The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-07-22 00:00:00

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REVIEW AT RJUNSLOW.

Tie general expectation that the Kiog would
hive yesterday, according to appointment, reviewed
the two regiments of Life Guards, and the corps
of Blues, on Hounslow Heath, drew I large con-
,•ourne of persons in that neighbourhood at an early
!we% At ten o'clock, a line of carriages nearly
half a mile in extent was formed on 11ottlislow
Ilia'!,. filled by persons of distinction. Some very
,;,;:•tot b trotiches were in the line, and ihmtcpy earls
in :,bnodrnce covered the ground, will, .ilher ca!-
r•ntating folks, who had prepared for a bithowne, if
judge from the baskets of provender with
o hteit they appeared to he liberally provided. So
trly ns nine o'clock the two regiments of Life
Gaud* and the Blues took their station on the
ground. They occupied the level space towards
the centre, facing the road. The Ist regiment of
Guards took the right, the el the left, at►d the
Blues formed the centre. At the entrance of the
avenue leading to the part of the heath occupied by
the military, two troops of lancers were stationed, and
the hand of the Ist Guards. A number of Staff
Officers were with them in readiness to teceive his
1413je.ty. Several chargers, richly caparisoned, led
by grooms in. the Royal livery, were near this
spat in readiness far the ill %Melons personages
who were expected on this occasion. Among
them was a small beautiful chesnut blood horse be-
longing to the Duke of Welling►on, and rode
by his Grace during the memorable battle of
Waterloo.

At eleven o'clock a coach and four drove on the
ground, and from it his Royal Highness the Duke
of York, his Royal Highness the Doke of Cam-
bridge, and the Duke of Wellington, alighted.
They were received by Lord Petersham, the lion.
Colonel Cathcart, and a number of ()Wirer* of dis-
tinction. It was then announced th it his Nlajesty
was unavoidably prevented from being present on
this occasion. The Royal Dukes were dressed in
the full uniform of Field Marshals. The Duke
of IVellington wore the uniform of his regiment. the
Woes. As soon as the Royal party mouuted their
chargers. they rode forward to the place occupied
by the Guard m, and were received with military ho-
hours. They rode along the line, and afterwards
took their station in front. The regiments then
passed in review before the Commander-in-Chief,
who expressed himself highly gratified with their
military appearance. They afterwards passed in
single files. The Duke of Wellington rode
in front of his regiment while they passed the
Commander-in-Chief, but as the other regi-
ments passed he took his place next the Duke
of Cambridge. The different corps confirmed to
perform their evolutions for more than two hours in
tine style. During the day several officers belong-
ing to the 7th light dragoons, the lancers, and other
regiments. rode on the ground. At one time of the
day a general cry ass raised that the King had ar-
rived on the gronnd among a body of officers who
Lad just rode within the line. This rumour caused
a general bustle among the spectators, who, 1111131e-
diAtrly, by one simultaneous effort, horse and foot,
donkeys, and dog-carts, broke the line !previously
kept open by ',strides of lancers, and notwitintand-
log all the efforts of the soldiers to keep them back,
moved forward in oue indiscriminate mass until
they closed in open the royal party near the flag-
staff which formed the pivot for the squadrons to
move round. This confusion excited considerable
laughter and urn small degree of mortification when
the parties found that they bud rushed forward amid
all the risk of much confusion, riot to be gratified
by a sight of hi, Majesty, but of a portly officer of
the lancers, whose uniform was covered aids
decorations and ribbons of all kinds.
The brilliant scene of this military spectacle
lasted until two o'clock, when the tine appearance
of the day became obscured by thuuder showers,
and sauce-qui peat was the order of the clay. The
carriages were immediately driven off the ground,
and the crowd of persons present sought shelter
wherever they could find it. The review was then
terminated. The Royal Dukes rode off in tile
direction of Wiodsor, followed by their carriages.
The Duke of Wellington mounted an elegant
pi,ut on amid lode, and drove off, accompanied by
ass aide-de-ramp, to tour,. The graham' was ru-
ti•rls cleared before three o'clock. Time uncom-
mon forite-s of the morning and the excellent
state of the roads, the dust having been entirely
laid by the showers of the preceding evening,
moved extremely favourable to the crowd of spec-
tator, alto covered the road to llownlow ; the Un-
-I.l.otirab!e state of the weather at the close of the
les let, bring only momentary, the iiicosivertience
tilt by it milli trifling. We are out aware that a
single acuilesot happened throughout the uuy.

% edne•itac rhe 'Joke of G Lou C ESTER, attended
ser.ral wili.ary office's, islopecled 11. r
I.uu 01 the 3.1 region-sit of Guards, now on duly
Lt l'ortsraooth. flit flighale.s expressed him-
self ist•higlt term. of their appearaoce and or-
drily conduct. His Highness afters/arils enter-
timed the officer-0 the reginislit, and severe' naval
snit tieddaiy chariot's, at d er, at the George

U. Illoweloy.Grotrol flei N EEL impeeted,its the
l;reett, or titaagovs. the &tot-lenient of the th
i.H%-*i« •huv,e steal-cry now ni that garriaan;
b.,.1 on l'oroduy furroovo, the 33.1 regittitut of

