montgomery delivered to his Majesty
the Order of the Thistle worn by the late Lord
Eglintonn.
Mr. Fremantle delivered the Order of the Bath
worn by his late father.
The Doke of San Carlos, the Prince Casteleicale,
and the Duke of Holstein, had audiences of his
Majesty, and took leave, es did Count Tauntzeist.
They were introduCed to the Kiug by Earl
Bathurst, in the absence of Viscount Castlereagh
by indisposition, and conducted by Sir Robert
Chester, the Master of the Ceremonies.
Count D'Aglie and Baron Lting.do.ff had audi-
.etsces of his Majesty. to deliver their new cre-
dentials.

M. de Schantz had an audience of the King, and
delivered an Address of Condolence on the demise
'Cr the late King, and of Congratulation on his pre.
sent NJejesty's accenion to the Throne.
As soon as the King left his closet. the Royal
ifoosehold, the great Officers of State. the Cabi-
net Ministers, &c. kissed hands upon their new ap-
pottainenta.
There were also present--
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Lord Chief
Perron, Mr. Warren, the Chief Justice of Chester, the
Master of the Rolls, the Attorney and Solicitor-General, the
hoog's Proctor, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, the Judge
of the Admiralty Court, the Provost of Coon College, the
Lord Mayor of London, the Sheriffs of London and Mod-
e:ll(sta (Messes. Hollowell and Parkins), Uorter•Sleeriff Tur-
ner, Under-Sheriff Pollen, the High Bailiff of Sonthrratk,
fool the Chief M.,ogietrate of the Police.
Dukes—Ssu Carlos. Mimeo'', Rutland, Richmond,
Beaufort, Norfolk, Dorset, Rutland, and Wel-
liagtun.
Mai quasi—Winchester, Headfort, Cholmondeley, Curs-
wall is. Thomond, Couyngbam, Camden, Northampton, Star-
ford, Anglesey, Haab, Taristock, Exeter, Worerster, Graham,
Hotly. Downstater, Hertford, and s olosloury.
Marls—Besburough, Yarmouth. Summon, Wilton, Rock-
swage. Abergarentoy, Harrowby. :trifast, 'School., Tyreou-
,,el, Nuribeak, Caledou, Bread..!;raae, Beech-
tick. !Hammes. A i 'tabu- y, Limerick. Elmhurst, Dart-
mouth, Errol, Dighy, Harewumt, Portsmouth, Rossiya,
Jersvy, Tbaset, blexiiorough, Fingall, Coventry, Caruaruo,
Gusfurol, Domnighmore, Wincloolsco, Orford, Vi'llitworsh,
De la Warr, Fitz *salaam, Caribou, Alwyn', Beauchamp,
Moray, Home. Scarborough, Rodin, Denbigh, tVemyros,
Losrltery, Waswit 1, Commute, St. Germano, Aylesfurd,
H arourt, Pembroke, Shattemboory, Hardie icke, Maccksbeld,
lekat limo, Covetous), Grosvenor, ware, Westmorland, Liver-
pool, Harrington, Temple, and Cathcart.
Vimounis—Eimismore, Clive, Barnard, Melville, Middle-
tom. M elbourioe,Gage,Car Irmo, Palmerston, Hood, Sidmouth,
h:orfora. Belt/rave. Clinton+, Fit:barrio, Barring-
tun, Clifton, tiolkeley. ()ma'am), Mount-Charles, Maynard,
/Moth, Chetwynd, Norma:, Douglas, Cranborue, Jocelyn,
sail lunacy. '
- Lords—Ardee; Calllwryr Darting, Auckland, Granary,
Chubs Grautli, W. Lemnos-, Harris, Curzon, G. Beres
ford, Rolle, Cloubrock, W. Somerset, Rraybrooke, Redes•
Gale, Hill, Napier, Russ, Slrattsareu, Bradman, Kenyon,
Mooney, St. Helens, Amherst. J. Thynuv, Elcbo, Boston,
U. Howard, hi assiumou, Gambier, W. Gordon, Wilson-
ham, Wm. Bentiack, Clifford, Carrington, Stanley, Moistly,
Begot, Duck, Greavcs, Howden, Waterpark, Grantham,

