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ID the advice contained in the late moved an anaendment, thanking 



communication from the earl of his lordship for ail his exertions, 



Donoughmr'i-e, recommpiding no but dissenting from his advice, 



further agitation of the Catholic This amendment was lost upon a 



claims in parliament, during the division, and the original motion 



present session. Mr. O'Connell was carried. 



JULY. 



1. Comparative statement of the quantity of porter brewed by the 

 twelve principal brewers, showing the decrease on this year's brew^ 

 ing. 



1812. 1813. Decrease. 



Barrels. Barrels. Barrels. 



Barclay 270,259 257,265 12,994. 



Meux 189,993 165,153 24,839 



Hanbury 150,162 140,114- 10,04.8 



Whitbread and Martineau 146,594 135,892 10,702 



Calvert 108.212 100,093 8,119 



Coombe 100,824 97,035 3,789 



H. Meux 102,493 82,012 20,481 



Goodwyn 81,022 71,467 9,555 



Elliott 58,034 49,269 8,765 



Cocks 51,279 45,500 5,779 



Taylor 50,210 41,850 8,360 



Clowes 34,010 29,844 4,166 



Last night the Prince Regent passage or promenade, and theu' 



gave a ball and supper to a nume- entrances were hung with curtains, 



roue and eplendid party. By the festooned with artificial flowers. 



heavy and incessant rain which The tents were eighteen in all, and 



fell during the day, considerable supper was to be laid in each of 



damage was done to the tents them for twenty-eight persons. At 



erected on the lawn at Carlton- the extremity of the promenade 



house, and it was feared they could was the Prince Regent's tent, 



not be used ; however, the prepara- which was lined with light 



lions went on. The entrance to printed cotton, and the centre 



these temporary erections was pole ornamented with artificial 



from the supper-rooms, along a flowers. 



temporary passage about 60 yards About nine o'clock, the queen 

 in length, boarded, and covered in and the princesses proceeded in 

 with canvass, lined with green their chairs from the queen's 

 glazed cotton, decorated with arti- palace to Carlton-house. The 

 ficial flowers, and the whole company began to arrive after this 

 illuminated by chandeliers at in great numbers, 

 proper intervals. The tents were 1. Robert Fountain, a gar- 

 arranged on each side of this dener, at Waltham, Lincoln- 



