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don, and of the report of a committee of the corporation, 
formed for the purpofe of in veftigating the contents of 
that Letter. The fpace gained in Newgate is to be devoted 
ter perfons committed for trial, inftead of mixing them as 
heretofore with the convicted, or fending them to the cor¬ 
relational prifon in Cold-Bath Fields. Workffiops are alfo 
to be provided ; in which the debtors may purfue their or¬ 
dinary occupations. 
It ffiould have been mentioned among the parliamentary 
proceedings, that, on the ilt of July, upon the motion 
of Mr. Whitbread, 8000I. was unanimoufly voted for the 
purchafe of the law-books, enriched by valuable notes, 
and 300 manufcripts, of Mr. Francis Hargrave, king’s 
counfel; to be depofited in the library of Lincoln’s Inn, 
for the public ufe. 
On the 6th of July died Granville Sharp, efq. youngeft 
fon of the late Dr. Thomas Sharp, archdeacon of Nor¬ 
thumberland, and only furviving grandfon of the late Dr. 
John Sharp, archbilhop of York. This venerable philan- 
thropill retained the vigour both of his mind and body 
till within a fhort period previous to his difl'olution, and, 
without any other fymptoms than thofe of natural decay, 
terminated, in the 79th year of his age, a life aflively and 
almoft uninterruptedly devoted to the belt interefts of li¬ 
berty, humanity, and religion. We hope to do jullice to 
this excellent character in the proper place. 
On the 13 th of July, the court of common council voted 
thanks to lord Wellington, his officers and army, for their 
{kill and gallantry at Vittoria; refolved that the bull of 
his lordfltip be placed in the council-chamber; and voted 
the freedom of the city, in gold boxes of 100 guineas 
value, to fir T. Graham and fir Rowland Hill. 
On the 20th of the fame month, a grand fellival, in ho¬ 
nour of the battle of Vittoria, was celebrated at Vauxhall. 
Soon after five, nearly 1200 people were affembled in the 
gardens- The dinner was in the range of covered build¬ 
ings, with the addition of a temporary faloon. The ro¬ 
tunda was filled by a raifed femicircular table, which was 
appropriated to the royal family, foreign ambaffadors, mi- 
nifters, &c. At the head was placed a feat for the duke 
of York, as chairman; and behind was ranged on raifed 
fhelves, covered with crimfon cloth, a va(t quantity of 
maffive gold and filver plate belonging to the regent; 
furmounted by a buft of the marquis of Wellington. At 
the back of the duke’s chair, and a little before the plate, 
were flationed two trumpeters, and a grenadier holding 
the ftandard of the 100th regiment of French horfe, taken 
at Vittoria; the baton of rnarlhal Jourdan was difpofed 
among the plate, and beneath lord Wellington’s buft. 
Befides this femicircular table, on the platform was a fmaller 
fquare table, appropriated to the lord-mayor, aldermen of 
the city, and their immediate friends. In the faloon were 
three long tables ; beyond that, in a temporary building 
erected among the trees, the trunks of which ferved to fup- 
port the roof,appropriately compofed of theenfigns of Great 
Britain, Spain, and Portugal, were accommodations for 
nearly 900 perfons. The dukes of York, Clarence, Kent, 
Snffex, Cambridge, and Gloucelter, took their feats at the 
table about a quarter pall five. The dinner was plain, 
and cold, excepting turtle-foup. The conclufion was 
announced by a flourilh of trumpets, and Non nobis, Do- 
mine. The toails were announced from the head of the 
table by a flourifh of trumpets ; and then, with the fpirit of 
the antique time of royal feafling, were returned from the 
foot by another flourilh. About nine the ladies began to 
arrive, and were received by lord Yarmouth. The gar¬ 
dens, as the night came, gradually brightened, until they 
exhibited a blaze of fplendour. The fireworks, under the 
direction of Col. Congreve, were let off at eleven, one, 
and two, o’clock. The duchefsof York, who had remained 
t wo hours in her carriage on the outiide of the gardens on 
account of the throng, entered about twelve. No ade¬ 
quate provifion was made for the ladies, who were obliged 
to fcramble for refrelhments at the buffets ; and the hardieft 
were but til-requited. Such, however, were the allurements 
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of the fete, that to and even 15 guineas were in vain offered 
for a dinner-ticket. Many who had fecured tickets for 
admiffion, returned without a fight of it. The obftruc- 
tions to getting in and retiring, after twelve o’clock, be¬ 
came almolt infuperable; and inch a feene of confufion 
fcarcely ever exilled. Servants being banillied from the 
entrance, and there being no conftables to direct the coach¬ 
men how to let down and take up, gentlemen were obliged 
to come out and endeavour to call their own carriages; to 
which, if by any hazard they found them, they were yet 
unable to conduft their company, for they were univerfally 
refufed admittance into the gardens again. Thus parties 
were feparated—carriages rendered ufelefs—perfons of all 
ranks expofed—and many, who had vehicles of their own 
waiting, were obliged to hire hackney-coaches at any price. 
