The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-09 00:00:00

THE KING'S LEVEE.

Their Majesties arrived in town soon after one o'clock
terday afternoon, in a carriage and four, escorted by a
party of Light Horse, from the Palace at Windsor.
The King held a Chapter of the most Honourable Mili-
tary Order of the Bath, at which the following Knights
Grand Crosses of the Order were present :—His Royal
Highness the Duke of Cumberland, Lord Howden, the
Duke of Wellington, Lord llill, Sir John Doyle, Sir
Alexander Hope, Sir James Kempt, Sir G. Drummond,
Sir George Walker, Lord Howard of Effingham, Earl of
Rosslyn, Sir George Martin, Sr Thomas B. Martin, Sir
James Whitshed, Sir Henry Grey, Sir Willoughby Gor-
don, Sir Thomas Hardy, Sir Charles Bagnt, Sir Stratford
Canning, Viscount Palmerston, and Sir J. Byng.
The Knights were robed in the Portrait Gallery by
Messrs. Webb and Hunter, with their splendid mantles and
collars. The Grand Crosses were then called over by
Bath King of Arms, in the Entree Room, and his Ma-
jesty's pleasure having been notified, the Knights with the
Officers of the Order advanced into the Royal presence.
The following Military Officers, viz., Lieut. General
Sir George Anson, Lieut.-General Sir John Ormsby
Vandeleur, and Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Dillas, were
severally introduced between the two Junior Knights,
Viscount Palmerston and Sir Thomas Hardy, and were
invested by the Sovereig❑ with the insignia of a Knight
Grand Cross.

On this occasion Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur received
the honour of Knighthood. Several years ago Sir John,
while on service, was nominated a Knight Commander by
his late Majesty, and invested by the Duke of Wellington.
This entitled Sir John to assume the title, although he
had not actually been knighted. Sir George Anson and
Sir Thomas Dallas had received the honour of knighthood
when invested as Knights Commanders by the Sovereign.
The Officers of the Order attended the ceremony in
their mantles, chains, and barices. There were present
Sir William Woods, Clarenceux King of Arms, Algernon
Greville, Esq., Bath King of Arms, Captain M. Seymour,
Secretary, and George Beltz, Esq., Gentleman Usher of
the Order.

The King afterwards held a levee, at which Count de
Mendesloh, the Wirternherg Minister, had an audience of
his Majesty, to which he was introduced by Viscount
Palmerston, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and
conducted by Sir Robert Chester, the Master of the Ce-
remonies. His Excellency delivered a letter from his
Sovereign.

Prince Esterhatry, the Austrian Ambassador, presented
his Son in the Entree circle.

His Majesty gave audiences to Earl Grey, the Duke of
Richmond, Mr. Secretary Stanley, Viscount Melbourne,
the Earl of Albemarle, Sir James Graham, Lord Hill, and
the Right Hon. Robert Grant.

Lord Elphinstone and the Hon. Captain George Camp-
bell, R.N., were the Lord and Groom in Waiting.
At the Entree Levee there were present the Russian,
Austrian, and French Ambassadors, the Neapolitan, Ba-
varian, Prussian, Swedish, Wirtemberg, Hanoverian,
Saxon, Brazilian, Netherlands, Spanish, and Danish
Ministers ; the Baron de Wessenburg, the Austrian Spe-
cial Minister ; M. Dedel, the Dutch Special Minister; the
Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of
the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home,
Foreign, and Col,nial Departments, the Postmaster-Gene-
ral, the President of the Board of Control, the First Lord
of the Admiralty, the Lord Steward, the Master of the
Hone, the Commander of the Forces, the Master-General
of the Ordnance, the Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gen-
tlemen Pensioners, the Captain of the Yeomanry Guard,
the Judge Advocate General, the Treasurer of the House-
hold, Comptroller of the Household, Sir Wathen Waller,
Extra Groom in Waiting, the Master of the Ceremonies,
the Master of the Robes, Lieutenant-Colonel Cavendish,
Equerry in Waiting, Mr. Sheriff Peek, and Master Graves,
Page of Honour.
At the General Levee were—
Eerms—Cadogan, Huntingdon, Meath.
Loan—Howard of Effingham.

RIGHT HOSOURABLES—CharIes Grant, Robert Grant, Sir
Stratford Canning.

