The Sun.
London, England, 1805-04-15 00:00:00

THE INSTALLATION.

Tsts Knights are summoned to assemble in St.
sorge's Hall at half past ten, and it is suppos.
td will move with the Sovext lON, before elevens
Upon a platform (open, if the weather be fine,
but covered if the day appear cloudy), to St.
George's Chapel ; those who have purchased tickets
for the Chapel need not be there till ten o'clock,
as they are certain of their respalive places, pre.
cautions having been taken which must prevent con.
fusion at the entrance, and no more tickets will be
issued than the bearers can be commodiously seated
In command a view of the Ceremony or the
Procession : the business in the Chapel is to consist
of a most superb Procession along the aisles and
wore into the choir. The brunt:tart,
rubes, with the
garter, mantle, and sword, and the instalment,
will take up about three hours. At about two
o'clock the public banquet prepared for the Sovereign
and Knights takes place ; at four the remnants of the
feast will be distributed to the mobility, not as has
been usual,
by throwing them indiscriminately with
the knives, irks, &c. upon the heads of the open.
Mouthed expeaants, but by disposing them on tables
previous to their entry into the Great Court-yard
At eight the Drawing-room commences', where all
persons, who have Erten presented, may be present.
Drawing-fonin will continue about two
hours, When ihe'evening party, consisting of mu.
(laneing &C. in a variety of the Royal apart.
rentts will commence, On the following morn.
tit His Majarry will review the Cavalry sta.
-tune ill the neithbouthood. and is to be en.
tenable(' with a sham battle, and other mancou.
:fh sole: A Public Breakfast is also expelled, and
pYjl evening party on that day ; and on Thor!.
fier Royal Highness the PRINCSIS MARY 'a
fittn'tlaY) a superb Fete is to be given at Frogmore.
Four y)
of the installed Knights expelled at Wind
f ro
ler Ste prevented by ill.health, or other causes,
In at tending the Installation. The Queen's
blitroe• nn the south side of the Altar, and the
,44ex for
rut g
Foreigners of distinilion, with a Gallery
Stran ers,
on the north side, are now ereding
under the orders of Mr. WYATT. To prevent
s forgeries, it is ordered, that no Tickets purchased
hall be delivered till within two days of the cere.
m"Y taking place.
Muth has been said upon the subjed of alteration'
beingthe
about to be made in the dress to be worn by
re Knights
at the ensuing Installation. We have
ancluir'd, and ascertained that so far from the re.
zrrtd changes having any foundation in truth, His
• AissTY has ordered that not the slightest devia.
tun front the costume of the twelfth century be on
*tiny account attempted. 7be magnificence of the
arc account
fir excels that of the Knights of the Bath ; ie
" /Cry expensive,
4tol. the cost of each suit being about
the:The waistcoat is of silver tissue, richly emhroi.
et' with silver, and made to button behind :
life Ire no less than
net r goo sugar.loaf buttons on it,
Which are worked in the most exquisite man.
iilVer. The buttons are placed in rows
ii"el'ent parts of the dress, particularly on the
~evet, and the whole is after the Spanish taste.
IttirThe breeches are very fully made, being much
etit
_and: are composed of the same materials
180 the waistcoat, and made in the same aryl*:
I...tind the knees are fifty bunches of very narrow
t•hcee and sarsnet ribbon wove on purpose. Oyer
;L4,441114" is thrown a crimson Genoa velvet
whissto lined with white Barnet, and ornamented
then.e hanging sleeve of the same material. On
tens" I:ilht shoulder is placed the hood, which is fas-
Wh;l large bow of white ribbon. The mantle,
vet, line the whole, is made of garter blue vel.
,_nt tined wills
sarsnet silk, and fastened by a cor.
°f whip
purple silk and gold lace, from the two ends
and lett! are suspended two massy tassels of purple
Axer,"'• On the left shoulder of the mantle is
ttni4 cite Order of the Garter, encircled by gold
titi,nrYs Around the neck is worts the CL.llar
riltt- 'ler. A very large rosette of narrow white
Ake and silver lace, placed in alternate rows, is
kid' On the right knee. The shoes ate of white
Lla_rge with red morocco heels, and ornamented with
silver rosettes. White kid gloves are to
41'weowdorti, with three. sows of silver lace. The
error with a basket hilt of gold, with
c.._son Velvet scabbard and belt, The Ileatt`elsess
inn free of a Spanish hat of black velvet, turned up
white and ornamented with jewels : sixteen
feee ("inch, Surmounted by a sprig of real heron
xisrert• finishes
of the the splendid h*iliments of a
71:e1Orl P Most Noble Order of the Garter.
totutne of heron feathers is said to cost from 60
Psi3tic`rtut"eas. Those intended to be worn by the
'1 of WA Les and his Royal Brothers have
each ca
appsapperho latter sum. The whole of the dress
he rant
a be very' light, but it is in effeet extreme.
nothappily, however, the sun's influence is
like]lnstall to prove so powerful atilt did at the last
27anon at Windsor, which took place in July,'
0 thirty.three years since, when the heat was
that Atany of the Knights sustained
sea; in
ony."nvenience is going through the Ce.