Sayemst See, losners,Nowa, 6renville, G. Somemet,
Hotham, G. Cavendish, W. Fit:timid, Crewe, Royston,
Wahosurt, .1. Someart, C. Tuensbend, and Berwick.
Bormst.—Jest, Fogel, Below, Pfeffel, Wolfe, De
Noetest:mien. and Noleken.
Counts--Ludolf, St. Marlin d'Aglie, Molkt, Blucher,
Monster, Leven, Wurouzuw, Pakten', St. Antonio, aud Liu-
'Amgen.
114141 llonottnibles—Sir George Hill, Sir William Rae,
R. Pole Carew, Wallace, Sir E. Neoran, Col. Bagwell,
J. Leech, G. Canning, Robinson, N. Vansitiart, W. W.
Pule, B. Bathurst, Sir T. Plower, and Sir W. Scutt.
Howourables—Colimel odehowsr, -- Gordon, Captain
Irby, Admiral Wodrbouar, Archdeacon De Grey, Richard
Neville, Lieutenant Waldegrave, R.N., Edward Peter,
Henry Windsor, Mr. Rowley, Mr Stain, Mr.Bmit►,.Rew.
G. Neville, W. H. J. Scull, C. Noel, Rev. G. Noel, James
S. Cocks, H. Lindsay, Lieut.-Colowei Knox, Mr. Shisley,
J. H. Knox, Mr. Stanley, G. J. Watson, Lieutetians Munch-
ing', —Begot, Colonel Boswell, G. Villiers, J. Villers,and
F. West.

