Star.
London, England, 1820-02-29 00:00:00

'HE KING'S COURT.

Vecterday his MAJESTY held a Court at his Palate
in Pall-mall. At three o'clock, a Guard of Honours
under the command of Colonel HIGGINS, marched
into the Court-yard, preceded by the band of the
Sa Regiment of Foot Guards, in their state uni-
forms, the Head Drum Major with his silver stick
covered with crape ; the state colours covered with
crape, and the Officers wearing crape scarfs, and
crape on their hats. A detachment of the Life
Guards arrived in Waterloo-place, opposite the Pa-
lace, about the same time, with their colours covered
with crape, preceded by their band of sixteen trum-
pets and trombones, kettle-drums, tamborines, &c.
The porters at the gates of the Palace appeared in
deep mourning; with bags, &c.
The yeomen of the Guard lined the Grand Hall
in dresses of black, of similar make to their scarlet
uniforms, with also their belts of black, the hilts of
tlyzir swords covered with crape, their dresses orna-
wilted with the Royal Arms, &c. their partizans
were covered with crape. The Gentlemen Porters
and Pages appeared in deep Court mourning,
weepers, &c.—ln the Octagon Hall were the Gen-
tlemen Pensioners, in the same dresses as they a.r: -
pear ed at the funeral of the late KING, except their
splendid scarlet coats. Mr. GARDNER and Mr. Srv-
moon, the Grooms of the Great Chamber, were also
in attendance in the same places

His MA.trary had appointed yesterday for tilt
time of receiving the Addresses of the Corporation
of the City of London upon the dcmisc of the late
King, and his own Accession to the Throne, but on
account of the Kis° net having recovered his strength
from his late indisposition, he requested that only a
Deputation of the Corporation might attend him,
which of course prevented the assembly from being
so numerous as it otherwise would have been.

A little before four, the Procession from the City
arrived in the following order:

Four Diarshabnen on foot, in their uniform; six of the Lotd
Mayor's Foetuses in deep mourning, on foot ; the two City
Marshals in their splendid dresses, on horseback ; the Cap of
Maintenance and the Sword of State, both of which were lower-
ed on their entracte into the Palace; the Right Hon. George
I:ri,lges, the Lord Mayor, in his splendid robes; the Gentlemen
of his Lordship's Household.
Aldermen Sir William Curtis, Sir Charles Flower, Sir Clau-
dius Ilunter, Scholey, Birch, Wood, Magnay, Heygate, Cos,
Waithn'an, and Rothwellt
Sir John Silvester, the Recorder of London ; Newman
KtKiwlys, Esq. the Common Serjeant ; the Sheriffs Bothwell
:lid Parkins; the Undtr Sheriffs, Turner and Pullen; George
Norton, Esq. the Common I'leader ; 'Thomas Tyrrell, Esq. the
Nemembrancer ; the Town Clerk ; the Hall Keeper, &c.

Mr. Dizon and Mr. &twin, the Gentlemen of the Court of
Common Coundl, who snowed and seconded the Address ; a'so
Mr. Deputy Greenaway, Mr. Robert Elliott, of the Deputation,
Mr. Eyton, dca
They were conducted Into his MAJESTY'S presence
by Mr. MARSH, the Gentleman Usher in Waiting, the
LORD CHAMBERLAIN, and Marquis of HEADFORT,
as the Lord in Waiting.
The Addresses were read by the RECORDER, as
follows:

" MOST GRACIOUS SOTRRISICIS!

