Oct. 26,1 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



TaT^kt^thi^tTm^wrl P l FtJ ? Sh0 ^ ™ e ro r al I marked emphasis, Vhe~ descended under the^idancTof 

 rW \n VT anchored opposite Ryde pier, Mr. Aylen, the master, followed by Prince Albert and 



l\ZL\V^ %"' ^«J& £P*W?«" the ro/al suite in attendance. The^^dedl^ tlbb 



[1811. 



steamers, which also lay at anchor there, and which im- 

 mediately manned her yards, the crew giving nine hearty 

 cheers for Her Majesty, but there was no firing of guns. 

 The cheering from the shore was also very great, but 

 the yacht was too far distant to render it audible to the 

 royal ear. On Her Majesty going on board the Dwarf 

 the royal standard was transferred to that vessel from 

 the royal yacht, and the Dwarf then stood towards the 

 shore in the direction of the pier, having the royal 

 barge in tow. In a few minutes, however, the little 

 steamer altered her course, and the royal barge having 

 been taken alongside, was seen, to the great disappoint- 

 ment of those who crowded the beach, pushing towards 

 them with only one gentleman in the stern, who was 



conveying a note to Lady Harcourt, whose carriage was 

 m waning, apprising her of Her Majesty's intention not 

 to land, as originally contemplated. The barge having 

 returned, the royal squadron proceeded on their return 

 towards Cowes, Her Majesty remaining on board 

 the Dwarf steamer, which drawing less water than the 

 royal yacht, kept closer in shore, and enabled Her 

 Majesty to view the varied and beautiful tcenery of this 

 interesting part of the coast. Her Majesty reached 

 Meads-hole, the usual place of embarkation, at 

 sunset, and then proceeded in a carriage to Osborne 

 House. On Sunday morning the Queen, Prince 

 Albert, and the Royal Household, attended Divine 

 service in one of the apartments of Osborne House. 



Archdeacon Wilberforce officiated, having travelled all 

 night, in order to comply with the commands of Her 



■ u u C a win pclits and boats, and Her Majes 

 iooc ly cheered in her progress towards SnitheaJ. 

