The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-02 00:00:00

THE KING'S LEVEE.

At two o'clock yesterday, his Majesty, attended by Sir
Andrew Barnard, arrived in town from Windsor, escorted
by a party of Light Horse. Shortly afterwards his Ma-
jesty held a Levee. The King gave audiences to the
Field Officers in Waiting, who made a report of the effec-
tive state of the three Regiments of Foot Guards ; also to
the Marquis of Winchester, Viscount Melbourne, Lord
Hill, the Earl of Albemarle, the Marquis of Lansdown,
and Sir Augustus Clifford, to which he was introduced by
Viscount Melbourne, on his being appointed Gentleman
Usher of the Black Rod, in the room of Sir Thomas
Tyrwbitt resigned, when his Majesty was graciously
pleased to deliver to him the badge and staff of office.
At the entree Levee were the Russian Ambassador, the
Neapolitan, Bavarian, Prussian, Spanish, Hanoverian,
' Saxon, French, and Netherlands Ministers ; the Swedish
and Austrian Charges d'Affaires ; Baron Fagel, the Lord
President, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign,
and Colonial Departments ; the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Post-
master-General, the Secretary of State for Ireland, the
Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole, the Deputy
Great Chamberlain, the Captain of the Honourable Corps
of Gentlemen Pensioners, the Captain of the Yeoman
Guard, Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting; the Master
General of the Ordnance, the Judge of the Admiralty, the
Attorney-General, the Comptroller of the Household ;
Viscount Falkland, Lord in Waiting ; Sir Wathen Waller,
Groom in Waiting ; the Master of the Ceremonies.
Mons. Durand St. Andre, Consul General of France,
was presented to his Majesty on his appointment, by Baron
Moretti], the French Minister.

Baron Fagel was presented to the King, on his arrival
in England.

The Baron D'Uckenm mn was presented to the King,
by the Minister resident for Saxony.
At the general Levee were—
MA RQUlS—Cleveland.
EARL—Sefton.
Sins—Herbert Oakeley, James Dunbar.
Rev. MESSIEURS—CharIes Wodsworth.
MESSIEURS—Dawkins, Tipping, T. Rigby, Bloomfield.
Amurrtats—Halkett, Sir G. Scott.
GENERALS—MaxweII, C. 8., S.rayne, Anderson,
Peachy, Moister, Sir J. Smith.

COLONELS-Michael Creagh, Pym, Salwey, Grey, C.
13., Sir Charles Thorn►on, R. Jones, Bingham.
Maaott—Stretton.
CarrAiNs—Sir Augustus Clifford, C. Jones, Grubbs,
E. Wethered, Jenner, Collier, R. N., Tyler, R.N.
COMMANDERS-Smart, W. Kelly.
Mr. T. T. Rigby, Barrister of the Inner Temple, Re_
corder of Wallingford, Berk', presented an Address to his
Majesty, from the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Burgesses,
Clergy, and Inhabitants of Wallingford, expressive of their
sorrow and indignation at the recent atrocious attack on
his Majesty's Royal Person. Mr. R. was presented by
Viscount ?Melbourne.

The following were presented to the King:—
Major-General Maxwell, C. 8., on his return from the

Government of St. Christopher, by Viscount Goderich.
Lieut.-Colonel Michael Creagh, 86th Regiment, by the
Marquis of Lansdowne.
Major-General Anderson, -on being appointed Governor of
Pendennis Castle, by Lord Hill.
Captain Sir Augustus Clifford, C. B. on his appointment
as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, by Viscount
Melbourne.

Captain C. S. Jones, 59th Regiment, by Lord Dinorben.
Lieut.-General Swayne, upon his return from the Conti-
nent, by Lord Glenlyon.
Colonel Pym, R.A. by Sir James Kempt.
Major Stretton, 64th Regiment, on promotion, by Lieut.-
Colonel Stretton.
Capt. Grubbe, 76th Regiment, by Mr. T. B. Estcourt.
Capt. Edward Wethered, 3d Dragoon Guards, on promo-
tion, by Lieut.-General Hawker.
Capt. Jenner, 66th Regiment, on his return from Canada,
and on promotion, by Lord F. Somerset.

Commander Smart, on returning from abroad, by Lord
A. Fitzclarenee.

