Star.
London, England, 1829-11-11 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, Nov 9.
The Responsions for this Tlrm ended on Saturday last. The
number of unsuccessful candidates on this occasion has been unu-
sually small. The Masters were the Rev. J. B. Ottley, M.A. Oriel
College, the Rev. Robert Eden, M.A. Corpus Christi Colkge, and
the Rev. Geo. Moberly. M.A. Bard College.
The public examinations commence on Tuesday. the 10th inst.
with a very long list of candidates. The Examiners are the Rev.
R. D. Hampden. M.A. Oriel College, the Rev. D. Verde, M.A.
Christ Church, the Rev. John Carr, M.A. Baßiot College, the
Rev. Joseph L. Richards, M.A. Exeter College, the Rev. James
Garbett, MLA. Brazenose College, and John Mitchell, M.A.
Wactham College.
Friday the Bishop of Winchester instituted to the Vicarage of
Warlinhant cum Cholisham (vacant by the cession of the Rev.
JemesHamilton). the Rev. John Dalton, B.A. ; patron his ne-
phew, Atwood Dalton

IT I E MAN OF LEISURE, IN CHELTENHAM.

N 9. 111.

—" Here dwelleth the Prince, whose picture you see ; a Prince
sufficient skill to govern so quiet a countrie, where the good
aundes of the former Princes had set down good laws; and the
%sell bringing up of the people does len as a most sure bond to
hold them. But to be plain with you, bee excels In nothing so
n:ueh as the zealous love of his people, wherein bee both not
onely pass all his own foreseen, but, as I think, all the Princes
living. Now then, being so publicly happie as to bee a Prince,
and so happie• in that happiness, as to bee a beloved Prince. and
so in his private blessed as to have so excellent n wife, and so
over excellent children, he brake up his teen, and retired him-
.elfe, his wife, and children into& ceretain forest hereby."
Sia P. Same. ansicrso,' i. 1.
—.4 Leap, light hearts, in every breast,
Joy is now the fittest passion ;
Doable Majesty barb blest
AU the place with that high grace
Fxceedeth admiration !"
U. JONSON. May Day Bostataisimmt of the King and Qascn.'
Few passages, even in my checkered and eventful course of
being, have been so deeply impressed upon my mind as the arrival
and sojourn of the Royal Family at Cheltenbam,—upwards of one
and forty years ago. I was then in the very hey-day of youth, and
.t that happy and unclouded season, who is there that has net felt
how even the most trivial occurrence that diversifies the
monotonous enjoyment of country life, engages the atten-
tion and becomes interwoven with the better and dearer
recollection of that spring of our existence ? If it be thus. with
ordinary events, can we wonder, that when the circumstances that
excite at once our astonishment and delight. take their golden
brightness from the " tempered sunshine of Royal favor," they
should