Ambassadors mod Ministers—Russian, Netherlaudsi
Austrian, Sardieian, American, Bavaria*, Saxon, Mediae,
Swedish, Turkish, Prussian, and Portuguese.
Sirs—C. Flower, R Gifford, F. Dessanges, T. Bell, J. Cop-
ley, J. Graham, R. Wigram, Thus. Grey, Henry Flnyd, John
Pollen, Lucius Curtis, Bart , Charles Rouse Bough, J. H.
Palmer, Bart., W. P Honywood, S. Clarke Invoke, N.
Dukinfi-Id, J. Connell, C. Morgan, Bart. Gilbert Blanc,
Walter Stirling, A. Hood, T Dyke Act Thomas Turtrin,
Compton Domvill, Harry Darell, Nelson Rycroft, Hugh
P. Palliser. Thomas Clifford, Williams Rooky, H. C. Mont-
gomery, William Guise, Edward Owen, William Welby,
G. Alderson. Charles Cockerell, Matthew White Ridley, John
Shaw, W. W. Wynn, G. Gunning, J. Gibbous, J. Mildmay,
J. M'Gregor, A Murray, J Burgoyne, William Curtis, Wan.
Wraxall, G. Robinson, William Coninglians Fairlie, Alex.
ander Johnston, George Grey, Lewis Moaners, Lucas Pepys,
Edward Knatchbull, Edward Tucker, Robert Wiliam, J.
Wynne de Bathe, Henry C. Lippincott, Thomas Hiring.
Culling Smith, Richard Glyn, George Tuthill, William
Burroughs, James Fellow,., John Aubrey, John Leicester,
Richard Arlon, Lumley Skeffington, Edward Berry, Jacob
Asiley, B. Spencer, Lawrence Palk, William Ball, An.
thuny Lechmere, Edmund Carrington, Wm. Abily, John
Sewell, R. Shaft° Hawks, William Clayton, James &rouge,
T. Heroic Farquhar, Charles William Burikti, George
Nsyler, Peter Pule, Bart M.P., James Riddell, Arthur
Chichester, Everard Home, George Denys, John Prudes irk,
John Harrington, Co Smith, Charles des %%man, Robert Bar-
low, Gerard Noel, Edward B. Baker, James Little, Alex•
adder Allan, Henry Bridges, Frederick Baker, John Comp-
ton, Robert Baker, Henry Peyton David Scott, LW.
Holmes. M. XiMenef. Bolero Clikird, C. Ilaggerston,
C. Sullivan, R. Junes, G. Beacom ih, E. Kerrisun, Wil-
liam Young, C. Morgan, William Semi, J. Bere.furd, John
Clarke, T. Thomson, J. Rubinson, G. Clerk, T. Mantle,
Harry Calvert, Hilgruve Turner, Thomas Hammond,
Robert Chester, slid Angeratein.
likkope—Chester, Lincoln, Oxford, Carlisle, Bangor,
Exeter, London, sod Salisbury.
Deans--Clirist Church, Westminster, and Salisbury.
Her. Doctors—Slimier Clarke, Bur ))))) , Barnes, Pyres,
Sampson, Keate, Non, Short, Goodenough, Kuper, Gray,
Carr, Hodgson, England. and Hakim..
Archdeacons—De Grey, of Durham, and Thomas.
Rev. Messrs.—F. W. Blomberg, Harris, T. Milli, J. For-
fescue, John Crofts, J. King, C. Nairn*, Thomas Thurlow,
Sir John Robinson, William John Mono, James Harris,
N.D. George Wasey, Lascelln Iremonger, R. Carleton, W.
&vine, Alexander Sterky, Edward Law, J. Ferrer., F.
Brackenbury, Robert Louth, William Brown, J. G. Wrench,
Stewart Segar Trench, J. Cook, T. Wigan, M.A. !diesel,
John Orde, John Hewlett, B U Sir Robert Peat, Figher-
lint Fuller, Borrodaile, W. H. Springet, J. Kevill, Louth,
and J. Croft.
Direfen—Latham, Grey, Dudson,M.P. J Dreyer, Ma-
les, Ream, Wilson, Halliday, Yelluwley, Burton, Baillie,
Maceinmon, Bree, James Forbes, liaiikfiumerville, Darwin,
Thomson, Sindomme, George Gibbes, and Fraukliu.
Alderstes—Ruiliwell and Birch.
Serjeant Clioduw.
Chevalier Rimpini.
Adminds—llalkett, Scott, Pegntz, Curzon, Douglas,
Sotheby, Sir W. Young, VinOUllt Exmouth, Sat heron,
Sir J. H. Whitabed, Hamilton, Miley, Lawton', Gifford, Sir
J. Morris, Booster, West, Lake, Sir J. Gore, Halliday, Sir
B. Hallowell, Sir E. Codrington, Sir W. Hotham, Sir T.
Berlin, Sir T. B. Thompson, Sir H. Neale, Sir R. G. Keats,
Sir J. Sutton, Alexander, Winthrop, Fraser, Wodehouse,
Ballard, Sir G. Martha, Sir B. Martin, Sir P. Malcolm, Sir
C. Rowley, K C 8., Sir R. Mammon, Lord Gambier, Sir D.
Milne, K.C.8., Lord Colville, Sir W. Ilargoud, Wikon, Sir
