Star.
London, England, 1831-06-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The King arrived in town yesterday soon aftef
Jae o'Clock, from Windsor, escorted by a party nr
light Horse.
At two o'clock His Majesty held an Investiture of the
Most Hon Order of the Bath. Sir George Nayler, Garter
i i;eleatosist of the Order, had an audience of the King to
I take hit Majetty's commands. The members and officers of
the Order had assembled in the t obing.room' and being dressed
in their robes, Mr. Greville, Bath King of Arms, called over
the names, when the following answered is—Their Royal
Highnesses the Dukes of Cumberland and Glocester, Field-
Marshal Sir Alured Clarke, General Lord:Howden, Viscount
Beresford, General Lord Hill, Lord Combermere, Sir J.
alio, Sir H. Clinton, Sir James Kempt, the Duke of Gor-
ion, and Admiral Sir George Martin. They were introduced
•ti the presence of the Sovereign by G. F. Belts, Esq. Gen.
Loom Usher of the Red Rod ; Sir G. Nayler. Garter Ge-
ieslogist ; Algernon F. Greville, Esq. Bath King of Arms;
rod Captain Michael Seymour, Registrar and Secretary.
Sir Henry Trollope was then introduced, when his Majesty
.C. 48 graciously pleased to invest him with the Order of a
Knight Grand Cross, iu the room of the late Sir William
Johnston Hope.
The Hon. Sir Robert Stopford was introduced, and in-
,
eested as a Knight Grand Cross, in the room of the late
liirl of Northesk.
• • Sr Benjamin Hallowell Carew was invested as a Super. 1
I amerary Knight Grand Cross.
The Knights and Officers then retired, making their obel.
.:reet,.
' ' The King shortly after held his Entriio Levee, when the
fiillowing dirt inguished personages were introduced and had
audiences: The Count St. Martin d'Aglie, Sardinian Mi-
nister, to deliver credentials from his new Sovereign.
Mr. M'Lane, American Minister, to take leave, on his
i•eing appointee' to the American Cabinet as Finance MI.
rister.
Prince Esterhazy, to deliver a letter from his Court.
Monsieur Tellier de 'Booties, Chief Secretary to the
french Embassy, was presented by Prince Talleyrand, the
French Ambassador.
'filere were also at the Entree Levee, the Duke of Cum-
heilArd. the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Gloucester (at.
tended by Colonel Higgins), Priace Leopold, Prince Estee.
ham the Russian, Austrian, French, and Netherlands Am.
Pa... Sailors ; the Russian, Spanish, Danish, Sardinian, Nea-
politan, American, Bavarian, Mexican, Hanoverian, and
ilucnos Ayrean Mi3isterti ; the Count de Hardenberg, Grand
Master of the Court of Hanover; Mr. W. Irving, Secretary to
the American Embassy ; the Lord President, the First Lord
of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Foreign and
Colo:Mil Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
First Lord of the Admiralty, the Master of the Horse, the
Groom of the Stole, the Captain of the lion. Corps of Gen-
tlemen Pensioners, the Captain of the Yeoman Guard, the
Commander of the Forces, the Master-General of the Ord.
ranee, Viscount Combermsre (Gold Stick in waiting), the
Vice. Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, 601
Master of the Hounds, the Master of the Ceremonies, and'
the Lord Registrar of Scotland. At the General wee,
were—
Dukcs—Gorelon, Wellington, Richmond.
Marquis— Hastings.
Earls—Gosford, Manvas, Normanton, Sheffield, ma.
noon.
Viscounts—Beresford, Newark, Cole, Donne, Tumour.
Lords—Byron,Maryborough, Burghersh, Arden, Henley,
S..ltatin.
llo:.ourattles— Rev. W. Eden, Broderick.
Sirs—W. Pym, J. Whatley, A. D.F.ste, George Nayler
(i:trter) R. B. Philipps, R. Brooke. T. Stanley, J. Strange.
.1. Trollope, J. Astley, H. L. Baker, G. Dashwood, M.
Brute, P. rey Egerton, R. C. Pollock, T. Gooch.
Bishup of Chichester.
Rev. Doctors—Cursham, Jones, Macleod.
