Star.
London, England, 1830-07-03 00:00:00

COURT IN TRLIIIGENCR.

The Duke of Leeds had an audience of the King yes-
terday,
at his residence in Bushy Park.
Prince Leopold paid a visit to their Majesties on Thurs-
day. The Duchess of Kent visited the King and Queen
on Sunday, at their residence at Bushy Park.
The former residence of their Majesties in the King's
Palace, St. James's, was thronged yesterday and on Thurs-
day, by numbers of the nobility and gentry, who went to
leave their names for the King and Queen.
The state coffin, for the remains of his Majesty, is to
be covered with crimson velvet. It is larger than any
that are usually made, measuring across the shoulders
3 feet 11 inch. The ornaments, which have beeri ordered
by the Lord Chamberlain, are making by Mr. Ricketts,
of Castle-court, Strand, chaser and engraver to the King.
They consist of eight massive scroll frames, chased, bur-
nished, and gilt in the best manner ; eight handles, of
similar pattern to those made for the cofiin of his Majesty
George the Third ; 60 corner ornaments, with engraved
palm branches, royal crown, and the letters G. IV. K.—
The coffin will be studded with between 9,000 and 10,000
highly burnished and gilt nails. The-plate on which the
deposit= will be engraved is of a size proportional to
that of the coffin : it is 19 inches and a half in lerigth,
17 inches and a half in width at the top, and 14 inches
and a quarter at the bottom.
The French Ambassador had a long conference with
the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at the office of the Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Planta attended yesterday at the Treasury, and
transacted official business for the first time since his re-
covery front his indisposition.
The Marquis of Lansdowne and the Duke of Wel-
lington had an interview yesterday at the Treasury ! la
there a new coalition on foot, and has his Grace at length
discovered that he cannot conduct the affairs of the country
with the crazy materials of which his administration is
now composed? A few days will, in all probability, show;
and in the meantime we shall merely observe that a
coalition is not improbable.—Advertiser.
The report that Mr. Knight has been named his Ma-
jesty's Solicitor-General, is ill-founded ; but it is rumoured
that the reward of being named his Attorney-General
awaits n certain Learned Gentleman, whose merits as a
senator are best appreciated by his efforts to prevent the
adoption of free principles in the silk trade, and to pio-
mote the Lord Chancellor's measure of Equity Reform.
Fiyhtiny Attie (as in " Paul Clifford" lie is called) seeks
allies in strange quarters, and having borrowed a Scarlet
from " Robin Hocti," seems now likely to secure also a
Little Jolot.—Cleronicle.

One of our contemporaries has given au account, no
doubt extremely authentic, of the reception given by his
present Majesty to the Members of the Administration.
We believe we may state from a source equally entitled to
credit, that when the Chancellor of the Exchequer ap-
proached the King, his Majesty, shading his eyes, accord-
ing to his habit, with his band, said, in a style sufficiently
brusque, " Well, Sir, who are you-011?-1 don't know
you—who are you ?—lbid."
Nothing will more surely tend to fix the new Monarch
and his consort in the hearts and affections of the people
than not to disregard economy in the scale of their per-
sonal expense ;—autl this, as far as we have heard, is
likely to be the case. There are those, however, who,
while they profess economy to the public, will readily
whisper other counsel in the ear of Majesty. It is through
such counsel that Kings too often incur an odium which
more properly belongs to the double-faced flatterer, who
is often all the while enriching
.Itis own coffers from
those of his mater, and who, not unfrequently, will be
found to repudiate in public the advice which he has pri-
vately instilled.—Heruld.
Much curio, ity exists as to his late Majesty's disposi-
tion of his private property ; an amiable Duchess is said
to have expressed herself in no very measured terms on
the " rapacity" which she is said to have observed on the
port of another titled female.
It was currently reported yesterday, in well-informed
circles, that the late King has left funds to pay his
brother, the late Duke of York's, debts in full. His
Majesty's private wealth has been estimated at six hun-
dred thousand pounds.
Some of the fashionable caterers to modern dandyism,
have introduced a new article for dress, under the deno-
mination of " calf's head," though it seems a superfluous
addition to the toute ensemble of a fop.
WINDSOR, FRID•Y EvENEttn.—This morning one
of the gentlemen employed by the Lord Chamberlain's
department in taking drawings of the parts of the Castle
and St. George's Chapel, which are covered with black
drapery, arrived in town, and was occupied for an hour
in his work. The covered way from the entrance of St.
George's Chapel to the grand entrance into the state apart-
ments of the upper ward is this day nearly roofed in, and
the aisles of the chapel are railed off, _he flooring laid on,
and the seats erected on the side allotted to spectators.
The alteration of the day of the funeral from Monday to
Thursday was occasioned by the difficulty of assuring
the completion of the arrangements at an earlier period.
The requisition to the Mayor to convene a meeting of
the inhabitants of Windsor, to testify their condo-
lence with his Majesty upon the demise of the late
King, and their congratulation at the new accession,
will be complied with immediately after the funeral.
—The people here have got a notion, that his Majesty
will attend as chief mourner at his royal brother's fu-
neral ; but it has been mentioned by one of the attend,
ants, who came here from Bushy Park, that the King
has been dissuaded from risking the emotion which
would be the concomitant of such an exertion. The
royal mausoleum has not yet been opened. It was built
by George the Third, under Cardinal Wolsey's nagni-
fieent tomb-house, which reverted to the crown upon the
disgrace of that munificent minister. The present tenants
of this gloomy mansion are George the Third and his
Queen, the Princess Charlotte and Amelia, and the
Dukes of Kent and York, together with the infant Princes
Octavius and Alfred. There are stone stands for twelve
coffins in the centre of the tomb which are reserved for so-
vereigns. The coffins of the other members of the Royal
Family are deposited on shelves at each side. The
entrances is in the choir of St. George's Chapel, from
which a eubterraneous passage leads to the tomb. The
first coffins of the Royal founder's family (that of his
daughter Princess Amelia) was deposited here on the
4th of November, 1810 ; the last, that of the Duke of
York, on the 20th of January, 1827. Hand-bills have
been circulated yesterday and this day, announcing that
a new candidate will emit to represent this borough at
the general election: the name of the individual is not
mentioned in this bill, but rumour proclaims two new can-
didates, Colonels Westenra (Lord Rossmore's son) and
Vyse. It is probable, however, that this bill had been
issued by some electioneering speculator to feel the pulse
of the town. Sir R. Vyvyan is secure of the Coeds. r • it-
tenet, 'which usually returns one mom*, andifr. Rams-
can command his share of the town interest
There ire no arrivals at Windsor Gods WI day, nor
y expootod..tbo platy being sit jot 4100014011 with
bustle of workmen.

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