The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR,

The Queen held a Court at St. James's Palace yesterday
afternoon for the reception of the City Addresses, and for the
Investiture of Prince Esterhazy with the Order of the Bath.
Her Majesty also held a Privy Council.
At one o'clock the Deputation from the City arrived in
state at the Palace ; the Lord Mayor was attended by his
Officers, and was accompanied by his Chaplain, the Rev.
Hartwell Horne. There were present Alderman Scholey,
Sir Claudius Hunter, Birch, Matthew Wood, M.P., Thomas
Wood, Venables, Sir William Heygate, Sir Peter Laurie,
Fairbrother, Winchester, Lainson, Sir John Key, Atkins,
Cowan, Wilson, Humphrey, and Harmer. Sheriffs, Sir
James Duke and Mr. Sheriff Johnson, the Recorder, the
City Chamberlain, the City Remembrancer, Mr. Sergeant
Arabin, the City Solicitor, Mr. Under Sheriff France, Mr.
Under Sheriff Wire, the Rev. Mr. Jennings, Chaplain to Mr.
Sheriff Johnson, the Rev. Mr. Dundas, Chaplain to Sir Jas.
Duke, and about 150 members of the Court of Common

Council.
At two o'clock the Queen and the Duchess of Kent came
in state to St. James's Palace, and shortly afterwards her Ma.
jesty, being seated on the Throne, attended by the Great
Officers of State and Officers of the Royal Household, the
Lord Mayor and Aldermen were introduced and passed be-
tween the ranks of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gen-
tlemen at Arms to the foot of the Throne.
The Recorder of London read the Address of Congratula-
tion from the Court of Aldermen, to which her Majesty re-
turned a gracious answer. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen
were then severally presented, and having had the honour to
kiss hands, withdrew.
The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Officers, and Members of the
Court of Common Council were then introduced, when the
Recorder read the Address from the Court of Common Coun-
cil. The Queen returned a gracious reply, and the Mover
and Seconder of the Address had the honour to kiss hands.
Her Majesty held an Investiture of the Most Hon. Military
Order of the Bath at two o'clock. The Knights Grand
Crosses of the Order having been robed by Mr. Hunter and
Mr. Ede in their splendid mantles, and receiving the collars
of the Order, passed from the Portrait Gallery to the Entree
Room, where they were called over by Bath King of Arms,
when there appeased the following :—Prince Ernest of Hesse
Philippsthal, Duke of Wellington, Viscount Combermere,
Lord Bloomfield, Viscount Beresford, Lord Lynedoch, Sir
James Kempt, Sir James Whitshed, Lord Hill, Lord William
Ber,tinck, Sir Philip Durham, Lord Strafford, Lord Ilowden,
Lord Cowley, Sir George Murray, Sir Harry Neale, Sir
Stratford Canning Sir William Houstoun, Sir L. Halsted, Sir
Robert Adair, Sir George Anson, Viscount Strangford, Lord
Stuart de Rothsay, Earl of Effingham, Sir A. Campbell, Sir
Robert Gordon, Sir T. Williams, Sir Graham Moore, Sir
John Wells, Sir Herbert Taylor, Earl of Minto, Sir E.
Barnes, Sir Lowry Cole, Sir W. Clinton, Sir Edward Cod-
rington, Sir Thomas Martin, Sir William Lumley, Sir Wil-
loughby Gordon, Sir T. Dallas, Viscount Canterbury, Earl
Durham, Sir C. Colville, Sir C. Begot, Sir W. Pringle, and
Sir G. Walker.
The Officers of the Order present in their mantles, chains,
and badges, were Walter Aston Blount Esq., Genealogist,
Algernon Greville, Esq., Bath King of Arms, Captain Mi-
chael Seymour, R. N., Registrar and Secretary, and Sir Wm.
Woods, Clarenceux King of Arms, acting as Gentleman Usher
of the Order.
The Queen received the Knights and Officers in the Throne
Room, the Knights as they advanced making their obeisances,
which her Majesty graciously acknowledged. Her Majesty
wore the mantle, ribband, and badge of the Order.
Baron Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, conducted by
Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies, was intro-
duced by Bath King of Arms, and Sir William Woods, of-