Families who had intended to quit the gardens at one o’clock, 
if by any chance they reached their carriages, were forced, 
after waiting three or four hours, to quit them again, and 
find their way home on-foot—their carriages followed at 
fix, feven, and even eight, o’clock in the morning. Scores, 
after proceeding as near as they could to the gardens, find¬ 
ing their patience exhaufted, got out, and, overcome by fa¬ 
tigue, trudged home on-foot without feeing the ffiow. 
Many ladies walked from the Afylum, after being as long 
ftationary there as female patience would admit, and ftrug- 
gled through the crowd, unprotected, to the gardens. The 
whole was confufion worfe confounded. The battle of 
Vittoria itfelf, which the fete was meant to celebrate, was 
peace, order, and harmony, when compared to the modern 
Babel, which extended from Gharing-crofs to Southville 
on the Wandfworth road. 
Such was the Vauxhall feftival—brilliantly lighted, 
badly arranged, and ending in confufion. Its molt re¬ 
markable feature, in a negative point of view, was the 
abfence of the prince-regent, who is known to take fuch 
delight in thefe matters, and who in the firft inltance was 
given out as one of the intended guefts. It was after¬ 
wards difeovered, it feems, that Etiquette was againft the 
prefence of the “fovereign” at a fubfcription-dir.ner; but 
as the prince-regent is not the fovereign—as he had been 
at other public dinners—and as it is quite clear, generally 
fpeaking, that he could make the law for himfelf in this 
inltance, and accept what invitation he pleafed—another 
reafon was to be fought for; and at length it was difeo¬ 
vered that Etiquette was a perfonage not to be trifled with, 
and that ffie actually made her own appearance at the fete, 
inltead of his royal highnefs, in the likenefs of a lady 
dreffed in white latin with a head-drefs of green and dia¬ 
monds. This lady, however, was not accommodated witli 
a feat; the royal box was olherwije occupied,-, and, after walk¬ 
ing round, firft with the duke of Gloucefter, and after¬ 
wards with her brother the duke of Brunfwick, Hie de¬ 
parted without relting. 
On the 27th of July, his royal highnefs the prince- 
regent held a chapter of the molt noble order of the Gar¬ 
ter at Carlton-houfe, when his imperial majefty the em¬ 
peror of all the Ruffias was elected a member of the or¬ 
der. In confequence of this eleftion, a million was pre¬ 
pared to carry to his imperial majefty, at his head-quarters, 
the infignia of this moll noble order. The prefent Gar¬ 
ter, fir Ilaac Heard, forgetting his advanced age (83),and 
defirous of performing his duty, was preparing to let off 
acrofs the feasforthe continent, when, by a molt gracious 
mark of kindnefs, his royal highnefs the prince-regent 
had it fignified to him by the intermediation of the chan¬ 
cellor of the order, that his vvilh was, that Garter (hould 
not expofe fo far, and at fo critical a moment, the precious 
remains of a life a great portion of which had been (pent 
in the fervice of the order. In conlequence of this ho¬ 
nourable folicitude from the prince, afling as fovereign 
of the order in behalf of the king, firlfaac Heard deputed 
Francis Townfend, efq. Windfor Herald, to perform the 
duties of Garter in his abfence. The million, compofed 
of deputy-garter, fir Thomas Tyrwhitt, knight, Black Rod ; 
George Frederic Bettz, efq. fecretary of the legation ; 
George 
