Star.
London, England, 1824-08-03 00:00:00

THE IlarPonb FETE.

We have seldom had to record an entertainment like this. The
Nobk Mugs& was dettrtnined that his taste and munificence
ebould not be called in question, and therefore he gave a ball and
supper en Friday last to the Ladies, in a style of more than Orien-
t' magnificence. The suite of live rooms—the proportions are
prodigious—were more brilliantly illuminated than before, and
their matchless furniture, in the style of Louis the Fourteenth,
bring reflected by the inanity of mirrors, produced an effect quite
tragical. The visitants began to arrive at ten o'clock; a prome-
nide till a quarter past eleven. Dancing commenced half an hour
after with a quadrille (a new one, played by sixteen French per-
formers), led off by the Ladies Clement and Cbarteris, Lords
Chesterfield and Cholmotideley.
The coup tali was heightened by a perspective view in the rear
of the Music Gallery, of the Tapestry Saloon, a kind of fanciful
sswfuir, upon a large scale, the walls of which were hung with a
scriptural subjects " Our &moue healing the sick," personified by
groups of figures, as large as life, admirably executed. Indeed, It
is very probable that this may be, what it is said to be, the eke
(awe of the early Gobelin School.
The supper hour was two, but it was half-past when the banquet
commenced in the dining-room, beneath the ball-room, now opened
ler the first time. It was a magnificent spectacle to see the display
of glittering plate, aided by a plateaux of singular grandeur, bearing
the finest flowers, and the whole lighted up by branches of gold and
frosted silver. The most delicious wines, French, Spanish, Italian,
and Hungarian; fruits of this year's growth, from the south of
France; in short, everything was provided in profusion. At four',
o'clock the dancing recommenced, and at six the mask ceased.
Among the company present were—
Tbe Dutch Ambassador and Lady, the Portuguese Minister and
suite, the Neapolitan and Sardinian Ministers, the Princes Gen-
ettakoff and Lelnidgen, the_pihr el Ddnst. Eltiches., of Welling-
ton, Marquis and Marchioness if Lowdemderry, Emily of London-
derry, Marchioness of Chelinsisddey, sad' Lord Henry Cholmon-
deiey, Marchioness of Ehrtferd said Miss Fitzroy, Marchioness of
Westmeath, Eiri, Countess, and the Ladles Bathurst; Earl of
Westmorland and the Ladies Fans, Earl and Countess Leitrim,
and the Ladies Clement, Earl and Countess of Aboyne and Lady
Catherine Gordon, Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, Earl of Sturm-
bury and the Ladies Astiey Cooper, Lady Saltoun and Misses
Fraser, Earl of Burford, Earl of ninon!, Countess of Sefton and
Ladles Molyneux, Lady C. Steward, Lord A. Hill, Lord Palmer-
ston, Mr. Secretary Canning, Mrs. Canning, and Miss Canning;
contest Wemyss and the Ladies Charteris, Countess of Clarendon
am Lady Elizabeth Villiers, Lady Rams4gn, Mr. and Mrs. Rams-
dell, Lady Elizabeth and Miss Palk, Captain and Mrs. Horace
&rawer, Mr. Roma, Mr. Herbert and Mr. Lloyd, Sir Charles,
Leh, and Miss Rowley ; Sir G. Talbot and Misses Talbot, Sir
William Elliot, Lord Ravensworth and Misses Liddell, Countess
of Jersey, Mr. and Mies Cavendish, Earl. of Chesterfield, Mrs.
Fresauntle and Miss Harvey, Lord and Lady Tullanactre, Coun.
esss or Warwick and the Ladies Greville, Mr. and Mrs. Meynell,
Eir Charles Grevilie, Mrs. Boehm, the Ladies Fitzroy, Mrs. Hoare,
Mr. Russel, Count Vandreuill, Miss Villiers, Lord and Lady Fitz-
roy Somerset, Lady Hyde Parker and Miss °Wow, Dowager
Marchioness of Lansdown, Mrs. Putts, Admiral Sir Richard and
Lady Scrachan.
Prince Paul Esterhazy, the Duke of Wellington, Count and
Cowan Lima, mad several other leading personages, were un-
avoidably abuse' OD a visit to the Kira