ficiating as Gentleman Usher of the Order, between the two
Junior Knights, Sir L. Halsted and the Earl of Durham.
Mr. Martins, Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State, having
presented it, her Majesty conferred the honour of Knighthood
therewith upon his Excellency. The Prince was afterwards
invested by the Queen with ribband, badge, and star, of a
Knight Grand Cross of the most Honourable Military Order
of the Bath.
At the conclusion of the ceremony the Knight and officers
withdrew.
The Marquis of Winchester, Groom of the Stole to his late
Majesty, resigned his gold keys of office.
Lord Ternpleman, Lord Gardner, Viscount Torrington, the
Marquis of fleadfort, and Lord Lilford, Lords in NS aiting on
the late King, kissed bands on their re-appointment,
Sir Wm. Lumley, Col. Armstrong, and Sir Robert Otway,
Grooms in Waiting on his late Majesty, kissed hands on their
re-appointment.
Sir Henry Seton kissed hands on being appointed one of the
Grooms in Waiting.
The Lord Steward and the Lord Chamberlain kissed hands
on their re-appointment to office.
Her Majesty held a Privy Council, which was attended by
the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy
Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State
for the flome and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of
the Admiralty, the President of the Board of Controul, the
President of the Board of Trade, and the Secretary at War.
The following Privy Councillors attended :—The Bishop of
London, Earls Wilton and Roden, Viscount Melville, Lord
Bexley, and Sir Harford Jones Brydges ; and also the follow-
ing Lords Lieutenants of Counties :—Dukes of Buecleuch,
Portland, Richmond, Leeds, and Sutherland ; Marquises
Camden and Lothian ; Earls de Grey, Brownlow, Carlisle.
Macclesfield, and Ilchester ; Viscount Clive; Lords Arden
and Montague.
The Lord Lieutenants were introduced, took the customary
oaths and kissed hands.
The members of the late King's Privy Council wese re-
sworn of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council
in Waiting.
The Court was attended by the Earl Marshal, the Master
of the Horse, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Captain of
the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Awns, Lord Hill, Gold Stick
in Waiting ; the Bishop of Worcester, the Master of the Buck
Hounds, Sir Samuel Spry, M. P., Lieut of the Hon. Corps
of Gentlemen at Arms ; the Comptroller of the Household,
Mr. Reeve, Standard-bearer to the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen
at Arms ; Colonel Cavendish, Equerry ; Mr. Albert Beetham,
Clerk of the Cheque of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at
Arms; Sir F. Smith, Gentleman Usher; Mr. Samuel Han-
cock, Exon in Waiting; Master Ellice, Page of Honour.
The Queen gave audiences to the Marquis Conyngham,
Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Melbourne, and the Earl of
Albemarle.
Lord Templemore and Sir Robert Otway were the Lord
and Groom in Waiting.
The Imperial Crown was brought yesterday to St. James's
Palace, by Mr. Bridge.
At twenty minutes past four o'clock her Majesty and suite
left the Palace in two carriages, with an escort of Life
Guards, for Kensington Palace.
The Vice-Chamberlain, Lord' Templemore, Sir Robert
Otway, and Colonel Cavendish, the Lord Groom and Equerry
in Waiting, have been honoured with invitations to dine with
her Majesty this day, in the New Palace.
Her Majesty's Honourable corps of Gentlemen at Arms
gave a grand dinner yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern, on
account of their first attendance on her Majesty at St. James's
Palace.
The Duko of Saxe Meiningen came to town yesterday, from
the Queen's Lodge, in Bushy Park. His Serene Highness
visited her Majesty.
A deputation respecting public mourning, consisting of
Messrs. James, Price, Bradberry, Warwick, Caldecott, and J.
Dillen, bad an interview yesterday with the President of the
Board of Trade.

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ARRIVALS.

