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London, England, 1805-04-24 00:00:00

LONDON.

WEDNEFDAY, APR(I. 21.

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PR In OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE o•cf.mext
Con(019, far money, 511—t3r May 58U--Ornniunt al
PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY :
NA Stneh 173 :727 India Bonds as. a 3s diC
3 per C. R-d. An. OH Excheq. Bills IL 24 diC
3 per Cont. CnnL Ann. 5741 Omnium 2ii4 peens
4 Per Cent C. 731 Engliffi Tickets t Si. tps.
5 per Cent. Navy Silt CooL for May Offal
Lang Ann. 16 15-16 t

Both Honfes of Parliament meet to-morrow, when,
Mr. PITT, it is (aid, means to anticipate fome of Mr.
WHITZRIAD'II meafures, by himfelf moving for a
Committee to enquire into the different branches of
the Public Expenditure in every Department. To
secure a full attendance of his friends, the following
Note, figned by himfelf, has been fent round :
• Sta—You are requefted to be pundtual in your attendance
at the Houfe of Commons on Thurfday next, as bufinefs of a very
catradirdinary nature is Intended to be brought forward.
a Your faithful humble Servant, WM. PITT."

To reflore in Come meafure dot balance ofpower, it is
airerted that eight new Peers will fhortly be created,
among whom the following are named: Sir Cisaal. Es
Miontrrox, Sir CHILILES MORGAN, Sir H MILD.
WAY, Mr. THELLUSSON, and Mr. CHARLES YORKS.
The latter Gentleman, we believe, is certainly to
come into office.

Yefferday, after onr paper had been a few minutes
at profs, we received accounts of the capture and re-
capture of his Majefly's thip CLIOPATRA, and of the
capture of the French frigate la Vile de Milan. The
particulars of this gallant affair appeared in the Ga-
zette of IA night, which our Readers will find in the
laft page of this Paper.

Lail night we received Paris Papers to the 16th
intl. from which we have given fome eztraas, as alfo
from Dutch Papers to the z r R intl.
They flue, that intelligence has been received at
Fluffing of the failing of the Spanifh fleet from Ca-
diz for Ferrol, to join the French fleet that has been
fo long blockaded in that port, and to proceed toge-
ther for Brea. The Spani(h fleet is Rated to confill
of 12 (hips of the line ;—and the French to have
to,ooo troops on board. We can hardly believe,
however, that the Spaniards can fo fuon have got
fuch a force ready for tea, knowing, as we do on good
authority, that their arfenals were almoll bare of
fibres of every kind, when the wat commenced be.
tween the two countries.

All the troops in Holland teem to be in motion to
be ready to repel an attack which they espea to be
spade by elis country upon Zealand.
Bowararra arrived at Lyons on the lath inftant,
where he has already iffued feveral Imperial decrees.
Some orders have been publilbed at Milan, prepara-
tory to his arrival in that place ; and Martha' Jove.
mix has commanded that a monument be ereaed to
commemorate the elevation of the Corfican to the
Italian Throne. JOSEPH BONAPARTE has mark a fo-
lemn and pompons entry into Brune's, where he pre-
fides at the meeting of the Elatoral College of the
Department of Dyle.
PLTIRSHURGH, M•RCH a6.—On the 24th inf. a
Courier departed from hence for London; and to.
day the Swediftt Baron CRASSOW fet off on a mifGon
to Stockholm. On the arrival of thefe difpatches at
the two Courts, it is probable that Englandand Swe-
den will be enabled to judge how far they may ex-
pea fupport in their hoftile views from the Ruffian
Emperor.

MADRID, Malta' 28.—Our army in Galticia now
amounts to 28,000 men ; we are allured that it is de-
!lima to take poffeffion of the harbours and firong
places of Portugal.—The fitting out of our fleet at
Fcrrol, was completed on the 26th of March, and
the (hips are now ready to proceed to fea at the &It
notice. The fleet confills, without French (hips, and
betides frigates and corvettes, of t 2 (hips of the line.
The fleet at Cadiz coaling of 12 (hips of the line ; 4
French (hips of the line ; 2 frigates, 12 gun boats at
CadiL—and 18 at Algefiras.

