The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-15 00:00:00

THEIR MAJESTIES' STATE BALL.

Their Majesties gave a Grand Ball on Monday evening, at their
Palace at St. James's, which was as numerously attended as the
two former ones.
The preparations for the Fete were similar to those for the pre-
vious Balls. The Ball lttann and Throne Room were prepared
for dancing. In the former was a quadrille band, led by Collinet
and Musard, which included several eminent performers, among
whom were Messrs. Mori, Ella,'Fobeeque, Rousselot, Barre, Platt,
Anfossi, Howell, Harper, Irwin, &c.— In the Throne Room was
Mr. John Weippert's quadrille band, composed of first-rate talent.
Mons. Michau officiated as Master of the Ceremonies.
The company began to arrive at half-past nine o'clock, and con.
tinned setting down without intermission for two hours. The
Duchess of Kent and the Prince of Leiningen, attended by Lady
Charlotte St. Maur and Sir John Conroy, arrived at the Palace
about ten o'clock. The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, at-
tended by Lady Sophia Lennox, Miss Cooper, Baron Linsingen,
and Colonel Poten ; the Duke of Sussex ; and the Duke and Du_
chess of Gloucester, attended by, Colonel Higgins, arrived at the
Palace about the same time. Their Majesties, accompanied be
the Landgravine of Hesse Hoisiberg, the Princess Augusta (at.
tended by Lady Mary Taylor and Miss Wynyard), and the other
members of the Royal Family, entered the State Rooms at a
quaster past tea o'clock. His Majesty was habited in a Field
Marshal's unitbrm. The Queen's dress was of white and silver,
striped with blue ; the head-dress was composed of a bandeau of
diamonds. The company assembled then paid their respects to
their Majesties, who were surrounded_by the Ladies and Officers
of their respective Households. Lord Byron was the Lord in
Waiting on the King. The Earl of Coventry was presented to
the Queen by Earl Howe, her Majesty's Chamberlain.
The company were then formed into sets for quadrilles, and
dancing commenced. In the Throne Room dancing commenced
with an entire new set of quadrilles.
Galopades, waltzes, and quadrilles were danced alternately in
both rooms during the evening, in the course of which Colinet's
band performed, in the presence of their Majesties, a new set of
quadrilles, composed for the occasion, and arranged by M.
Musard, on the favourite airs of Paganini. Their Majesties sat
on a sofa on the platform, at the east end of the Ball Room; the
Members of the Royal Family and the Ladies of the Foreign
Ambassadors sitting on either side. The Duke of Brunswick
sat near to the King and Queen, who frequently conversed with
his Highness, as did also the other Members of the Royal Family.
About one o'clock their Majesties and the Royal Family retired
to supper in the Queen's residence. Supper was served to the
general company in the Banqueting Room, the suite of tables in
which were laid for one hundred standing. Refreshments of every
description, including the choicest fruits, were tastefully ar-
ranged throughout the whole range of tables. In the middle were
numerous ornamental centre pieces of pastry, representing a lyre,
harp, water-mill, and fountain, Swiss hermitage and cottage, an
Egyptian fountain, and a variety of subjects.
The Duchess of Kent and suite left about one o'clock.
The Landgravine and the Duchess of Saxe Weimar remained
during the great part of the evening in the King's Closet, where
card parties were formed. _ _

Their Majesties and the Royal Family returned to the rooms
after supper. The Queen; accompanied by the Duke of Sussex,
promenaded through the rooms, and conversed with the nume-
rous guests. His Majesty sat principally during the night.
Dancing was resumed after supper, and was kept up with great
spirit till three o'clock, when the Ball concluded with a mazurka.
Among the company were--The reigning Duke of Brunswick,
the Netherlands Ambassador and Madame Falck ; the Russian,
Austrian, and French Ambassadors ; the Prussian Minister and
Baroness Bulow, the Neapolitan Minister and Countess Ludolff;
the American Minister and Mrs. M'Lane, the Mexican Minister
and Madame Gorostiza, the Bavarian Minister and Bpencss
Cetto, Madame Bermudez (the Lady of the Spanish Minister);
the Danish, Swedish, Sardinian, Hanoverian, and Wirtemberg
Ministers ; the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires ; Cousit Matuszevic,
on a Special Mission from Russia ; the Baron de Wessenburg, on
a Special Mission from Austria ; the Baron Zuylar de Nyevelt,
on a Special Mission from the Netherlands; Count Michel Wo-
ronzow ; Count de Hardenberg, Grand Master of the Court of
Hanover; Mr. Washington Irving, Secretary to the American
Embassy; Marquises Cordova and Curtoys, the Secretaries, and
Monsieur Zayas, Attache to the Spanish
.Embassy ; the Cheva.
lier de Neumann, Secretary to the Austrian Emlessy ; Count
Doenkoff, Secretary to the Prussian Minister; the Chevalier
Vanvitelli, Secretary to the Neapolitan Embassy ; Baron Ralamb,
Secretary to the Swedish Embassy; Monsieur Bourke, Secretary
to the Danish Embassy; Baron Behr de Edwalden, Count de
Aceto, the Master of the Rolls; Monsieur Ede Gorostiza, At-
tache to the Mexican Embassy.
DUKES—Gordon, Manchester, Montrose, Grafton, Buc-
clench Dorset, Richmond.