 mode of saluting by the ships at Spithead was dif 



, «• , ««*»'5 nicu accustomeu early walk, 



about 9 in the morning, which they had extended up- 

 wards of a mile beyond the boundaries of the roval 

 donvnn, they were caught in a heavy shower of rain, "at 

 a she.terlos part of the hill, commanding a view of the 

 sea. Her Majesty and the Prince hastened their steps 

 homeward , when Scudamore, the old postman of East 

 Cowes and \\ ipp.ngl.am, who has for many years been 

 so employed, and who had just been performing his 

 rounds in the adjoining villages, observed that a ladv 

 and gentleman were disagreeablj exposed to the storm', 

 I running after them as fast as he could, he tendered 

 his o.d gingham umbrella, which was graciously accepted, 

 and he was inti ted to follow their footsteps to Osborne 



iZ o iu ' J , th c poor P° stman Ntgini at the 



t.me that it was to his Sovereign he had thus the honour 



ofaiT.'raing.ueh seasonable shelter; but on his arrival 



at the portico he was agreeably awakened to the fact by 



aving tendered to him Her Majesty.', thanks, and a 



5/ note, together with his old umbrella. On Monday, 



»t_ p.m., Her Majesty and the Prince embarked at 



C owe, on their return to Windsor. The harbour was 



^tt^lJ^^ *** and Her Majesty was 



The 



f. nm fU A . j" * j u i" vuco " wa« different 



fn the usual manner. As soon as the roval yacht 

 bote Jo sight, the St. Vincent, 120, fired a salvo of eig 

 guns from her starboard side, and then another f:om her 

 larboard side ; the Caledonia, 120, nest fired in a sim iar 



S &5!fiS to the Queen ' Uflt The Fireb - nd 



nerim^n ^1 , ^ *" ^ fiUM « ™ d after her aI1 the ex- 

 penmenrai brigt, one after the other, fired both their 



broadsides at once This was repeated several time 



of the royal yacht arriving at the Motherbank until she 

 passed through S,,ithe.d and neared the entrance of he 

 harbou r , when the Platform Battery commenced saluting 



ton t^ ^ PaS S d M x Ch Ship ln ■■*«**; the m!a 

 upon the yards gave Her Majesty three cheers Unon 



entering the harbour the Victory and Excel JintwUh 

 thex yards manned, also fired salvJs in the same manner 

 as the ships at Spithead. When Her Majesty upon the 

 royal y,ch entering the harbour, saw the gaEs of 

 flowers at he trucks cf the Victorv, and the breath o 

 herds on her figure-head, she inquired whether it Us 



£?£ tS e 8hip in i hat ***** oa w* Mis 



£?nVrt y W3S S ° ^ eCOrated ' in consequence of its 



being the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, Her 



™Zl? "P rc " e f her iutenti °» of going on board. The 

 royal barge, which was waiting to convey Her Majesty 



iL V T' ^"^'"'diately ordered alongside/ and 

 Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by Lady 

 Gainsborough and Lord Liverpool, were rowed on board 



deck rr - y,S ?i lniniediatelyproceeded t0 the q««ter- 

 dea h wnun! tl ^ S1,0t ° n wMch NeIson received his 

 whienl -JaV^ is Marked h y a bra *s plate, on 



wa t rro S ed l i e WOrds ^ Here Nelson fell," which 



" C I il a i e i ty . was rec ««d by a company of Marines, 



moment was in great confusion, having a few minutes 

 previously discharged a salvo in honour of Her Majesty's 

 arrival in the harbour, and whilst descending, the ladder 

 was run against by a powder-monkey, who was bringing 

 up a fresh supply to salute Her Majesty on her depar- 

 ture. Her Majesty was almost overthrown by the 

 concussion, but bore it with the greatest affability. 

 On entering the cockpit, Her Majesty had no dif- 

 ficulty whatever in descrying the identical spot 

 where Nelson breathed his last ; it is pointed out by the 

 figure of a funeral urn emblazoned on one of the knees 

 of the ship, surmounted by the words, " Here Nelson 

 died." The Queen and Prince stopped here for several 

 minutes, and appeared to feel the influence of the recol- 

 lections which the scene awakened. Her Majesty 

 inspected various parts of the vessel, observing to one of 

 the officers that the orlop deck was not so high in the 

 Victory as in other men-of-war which she had visited. 

 On leaving the vessel, Her Majesty requested that there 

 might be no firing, and having been handed down into 

 the royal barge, took her departure, greeted with three 

 tremendous cheers from the sailors with whom the yards 

 were manned. During Her Majesty's stay on board, 

 which occupied upwards of 20 minutes, the shores were 

 lined with crowds of people, who evinced the liveliest 

 feelings of gratification at Her Majesty's visit to the 

 Victory ; the more so as it became speedily known that 

 it was altogether dictated by Her Majesty's spontaneous 

 feelfegs. It is needless to say, that the disappointment 

 of those who waited Her Majesty's arrival at the Clarence 

 yard was proportionately great at not being witnesses of 

 the interesting proceedings on board the Victory. Her 

 Majesty on landing was received by the Lords of the 

 Admiralty, and the officers of the port and garrison, and 

 immediately proceeded by a special train to the Farn- 

 borou^h station of the South Western Railway, and 

 reached Windsor Castle soon after 7 o'clock in excellent 

 health and spirits. 



The Court — The Queen and Prince Albert since 

 their return to \J indsor have enjoyed their usual daily 

 walks in the pleasure-grounds of the Castle, and in the 

 afternoon have either promenaded in the Home Park, 

 or taken airings in an open carriage. During the last 

 few weeks most extensive preparations have been making 

 at Burghley House, the mansion of the Marquis of 

 Exeter, for the reception of Her Majesty, who has sig- 

 nified her intention to visit his lordship in the early part 

 of the ensuing month. The visitors at the Castle this 

 week have been the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Hard- 

 wicke, Sir Henry Pottinger, Sir Henry Wheatley, and 

 the Larl and Countess of Westmoreland. Lady Port- 

 man has succeeded the Countess of Gainsborough as the 

 Lady in waiting, and the Hon. Capt. Duncombe has 

 succeeded Sir F. Stovin as the Groom in waring. 



The Pierage.— It j s we ll known that Lord Francis 

 Lgerton, second son of the late Duke of Sutherland, 

 succeeded to the princely possessions of the Duke of 

 Bridgewater. It is said to be in contemplation imme- 

 diately to ca 1 his lordship to the House of Peers by the 

 style and title of the Duke of Bridgewater. 