Palmer,C. Ogle, Sir G. Moore, Sir H. Sawyer, t: P
Sir J. Morris,Sotheby, Page, Sir It. Strachan, Bowen, and
Bingham.
Generale—Hart, Sir W. Hutchinson, Carrell, Goldin,
Prevost, James Balfour, Brooke, D.cketis, Fitzgerald, Ches-
ter, Skinner, Sir W. Peaeocke, Sir T. Dallas, H. 111. Gordon,
Sir J C. Sherbrooke, Nicolay, C. 8.; Sir W. Cockbu. n, Bart.;
Spencer, Lorin., Slade, Sir E. Stopford, Young, L. Grant,
Sir H. Fine, Smith, Formic, F. Maitland, Sir H. Muntremor,
blusheim, Sir Finny Maclean, Hill, Sir M. Disney, Lord
Howard (of Elliigham). Cookson, Thornton, H. Fraser,
Cartwright, land E. Somerset, Sir G. Gear, %Ferny's,
Sir R. Blair, Drummond, Sir G. Walker, D'Arcy, Bryce,
Baines, Sir C. Imhoff, Wetlitrid, Sir C. Doyle, Browne,
Dinghies, Borne, Adams, Hopkins, Vansittart, Rebuw.
Dyoti, Femur, Sir 31. Nightingale, Kipp", Moore, Sir
GAL Bingham, Sir J. Hamilton, Craven, Lord Lyneduck,
Sir C. Asgill, Bosville, Bonham, Sir H. Warde,
Adams, Sir G. Murray, Sir R. Fergus rrrrr D. Griffith, I'. achy,
Croshie, Eden, Pine CAIN Sir E. Hos/mill, Grey, Blun-
den. White, Doveton, Carey, Sir G S. Browne, K.C.B. Sir
D. Pack, Sir C. Halkett, Sir It. Jones, K C.B. Sir W. Inglis,
Cuppage, Sir W. Pringle, F. Widdringion, O'Dmiuvan,
Brown, Ogg, Sir G. Nugent, Sir F. V. elder, Militer, An-
derson. Suborn, Sir L. Otway, Gosseliu, Wynyard, Sir C.
Wole, Sir E. Kerriviii, Sir G. Sir 11. Bell, Sir G.
Leith, ht. George, Sir H. Oakes, N. Balfour. Thos. Scutt,
Nicoll', Skinner, Stevenson, Sir C. Green, Ross, Michell,
Capel, Sir T. Pechell, Thurutun, Sir A. Clarke, Grosvenor,
Moore, Lord Charles Greville, Gwymie, Finch, D. Darruck,
Vincent, and Lord Forbes.
Culosels—Poss, Kesap, West, Bowater, Wodehouse,
Evans, Anwyl, Sir J. Malcolm, K C. 8., Loftus, Branding,
M.P., Garth,,.i r, Thor", Hughes, Maclaine, Sir H Carr, Sir
W. Gomm Wiusi, Sir A. Dickson, Shaer, Prother, C. 8.,
Rice, CutCirm
liffe, Robins, Perceval, C.D., Serle, Gibbs, Fitz-
gibbon, Daiwa, Calvert, Hun. W. H. Gardner, Burgess
Bosauquel, Bull, Driukwater, Graham, Murrisou,
Wildman, P. Nlacqween, Lord R. Manners, Pp, Grant,
Sowerhy, D'Aguilar, Beckwick, C. Smith, Bingham, J. L.
Caddy/ell, Davison, W. Roar, Sir G. Campbell, oberts,
J. Strellon, Higginion, Plumbe, Drummond, Dance, Sir J.
Maclean, K.C.B. Cotton, Acheson, Vampire!, Gailskell, Sir
M. Ximenes, Vaughan, Ashworth, Lord Sabrina, E. Cot-
ton, Hamilton, Sir R. Steele, Christie, Trench, Macdonald,
Sir R. Jackson, Pasky, Webb, Rowan, Ford, Fyers,
We-
tberua, Le Mesurier, Hay, S. Barnes, D'Arcy, Tynte, Bar-
row, Barry, Fisher, Askew, Brand, Sir H. St. Paul, Her-
oine, Warn, Ross, Bruce, Evatt, Thornton, Andrews,
Keate, Morlaad, R. Nixon, Shaw, Bridger, Cuff.,
Scott, Bridges, Feed, Napier, Frederick, De Burgh, Mallet,
Sir C. Smith, Dawnman, 111`Kiunuti, Udall, W. Smith,
Ernstan, Baker, Buckner, C.B. Money, Dr Busse, Dalrym-
ple, &almond, Turner, Dawkins, C. Smith, Clitheruw, Rad-
irtyffe, Sir H. Douglas, Sir It. Arbuthnot, Macdonald, Ma.
clay, Higgins, Sir A. Fraser, K.C.B. IYOyly, E. Walker, Sir
R. Williams, Sir D. Bergh, Cavendish, Basile, H. &dile,
Dalton, Brooke, Aitchison,Tbackeraydervuise,Salmon, Per-
simmon, Athorpe, Campbell, Addison, Meicer, Vinicumbe,
Cochrane, Harris, Kelly, C. Hill, Daniell, Sir C. Campbell,
Adye, Sir H. Pyre', Reeves,Thornton, Vassittart, Strut!, Ad-
dembroke, Stevenson, King,Seymour, Sir N. Campbell.
Majors—Peters, Bye, Fine' Love, Feed, Colrgiave, Tay-
kr, RA. Parker, Stawill, Wuod, Sir C. Cnyler,
Lord George Lennox, Polhill, Heat, Gardiner, Wilmot,
Maberly, Barton, Dennimown Brown, Disrulurd, B.A.
Macleod, Buchanan, Blaucherd, Alarm, Fred. Campbell,
St. Clair, R.R.A. Cavendish, Si rat ma, Waytl,, Wedderburn,