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Lii"are•
of IOJ RDAN is so much recovered (rem the ef.:
--,is er late sacrifice at the shrine of Union,
in she is likely to grace the boards of Old Dtuty
in the course of the ensuing week.
°Ply. it seems, had a Written permission to
0.41 ht the
Prirtrait 91 Master BETTY, expressly fur
hole enuring Exhibition at the Roral Academy, and
,11'lit aside an Historical Picture that he might he
4h9le to finish it in time. He has, therefore, we
L. 41.1 determined to maintain' hie right, and "S ax.
nibit the Portrait in quettiOn.
an:l4". Bt'rr Y ii Publishing by subscription a ha,rt
deter a itu6ole ievyk of his eon, and indeed seems
•
lined to take every method of making a hand
of him.
ti The Green.ronm Wags, referring to the name of
the new Comedy forthcoming at Covent.garden,
1-41„1' rits Wants a Chtilieo ? to the supposed author,
i", that nobody is better qualified to answer this
nicrrogative title than kimst/f.
. Lotd L
• owalit it, it is said, has ordered a ri/,r,t/-
(v"i1" t° ire made at the experice of soool. • 'Phis
_ 4 4able piece of fitruiturr holds forth bo strnobt a
r'oPtatiun to inidnight invaderi„ that the N thie
Lord may find it riectsury to '6 'watch bil %yawl,"

1 XT R ACT
rams 'fill PAPERS LAID BEFORE THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS, RESPECTING SIR HOME rOFHAM.

LITTSR. FROM SIR HOMR POFUAM TO MR. MARS.

DEN, SEPT. 29k 1804

SIR,

The Report of the Navy Board, relative to
transactions which took place on board His Ma.
jesty's Ship Romney, under my command, in the
East Indies, has at length been transmitted to me ;
but without being accompanied by the documents
and papers on which it has been framed, and the
possession of which would have best enabled me to
vindicate myself from the insinuations it attempts to
convey. I trust, notwithstanding, that what I
shall have to offer in reply will full justify me in
the view of the Lords Comcnissionets, who will
not fail to observe the conduCt of the late Adtni.
ralty in withholding from me (contrary to an offs.
cial promise made) both the Report and the Docu.
Ments which form the basis of the charges it cx.
hibits. In a Letter dated 9th March last, Mr.
Marsden informs me, by command of their Lord.
ships, that I should be furnished with a Copy of the
Report of the Navy Board on my making appli.
cation to that Board. The result of my application
was, that in a Letter dated the loth of the fol-
lowing month, April, the Commissioners of the
Navy acquainted me that they were not directed
to send me a Copy of the Report, but that I should
he supplied w ith Copies of the Papers to which it
referred. These Copies, which Were then copying
in that Office, however, never came to my hand ;
and I was informed by, the Board, on my personal
application, that they Could not be found after
every search and inquiry lor them : and I have
been obliged to wait, under the utmost anxiety,
for the copy of the Report until the present time.
Thus denied an opportunity to vindicate myself
from the foul calumnies and aspersions which have
gone abroad, their Lordships will judge what must
have been the feelings of an honourable mind; to
say nothing of the impediments which have been
cruelly thrown in the way of my professional ca.
reer. Whatever may be the talents I possess as a
Seaman and an Officer, I have been precluded from
exercising them (1 hope I may say without vanity)
to the benefit of my Country, and to that of toy
family.
To put their Lordships in full possession of the
merits of my case before I proceed to reply to the
Report of the Navy Board, I shall beg leave to
touch on some circumstances, of an antecedeiat date.
In a Letter of the late Admiralty to the Navy
Board, dated loth September, t Boz, it was direCted
not only that an imprest should be charged against
Mr. Louis, the Naval Officer at Calcutta, to the
amount of the Bills drawn by him, but likewise
against me, by whom he was stated to have
unwarrantably appointed " to an as a Naval Offi.
cer, and authorised to draw' Bills." The princi.
pie of this imprest, both against Mr. Louis and
myself, would have been fair and expedient, pro.
vided the faCt which was stated, of my having, in an
unauthorised manner, taken on me to appoint him
to the office he held, had been true ; hut as it was
not the ease, I wish some mode had been adopted
.to
remove such impression from the Records of Office ;
though, I trust, the result of his (Mr. Louis's) exa.
mination before- the- Commissioners cif. Naval In.
quiry, will not only satisly their Lordships, but
the Public, when it comes to be promulgated, of
the strid integrity of my conduel.•
Mr. Louis's appointment, as I have more than
once stated, as Dersity Naval Officer at Calcutta,
was the ad of Admiral Rainier, who, in a letter
addressed to me, dated the Bth August, tBot,
speaks of him in the following very handsome terms:
" Mr. Matthew' Louis, Deputy Naval Officer at
Calcutta, is brother to Captain Thumat Luis, one
of the Heroes of the Nile, and every way a de.
serving character, Which was my sole motive for
procuring that situation for him : he really appears
to be an active, wcll.informed man." With 'so
strong a recommendation of Mr. Louis, coming
from such an authority as that of Adm. Rainier,
could not do otherwise than repose the fullest con.
fidence in him. I shall have occasion to return to
this alibied in replying to the Report; and in the mean
time must observe, that t'ae Order of the late Ad.
miralty tar a general impress, on mistaken grounds,
was the e.Pmittencemen t of the procceedings against