Mr. Bloomfield, on his return to Stockholm,

3mmander William Kelly, R.N. on his promotion, by
Lord A. Fitzclarence.

After the Levee, the King held a Privy Council, at
which Mr. Greville attended as Clerk.

The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe
Weimar, left the Palace at Windsor at half-past seven
o'clock yesterday morning, and came to town, where her
Majesty arrived at twenty minutes before ten o'clock. Mr.
Chantrey waited on her Majesty and the Duchess, and re-
ceived their commands respecting a bust of the Princess
Louise. The Queen afterwards accompanied the Duchess
to the Tower, where her Serene Highness embarked on
board the Atwood steam-packet, commanded by Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence. The Royal Standard was hoisted
on the Tower on her Majesty's arrival. The Queen ac-
companied her sister to the vessel, at ten minutes past
.'leven o'clock, from the private stairs of the Tower, and
took leave of her. On her Majesty's re-landing a Royal
salute was fired; the vessel soon afterwards proceeded
down the river, on her ♦oyage to Rotterdam.
The Queen left town in the afternoon on her return to
Windsor.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, at-
tended by a large suite in several carriages, left Kensington
Palace yesterday morning on a tour in North %Vales.
Their Royal Highnesses will reside principally at Beau-
rnaris and Bangor, and will visit the Menai-bridge, &c.&r.
DEPARTURE.-The Earl of Burlington for his seat at
Eastbourne, having recovered from his late attack.

LITERATURE.

FAMILY CLASSICAL LIBRARY. Nos.
XXXI. XXXII. LONDON. 1832.

These two volumes of an eminently useful
publication, contain the well-known translation
of Caesar by Dr. Duncan, Professor of Philoso-
phy in the University of Aberdeen. It is taken
from Dr. Clarke's edition, printed for J.
Tonson in the year 1712.

BYRON S WORKS. VOL. VIII.
LONDON, 1832.
The illustrations to this volume are in the
same style of beauty as their predecessors. The
Castle of St. Angelo is finished in Finden's best
and chastest manner. There is no modern
engraver who sets off his light summer clouds
to such advantage as this artist. They are as
fleecy and transparent as nature itself, with no
hard massive edges or outlines to mar their ex-
ceeding grace and delicacy. The literary por-
tion of the volume comprises all Childe Harold,
with notes from the pen of the first writers of
the day.

EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. X a
There are many very able and elaborate arti-
cles in this number, which, we perceive, is at
length beginning to adopt the hard, pointed,
homely style of the Westminster Review. The
notices of the " Corn Law Rhymes," and
" Mrs. Trollope's Travels in America," are
penned very much after the manner of a West-
minster Reviewer. Not a word is thrown away.
Not a sentence but has its meaning. This is
in exact accordance with the spirit of the day,
which has an eye to economy, even in the mat-
ter of style. " Palgrave's Rise and Progress of
the English Commonwealth " is written with
that close attention to historical accuracy, which
Mr. Croker so much despises, and for which
Mr. Macaulay, by whom we conclude the article
is penned, is so remarkable. It is a very agree-
able and instructive analytical essay. " Corn
Law Rhymes " does justice to one of the few
really sterling poets of our days. Poetry is
now a drug, not from any prosaic spirit in the
age, not because it is not as keenly relished as
ever, but because there is not one out of a hun-
dred Professors (as Mr. Wordsworth some-
where styles a poet) knows aught of its inspiration,
or how to write it with common grace and feeling.
Mr. Elliott is a genuine poet, if ever genuine
poet existed, and the Edinburgh boldly, gene-
rously, and seasonably declares the fact. He
possesses, what Gray talked of, but sadly wanted,
the "thoughts that breathe, and words that
burn ;" in this sense resembling Burns, to whom
in the homely, heart-stirring energy of his man-
ner, he bears a close resemblance. We prefer
the " Splendid Village," published some short

time since in the New Monthly Magazine, to any
poem, long or short, impassioned or satirical (for
it abounds in both these qualities), that has ap-
peared since the death of Byron. " Political
Condition of the Italian States," displays much
curious and useful research, and will doubtless
attract attention, as will also the very interesting
notice of Lander's Voyages and Discoveries on
the Niger. The number, on the whole, is an ex-
cellent one. We give the following extract from
the review of Mr. Elliott's Corn Law Rhymes:—

