The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-28 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S STATE BALL.

The following is the Court Newsman's account of the state ball, '‘
description of which appeared in our paper of yesterday :
Her Majesty's state ball on Thursday evening, although not so
numerously attended as the former balls, was yet a very brilliant as.
semblage. The corps diplomatic and the principal nebility in town were
present,
The Queen's guard of the grenadier guards was on duty in the front
lawn ; and the band of the regiment in the grand hall received the Royal
Family with "God save the Queen," and also performed, In the early
part of the night, selections from favourite operas. The yeoman of the
guard lined the grand hail.
The company danced in the ball-room and north yellkm drawing.
room. Strauss's band being stationed in the former, and Weippart's
band in the latter. The other saloons on the same floor were also
opened, and brilliantly illuminated. The throne-room ww appropri-
ated for refreshments, and the supper was served in the dining-room.
Their Royal Highnesses tile Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince
George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr
and Baron Knesebeck, were received on their arrival by the Hon. Miss
Cocks, Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, and Colonel
Buckley, who conducted their Royal Highnesses into the smaller ball
room, where her Majesty, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent and the
Princess Hohenlohe, received her royal relatives. The Duke of Sussex
came attended by Lord Jahn Churchill. Her Royal Highness the
Princess Sophia Matilda, and their Serene Highnesses the Hereditary
Prince of Nassau, Prince Maurice of Nassau, and the Prince of Furs.
tenberg, were also present at the ball.
Shortly before 11 o'clock her Majesty, preceded by the Officers of
the household, and accompanied by the Royal Family, passed through
the grand saloon where the general company were assembled, and en-
tered the ball room. Straws's band immediately played " God save
the Queen."
Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Charelemont, Lady-in.
waiting ; Hon. Miss Cocks and Hon. Miss Cavendish, Maids of Honour
in waiting; Lady Caroline Barrington, Woman of the Bedchamber in
waiting ; Marquis of fleadfort, Lord-in-waiting; Marquis of Conyng.
ham, Lord Chamberlain; Earl of Belfast, Vice. Chamberlain ; Earl of
Surrey, Treasurer of the Household ; Right Ron. S. Byng, Comptroller
of the household; Hon. C. A. Murray, Master of the household; Hon.
eolonel Cavendish, Clerk Marshal; Colonel Buckley, Equery in waiting;
and Master Cavendish, Page of Honour in waiting.
Directly after her Majesty's entrance a set was formed, and the Queen
opened the ball with Prince George of Cambridge, in the quadrille
" Riquiqui." This was followed by the new waltz, intitled " Hommage
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a la Reine de la Grande Bretagne," which was greatly admired, and
was, by special desire, repeated. In the next dance (a quadrille) her
Majesty danced with his Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of

Nassau. Her Majesty danced in every succeeding quadrille, and had
for her partners in the several dances the following noblemen :—Prince

Nicholas Estcrhazy, Lord T. Pelham Clinton, Prince Maurice of Nassau,
Prince Schwarzenberg, the Australian Ambassador Extraordinary;
Lord Boringdon, Prince Windisch Gratz, Lord Shelburne, Count Victor
Zichy, and Count Erdody.
The quadrilles most admired were "Le Bon Garcon,"" Versailles;"
"Les Mohicans," " Parisina." The favourite waltzes were " Das leben
ein Tanz," " Die Eisenbahnc ;" " Kettenbruckcn," " Tansend-apper-
ment," " Merkurs Flugel."
In the other ball-room, where \Veippert's band was stationed, the
most admired dances were a national galope with " God save the
Queen" introduced; the quadrilles from " Norma," "Lucia di Lam-
mermoor," " Scaramuccia :" and the waltzes "Berlin," "Prague,"
" Moscow," and " Utrecht.''
Between the dances the Queen sat with the Royal Family and Foreign
Ambassadresses under a canopy, which was lined with white satin
richly and tastefully embroidered with silver, and decorated with les.
toons of artificial flowers.
The doors of the supper room were opened at one o'clock, and her

