Star.
London, England, 1821-06-18 00:00:00

TiiE. ARM V.

Ws mottling, the 3tl Battalion of theist Regiment of Guards,
ander the command of Colonel Drcenesor, mounted guard on the
Parade, St. James's-park, in the presence of a great numb. 1- of
Generals and Officers of the Line, who, as well as the liegimnt,
were, in honour of the day (the Anniversary of the battle of I
Waterloo), an decorated with laurel. 'Th.: fiag-staff was also
sormounted with a large bunch of laurel. The Royal Horse
Guards (Blue) also, on their mounting guard this morning, were
itcorated in a similar manner ; all of those who were present at
the battle wore their medals A number of Ladies were presein.
The Loyal Briton and Kinnersley Castle transports, Lieu-,
tenant Lay Agent, have arrived at Portsmouth, from Barba- I
does, with part of the 2d 11,8inient of Foot, under the corn-
mand of Lieutenant-Colonel Jeremy. 'they left Barbadoes on
the 2rl ult. with the Medusa transport, which has the remainder
of the Regiment on board, from which they parted on the 22d
alt. The troops landed on Wednesday, and marched to Win-
chester; four companies have since been ordered to Brighton.
Three companies of the 85th Regiment (or King's) marched
from Brighton on Thursday, under the command of Major Dc
Barge, and embarked at Portsmouth on board the Success
transport ; four companies followed on Saturday, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel WARBURTON, and embarked on
board the Pilot and Sophia transports. Lieutenant SEkNCER
Agent, fur the Mediterranean. The Loyal Briton, expected
hourly from the eastward, will take on board the remaining
companies. Detachments of the Bth, 18th, 39d, and 36th liegi-
silents, have also embarked, to join their respective corps at Malta.
Detachments of Regiments fur Barbadoes embarked on board
eke ship Itaikes, at Cowes, ou Saturday morning.
Monday, the 10th Regiment of Foot landed at Portsmouth
from Malta, after 25 years' absence on foreign service. The
Regiment has taken the Garrison duty.
Friday morning marched into Winchester Barracks the 2cl
Regiment, or Royals, from the West Indies. They are corn-
sasaded by Colonel Joanan. A detachment were to march to-
ile fur Brighton.
Monday, the detachment of the 19th Foot quartered at North.
mason, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Macon:rain,
was inspected by Major-General Sir ANDREW BABNARD, K.C.13.
The same day,the Major-General proceeded to Wredon. where
he reviewed the seven companies at head-quarters. This old
Corps arrived from India about twelve months ago, and is fast
advancing to a most complete state.
The remainder of the 2d Veterans has landed at Portsmouth
from Ireland. The Battalion is quartered at Fort Cumberland,
and will be disembodied on the 24th instant.

Wednesday last, the Greenock and Port-Glasgow troop of Yeo-
manry Cavalry marched fur Paisley, where they are to be sta-
doned, along with the other troops of the Renfrewshire Cavalry,
during the allotted annual period for drilling, training, ace.
The 91st Regiment, from Ireland, is to replace the 7th Fusi-
leers in Edinburgh Castle. The first division is expected to ar-
rive early this week.
On the 13th and 14th inst. the usual Half-yearly Public Exa-
minations were held at the Royal Military College, before a
Board of the Commissioners of the Institution, composed of his
Royal Highness the Duke of GLOUCIZ2ER, Generals Lord Carn-
CART and Sir R. BROWNRICC, Lieutenant-General Sir 11. CAL-
VERT, Major-Generals Sir G. MURRAY (Governor), and Sir J.
W. Goaoox (Quarter-Master-General), Colonel BUTLER (Lieu-
_tenant-Governor), Colonel Macncosaus (Deputy Adjutant-Ge-
neral). &c. General Marrtsxn, Colonel JoNrs of the Engineers,
and other distinguished Officers, were also present. On the first
of the above days, several classes of Gentlemen Cadets were exr.- ,
mined in the different branches of the College course of instruc-
tion—in Mathematics, Fortification, Latin, and the Modern
Languages, General History, &c. ice. and excited universal)
commendation by the thorough acquaintance with the subjects
of their studies, which was evinced in the course of their public
ordeal. The total number of the young Gentlemen who ap-
peared before the Commissioners exceeded 30; eight of whom
received recommendations to the Cost:raxima-ns-Cnter for Cont-

minions in the Line. The displayof Military Drawings and
Practical Survtys, the work of the last six months, was of the
usual beauty and correctness of execution. On the second day
of the li.,ard's meeting, the Officers, Students at the Senior De-
partment of the College, were publcly examined in the Mathe-
matics Fut:ification, Military Surveying, Drawing, &c. &c.—
The fUllowing Officers were particularly noticed as having passed
their examination in a distinguished manner, and received Cer-
tificates of the approbation of the Commissioners—Captains
CRUIMERI 28th Foot; PUPATES, 3d Guards; PRATT, 94th Re-
giment; 1119Nrosu, 79th ditto; Lieutenants klanalaxs, 14th
ditto; and CHICIIESTIR, 60th ditto.
Thursday, whilst Thomas Farr, a private in Captain FLE-
maw': Company, of the 224 Regiment of Foot, was bathing in
the River Eden, near Ledget-hill, Carlisle, he was unfortunately
drowned. The deceased was 21 years of age, and bore an ex-
cellent character in the Company to which he belonged.
Commis,ions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire.
lst Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Charles Fergusson, Gent. to
be Lieutenant, vice C. 1). Gairdner, resigned ; George James
CampbeU, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Cowan, resigned.
2d Ayrshire, or Cuningham and Cumnock Yeomanry Cavalry—
Majur John Ferrier Hamilton to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Cap-
tain Juhu Logan to be Major, vice Hamilton, promoted ;
Alexander Aird, Gtnt. to be Cornet, vice George Rauken,
rsigned.

