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London, England, 1820-06-17 00:00:00

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The first Performance-in h or of his Ma.
.IRSTY'S Acs essirin to the Throne, to 4 place on
"fliesday. in' St Marv's Cirri, ch, for the Beriefit. of
the RAPCLiFPF INFllifemtY he pertotmances
consisted of the Grand Chaunt to the Psalms Of
the day, Gibbons's celebt:oed ,Te Deutn with in.
strumental accompanit»rnts, .Dr. B-yee's admired
Anthem, " Lord thou bast beep our refuge " The
•010 parts by Vaughan, W KovVett, Hawes,
Bellamy, and lira young Geod. mess of the Chapel
Royal. The Bishop of Llandaff preached the oc.
casional sermon, which was at.lino ed. The
service ConClo.ied h Handel's eelehmed Coro.
nation Anthem, " Zoloc (lie Priest," when a
very liberal contribwinn was collected as Tues.
day evenink itie first g rend Miscellaneous Concert
was performed in the The.,tre. The vocal N'r.
tort-nuts were Mrs. Saloum, Wolter 11larshatl, and
Miss Stephens, and ail hoe had assitiletrin
the morning, with the addition of Bartlethatr,
whose powerful voice was ixt-rted with his usual
energy and effect, particularly in the celebrated
recitative, •• Rejnire toy Coutitryinen," from
Oratorio of Belshazzar. fire rest of the
adection was -universdhy admired, and nearly
.200 persons were. present. On Vt ednesday
morning, what is styled The Public Act when
the hon rary degrets are presented, to k ulact

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before the Vice Chancellor an►l a huge asst nrhlage
of Heads of Houses and an au►lience amounting
to at IC4s► three thou.and persons. Among. the
distinguished and eminent Personages pre%ent

who received the honorary degree of Do-•tor,
were Lord Ai►sley, Lord Hill, General Mtn ray, Sir
'Uhornas Lawrence ; Mr. Smithey, the Poet 1.311...
real ; and several other Gentlemen of high dia..
ractre were admitted to the same honours. Sir
William Scott, on this occasion, introduced hi•
friend 'Sir William Grant, t►,e late Master of the

Rolls, With a Latin speech, which was highly
admired for its pure and elegant Latinity, and
which excited very warm and reiterated 4,,plause
from the audience. Immediately after the degrees
were contetred, an Ode was performed, composed'
by Dr. Crotch, Professor of Music to the Uni.
versify. The subject of the Ode was the Acces.
sion of his Majesty Vie regret that we could
not procure a crlp. of the Ode; which possessed
considerable merit, as well as the composition
by which it was accompanied. Tt.e ynougec
Students, who had obtained the prizes, then re.
cited their compositions The first was a Latin,
Essay, ,followed by an Ode in the same language...
To these succeeded an Essay on the Utility of
the Drama, a ma,terly production, which excited
universal admiration This was followed by 011
Ode in Engfish on the Temple of Diana at I.4,ime.
stis,• which, though 'necessarily limited to 50 lines,
displayed great dawning of yoetieni genius in so

juvenile an Ftsithor.--The Vice Chancellor then,
retired amidst the plaudits of the audience, the
band playing -Handel's Grand March trout the
Occasional Oratorio. In the evening, the same
Performers gave a grand stlection from the Ora-
torio of Judns Maccabcvis, with a fine Miscei.
laneons second Act, before at least fifteen hurt-
Bred persons —On 1 hurstlay evening the last per..
formance took place in the Theatre, consisting
of the entire Ora«mio of. Palestine.. the beautifot
production of the Rev. Reginald licher, and sup..
ported by that admirable composition of Dr.
Crotch by which' it was originally accompanied,
and which justly excited the enthusiastic applause
of the audience. To distinguish any particular
Performer might seem ittvtdiotts; but it may be
justly observed that a more perfect performance

'en the whole was probably never heard on any
occasion. We cannot, and ought not 10 conclude
without remarking, that- every pertot mance closed
with the national sir of " God save the King,"
at the universal call of the audience, whien was
received with the most zealous and peiseve,ing
testimonies of sympathy and applau•e. —What
was not the least gratifyine was a sieht 01 the
whole length Portrait of his Majes,y, pai.picd by
Sir Thomas Lawrence, and piesvnsed by his'Ma...
jesiy to the University. His Majesty is repre..
sented in his Parliamentary Robes, wish the

ihree Collars and the several Orders. This Por-
trait is a correct and animated likeness of his Ma...
jesty, and may be deemed such an honour to the
Arts of this country, as would Jaye done credit
to the genius of any former period.

DARING RoBaRRY —Yesterday morning, after
the City Address had been received by the Qu RENT,
at the house of Lady A. HAMILTON; in Nort•
man-street, her MAJESTY made her •p,tearaocst
in the balcony of the that floor. Mr. Clarke, ca,
hinet-maker, of Edward-Street, Soho, for the
purpose of seeing her, got on the wheel of a gen.
tleman's carriage, and while 'his attention was
fixed on her Majeoy some underneath
contrived to rob him of his watch, and a poc.
ket-book, containing notes to the amount
of 51 --b-Another most daring rohhery was corn..
nutted by a boy-on a gentleman n4lned Hansard,
and a rescue• was called for, which the
Bow-street Offierrs s.ecured some of the most
active; but the thief escaped. Several other
robberies were commi!ted, and the parties ap•
prehended.

V A itLI A MEN I.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, JUNE J.

