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London, England, 1822-08-23 00:00:00

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THE KING.

EDINBURGH, TUESDAY, AuGusT 20.
( Priz c'e Lettcr.

This day the KING held the drawing-room at Holyrood-
palace, and after a lapse of nearly two centuries, this, ancient
edifice, where often " feasted the chiefs of Scotland's power,"
became again the centre of splendour and chivalrous gaiety.
The court-yard and quadrangle displayed the usual attend-
ants in their state liveries ; troops of Dragoons kept the
avenues to the palace open for privileged company. The
archers remained as a guard of honour in the corridors. So
early as eleven o'clock the company were setting down. It is
needless to state they consisted of the principal part of the nobility
and gentry of Scotland. The gentlemen were mostly in military
dresses; but the ladies looked to great advantage: they are in ge-
neral taller than the ladies of England, and their rich plumes of
ostrich feathers were exhibited with superior effect. The dresses
were niciatly white satin, tastefully ornamented with a profusion
of lama. There were about 3,000 personages at Court, and the
novel appearance of so splendid an assemblage at Holyrood
Palace wait; extremely gratifying to the northern lovers of
Court Ceremonies and royal etiquette. -'The King arrived
at half past two o'clock in his travelling chariot, drawn
by six horses, from Dalkeit_h. His Majesty wore a fail
Field Marshal's uniform, and was received at the private en.
trance by all the officers of state. He did not stop in any of
the ante-chambers, but proceeded directly to the drawing-room,
which is in the suite of apartments formerly occupied by the
French Royal Family, in the right wing of the quadrangle.- The
company in attendance for presentation were previously admitted
into the suite of apartments in the opposite part of the palace,from
whence they had a passage to the drawing-room through a
gallery facing the park, and subsequently egress from the north
corner of the building. The King appeared in good health,
and better spirits than he has manifested since his arrival in
Edinburgh. Crowds of well-dressed persons, did particularly
ladies, were in waiting to greet his Majesty upon his arrival
at Holyrood ; and he repeatedly bowed, and often laughed
heartily in acknowledging the earnest though often ludicrous
efforts of the crowd to evade the military escort, and get a closer
view of the Royal person. The day proved wet and unfavour-
able for those whose gratification could only be indulged in
the street, hut all within the Palace was gay and magnificent.
Not a word of political arrangements transpires at Court. •
The King entertains daily a select party of private frionds at
Dalkeith —no political partiality is evinced upon these occa-
sions. The Earls of Fife and Rosslyn have repeatedly had the
honour of enjoying these invitations. The principal public
business and correspondence with Ministers in London is car-
ried on by Lord Melville and Mr. Peel. The latter has two
secretaries, who are constantly employed, and he is generally
unable, until between five and six o'clock in the evening:, to set
out with Lord Melville to Melville Castle. The ordinary offi-
cial business is transacted in a suite of apartments at the Wa-
terloo Hotel.

( From the Edinburgh Obsrrver of Ticnsday,)
The Commission from the Church which presented the Ad.
dress yesterday, niAst have struck his Majesty with considera-
ble surprise ; it was undoubtedly known to hhn beforehand that
the members of the Church of Scotland are not all necessarily
Clergymen ; but what is known by report only, does not pre-
vent the whole of the effect of surprise when the eye first meets
a new object.

Segius irritant animos demissa per aures,
Quam gum aunt oculis subjecta fidelibus.
Military, and Highland, and other dresses, appeared amongst
those of the clerical order, as the proper costume of the members
of the Church, producing au effect of which the, most accurate
previous unocular knowledge could not altogethbr destroy the
novelty. We must recollect that his Majesty, in receiving Ad-
dresses from clerical bodies, has hitherto been accustomed
only to black dresses. In this respect it must have been a
perfectly new sight to his Majesty ; and all new sights pro-
duce new sensations. One of the strongest sensations that must
arise in the mind of any man, upon seeing what the people
of other countries, accustomed to other clerical appearances,
would be inclined to call an heterogeneous mixture of pro-
fession and ranks and offices in life, would be the considera-
tion, that the Church was not here limited to a particular set
of men, but was composed of all the people of the country ;
and, reasoning from such an observation, he would discover
the clue that would explain what secret influence threiV so
much decorum and propriety of conduct over the crowds 4114
assembled to witness his Majesty's landing. The intimate
connexion between, or rather the identity of, the church and
the people, cannot but have some effect ; and if any, a bene-
ficial one ; that connexion or identity was visibly represented
to his Majesty by the intermixture of the gay regimentals,
and varied tartans of the Nobility and Gentry, with the grave
habits of the Ministers, on presenting the following

ADDRESS FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
" Most Gracious Sovereign—We, the 411inisters and Elders
of the Church of Scotland, met as a Commission of the Gcnerea
Assembly, and the Representative Body of the whole Church,
beg leave, with profound respect, to approach your Majesty's
Throne, and to present to your Majesty-the strongest and most
solemn assurances of our veneration, affection, and loyalty.
" We most sincerely and most joyfully congratulate your
Majesty on yonr-safe'arrival in Scotland ; and we congratulate
Scotland on that most auspicious event—an event in which we
feel the highest exultation, and from which we anticipate the
happiest consequences.
" To this day your Majesty's subjects in Scotland have
looked forward with joyful expectation ; and to this day they
will look back as a day of glory to their native land.
" At the annual meetings cf our National Church, we have
esteemed it a high honour to behold your Majesty's represen-
tative ; and through him to receive your Majesty's most graci-
ous assurances of maintaining inviolate our rights and privi-
leges as by law established. But we cannot express what we
feel, when, within the precincts of your ancient kingdom of
Scot/and, we behold your Majesty in person—a King distin-
guished by every splendid endowment, and graced by every
elegant accomplishment—at once the safeguard of our country
and the bulwark of our church.

" From the first momenrthat your Majesty undertook the
charge of public affairs, the Providence of God has beamed
upon you with a bright effulgence. By the wisdom of your
Majesty's counsels, and the vigour of your arms, your Majesty
was enabled, by the blessing of Almighty God, to frustrate
the formidable attempts of a gigantic power which, grasping
at universal empire, threatened to destroy the independence of
Europe ; and that same Providence, we trust, will still con-
tinue to encompass your Majesty as with a shield, and, over ali
your glory, to create a defence.
" As portion of your Majesty's subjects, we express our
warmest gratitude for the honour your Majesty has done to our
country by most graciously condescending to visit it; and we
trust, that when your Majesty returns from your Scottish dorn;-
nions, you will be able to say, that in this part of the Unit/ti
Kingdom you have seen a people who love their God, Weir
Country, and their King.
" As the constituted Representatives of the Church of ‘cot-
land, we present to your Majesty our heartfelt thanks for the
many signal favours which your Majesty has been pleased to
confer upoa us; and, as the best return which we can make for
your Majesty's goodness, we beg leave to assure your Majesty,'
that it shall be our study, in our respective districts, to dis-
charge, with fidelity and seal. the duty committed to our trust;
and to encourage loyalty and submission to the laws, as equally
indispensable to both public and private prosperity.
" We will labour to impress upon the people committed to
our care a high sense of the invaluable blessings of our glorious
and happy Constitution. We will teach them to fear God, to
honour their King, and to connect the principles of religion
with a dutiful obedience to the laws of their.country.
" That your Majesty may long sway the 'Neal sceptre over
a great, a free, a loyal, a happy, and an united people that