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come in till four, when the veteran hero, Blucher, arrived, whose presence was the signal for the most enthusiastic acclamations. With his characteristic activity, Alexander, after looking at his apartments, at Merton, and the College, walk. ed out to view the gardens behind, which adjoin the Classic-grove of Christ Church. He remained there a short time, surveying the beauties of the place, and was walking in the public streets before three o'clock, accompanied by the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Fortescue, and the Earl of Essex, with whom he made immediately the tour of the most distinguished Colleges and public edifices. His Majesty in the course of his walk, visited Braze nose, All Souls, Corpus Christi, Christ Church, and three other Colleges, the Clarendon printing-house, the Divinity school, and St. Mary's church. The crowd following his Majesty from place to place at length accumulated so as to render it expedient to make an open path for him, by sending a small party of dragoons, which dividing into two parts, the Emperor, and the noble party with him, walked between them. About five, Alexander returned to Merton, bowed to them, and retired to his apartments alone There he was to receive the Address of the Mayor and Corporation of Oxford. No guard of honour, nor any external symbols of royalty, had been placed in front of Merton College. The King of Prussia received a similar Address at Corpus. The Prince of Orange was at St. John's.

gree picturesque, and approached to the sublime. The porch of St. Mary, with its twisted columns, lighted up in exact correspondence with the features of the architecture, was enchanting. Festoons of variegated lamps were hung between all the pinnacles at the top of the southside of the sacred edifice. Illuminating a church is rather uncommon; but a transparency explained, that it was in celebration of peace. Some paintings displayed a tolerable share of John Bull's humour. The well-dressed crowds (comprising Kings and Princes) who promenaded the streets, the great number of elegant females, and the greater proportion of academical persons in their sable robes, intermixed with the grotesque appearance of the country folks who had flocked from all parts to see the sight, gave one a notion of a carnival. But in the midst of all this splendour, before one in the morning, and most suddenly, the winds blew, the rain descended, and the lights were extinguished; the glare of lightning flashed through the city, and the noise of thunder closed the hilarity of the scene.

On the following morning the Prince Regent' and the Duke of York were in readiness at the apartments of Dr. Hall, Dean of Christ Church, at nine. The Prince of Mecklenburgh,the Queen's nephew, arrived shortly after, from Lord Harcourt's at Nuneham, where he sleeps; the Prince is a genteel looking young man, and wears small mustachios. The Prussian Princes then came from Dr. Burton's apartments, and walked The grand banquet in the evening was surpass-through Peckwater-court to their royal father at ingly beautiful, from the effect produced by the form of the edifice, and the facilities it affords for About two huna perfect view of the company. dred dined, of whom fifty were the Prince's guests. The gallery was thrown open to the public, who ascended by the spiral staircase, and descended by a temporary wooden one erected externally. It was a truly gratifying sight to see the Sove reigns of great countries, hitherto unknown to each other personally, sitting down together with social friendship, and chastened festivity, surrounded by multitudes of gladdened spectators. The Emperor of Russia was particularly cheerful, and conversed much. His accomplished sister, whose residence in this country has almost familiarized her to us, was not the least joyous partaker of the feast.

Dr. Cook's at Corpus Christi. They are youths of an ingenuous countenance; and the Crown Prince has a considerable resemblance to the portraits of his late mother. The Prince of Orange appeared next in his Doctor's gown. All these Princes were plainly dressed. Then came Lord Sidmouth and Mr. Bragge Bathurst, in the Windsor uniform, from Dr. Robertson's, at the Observatory (where Lord Harrowby and Mr. Vansittart were likewise accommodated), and waited on the Regent, as did Sir Charles Stewart, from the Bishop of Oxford's lodgings in the College. Sir Charles was very splendid from his || dragoon uniform, and the glitter of his various stars. The Chancellor, robed, arrived last in his private carriage. A little procession was formed by the University Bedels. The Prince Regent At night the whole city was illuminated. followed; he wore a dark wig without powder, Though in displays of this kind in London we a blue coat, the Orders of Saint Andrew, the excel what could be expected here, in the mag- Prussian Eagle, and the Golden Fleece, and his nificent and costly devices in front of our public academic gown. His Royal Highness was exbuildings, the illuminations of our private houses tremely cheerful, in conversation with Lord fall short of the beauty of those in the chief Grenville on his left; the Duke of York, with streets of Oxford. The serenity of the weather his gown and Garter, was on his right. The permitting it, the candles were placed on the out-royal brothers moved at a slow pace to the Diside of the houses, which give a much stronger light; on some of them the number was countless, The effect of the High-street was magical. The ancient battlements, turrets, and spires, thus rendered visible at midnight, were in the highest de

