The Sun.
London, England, 1813-07-28 00:00:00

ottANIS Ot THE EttrilitT3

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MOST NOBLE ORDER (*Tilt G.,4IITER,

Yesterday his Royal Highness the 'Pitmen Rtt#
GENT held a Chapter of the host Noble Order (-f
the Garter, for the express.purpose of electing
Lis Imperial MAjesty the Emperor of all the atm.
SIAS a Member of the Most Noble Order, at Carl-
tein House. Soon after three o'clock, his Royal
Highness retired from Irts Private apartments,
and entered his closet' in his full robes of the
Order, which' be highly became, and looked very
princely and majestic , Garter King at Arlo, in
his full robes, was in readiness to receive his
noyAL HIGHNESS, and proceeded to call over the
names of the Members of the Order, when the fol-
lowing answered to their names, and walked in
grand procession through the State rooms, in
their full robes, making a sight not to be equalled
by any for splendour and niagnificenee in this
. country, except an Installation of the Order. It
began with the Marquis WELLESLEY, as the Jtinior
Knight present, and proceeded with the Marquis
of HERTFORD.,
The Earl of Penih-rolie, the Earl 01'MM:bilges, the Earl of
Westmorelansi, the Earl of Chatham, his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, Royal 'Highness the Duke of Cla-
rence,. his Royal Highness the Diihe of Yoik, Sir Thomas
Ty rwhitt, Didier of the Black Rod, Sir rsaac Heard, Garter
Principal King of Arms, the Rev. Dr. Legge, Dean of Wind-
sor, Registrar of the Order, the Bishop of Salisbury, Chan-
cellor of the Order, the Bishop of \Vila lieAer, Prelate of thu
Order, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent,
‘4O repre,:eut.
lug the Sovereign.

His Royal Highness's train wits.held up by Ge-
neral LEIGH, the Groom in waiting. The othtr
attendants upon his Royal Highness were—

The Marquis of Winchester, as. Groom of. the Stott.
Petersham, the Lurd in . Waiting ; Earlliarrington,
Stick;, this Lord ChaMberlitin, Lor.l Charles Behtiock, Trea-
surer of the Household ; Lord ficorgc Bcresford, Colorful-
ler of the Household ; and Major-General W.Bayley, ltyquerry .
in Waiting.

The procession having.arrived in the Throne or
Council Room, and his Royal Highness the
PRINCE REGENT, as representing the Sovereign,
having taken his seat in a superb chair opposite
the Throne, the Knights and Officers of the
Noble Order made their reverences ; the former
took their scats on each side the PaiN,.:F., accord-
ing to their seniority ; and the latter took their
appointed stations. Garter King ofiArtnsandthe
Usher of the Black Rod at the foot of the..table,
with their Staves of Office, With the Registm
between them.
The prelate of tlic Order stood to the right of the

PRINCE. His Royal Highness's State Attendants
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stood behind him. On his left Count LEtvr.N, the
Russian Ambassador, in full uniform and order, inul
the Chancellor of the Order, who addressed the

Chapter and said, he had, it in command from hiS
Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, in the name
and on the behalf of his Majesty, to recite the
last Statute of the Order, which. directed, that,
besidenhe SOvereign, it Should consist of twenti-
fiti Knights, all the descendants of King GEORGE
IL exclusive of the PRINCE of WALES, who was
considered a constituent part of the Order. It
was recommended to the Chapter to pass a new
Statute for the 'express purpose of electing
Imperial Majesty the. Emperor of all the RusstAs,
Metuher of the Order, notwithstanding any for-
suer statute or decree to the contrary.
His Excellency the tOssian Ambassador stood
close to the Chancellor, and appeared to teel•ex-
fremely the praise and compliments paid to the
conduct of his ItOyal Master, and bowed most re-'
spectfully.
The Chancellor proceeded to" tale the opinions,
of the Knights present, beginning with tlo;
nior,'nn the propriety of passing the statute, and
on receiving their sense in Writing, declared Isis
Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russiwts,
duly elected a Member .of the most, Noble Order
df the Garter,

4-Gartcr Kin.' of 1 rms then retired from the foot of
the table bowing, and retired to an adjoining room,
and introduced FRANCIS ToWNSEND•Esq. In con-
sequence of his indisposition preventing him front.
undertaking 'the Voyage to Russia, he proposed
Mr. TOWN9END to go in his room. They bowed
most respectfally to the PRINCE. Mr. ToWN-
SEND was afterwards conditeted to the head of the
table by Garter King,of Arms, and the Registrar
ihtroduced him to the PRINCE, 1111(1 was sworn in
Garter King of Arms for this spechi! occasion to
go to Russia to invest the Emperor with the in-
signia of
,the Order. The- oath was administet,.
ed in Latin by the Registrar. The ehapter then
closed, the Knights and the Officers bowing to
the PRINCE, and the procession returned in th,e
same order.

It is well known that Commodore ItODGEgfi has
risen from. the rank of,.rt common seaman, retain:.
ing all the vices, and perhaps Few of the Virtues,
at that valuable 'class of awn. captain 14A.witOzcs
was about two years since', as the
bearer of dispatches font his Government. Ile
then commanded the Hornet, which lay off the
Isle of Wight. lle was apparently about tweitty7.
five years at age, elegant in his manners, 'and, in
liis per Son tall aud athletic.
The late Captain Lxwtaf4er., of the Clwsapeetke,
American frigate, it is now said:, was a native. of
Burlington, near Philadelphia, adjoining a town
called BriStol—a circumstance which must haVe
given rise:to the report that be was a native- of
Bristol, in England.
.yesterday evening,a Naval Officer was thrown
out of the'mail-coach, between Heading and New,.
bury, and so wadi hurt that he died in t few
bours'after.
Mr. OANLEY,, the Gentleman who WM shot at
and dangerously wounded near NVeyntouth-street,
Walworth, aboat month since, is, we, are happy
to state, so far recovered us to be considered out
of immediate danger. .
A few nights since the house of Afrs.f.acr‘o, in
Brutop-strect, Berkeley-square., -‘vits broke alien
by entering a window on the first floor, supposed
to be by men lifting each other on the lamp iron,:l
and forcing the bar of the window ; and the
alarm bells having unfortunately been forgot to
be hung upon them, they were not heard, and
they made off with primrose satin silk net sacs.
net, gold lace, oitrielt feathers,: and others, a
quantity of m rtSli‘ii drsses, and a y,bitii.ety of
, tides .of female th esse to a considera atnothit,