THE CORONATION.

COURT OF CLAIMS, JUNE 16.

At half-past one o'clock his Royal Highness the
Duke of YORK entered, and was soon after followed
by their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of CLAREN E
and Gi.oricesrmt, the Doke of MoNTnoss, the Earl
of HARROWBY, the Earls of DONOUGHSIOIIE and
MANSFIELD, Lord lIENLEy, Lord BEAUCHAMP, Sir
WA!. SCOTT, Sir J. NicuoLc,'Mr. S. BourtNE, Mr.
BECKETT, and a number of other official characters.

Mr. Butt, the mace-bearer to the Lord Chancellor, then read
the Proclamation opening the business of the Court.
Sir John Sylvester, the Itecord,r of the City of London, at-
tended by the City Remembrancer, then advanced to the Coun-
cil table, and read an application made on the part of the Right
Honourable the Lord ilayor of the City of London, praying
that his Lordship might be allowed to alter some of the names
presented to the Court during the last year by the late Lord
Mayor. It appeared that, according to ancient usage, the Lord
Mayor of London for the time being has had permission, ac-
companied by twelve Citizen:, to attend the Coronation of the
Kings of England, and the i.e,tival which follows that ceremo-
nial. When the Court of Claims sat last year, the late Lord
Mayor (Mr. Alderman Bridges) presented, by virtue of his
office, a Petition, praying for leave to attend with the Wardens
of the twelve Liveries of the City of London, as his twelve Ci-
tizens. The claim was, we believe, then allowed; but since the
last year an alteration by death has occurred in two instances in
the list, besides the alteration of the Lord Mayor's name for
the time being; and it was the object of the Recorder's present
application to the Court to have permission merely that these
two or three alterations should be supplied.
When the Recorder had finished reading his Petition on the
part of the Lord Mayor, and presented it to the Clerk of the
Color, twelve Gentlemen appeared with another Petition;
which set forth, that they were the twelve Wardens, for the
present year, of the Liv• ries mentioned in the-Lord Mayor's
previcus Petition; and they, therefore, humbly prayea that their
names might be sulattituted for those of the twelve Wardens of
the past year, who were no longer in office, and who could not
be styled Wardens, as the Petitioners had, in fact, succeeded to
the Livery Wardenships at the late election for the current year.
They therefore prayed permission to represent the twelve Citi-
zens who were to accompany the Lord Mayor, and that their
names should be inserted in the list, to the exclusion of the
twelve Oni- Wardens.
The Earl of Hartuveby, after a short consultation with the
other Commissioners, said, that in estiniati Ig the claims of per-
' sons to officiate at his Majesty's Coronation. that Court could not
recognise any right on the part of persons calling themselves
Wardens of the l.iveries of the City of Loedon, as they were
unable to find any precedent f.r the adeiissaon of such a right on
similar ace 'Mat it was true the Lord Mayor of 1.01,
ooh, et dficit,, had been allowed the privilege of being present
on such "cc.. ai.d that it was the ancient custom he should
be •ttelidest by twelve ei:l2:, s of London, which twelve cid,-
' zens were always no:einatea bi the Lord Mayor. That, as to
Wardens, the Cour: knew eotaii,s about such person.: all they
had to require was, that the twelve who had the privilege of az-
tinaliog with the Lord Mayor should be Citizens.

The Petition presented by the Recorder on the part of the
Lord Mapir to alter the names occasioned by demise, was then
lett for consideratioil ; and that of the twelve Wardens, who
came in person into Court, was rejected.
The Earl of Ormond and Ossory appeared in person, to take
the opinion of the Court upon his claim to attenu his Majesty at
the Coronation, as Lord Chief Butler for Irela,td.
The Court admitted th- validity of the claim by virtue of the
office, but delayed adjudicating upon the right of the present
claimant, until the Committee of Privileges now sitting upon tae
Earldom of Ormond shall have made their report.
Lord Gwydir also appeared in person, and presented the
King's sign manual to his appointment (which he derived by
succession) as Deputy Chamberlain of England ; in right of
which he dinned the performance a his office at the Corona-
tion, to represent the senior Chamberlainship, now filled by tv, o
Ladies (the Marchioness of Cbolmondeley and Lady Gwydir).
The Llano was ordered to be referred to the King in Conn-
eh, and adjourned until the next Court-day.