The oaths were administered to the Bishop of
Rochester and Lore Middleton.
Mutiny Bill, the Insolvent Debtors' Bin,
and others, were brought up from the House of
Commons, by Mr. Lushington, Lord Althorp,
IVortley, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Fleming, and
other MembPrs; and remd a first time.
On the first reading of the Insolvent Debtors'
Bill, _ _

The Earl of GROSVENOR adverted to the case
of persons imprisoned for contempt of Courts of
Equity, observing, that those who were impri-
sinned for non-payment of money could, he be-
lieved, take the benefit of the lusoWeil! Act ; but
there were others who were imprisoned for re-
fusing to obey orders of Court, who could not be
relieved under that Act ; he was aware that consi-
derable difficulties stood in the way of granting
any relief to persons in that situation, ado he
only mentioned the circtonstanee that the atten-
tion of the Noble and Learned Lord on the Wool-
sack might he called to it.
The LORD CHANCELLOR expresser) 11;$ thanks
to the Noble Earl for mentioning the ssobject, as
jt gas 4 him (the Lord Chanctllor) an oppor•mii-
.ty of correcting a mistake which was very preva-
lent with regard to the cases alluded to. With
respect to those persons who .were imprisoned for
nu n-payment of money, they were in fact in the
same si,natioo as pet sons in execution, and like
them they might take the bent fir of the lusolvent
Act. If there Was any doubt upon this point
he was ready to avec to the insertion of any
words that should render it perfectly clear. With
respect to the other clat4 of prisons who were in
contempt for not obeying coders of Courts in
Equity, they were in tact slot kept in pri3O s by
any order of Court, but by their own act. Sup-
pose, for instance, A. was the trustee of an estate,
which, after certain uses, he was to convey to 13,
and on being ordered by the Court to coney the
estate to B„ to whom it in point of fact belonged,
he refused, and those to go to prison, and live there,
retaining possession of the rents and profits of an
estate which be wrongfully kept from the person
entitled to it, in what way could they afford re-
lief to such a person, or to what relief was he en-
titled ?

The Exchequer Bills Funding Bill wis read a
third time and passtd.
The King's Bench Sittings Bill, the Glass Bill,
and the BArrs' Regiiktion Bill. were read a se-
cond time, and committed for Monday.

Ou the motion of the Marquess of LAtsisnowN,
some papers were ordered respecting Foreign

trade.

The Earl of ROSEBBRRY postponed the coot-
rnitnt, nt of the Scots Peet s Right of Voting Bill
till Tuesday.

THE QUEEN.

The Eat! of LIVERPOOL—My Lords, with re-
• spect to the Order for the meeting to-morrow of
the Secret Committee, to which hate been referr-
ed the Papers communicated to this house by
•Lis Majesty's command, I have merely to state,
that discussion and explanation still continue,
end I therefore move to pos►pone the meet-
ing of the Committee from to-morrow till Tue.-

day next.
The Marquess of LANSDOWN—.It is certainly
not my intention, my Lords, to oppose the mo-
tion, but I cannot help adverting to the singular
situation in which, by these successive adjourn-
ments, this House is placed, atter actually ap-
pointing a Committee to examine the papers com-
municated by a Message from the King. It can-
not have escaped your Lordships' notice, that
this is a situation wholly unprecedented, parti-
cularly when it is recollected that no reason has
been publicly assigned for postponing the meeting
of the,Committee, anti when it may happen that
the Committee will not bave to enter at all
upon the consideration of the papers referred to
them. This consideration serves to shew the pre-
cipitancy with which the House has been drawn
into the appointment erf such a Committee. it
remains to be seen in what way the circum-
stance can be stated upon our Journals so as to
maintain the dignity and the usages of the
House.

The Earl of DARNLEY—Without the slightest
intention of opposing this motion, I cannot help,
my Lords, stating my entire concurrence in what
bas fallen from my Noble Friend. With all my
potions of the dignity of this House, I cannot
avoid lamenting that we should have been placed
in so extraordinary, not to say disgraceful a si-
tuation by the precipitancy of the Noble Lords
opposite, in persisting in the measure of the ap-
pointment of a Committee. Had they followed
the advice of my Noble Friend, and other Noble
Lords on this side of the House., this dilemma
would have been avoided. As it is, however, un-
doubtedly some entry ought to be made in the
Journals of the House, in order to make the pro•
ceedings as far as possible consistent with our
forms and usages. It seems now pretty clear that
the postponement of the Committee arises out
of the unexpected conduct of the House of Com-

in(11)11.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL-It was not my inten-
tion, my Lords, to have said ■ word upon this
subject, involved, as it is, in difficulty and deli-
cacy, except merely the statement that the con-
tinuance of discussion and explanation tendered
necessary the deliy of the meeting of the Com•
puttee; nor was 1 disposed otberwiss than to let

tyre question Test in tire situation in which it we;
placed by the Noble Marquess. But lcannot si
silent, after what has - been said by the Noble
Lord who has just sat down, as to the House be-
ing placed in a disgraceful situation. My Lords,
the Home could do no otherwise than it did upon
.such a communication being made to us from the
Crown; and, as to the postponements, it surely
cannot be matter of objection that they have taken
place, looking to the reason that has been assign-
ed for them. With regard to the Journals, it
shall be my duty to take care, whatever may be
the result of the discussions and explanation-,
that a proper entry is made in the Journals, or
that 'a proper proceeding shall he had, so as to
make the whole consistent with the usages and
dignity of the House.
The Earl of DARNLRY repeated his objections
19 the course of proceeding which had been
adopted.
The Older for the Meeting of the Committee
tomorrow was discharged, and the Committee
ordered to meet on Tuesday.