Crow, Elshigton, Pue, Thmans Gamble, Marshall, Junes,
A.D.C. Muur. Welker&ll, Raprll, Gall, Flisgersid,
F. E. Drake, Moi tam, Craigie, Napie►, K.A. Lloyd, T. Drake,
Cowell, Smyth, and Baker.
Captains—Ruus, R.N. Halley, Dawkia, Scull, R A. C. IN.

LONDON,
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1820.

The Address of the British Catholic Body, pre-
sented yesterday to his MAJESTY, is given in
another part of our Paper. It is snore numerously
signed than any former instrument from this truly
loyal and valuable portion of his MAJESTY'S sub-
jects. The disadvantages under which the British
Catholics have so long laboured, strange to say,
may be traced to the purest sources; to their con-
science and their KING. If there be any chival-
rous attachment to the throne still remaining in the
country, it is found among the English Cbtholics.
How then can such men be dangerous subjects ?
Bat their political feelings are not their only recom-
mendation. Examine the domestic circles of the
Catholic Nobility and Gentry of England, and say,
where can be found more private virtue, more
exemplary manners? Their moral character cola•
hints with their political integrity to render them
I.estimable in the eyes of the Sovereign and of the
country.
i•

Paris Pipers of Sunday lot have arrived at our
office. The Chamber of Peers here adopted

almost unanimously the project of law relative
to the accounts or 1818, as it was seat from the
Chamber of Deputies.

In the Chamber of Deputies M. LAISZ report-
ed from the Committee to which the law of elec-
tions was referred. The project proposed by the
Ministers was recommended to the adoption of the
Chamber with some slight amendments. The names
of 118 Mrinbers were immediately entered who
propose to deliver their sentiments upon the law;
of tlii .e, 8u ore hostile, and 33 are favourable to
the law. There Members, in consequence of this
absurd system of pledging themselves to support
one side or other of the proposed question, must be
considered as having excluded the possibility of
being affected by any arguments which may be ad-
duced, and must be regarded rather in the light of
Advocates than of Legislators. The discussion was
fixed for Monday the 15111 of May.
The Five per Cents. are 73 f. 60 c.—Bank
Actions 1,502 1. 60 c.