Rev. Messieurs—C. B. Rasenberg, E. B. Sparke, E.
Evans' Ford, John Byron, Joseph M. Parry, J. Clayton
Glyn, R. C. Wilmot, J. C. Tyler, A. Montgomery, Edgeil
11 yatt Edge'', Lee, T. Hardwicke Rawnaley, Richard
Musgrave, James Dunne.
Doctors—Whitelaw Ainslie, A. Todd Thomson, Johnson
Messieurs--Norton (of Elton), Thomas Lowndes, Nixon,
Cradock Hemp's, Cavendish, Scott Kerr, Ashhurat, Old.
mixon, A. Spottiswoode, Belts, Onley Sava" Onley, John
Poynder, Leader, J. Andrews, Warburton, Weyland,
Hanbury, Kingston, Mills, H. Arbuthnot, J. Hudson,
M.P, Commissioner Lewis, R.N. Cottrell, Dehany, Mac-
leod, T. Somers Cocks, James M. Arnott. Felix Boding.
field, Wyatt Edge'', Stanley Cary, Henry Kingscote, Pur.
cell, Taaburgh, Assheton Smith, Littleton, Tennyson,
Bruce, Taylor, F. Cottrell, Dundas, Dewar, Andrew
Fountain, Charles Trefusis, Swettenham, Towline, Craven,
H. Simpson, Houldsworth.
i Field-Marshal—Sir Alured Clarke, Bart.
Admirals—Sir H. Blackwood, Sir Robert Stopford, Sir
H. Trollope. Sir Henry Heathcote, Scott, Lambert, Sir B.
H. Carew Sir Robert Laurie.
Generals—Sir John Brown, Shrapnel, Hardwicke, Mais.
ter, Hanbury, Sir Lionel Smith, L'Estrange, J. P. Murray,
..eir A. Bryce, S. Bown, Sir E. Stopford, Thornton.
Colonels—Sir Charles W. Thornton, Higgins, Gibbs, Ya-
rnell. Pemberton, Lightfoot, Sir Robert Harvey, Sir H.
Wyatt. Garrard, Custance, Stisted, Sir C. B. Vero, Barnard,
Chapman, Jones, Pakenhami Wells, Allen, C. B.
Majors—Sandham, Pytehes, Hyde.
Captains.—F.. H. Green, Sir T. S. Pasley, R.N. Gawen
Roberts, R.N. Portman, Aylmer, R.". H. Bloomfield, T.
Bonnor, Spencer, Jeffreys, Lye, R.N. John Lyons, R.N.
George Martin, R.N. 'l adhaur Locke, B. Edwards, Pater-
son. Cathcart, R.N. Manners, R.N. Fair, R.N. S. E.
Cook. Westmacott, Hope, Stacey, Trollope, C.B. Bowlby,
Gibson, Doyle, Green, Anstruther, Sir A. Clifford.
Commissioner.—Lewis, R.N, Sheerness and Chatham
/ Dvckyards.
Commanders.—Charles S. Timins, Boss, Smart, Dllke,
George Delme.
Lieutenants.—Wyndham Portman, R.N. T. A. Lewis,
B N. R. H. Elliott, R.N. G. Rabett, R.N. W. C. Freeman,
J. Steane, R.N. N. S. Airey, R.N. Beazely, R.N. Sandham,
Willoughby, Halsey, Carr G. H. Caeerdish, Blackiston.
Earl Grey presented addreues from the following places,
thanking his Majesty for dissolving the Parliament :—The
parishioners of Woolwich, the inhabitants of Staines, Kin-
cardine ( Perth), Cowrie (Perth), Neilson (Renfrew), John-
stone (Renfrew), Cumbra Island ( Butesbirr), Galston (Ayr.
shire), Largs (Ayrshire), the Corporation of Tailors, Glas-
gow. the trades and inhabitants of Rothesay, the Aricul-
rural Society, Rea. ewshire, the Journeymen Bakers of
Glasgow, and the Incorporation of Barbers, Glasgow.
Mr. Scrjeant Wilde, M.P. and Mr. Hume presented an
address from Edmonton.
Mr. Hume, M. P. and Mr. J. Marryat presented an ad.
dress from the inhabitants of the island of Trinidad.
Mr. Hume presented an address from Islington.
The King gave audiences to the Marquis of Winchester,
'Viscount Combertnere, Viscount Althorp, Earl Grey, Vis-
count Palmerston, Lord Hill, Sir J. Graham, Sir W. Fre-
mantle, and the Marquis of Lansdowne.
Colonel Chapman, of the Royal Engineers, lately appointed
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda, was pre-
tented to his Majesty in the Royal closet, on being ap.
Pointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian
truelphic Order.
His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which two new seals
were agreed upon, viz, a caehette for Scotland, and one far
the Court of Exchequer in Ireland. The Honourable Wm.
Bathurst attended as Clerk of the Council. Lord Byron was
the Lord, and Sir H. Blackwood the Groom, in waiting.—
A little before six o'clock, the King left the Palace, on his
return to Windsor.

