Star.
London, England, 1824-11-10 00:00:00

THE KING.

WINDSOR, NOVEMBER 9.—The expectations that were
yesterday entertained, of an improvement in his MA.
JESTY'S health, have been happily realised. It is with
the gre3test satisfaction we state that a most decided
amendment has taken place ; and there is every reason
to hope that, in a few days, his MAJESTY will resume
his accustomed exercise.

The KING has appointed Viscount GRANVILLE, now
his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to
the King of the Nen vu.arms, to be his Blajesty's Ambassador Ex-
traordinary and Plenipotentiary to his Most Christian Majesty.
Tho KING has appointed the Right Honourable Sir
CMAILLIS BACaT, K. B. now his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordi-
nary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Russia, to be his Ma-
jesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King
of the NitIMIALANIS.
Yesterday morning the Duke and Duchess of CLA•
antes left their residence at Bushey, for the apartments of the
Duchess of Kur at the King's Palace, Kensington, v.bere the
Royal Duchess alighted,
and spent the day with the Duchess of
Kerr. The Duke of CLIRINCI proceeded to his residence in
Stable-yard, St. James's.
Mr. Secretary CANNING yesterday transacted busi-
ars' at the Foreign Office, in Downing-street, with the Austrian
Ambassador.

Prince PottoNAc gave a grand dinner on Monday I
to Prince Eirrsamsar, count Lzr,EN, Monsieur de Names, and
other Meanben of the Diplomatic Etiy. The Dutch Ambassador
was absent from indisposition.
Sir WILLIAM C. Ds CRESPIONY has publicly declined
offering himself again as a candidate for the representation of South.
ameon at the neat Election, on account of the ill state of his health.
Princess ELIZA-NAPOLISONA BACCIOCHI is betrothed
to Prince Pnitor CAPISIUTO, of Ancona, and the marriage will be
celebrated In the course of the winter. _

The Countess of SURVILLI2RS, Ex-Queen of Spain,
kit Brussels on the Ist instant for Rome, by way of Mayen..e,
Manheim, and Switzerland.
Mom imutuszerz.—Quantity of copper ore sold at Redruth,
November 4, 2167 tons. Average produce, 71. Quantity of fine
copper, 183 tons, 8 cwt. Amount of sale, if 14,161 21. Average
standard £123 2s. There are 2140 tons of copper ores for sale
next week,at Redruth. Three hundred and one tons of .copper
ore were sold at Swansea, Ott. 27.
HAYMARZET THanraz.—Goldsmith's Comedy of
Ste Sops no Conquer was performed last night, for the purpose of
inttoducing Miss Kum in the character of Miss Mardautb. The
known and established merit ef this young Lady could not but have
raised expectation is the highest point ; and in the tender scenes
with Young it is scarcely necessary to say she was excel-
lent. Her performance throughout was received with the warmest
approbation from an audience scarcely less fashionable than nu-
merous, among whoth we noticed several of the Nobility and dis-
&rushed Gentry. Lurox's Tony Lumplin, of course, kept the
audience in a roar ; and he was exceedingly well supported ►y Miss
Betas as Agin Neville.