" Your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor
and Aldermen of the Qty of London, approach your Royal
Persun' to congratulate your Majesty upon your happy Acces-
sion to the Imperial Crown of this United Kingdom, and to of-
fer our condolence on the affecting loss which your Majesty and
the Nation have sustained, in the demise of your Royal Father,
our late Most Gracious Sovereign—an event which cannot fail
to pierce With the most affectionate regret the heart of every
s,:hject, to the remotest corner of the Empire.
" Occupying the exalted Throne of these Realms for a period
unprecedented in the annals of history, your venerable Sire held
kis paternal and gentle sway over the affections of his People;
and long will the tributary gratitude of this Nation record, that
during the eventful and glorious course of his late Majesty's
reign, wherein it pleased Asmicarr Gun, in his inscrutable pro-
vidence, to visit him with various public and private afflictions,
hr manifested on all occasions the most tender regard for his na-
tive country, and the most scrupulous affection for her glorious
Constitution, both in Church and State; he maintained the ho-
;lour of his Crown, and the safety and independence of his Peo-
ple, in seasons of unparalleled difficulty, with magnanimity,
firmness, and dignity. Ills pre-cminent example, in the strict
attention he paid to his religions duties, in his pious submission
to the Draws will, in his faithful discharge of every moral obli-
gation, beamed from his lofty sphere with powerful and attrac-
tive lustre, and while it was a blessing to the country over which
he reigned, fitted ails! prepared him for the exchange he has now
brute, of an ear ally for an heavenly crown.
" In tilts &plotting the loss of the venerable Father of his
People, 1, • •..ji sty's dutiful and faithful subjects have but
is "ten utterance to the feelings of sympathy which
agitate then- hearts on this mournful occa.ion, and they partici-
pate most dts-p!v in the sorrow of your Majesty, on the accumu-
lated occasions of grief which have in so short a space of time
visited your Royal House.
" The consolation which your faithful Citizens of London ex-
perience, in common with their fellow-subjects, is derived from
the good providence of Goo. in placing the sceptre in the hands
of a Prince by whose wise and able government, as the Represen-
tative of our late lamented Sovereign, during his long and distres-
sing illness we have witnessed the glory of the arms of this coun-
try raised to its highest pitch; an honourable peace secured, af-
ter the severe struggles of nearly a quarter of a century to main-
Lin its Independence, its Constitution, and its Religion. It is
therefore with the sincerest and warmest veneration we con-
gratulate your Majesty on your ascending the Throne of your
Ancestors.
.4 Permit us, gracious Sire, to express our warmest assurances
of zeal for your Majesty's sacred Person and Governm'ent,
satisfied as we are, that the best interest of this Country, iu
which you have been born and educated, lies nearest your
heart ; and we most fervently pray, that the ALMIGHTY Disposes
or LYIENTS, by whores Kings reign, will prosper and prolong your
role over us; that he will guard your Royal Person, Crown,
a-. 4 Dignity, and bless your reign with the zeal, gratitude, and
obedience of a faithful and happy People."
To which Address his MAJESTY was pleased to
return this most gracious Answer :
•• I receive with the greatest satisfaction this loyal and affec-
tsoeate Address.

" You could not have gratified me more than by the justice
waich you have rendered to the memory of my revered and
1..-aer.ted Father; and I cordially thank you for the sentiments
of dutiful attachment and confidence which you have expressed
towards myself.
" You may be assured that I shall always be desirous to
orsoli the privileges, and to promote the prosperity of the City
of London."
They then withdrew, and the LORD MAYOR, at-
tt:lded by four Members of the Deputation from the
CoLrt of Common Council, were admitted, and pre-
scrated the following Address :
" TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

TUE uuririL AND LOYAL ADDRESS OF THE LORD MAYOR, •LDIIR-
Dits, AND CoNIIIOXS O► THE GMT OF LONDON, IN COMMON COUN-
CIL
" MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN !
Vise, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the
Turd Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London,
Common Council assembled, humbly approach your Royal
prey:nee, to express to your Majesty the feelings of our minds
occasion of the demise of our late most excellent and revered
Prreign, and on the accession of your Majesty to the Throne
:ktfar Realms.
" Raticip.iting in the general sorrow of the country, we Feel
strselves deprived of a Father and a Friend, the recollection of

whose virtues, whose bright example, and whose benign GoVelm-
nient, will never be obliterated from our hearts.

" The high respect manifested by your Majesty's Royal
Father for the impartial administration of justice, in rendering
the Judges of the land independent of the Crown. is a conspi-
cuous point of admiration to the present, as it will be to future
generations.