SlR—Frederick Hamilton, Bart.
REVEREND—B. Bray.

MESSIEURS—CharIes H. Oakes, H. A. W. Fellowes, M.P.
Frederick Holder, A. Taylor.

AoatiaaLs—Sir James H. Whitshed, Sir Charles Rowley,
Sir Geo. Martin, Sir Richard King, Sir Trcmayne Rodd.
GENERALS—Sir Henry Grey, Dickens, Wilson, Sir Charles
Wale, Sir George Quentin, Sir John Doyle, Sir Win. K. Grant,
Sir Sigismond Smith.

COLONELS—Sir Charles Thornton, Lord Brudenell, Sir
Archibald Christie, Kennedy Clark, Sir Charles Gordon,
Reeves, Pakenham, Wynyard, Sir A. Dalrymple, Clitherow.
MAJOR—Blanshard.

CAPTAINS—A. W. Torrens, Williamson, Edward Barnard,
R.N., Wm. H. Shippard, Wilson, Sir John Louis, R.N., La-
mont, M.P., M. Seymour, R N.
CoxtmarinEas---Henry Parker, Richard Douglas.
LIEUTENANT—Frederick Torrens.
Tue following were presen ell to the King :
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Mr. Charles Henry Oakes, by Viscount Strangford ; Corn.
mander Henry Parker, by the Earl of Huntingdon ; Vice.
Admiral Sir Richard King, on his appointment as Commander-
in-Chief at Sheerness, by Sir James Graham ; Lieut.-Col. Sir
Charles Gordon, on his return from Malta ; Captain Edward
Barnard, R.N., on his appointment to his Majesty's ship Ocean,
by Sir James Graham ; Commander Richard Douglas, by Sir
James Graham ; Mr. Frederick Holder, on his departure for
India to join his Regiment, by Lord Fitzroy Somerset ; Lieut.
Frederick Torrens, by Lieut.-General Sir Willoughby Gordon.

The Duke of Cumberland, the Duke of Sussex, and the
Princess Sophia, visited their Majesties yesterday.
Prince George or Cambridge arrived in town yesterday,
from the Palace at Windsor.

Yesterday her Majesty was graciously pleased to honour
the Surrey Zoological Gardens with a visit. She pro-
ceeded thither about halt-past three o'clock, accompanied
by Pi ince George of Cambridge, Lord and Lady Falk-
hnd, Lord and Lady Denbigh, &c., and was enthusiasti-
cally received by a very numerous and highly respectable
assemblage of the subscribers and their friends.

Baron Otto d'Ompteda was presented at the entree circle
by his father, Baron d'Ompteda, the Hanoverian Minister.
The Queen honoured the Haymarket Thea►re with her
presence last evening. The performances were Blue Devils,
The Housekeeper, My Wife's Mother, and Nicolas Flom.
His Majesty gave a State Dinner last evening at the
Palace, at St. James's, to the Officers of the Royil Artil-
lery, on the occasion of his presenting the corps with a
splendid candelabrum, as a token of his Majesty's appro.
bation of the services of the corps.
A detachment of 100 Royal Artillerymen from Wool-
wich lined the presence-chamber, guard room, and the
coridor leading to the grand staircase. The band of the
regiment, consisting of 40 perform« rs, were stationed in
an ante-room, adjoining the banquetting-room.
The officers came in full regimentals, and wore their
respective insignia of Knighthood ; on their arrival they
were ushered into the ball-room. The officers of the
Royal Household appeared in their official uniforms.
Dinner having been served, the King, preceded try the
Controller of the Household, the Treasurer of the House-
hold, and the Lord Steward of the Household, led the
way to the banquetting-room. His Majesty wore over
his regimentals the Riband and Star of the Order of the
Garter. Lord Hill, the Commander of the Forces, Sir
James Kempt, the Master-General of the Ordnance, and
the other guests, followed.