BARBAROUS MUIWER 1111 LIATOLMEIFIRE
A fey days ago we gage an accdont of the bodies of
two children believed to have been murdered, hiving
been found at Boston, and we now give some further
particulars of this mysterious affair from the Bastose
Gazette. It appeared that a child was missing in the
month of February last, and never since beard of, al-
though every possible means of giving publicity to the
circumstance was resorted to. On the 26th ult. as
prefiously stated, two children were fouild lb I hero.
—An Inquest was held on the bodies on Saturday se'n-
night, before J. H. Holloway, Big. Coroner. The body
of the child which lay in the first floor of the granary,
was inspected by the Jury. The long time it had lain
had obliterated every feature; the vermin which in-
fested the granary had eat part of the body, particularly
the fingers on one hand. Several marks of blood were
observed on the clothes, fully proving the committal of
a rape, but this was not the only marks ef cruelty dis-
covered. Round the neck and rather inclining to the
extremity of one of the ears, it was very easy to discern
a mark caused by the tight pressure of a cord or other
ligattnt. It is highly probable that the villain who
perpetrated this atrocious crime pulled his victim up by
the cord round the neck into the false roof where
it was found.
James Thomas Tester, and Robert Hall, deposed to
the finding of the body 4 Both thought it impossible for
the child to have got to the ceiling, or for a man to
have tarried it up in his arms, but tt might have been
pulled up by a rope.
Mr. J. R. Rogers, surgeon, stated, that from the very
putrid state of the body, very little rhedical opinion
could be offered. The marks of blood on the under
clothes of the child, led to the conclusion that violence
had been committed on her person. There also ap-
peared to witness, a farrow round the neck of the child,
as if a cord had been tightly applied.
Susannah Smaller, mother of the child, identified the
bonnet and pattens found in the granary, as those worn
by her daughter on the 26th February last. She was,
eight years old. Deceased left home a few minutes,
before nine o'clock in the morning, with the intention of
going to the National School : the granary where the
body was found was in the read to the school. The
extreme agitation of the witnest cannot be described.
One of her children was burnt to death some years ago;
and she now truly appeared—a Rachel weeping for her
children, and refusing to be comforted because they
are ndt.

George Smaller, husband of the last witness, also
identified the dress of the child. Did not miss the child
until night; it was a very rainy day, and thought she
had stopped at the school, but found, on inquiry, that
she had not been there. Witness dragged Boston river
for a fortnight himself, and made every inquiry, but
could not find or hear of his child.

James Chantrey, clerk to Mr. Sheppard, who occu-
pied the granary, deposed as to the grain in it at dif-
ferent periods; did not remember the key of the granary
being taken from the office on the 26th of Felituary ; it
vi as not customat y to ask for the key; the persons who
want it take it from the nail on which it hangs in
the office.

Harriet Jackson, Mistress of the National School,
Boston, deposed, that Frances Smaller was one of the
scholars last February ; deceased was nit at school on
,the 26th; on the 25th she was; had not seen her since.
She always came very cheerfully to school, and wit-
' tress had not occasion to correct her in any manner on
the day preceding her death.
Robert Maydwell was examined several times, but
nis evidence 4' was a mass of contradiction."

I Benjamin Benton, who lived with Mr. Sheppard at
the time, said Maydwell used generally to open the gra-
nary windows ; sometimes they were opened by himself.
Did not know that he had any conversation with Mayd-
well about the child being lost.
The Inquest was then adjourned to Monday; in the
meantime, a messenger was dispatched to London to
pidcure the attendance of Thomas Parker, whose name
had been mentioned in the proceedings.
Richard Taylor, a shoemaker, depined, that about
la week after the child was lost, 'Thomas Parker, who
was frequently at witness's house, told hiM that the child
was found at the back of Mr: Sheppard's granary.
Parker said he had seen the child, and that it had been
pulled out of the river. Witness mentioned what
Pai ker said to Mr. Davey. Parker was always in low
spirits, cried much, and once said he had something on
his conscience. One morning in June last, Parker had
got some essence of sugar in a cup, and was going to
swallow it, but was prevented by witness's wife. Parker
took witness's cutting-out knife away with him.

Thomas Davey corroborated the bit witness as to the conversa.
salon between them.

Wm. Hayes, waiter at the Dolphin Inn, deposed that Parker
slept there in May la,t, and also about five or six weeks since, when
he pulled a knife out of his pocket, and putting it to his own body,
said, " I hope this will do the deed ere long."
Several other witnesses were examined, but their evidence is not
of importance. The Inquest was then adjourned to Thursday, to
wait the arrival of Parker. On Thursday morning the Jury en.
mined the premises; the general conviction was, that the child had
been enticed into the granary in the morning, the rape committed
in the first floor, and the child murdered to prevent detection, and
the body put fit the third Boor, which was rarely entered.
John Paoles,' Waiter at the SOIL inn, deposed that Pat ker said be
had something bean on his mind, and would be hanged.
Hannah Taylor gave sitnilar evidence, as to Parker, as her hus-
band, Rickard Taylor.
Thomas Parker, who bad been apprehended on a Magistrate's
warrant, was brought in and examined, but not on oath.—He is
about 3tt years of age. He stated that be had lived with Mr. Ro-
bert Sheppard, as groom. He positively denied that he had ever
told Pooles' or Taylor and his wife, that he should be hanged ; his
low spirits and uneasiness was in consequence of his wife having
left him.