Ahillitlb GE 4L
His Royal Highness the Duke of Susseit, ac-
rninpanied by Me. Stephenaon, arrived at the -Sum
Hotel, in this town, on Sunday last, from Quiden-
ham, the seat of the Earl of Albemarle, where he
had been passing. a few limys ufter the conclusion
of the sheep-shearing. at Hulk ham. We were con-
cerned to observe, that his Royal Highness
up-
peated to labour tinder the effect of the occident •
which occurred to him about three *mks ago,
when the step gave way as lie alighted from
Ira carriage at Cambridge house, mid the Duke,
in falling, sprained his ankle lt. His Royal
Flightless st six o'clock honoured the Rrv.
A. Browne's romns in Trinity College with his
presence at dinner, where he was met by Lord
F. G. Orboree, Sir W. De Creopigny, Sir G.
Leeds, the it.,. Mr. King, prebendary of Ely, and
sonic snore gentlemen. Ills Royal Highness having
expressed a wish to inspect Ely Cathedral, Mr. King
proceeded thither early on Monday morning to pre-
pare for his reception. After breiikfasting
iii Tti-
silty College, and visiting the hall and combination-
room, his Royal Flightiees got into his carriage at the
cloister-g ars, accompanied by Sir G. Leeds and Mr.
Browne. The drivers received ardent to paps through
Chesterton, on the rand to Ely, and his Royal High-
Hess stopped for a short time nt the newly-erected
Vicarage house, and condescended to express his
spprohation of the structure. His ltoyel flight.
steal was received with an honest welcome by the
villagers, null their bells rung a merry 'teal. Till
the carriage arrived at Streatham, the day was to-
lerably fine, and his Royal Highness was etiehled,
from the open barouclie, to survey the novelty of
the fen scenery, and to admire the prodigious
herds of cattle which were grazing on the rich pas.
tures towards Cottenham ; but the sky now be-
came completely overcast, and the rain, which hail
beets for some time threatening, began to full in
torrents. From the carriage being necessarily
closed, his Itoyal Highness was tenatile to enjoy
the magnificent view of the Cathedral, which is
pre-ented by a hear approach to use town. The
carriage drove immediately to Mr. King'. house,
and, its deli wee of the rain, numbers of peraosta
were assembled to welcome his Royal flightless,
cud a hand of music in front of the house greeted
his arrival.
After a short interval, as the rain still continued
without any appearance of cessation, the Duke
walked through the prebendal garden to the Ca-
thedral. During the progress of his Royal High-
ness's survey of the interior, the organ played seve-
ral voluntaries, and upon his entrance into the
choir, gave the 'Hallelujah chorus with flee effect.
Oa returning to Mr. King's house, his Royal
Highness partook of an elegant collation, and ex-
pressed in the warmest term, his sense of the 'win-
ner in which he had been received. Indeed his
Royal Highness was more than once pleased to de-
clare, that lie had never experienced isa.ally house
which he had visited more attention, civility, mid
hospitality, than during his short stay at Ely. His
Royal Highness was vary much goaded with the
noble specimen of early Gothic efiNottasinarchitec-
ture which the Cathedral displays; bat the unto-
wardness of the day, mud the circumstance of the
Duke's lameness, in consequence of the sprain be-
fore alluded to, prevented his tukiug fiat further
and more minute inspection of the building, and of
the parts connected with it, which he Wes most de-
sirous to have done. He lamented also his inability
to walk through the street from the Cathedral, and
to have made his acknowledgments to the inhabi.
tants who had assembled in expectation of the royal
visit. On quitting Mr. King's hospitable roof, as
his Royal Highness got into his carriage, lie was re-
' ceived with three hearty cheers, which he returned
' , with a bow.

Letters from York slate. that the Grand Jury
had found the two bills for high treason, which
had been presented to them, against all the persons
named iii the bills, that is, against four prisoners
charged with the insurrection near Huddersfield, 011 •
the night of the 31st of Nlarcli, and against
eighteen who were engaged in the march to Grange
Moor, on the morning of the of April.
A general meeting of the nail-masters was held
at Dudley on Monday se'tinight, when it was re-
solved to advance the trailers' wages to the priers
fixed August '22, 1818. From this circumstance
we should be irii to hope that the extrenie depress
siou under which the nailing business has laboured
fur some time is rrinoved.—( Worcester Journal.)
The Glasgow Courier, alluding to the late State
trials at Stirling, saps—" It is a pleasing foci to
learn, that slot a single spy was adduced as a witness
on these trials."
At the York Assizes, on Tuesday last, the Aisi
Prins Court was thronged to excess, from the eager
curiosity to hear Mr. littocaticw, who was engaged
Its a come otherwise of lIU interest, being merely an
action to recover the mini of 201. for repairs done in
distiseutitig chapel at Leeds. When the Learned
Gentleman rose to open the case, expectation red
roxiety were wound up to the highest pitch of
anent ion.

%Voicester Assizes commi-nced on Saturday, the
15th instant, before Mr. Justice lIEST and 5,1 r.
Justice IRICIIARDSON. The former, who presided
at the Crown bar. &livered an excellent charge to
the Grand Jury, in which he expressed his great
indisfaction at the state of the calendar, ~„d cap_
eluded by samgratulaiing them that it presented nu
isistatices of Omar ottriices of which he hail lately,
unhappily, had too snuck experience—lie Ismaili
cases of blasphemy and sedition. It was a fact toe
well known that there were those in ibis kingdom
who had long been and still were endeavouring to
sap she au% of the lower Oflierl, by instilling
wail their •do prim:plea of nreligion ;it was
happy fur this county that such bad men hail siot
been yet discovered woken it. " God gland (said
the Learned Judge) that you may long cant iiiii e
thus exempt—that you may br kept Iron. the in-
fluence of blasphemous principles; for no try
can be in a more wretched stair than one infused
with blasphemy, the effects of which must be to
burst asunder those lies, without which society
cru-
not long be held together."

On Smithy labt thr. Lonu PROVO‘T received a
r. ,tie Gar one rnuuth. rimii the Vt.; isibtailt. tor
✓aws 11•('un/ Ad. jjegfut, now modrr pentence of
drain. winch woo innurdiltely communicated 10
Idw.b).lltr Megittggter.— Ediliburgh t'oareirat..)