Majesty, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess

of Cambridge, and the Princess Hohenlohe, passed from the ball-room
to the cross.table at the end of the supper room. The beaufet of gold
and silver gilt plate beyond was much admired for the effect and bril-
liancy with which the numerous works of art in the precious metals were
displayed. At the back were a number of gold sconces, several of the
largest size, formerly belonging to his Majesty George IV.; they are
adorned with medallions, and also contained the cypher of that Mo-
narch, with the motto " Dieu et mon Droit," surmounted by a crown.
On the beaufet were vases (some of them copies of the Warwick vases),
tankarks, and gold cups, and a number of shields of silver gilt, embel-
lished with basso.relievos, including a fine battle-piece, the " Triumph
of Bacchus and Ariadne," and one of " Mutius Suevola," who is repre-
sented holding his hand in the fire in the presence of Persenna, after
having failed in his attempt on the life of that Monarch. Roman me-
dallions are introduced in the border of this shield. Some magnificent
candeabra were placed on the beaufet.
Her Majesty returned to the ball-room in half an hour. Dancing
was resumed, and was maintained in both rooms till a quarter to four
o'clock, when it ceased in the large ballroom. At the same time her
Majesty led off' a country dance in the other ball-room with the Mar-
quis of Douglas (who wore the Highland national dress.) This dance
was kept up with very great animation, and was prolonged until half.
past four o'clock, when the ball concluded. It was five o'clock before
all the company had quitted the Palace.
Among those present were the Austrian and Russian Ambassadors,
the French Ambassador and Countess Sebastiani, the Ne.cpolitan Am.
bassador Extraordinary, G. Capece Galeota dei Duchei di Regina, Se-
cretary of the Embassy, the Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and
Countess Stroganoff, Prince Kotcleubey, Count Alexis Stroganoff, the
Austrian Ambassador Extraordinary and Princess Schwarzenhert,
Prince Windisch Gratz, Count Beldi, Count Erdody, Count Victor
Zichv, Count Kinsky, the Netherlands Ambassador Extraordinary and
the Baroness de Capelien, Count Bcntinck, Baron Van der Duyn, Baron
Rengers de Warmenhuyzen, Baron de Tuyll, Baron Tindal, Prince de
Putbus, Prussian Ambassador Extraordinary; Count Bernstorff, Count