There was in Parker's appearance none of the confused anxiety
of discovered guilt or apprehended punishment. In a calm and
composed manner he walked up to the coffin, and after looking for
a few moments at the body, he exclaimed in a distinct and unaltered'
tone—" This is a shocking spectacle, but I had no hand in it Gon
knows." He was then asked if he had any objections to touch the
body ? be said', Certainly not; I never injured the little innocent ;"
and then firmly placed his right hand on different part's( the body.
The Coroner summed up the evidence, and the Jury, after a
short deliberation, returned their verdict—Wilful Murder against
some person or persons unknown.
SECOND INQUEST.
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Another inquest was held on Tuciday, on the body of another
child, seven years of age, fogad in a pit adjoining Maud Forest
Dam. Several witnesses were examined, and there was no doubt
that the child bad been murdered ; and it appeared front the evi.
deuce of Mr. Hoilway, the pnrgeon, that there was some reason to
suspect that a rape had been attempted on the child.
Alice Hattenborow, the mother of the child, deposed to the fact
of missing her, and identified be: &Ass, but no clue was obtained
as to the individual who had perpetrated the horrid deed.
Verdict—Wilful Murder 'plot slate paws or persons unknown.

We learn from the Ceylso Gazette to the end ef May,
that the dryness of the weather had proved very unfa-
vourable to the health of the inhabitants ef that island.

Letters from Gibraltar state, that the Spaniards had
cut off all communication with that fortress, in conse-
quence of the late affair at Tarifa.

THE

MiLIjI'AIII/ PROMOTIONS.

Comininiulm signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Northaniptonshin.
Needmenpearrebire Militia—John Cox, Gent. to be Lieutenant.
Nossigeeppoblre Yeassenty Cs. ..Valry.lohn Thornton, Go% t,
be Lieutenant; &afford O'Brien, Gent. to be ditto.
Commission in the West Somenet Yeomanry Cavalry, dried by
the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Somerset.
James Garrett liters, Gent. to be Cornet.
comosissiorro in Me Central Glamorgan Corps of Gentlemen and
Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by theVice-Lieutenant of the county
of Glamorgan.
Richard Fowler Richards, Esq. to be Major-Conumandant; Joh,
NiehoU, Req. to be Captain ; Christopher Rice llama Talbot
Esq. to be ditto; Joseph May, Charles Morgan, and Grig.t:
Llewellyn, Gents• to be Lieutenants; Jobs Loyd Vauthaa
Wa thins, Gent. to be Cornet.

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to the STAR of yesterday we gave an account of the
procession to and from Guildhall; and the usual pro-
ceedings at the. Court of Exchequer. Both the late and
the new Lord Mayor received the congratulations of the
Chief Baron and the eulogy of the Recorder. We now
come to the more substantial part of the day's pro-
teed ngs
THS BANQUET AT GUILDHALL.