Tut CHAMPIONSIIIII..-Mr. Gest:lee, the King's Counsel, was
heard in support ut the right of the Reverend T. Dymoke (Lord
of the Memo of Scrivelsby, and the person whose duty it was to
perform the office of Champion at his Majesty's Coronation) to
appoint a Deputy, re being a Clerk in orders, and thereby ince.
pacitated from a.tending. The Learned Counsel said, that
during the last yeer the Reverend Mr. Dymoke had petitioned
to have Mr. Iteac,r, jun. permitted to officiate for him as Cham-
pion ; but that attire that period his son (Mr. Dymoke, jun.),
is ho was abroad for some time, had returned, and he now prayed
that he might be permitted to officiate instead of Mr. itesder,
jun. A doubt, it was rumoured, had arisen on the right of Mr.
Dymoke to appoint a Deputy. There was no doubt on his own
right to officiate as Champion, he being the Lord of the Manor
of Scrivelsby, and the person possessing the Manor being from
early times his Majesty a Champion at the Coronation. But he
thought the right to nominate his Deputy, in cases where the
Lordship was filled by a person incapable per se—either, for in-
stance, when it was tilled by a woman, or by a minor—was
clearly demonstrable by a reference to the ancient records, and
the eh ipter in Coke on Littleton upon Serjeanty and alanorial
Rights. The Learned Counsel called the attentiun of the Court
to the words as they sweet in the old writs of offices inscribed in
the Coronation Rolls in the Record Office. From these it would
be seen, that so early as the time of Henry IV. when the Manor
of Scrivelsby was vested in a woman, she appointed her husband
to be Champion; and in another instance, a female nominated
her sot to act for her. He knew that there were instances from
which it was inferred that the Champion must be of the rank of
Knight ; hut it would be seen, on looking at these instances (and
there appeared many in the Dymoke family), that the appoint-
ment of Knights Champions was accidental, and in no degree a
matter of compulsory mandate. Indeed, Earls had performed
the office; and it was remarkable, that they were appointed by
persons holding the Manor, who were themselves incapable of
acting—a circumstance, he thought, fully strewing that the right
of appointing the Deputy was vested in the Lord of the Manor,
and in him. alone. In the reigns of Edward 111. Edward VI.
Henry IV. James I. William and Mary, and other reigns, it
would seem, that the Lord of the Manor of Scrivelsby appointed
a Deputy. There was no qualification of rank or degree re-
quired : the words of the writ ran thus :—that he should serve
the office by a s‘ probus et fe,teeirs" person " nomine sue;" the
latter words clearly implying Ms own substitute. In the writ
of I lenry IV. the words were, to appoint,"nligstia nomine stn;"
ail through sheaving that the right of appointment of his Deputy
was vested in him, and that the only stipulation was, that the
pet son appointed to act as Deputy should be "prubms et legalis."
The fact was, that the Lord of the Manor of Scrivelsby was Im-
peratively bound to perform the office of Champion, either by
himself or a Deputy, for it was on that performance depended
his right of tenure to the Manor. Mr. Dymoke, the father of
the present Lord, had performed the office to the late King. It
might be said that the constitution of this Court, and the very
fact of claims being brought here and registered before admis-
sion, implied that the appointment of a Deputy could not be
made without the consent of the King in Council. He humbly
submitted that this interference was not conclusive; for that the
great object of the summoning this Court was, that It should be
known who were the parties coming forward to do the services
required of them by the King at the ceremony of his Coronation,
and to see that those upon whom his Majesty had a right to call,
under the penalty of a forfeiture, were in proper attendance.—
So much, then, for the right of Mr. Dymoke to appoint a De-
puty. Then as to the person who was to be his Deputy, he had
only a few words to offer. Mr. Dymoke, junior, whom he
wished to appoint, was only twenty years of age last March, and
being consequently a minor, he could not be appointed without
the permission of his Majesty ; for, of course, if the Lord him-
self, being a minor, could not officiate, it followed that his De-
puty, in the same predicament, incurred a similar disqualifica.
tMn, unless the King was pleased to dispense with his minority.
Mr. Dymoke was most anxious to thew his respect for his So-
vereign, by having the office of Champion tilled by his son; but
if the Court rejected the prayer of his Petition, he then hoped
they would suffer the name of Mr. Reader to remain as before,
his Deputy at the approaching ceremony.
When Mr. Gaselre had concluded, the Duke of Clarence
asked Mr. Dymuke, jun. what rank he held in the Navy, and
when he was appointed?
Mr. Dymuke replied, [het he was not at present in his Ma-
jeety's service.
The Court was then cleared, and after a short consultation it
was declared that Mr. Dymoke should be excused from per-

forming the office of Champion in person, and that he should lit
allowed to appoint a " sufficient Deputy."
The Litter words still leave it to the Court to pronounce !iron
the sufficiency of the Deputy.
Sir Andrew Halliday claimed, for the Lord Advocate of Scot-
land, the privilege of attending the Coronation, as one of the
Officers of State in Scotland; but this claim was referred to the
•Council Office.

The Court, at half-past three o'clock, adjourned until Friday.

ARRAAGEMEA IS FOR THE WEEK.