The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-10 00:00:00

THE LEVEE.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert held a Levee, by
desire of the Queen, yesterday afternoon in St. James's
Palace.
The Prince arrived soon after two o'clock from Buck-
ingham Palace, escorted by a detachment of the Life
Guards, and was received at St. James's Palace by the
Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the-Master of
the Horse.
Before the Levee, Viscount Dalrymple, M.P., had an
audience of his ROyal Highness, and delivered up the
Ribbon and Badge of the Order of the Thistle held by
the late Earl of Stair.
His Royal Highness was attended by the Lord Cham-
berlain, the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, the
Vice-Chamberlain, the Comptroller of the-Household, the
Marquis of Ormonde, Lord in Waiting ; Viscount Tor-
rington, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness ; Colo-
nel the Hon. C. D. Phipps, Keeper of her Majesty's
Privy Purse ; Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Private
Secretary to his Royal Highness ; Mr. R. Ormsby Gore,
Groom in Waiting to the Queen ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting to his Royal High-
ness ; Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting to the
Queen ; and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros, Equerry
in Waiting to his Royal Highness.
The honourable corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms was on
duty, under the command of the Right Hon. the Captain;
the Lieutenant, Sir James Tyloi, and Mr. Joseph Skip
Lloyd, clerk of the cheque and adjutant, attended. The
sub-officers, Lieut.-Colonel Nevill and Major Cook, were
also present.
The Queen's body guard of the Yeomen of the Guard
was on duty, under the command of Captain Rickford,
the exon in waiting.
The diplomatic circle was introduced, when the follow-
ing foreign presentations to his Royal Highness the
Prince Albert took place :
By the Portuguese Minister—
Le Marquis de Loul6, pair de Royaume, et Ministre
d'kat honoraire.
By the Brazilian Minister—
Lieutenants- Braconot and Mattos, of the Imperial
Brazilian navy.

The diplomatic circle was attended by the Count Wa-
lewski, French ambassador; M. Jules de Saux, secretary
to the embassy; and M. Veillat, attache to the embassy;
Baron de Cetto, Bavarian minister ; Baron de Brunnow,
Russian minister ; Le Comte Andre Bloudoff, secretary
of Legation; Lieutenant-Colonel Schwabe. Royal Imperial
Engineers ; and Captain Shestakoff, Russian navy ;
Count de Kielmansegge, Hanoverian minister ; Cheva-
lier Bunsen, Prussian minister ; and Count Flemming,
councillor of the Legation ; Baron de Rehausen, Swe-
dish wad Norwegian minister; and Baron de Geer,
secretary of Legation ; Senor X. Isturitz, Spanish
minister ; and Mr. P. Sorela, second secretary of Lega-
tion ; the Marquis d'Azeglio, Sardinian minister ; the
Marquis Massimo d'Azeglio, and the Marquis Oldoini,
first secretary of Legation ; M. Tricoupi, the Greek
minister ; M. Musurus, Turkish minister ; Essad Bey,
first secretary, and Dilaver Effendi, secretary interpreter
of the Legation ; Baron Bentinck, Nerthelands minister ;
Count de Lavradio, Portuguese minister ; the Chevalier
Pinto de Soveral, secretary ; M. F. F. de la Figaniere,
attache to the Legation ; and le Vicomte d'Alte ; M.
Macedo, Brazilian minister ; Prince di Carini, Sicilian
minister ; M. de Bille, Danish minister ; and Count
Reventlow, secretary of Legation ; Count Colloredo,
Austrian minister ; M. Ingersoll, 'United States minister;
and Mr. Trescot, secretary of Legation ; the Earl of
Clarendon. K.G., the Queen's principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs ; and Major-General the Hon.
Sir Edward Uust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the
Ceremonies.

The general circle was afterwards introduced, and was
attended by the Lord President, the First Lord of the
Treasury, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Rus-
sell, the Secretartes of State for the Home and Colonial
Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the
Secretary-at-War, the Marquis of Anglesey, K.G., gold
stick in waiting ; Gener Viscount Combermere, con-
stable of the tower, and lord-lieutenant of the Tower
Hamlets ; Bishop of Oxford, lord high almoner ; Lord
Raglan, master general of the Ordnance ; Lord Mont-
eagle, comptroller-general of the Exchequer ; the Dean
of the Arches the Vice-Chancellor Kindersley ; Sir
Thomas Redington, K.C.8., secretary to the India
Board ; Lord Alfred Paget, clerk marshal ; Hon. Lieut.-
Colonel Hood, clerk marshal to his Royal Highness
Prince Albert ; Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Robert Boyle,
groom in waiting to the Queen ; Sir George Lee, lieu-
, tenant of the Yeomen of the Guard; Lieut.-Colonel
the Right Hon. Cecil Forester, silver stick in waiting ;
Major-General Buckley, equerry to the Queen ; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon, equerry to
Prince Albert; Cols. H. Bentinck, Broke, and Penefather,
aides-de-camp to the Queen ; Major Harmar, standard
bearer to the hon. corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Sir
George Hayter, Knt., and K.S.L., principal painter of
history and portraits in ordinary to her Majesty ; Sir
William Martins, gentleman usher to the sword of state ;
Mr. Norman Macdonald, comptroller of the Lord Cham-
berlain's department ; Lieut.-Colonel Fitzmaurice, ad-
jutant of the yeomen of the guard ; Captain Grant, exon
of the yeomen of the guard ; Mr. Siegerich Kreeft,
consul for his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Meck-
lenburg-Schwerin ; Mr. Albert William Woods (Lan-
caster herald), gentleman usher of the order of the Bath ;
Mr. Pulman (Clarenceux), Mr. Alfred Montgomery,
and Mr. Arthur Blackwood, gentlemen ushers ; Dr.
Lyon Playfair, C. 8., gentleman usher to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert ; Captain G. C. Blake, RN.,
gentleman usher ,to his Royal Highness Prince Albert
in waiting ; Lieut.-Colonel Stephens and Mr. Wil-
braham Taylor, gentlemen ushers to the Queen ; Baron
Knesebeck.
The following gentlemen had the honour of being pre-
sented :

Sir Archibald Alison, on being created a baronet, by the
Earl of Eglinton and. Winton.'
Mr. Joseph Arnould, by Lord Norreys.
Lieutenant Anderson, on his return from India, by Sir
C. Wood.