The Hall was fitted up with riirretliiinustritl splen-
dour. The monuments appeared to have been reno-
vated, the giants newly painted, festoons of lamps ran
the whole length of the Hall, which, with the splendid
chandeliers, produced a blaze of light of the most
dazzling description, the whole producing a beautiful '
effect. The g and avenues to the Courts and Council
Chambers wer all thrown open for the occasion, and
hung with crimson drapery, oriamented with shields,
which had the appearance of burnished gold.
Over the Lord Mayor's chair was a brilliant star in
what is called diamond lights, with a G R. in golden-
coloured lamps. At the lower end of the Hall was a
similar star, with the letters D.Y. (Duke of York). All
the passages were hung with rich crimson cloth, the
doors were boarded and matted, and in short, nothing
was neglected to insure the comfort of the guests.
The band of the Ist Regiment of Life Guards was
placed in the principal gallery, and played daring the
evening a succession of charming airs. With the usual
arrangement of the Hall for the great annual civic en-
tertainment, the Public are familiar. The guests were
all accommodated admirably, and their wants attended
to, with one exception—trifling indeed with respect to
the number of individuals who were inconvenienced,
but rather important in its effect—we mean the Re-
porters fur the Public Press, who, although specially
invited, were left (to use the elegant phraseology of an
officer to whom they applied for accommodation) to
shift for themseiv.:s.” In consequence, it was im-
poisihle for them to obtain a correct knowledge of what
was going on ; and hence our Report of the proceedings,
and of some interesting Speeches made in the course of
the evening, is necessarily defective.
From three o'clock until a quarter past six the com-
pany continued to arrive almost incessantly. At a
quarter to six o'clock his Royal Highness the Duke of
York arrived, and was loudly cheered. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Clarence immediately followed,
and was also greeted with plaudits. The Lord Mayor
and the other individuals who composedthe procession
had previously arrived. At about half-past siz the
tables having been covered, a flourish of trumpets an-
nounced the entrance into the Hall of the Lord Mayor
and Lady Mayoress, and their distinguished guests. His
Royal Highness the Duke of York, handed in the
Lady Mayoress.
To him succeeded his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, the
Right Hon. Lord Bexley, the Right Hon. George Canning, the
Right lion. Robert Peel, the Right Hun. the Speaker of the House
of Commons, Lord Francis Conyngham, Mr. Planta, several of tbe
Foreign Ministers, the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Garrow, Mr.
Baron Ilullock, Mr. Justice Bayley, Mr. Justice Park, Mr. Justice
Gaselee, the Right Honourable Charles Grant, Mr. Croker, XL P.
oir. Holme Sumner, M.P. Mr. Thomas Wilson, M.P. Mr.
Davies Gilbert, M.l'. Mr. Common Serjeant, M.P. the Soli-
citor-General, several of the Serjeants at Law, Mr. F. Pollock,
Mr. Scarlett, M.P. Mr. Alderman Wood, M.P. Mr. Alder-
man Brydges. M.P. Mt. Alderman Thompson,M.P. the Hon.Cap-
taM Cust, M.P. Mr. G. R. Dawson, M.P. Aldermen Sir Charles
Mower, Birch, Growder, Brown and Key (the Sheriffs), J.J.Smitii,
Ste J. Shaw, Sir C. S. Hunter, Magnay, Cox, Sir J. Perring, and
Lucas. Alderman Venable. xived at half-past seven, having
anted with his own (the Stationers') Company. The Recorder, Sir
J. Sewell, Count Rivonola, &c.
Grace having been said, the company sat down to
a truly splendid banquet, as will be teen by the bill of
fare, which we subjoin :
The following is a copy of the Bill of Fare which was circulated
in tie Hall, and which, while it proves that ample provision had
been made for the feast, enabled each guest to call for the dish most
agreeable to his palate :
Ditonca.--180 tureens real turtle, containing three quarts each,
140 chickens and pullets, 43 hams ornamented, 00 tongues ditto.
M raised French pies, 40 pigeon pies, 40 orange and other tonnes,
2 barons of beef, 12 pieces of sirloin, 90 rounds of beef, 38 dishes
built pastry, 42 do. tarts creamed, 80 do. idly, 4 do. lobster salad,
4 do. prawns, 60 do. nsashed and other potatoes, 90 do. salads, 4
almond pastry, 2 sugar baskets, 117 mince pies.
Ittilovai.-52 turkies roasted, 3 pea-fowls, 50 dishes wild fowls,
64 do. pheasants and partridges, 14 hams ornamented, sundry
mushrooms, brocoli, &c.

Drasear.-180 pounds weight of pine apples, 900 dishes best
hot-house grapes, 200 ice-creams, 84 ?late' of apples of different
linds, 100 dishes of pears, 76 ornamented savoy cakes, ISO plates
walnuts and filberts, 85 plates dried fruits and press: tires, aiS dn.
rout cakes, &c. four do. paradise plums.
HUSTINGS TABLE—At which the Bight Hon. the Lord
:Mayor presided.-8 tureens real turtle, 4 dishes cold dachas'. 2
hams ornamented, 2 tongues ditto, 2 raised pies, with aspicit
2 cold capons, 2 orange tourtes, 2 marbree jelly, 4 dishes mince pies,
2 ditto lobster salads, 2 ditto prawns, 4 ditto Italian salads, 2 dishes
almond pastry, 2 ditto built pastry, 4 ditto alnad'nd cakes orna-
meted, t ditto stewed pippins and cream, 2 cold pigeon pies, 2
lobster curries.