" Throughout the course of a reign extended beyond that of
any of his predecessors, your Majesty's departed Sire never lost
sight of the pledge he had given to his faithful Subjects, of his
determination to promote, to the utmost of his power, their
prosperity and happiness ; under the influence whereof he rose
above every danger which threatened the dignity or safety of
his Sacred Person, the honour and security of his CrOVIN or the
independence and welfare of his People ; discharged with un.
varying fidelity the duties of every social relation, and proved
himself the munificent Patron of the Arts, Science, and Litera-
ture, the zealous promoter of the Education of the Poor, and a
bountiful supporter of every good work.
" In contemplating his long and glorious career, we are con-
soled under his loss by reflecting on his uniform illustration of
the fact, that a British 'Monarch may wield the sceptre with
advantage to the country, and by his exemplary attention to
every relative duty, by his temperance and his piety, i: fesuct
and edify the poorest of his subjects%
" While we desire to bow with reverential submission to the
will of lint by whom King's reign and Princes decree justice,
as it regards the sufferings and demise of your Majesty's Royal
Father, we derive motives for comfort and for gratitude, in the
recol:eetion that th,: sceptre has not descended to an inexperienced
hand; and that, in addition to the review of the past, we have
the assurance of your Majesty's Royal word, that it wiz be the
most anxious endeavour of your Majesty to promote the prospe-
rity and happiness of all classes of your People, and to maintain
unimpaired the Religion, Laws, and Liberties of the Kingdom;
an assurance whereby your Majesty has fully acknowledged the
glorious principles of the Act of Settlenient, and recognized the
noble features of our excellent Constitution.

" We trust your Majesty will graciously accept this earnest of
our dutiful and inviolable attachment to your Sacred Person and
Government, with our humble assurance, that your faithful Ci-
tizens t)f London will eveepray to the Krroa of KIN 63 that your
Majesty's Reign may be long and prosperous, and that your
Councils may be directed by a gracious Provinincz to promote
the honour and glory of your Majesty, and the welfare and hap-
piness of your l'eople.—Signed by order of Court,
" IrENRY WOOD ritottrE:'
To which Address the KING was pleased to return
the following most gracious Answer t
I return yob my Warmest thanks for this loyal and dutiful
Address.

" It is highly gratifying to me to receive such a testimony of
your feelings of affectionate veneration for the memory of my
lamented Father, as Well as of attachment to my person and
Government.

a You may rely on ray constant solicitude fur the welfare and
prosperity of the City of. London, and for the maintenance of
its rights and privileges."
There were also in attendance ca the KING, the
Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, the Groom
of the Stole, the Tteaurer of the Hothehold, the
Comptroller of the Household, &c.
After his MAJESTY had received the City Ad-
dresses, he held a Pt ivy Council, which was atten-
ded bye
The Archblshcp of Canterbury, the Lard President, the Lord
Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign,'
and Colonial Departments, the First Lord if the Admiralty,
the ?Master General of the Ordnance, the President of the Board
of Controul, &c.
Mr. HUSKISSON and the Hon, RYDER, were in-
troduced,
and sworn in Members of the Privy Coun-
cil, and took their seats at the Board accordingly.
The KING gave audiences to the Earl of HAR-
Rotisy, the Earl of LIVERPOOL, and the Duke of
WELLINGTON.

The Marquis of HEADIORT and Sir WILLIAM
KEPPEL were the Lord and Groom in Waiting.
The Court broke up a little before six o'clock.

GENERAL ELECTION.

The Right Honourable WILLIAM DurasAs has
again offered himself, to represent the City of Edin-
burgh in Parliament.
The contest at Denbigh will prove a severe one,
as it includes family as well as political opposition.
Election squibs are already flying about, some of
them of the most pointed description.
Mr. STEWARD MAJORIBANES, son of the East,
India Chairman, has declared himself a Candidate
for Hythe.
The present Member for Wenlock retires from
Parliament, and his brother, Mr. FORESTER, is now
canvassing that Borough.
The White Lion Club, of Bristol, has invited P. J.
MILES, Esq. to fill the place holden by Mr. HART
DAVIS, who has published an affecting farewell ad-
dress, in which he says—" Under the painful recol-
lections of the past year, an invitation from my
fellow-citizens would have poured balm into a
wounded mind."

