The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

His MAJESTY held a Court and Levee yesterday, at two
o'clock, at St. James's Palace.

The business of Cie Court commenced with the King
holding an Investiture of the Most Honourable Military
Order of the Bath. The following, Knights Grand Crosses,
viz.,--Lord HOWDEN, Lord HILL, Sir CHARLES DOYLE,
and Sir JAMES KEMPT, and Sir GEORGE NAYLER, Gene-
alogist, ALGERNON GREVILLE, Esq., Bath King of Arms,
and GEORGE F. BELTz, Esq., Gentleman Usher of the
Order, in their mantles, chains, and badges, proceeded in
the usual form into the Royal presence. By his MAJESTY S
command the Right HAI. ROBERT ADAIR was then in-
troduced, between Sir CHARLES DOYLE and Sir JAMES
KEM rr, the two junior Knights, preceded by the Gentleman
Usher bearing the scarlet rod, and Bath King of Arms
carrying the ensigns on a cushion. Having approached,
with the usual reverences, Mr. ADAIR knelt before the
KING, and was knighted with the sword of state, and then
by his MAJESTY invested with the riband and badge. Sir
ROBERT ADAIR then withdrew, and the grand crosses
having been called over by Bath King of Arms, retired, as
did also the officers of the order.

The KING gave audiences to Colonel KEATE, the Field
Officer in Waiting, and the Colonel of the Guard ; when
the Km; gave the military prole, and receive.' the report
of the effective state of the three Regiments of Foot Guards.
His MAJESTY gave audiences to the Duke of BRACANZA,
Viscount PALMERSTON, the Elrl of ALBEMARLE, the
Duke of DEVONSHIRE, Lord HILL, Lord FoLEY, Earl
GREY, the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, Lord AUCKLAND,
Lord HOLLAND, the Marquis of WINCHESTER, the Mar-
quis of LA NSDOWNE, the Duke of NORFOLK, and Viscount
ALTHORP.

Monsieur VAN DE WEYER, the Belgian Minister, had an
audience of tlic KING te, deliver his credentials. His
Excellency was introduced by Viscount PAL= RSTON, his
MAJESTY'S Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
and was conducted by Sir ROBERT CHESTER, the Master
of the Ceremonies, and was most graciously received.
Mr. SAMUEL BAosTen. was presented by his Grace the
Archbishop of CANTERBURY, at the entre Levee, to pre-
sent a very splendid copy of his new folio Polyglott Bible,
entitled " Biblia Polyglotti Bugsteriana," which has
eight langu iges of the entire Bible. MS MAJESTY re-
ceived the volume most graciously.
The LORD MAYOR was also introduced at the entre
Levee, by Earl GREY, upon his being created a Baronet,
upon which occasion his Lordship had the honour to kiss
hands.

There were also present the French, Russian, and
Austrian Ambassadors, the Prussian, Danish, Neapolitan,
Hanoverian, and Mexican Ministers, the American and
Brazilian Charge d'Affaires, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, the Archbishop of Armagh, the Lord President, the
First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Privy Seal, the Secre-
taries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial De-
partments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First
Lord of the Admiralty, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master
of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole, the Earl Marshal,
the Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen Pen-
sioners, the Captain of the Yeomen Guard, Lord HILL,
Gold Stick in Waiting, the Mater of the Horse to the
Queen, the Groom of the Robes, the Master of the Cere-
monies, the Lord Mayor, the Clerk Marshal, the Sect etary
at War,-the Master of the Hounds, Garter King at Arms.
The Prince DE LIEVEN, the Russian Ambassador, had an
audience of the KiNG to deliver a letter front his Sovereign.
At the general Levee were—
DUKE—Richmond.
MARQUlS—Cleveland.
EARLS—Essex, Oxford.
V ISCOUNT—Valletort.
LORDS—Holland, Auckland.
RIGHT HONOURABLE—R. Adair.
HONOURABLES—Henry Fox, Colonel Cust.
SlRS—George B. Hamilton, John Gibbons, W. Brabazon,
E. M. Macgregor, Bart., G. Nayler, R. H. Bromley, R.N.
REV. DOCTOR—LIoyd.
REV.—James Reed:
MESSIEURS—S. Bagster, S. S. Walton, Bingham, Vavasour.
ADMIRALS Sir Graham Hammond, Cunningham.
GENERALS—Sir Colin Halkett, Sir Hugh Halkett, Tolley,
Lord Howden, Sir T. Browne, Hart, Smith, Sir J. Doyle, Earl
Ludlow, G.C.B.

COLONEi:S.—Young, Williams, Sir Charles Thornton, Broke,
Sir Frederick Stovin, Power, Cameron, Smith, Hon. H. Murray,
Hughes, Elhcombe.

APTA INS—C. Pechell.
LIEUTENANT—Dowse, R.N.
The following had the honour of being presented to the
Kum :

Sir Evan Murray Macgregor, Bart., upon being appointed to
the Government of Dominica, by Vi-count Goderich.
Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Halkett, on departure for Bom-
bay, by Lord Hill.
Lieutenant-Colonel Young, on appointment to the Govern-
ment of Prince Edward's Island, by Lord Goderich.
Rev. Dr. Lloyd, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, to kiss
hands on his appointment by the Bishop of Cork.
Sir John Gibbons, on appointment as Colonel of the West
Middlesex Militia.

Rev. James Reed, on his re-appointment as Chaplain in Ordi-
nary to his Majesty.
East York Militia, by
Major-General Sir Hugh Halkett, by Baron Ompteda,
Mr. Samuel Standidge Walton, Captain
Mr.H oBua iiyntueunr,yMF.Pu.xf, aorlt"aocrhked to the Mission to his Majesty the.
Belgians.KiLingeuotfenthaent-Coloolon el n Williams, Royal East Middlesex Militia,
on promotion, by C Wood.
Sir Wm. Brabazon, by Lord Teynhain.
Colonel Sir Frederick Stovin, on promotion, by Lord Hill.
Sir George Baillie Hamilton, on his appointment as Secretary'
to the Mission to his Majesty the King of the Belgians, andon
his receiving the Royal Guelphic Order, by Lord Palmerston.
General Eirl Ludlow, G.C.8., by Lord Hill.
Lieutenant-Colonel Broke, Deputy Quarter-master General in
Nova Scotia, on appointment, by Lieutenant-General Sir W. J.
Gordon,
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Mr. Bingham, by Major-General Sir George Bing ham.
Lieutenant-Colonel Power, ILA., by the Master-General of
the Ordnance.
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Lientena,,t Dowse, R.N., by Rear-Admiral Sir T. Hardy,
Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes, on his departure for India, by
Sir Colin Halkett.
After attending the Kiso's Levee, Monsieur VAN DR
WEYER, the Belgian Minister, went to pay his respects to
the QUEEN, and was presented to her MAJESTY by Sir
R. CHESTER, the Master of the Ceremonies.
The Duchesses of CC3IBERLAND, CAMBRIDGE, and
GLOUCESTER, the Princess SOrmA, Prince GEORGE of
Cumberland, Prince GEORGE and Princess AUGUSTA of
Cambridge, visited the QUEEN yeatcrday, and partook of
a dejeund with her MAJESTY.
Soon after the breaking up of the KING's Court, their
MAJESTIES left town for their Palace. at Windsor.

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The effigy of Colonel WEBB, the Member for
Gloucester, has been, in two instances, burnt in that city,
in consequence of his voting against Ministers on the
Downton question.—Cheltenham Chronicle.