With how much asperity these proceedings were
carried on, will he fully evinced by the annexed
Affidavit of Mr. Bartholemew, late Master's Mate
of the Romney, to which Document I beg to di.
red the most particular attention of their Lord• '
ships. Far the honour and credit of the Naval
Service of Great Britain, it is to be trusted that an
example will never again occur, of an individual.
bearing the charader of a Gentleman, and waiting
for the promotion to which he was reasonably en.
titled by his services, being impressed, dragged
through tilt streets, and put on board a tender—
with what view let his own Affidavit determine.
The late Boatswain of the Romney, after having
been left behind from his proper ship, was pro.
moted to the Zealand, after he had been strictly
questioned and interrogated on my condul; arid
who, in conjuni'tion with the other Warrant Offi.'
cers, swore to the integrity of all my proceedings ;
and I most particularly request their Lordships will
reati,with attention the Affidavits of such people as
were selated at Chatham for examination, consist.
ing principally of the Warrant Officers who arc ex.
elusively charged with the '.stores.
To be enabled to frame the Report of the Navy
Board, the Expence Books of the Warrant Officers
were submitted to the scrutiny of the Officers be-
longing to Dcptford Yard ; whose first Report
being by no means satisfadory, nor calculated to
answer the views of the Inquiry, the books were
returned to them, but with as little success; after
which they underwent the scrutiny of four other
Yank, not agreeably to their usual mode of pro,
feeding, forming, as it were, five Juries on the
subject before their Lordships.
To the earnest and particular attention of your
Lordships, without a comment from me, I call the
concluding sentence of the Report:" That they had
trained their Report without calling on Sir Home
Popham, agreeably t) their usual mode, for an ea.
vlAnatigo on any of the Ci/OUnlitiknOtii to which it

referred, beCON:t th,:y rsll;•rm.ible to the
intrntion of their Lorchhips that they- should pro-
ceed in this manner."

The Report chiefly relates to purchases made at
Calcutta for the use of His Majesty's ships Rom-
ney and La Sensible ; ar.i it is therefore evident
that Mr. Matthew Louis, the Deputy Nival 0111.
cer at that place, ought to have been called on fur
such explanations as would have elucidated many of
the points on which it touches. He would have
proved that no previous intimacy subsisted between
us ; that he was appointed and rec;:rnmended by Ad.
miral Rainier, and not by me, which will appear
from the following extra& of a Letter of Admiral
Rainier, dated at Trincomalee, August gth,
a copy of which was in their possession.
" Mr. Matthew Louis, of Calcutta, who is
" Deputy at that place fur the Naval Officer at
" Madras, has lately informed me, that there is a
" great glut of Naval Stores There, which have
" been offered to him at prime cost and freight.
" I should therefore recommend your diretting
41 such articles to be purchased there as His Majes-
‘,‘ iy's ships under your orders may require, as
" otherwise our M.'gazines at Madras and Boni.
•1 bay may be too much reduced, and oblige the
" Naval Officers to purchase stores, when they
" will in all probability have _become very dear,
" particularly if the war with the Northern Powers
" should continue."