Rtuovs-2 pea fowls, larded, 2 dishei pheasants, 4 dishes Wadi
!owls, 4 ditto partridges, dish of hare, stewed.mushrooms, &c.
Dessert-8 pine apples, 8 dishes hot-house grapes, 10 ice-creams,
4 dishes dried fruits, 4 ditto rout cakes, 4 ditto filberts, 4 ditto wal-
nuts, 6 din() pears, 4 dishes paradise plums, orange chips, &c.
Tilt Fours LONG names nt THE BODY or tan Hai.s..—•44
Tureens real turtle, 24 dishes cold chickens, 12 hams ornamented,
1: tongues do. 12 raised pies, 16 cold capons, 8 tourtes, 99 mar-
ker jellies ornamented, 20 mince pies, 20 salads, 8 built pastry, 8
tarts creamed, 8 cold pigeon pies, 20. savoy cakes ornamented.
Itinsova.-19 Tinkles roast, 12 dishes wild fowls, 12 do. par-
tridges, 4 hares, &c. &C.
DISNIRT.-26 pine apples; 48 dishes of grapes, 44 ice.creams,
16 dishes dried fruits, &c. 16 do. rout cakes, kc. 25 do. filberts and
walnuts, 48 do. pears and apples, &c.
Tar Fns SIDE TANLIS.-16 tureens of real turtle, 3 dishes cold
chickens, 5 hams ornamented, 5 cold capons, 5 raised pies, 5
founts, 10 dishes mince pies, 10 jellies, 5 built pastry, S &hes
salads, 5 tarts creamed, 5 dishes Savoy cakes, 3 cold pigeon pies, Br.c.
Reasoire-3 turkies roasted, 5 dishes wild fowls, 5 do. pheasants,
5 do. partridges, atc. &c.
Dessaav-15 pine apples, 20 dishes grapes, 16 ice-creams, 10
dishes dried fruits, 10 do. rout cakes, pear% filberts, nuts, &c.
Covet or Kmo's BaNCIL-27 tureens real turtle, SO dishes cold
chickens, 9 hams ornamented, 6 tongues ditto, 9 raised pies, 12
cold capons, 6 tourtes, 12 jellies, 12 mince pies, 6 cold pigeon pies,
11 salads, 12 Savoy cakes, 6 dishes tarts creamed, 6 do. built pastry.
Ruson-9 turtles roasted, 6 dishes wild fowls, 6 do. partridges,
3 hares, &c.
Desszat-15 pine apples, 50 dishes hot•hoese grapes, 11/ ice
(reams, 9 dishes dried fruits, 9 do. rout cakes, 15 do. walnuts, 15
do. pears, 12 do. apples, &c. acc.
THE FIVE LONG TAILS* OS THE HVITISOSo—Fifty tureens of
real turtle, 25 cold chickens, 10 hams ornamented, 10 tongues
ditto, 15 raised pies ditto, 20 cold capons, 10 tourtes,. 25 jellies
ornamented, 25 mince pies, 25 Savoy cakes ornamented, 10 cold
pigeon pies, 115 salads, TO built pastry, 10 tarts creamed, &c.
Ressova--15 tinkles, 15 wild fowls, 15 partridges, 5 hares, in.
Masser—Thirty pine apples, 50 dishes hot-house grapes, 55
ice creams, 15 dishes dried fruits, 15 ditto rout cakes, 10 ditto
filberts, 50 ditto walnuts, 30 ditto pears, 20 dittb apples. -
Tim Foos SMOST TASLIIS IN THE HALL, sap MS 1107111
16 tureens real turtle, 4 cold chickens, 4 hams, ornamented, 4
tongues, ditto, 4 raised pies, 4 dishes capons, 4 sources, 11 jellies,
dishes mince pies, 4 salads, 4 built pastry, 4 tarts creamed, 4 Savoy
cakes, 4 pies.
Itemovs.-4 turkies, 4 dishes wild fowls, 4 dishes partridges, 4
ditto pheasants, &c.
Desszar.-8 pine apples, 16 dishes hot-house grapes, 10 see
creams, 8 dishes dried fruits, 4 ditto filberts, 9 ditto walnuts, 16
ditto pears and apples, 8 ditto rout cakes.
wines.—Clampagne, Hock, Claret, Madeira, Port, Sherry.
All the dishes were excellent of their respective kinds.