Monday se'nnight, Sir WM. CHAMPION DE CBEs-~
PIGNY, and Wm. CHAMBEALAYNE, Esq. arrived in
Southampton, and immediately commenced a very
active canvass for the future Representation of that
ancient Borough. J. R. DOTTIN, Esq. and his agents,
are also busily employed in canvassing.
Lord BURY and ARTHUR ATHERLEY, Esq. are
very active in their canvass for Arundel, and their
friends are sanguine of success.
THOMAS Whir:worm, Esq. M. R. BENSON, Esq.
and LECHMORE CHARLT•N, E.q. start for Bridgnorth,
in consequence of Sir T. JONES, Bart. declining the
contest.

JOHN MYTTOW, Esq. has declined for Shrewsbury.
IL G. BENNETT and I'AN roN CoRBETT, Esqrs. will
therefore come in.

Lord DEERHURST and IL DAVIES Esq. meet with
no apposition for Worcester: for the County, H. B.
LYGON and Sir THOMAS E. WINNINGTON, Bart. it is
expected, will be elected without opposition.
11. Howourx, Esq. declines for Evesham, Sir C.
COCKERELL, Bart. and W. E. R. BOUGIITON will
meet with no opposition.
Mr. PASCOE GRENFELL, the Member for Great
Marlow, has announced his intention bf standing for
St. Ives.

Sir WILLIAM LENION, Bart. and J. H. TREMAYNE,
tsq. the present County Members for Cornwall, have
announced their intention of again offering themselves.
It continues to be reported that Sir GODFREY WEB-
STER is to be opposed in the Representation of the
County of Sussex, by Mr. SVC:DEN.
The Hon. H. G. BENNET arrived in Shrewsbury
on Thursday, and commenced his canvass. JOHN
MYTTON, Esq. has announced his intention to retire
from Parliament at present; and PANrox CORBETT,
Esq. being the only Candidate in his stead, is expected
to be returned without opposition.
The Borough of Bridgnorth is likely to experience
a contest. Sir T. J. TYRWIIITT JONES having unex-
pectedly declined, it is rumoured that the new Can-
didate, RALPH Bxxsow, Esq. will not be permitted
4. to walk over the course."

The present Candidates for Oxford are General Sr.
JottN) Mr. LOCKHART, and Mr. WETHERELL.

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EDINBURGH, FEBRUARY 24.

DINNER TO LORI) ERSKINE.

Monday, the friends or this truly patridtic Noble-
man met to celebrate his return to this his native
city, after an absence of more than half a century,
during which period his life has been uniformly and
strenuously devoted in promoting the happiness and
liberty of his country.
At a little past six, the company, to the number
of nearly 300, sat down to an elegant and sumptuous
entertainment, provided by Messrs. COCKBURN and
9TEVENTON, of the Royal Hotel, in the great hall of
the Assembly Rooms. The ten chrystal chandeliers
shone forth a most brilliant light, and a very neat
transparency at the bottom of the room, on which
were written, " Trial by Jury," and " Freedom cf
the Press," and other inscriptions, characteristic of
the services of the Noble Lord, added much to the
beauty of the scene.
WILLIAM MAXWELL, Esq. of Carriden, in the
Chair, in the absence of the Right Hon. Lord Ross-
LYN and his Grace the Duke of HAMILTON.

GEORGE CRANSTOUN and HeNHY COCKBURN
Esqrs. Crouplers,—During the evening, several ap-
propriate toasts and sentiments were given, and
songs sung, and thany eloquent speeches delivered.
There are very few characters who have done
greater honour to their native land than Lord ER-
SKINE. By his distinguished talents, he attained an
eminence at the English Bar, which has never been
surpassed; and his eloquence as a Counsellor, and
integrity as a Jude, will call forth the admiration
of future age>. Ihe manly patriotism which has in-
variably distinguished this Nobleman, and which
shines forth with undiminished splendour, even when
he approaches the conclusion of so honourable a
course, must endear him to every dispassionate lover
of his country.
Lord ERSKINE sat upon the right of the Chair-
man, and the Hon. Mr. ERSKINE, son of his Lord-
ship, and late Ambassador to America, upon his
left. About ten o'clock Mr. MAxwELL retired) when
Mr. JEFFREY was called to the Chair. The company
separated about three o'clock in the morning.