VIENNA, APRIL 10.—Since the time when we re-
ceived intelligence that the Emperor Moot roll had
accepted the Crown of Italy, it has been remarked,
that the Council has affembled more frequently than
ufual. Several couriers, which have been fent off to
and arrived from Paris, in the courfe of the prefent
and the preceding week, have given occafion to fe-
veral conferences of Rate.
The Count de RA su woo s y, A mba &dor from
Ruffia, has alto had feveral conferences with the
Prince of Scowsozaaseau, Vice-Prefident of the
College of War.
The Archdukes Louts and REGIIIII were on
Sunday laft invefted with the Order of the Golden
Fleece.—A report is circulated among the French
troops, which are marching to Italy, that after the
Coronation of the King, it is poffible that they may
be embarked for Egypt.

CORN MARRIT, MAR 11• LAN R. APRIL 24.—The
Apply of Wheat to-day is rather confiderable, having
much remaining unfold ; fine is very heavy of fate,
and the famples of ordinary much lower; a few
Dantzic arrivals, not of firll quality, at rather lets
than our higheß currency—Rye is 4s. and Ss. per
quarter lower than laft week; and Barley Rill nearly
uotaleable, and Rated lower—We have ..41 few Oat ar-
rivals from Pruffia—Fine are rather in demand, at
flnuew•hat better price—Rape Secci fearce nod dear—
Flour and other articles are at little alteration.

THE INSTALLATION.

ORDER OF THE INSTITUTION OF THE KNIGHTS Or
THE GARTER,
OP WHICH HIS SIAJSITY IS ♦LWAYS AT THI NIA).

As to the reafon of the Inaitution, it did not pro-
ceed from fo trivial a Around as a Lady's Garter,
Co neither had King Edward 111. who was the foun-
der of the Order, any regard to the Garter, or lea.
ther thong, which King Richard I. in his attempt
upon Cyprus and Acon, ordered to be tied about
the legs of his Officers, to animate their courage, by
fuch a particular dittinCtion ; but Edward 111. being
a Prince of it warlike difpofition, and engaged in a
war with France, made it his bufinefs to engage the
heft fiddlers in Europe in his intereft. With this view
he projeCted the Petting up King Arthur's round ta-
ble, and proclaimed a folemn tilting, to invite fo-
reigners of courage and quality to the exercife. The
place for this folemnity was fixed at Windfor, for
which purpofe, on New Year's Day, 1344, he pub-
liffied his royal letters of prote&ion, for the lac-
, coming and return of fuch foreign Knights as were
willing to hazard their reputation at this public tilt-
,Ang, and ordering that this entertainment timid be
held annually at the fame place, at Whitfuntide ; all
the Knights, during this folemnity, were entertained
magnificently at the King's expence, eating together
at a table fix hundred teet round, which he.called the
Round Table.