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According to custom, three' Men in eoMplete armour
stood behind the principal table, and two men in the
usual costume, presided over two barons of beef. The
wines were excellent and abundant; in short every
thing that could be done to render the feast worthi of
the City, was effected by command of the Lord Maycii-:
Dinner over, Non Nobis Domine was chaunted,by the
musical gentlemen in attendance; shortly after which—
The LORD MAYOR rose, and proposed the health of
"The King," with three times three, wyhich was drank
with acclamation ; to which succeeded the national in-
theekthe whole company standing and joining in chirus.
In proposing the next toast, the Loan Mayon cOn-
Hatulated his fellow-citizens un the re-appearance in the
all of certain illustrious Individuals who had formerly
graced the Civic feasts of London ; and concluded tiy
proposing "His Royal Highness the Doke of Youß and
the Army," with 3 times 3.—Drank with enthusiasm.
His ROYAL HIGH Naas returned thanks in a few words.

The LORD MAYOR next rose to propose the health of
another Illustrious Member of the Royal Family, who
it was remarkable had never before honoured the City
with his presence on any similar occasion. His Lord-
ship concluded by giving " The Duke of Clarence and
the Navy," with three times three. Drank with applause.
His ROYAL HIOHNUS briefly returned tlianks.

Song and eltoros—" Rule. Britannia!"
The LORD MAYOR next gave "the Duke of Cum-
berland, and the rest of the Royal Emily," with three
times three.

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To this succeeded the health of the late Lord Mayor.
Alderman WAITHMAN returned thanks. He should
only say, that whatever of talent he possessed had been
fully and honestly applied in•the discharge of the duties
of that high office which lie had so recently filled.
The LORD MAYOR had next to propose the health of
a Nobleman who was well known to the citizens of Lon-
don, he having held the important office of Chancellor
of the Exchequer of these realms for many years._he
meant Lord Bexley. That Noble Lord must feel ex.
tremely happy when he looked back to those times of
struggle and of success in which the Government had
been aided by the people, and which had so fortunately
terminated in an honourable peace, and produced that
state of prosperity which the country enjoyed, and it
was likely would long continue to enjoy. He should
therefore propose " the health of Lord Bezley,4 With
three times three.

Lord BEXLRY in rising to return thanks for the
honour which had been done him, felt himself bound to
return thanks above all for the pleasure which he en-
joyed in seeing. around him such unequivocal marks of
pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction. In whatever de-
gree these effects were attributable to his Majesty%
Nlinisters, one fact was undeniable—namely, that pro-
sperity does reign throughout the country.—(Applause)
—ln thanking the company for the honour just con-
ferred upon him, he felt peculiar satisfaction in return-
ing his thanks, through his Right Hon. Friend the
Lord Mayor, who he had long known aad respected.
His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK then proposed
the health of—" The Lord Mayor," with three times
three.—Drank with applause.
The LORD MAYOR felt himself peculiarly honoured
in having his health drank at the suggestion of the Il-
lustrious Prince who had just sat down ; and could not
but feel that a portion of the heartiness with which his
health bad been received, was due more to the high
office which he had the honour to fill than to the indi-
vidual invested with it—(Applause). He was fully aware
of the importance of the dstuns to discharge which he
was called upon. He was well aware of the honour the
situation of Chief Magistrate of the City of London con-
ferred—that of which his family were citizens for
upwards of hilf a century. Those duties required of
him, as a Magistrate, to uphold the respect due to the
Sovereign—to support the Constituted Authorities, and
also to maintain all those rights, immunities, and pri-
vileges, which have been banded down to the citizens of
London by their forefathers. He trusted he should so
discharge those duties as to merit at the hands of his
fellow-citizens, on the termination of his labours, the
best of all possible rewards—their approbation.
The Duke of CLassaws then proposed the health of " The Lady
Mayoress,* with three tinsel three.—Drank with applause.
The Loan Mayon returned thanks, and proposed the health of
" The late Lady Mayoress."
Mr. Alderman Warman returned thanks.