vinity school, with Lord Grenville, in his Lordship's carriage. The Emperor of Russia, and his sister, and the King of Prussia, unornamented, rode in the Prince's carriages, from Merton and Corpus, with their attendants.

The Theatre had been opened very early, and the ladies were flocking thither before seven o'clock. In the gallery, containing about five hundred, places were reserved for one hundred, who might accompany the Prince's guests.

The Regent and the foreign Monarchs, with their attendants, were first conducted to the Divinity school. The general arrangements of the Theatre were as usual, the whole of the lower semi-circular gallery being appropriated to the ladies, and the upper one to the Under Graduates and Bachelors of Arts; but there was a great alteration in the circles rising from the area. In the centre was a platform, the rail round which was covered with crimson velvet, and the steps with crimson cloth. On this was placed a chair, superbly gilt, with the Prince's plume on the back, and covered with crimson velvet for the Regent. On the right and left were two lower chairs, ornamented with similar materials, for the Empe

ror of Russia and the King of Prussia. The Chancellor sat to the left of the latter Monarch; the Duchess of Oldenburg to the right of her Imperial brother. To the right of the Duchess, rather lower, sat the foreign Princes in chairs; and to the left of the Chancellor, the other foreigners and Noblemen of inferior rank. The area was allotted to Masters of Arts, Bachelors of Law, and strangers admitted by tickets. The Members of the procession, on entering the theatre, divided on each side, when the Prince Regent, the Emperor Alexander, and the King of Prussia, advanced to their respective seats, in their aca demical robes The diplomas of the Degree of Doctor of Civil Law for the Emperor and the King had been passed in a previous convocation on Monday, June 15, and their Majesties now received them after the Chancellor had opened convocation. The Chancellor then proposed a diploma for the degree of L.L.D. for his Grace the Duke of Wellington, which was immediately passed, the two Monarchs joining in the votes, as Doctors of the University. The honorary degrees of L.L.D. were then conferred upon Prince Metternich, Count Lieven, and Field Marshal Prince Blucher. Mr. Crowe, the venerable public orator, ascended the tribune, and delivered a brief Latin oration, in honour of the illustrious visitors, the effect of which was much increased by his serious and impressive delivery.

the ambition, tyranny, desperation, and fall of Bonaparte; the firmness, and union, and perseverance of the Allied Monarchs; the heroism and devotion of the Russian and Prussian Generals, and the final success of the common cause, together with the usual and natural eulogies on the University, forming the leading features. Much panegyric was bestowed on the Prince Regent for his wise councils, and generous conduct, mixed with regrets for the lamented indisposition of his Majesty. The humanity of the Allies to France, when at their feet, was the subject of high praise. The following is a sample from Mr. Bosanquet :

Speak, Europe, rescued from the whelming
flood,

Had polar winters chill'd yon Emperor's blood?
Had Frederic's converse with the tented field

His breast 'gainst Mercy's gentle influence

steel'd?

No-by fair Gallia's still unravaged plains,
Her towns unsack'd, her unpolluted fanes,
By all her merchant wealth, and artist pride,
From Seine's tall towers to Garonne's viny side,
By her fall'n tyrant's show of princely state,
His limbs unchain'd, his life inviolate;
By these, far lands and distant times shall know,
"How Christian valour spares the prostrate foe."

