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-■ .nd also by the noblemen and geutlemen of the 



l«««ahold in waiting. Dinner was served at seven 

 M ?rk in St. George's Hall. The royal banquet pre- 

 ° id a display of magnificence and splendour equal to 



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THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



sen 



♦hat of the preceding evening. 



P r- n« and the table was ornamented with the splendid 

 P Jrvice o gold plate. In front of the west sideboard was 

 nllced the head and fftont paws of the royal tiger 

 rnuchant, which former^ supported the canopy of the 

 throne of the Sultan of Mysore. The eye*, tusks, and 

 the claw of the figure are of rock crystal ; the rest of 

 the head and paws are covered with plates of pure gold. 

 The state standards of Tippoo Sultan, also captured at the 



storming of Seringapatam, were placed over the tiger's 

 1 ead and on each side were candelabra filled with wax 

 lighti ornamented with oriental figures and emblems. 



Ttie Queen sat on the north)' side of the table in the 

 middle, having His Majesty Louis-Philippe on one side, 

 and the Due de Montpensier on the other. — Yesterday 

 the Queen held a Chapter of the Order of the Garter, at 

 which his Majesty was invested as a Knight of that 

 ancient Order. It is said that the Queen and Prince 

 Albert wiH accompany Louis-Philippe on his return to 

 Portsmouth, and convoy His Majesty in the royal yacht, 

 to within a short distance of the opposite coast. 



The French Squadron. — Independently of the magnifi- 

 cent reception given to the King by the authorities and 

 inhabitants of Portsmouth, great preparations have been 

 made to do honour to the officers of the French squadron. 

 Ou Tuesday Vice -Admiral La Susse and the other 

 officers of the squadron dined at the Commander-in- 

 Chiefs, Admiral Sir C. Rowley, but we regret to hear 

 that the health of the gallant admiral was such as to have 

 prevented his going on board to receive His Majesty, on 

 his arrival, or to do the honours of Lis table at dinner. On 

 Wednesday the French officers were entertained by the 

 general in command of the garrison, Major-Gen. Sir H. 

 Pakenham, and a numerous party was invited to meet 

 them. On Thursday morning a distinguished party went 

 on board the Gomer, at the invitation of Admiral La 

 Susse and Captain Goubens. The party consisted of 

 General and Lady Pakenham, Sir Francis and Lady Sta- 

 pleton, Lady Louisa Noel, and most of the individuals 

 who were present at the dinner of the previous evening. 

 After having been shown over this magnificent vessel by 

 the officers on board, the party was invited to partake of 

 an elegant dejeuner in the Admiral's cabin. The band 

 of the ship played during the time the company remained 

 on board. In the course of the morning the French war 

 steamer Elan came into harbour from Tre'port, which she 

 left on Wednesday evening, with despatches for the 

 King from Her Majesty the Queen of the French. This 

 was the vessel that was despatched by His Majesty im- 

 mediately after his arrival on Tuesday with letters to the 

 Queen. It appears that they were to announce his 

 having reached the shores of England in safety, and the 

 enthusiastic reception he had met with from the British 

 people. The accounts brought by the Elan state that 

 nothing could equal the delight of the Queen upon per- 

 using His Majesty's letters, and that she expressed her 

 gratification in the most unmeasured terms at the flatter- 

 ing manner in which His Majesty had been received. 

 The despatches brought by the Elan were immediately 

 fo "wded to His Majesty at Windsor. In the evening, 

 Admiral Sir C. Rowley gave a splendid banquet at the 

 Admiralty House to the French officers and a distin- 

 guished party ; and after dinner, the Admiral gave a ball, 

 at winch all the principal Authorities of the port and 

 garrison were present. Yesterday the French Officers 

 were to dine with Admiral Superintendent Parker,' and 

 a terwards attend a grand ball and supper given by the 

 English Naval and Military Officers in the Naval College, 

 to which 1300 persons are invited. This evening the 

 ^ajor, Corporation, and inhabitants o'f Portsmouth will 

 enj-ertam the French Admiral and his Officers at a 

 "Plendid banquet, at which 240 persons are expected to 



age. — The Gazette of Friday contained the 



present. 

 The Peer 

 official 



pieased to call Lord Stanley to the House of 

 n;l SUmi »ons, under the title of Baron I 



announcement that Her Majesty has been 



Peers by 



jj: i ^-~—«iio, uuuer luc tme oi joarun Stanley, of 



to rJ T p !t is rumour ed that Her Majesty is about 

 r . a ! se r arI Delawarr to the first rank in the peerage by 

 the r° S m his person the extinct Dukedom of Dorset, 



hurst °ti nteSS beiDg ' with the exce P tion of Countess Am- 

 i the only surviving representative of that Dukedom. 

