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jQueen is in her 39th year. The 

 Prince Royal, James Victor Henry, 

 entered his teens on the 3d March. 

 He has two sisters. Princesses. 

 There are five P)inces of tlie 

 Blood. The ministers and grand 

 officers of the crowu amount to 

 20. In the peerage are 8 dukes, 

 19 counts, 34 barons, and 9 

 knights. The King's household 

 consists of about 140 chamber- 

 lains, pages, professors, almoners, 

 secretaries, &c. The Queen has 

 14 ladies of the bedchamber, be- 

 sides her male attendants. There 

 are six regiments of guards. The 

 order of Henry boasts upwards of 

 130 members. In the army we 

 find sixmarshals, nine lieutenants- 

 general, and 21 generals : of ar- 

 tillery, 2 regiments ; of engineers, 

 1 corps ; of infantry, 24 regi- 

 ments filled up, and 8 others 

 named ; of cavalry, 2 regiments ; 

 of naval officers, including the 

 grand admiral, 29, besides cadets. 

 Long lists are also given of the 

 Fiscal and Judicial Departments. 

 The jQueeu holds her Court on 

 Thursdays at five o'clock. The 

 King receives petitions at ten 

 o'clock on the court-daj's, and 

 returns an answer on the Thursday 

 following. Such is the progress 

 of this interesting settlement. 

 The Code Henry, which has been 

 published, is a thick volume. The 

 laws are of course on the French 

 model. 



11. Saxonij. — For these five 

 weeks past the Elster and the 

 Pleisse have overflowed their 

 hanks near Leipsic, and have 

 (lone immense damage to the 

 fields and meadows. In many 

 •places the extent of the land 

 inundated is three quarters of a 

 league broad. A large number 



of sea-mews, and other water- 

 fowl, have made their appearance : 

 hares and deei- were seen swim- 

 ming on the fiood. The Elbe, the 

 Mulda, and the Saale, have also 

 done much damage in Saxony. 



12. At the Royal Portuguese 

 Chapel, South-street, Grosvenor- 

 square, was a solemn dirge for 

 her most faithful Majesty the late 

 (^ueen of Portugal. The sanc- 

 tuary and walls of the chapel were 

 hung with black cloth, and deco- 

 rated in the following manner : 

 — Over the altar and sanctuary 

 were large festoons of drapery ; 

 on each side of the altar were 

 affixed two large oval pieces of 

 heraldry, with the arms of Por- 

 tugal ; in the centre of the chapel 

 was erected a large caterfalk ; 

 on the same was placed a repre- 

 sentation, covered with a rich 

 velvet pall, with four majesty 

 escutcheons, with the arms and 

 supporters ; on the top was the 

 crown, cushion, and veil ; on the 

 steps were placed eighteen large 

 candlesticks, with wax candles, 

 and ten plumes of ostrich fea- 

 thers. From the centre of the 

 chapel ceiling was suspended a 

 large circular dome, with drapery, 

 plumes of feathers, coronets, and 

 ciphers. The pulpit was covered 

 with black cloth, and on the same 

 was affixed a majesty escutcheon. • 

 The tribune was himg with black 

 cloth, and in the same was affixed 

 a majesty escutcheon, coronets, 

 ciphers, and plated reflectors for 

 wax lights. All the seats and 

 railing in the bottom of the cha- 

 pel and the jjillars supporting the 

 galleries were cohered with hlack 

 cloth, and a continued festoon of 

 drapery roiuid the same ; on the 

 pillars were affixed coi'onets, ci- 

 phers. 