THE CONSPIRATORS.

Private information was yesterday evening given
to Lavender and Bishop, that Palin, for whose ap-
prehension a reward of ESC* has been offered, was
concealed in a house in the neighbourhood of Battle-
bridge. They proceeded immediately, with their in-
former, to the spot described, but found that there
was no ground for the suspicion which had arisen.—
Though the Officers did not find P.rlin, they found
three men and a woman, of somewhat suspicious ap-
pearance. One man was in bed, and said he was un-
well. The Patroles (Jeffery and Tanner), suspecting
him to be one of the Cato-street gang of assassins, and
that he was in bed in consequence of the bruises he
had received, made him get up, when he was found
to have all his clothes on, except his shoes. They
stripped him, but he had no bruises. The other two
men were melting lead in a frying-Pan. One of the
men lived at that place, the others in Monmouth-
street and Brownlow-street. They were all three
brought to Bow-street Office, and underwent an exa-
mination before Mr. BIRNIE, when, there being no
charge against them, and they not being known, they
were discharged. It is supposed that Palin might
have taken the alarm, and escaped at the back of the
house, while the Officers were knocking at the door.
ARREST 07 PRESTON.—This cobbling politician,
with whose public character our Readers are but too
well acquainted, was yesterday apprehended by La-
vender and Bishop, under a warrant issued by R.
BIRNIE, Esq. It appears that the lodgings of this
man were searched on Thursday and Friday last,
but nothing of a suspicious nature was found. On
those occasions he facetiously said, " his armoury
could not boast of a swan-shot, nor his port-folio of
a scrap of paper of the slightest political interest."
Circumstances have since transpired which have led
to his arrest upon a charge of High Treason. He was
found industriously engaged in mending a shoe, with
his family about him. He was surprised at this new
visit, but submitted to his fate with cheerfulness, not
unaccompanied by an apparent sense of his own im-
portance. His daughters were highly indignant at
this intrusion on their domestic privacy. The Offi-
cers conducted their prisoner to Bow-street Office,
from whence he was sent to the Marquis of Anglesea
public-house, opposite. He was placed under the
care of Lack, one of the patrole. He called. for " a
pipe and pot," and, seating himselt before the fire,
seemed perfectly happy. He laughingly said to a
Gentleman who went to see him, that he thought
" the farce would not be complete till he was taken."
He had previously denied all knowledge of the late
conspiracy.—Reston was this morning taken from
Covent-garden Watch-house, down to IVhitehall, to
be examined before the Privy Council, as to his
knowledge of the plot.
THE PRISONERS IN COLDBATH.7IELDS PRISON.-.-
Thigleumod was yesterday in better spirits than on
any preceding day. He says but little upon the sub•
ject of his arrest. He exclaimed, when first in cus-
tody, that he had stuck to the Ministers to Coe last,
and would do so while he breathed. He stands com-
mitted for the double crime of High Treason and
Murder.—Brunt, who, it is ascertained, was present
in Cato-street, on Wednesday night, is committed for
High Treason alone ; and the other nine, whose
names we have so repeatedly given, are committed
for Murder. Monument says, when he found what
was contemplated, he endeavoured to get away, but
Davidson, the sentinel, at the bottom of the ladder,
' would not let him depart. No state allowance has
been made for the prisoners ; and, as they are in the
most abject state of poverty, they depend on the jail
' allowance for subsistence. This is a pound of bread
per day, and meat and soup on alternate days.
Among those who have been to Coldbath- fields,
to see the conspirators, are the Marquis of A NOLZSZA,
' Lord GRAVES, Sir BENJAMIN 400111171ELD, and Sir
ARTHUR PAGET.

The Cabinet Council sat yesterday upon the sub-
ject, at twelve o'clock, at the Secretary of State's
Office for the Home Department, but none of the
prisoners in custody, or any of the witnesses, were
examined. The Council broke up soon after one
Q clock. The reason the Police Officers were
more numerous ou the night of the attack of the
Cato-street gang was, that they were distributed at
the offices? and the official gentlemens' houses.

Mr. Eyton, At.
They were con
by Mr. MARSH, t]
LORD CHASIDIM
as the Lord in W
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follows:
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