Disappointment has been very extensively felt at
the refusal of the (louse of Commons to entertain
Mr. Alderman WOOD'S motion fur the appointment
of a Secret Committee to receive evidence respect.
ing the conduct of Edwards the spy. The anxiety
of the public upon this subject undoubtedly did
not, as was presumed by a Member of the House
of Commons in the debate on Tuesday night, arise
solely (rum a principle of ill-advised curiosity ; the
people of England almost universally detest the
principle of employing spies, and however disposed
they may be to acknowledge that peculiar circum-
stances might occasionally justify the agency of
such persons, they must be solicitous that in the
establishment of a connexion between spies and
Ministers, the character of the Government, which
involves that of the country, should not suffer stain
or reproach. Many circumstances have recently
transpired respecting the conduct of Edwards which
have thrown some degree of suspicion over the na-
ture of his connexion with the Members of the
Council, and this the public would certainly desire
to see removed. It is generally believed that Ed-
wards was in close communication with the Minis-
ters of the Crown, as their commissioned spy, pre-
vious to the formation of the dreadful plot framed
for their assassination, and if such be the case, there
is further reason to believe that Edwards was the
original fabricator of that conspiracy. But whether
this latter conjecture be correct or not, what be-
comes of the general justification assumed by the
Ministers for the employment of spies, when they
rest it upon the expediency, necessity, or wisdom,
of receiting whatever intelligence one of a gang of
conspirators, acting under the impression of remorse
or terror, may be disposed to furnish against
his brethren in guilt ? Edwards cannot be sup-
posed to come under this description of spies, if lie
either framed or entered the conspiracy with the
knowledge of the Government. Confident in the
support of his patrons, and assured of his own
ul-
timate security, he might have proceeded boldly in
the march of treason, encouraging others by his
presence and evident confidence, even if he were
less sparing of his inflammatory language and more
inflammatory money, than he is represented to have
been in the statements communicated by Mr. Al-
derman WOOD. Are the people so benumbed in
intellect, or so indifferent to the character of their
Government and the moral ties which link society
together, as not to feel some solicitude upon a
topic like this? and is it fair to taunt them with
the indulgence of a mere idle curiosity, when they
seek to have concerns of such deep and painful
interest investigated by the only tribunal which
seems fully calculated to pursue the inquiry with
advantage ?
The worthy Alderman's motion was opposed by
one argument, and sundry jokes; the former saga-
ciously founded upon the want of precedent, and
the latter directed with equal taste and judgment
against sit exemplary Magistrate and a worthy
man, for no apparent reason but because he chanced
to be an 'Alderman of the City of London, and
had been twice elevated to the highest rank in the
City by the general approbation of his fellow-citi-
zens. It was, no doubt, au excellent joke for Mr.
CANNING that an Alderman of the City of Lon.
don, having received intelligence from several per-
sons that treason of a most diabolical nature had
been contemplated. should immediately have con,-
' municated his information and denounced the
prime traitor to a Minister of State whom the cir-
cumstance most concerned ! The best of the joke,
however, Was, that Mr. WOOD was DOI aware that
Edwards was u protege of the Ministers, and,
rattan tencotis ! should have been actually inform-
ing Lord Strimovrit of circumstances which that
oinnisciem Minister knew much better than the
worthy Alderman himself ! Let 11,, In:wearer,
suppose that the Magistrate in the City bad
received such intelligence of a conspiracy where
the Ministers bud no spy, and in the appre-
hension of being scouted and ridiculed for his
pains, did not reveal his information to the Secre-
tary of State, where would the joke lie theft?
With what pathos and feeling Mr. CANNING would
declaim against the apathy of the worthy Alderman,
who made tio effort to bring a criminal to justice,
and denounce him in the face of his country as
being guilty of misprision of treason ! ergo-
Meta drawn from the want of precedent 'comely
deserves notice; but it is for nothing more remark-
able than as it marks the inconsistency of those
who urged it.
The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM is arrived in
tows), from his seat, Stowe, Bucks.

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FASHIONABLE PARTIES.

Sir W. Molly, Bart.'s ameni, on Monday evening, is RM.
street, Berlieley.ignare, was altaided by upwards uf 200 dll-
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Lord Melville has issued cards of invitation fur a gratti
entertainment on the 16th inst. at the Admiralty.
Lord Blakeley has 'vaned eards of invitatimi for an tie-
ring entertainment on the 26th inst. at his house is Great
Stanhope-street, May-fair.
.1. T. Sett, Esq. will give a grand entertainment on the
lath instant, at his residence in Nurth Andley.soreet.
. .

Lady Louisa Manners had not a ball on Monday evening,
as has been stated; it will take place on Monday of xt, at
her Ladyship's bonne in Pall.raall.
Countess Charieville has issued cards of invitation for two
grand bells; use on the t2d) sod the other uu the
inst. at ber house iu Piccadilly.