l'he Duke of Gloucester honoured Madame
Pasta's performance of Tancrcdi with his presence on
Friday evening.
Yesterday, his Royal Highness the Duke of
Gloucester and suite honoured the Queen's Bazaar, by making
stieral purchases, and afterwards visited the whole of the
exhibitions of that attractive establishment.

IMPORTANT FISCAL ARRANGEMENT.—PVC
understand that the Postmaster-general (the Duke
of Richmond) has been busily engaged for some
days past at the General Post-office, with Sir
Francis Freeling, in making arrangements for
having the covers of all newspapers (transmitted
through the Post-office) stamped with certain rates
f postage, as may be agreed upon, immediately
after the assembling of the new Parliament. it is
now generally believed, that newspapers will shortly
►ie entirely exempt from a stamp-duty ; and that
tie mode, for the future, in which they will be
made a source of profit to the state, will be by char-
ging a certain sum for every paper passing through
the Post-office ; to be regulated, according to dis-
tance, the same as letters.

THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS AND THE
NEW BEER TRADE

In a Letter to one of the New Ones.

You were correct, my friend, in the remark made by you,
that I must be tolerably cognisant of the evils derived from
the mode in which the generality of Public Houses were re-
cently conducted, and of the positively immoral tendency of
manners to be found in a great number of them. Many years
of close investigation into the dishonest practices engendered
in some, and fostered—nay taught—by a kind of college tui.
tion, in a few of them, lung ago convinced me that the
Trade in Beer and Drams required Ittfermatlon. Nor
did I keep secret the discoveries that a close and
laborious personal examination enabled me to make.
into those and other abuses. Such a ceurse wits
far from my desire; my object was publicity, my hope to
benefit the public ; and the result of those enquiries....which
appeared in 1817, in 1819, 1820, and 1028, I am gratified to
find adopted into practice, beneficially. Accordingly, under
the present circumstances of recrimination, you suggest that
I should draw attention to the comparative merits of the
old " Licensed Victuallers" and the new " Beer Shope," as
they are respectively termed—a mode of proceeding I should
not myself have recommended any of you to pursue, in
public discussion at least, seeing that the mlsdoings of one
set would be bu toorly defended, by adducing graver charges
of delinquency against the other. Were we of the new trade
advocacy to bring forward facts " as strong as proofs of holy
writ" (no difficult matter, by the way) against the old sys-
tem of management, your situation would not be bettered
one jot, but the contrary ; for you would thereby place in the
hands of the puritanical party—who long time have ruled
and fettered the goings forth and the comings in of the
lower and middle classes of society—arguments and reasons
for further restraints, adduced from among yourselves, (both
of ye,) and therefore (they might say) unanswerable ; fcr
after all is said and done, the o'd trade and the new trade
in this respect, are identified, and must stand or tall together,
before their overrighteous opponents of the starched phiz
and sepulchral voice, the people of rigid observances and
little works.

Obviously prorer for both parties of beer-dealers as such
moderate counsel would be found, no power within their
reach has been left unmoved by the o'd and corrupt to de-
grade the new and genuine vendors; and we are driven
from our neutrality into a coalition of interests, se defensio,
to undeceive the public on certain points; arid the Loan
knows the materials for such a contest lie in profusion at all
hands. They themselves drag on the comparison we would
have avoided. Almost sufficient for our purpose is the well-
known fact, that it had been found necessary by successive
legislatures, that the trade of the Licensed Victuallers"
should be circumscribed and bound down by such a numiter
of Acts of Parliament, Police Regulations, and Magisterial
interferences, as never beeurst any other trade, occu-
pation, or calling, in these kingdoms. This goes to
show the distrust of which they had been objects, as well
as the moderate imposts paid fur their monopoly.--
Defended without from overstepping prescribed boun.
darks, enjoined to certain observances and visitations
indoors, and his trade forefended by exclusive licenses, the
vendor of an intoxicating beverage seemed to resemble a
town besieged, with lines of circumvallation marked with.
out, and of contravallatlon within. The men thus painfully

