Star.
London, England, 1821-05-05 00:00:00

CELEBRATION Qf the KING'S BIRTH-DAY.
THE FANCY BALL.
The Ball given by his MAJESTY at Carlton House,
on Thursday, was most splendidly attended. It
being a Fancy-dress Party, the Ladies were enabled
to display every elegant variety of dress ; and the
etiquette• of trains was dispensed with. The Crimson
Room, which is on the hall or grand entrance floor,
was prepared for the Ball. Tasteful devices were
marked on the floor, and the. room was brilliantly
lighted with chandeliers fancifully arranged. It was
opened for the company shortly before ten o'clock,
by which time a considerable number had arrived.
The Duke of WELLINGTON, who was in attendance
as Gold Stick, and the Master of the Ceremonies,
Sir R. CHESTER, introduced the company. His /#IA
JIIIITY left Buckingham Palace at nine o'clock, where
he had dined with his Royal Sister, the Princess Au-
OUSTA ; and having dressed for the evening party, he
entered the Ball-room at ten o'clock. His MAJESTY
was in full dress military uniform. Dancing then
commenced, consisting, of quadrilles. The KING,
who was in excellent spirits the whole evening, most
condescendingly attended to the company, inviting
them to join in the quadrilles. In the course of the,
evening there was also some waltzing. Thd parties
for dancing were most elegantly arranged in different,
portions of the grand Ball-room, by Sir ft. CHESTER,
who likewise called the tunes. The band was very
fine, consistingchiefly of performers from the Opera,
and other leading places of public amusement.
The Blue and Silver Rooms were devoted to re-
freshments, there being tables ranged along them
covered with sandwiches, pastry, jellies, wines, &c.
and the establishment were in full attendance here to
supply the company with whatever might be required.
The Ball was kept up with great spirit till about
two o'clock, but it was upwards of an hour after that
time before the whole of the company had departed.
About a thousand of the Nobility and Gentry par-
took of this elegant and sumptuous festivity.
Hei,MAJIISTY was attended by his great Officers
of 'State and other attendants, and surrounded by a
number of his august family, consisting of—
Prince Leopold (who first arrived, accompanied by the Du-
chess of Kent), the. Duke of York, the Duke and Duchess of
Clarence, and Princess Sophia Matilda.
The following were among the other distinguished
personages present: ,
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The Princeaid Prikeesif Esterhazy, Count and Countess
Lieven, Countess of Derby, Sir C. liaggerston, Countess Har-
rowby, Marchioness of Waterford, Duchess of Bedford, Dow-
ager Duchess of Rutland, Sir Robert and Lady Wigton), jun.
Lady M. Paulet, Earl of Elective, Earl of Fife, Sir Robe. Bolton,
Hon. John Tollanache, Lord Clanwilliam, Sir IL Turner,
Duchess of Richmond, Miss Eden, Countess Ashbunaham, Mr.
and Mrs. Dasison, Earl of Alierdeen, Lady Say and Sek, Mrs.
Boehm, Lady Islildmay, . Lady E Norman, Earl of Galloway,
Earl of Aylesbury, Lord Saltoun, Lady Binning, Earl Darnley,
Lady C. Melville, the Spanish Ambassador, Colonel Lygon,
Lady S. Percy, Capt. Clifford, Duke of Dorset, the Portuguese
Ambassador, Colonel Lowther, Lord Beresford, Mr. Caven-
dish, Countess Minden, Lady & Lowther, Lady Morpeth, Sir
R. Chester, Mr. Stuart Wortley, Earl of Winchebea, Earl of
Westmoreland, Sir E. Paget, Mr. and Mrs. Banker, Lord C.
Somerset, Lady Wemyas, Lady J. Thymic, Earl of Clare, Lady
Rous, Marquis of Graham, Earl Harrington, Duke of Wel-
lington, Lord R. Seymour, Duchess de Frias, Earl /3esborough,
Lord C. Manners, Earl and Countess of Coventry, Viscount
Deerburst, Colonel Cotton, Lord Howden, Lord Binning, Earl
Cowper, Duchess of Rutland, Duchess of Northumberland,
Lady Belgravo, Lady Long, Lord Grantham, Countess of
Warwick, Viscount Sydney, Lady C. Forester, Earl of Mex-
borough, Marquis of Lansdown, Viscount and Viscountess Ash-
broke, Earl of Warwick, Earl of Limerick, Viscount and Vis-
couctesa Eno/more, Lord Dynevor, Duke of Grafton, Mar-
chioness of Lansdown, Dowager Countess of Warwick, Mar-
chioness of Hertford, Baron Langsdorff, Earl Bathurst, Earl of
Donoughmore, Duke of Beaufort, Lord Lowther, Lord Del-
more, Viscount and Viscountess Melville, Dowager Mar-
chioness of Lansdown, Earl of Lauderdale, Colonel Cooke,
Lord Lovaine, Dowager Marchioness of Downslike, Sir C.
Long, Mr. Hope, Earl of Chichester, Earl Mount Edgcumbe,
Lord Bagro, Mt. Finch Hatton, Viscount Palmerston, Lord G.
Cavendish, the Right Hon. Sir George Hill, Sir W. W:Wynne,
Count Woronzow, Lord Carrington, Earl and Countess Saint
Germain's, Lady Anne Becket, Duke of Devonshire, Chancellor
co: the Exchequer, Mr. Becket, • Earl Pembroke, Earl Derck-
Dock, Earl and Countess Verulam, Sir R. Burroughs, Lord
Dungannon, Earl of Macclesfield, Lord G. Beresford, Marquis
of Buckingham, Earl of Chatham, Lord W. Bentinck, Mr.
Iluskiuon, Marquis and Marchioness of Winchester, the .Tur-
kis!). Minister, &c. &c.

The Ladies all wore the most elegantly tasteful and
splendid Dresses.

Yesterday the Earl of LivEnrooL had an audience
of his MAJESTY.

Yesterday, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of GLOUCESTER, the Princesses AUGUSTA
and SoriitA MATILDA, the Duchess of CLARENCE,
the Duchess of KENT and Princess FEODORE, Prince
LEOPOLD and Prince ERNEST, attended by Lady
MART THYNNE, Colonels DALTON, HIGGINS, &c.
visited the Exhibition at the Royal Academy, previ-
ous to its opening to the Public, and expressed them-
selves highly gratified with the splendid assemblage
of works collected there this season.
FECUNDITY.—Last week, in the neighbourhood of
Dunkevin,_in the county of Limerick, the wife of Mr.
PATRICK °Pintas, was delivered of four sons and
a daughter: they are all living, and, with the mo-
ther, likely to do well. Sixteen months before, Mrs.
O'PHELAN had two daughters and a son at a birth,
thus blessing Mr. O'PHELAN, with eight children in
a year and a half.
It is a. remarkable fact, that the child of a trades-
man at Cheltenham, who had caught the small-pox,
was almost immediately after vaccinated, and, to the
astonishment of the Medical Gentlemen, both diseases
maintained an equal ascendancy, and the child is now
doing well.
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