The first article of the Report which calls for my
reply, relates to the Boatswain's and Carpenter's
Stores purchased at Calcutta. It states that they
appear to exceed the 'allowed proportion, dec.
Granting, however, that the excess was not appa.
rent, but real—not nresumptive,but certain—towhat
does this very futile charge amount? That the
Stores were in. the Ship, but not that they were to
be improperly expended. Tne necessity of receiv_
ing them on board was to be calculated on the exi.
gency of the service, of which the framers of the
Report could not judge.
It appears by the article next following, • that of
four anchors supplied at Calcutta, and afterwards
returned into store, three had the King's mark ;
and that the cables rectum), so far as the non.con.
version of a part of them could enable the Inspec.
tors to judge, were likewise of the mandatory of
the King's Yards. What. this is meant to imply or
insinuate lamat a loss to ccojeture. If an im.
potation is conveyed by it, that imputation belongs
to the Naval Officer; but ij; en the other hand., it is
intended as a paaegyrick, I give r: all claim to it ;
and I leave it with this solemn declaration, that I
did not then know whether the anchors were so
marked or not, or from what source the cables had
been drawn ; but I have since particularly learnt,
and their Lord-ships way have the sflidarit of Mr.
Louis and Mr. Hudson, and the corroborating
proof of the Court of Direetats, that all anchors
weighed by the Master Attendants at Calcutta are
his perquisite,' for which he is obliged to keep up
an establishment of weighing boats; that many of
the large country ships are supplied with the King's
anchors; and probably the very anchor from which
we. cut at the mouth of the river was purchased by
Mr. Louis at the Bankshall, and supplied to the
ship ; for, as I before declared, I know nothing of'
the weight of these anchors, nor do I ever remem.
her to have been in any ship where the specific
pounds were scrutinized. Their Lordattipa must
know, that in speaking of anchors, we in general
say about so many cwt.
(To le continued.)

The South Essex Regiment of Militia, corn.
mantled by Colonel STstu.rr, marched on Saturday
from the Barracks, at Harwich, to Colchester, on
its way to Chelmsford.
Saturday morning the West India Dock Volun.
seers paraded in the Dockyard by Companies, and
from thence marched to the range of fields leading
at the back of the Docks from Limehnuse to Poplar,
where they were inspeeled by Col. ADDRIIIIROoKa,
the Inspetting Field Officer, and afterwards review.
cd by the Commander in Chief, the Mita of CAM.
BRIDGE, Generals BURRARD, DAL.
RYMPLE, LAYARD, and GAIARLLE, COlOllOl6 MAR.
TBN, Ross, TAYLOR, WILSON, &C•

The first division of the Fourth, or King's Own
Infantry, snatched from Canterbury, on Monday
morning, on their route by Maidstone for Horsham,
in Sussex ; the second and third divisions followed
yesterday and this day. This movement has taken
place in consequence of Lord CHATHAM'S removal
to the Sussex District, his Lordship wishing► to have
this Regiment, of which he is Colonel, under his
own immediate command.

The Lascars, of the Mahomedan. Faith, had last
week a grand festival of a religious kind, in honour
of their great Prophet, who, shout this time of the
year is supposed to have been translated into Para.
dise. The scene of this solemn revelry was the
East end of the town, in the vicinity of Itaieliff
Highway, Shadwell, arc. The'procession consist.
eat of a great number of thoSe people, who gratified
themselves and the sprdators by a variety of panto.
inimical tricks and grimaces.
It appears that a number of persons ere going
about the country to collect, in the way of chang,7',
those utieful coins, the penny pieces, the price of
copper being now so high as to atford a consider.
able profit by their resale alter being melted
down.

A Publican of'Cork, a few days ago, annally
broached a begthead I,t;rits with' a red hot po4er 1
The blunder nearly cost him his We, as he was
shockingly burnt by the explosion.
ArrtttliTMENTs.—Capt. NaKe R., to the State-
ly ; Lieut. Sir GEORGE KEITH, to command the
grotrtior Fire. vessel ; Lieut. Do RHIN to the Royal
Hospital at Hadar, in the room of Lieut. WI L.
LI AMID who is appointat to Gfeeowich Hospital.
'The time which has elvsed since the Seaga/
Sloop, Capt. Iluaxe, and the Ilartvh Sloop, Capt.
TIPPVT, ghoul% have returned to port-from c,ruiz.
ing in the Channel, gives rise to icars that they are
both lost.

I)ed at Exeter, on. the 23 inst. in the 23a year
of Li age, James BE Esq. lately from Qathzc,
son of jamas fh t.t., Esq. of Berwick-upOn-Tweed.
Luly EDWARDS, Grandmother of Earl CT-10L•
MONDRLEY, died on Wednesday lair in fiamvton
Cnurt Palace, at the age of 93, in tho Ntf't enjoy.
uant of Vier facultiet).