circumstanced often deserved pity at our hands, and would
have received some degree of commisseration from the more
considerate frequenters of their houses, but for the reflection,
that they had themselves at full age deliberately made choice
of their painful calling ; and that the major part of them, by
their previous habits, were well drilled to osedienee, which
they thereby did but transfer from the mandates of some lord
or squire, to those of their customers, their brewer-landlord,
their magistrates, their excisemen, their bondholders, their in-
formers, and other:supervisors. The management of a buttery,
or attendance upon a domestic family, do indeed appear very
proper preparative for performing similar offices in a public
house ; and the novices usually took measures to reimburse
themselves at all hazards for w many humiliations—if they
really ever felt any. Haw they conducted their houses ; how
they amassed fortunes by their exclusive trade, demanding
large premiums for good-will ; how they managed their
beer, and adulterated their spirits, let the public records tes-
tify. Long discussions In Parliament,—numberless excise
prosecutions, police examinations and convictions, foe many
years rung the changes of their misdeeds; and the govern-
ment then, after mature deliberation, laid open the trade in
beer, partially, with one hand, rendering it cheaper, and
laid a shilling a gallon upon gin with the other. The
latter part of the new law was introduced to please the
porter-brewer-party in the Honourable House, and to pur-
chase their acquiescence, or their non-interferet ce, in the
proposed opening : hereby also were the puritan 51.P.'s
cajoled to content to the whole scheme, though the addl.
tioaal shilling could not check the quantity of gin actual',
i drank, but put the whole duty that was defective in the
I Excise books into the pockets of the smugglers. This, how.
ever, by the way.
The publicans. who lived mostly upon their draft of beer,
were hugely displeased at the new measures, that thus rescued
the public from their clutches; and, looking at the thing as
men of business, let us allow that they had sonic right to be
so incensed ; but they had no right to throw dirt at those
whom the Legislature, in its wisdom, let in to a parti-
cipation in the trade ; they had no right to make false
charges against the new brewers ; they had no right
to fasten the errors, the late hours, the misapprehensions of a
few, very few, among the new body upon the whole; for the
informations against the new beer shops went no farther than
such minor transgressions. Further, the old ones had no
right—they were likewise fools for their pains, to incite com-
mon informers to levy contributions on the new trade, ftr
such mere peccadillo offences, as they themselves commit
daily, and more grossly. They were equally short-sighted,
silly, and ill-advised, in persuading the Bishop of Bath and
Wells to denounce the new beer shops as the cause of the
agricultural disturbances of last year ; an accusation more
preposterous, more lying, was never preferred before any man
in authority, with a view to his retailing it out to his corn.
peers in Parliament. For, it will be borne in mind,
that the new tystrm of vending beer did not came
into operation until the 10th of October, and the
new licenses were barely at work before those disturbances
broke out; whence people are left to infer, that as the
causes for rioting must have been sown much earlier than
the breaking out, they were so sown in the old victuallers'
houses, if any where; though I am very far from imagining
that the disturbances were plotted beforehand in any house
or houses whatsoever, but were purely the effect of the un-
happy state of the country. In this conclusion, 1 am sup-
ported by the evidence given upon the trials of the offenders,
b, their confessions, and the concurrent testimony of re-
spectable eye-witnesses. Then, wherefore, did the old ones
bring this charge against the new ? Why did they and their
party stir up a Grand Jury to make the declaration,
as uncalled for as it was absurd and ill-timed, that
vice and dishonesty h►d been promottd by the new beer
shops ? Why do their friends try to vilify, misrepre.
sent, and abuse the new beer trade altogether; and those
who are engaged in it singly, whenever an accident or an in-
formation brings one of them up for adjudication ? Do they
really hope to procure a repeal of the new bill, or any mod'.
ficatioo to their purposes of the manner of dispensing the