Earl of Eglintoun, at the Clarendon, from a tour; Lady
Dover, at Whitehall, from a visit to the Duke of Devonshire,
at Kemptown ; Lord Ashburton, at Bath House, from a visit
to the Marchioness of Bath, at Longleat, Wilts ; Colonel
Greenwood, at the Regent's-park Barracks, from Windsor;
Hon. Captain Fitzroy, from Lewes; Colonel Cavendish, in
Burlington-street, from Windsor ; Hon. Major Legge, at the
Countess of Dartmouth's villa, at Blackheath ; Duke of New-
castle, in Portman-square, from Windsor; Duke of Norfolk,
in St. James's-square, from Windsor; Lord Cowley, in Gros-
venor-street, from Windsor ; Countess de Clifford, in Lower
Seymour-street, from the Continent ; Earl of Surrey, in
Hyde Park-place, from Sussex ; Hon. Mr. Byng, in Clarges-
street, from Paris ; Viscount and Viscountess Lorton, in
Eaton-square, from a continental tour; Earl and Countess
Cadogan and Ladies A. and H. Cadogan, at Cadogan House,
on the terrace, Piccadilly, from Windsor ; Lady Baird, from
Scotland ; Earl of Devon, in Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place,
from his seat, Powderham Castle, Devonshire ; Lord Mary-
borough, in Saville-row, from Windsor ; Duke and Duchess
of Buecleugh, at Montagu House, from Richmond ; Hon.
George Elliott, C. 8., at the Admiralty, from an official visit
to Portsmouth ; La Baronne de Guy Muller and suite, at the
Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Germany ; Sutherland
Greame, Esq., at ditto, from St. Lennarcls'-on- Sea ; Sir
Archibald and Lady Christie, in Upper Berkeley-street, from
Brighton; Mr. and Mrs. Spottiswoode, in Great George-
street, from Leamington Spa; General Hon. Mrs. Mundy, in
Eaton-square, from Sussex ; Hon. William Vaughan, from
Warwickshire ; Marquis and Marchif
;Aercorn, in
n
Carlton House-terrace, from Bentle oness o y
Priory Rev. Joh
Drake, at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street.
DEPARTURES.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa, from Privy-gardensrom
,
for Culzean Castle, Ayrshire; Lord and Lady Rolle, f
Grosvenor-street, for Bicton, their seat in Devonshire ; Sir
John Williams, for Dublin ; General Shadforth and his lady,
for Hastings ; Sir John Mordaunt, Bart., M.P., from Ila-
nover-square ; the lion. Newton Fellowes, from Bryanston-
square, for Devonshire ; Lord Eglintoun, from Bond-street,
for Tunbridge-wells; Viscount Pollington, from Dover-street,
for Leamington Spa; Lord Sinclair, from George-street,
Hanover-square, for Torquay, Devonshire ; the Right Hon.
Thomas S. Rice, from Mansfield-street, for Cambridge
;
Sir John B. Yarde Buller, Bart., M.P., from New-street,
Spring-gardens, for Lupton House, his seat in Devonshirt:ei::
Lord Braybrooke, from New Burlington-street, for Audit);
End, Essex; Mr. and Mrs. Cookson and family, from
Waterloo lintel, Jermyn-street, for Yorkshire ;
and
Mrs.
Flower, from ditto, for Portsmouth ; the Rev.
Wetherell, from ditto, for Newton Longville •' Mrs.. anndd Miss
Tower, from ditto, for Weald Hall ; J. Aspinall, Esq., and the
Misses Aspinall, from Warne's Hotel, Alemarle-street, for
Standen Hall, Clitheroc, Lancashire ; Edward Blee"boroug h
Esq., from ditto, for Cambridge; Mr.
Curzon street, May-fair, for Knockd nCasGodfreytle, v n,ge ,fo
Westmeath
the I-lon. W. F. Ponsonby, from Poitland-place, for his seat,
in Dorsetshire; James A. Smith, Esq., M. P., from Belgrave-
square, for Tunbridge Wells ; the Marquis and Marchioness of

Ely, Lord A, and Ladies Loftus, from Belgrave-square, for Ely
Lodge, thei: seat in Ire ; the Hon. Miss Elphinst,,n, toe
Bognor, Sussex ; Lord Kelburne, for his seat in Scotland ;
the Marquis of Tweddale, from Belgrave-square' for Yester
House, Haddington, Scotland; M. Bell, Esq., M.P., from
Wimpole-street, for Woolsington, his seat in Northumber-
land; Baron do Behr, for Worthing; the Right Hon. Cutlar
Fergusson, M.P., from Portman-square, for Brighton ; the
Earl of Jersey, from Berkeley-square, for Newmarket; Earl
of Chesterfield, from Chesterfield House. for Newmarket ;
Hon. Mr. Leeson, for Worthing ; Sir Thomas and Lady Ba-
ring, from Devonshire-place, for Brighton ; the Hon. Edwin
Lascelles, from Harewood House, for Northumberland; Ge-
neral Ross, for Ryde.