There was more pious ascription of our successes to Heaven in this gentleman's verses than in the rest. They end thus :—

Still not to you, Great Chiefs, tho' high your

praise

Transcend the Historian's pen, or Poet's lays;
Yet not to you alone shall mortals bow
In awful love, and pay the grateful vow;
But ye yourselves must bow, your praise be given,
To him the LORD of Lords, your King in heaven.
Mr. Hughes had the following appropriate
compliment to the Emperor of Russia :—

Turn from fierce Macedonia's Lord

Who fired the rayal Persian's captive fane,
That phrenzied youth, whom suppliant Art im-
plored

To spare her honours, but implored in vain.

But, Art, declare whose conquering arm
Preserved each trophy of thy favour'd clime,
Gave back secure from scath and harm,
The classic spoils of time?
'Twas he, the Hero of the North:
In him a nobler Alexander view,
Who chased the tyrant in his anger forth,
Yet o'er the prostrate foe his sheltering buckler

This was followed by the recitation of five copies of English verse; the first by Mr. William Dalby, Fellow of Exeter; the second by Mr. Henry Bosanquet, of Corpus Christi, the third by Mr. Robert Ingram, of Oriel; the fourth (an ode) written by Mr. John Hughes, was spoken by Mr. Robert Mascall, both of Oriel; and the fifth (an ode) by Mr. William Taylor Coleridge, of Exeter, The verses in general were good; though not distinguished for transcendeut poeti-Hath gleam'd the meteor of portentous birth,

cal merit. They were for the most part tolerably well delivered. There was, however, too much of sameness in the themes, and in the manner of treating them the conflagration of Moscow;

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Enough through Anarchy's wild night

Whose red and desolating light

Shoue but to blast the face of bounteous Earth.
Quench'd are its beams, its reign is past;
Reviving Europe breathes at last,

And hails in him, th' immortal Czar,

might almost venture to say, that they made half

The pure and stedfast ray of Freedom's morning || Oxford resonnd with their cheers, in honour of

star.

Mr. Coleridge's Ode concludes with an eloquent compliment to the Prince Regent :

Fill high the cup of praise

To Him, who, in that desperate night,
Still waved on high the beacon light;

The Brunswick, resolute to save,
Who stemm'd that all-devouring wave;
Who, when no earthly hope was given,
Found strength and confidence in heaven;
And upward gazing on bright honour's sun,
Finish'd the holy war his glorious Sire begun.
After these recitations, Greek verses by Mr. C.
W. Mildmay, of Brazenose, and a Greek and
Latin Ode by two Christ Church Gentlemen,
concluded the public exhibitions.

To particularise every thing that was interesting in this grand ceremonial, would far exceed the possible limits of this communication. To give a faint description of its splendor would be no mean task for the ablest pen. Figure to the mind two immense semi-circles, the upper one crowded with the scholars of the University in their gowns, the lower one completely filled with an assemblage of British beauty, many of high rank, beaming with all the loveliness of their sex, únincumbered with the fantastic habiliments of Court etiquette, but attired in every possible variety of elegance, of device, or of colour; superb plumes waving over the heads of some, and ornaments, not more costly than tasteful, gracefully displayed by all. Lower down, an Emperor, a King, and a British Regent, seated in all the magnificence which becomes the royal dignity, in the midst of Princes, of Nobles, of Statesmen, || of Warriors of various nations of the civilized world, of Clergy, eminent for rank and virtue, of Doctors and Professors of the highest of every kind of human learning, of the whole body, in fine, of the most celebrated and superb University in the world! The description would require what our great bard invoked

"A muse of fire, that might ascend
"The brightest heav'n of invention,"

to draw the picture in which Princes and Mo-
narchs acted and beheld "the swelling scene."
The Imperial Alexander especially appeared im-
pressed with the whole most forcibly. He fre-
quently looked around him, and the delight he
felt was depicted in his countenance in the most
vivid traits. He particularly expressed the plea-
sure he felt to the Prince Regent. The foreign
Generals, who have so often faced death in the
field, seemed sometimes almost lost in astonish-
ment, at the imposing grandeur that surrounded
them.