Hatzfeldt, Count de Pourtatis, Baron de Bergh, Baron de Saldern, Baron
de Krassow, Baron de Schoenfeld!, Baron de Seydlitz, Baron de Brock.
hausen ; Gen. Count Alteo, Hanoverian Ambassador Extraordinary,
Captain Baron Alten, Baron Ompteda, and Captain Hay; the Sardinian
Ambassador Extraordinary and the Marchioness de Brignoles, Count
Elvernoz, Count de Brogsin, Marquis Durazzo ; Count de Lowenhiehn,
Swedish Ambassador Extraordinary; Baron de Bonde, Baron de Wedel
Jarlsberg ; the Portuguese Ambassador Extraordinary and the Duchess
de Palmella ; Chevalier sic Sa Nogueira (Secretary), Marquis of
Fayal, Baron and Baroness de Lagos, Chevalier and Madame
de Sampayo, Chevalier Brendan, Lieutenant Brandao; Marshal
Soult, French Ambassador Extraordinary ; Count de Choiseul
Pm:l.., DIME ae VlCeneo,--C,d,z171 tfaudet, Baron de Firren.
Marquis de Bassein), Count de Tournon ; the Prussian and Belgian
Ministers, the Danish Minister and Baroness Biome, the Bavarian
Minister and taroness Cetto, the Netherlands Minister, the American
Minister and Mts. Stevenson, the Spanish Minister, the Grecian Minister
and Princess Soutzo, the Saxon Minister ; Chevalier Rebell() de Car-
valho, Portuguese Charge d'Affaires; Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, Baron
de Moncorvo, John Van Buren, son of the President of the United
States ; Count and Countess Zavadowsky, Count Se:aft, Baron Porbeck,
Baron Marschall Bieberstcin, Baron Otto van Uckermann, Baron de
Bourqueney, First Secretary of the French Embassy; M. de Kieseeleff,
Councillor of the Russian Embassy; Baron Werther, Secretary of the
' Prussian Legation; Baron Bentinck, Secretary of the Netherlands Lega-
tion ; Mr. Rush, Secretary, and Mr. Richard Vaux, Private Secretary to
the American Legation; Count de Romree, Attache to the Belgian Le.
gation ; Baron Bertotich, Attache to the Danish Legation ; Chevalier de
Paiva Pereira, Attache to the Portuguese Legation ; M. de Bivar, At-
tache to the Brazilian Lega4ion ; M. Negrete, Attache to the Mexican
Legation; Chevalier d'Odelga, Baron Lehzeltern, Chevalier Munoz,
Count Rohan, Madlle. Soutzo, Baroness Lehzen, Count Flahaut, Mr.
de Bergh, and the following
Dumas—Dorset, Buccleuch, Roxburghe, Newcastle, Richmond, Wel.
lington, Devonshire, Norfolk, Somerset, Leinster, Sutherland.
Duchesses—Dowager Richmond, Bedford, Buccleuch, Roxburghe,
Somerset, Richmond, Leinster, Northumberland, Sutherland.
Maeouises—Douglas, Winchester, Abercorn, Conyngham, Huntley,
Clanricarde, Londonderry, Tweeddale, Headfort, Salisbury, Downshire.
MARCHIONESSES—Abercorn, Westminster, Clanricarde, Dowager
Con)ngham, Salisbury, Downshire, Tavistock, Londonderry.
EARLS—Norbury, Tankerville, Lichfield, Liverpool, Bandon. Love-
lace, Munster, Charleville, Surrey, Craven, Ilchester, Devon, Coventry,
Fingall, Gosford, Carlisle, Warwick, Delawarr, Sheffield, Grosvenor,
Clanwillians, Eldon, Uxbridge, Clare, Cardigan, Grey, Haddington, Al.
bernarle, Wilton, De Grey, Darlington, Cowper, March, Mansfield,
Shelburne, Jersey, Morley, Aboyne, Belfast.
Counrxssys—Tankervillc, Lichfield, Norbury, Chesterfield, Love.
lace, Cadogan, Charleville, Surrey, Craven, Fingal!, Carlisle, Rosebery,
Delawarr, Grosvenor, Clanwilliam, Stanhope, Grey, Albemarle, Mun.
ster, Wilton, De Grey, Haddington, Dowager Ilchester, Manvers, Cow.
per, Jersey, Morley, Verulam, Charlemont, Camperdown, Aboyne, Shef.
field, Eldon, Uxbridge.
VlSCOUNTS—Bcresiord, Barrington, Loftus, Canning, Clive, Strang.
ford, Duncan, Deerhurst, Palmerston, Torrington, Powerscourt, Mahon.
VISCOMiTESSES—Beresford, Barrington, Canning, Falkland, Clive,
Dowager Dillon, Deerhisrst, Powerscourt, Fcrbes, Mahon.
LORDS—William Lennox, John Churchill, Francis Gordon, Byron,
eGardner, Ossulston, Glenelg, Suffield, Dinorben, Sudeley, Worsley,
Foley, Alfred Paget, Lilford, Forester, Cantilupe, Ernest Bruce, Eliot,
Saye and Sele, Ruthven, James Stewart, C. Fitzroy, Oranmore, Ashley,
Blunket, Pelham. Clinton, Leveson, Staverdale, Maidstone, G. Somerset,
George Paget, Hill, Frederick Gordon, Ducie, Belhaven, Ingestre,
Wrottesley, Jocelyn, Hatherton, Seymour, Wharncliffe, Marcus Hill,
Montagu, Macdonald, Ellenborough, Pottimore, Borringdon, William
Bentinck•, Eastnor, Robert Grosvenor, Grimston, Ebrington, Burg..
hersh, Howden, Templetown, Willoughby, Skermersdale, Cowley.
LADlES—Cecilia Underwood, Francis Gordon, Augusta Gordon,
Louisa Jenkinson, H. Bernard, Catherine Buckley, Augusta Cadogan,
Honoria Cadogan, Quintin, Lilford, Worsley, Mary Pierrepont, Strat.
ford Canning, Wheatley, Catherine Cavendish, Antrobus, Johnston,
Dowager Rivers, Shelley, Ernest Bruce, Ann Primrose, Hill (2), How-
ard de Walden, Chas. Somerset, Eliz. Gore, Emily Gore, M.' Stopford,
Dynevor, H. Paget, Ruthven, J. Stuart, Charlcs Fitzroy, W. Stanhope,
Otway, Georgina Grey, Russell, C. St. Maur, Rendlesham, Vivian,
Ashley, Fanny Cowper, Pelham Clinton (2), Peel, Granville Somer.
set, Pechell, Arrabella Arden, Fitzpatrick (2), C. Lindsay, Anson,
Wharncliffe, Caroline Lascelles, Belhaven, Ingestre, Harriet Bagot,
Dowager Asbburnham, Doraville, Wrottesley, Louisa Tighe, Somer.
set, Hatherton, Seymour, Graham, Marcus, Hill, C. Gordon, Len-
nox, Caroline Wood, s 'ttenham, Laura Meyrick, Cust, Paget, Mary
Stephenson, William Bentinck, Stuart de Rothsay, Stratheden, How.
ard, M. Grimston, Flora Hastings, Caroline Barrington, E. Duncan,
Burghersh, Denman, West, Theodosia Spring Rice, Howden, Caroline
Stanhope, John Russell, Willoughby, Gardiner, Skelmersdale, Cowley,
Elenora Paget.
RIGHT HONOURABLES—George S. Byng, Sir J. Hobhouse, H. L.
Corry, Sir Stratford Canning, Sir R. Peel, Sir J. Graham, J. W. Croker,
T. Spring Rice, Sir H. Parnell, Sir C. Begot, Sir R. Gorden, F. Lewis,
Sir C. Vaughan, Sir J. Johnston, George Dawson.
HONOURIBLES—Mrs. Cavendish, Charles Gore, Miss Forester, George
Byron, Misses Foley (2), W. Temple, Cecil Forester, M.P., Mrs. Corry,
Sidney Herbert, M.P., Mrs. Stanley, Miss Wrottesley, C. C. Cavendish,
M.P., Captain G. Campbell, R.N., C. A. Murray, Miss Denman, Lady
Lumley, Mr. Dundas, Mrs. G. Anson, Captain Grey, R.N., Misses
Plunket (2), Miss Smyth, J. Ponsonby, Miss Littleton, Spencer Cowper,
Mr. Ashley, Mrs. Ashlsy, Mrs. George Campbell, Major Keppel, Miss
Stuart, Fox Strangways, Miss Cocks, Miss Cavendish, William Cowper,
Mrs. Abercromby. Miss Willoughby, Miss Pitt, General Upton, Miss
Wellesley.

