The Sun.
London, England, 1818-04-20 00:00:00

QUEEN'S COURT.

On Saturday, at 4 o'clock, tl►e QUEEN held a
Court for the purpose of receiving, the address of
the Corporation of Loudon, on the marriage of
daughter the Princess ELIZABETH.—The Lord
Mayor, attended by Sir William CHrtis, Sir J.
Earner, Sir C. Flower, Sir C. S. Hunter, Mr. Al-
dermen St:holey, Mr. Alder►uan Cox, the Re-
corder, Sheriffs, City Officers, and several mem-
bers of the Court of Common Council, arrived
in State from-Guildhall, and presented the follow-
ing Address
-To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, the humble Address
of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City
of London, iu Common Council assembled.
May it please your Majesty,

We, his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons-of the City of London, in
Common Council assembled, beg leave to congratulate your
Majesty on the recent marriage of yout Majesty's amiable
daughter, the Princess Elizabeth, with his Serene Highness
the Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Romberg.
The many and endearing virtues which adorn her Royal
Highness's mind, cultivated by the tender assiduity, and
guided by the eminent example of her Royal Mother, could
not fail to attract universal admiration, and we contemplate,
with peculiar pleasure, the union of a Princess endowed with
qualities su truly amiable, with a Prince nut less distinguished
fur his valour and noble accomplishments.
We earnestly hope, Madam, that this auspicious alliance
may be crowned with every prosperity that can meet a parent's
must sanguine wishes, and that your Majesty way long con-
tinue to witness its increasing felicity.
. Signed, by order of Court,
HEN R. Y WOODTHORPE.
They were very graciously received, and her
Majesty returned the following Answer : .
I receive with great satisfaction your congratulations on an
event so highly interesting to me and to my family, and I am
much gratified by the sentiments towards myself with which
they have been accompanied.

They were immediately afterwards introduced to
the Princess Elizabeth and the Prince of Hesse-
Homberg, and presented the following
compli-
ments of congratulation to each of them:—
To her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse-Homberg.
• MADAM,---We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons
of the City of London, in Common-Council assembled, re-
quest permission to offer our wannest Congratulations upon
the auspicious marria,,e of your Royal Highness with his
Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Roue-Romberg.
Hai•ing been accustomed to behold with respect and delight
in your Royal Highness's conduct,, the practice of every virtue
that can adorn the human mind, we confidently indulge the
hope, that this joyful alliance with an illustrious and accoru-
di' lied Prince will be crowned with every blessing, and be
productive of uninterrupted happiness.
Signed, by order of Court,
HENRY NVOODTHORPE.
lier Royal Highness's Answer
:
My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen,..--I receive your congra-
tulations with the utmost satisfaCtion. The sentiments
which you have expressed towards myself are .highly ,rati-
fying to me, and I heg you to be assured that I shall ever
take a lively interest in the welfare and prosperity of the
City of London.

To bis Serene Highness Fredericlr Joseph Louis Charles
Augustus Landgrave and Hereditaly Prince of Hesse-
Homberg.
sirt,_We2 the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of
the City of London, in Common Council assembled, Gave the
highest satisfaction in paying our compliments of congratula-
ti,m to your Serene Highness on your safe arrival i+t Ibis
kingdom. and on your auspicious nuptials with our illus-
trious and amiable Princess Elizabeth.
The dignity of your Princely bouts, firmly attached to the
interest of the Protestant. cause, in every respect worthy of
our esteem, together with your Serene Highness's militrty
bone and noble endowments, afford us the !nippy pi esage that
this illustrious union will be productive of the most perfect
felicity; and Ion; may your Serene Highness lire tv enjoy
the blessings of this
Signed by orderof Court,
HENRY WOODTHORPE.

His Serene Highness's Answer :
My Lwrd Mayor mil Gentlemen,—Return you my warmest
• thanks for your conratulations, and for the favourable 'wit-
timents which you have expressed towards myself. It will
ever be any earliest wish to merit tae good opinion and esteem
of the City of Load,:n.
The Princess Elizabeth, after the ceremony of
the Address, conversed with the Lord Mayor, and
expressed herself highly gratified with the nume-
rous assemblage of the deputation. She said she
was about to leave England soon, but should
turn iu the spring to tke countty to which she
was warmly and closely attached. The Prince of
Hesse-I loinherg read his answer in German, after
which 'he Princess read it in English. The
Prince appeared Itigitly gratified with the Address._

On Saturday the PRINCE REGENT held a Court,
which was attended by the Ambassador from the
Netherlands, and the Sicilian Minister, besides
the Cabinet Ministers. There was atterwsrds a
Privy Council, at which the Recorder made his
report. Admiral Baron Von CAI'FLLEN, svhl) COM •
mantled the Dutch fleet at Algiers, was presented
at the Court, as was .also the reigning Prince e-
of Schaualbourg...