article? We know they wish it, and they may wish....
to get it ; but let them not lay the flattering
unction to their poisoning souls ! Let them never hope
again to take possession of the health and lives of the
bard working part of the community, numbers of whom
owe to their horrid mixtures, the paralysed limb, the in-
flamed stomach, the obstructed liver, that renders so many
fine grown tradesmen, (generally thefinest), cripples, and
beggars to the end of their days. Let the enlightened
chemist, the discerning apothecary, the doctor of every
grade, tell his unhappy patients, for the instruction of ,
their fellows, in what manner the sophisticated beer acts
upon the snettnde rig, by painful eructation of a morning,
by darkened feuces, by parched lips, by tertigo, and
occasional delirium, and someti nes terminates in confirmed
madness; for this is partly the dory cf metlicA men
thropically inciioeil, and a very proper retzliatiun upon those
base men, who in derision, and mocking the sufferings of
their victims—term their copperas, brown postlers, arel their
escharolics--" THE DOCTOR." When su mixed up—
those persois—in furtherance of the joke, I presume, con.
shier they are dispensing ri. hear, and dub themselves vic-
tuallers every one, though very few of them furnish sub-
stantial food, and neatly effscc the ein•sitrp front. _ _

J. D.

TORY DINNER AT CIIELI:sv?:RD.

On Tuesday the dinner, so long talked of, and 'slid, was
to consist of all the anti-reformers in Eases, took place at
the Shire Hall at (,helmsford—lilr. ROUND, of Danbury,
in the chair. The party, which was certainly very respec-
table as to their rank, and character of the members who
composed :it, consisted chiefly of clergymen, and persons
who had some interest in the Church and lur emoluments,
though rot exchtsivtly so, there being present some very
respectable persons of the Laity. Indeed, nearly the whole
of what may be call d the Clergy and Squirearchy of Essex,
with the exception of a very few learned and scientific indi-
viduals, who never join such political meetings, were rtssem.
bled, to testify their abhorrence of the reckless 111'111111a in
which " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill"
is insisted on by the Whig party ; not one single member
of whom, nor even one moderate liberal Wellesieyite were
resent on the occasion. The whole company consisting of
roryganti-reformers, who, to the number of about 270, sat
down to a collation, consisting of hot soup and fish, and the
other culinary articles cold, at half-past four o'clock. The
room was hung with blue banners, bearing the old motto
" CHURCH men liten," and other similar inscriptions :
mottos very appropriate—for, from the number of black
coats seen parading the streets of Chelmsford, during the
morning, one would have imagined there was some public
mourning, instead of a festival. The " gentlemanly" as.
senibly was, however, conducted with moderation, temper,
and tameness, and though there might not be any remark-
able brilliancy of wit, or display of talent among the speak.
ers, yet on the whole, there was nothing to remark as indi-
cation cf violent feelings or language : Tory principles, and
Tory persons, received a moderate share of laud in rather a
subdued tone, and such as clearly demonstrated that the
beaten party, conscious of a well-merited defeat, had no real
hopes of ever regaining political ascendancy in the county
of Essex. That they may return one Blue member out of
four is probable, and from his gentlemanly and honourable
conduct, it is more than probable that that member will he
Colonel Tyrell, who arpears to have given univer.al satis-
faction to his friends, and to have convinced his political
enemies, that he can both stand a contest, and bear a defeat,
with the temper and moderation of a gentleman.
One circumstance which certainly gave an additional éclat
to the meeting, is tile d.cided unpopularity of the Whiy
party in HUM. The Wellesley party or Liberals are strong
and popular ; but though the question of reform has induced
them to unite their efforts to support Ministers on that par-
ticular question, there is, nevertheless, no real amity be-
tween them ; and from all we can learn from our Essex
friends, the old aristocratic Whigs are not more disliked by
their exploded enemies the Tories, than they are suspected
and sneered at by their talented and enterprising rivals the
Liberals. Colonel Tytell at last election had near 1,000
plumpers, and nothing but the question of reform, and the
assistance of Mr. Wellesley's supporters, could have secured
the return of any member in Essex holding the equivocal
principles of the old Vi'higs. LIBERALITY has, in fact,
outlived and rendered perfectly nugatory all such bombastic
and foolish distinctions of party and then, such distine-
sions being abolished, with their appropriate colours, the
distinction, between man and man must be founded on com-
parative talent and disinterested virtue.
Mr. Dawson made a very spirited, and indeed we must
allow, able speech, and Colonel Tyrell's speech was, as
usual, distinguished for good humour, good feeling, and
moderation of language; indeed he has all along shown
himself a man of more useful talents and ability, than ever
hitherto suspected : and when we consider his connections,
his family, and his resources, we must feel convinced, that
it was his being against the Port:tea 31zestrax alone that
lost hint his election.