The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-15 00:00:00

THE STATE4I44I4I

COURT Or COMMON COUNClL.—igaza Dar.)

A Court Was held this day for the purpose of con-
sidering the propriety of presenting an Address of
Congratulation to his Majesty, upon his safe arrival in
these realms after his Majesty's visit to the continent.
The LORD MAYOR addressed the Court upon his
first presiding over it, and read the requisition.
Mr. OLDHAM moved a resolution fur the appoint-
ment of a Committee, to draw up an Address to his
31asjcstv.

ilr.i.ix-Sheriff WI Lttams seconded the motion.
Mr. FA veci, and Mr. Davies expressed their con-
currence in the object of the resolution.
Mr. PATTEN th.illgilt the Court would best consult
its character and dignity, by first presenting to his
~lajesty an Address of Condolence, upon the demise
of the late Qtieen.—(Disapprobation in the Court.)
The resolution was put and carried unanimously,
and the Committee then being appointed, retired to
prepare the address.
--(The Court left sitting.)
Among the several other subjects to be brought
before the Court are the following :—To receive
Reports from the Committee for General Purposes, in
relation to the Furniture, &c. at the Mansion-house, and
in relation to the Cuert of Requests—To receive Reports
from the Committee of City Lands, on the reference re.
specting the offer of sale of the Freehold Property by the
College of Physicians; on the reference respecting the
Rate as ses,ed on Serjeants' Inn—To consider the Ad-
journedßeport of the Committee of City Lands, in relation
to the Clerks of the Coal- meters in trust--To consider the
Adjourned Report, in relation to the disposal of the va-
cant situation in the Lord Mayor's Household—To con-
sider a motion, that the election of Deputy Sea-coal-
meter be in future in the Court of Common Council, in-
stead of the Committee of Controul over the Coal and
Corn-meters —•1'o consider the propriety of rescinding
so much of the Resolution of the Court of Common
Council of the• 12th of April last, which directs the sum
of 1,500/. to be deducted from the allowance to all Nisei.
Lord Mayors, in consequence of the abolition of the
Sword Bearer's Table.

TM? KING'S COURT.

1111L7 NEWSMAN.]
Yesterday, at three ,o'clock, his Majesty held a
bonrt at his Palace in Pall-Mall, which was atten:ed
by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the
Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the first Lord of the
Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secre-
taries of State fur the Home, Foreign, and Colonial
Departments, the first Lord of the Admiralty, the
Master-General of the Ordnance, the President of the
Board of Trade, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chief
Justice of the Court of King's blench, the late Gover-
nor of Saint Helena, the late Cowmander•in-Chief of
Madras, the Russian Charsre d'Affaires, the Master of
the Ceremonies, &c.

Sir Milton Lowe was presented to his Majesty upon
his return from the Government of St. Helena.

Sir 'Thomas Hislop, Commander-in-Chief at Ma-
dras, was presented upon his return to England.
Baron Nicolay, the Russian Charge d'Aff tires, was
introduced to his Majesty by the Marquess of London-
derry, as principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, as
Master of the Ceremonies, when the Baron had the
honour of an audience with his Majesty, to take leave
previous to his leaving England.
His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which the
meeting of Parliament was further prorogued fr.on
the 29th instant, to, we understood, the Id day of
January next, 1822. A Proclamation was agreed up-
on to be issued for the circulation of a mew coinage of
farthings. Several new Official Seals were agreed
upon.
His Majesty gave audiences to the Earl of lisrrow-
by, the Marquess of Londonderry, the Earl of Liver-
pool, the Earl of Cathcart, and the Lord Chancellor.
The Recorder of London eras present, but did not
make a Report.—The Court broke up soon after six
o'clock.

This day his Majesty will hold :motile.. Council at
Carlton Palace. The Cabinet Ministers are all sum-
moned to attend at two o'clock.
Yesterday the Count Munster dined with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer.
Lord Owydir arrived in town from France on Tues-
day.
The Right Hon. George Canning arrived in town on
Wednesday from a visit to the Doke of Portland, at
his seat, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire.
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Yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a
Cabinet dinner at his house in Downing-street, at
which were present the Marquess of Londonderry, the
Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Liverpool, Earl Bathurst,
the Duke of Wellington, Viscount Sidmouth, Viscount
Melville. Lord Maryborough, Earl Harrowby, and the
Hon. F. Robinson.
Lt tiers have been received from Leghorn, Genoa, and
Naples. They state that the public authorities of each of
those places had adopted additional preautions to pre-
vent the introduction of the fever so previlesit ih'Spaitt
the communication, therefore, between Italy and that
country may be considered as completely cut off, at
least for some time longer. The trade with Turkey
had somewhat increased, under the supposition that
Russia would not go to war with the Porte ; but at
Naples, on the 20th ult. reports had been received from
the Nlorea, that the Russian force on the banks of the
Pruth had been considerably augmented.
The Morning paper from which we copied the account
of his Majesty's reception in Belgium, appears anxious
to correct the impression produced by it on the public
mind. It now states from authority, that the apparent.
neglect with which his Majesty was treated, on his.
return through the Netherlands, originated solely in'
his own express desire to dispense with the honours
due to his exalted station, wishing to travel as aprivate
individual; and adds that the King of the Nether-
lauds and his son, the Crown Prince, were most anxious
that his Majesty should be attended with all the at-
tributes of regal pomp; and that though they might not
have been able to influence the feelings of a disaffected
population, England ought, in justice to give them
credit for their own.
Upon the arrival of his Excellency the Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, at the Donegal Arms, Belfast, on
Thursday, Mr. Verner waited upon him, to express the
anxiety the principal inhabitants had of entertaining
his Excellency at dinner. His Excellency declined
accepting of the kind invitation ; but expressed his
detertnination to accept of it daring the summer.--
We understand the Sovereign had previously invited
his Excellency to his house, which he could not ac-
cept, from the limited time he could be absent from
Dublin.
It is rather a novel circumstance, that a promised
diminution of taxes, in a Speech from the Throne,
should excite alarm—unless among the Court pen-
sioners. Yet so it is io France. The King's expressed
intention to reduce the land tax, has excited the fears I
of many within and without the Chamber. The ex-1
planation of this enigma is, that the qualification for
exercising the elective franchise, and being returned
to serve as Deputy, depends upon the individuals be-1
ing assessed up to a specified attionnt, and the French,
it appears have public spirit enough to prefer the exer-
cise of political privileges to a reduction of their con-
tributions.
On stating some time ago the two memorable mili-
tary exhibitions that had taken place near the Adam
and Eve, Tottenbans-court road, we !referred to the con-
versation that occurred on Hogarth's dedication of his
print of one of them (the " March to Finchley") to
George 11. The following is said by Ireland, in his
Hogarth illustrated, to have been the dialogue which
ensued on this occasion, between the Sovereign and the
Nobleman in Waiting:—
Pray, who is this Hogarth ?
A painter, my Liege.
I hate baiesting and boelry too ; neither the one nor
the other ever did any good!
The picture, please your Majesty, must undonbteki be
considered as a burlesque.
What ! a Mister burlesque a soldier ? He deserves
to be picketed for his insolence ! Take his trunspery oat
of as, eight.
The Patriot of last Saturday night erroneously mea-
dows, that 4' Lord Viscount Tyrawley was yesterday
elected a Representative Peer of Ireland, in the room of
the Earl of Roden, now a Peer of °rest Britain." The
Earl of Wicklow was the Nobleman who was chests.
--(Dablia Moraliser Port)