The banquetting-room presented a very novel appear-
ance : at ooe end the candelabrum was elevated in the
middle of a platform. It is a beautiful specimen of work-
manship, being executed in frosted silver; it stands on a
triangular base, representing on one side the Royal arms,
on another the flag of the Royal Artillery, and on the
third is engraved the following insm iption

" Presented by
" His Most Gracious Majesty William the Fourth
" to the Royal Regiment of Artillery, in
" Testimony of his Majesty's high approbation of their
"distinguished Services in every part of the Globe in
" which the British Arms have been engaged, 1833."
Over the three angles are a log field-piece, a howitzer,
and a mortar; behind these are figures of a gunner, a ser-
geant of the Royal, and a gunner of the Horse Ar-
tillery. There are 12 branches, whirl!, together with the
shaft, presented the form of a palm-tree (emblematical of
victory), and the whole is surmounted with the British
lion. This work was executed by the Messrs. Bridge.
The Royal standard, crowned with laurel, was sus-
pended bannerwise over the candelabrum. A number of
regimental colours, from the Tower, tastefully arranged
and displayed, formed the background ; oak and laurel
were interspersed about the platform, and on each side was
a pile of ancient armour from the collection in the Tower ;
an entire suit was placed in the centre of each pile.
The dinner for the company was laid on the long table,
with cross tables at each end. A succession of epergnes
and candelabra were placed along the middle of the tables,
some of the former elabora,ely ornamented with marine
subjects; the tops of the covers representing the birth of
Venus. The candelabra contained wax lights, in addition
to the five large ormulu chandeliers with which the room
was illuminat,d.
The band of the Royal Artillery played " God save the
King," as his Majesty and the company passed to dinner,
and also performed various pieces during the evening.
The following were among the company present :
Lieutenant-General Sir John Smith, G. C. IL Colonel Com-
mandant at Woolwich ; Major General Millar, Director.
General of Artillery ; Major. General Sir George Fisher, Com-
mandant of the Garrison ; Colonel Adye, assistant to ditto ;
W, P ionsi,.l3rigade-MaJor. Garrison Stag's Captain

Romer, Garrison Quarter-Master, ditto ; Colonel Sie Alex-
ander Dickson, Deputy Adjutant-General ; Lieutentant-
Colonel J. E. Jones, Assistant ditto ; Colonel Bingham, Colonel
Sir Augustus Frazer, Colonel Williamson, Colonel Drummond,
Colonel Tobin, Lieutenant-Colonel Breslin, Colonel Sir
John Hay, Lieutenant_Colonel Cockburn, Lieutenant_
Colonel Roberts, Lieuteuant-Colonel Dugald Campbell,
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Campbell, Lieutenant-Colonel
Cleveland, Lieutenant_Colonel Richard Jones, Lieutenant_
Colonel Story, Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchesson, Lieu.
tenant-Colonel Whinyates, Lieutenant-Colonel Trelawny,
Lieutenant-Colonel Gilmour, Major Coffin, Major H. A. Scott,
Major Petley, Major Dansey, Major H. \V. Gordon, Major
Dundas, Major Cruttenden, Major Taddy, Major Thomas Scott,
Lieutenant_Colonel Parker, Major-General Sir Sigismund
Smith, Major-General Shrapnel, Major-Genernl Wulff, and
Major-General Wilson, Colonels Commandant at Woolwich ;
the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Surveyor-General oI
the Ordnance, the Clerk of the Ordnance, the Storekeeper oi'
the Ordnance, the Treasurer of the Ordnance, the Lord
Steward of the Household, the Treasurer of the Household, the
Controller of the Household, the Master of the Household, the
Keeper of the Privy Purse, the Private Secretary to the
King, the Adjutant-General, the Deputy ditto, the Quarter.
Master General, the Deputy ditto, Colonel Sir Charles
Thornton, the Clerk Marshal, Sir Thomas Pownman, Sir
Robert Gardiner, the Commander of the Forces, the Military
Secretary to ditto, Colonel Egerton, the Lieutenant-Colonel of
the Life Guards, the Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Horse
Guards, the Lieutenant-Colonel of the Coldstream Guards,
the Lieutenant-Colonel of the Scots Fusileer Guards, Lieu.
tenant-Colonel Lord Bingham, the Field-officer of the Foot
Guards in waiting, Sir F. Smith, the Secretary to the Master-
General of the Ordnance, Lord I,,:lphinstone as Lord in Wait-
ing ; Hon. Captain George Campbell, Groom in Waiting ; the
Commandant of Artillery at the Tower.

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