The applause of the students, and indeed of the whole assemblage, exceeded all precedent, both at the entry of the great personages, and at the introduction of those admitted to degrees. One

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the Prince Regent, of Alexander, of Blucher, and of the Duke of Wellington.

After the business of the theatre was closed, the Chancellor and other University officers conducted the Royal personages to their respective Colleges, which terminated the public acts and ceremonies of this memorable visit.

Blucher, warmly received as he is (and deserves to be), by all ranks, from the Regent to the mean. est subject, seems in a most extraordinary degree here, as well as in London, the peculiar idol of the public at large. The gallant General is like the favourite candidate at a popular election. He cannot stir abroad without bringing a crowd abont him, blessing him, offering him their rough but honest hands, pressing upon him to inconvenience, and vociferating his praises so as almost to stun the ears of one who had not been sufficiently accustomed to the tremendous roar of artillery. His valour and his age have impressed the public mind. He appears a true German soldier, of no new school. He lodged in the rooms of Dr. Barnes, at Christ Church. This morning he was perfectly visible, sitting on the end of his bed, the window being quite up, smoking his long pipe, in a white vest with a ribband over it, with a sedate military sang froid. He advanced frequently to the window and bowed, whenever a tolerable number assembled withont. At nine he came out, dressed in black, wearing his stars, and paid his visit to the Bishop of Oxford and Sir Charles Stewart. On his return he put on his full General's uniform, with the Orange Ribband of the Eagle, and all his insignia, and went to the theatre, with two Prussian Officers, in the Bishop of Oxford's chariot.

The moment the ceremonies at the theatre were over, the ladies drove to the Town-hall, which was extremely crowded. The Emperor and the King of Prussia went thither direct from the theatre. The Mayor and Corporation were in readiness to attend upon their Majesties, who, together with Blucher, received, with much affability, the freedom of the City of Oxford in gold boxes.

The Emperor of Russia, the Duchess of Oldenburgh, the King of Prussia, the Prussian Princes, and several other foreign and British persons of distinction, went, after the Town hall ceremony, to Blenheim, where the illustrious party were received by the Marquis of Blandford, and Lord and Lady F. A. Spencer. They stopped there two hours and a half, and partook of a splendid collation in the library. They seemed desirous, if possible, to pass a longer time in viewing this magnificent monument of public gratitude, which forms one of the most striking proofs of the unbounded honours which the English nation is ever disposed to pay to those whose distinguished services claim high reward. DEPARTURE OF THE MONARCHS LONDON.-Although the visit of the Sovereigns

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or for a waistband, of Amethyst, desiring her to keep it in remembrance of the Emperor. Mrs. E. observed, she felt herself highly honoured and flattered, and expressed herself very warmly towards the Emperor.

Count Orloff, Count Woronzo, Baron Nicolai, Colonel Fenshaw, and a number of Russian gentlemen who remain in England, attended to take their farewell of the Emperor, and they embraced according to the custom of their country. No person was admitted into the botel on Wednes❤ day morning as a spectator -The Emperor, the Grand Duchess, the Duke of Oldenburgh, and the Prince of Wirtemberg, entered an open car

to this country bas been much shorter than was expected, yet from their early rising, taking very little rest, the great variety and rapidity of their movements, they have done wonders in their search after knowledge, public and personal gratification in the numberless places of amusement, and edification, which they have attended early and late. Their conduct, manners, and mode of living is well worthy of imitation by numbers of the inhabitants of this country. Neither of them are possessed of the ostentatious manners that are generally supposed to be attached to the characters of Kings; they are quite the reverse, being extremely easy of access, living very plain, and with very little pomp; yet highly to the credit ofriage of the Prince Regent's, exactly as the clock the Prince Regent and all those belonging to the Lord Chamberlain's office, who were engaged in the preparations for their reception, every thing was prepared in the most sumptuous style worthy of their exalted and illustrious characters. The Pulteney Hotel has scarcely ever been free from a most ungovernable crowd, who began to assemble at seven o'clock in the morning, and they continued frequently nearly all night opposite the house, and for a considerable distance on each side, so as to render Piccadilly impassable, especially when there were a number of carriages waiting with the occupiers, eager to procure a glimpse of the Emperor, and when he appeared at the balcony, or passed in or out of the hotel, the shoutings and ecstacy of the multitude exceeded all description. The interior of the house has been constantly crowded with a numerous assemblage of female nobility, the juvenile branches of their families, females genteelly dressed, &c. who filled the great hall, the passages, staircase, &c. with a constant succession from seven o'clock in the morning till the Emperor went to bed. In addition to the gratification of seeing the Emperor, novel scenes always took place; on his passing in or out of the hotel, he very condescendingly shook hands with some of the females, and would put his hand between the rails of the staircase to shake hands with others: this had caused such an emulation with the fair sex to attain, that on hearing of others who had enjoyed the honour, some have actually come a considerable distance from the country in order to experience the same gratification.