" Nature and the doings of men have not passed by this
man unheeded, like the endless cloud-rack in dull weather; or
lightly heeded, like a theatric phantasmagoria; but earnestly
inquired into, like a thing of reality; reverently loved and
worshipped, as a thing with divine significance in its
reality, glimpses of which divineness he has caught and
laid to heart. For his vision, as was said, partakes of the
genuinely poetical ; be is not a rhymer and speaker only,
but, in some genuine sense, something of a poet.
" Farther we must admit him, what indeed is already
herein admitted, to be, if clear-sighted, also brave-hearted.
A troublous element is his; a life of painfulness, toil, in-
security, scarcity, yet he fronts it like a man ; yields not
to it, tames into some subjection, some order : its wild
fearful dinning and tumult, as of a devouring Chaos, be-
comes a sort of wild war-music for him ; wherein too are
passages of beauty, of melodious melting softness, of light-
ness and bri,,kness, even of joy. The stout heart is also a
warm and kind one; affection dwells with danger, all the
holier and the lovelier for such stern environment. A
working man is this ; yet, as we said, a man : in his sort,
a courageous, much-loving, faithfully enduring and endea-
vouring man.

"What such a one, so gifted and so placed, shall say to a
time like ours; how he will fashion himself into peace, or
war, or armed neutrality, with the world and his fellow men,
and work out his course in joy and grief, in victory and
defeat, is a question worth asking; which in these three
little volumes partly receives answer. He has turned, as
all thinkers up to a very high and rare order in these days
must do, into politics ; is a Reformer, at least a stern com-
plainer, radical to the heart : his poetic melody takes an
elegiaco-tragical character ; much of him is converted
into hostility, and grim, hardly-suppressed indignation,
such as Right long denied, Hope long deferred, xisay
awaken in the kindliest heart. Not yet as a rebel against
anything does he stand ; but as a free man, and the
spokesman of free men, not far from rebelling against
much ; with sorrowful appealing dew, yet also with inci-
pient lightning, in his eyes ; whom it were not desirable
to provoke into rebellion. He says, in Volcanic dialect,
his feelings have been hammered till they are cold-short ;
so they will no longer bend; they snap, and fly off,'—in
the face of the hammerer. Not unnatural, though la-
mentable ! Nevertheless, under all disguises of the Radical,
the Poet is still recognisable; a certain music breathes
through all dissonances, as the prophecy and ground-tone
of returning harmony; the man, as we said, is of a
poetical nature.

THE HISTORY OF CHARLEMAGNE.

LONDON. lan.

Mr. James has here taken a high flight in
literature. The historian has superseded the
novelist. Still the change is far from being a
disastrous one, for the author possesses shrewd-
ness, information, diligence in collecting facts,
and skill in comparing and combining them, all
which useful requisite's are evinced in every
chapter of this History of Charlemagne. A more
important—a more interesting subject never yet
engrossed the attention of a scholar. It is rich
to profusion in all that can tempt the fancy, and
strengthen the thinking faculties. Charlemagne
is not only the hero of his own times, but of all
.times. Even at the distance of nearly eleven
centuries he is still a spell to " rouse a devil
with." Who has not heard of King Pepin his
father, a name dear to childhood—of the famous
Witikind, the hero of a thousand ballads—of
Orlando and his enchanted sword, which.the ge.
nius of Ariosto has immortalized—of the field
of Roncesvalles, to which Cervantes so often and
oy of Spain ?
so beautifully alludes, and which lives and will
live The floiarmeNe'er
of i
cn
htahrel e
m romanticagnebr
p i
ngs alletr these stirring
recollections to the mind ; and if Mr. James have
in one or two instances somewhat impaired their
brilliancy, it is only because, in the conscientious
discharge of his duty, he is compelled to make
fiction subservient to fact, romance to reason,

We cannot but think, however, that he might
have made more of the battle of Roncesvalles
than he has done. This is a sort of pet fight with
all readers. It is worth a thousand Waterloo's,
and they like to see it made the most of. In no
other respect do we complain of Mr. James's
volume. It is carefully and spiritedly written ;
less chivalrous in its character than we should
have expected from the author of " Darnley,"
yet still full of high interest, and occasionally of
splendid graphic touches. We have not a doubt
that it will become popular.