—" lingering haunt the greenest spot
Of memory's waste?"—

Walpole, whose " Reminiseenses of the reigns of George L and
George II." have made us " better acquainted with the manners
of these Princes and their Courts, than we should be after perusing
hundred heavy historians,—dwells with peculiar gratification,
upon the indulgence of " the first vehement inclination" that ever
he expressed—which was—" to see the King"—and: tells us
that so strong was " his childish caprice" that his mother " soli-
cited the Duchess of Kendal to obtain for him the honour of kiss-
lag his Majesty's hand before he sat out for Hanover." The in-
terview La-described with a minuteness, which indicates not
only the satisfaction it afforded him, but the vivid impression
which it left upon his memory—momentary as that interview
was, and brief and transient the honor he enjoyed.—" Lady
Walsingliam took me alone into the Duchess's ante-room, where
we found alone the King and her. I knelt down, and kissed his
band. He said a few words to me, and my conductress led me
back to my mother." And yet, in his old age, he says " the person
of the King is as perfect in my memory, as if I saw him but yes-
terday." If the presence of Royalty produced such an effect upon
a mind which from early infancy was habituated to courtly usages,
and courtly notions,—it can scarcely be wondered that I, who, in
that respect, at least, stood somewhat in the predicament of the
Shepherd, to whom Touchstone dealt out damnation, because " be
bad never been at court," should experience feelings of blended
enthusiasm and reverence, at the mere anticipation of beholding
with mine own eyes, a Ktxg—the ruler of the mightiest nation on
the earth—the most powerful and the most formidable Sovereign
in the world! Even the certainty that I should see him, divested
of the splendour and magnificence of his Royal State, did but sti-
mulate my curiosity, without mitigating the awfulness of my sen-
sation. Yet here did I behold him—giving joyous indulgence to
that benevolence of his nature which delighteth infinitely more in
promoting the happiness of his people, than in exercising sovereign
authority over them.—Herabledby no gaudy pageantry—no °sten.
tattoos pomp ; attended by no guards—encompassed by no fawn-
ing crowd of courtiers, but for ever accompanied by the beloved
objects of his fond heart's warmest affections—and surrounded by
his faithful and devoted subjects; here did I behold him putting
aside the cumbrous trappings of his state, and the cold, unionist
formality of the court,
" like him, who as fable bath told
Put the rays from his brow that his child might come near."
Firmly—and, I trust, permanently--as the prosperity of Chel.
tenham is established, I am net now to learn that there are some
fastidious persons.—the very hypochondriacs of reputation-4o
jealously tenacious of its fame, that they bold it to be both lin-
politic and injudicious even to allude to the days of its early pride,
when we " bad here our country's honour roofed :" I can neither
affect ignorance of their motives, nor defer to their judgment.—
But to proceed. Early in the summer of 17811, it became evident
that the King required some relaxation from his anxious and un-
remitting attention to public affairs; and Sir George Baker, who
was then Physician to the Househsld, recommended that his Ma-
jesty should visit Cheltenham, u well for the advantage of its
mineral waters, as far the salubrity of its air, and the perfect trap-
quillity which be might enjoy at such a distance from the metro-
polis. It was originally proposed that the Royal Family should
travel backwards and forwards every fortnight between Chelten-
ham and Windsor, daring the remaining part of summer and the
ensuing autumn : and it was in contemplation to hold levees and
drawing rooms alternately at each place of residence : but these
intentions were abandoned almost as soon as discussed, as it was
deemed advisable that his Majesty should be free even from the
observation of any court ceremony whatever, in his retirement. I
shall not attempt to describe the ecstacy—tbe breathless delight
succeeded by the very madness of popular euthudasm,—with
which the glad tidings " were received in the hitherto noiseless and
tranquil village." Neither shall I tell, " with what greedy desire"
the members of our little community " did nayle (as it were) their
eyesights dayly upon hues, weather-cocks, the meek' of chimneys,
and the reeking of cloudes," fervently praying fors fair and settled
state of weather—" a sun bright sky, and a balmy breeze" to har-
binger the Royal visitors; but come at once to the eventful day—
which I might truly usher in, by adopting the opening lines of
Addison's " Cato" :

" The dawn is overcast, the morning low'rs,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day
Big with the fate of"--Owitenham !
Even so, inauspiciondy, and " discomfoetably"--in gloonts and in
showers, did the 13th day of July open to our anxious eyes. But
the ardour of our expectation was proof against the drizzling rain;
and our spiriti were not a whit depressed by the murkiness of the
atmOspherek From the first light of day, every town, every vil-
lage, every hamlet, in this extensive county, sent forth its eager
bands of bumble loyalists to watch the approach of their beloved
monarch and greet him in his progress. Cheltenham—the envied
•or

anti

centre of all attraction, was a scene of restlessness , bustle, and
every avenue to the town was thronged by the peasantry from all
quarters of the shire. At seven o'clock on that morning, the Royal
Family set out from Windsor, and about mid-day arrived at Nuns-
barn, the seat of the Earl of Harcourt, where tlmy partook of re-
freshment, and having rooted for nearly two hour., reissued their
journey. To the good people of Mikados's% every moment seemed
an hoar, and every hour day—till the gradlicetion of Midi proido
est wishes should be complete; every 'chaise descried at a disuses.
was magnified into a coach and four; and once--s woospouio-
woodlog the kW, was orasitwedimo the steweeseh
was agreed that their iiiejeidee were to flake their Wet.
Two—tereeriloor redo& c nd palsidiod.kli.4ol
appointed. but snore maim* than ever. • Five. o'cisch4-esd ow
hearts almost sank within M—and our eyesight wend dim—at a
puns' past a isimeenent of the issemblid hTasiss, en the up-
loads roused (Air tfttoophigupltitii; and' we mormeiii‘earriage ra-
pidly approaching. It was drawn by long-tailed Mick horses,