DUCHESSES—Montrose, Gordon, Buccleuch, Dowager New.
castle, Dowager Leeds, 1)e Dino, Northumberland, Richmond,
Bedford.

MA RQUlSES—Downshire, Salisbury, Sligo, Douro, Lothian,
Cleveland, Londonderry, Cholmondeley, Winchester, Lans-
downe, Graham, Clanricarde, Hastings.
MARCHIONESSES—Downshire, Salisbury, Lothian, Lon-
donderry, Dowager Salisbury, Stafford, Westmeath, Winches-
ter, Lansdowne.
EARLS—Euston, Tankerville, Howe, Romney, Liverpool,
Coventry, Verulam, Cowper, Rosebery, Manvers, Sefton, Clan-
william, Denbigh, Plymouth, Westmorland, Amherst, Rosslyn,
Aboyne, Belfast, Shaftesbui y, Aberdeen, Brecknock, Mount-
charles, Mayo, Albemarle, Kinnoull, Grey, Jenny'', Uxbridge,
Jersey, Dudley.
COUNTESSES—Wemyss and March, Tankerville, Jersey,
Morton, Euston, Howe, Verulam, Lonsdale, Rosebery, Man-
vers, Sefton, Amherst, Denbigh, Plymouth, Mountcharlee,
Mayo, Albemarle, Kinnoull, Bridgwater, Clanwilliam.
VISCOUNTS--Hood, Bridport, Grimston, Combermere,
Beresford, strangford, Goderich, Sydney, Anson, Valletort,
Ingestre, Palmerston.
VISCOUNTESSES—Hood, Bridport, Hampden, Anson.
LORDS—Somerville, Montague, Dundas J. Fitzroy, Stra-
thavon, Ranelagh, Nugent, John Russell, galtoun, Burghersh,
Lyndhurst, Foley, Belhaven, Save and Sele, Waterpark, George
Cavendish, Willoughby de kresby, Frederick Fitzclarence,
Mahon, Auckland, Byron, Loughborough, Prudhoe, Farnbo-
rough, Arden, Maryborough, W. Paulet, Hill, Cilenlyon,
Fitzharris.

LADIES—Howard Douglas, Jane Charteris, Louisa Charte-
ris, Susan Lygon, Johnston, Gomm, Graham two), Conroy,
Montagu, Dundas, George Chetwynd, Laura Fitzroy, Hardy,
Strathavon, Marsham (lour), Jenkinson (three), Nugent, C.
Grimston, Shelley, Catherine Cavendish, Saye and Sele, H.
Primrose, Molyneux (two), Willoughby de Eresby, Robert Peel,
Jane Peel, Frederick Fitzclarence, Thvnne, Fremantle, Whatley,
Box, Blackwood, Farnborough, .14 aryborough, Hardinge,
Wheatley, Paulet, Isabella 'Thyme, Glenlyon, Augusta Baring,
Grey, Dowager Saltoun, C. Dundas, Edmonstone, Gerard, Off.
ford, Graham, A. Barrington, Lyndhurst, A. Byng, L. Harvey.
Count Morel. _

HONOURABLES—Champion Dymoke, ;Mrs. Dymoke, Mr.
Fiennes, Mr. Legard, 9th Lancers, Lady Cockburn, Captain
Cavendish, R.N. William Bathurst, Misses Foley (two).
SlRS—Alexander Johnstone, Win. Gomm, George Chetwynd,
John Shelley, Henry Wheatley, Frederick Watson, Andrew
Barnard, Robert Chester, Win. Fremantle, Win. Home, Joseph
Whatley, H. Hardinge, A. D'Este, Wathen Waller, A. Edmon.
stone, J. Graham.
MESSRS.—Davies Gilbert, Raikes, Mundy, Corbet, E. Foley,
Henry Hope, Butler Danvers, Teasdale, Spring Rice, E. Ellice,
Edwards, Vaughan, G. Lambe, W. Crawford, Cavendish, Mash,
Greenwood, Lewis, Littleton, Mills, I awson, Lushiugton, H.
Drummond, Calcraft, Backhouse, J. Hudson, C. Arbuthnot, C.
Greville,
MISTRESSES—W. Smythe, D. Gilbert, Mundy, Balfour,
Raikes, Edwards Vaughan, G. Lamb, Robert Grant, Lewis,
Smith, Mills, Dawson, Gray, Arbuthnot, Lloyd.
MISSES—H. Douglas, W. Smythe, H. Douglas, Gilbert,
Dymoke, Johnston (two), Mundy, Conroy, Balfour, Montagu
(two), Dundas, Cockburne, Chetwynd (two), Lloyd (two), Hardy
three), Shelley, E. Vaughan, Cavendish, Wheatley (two), What-
ley (two), Gray Backhouse (two), Hunloße.
ADMIRAL—Sir John Beresford.

GENERALS—Sir H. Douglas, Sir J. Cockburn, Sir J. Kempt.
COLONELS--Higgins, Poten, Hill, C. C. Cavendish, Arbuth-
A, Lygon.
C APT A I NS— Barrington, Byng.