 Order of &e Garter.- Th 



King's stay in an allied country. What, then, is this great 

 affront which England a^ain destines for us? She sends the 



mier by the recent death of the Duke 



vacancy that has occurred 



e blue riband placed at the 



fP * " — • A*cuiicr uy me 



in the l-° n ° Ccasions the eighth ™ 



the D l8t °^ ^ ai £ hts °f tne Garter since the accession of 

 so lar 6nt ^ Iinistl 7 to office. Few similar instances of 

 the P SG a " amoun t of patronage falling into the hands of 

 of tinT Min «ter of the Crown within s 



time 



so short a period 



Thefi"t ar f t0 bemet with in the annals of the Order, 

 of th/p , ese vacancies occurred in 1841 by the death 

 Ord cr k- of We8tm °reland, then Senior Knight of the 

 the n'lT Was foIlowed in the ensuing year by that of 

 theDnt °l Clevelar *d, the Marquis of Hertford, and of 

 fort tv ; e ° f , Nor folk. In April 1842, the Duke of Beau- 

 burr , i i ° f Bucki "gaam, the Marquis of Salis- 

 Ord-V i- e Duke of Cle *eiand were elected into the 

 and invested at Buckingham Palace. Four vacan- 



manifesting a strange idea of the dignity of one's country. 

 Assuredly, we cannot efface history. We cannot prevent this 



then so weak and so petty that she cannot look those men in 

 the face whom she has met at other times in the battle-field ? 

 When the first lieutenant of the Emperor went to attend the 

 coronation of Queen Victoria, did England look on his presence 

 as an insult? Did she attribute as a crimp to the veteran the 

 wars of the Empire, the reminiscences connected with his 

 name and his reputation ? Has there nothing passed for the 

 last thirty years ? And the great event which restored us to the 

 first rank of free nations, which raised us up again in the eyes 

 of Kuropc— the Revolution of July— is that nothing r England 

 sends her most illustrious citizens to meet the King, and it is 

 an insult forsooth to the Revolution of 1S30 ! We say that it is 

 an honour. It is precisely because England sees represented by 

 the King, or rather sees in the King the country over which he 

 reigns, and the revolution from which he sprung, that the re- 

 ception which she gives to him honours the nation which he 

 represents. The men who arc at this moment about to receive 

 the King of the French, are those who the first recognised and 

 ad ed with enthusiasm the Revolution of July. The 

 Ministers who at present govern England are the very same 

 that held the direction of public affair* in 1830, and who, in the 

 midst of the alarm and doubt of the rest of Europe, hailed 

 without hesitation the triumph of liberal and constitutional 



cue Thistle, by the decease of the Earl of Abergavennv, 



senior Knight of the Order, followed by that of His n . , w „. . . , „ ... „ v . . 



Rnvil Hio-hnPBB *\x* TW-x' r c J j r t? J Duke of Wellington to meet the king. That i» an insult to 



n ?u f 11 ^ 58 the Duke of Sussex and of Earl 1 France-an insult to the Revolution of July. This is, in fact, 



uitncart. I wo of th£ green ribands have been conferred 



on the Marquis of Bute and the Earl of Mansfield, who 



were invested at a chapter of the Order held at Bucking- n f me f / om W xed ? p *!£ eTe f nt8 the ^ Painful, and 

 u a „ p„i ortQ -,040 j t t I,. ^ . c t at -""^'"B , at the Same time the most glorjous of our annals j butis France 



ham Palace in 1843, and the third remaining at the dis- 



posal of the Premier will, it is understood, shortly be 



conferred on the Duke of Montrose. The investiture of 



the King of the French with the insignia of fche Garter 



took place last night at Windsor Castle. The present 



King is the eighth monarch of that country who has re- 

 ceived this distinguished order, it having been held at 



various times by Francis I., Henrv II., Charles IX., 



Henry III., Henry IV., Louis XVl'lI., and Charles X. 



The following reigning Sovereigns and foreign Princes 



are among the existing Knights of the Order : — The 



Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, the King of 



Hanover, the King of the Belgians, the King of Saxony, 



the King of Wurtemburg, the reigning Duke of Saxe Me- 

 iningen, and the Prince of Leiningen. Tiie last investiture 



of a reigning Sovereign at Windsor took place on the 



occasion of the King of Prussia's visit to this country in 



January, 1842, when His Majesty was elected a Knight __ 



Companion, in virtue of his lineal descent from George I. principles in our country. We perceive what are the tactics of 



The Church. — Her Majesty has been pleased to con- 

 fer upon the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, head master of 



Harrow School, ths prebendal stall in Westminster, 

 vacant by the death of Archdeacon Bayley. T w o other 

 prebends in Westminster Abbey are vacant, but, accord- 

 ing to the regulations of the ecclesiastical commission, 

 are not to be filled up. An annual residence of three 

 months being required, Dr. Wordsworth resigns his 

 present post, which therefore becomes vacant at the end 

 of the present year. 