which were driven with a velocity that convinced us Royalty
could never travel at a rate so little in accordance with our
ordinary notions of personal comfort :—the carriage itself

was covered with mud, and the glasses so bedawbed with rain
and mire that not a lineament of the countenance within,
could be distinguished. There certainly were four footmen
outside, and it was followed by pro other carriages—but it was no
difficult matter to convince those who bad looked for nothing short
of a numerous cavalcade, conducted with all the tedious formality
of a state processon, but neither the King, the Queen, nor the
Princesses, had as yet arrived ; and that in fact the cortege which
passed with such unabated rapidity through the town and up to
Fauconberg House, had only brought in advance some person at-
tached to the court, and the officers of the household. The weather
soon after cleared up—the clouds gradually dispersed, and the
evening became serene and dry.
About half-past sit o'clock a tall, portly man, with florid com-
plexion, and in the prime of life, dressed in a blue coat with scarlet
cape and cuffs slightly decorated with gold lace,—and wearing high
military boots.—was seen descending the steps of Fauconberg
House, followed in his descent by two others, for whom be waited
a moment when he reached the last step ; and then with a quick,
firm pace, resting his hand as he walked, upon a gold-headed cane,
he crossed the meadow sod entered the Mall—as we then termed,
what we now designate the Old Weil Walk :—on be went, con-
g versiog frankly and jocundly with his companions, and occasionally
Igiving way to hearty laughter at some good-humoured remark of
his own, or some witty comment of theirs. He led the way, as
though he had long known every path around, ova the tittle
" drawbridge that connected the well walk with the footway
leading through the church meadow—be passed the church-
yard, and entered the residence of Lord Courtown :—lt was
the King ! such as I then saw him, be was the matured ori-
ginal of the portrait so accurately drmin by Dr. Dissect, when
the young Prince, who " born and bred in this country,
gloried in the name of Briton," ascended the throne upon the
death of hit grandfather :—" a face both elegant and manly,
combining the blooming freshness of youth with firmness and
vigour; a countenance expressing the open frankness, benevolence,
and boldness'of the English character; a stature above the middle
size; a figure uniting strength and comeliness. with unassuming
and liberal manners, co-operated with the general opinion of his
head and heart, and his situation, in rendering him a favourite with
the nadon."—lt was the King !—The disappointment which his
people—the objects of his constant solicitude—had experienced,

was communicated to him, and be instantly resolved to go amongst
them and receive in person their congratulations upon his arrival.
It was an hour of pride and of triumph to all :—the air rang with
the tuntukuous joy of the people—and the King's generous heart
was manifestly affected by the reiterated tributes of their loyalty.
—Every breast throbbed with new gladness—every eye beamed
with pleasure, and every lip proclaimed a blended bleating and a
welcome :

4' A hundred thousand welcomes!—l could weep,
And I could laugh; I am light and lam heavy : welcome!
A curse begin at the very root of his heart
That is not glad to see thee !"
I have said that the evening was fine ; but the day altogether re-
sembled that described by the Water-Poet, Taylor, in " Prince
Charles his welcome"—" the fours elements, Fire, Water, Ayrr,
and Barth, seemed to applaud the celebration of this happy and
welcome day, for the Heavens most aboundantly powred downs a
shower of nine of nine hare's continuance, which the dry and
thirty earth dranke most greedily, or as I may say most lovingly to
the health of so joyful' and auspicious a soleinnitie.—The vast
empty and subtle ayre was filled with shouts and acclamations of the
people, with the rejoyeing noyses of instruments, bela, drums, and
trumpets—and the night's love did, as it were, scorns to be out-
stripped with the day's affection and obedience."—The town was
illuminated—aye, and very brilliantly illuminated ; for we had not
in those days of rustic simplicity attained to such a refinement
upon the Courtier's loyalty, as has in later times distinguished
Cheltenham, when upon the arrival of an August Personage, some
seventeen years since, the preparations for an illumination in ho•
Dour of the event, were abandoned at the suggestion of a worthy
Baronet, who maintained that it would be more complimentary to
send a deputation to His Rnyal Highness, to know whether it was
his pleasure that the inhabitants should pay him such a mark of
dutiful respect? With that gracious condescension which Yeast all
times distinguished the Illustrious Individual, he replied that "he
did not wish to put the good peopl. of Cheltenham to any expense
—as he required no such demonstration of their affection." Alse !
we poor unenlightened, unceremonious, unsophisticated, " clods of
the valley" forty years ago, gave vent to our enthusiasm, without
asking leave, and illumined the town without dreaming of a de-
putation—sod, strange to say, we thought our good Ling not a
jot the less pleased by the spontaneous homage of our duty and
our love.