Winter Assizes.— It is now definitively fixed that a 

 winter gaol delivery shall take place ; but it is believed 



ha. the subsidiary arrangements will not be made till 

 the beginning of term. 



84; and Thetis, 36. Pembroke!— Aleiem^n = 

 thusa, 50 ; Atalanta, 16 ; Britomart 10 * Br™ ' L^* 

 Camilla, 18; Colossus 80 ; Conflict steam f^' 8 ° ; 

 Constance, 50; Desperate stel^^tT'' 



exible. «tP fl m..u M . £:„ ' . Dra gon, 





110. Portsmouth, 

 steam-frigate ; Marlboro 

 Princess Royal, 90 



reign, 110; Scourge, , steam-rioopTVnd Shannon "iS 

 Sheerncss.-Alarm, 26 ; Dart, 3 ; and Fur y steam «i«« 

 Woolwich—Agamemnon, 80 ; Amphion 36 • r^ ? P> 



steam-frigate ; Hannibal/oO ;' Hound t jti^ "?£?- 

 fricrflfp. r\A\ n ^« *•-:_..- . v. , '.: ' i " 1 fe er » steam- 



frigate 



ate; Odin, steam-frigate ; Royal Albert, 120 ' Samn* 

 son, steam-frigate ; Sphynx, steam-sloop ; 'and TerS' 

 steam-frigate. Miscellaneous : Black wall i -- H« 

 Myrmidon Torch ,and Trident, steam-vessels.' Bombav' 

 -Goshawk, 12 ; Madras, 80 ; Malacca, 26 ; and Zebra' 

 16. Glasgow— Bloodhound, Jackall, and Lizard steam 

 vessels. Liverpool.— Vulcan, steam-frigate. Ponlar 

 Grapple, steamer, and Recruit, brig-of-war." The nu'm 

 ber of ships of war composing the British navy, either 



" 8 Jcurea or entitled to 



half-pay, 35 chaplains, 46 naval instructors— 4 of them 

 chaplains, 284 mates, 8 medical inspectors, 10 denutv 

 medical inspectors, 383 surgeons for service, 270 assistant 

 surgeons for service, 1 retired medical inspector, 4 phv- 

 sicians, 5 retired deputy medical inspectors, 58 retired 

 eons, 1 deputy medical inspector— unfit for service 

 surgeons— unfit for sea-service, 48 assistant-surgeons 

 —unfit for sea-service, 5 dispensers of hospitals, 30 re- 

 tired paymasters and pursers, 470 paymasters and pursers 

 on the active list. 



surgeons, 

 200 



ships, who were assembled ,Uh the other 2v , R ° yal D ° C ^ a 

 the dockyard to receive the Queen lf cr m • f eS i f State ' and wiU 

 reading the inscription to the u^£Jxffl> m }% ™"\*l°* ™ 



tears, and remained silent for several rno m ,"' f^e ' 



tben addressed a few words to Prince Albert, and "pluck 

 ing a couple of leaves from the wreath of laurd ex 

 pressed her desire to see the cabin in which Nelson died 

 Lights were immediately ordered in the cockpit, and 

 Her Majesty having inspected the poop of the Victorv 

 and read the celebrated inscription in front ~ 

 expects every man to do his duty '' 



Po 5 ^c*.~Tuesday's Gazette contains a Treasury 



^, Dt 't te ^ 18th h,St " directing that, on and 

 after the 5 h of next month, British and Colonial news- 

 papers « ill be taken in packet-boat to Venezuela, in 



th^iT 1C "i ?,° f P ° Stage; but if ^ private ship, 

 they will be subjected to a charge of Id. each. A simi- 

 lar permission is granted to Venezuelan newspapers 

 brought to England or the British Colonies. P P 



i A* A«oy.--The following is a list of ships brought 



forward by the Admiralty, and technically called 



Si' . Thoee parked with a * areVdered 



«L. i a ec l m P ment > the others are to be ad- 



TZ\ V ary r M r S9ibIe - De P° ts are being formed 

 those K7 ^/qdpnjent of merchant sfeamer ; 



on Leith 7 n le i Ct l d ar " Chester Castle > Southamp: 



.rout [I lto£T bart ,° n i CMt ! e ' and G, "S°"- *W 

 rnoutnistobe a central station for general equipment 



?o be A tl a a y Xf U " dCrtake thefi tm g ent ? , and" th'ey are 



arronadeT Tr* %-*°™*« ^ uns ' ™d 32-ponnder 

 carronades . — CAa/Aaw. -Trafalgar, 120; Waterloo 



perb*, GO; Vanguard*, 

 8 ; Implacable, 72 ; En- 

 e follov?ing is the official 



JFowfgn. 