TEiE LATE VICE-APNIIRAL fiCKNIORE.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 18.--His Majesty's sloop
Fly, of 18 guns, Captain JOHN BALDWIN, arrived
at Spithead on ‘Vednesday, from Newfoundland,
with dispatches from Captain Bovi:KER, of the
Sir Francis Drake, the Setika Naval Officer on
that station, commnnicating the death of- his
Excellency Vice-Admiral .PicKmottE, Governor
and Commloder in Chief, which took place
at Saint John's on the 24;i) of February.—The
remains of the Vice-Admiral were interred with
military honours in the Church of Saint John's,
on the 3d ult. The funeral procession was mar-
4.,slialled by Major Morris, and Mr. Moore, of the
Customs, and moved from Fort Townshend aborit
half-past eleven o'clock, numerously attended
by all ranks, civil and militar, . The body
was borne upon a sledge-car, under a canopy of
black velvet, drawn by one. horse. The weather
was less favourable than the solemn occasion re-
quired ; but regularity and exact order were never-
- theless preserved throughout. Capt. Bowker was
the chief mourner. The funeral service was read
by the Rev. Mr. Grantham, and at the conclusion,
the Admiral's flag was deposited with the coffin
in a vault in the church, near the altar.—
' From the time of quitting Fort Townsend, the
ceremony occupied about tsso hours, during which
the ships of war and the different forts fired mi-
nute guns, and the artillery and infantry con-
eluded the mournful scene by the customary dis-
charge of cannon and small arms. (ii the fol-
lowing day Capt. 13owker took the usual oaths of
office, on succeeding to the command, and was re-
ceived at the Court-house by a guard of honour,
commanded by Capt. Mann, of the 98th regiment.
The remains of the late .Governor were brought
home in the Fly, for the purpose of being de-
posited in the family vault, at Kingston, 'rear this
town. The Fly left St. John's on the 18th tilt.
nearly four hundred persons having been con-
stantly employed for the space of three weeks
before in cutting and clearing away a pas-
sage for her out of the harbour through the
ice; during which time a canal of thirty-four
feet wide, and 2856 yards in length, was cut thro'
the solid ice, of from 21 to 5 feet in thickness.—
The Sir Francis Drake and Egeria were left at St.
John's. The winter had been very Severe, but no
want of provisions or supplies of any kind had
been experienced by the inhabitants. Lieutenant
Bonifant, Flag Lieutenant to the late Vice-Adini-
ral Pickmore, came home in the Fly.—The Fly is
ordered to be surveyed at Spithead.

CORN' EXCUANGE, APRIL 20.—Having bad very
considerable Arrivals with Wheat during the week,
and this day, both English. and Foreign, the sales
were very heavy, and front 4s. to ss. per quarter
cheaper ; Barley is dull, and front 4s. to ss. per
quarter lower than on Monday last ; Oats, Pease,
and Beans, support their prices ; in other articles
there is no alteration.

Foreign Wheat -50 s. 555.
Fine ditto - -91 a, 101 s.
English Wheat -51 s. 555.
Fine ditto - - -90 s. 935.
Old ditto - - -91 s. 101 s.
Rye
Fine ditto - - -50 s. —s,
Barley - - - 335. 87s.
Fine ditto - - - 455. —s.
New ditto - - 'GIs. —s.
Malt - (Bs. 755.
Fine ditto - - - 925. 81s.
Whitel'ease (boilers) 50s. 58s.
Fine ditto - - - GOs,—s.

Grey Pease - - - 345, 425.
Fine'Grey Pease - 465. 50s.
Tick Beans - - - 465. 525.
Old ditto - -58 s. -s.
Small Tick Beans 48s. 565.
Old ditto - - - 525. 625.
Feed Oats - - -20 s. 21s.
Fine ditto - - - 275. R2s.
Poland ditto' - -21 s. 255.
Fine ditto - - - 301. 365.
Potatoe ditto - - 355. 425.
Rape Seed 481. 541. per last.
Fine Flour - - 755. 80:.
Seconds - -70 s. 755.

A Flanders Mail arrived last night with Brus-
sels Papers to Saturday last. According to these
Journals, it was understood that the Duke of
WELLINGTON would leave Paris about the end of
this mouth, and proceed direct to London. 11 is
Grace, it is said., was expected at his head-guar-.
ters at Cambray about the middle of May, to re-
main there till the Congress of Sovereigns as-
sembles, at which he is to be present.—The Diet
of Frankfort, at its 16th sitting, on the 9th inst.,
' unanimously adopted a projet presented by Aus-
tria, respecting the organization of the military
force of the Germanic Comfederation, A Com-
mittee, at which the Austrian Minister is to pre-
side, is to be appointed to arrange the details.
A Dutch Mail arrived at a late hour last night,
with Papers to Saturday last. They quote letters
from Paris, stating thai the basis of the Treaty of
Liquidation had been agreed upon, and the con-
clusion of •it was shortly expected. They also
state, that two persons, one of them an Officer
on half-pay, had been arrested at a country-house
some leagues from Paris, on suspicion of being
concerned' in the attempt upon the life of the Duke
of WELLINGTON, and that important papers had
likewise been seized.

SOCIETY or ST. PATRICK.-01) ,S3turday the
Anniversary Festival of the St. Patrick's Benevo-
lent Institution was held at the City of London
Tavern, his Royal Highness the Duke of KENT
in the Chair, The Royal Chairman was accom-
panied by Loid Castlereagh, the Duke of Lein-
ster, the Marquises of llcadfort and Downshire,
and several of the Irish Noblemen, The Royal
Chairtitan took occasion to enlarge on the merits
of this benevolent Institution, and congratulated
the Meeting wn the proper absence of political
feeling which characterised the energies of the
supporters of the hostitution, without reference
to their particular opinions. Lord Castlereagh,
in proposing the health of the Royal Chairman,
congratulated the Meeting on having his first as-
sistance on his arrival in this count' y. The Duke
of Kent, in returning thanks, did not know that
Ice might have the pleastne of again presiding at
the Anniversary, and took that opportunity of
proposing as President in future, e Nobleman
well qualified to the office, the Doke of Lein-
Step,

A large subscription was n►ade in the rootn,
the Mceting continued to enjoy co►tri-
eial intercourse until a late hour.—What was said
by Mr. 1-limlcToNt at the Meeting, has been
erronenusly represented in son►e of the Mort►-

ink; Papers. lle proposed, that a Meeting for
consithring of the erection of a School for
children of the charity should he held on Friday
instead of Saturday, but on its being slated that
the latter day was appointed on account ut the
adjoin nwent of Parlialliebt, Le withdraw his mo-
tion,