Cluitegainut, Nov. 7.1829. THE MAN OF LEISURE.

It is gratifying to observe that the expectations we
some time since held forth on tbe reduction of the price of bread,
has been already realized, and the best quartern loaf may now be
had for ninepence.—ChelteskominineeL. -

The upholsterers and others are busily engaged in
fur-
nishing the Marquis of Stafford's new and magnificent mansion In
St. James's Green Park, built for the late Duke of York. Many '
caravan loads of goods lave lately been conveyed thither. The
window-curtains and furniture are of the most costly description.
Many fine pictures and large slaws have already been conveyed
into this mansion.
Sid Is...Ac Comic—An anecdote has been related
to us of the Gallant Admiral, which Illustrates the family affection
for which be is distinguished, and is also a pretty good specimen of
his peculiar humour. During the late war, the worthy Baronet
made a visit to Dartmoor prison, for the purpose of releasing from
captivity all the American prisoners who bore the name of Can,
and might be supposed to be of his family. After a number had
been liberated, a negro presented himself, and claimed his liberty
by the same title. " Ah," said the Admiral, " you a Can too ?"
—" Yes, Massa."—', Hew old are you?"—" Me thirty year,
Massa."—" Well, then, you us not coo of the Coffins, for they
never turn back until they areforty."—Mass. Jour.
FOX-lIUNT/NG AND HOBSE-RAClNG.—Yesterday,
Lord Petre's hounds found a fox at Stock, and, after a two hours
hard run, killed him at Rettendon Common, in fall view, and In
good time for many of the Named. to 'daless the race on Galley-
wood Common, between Mr. Joseph fikbpley's All-bone and Mr.
Kersey's Oallipot. The formes was rode by Norman, and the lat-
ter by Robinson. both Newmarket *ides. The hones ran the
twe-mile course in four minutes and 35 secoads, bat AU-bone wen
the race with apparent ease. The winner, we are informed, was
but a short time since sold; for 71. This bet originated at Cat-
hodal fait, in June last, on which occasion Gallipot beat bee oppo-
nent.—Ears Henlid V Tandy.
Mr. Kemaley, the occupier of Northwood Farm, which
we stated in our last was destroyed by Ste , was apprehended on a
Magistrate's warrant, on the ad inst. on the charge et settles Sre
to his own premises. One of He:W.O workmen, of the corneal
Ireland, says that be went on his master's premises, on the night el
the Sr.,'" to steal some poles;" bearing his master come out of the •
house into the yard. he, Ireland, secreted himself in sense straw for
fear of being detected, when he distinctly saw Kentsley go across
the yard and " set Sr. to the barn ; that be had a candle and lan-
tern in his hand, that the Sr. would not kindle immediately, -sod
that &miry blew it with his mouth. Mr. K. ties been committed,
to Maidstone Gaol for trisL It appears that he bad eery meetly
effected an insurance on the property considerably exceeding the
value ; immediately after the Sr. be went to Lando., and offered •
to compromise with the insurance ace. His conduct altogether
inital suspicion, and
,s4sequent information confirmed it,—
Ewa Rawl& _ _ _

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their Neap,.

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trArsars. short In stature. awl of senor rompisziao, astompostoti
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