SlRS—Charles Metcalf, G.C.8., E. Lytton Bulwer, Bart., George Sey-
mour, George Quentin, NV. Somervil!c, Edward Cust, B. Stephenson,
John Campbell, Robert Gardiner, Edmund Antrobus, John Shelley.
MESSIEURS—G. E. Anson, Martens, Stephen Spring Rice, Strangways,
Stanley, Denison, Tighe, R. Steuart, M.P., E. G. Stanley, M.P., Banner-
man, M.P., Spearman, Stephenson, Irby, Bich, M.P., V. Smith, George
Byng, M.P„ Shiffner, E Paget, Norman Macdonald.

MISTRESSES—Dawson, Dawson Darner, D'Oyley, Gore, Anson, Ca.
vendish, Bannerman, Spearman, Byng, B. Paget.
MISSES—Kerr, Cavendish, Otway, Peel, Quentin, Anson (2), Baget
(2), Domvile (2), Wood, Stephenson (2), Wheatley (2), Paget (2), Cod.
rington, Spring Rice, Percy (2), Antrobus (2), Long Wellesley, D'Este,
Seymour, Shelley.
ADMIRALS—Sir Robert Otway, Sir E. Codrington.
GENERALS—HOO. Sir Wm. Lumley, Sir Henry Wheatley, D'Oyley,
Sir H. Vivian, Sir K Paget.
COLONELS—Sir Samuel G. Higgins, Armstrong, Caradoc, Arden,
Anson, de Roe, Fox, Buckley, Greenwood.
CAPTAINS—MeyrIeII, R.N., Seymour, Rolls, R.N., Wood.
LlEUTENANTS—Mayllard.Seymour, Redley, Cavendish.
At the Queen's state ball at the new palace, on the 19th June, her
Majesty danced in quadrilles with Prince George of Cambridge, Prince
of Holstein, Count Barnsdorfl, Lord Jocelyn, Earl Cowper, Prince
Maurice of Nassau, Baron Gersdcrff, Lord Villiers, the Marquis of
Cuelawnricarde, Count Kinsky, and Prince Furstenherg ; and in the last
dance, a country dance, Wt!, Ir;sc,unt Torrior,tr,”
he ,1 t t,O c:t:tut'!;. ~, :I, at Chi,
palace, to give audiehee to toe tbb ng, hwi Foreign Ambassadors and
their Ladies, to take leave :—Count Stroganoff; the Russian Ambassador
xtraordinary ; Prince Schwarzenberga the Austrian Ambassador Ex.