The LORD MAYOR felt extreme pleasure in rising to
propose the health dr a Right Honourable Gentleman
who held a most impOrtant Office in the Administration
of the Country. He could Congratulate that distin-
guished individital upon his having formed part of his
Majesty's Government at a period when the greatest
di(culties and perils were encountered by the country—
when nation was arrayed against nation—and which
perils were surmounted by Ministers, and Great Britain
preserved from the degradation of being made a tribu-
tary State—(Appleuse).—Highly did he congratulate
the Right Honourable Gentleman on his having again
become a Member of his Majesty's Government, and
upon his hating followed a line of policy at once wise
and liberal—a line of policy, however, which his Ma-
jesty's Ministeri had been previouily precluded from
adopting, by tht peCuliar situation of the country. He
would not longer detain the company; but would pro-
pose the health of " The Right Hon. George Canning,"
with three times three.—(Drank with acclamation.)
Mr. Secretary CANNING, on rising to return thanks, was
receiired with the loudest marks of applause. Undoubt-
edly, at former periods, that Civic festival had been
marked either by the celebration of foreign victories,
which led to glorious results, or the announcement of
domestic events calculated to improve our internal
prosperity. It was his peculiar good fortune, not his
peculiar merit, that he happened to become A member
of the Government at a period when antic* of glorious
victories had been terminated by a peace still more
glorions—(Hear, hear). And he felt happy in observ-
ing that some of most pleasing results of that peace
were observable in a cessation of those hostilities and
angry feelings, which grew out of that collision Of opi.
neon necessarily attendant on a state of war—(Hear,
hear, hear). The country having been established in
a state of supremacy with regard to Foreign Nations,
which- no accident could shake, his Majesty's Mi-
nisters were enabled to adopt those measures of liberal
policy which his Right Honourable Friend the Lord
Mayor had so kindly adverted to—( dpplaase).—
The whale nation concurred in the opinion expressed of
the positive advantages arising from the system of
policy by which the affairs of his Majesty's Govern-
ment were conducted, and the energy of that Govern-
ment on every occasion which called for vigorous una-
nimity—(Cheers). He begged to return to his Lord-
ship, and the Meeting, his sincere thanks for the honour
they bad done him. The Right Honourable Gentle.
man concluded, by reiterating his thanks, and by pro-
posing the
, " Prosperity of the City of London,"—with three times three.

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• .a The health ache Right ROM Robert Peel."
retary Nat. returned thanks. He felt proud in
beitigAne o,r that Ministry whose measures were now
hutch the theme of public approbation. Thetorintry
had already visibly undergone the mo-t extensive im-
provement in every branch of trade, and in the facilities
of dispensing a competency to all persons who were dis-
posed to pursue a course of industry.
The health of the Speaker of the House of Commons was next
drank. The Right Honourable Gentleman returned thanks.
, To these succeeded—" The Right Hon. the Earl of Errol."—
" Lord Francis Conyngham.",—The Right Hon. Lord Gifford,"
(Master of the Rolls.)—" Lord Tynham."—" The Judges."—
The Recorder."—" Aldermen."
About nine o'clock, his Royal Highness the Dike of
York handed the Lady Mayoress to the Council Cham-
ber, and was followed by the Duke of Clarence, most
of the guests, and all the Ladies.
At ten o'clock, the Dukes of York and Clarence left
the 'Hall, amidst the cheers of one of the most thronged
companies we ever beheld. There was no dancing on
the hustings, where it was usual to open the ball ; but
the Common Council Chamber, and the Court of
King's Bench, were soon after dinner appropriated to
that amusement. The company began to get very thin
before half-past 11 o'clock, at which time all the dis
tinguished visitors had quitted the Hall. The citizens
were delighted at the information given to them by the
Lord Mayor, that the hospitality of the Mansion-house
is about to be on a more extensive scale than it has b •en
known to be within the recollection of the present Cor-
poration. There cannot be a surer way to reach the
affections of many of the body, than that of reviving
their recollections of the good times of their ancestors.