France.— -King Louis-Philippe is now once more 

 among his own subjects, but the last acts of his visit to 

 England are still the subject of lengthened discussion 

 m the Pans papers. It is amusing to observe the pains 

 taken by the Ministerial journals to discover in the un- 

 wonted exertions of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and 

 Common Council of the city of London, in going to 

 Windsor to present an address to the King of the French, 

 an event of great political importance. Their departure 

 from previous practice in proceeding to Windsor with 

 the city address is particularly urged by the Ministerial 

 papers as a proof of the real good feeling entertained for 

 France by the English people, and they dwell with equal 

 earnestness on the reception Her Majesty met with when 

 she honoured the Gomer steamer with her presence : — 



"The King-," says the Debuts, " before quitting; the country 

 in which he has been received with such magnificent hospita- 

 lity, wished to take leave of the Queen of Great Britain on board 

 a French ship, that is to say, on French territory. Circum- 

 stances independent of all human will would not permit the 

 Sovereign of France to receive under his national colours the 

 young- and amiable Queen who had given him so many testi- 

 monies of friendship. Thn disappointment, unfortunate as it 

 may appear to be at the time, leaves us now without any regret, 

 since it afforded occasion for a manifestation which the Sore- 

 reign and people of Great Britain cannot fail to appreciate with 

 adequate feeling. The King, we are sure, will himself feel his 

 regrets softened on learning the earnestness with which the 

 navj of France became the interpreter of his sentiments. Queen 

 Victoria has kindly gone to receive on board our squadron the 

 thanks which France owed, and was so happy to pay to her, for 

 her most admirable reception of her royal representative. 

 Those noble testimonies of sympathy and admiration which the 

 free citizens of England had spontaneously evinced to King 

 Louis-Philippe, Queen Victoria found reciprocated on board our 

 ships, and by our sailors. Certainly in all time* the Sovereign 

 of Great Britain is entitled to be received under the French flag 

 with all the honours due to her person and to her rank. Bat 

 the welcome given to her on this occasion was more than a 

 natural act of courtesy, it was one of sincere and profound ac- 

 knowledgment. We are happy at seeing the French navy make 

 itself, in a manner so striking and so honourable, the organ of 

 the whole nation. The acclamations of ' Vine la Heine d Angle- 

 ferret* repeated with enthusiasm by all the crews of the ships 

 of the squadron, was no 'more than a faithful expression of thc 

 Rrntimentanf their count r v. and we congratulate ourselves I hat 



be launched in the en 



suing soring, as a 



men are busily at work in the various arsena's 

 I ™? 1 *™? ^ CD l "J? a A l ?P*K«°n :-" At Chatham 



tertainment given at i'oitsmoutn oy uie omcers ui «» 

 English navy and army to the officers of the French 



squadron. It says — 



'« We have no need to say that wc set a high value on the 

 magnificent reception given to the King of thc French by the 

 Sovereign of Great Britain and her Court ; but we will add ^ that 

 we are not the less sensible and proud of what we may call the 

 popular welcome received by our officers in the first military 

 port of our great ally. We see in these spontaneous demonstra- 

 tions, free as they are from all official character, the genuine 

 expression of the sentiments of the two people. On seeing the 

 e'lite of the French and English officers fraternising in a 

 manner so noble and so cordial, we cannot help saying to our- 

 selves that it is impos-ible that this good harmony can be dis- 

 turbed by any fortuitous incidents arising in other parts of the 

 elobe. The eccentricities of a sectarian, the intemperance of a 





)ssi*>le that with such extensive and complicated interests 

 embraced within the policy of France and England that 

 s points of rivalry and opposition should not present 

 themselves; but it is for the immense advantage of maintaining' 

 peace that both parties are disposed to come to an amicable 

 settlement of these inevitable diffi ics. Thc general policy 

 of two great countries can never be at the mercy of such isolated 

 misunderstandings, arising at distances beyond all control or 

 restraint, and these passing dissensions can never be made 

 causes of rapture when no others of a more profound or serious 

 nature exist. No one can dDubt that the officers of the two 

 nations who have fraternised at the Portsmouth banquet w»u 