Ensign Abercromby, by his father, Sir R. Abercromby,
Bart.

Mr. J. N. Abbott, by Mr. Warner, M.P.
Mr. Abercromby, of Birkenbog, by his father, Sir Robert
Abercromby, Bart.

Commander Aldham, on return from foreign service, by
Sir J. Graham.

Lieutenant Anstruther, on appointment to the Grenadier
Guards, by Colonel Thornton.

Captain Anderson, on re-appointment to Royal Horse
Artillery, by Lieutenant-General Sir Hew Ross.
Captain Armstrong, by Sir Edward Bowater.

Colonel Barnard, on his appointment to the command of
the Monmouth and South Wales district, by Viscount
Hardinge.
Lieutenant E. Stopford Blair, by Lieutenant-General
the Hon. E. P. Lygon.
Cornet John Bramston, on his appointment to the Essex
Yeomanry, by his father, Mr. BramstOn, M.P.
Colonel Beresford, on his appointment as Commandant
of Chatham, by Viscount Hardinge.
Mr. Boothby, on his appointment as Second Judge of
the Supreme Court of the colony of South Australia, by
by the Duke of Newcastle.

'Lord Bateman, on his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant
of Herefordshire, by the Earl of Derby.
Lieutenant-Colonel Piercy Benn, on return from foreign
service, by Lord Raglan.
Lieutenant F. E. B. Beaumont, by Colonel Jones.
Lieutenant Hervey Bathurst, on appointment to Grena-
Guards, by Colonel Thornton.
Lieutenant W. H. Binney, by Colonel Sir Charles Hop-
kinson.
Lieutenant C. Buckle, by Sir C. Wood.
Lieutenant Bowlby, on return from India, by General
Sir Richard Bourke.

Ensign Clinton Boyle, by Lieutenant-General Hon.
Hugh Arbuthnot.

Viscount Boyle, on his appointment as Attache to her
Majesty's Mission at Vienna, by the Earl of Clarendon.
Mr. Alfred Buckley, by his father, Major-Gen. Buckley.
Mr. John Bridgeman, by the Earl of Bradford.
Lieutenant P. A. Pleydell Bouverie, by Col. Bouverie.
Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. Boldero, M.P., on promotion,
by the Commander-in-Cbief.

Mr. Bazley, Deputy-Lieutenant of Lancaster, by the
Earl Granville.

Captain W. Birch, by Sir C. Wood.
The Rev. Alfred Burmester, chaplain to the Sheriff of
Surrey, by Mr. Sheriff Grissell.
Commander Arthur A. Cochrane, on return from foreign
service, by the Earl of Dundonald.
Lieutenant W. H. Clifton, by Major Palmer.
Lieutenant Cuthbert, on his return from India, by Lieut.-
General Sir John Grey.
Lieutenant J. W. Clayton, on promotion, by Lieutenant
General Hon. E. P. Lygon.
Mr. W. Carew Cocks, by the Earl Somers.
Major Farnaby Cator, on appointment to West Kent
Militia, by Viscount Sydney.
The tev. Walter P. Creyke, on going abroad as chaplain
to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, by
the Archbishop of York.

Cornet J. A. Clark, on appointment to 10th Hussars,
by Lieutenimt-General Earl Beauchamp.
Mr. Bond Cabbell, on his appointment as Deputy-Lieu-
tenant of the county of Middlesex, by the Marquis of Salis-
bury.
Mr. Under-Sheriff Cleobury, by Viscount Paknerston.
Major Clarke, by General Sir E. Kerrison.

Lieutenant C. H. Spencer Churchill, by the Earl of
Shaftesbury.
Mr. Cogan, M.P., by Mr. Monsell, M.P.
Mr. Victor Drummond, by the Earl of Clarendon.
Lieutenant Drummond, on return from India, by the
Earl Beauchamp.
Cornet Davis, by Major Palmer.
Lieutenant-Colonel Drought, on his return from foreign
service, by General Sir Howard Douglas.
Captain the Hon. Richard S. Dundas, R.N., on appoint-
ment to be one of the Lords of the Admiralty, by Sir
James Graham.

Mr. Stratford Dugdale, by Viscount Lewisham.
Lieutenant de Moylens, on return from foreign service,
by the Inspector-General of Fortifications.
Dr. Charles Douglas, by Sir C. Wood.
Lieutenant Downes, on obtaining his commission, by
Lord Raglan.
Lieutenant W. D'Arcy, by Sir Arthur B. Brooke, Bart.,
M.P.

Sir Claude C. de Crespigny, Bart, by ir J. Tyroll
Bart., 31. P.
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Lieutenant H. M. Douglas, by Viscount Drumlanr
Lieutenant F. Byam Davies, on his appointment to the
Grenadier Guards, by Sir Byam Martin,
Captain Edenborough, on promotion, by Major Palmer.
Viscount Elmley, by Viscount Combermere.
Captain Elmslie, on appointment to the Royal London
Militia, by Colonel Thompson, M.P.