Death of the Marquis of Donegal. — The noble 

 marquis expired on Saturday last, at Ormeau, 

 near Belfast, after a protracted illness. His 

 George Augustus Chichester, Marquis of 

 Viscount of Chichester, Baron Belfast and 

 Fisherwick, in England, lieutenant of the county Donegal, 

 Knight of St. Patrick; &c, was born in 1769, and was 

 consequently in his 76th year. He is succeeded in his 

 title and estates by his eldest son, the Earl of Belfast, 

 lord lieutenant of the county of Antrim. 



The Revenue. — The Revenue returns for the year and 

 quarter ending on the lOch inst. were published yester- 

 day. The total Revenue of the year is 50,741,622/., 

 being an increase on the previous year of 1,395,349/. 

 In the Customs there is an increase of 1,723,165/. ; Ex- 

 cise, 173,898/.; Stamps, 69,129/.; Property Tax, 

 106,413/. ; Post Office, 82,000/. ; Crown Lands, 7500/., 

 to which must be added Repayments of Advances, 

 228,159/.; making a total increase of 2,390,264/. In 

 the Taxes there is a decrease of 2937/. ; Miscellaneous, 

 948,004/., to which must be added, Imprest and other 

 Moneys, 43,974/., making a total decrease of 994,915/., 

 which being deducted from the increase of 2,390,264/., 

 gives as above an increase on the year of 1,305,349/. 

 The total Revenue of the Quarter is 14,372,353/., being 

 an increase on the corresponding quarter of last year, 

 of 520,944/. There is an increase in the Customs of 

 473,347/.; Stamps, 15,322/.; Taxes, 7339/.; Post 

 Office, 40,000/.; Miscellaneous, 203,217/., making a 

 total of 739,225/. There is a decrease in Excise of 

 5660/. : Property Tax, 89,193/. ; Crown Lands, 

 10,000/.; to which must be added Imprest and other 

 Moneys, 6188/.; Repayments of Advances, 107,240/., 

 making a total of 218,281/., which Being deducted from 

 the increase of 739,225/., gives as above, an Increase on 

 the Quarter of 520,944/. 



lordship, 

 Donegal, 

 Viscount 



Jporrip. 



France.— The King's visit to Eng'and appears to be 

 a subject of comment and of attack on the part of the 

 Opposition papers, almost as virulent as the Morocco 

 war, or the dethronement of Queen Pomare. The 

 National cannot see in His Majesty's visit a mere per- 

 sonal compliment from the sovereign of one great nation 

 to the sovereign of another. It declares that the policy 

 of the Ministry was for some time past wholly influenced 

 by the desire of seeing this visit accomplished, and that 

 the brilliant hospitality prepared for Louis-Philippe has 

 been paid for in advance " by those disgraceful conces- 

 sions which have been the policy of M. Guizot for the 

 last four years, and that the King may be well received 

 by the English aristocracy, since he carries in one hand 

 the indemnity to Pritchard, and in the other the treaty 

 of peace with Morocco." Even the official part which jg~ ers were ghot dead. One of the midshipm 



the Opposition journals j it was ca<y to foresee them. They 

 want to separate the King from the nation ; they wish to turn 

 the honours which will be done to him into so many insults to 

 France. The country will not be tljua led astray : it will be 

 proud of the testimonits of respect and admiration of which its 

 august representative will he the object, in the midst of a 

 people so long free; it will take its share of them, and behold 

 in the reception made to the King of 1830, a striking and sym- 

 pathetic homage rendered to its revolution." 



At a council of -Ministers, at which the King presided 

 on the Wednesday preceding his departure, an ordinance 

 was passed conferring upon the Due de Nemours all the 

 powers of royalty during His Majesty's absence, and 

 appointing him Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom. 

 These functions are not to be exercised but in a case of 

 extreme necessity,which it is to be hoped will not occur, and 

 the act is a mere measure of precaution. The Opposition 

 papers already attack this delegation of the Royal autho- 

 rity, even temporarily, to the Due de Nemours, and 

 declare that the object of the Ministry is to augment the 

 claims of the future regent to a dotation. The creation 

 of Peers, which has been expected for some time, has 

 been postponed 1 11 after the King's return from Windsor. 

 The last time Louis-Philippe visited England was in 

 1815, during the hundred days. When Louis XV1JI. 

 went to Ghent, the Due d' Orleans took refuge in Eng- 

 land, where he remained until the Battle of Waterloo 

 enabled him once more to return to the Palais Royal. 