To countcrmine this projee, Philip De Valois, the
French King, made ufe of a fimilar expedient, at his
own Court, inviting the martial men of fame and cha-
rader in Italy and Germany, for fear they fhould be
pre-engaged to Edward. This thought proving fuc-
cefsful, gave a check to King Edward's deign. Ed-
ward having lately given his garter for the fignal of
a fortunate battle, he took occafioa from thence to in-
Ilitute this Order, making the Garter the principal
diftin&ion of ir, from whence that fele& number,
whom he incorporated into a fraternity, is called
Knights of the Garter. By this Garter, the Knights
companions are fymbolically put in mind to a& by the
maxims of good faith, fincerity, and religion, to pulls
an enterprize with refolution, but not to undertake
any thing contrary to the Itatutes of the Order ; not
to violate the engagements of friendthip, the law of
arms, the privileges of peace, or to do any thing con-
' Crary to articles of probity and honour.
This Noble Order was founded in the 23d year of
the reign of King Edward 111., anno 1350, the pa-
trons or prote&ors of it were the Holy Trinity, the
Bletred Virgin, St. George, and St. Edward the Con-
feffor, and as it is the molt noble, fo it is the molt an-
cient of any lay order now in tile in Europe. The
number of the Knights Companions of the Order are
23, befidetehe King, the Sovereign of the Order. To
qualify a perfon fur this honour, he mull be a perfon
of an unblemiffied chara&er, not under the degree of
Knight, and one that cannot be charged with abet-
ting a party or fa&ion againft his Prince. He mutt
be a Gentleman born, that is, as King Henry VIII.'.
(Witte' explain it—a Gentleman by name, arms, and
blood ; fo that no Knight that has been convided of
herefy or treafon, or can be charged with cowardice,
is capable of being ele&ed a Companion of the Or-
der, and may forfeit it upon conviaion, after he is
chofen ; he is likewife liable to be degraded, at the
pleafure of the Sovereign, if by libertinifm and ex-1
travagaoce he fpends fo much of his patrimony as
renders him incapable of maintaining his char:titer
honourably.
The habit of the order, upon folemn days, is the
Garter, Mantle.Surcoat, Hood, Collar, Great George
and Cap; upon the Collar days they are only oblig-
ed to wear the Garter, the Collar of the Order, and
the Great George ; at the middle of the collar hangs
the pitture of St. George, fitting on horfeback, who,
having thrown the dragon upon his back, encoun-
ters him with a tiltingapear ; .the Garter, which is
blue, was at the foundation of the order appointed to
be worn a little below the knee of the left leg, which
Hill continues, having this motto wrought on it—
fiord Jolt qui mal y penfe, which was-made in French,
becaufe at that time our King polreffed the greaten
part of France, and was at war for the whole; and
our laws were rhea in the French language, which
was alfo univerfally (puke at the Englith Court. Be-
tides the twenty-fix above mentioned, this College or
Corporation confilts of a Dean and twelve Canons,
betides petty canons, vergers, and other inferior of-
ficer's, to which are added, twenty-fix poor knights,
who have no other maintenance but the allowance of
this college, which is given them in confideration of
their prayers in behalf of the Sovereign and the com-
pinions, and by way of reward for their former fer-
vice in the field ; there are alfo force cenfiderable of.
ficers belonging to this order; as the prelate of the
order, which is only an office of honour, without
any profit annexed, and this is fettled on the Bi.
(hopric of Winchefler. The Chancellor of the Gar-
ter is the Bifhop of Salifbury for the time being; the
office of regiftry belongs to the Deanery of Windfor.
There is alto an officer, called Garter, principal King
at Arms, whole bufinefs is to manage and marshal
their folemnities at their in[hal]ation and feafts. Laltly
the College is in the Cattle of Windfor, with the
Chapter-houfe, and Chapel of St. George, built by
King Edward the Third.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 33.
I am OR this moment returned from St. George's
Chapel, where I have witaeffed a pageant that in
point of fplendour exceeds any thing of which I
could have ever formed a conception, and certainly
far fuperior to any exhibition of a fimilar nature that
has ever taken place in this country, or, perhaps, in
Europe. It would Lideed require the higheß flight
of a poet's fancy to imagine fuch a fcene of magnifi-
cence, and the man who thould attempt to give it' a
full defcription, if any man were competent to the
talk, would expofe himfelf to the fufpicion of dealing
in a poet's rant. Much as public curiofity was ex-
cited—high as public expedation was railed by the
rumours fome time afloat refpe&ing the vaflnefs of
the preparation, the fcene itfelf was equal to any
thing the warmeß fancy could *ilk, and far, very
far indeed, beyond what the moil fanguine expeita-
tion could look for. It refembled altogether fome-
thing of that vifionary grandeur to which romantic
writers are fond fometimes to introduce their heroes
—lt was the magnificence of Afia challened and
enriched by the refinement of Europe. Every thing
that even the moll extravagant amateur of grandeur
could with for was to be feen, and yet there was no-
thing tawdry—there was nu fuperfluity of ornament.