 Louis-Philippe entered the 71st year of his age on Satur- 

 day, having been born on the 6th October, 1773. By a 

 Royal ordinance, dated at the Chateau d'Eu, the 4th 

 October, the King has been pleased to pardon all political 

 prisoners whose sentences were pronounced previous to 

 the year 1844, and the term of whose punishment would 

 expire before the 1st January, 1847 ; and also to twelve 

 political prisoners condemned to 6, 10, 15, and 20 years' 

 imprisonment or deportation. The Journal des Debats, 

 in announcing this act of clemency, says it was adopted 

 by His Majesty in commemoration of the recent events 

 in Morocco. M. Dupotet, the editor of the Journal des 

 Pe'ivle, is among the number of those who will thus 

 recover their liberty. M. Dupotet was condemned in 

 the montfj of December, 1841, by the Court of Peers, to 

 imprisonment for five years for the crime of u moral 

 complicity " in the affair of Quenisset, who, it may be 

 recollected, rifted a pistol at the late Due d'Orleans. The 

 amnesty to the political convicts is generally received as 

 a boon, but it is generally regretted that it does not go 

 further. It, however, gives liberty to nearly GO prisoners. 

 —The Journal des Debats publishes a letter from Valpa- 

 raiso, dajed the 1st June last, containing, it was believed, 

 the official account of an engagement between the French 

 and Tahitians on the 18th April. "The Tahitians," it says, 

 <> assembled at a distance of 12 miles from the town occu- 

 pied by our troops, and threw up intrenchments, defended 

 by 7 guns, and by the bravest part of the population. 

 500Frenchnoen landed oppositethe works,which withstood 

 during three hours the most obstinate assault. At last 

 the marines, exasperated by the fall of 50 of the^r num- 

 ber, of two officers killed, and two midshipmen left for 

 dead on the field, made a desperate charge * 

 bayonet and carried the redoubts. The dead b 

 170 Tahitians and two English deserters, who ha 

 them, were found in the works. The natives 1 



of 



persed, and were greatly discouraged by so coa 

 defeat. We lost 52 wounded, and 2o killed. 1 





U,Uia \V* l i v.ic«»,cu uy tue urease ui mo i»iai- 



dale n i ?! y A the Duke of Dorset > ^ Earl of Lon8 ' 

 will it ?. , ke of Grafton. Three of these riband* 

 tenant ? n T de ™ tood be conferred on the late Lord-Lieu- 

 com an i p « d ' Earl de Gre 7> the Marquis of Aber- 

 dioposal fll Talbot - The fourth still remains at the 

 ^me thrpA Pren »«r. Within the same period of 



r «e vacancies have been created in the Order of 



falls to the lot of the Duke of Wellington to perform, as 

 Warden of the Cinque Ports, in the reception of His 

 Majesty, is looked upon as an insult to the whole French 

 nation, which can never hear the name of Wellington 

 without bitter recollections. The announcement, too, 

 that the brevet in the army is to be postponed in honour 

 of Louis-Philippe is looked upon as a still farther insult, 

 because some of the officers to be prom ted might have 



The Debats, however, re- 



wounded in the arm, and the other had his thigh \ 



and received two bullets through the arm and bi 



Other account? received direct from Tahiti state tl 



the 4th April, another affair occurred which aright 



led to a ruptuie with this country. Lieut. Rose 



H.M.S. Hazard, was intercepted on his return fro 



shore to his own ship, after landing despatches, and 



pelled by force to go on board the French frigate 



lying in the harbour. Having but four men in bis 



' hirr 



idert 



of 



been present at Waterloo. .. mf D 



plying to the articles of the Opposition on the visit ot beside the ags i s tant-surgeon of the Hazard and 



the King to England, has the following gratifying without any arms but his own swon ], he consi 

 article:— _ , „ I would be impossible to resist effectually such oppo 

 « England is preparing: to give the King of the [rencU J re protesting against this insult to an 



Stl^n^^ Cer 0f the Britis *> na ^ i» «»*"»' with the British p 



sent.mcntsof Us ^^S^vre^^.^ w „ hould danfc fl . the boat % mast head, he ordered the penn 



~ -'"— — to be hauled down, and then surrendered his sword 



{, 



would be feen testimonies of goodwill »" d r »?" "^^ 

 It appears that wc were very credulous, and that England w 



very perfidious. We should have thought that It wa .tended 

 to do honour to our country, but ^appears the o»jcc .son y to 

 tmZM if ir u PrinrP that has heeu sacrifice.! for the King s 

 journey; i^ is again Vrance'fhat win be insulted during the . 



the French officer, and was immediately conveyed on 

 board a French frigate, where he was detained as a pri- 

 soner for three hours, and then Iterated, the French 

 Admiral afterwards sending an apology to Commander 