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The Emperor and the Grand Duchess did not retire to rest till three o'clock on Wednesday June 22, and rose again at eight. They sent for Mr. Escudier, the proprietor of the hotel, and addressed him in the French language, calling him their dear friend, acknowledging the great attention he had shewn them, and the comforts and excellent entertainment which they had experi- || enced in his house, and very kindly bid him adieu. The Rev. Mr. Smyrna, a Russian clergymau, of Welbeck-street Chapel, waited upon Mrs. Escudier, and by the commands of the Emperor, presented her with a very valuable brooch,

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struck nine. As they were entering the carriage a woman presented a book to the Emperor, which he handed to a Page on the steps; another woman presented him with a very fine rose, which the Emperor gave to the Grand Duchess, and she placed it in her bosom. The carriage then drove off amidst the loud huzzas of the populace. The carriage drove to the Tower of London; and afterwards, we understand, to other places, and passed over London Bridge at half-past twelve o'clock, on their way to the seat of the Earl of Liverpool, at Combe Wood, to breakfast. A man was stationed on horseback on the top of the hill at Kingston, to conduct them to the house of the Noble Earl, from whence they were to proceed to Portsmouth. The King of Prussia, followed by the Princes, left Clarence-house at half-past nine o'clock, in a Royal carriage, for the Earl of Liverpool's seat. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent set off from Carlton-house a few minutes after nine o'clock, accompanied by his royal brother the Duke of Cambridge and General Bailey, in his travelling carriage, for Portsmouth.

ARRIVAL AT DOVER.-The Emperor and his Sister reached Dover on the 27th of June, at eleven o'clock at night. The guns on the heights announced the approach of the Royal visitors when they were within about two miles of the town, and continued to fire till after his Majesty had reached the house of J. M. Fector, Esq. Although the hour was late, yet there did not appear to be the least diminution of the vast concourse of people who had been assembled since three o'clock; and upon the Royal Party entering and passing through the town, the inhabitants, as if actuated by one feeling, spontaneously exhibited lights at the windows and on the parapets of their houses. The cavalcade consisted of seven carriages: in the first of which, an open one, rode the Emperor and his Sister, condescendingly bowing to the reiterated huzzas of the crowd, which rent the air. The sight was most imposingly grand; the flashes of the cannon every minute illuminating the street, and the glittering of the swords of the immense number of dragoons, who formed the escort, impressed one's mind with some idea of a battle by night. On the following morning, at half past nine, the King of Prussia,

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At the house of his Grace the Duke of Rutland, George John Frederick Manners, the infant Marquis of Granby, heir to the noble house of Rutland, aged ten months. He died of water upon the brain.

At Aiton, in Yorkshire, Eliza, daughter of Mr. T. Staniforth.

accompanied by his Son and Lord William Ben || count, and dying without issue his titles are extinck, left the York Hotel in an open carriage, and paid a morning visit to his Imperial Majesty at Mr. Fector's, where, after remaining for half an hour, they returned to the York Hotel, took a farewel of the numerous visitors, and of the town, and at eleven o'clock his Majesty, accompanied by the Princes and attendants, embarked on board the launch of his Majesty's frigate the Nymphen, under a discharge from the batteries, and amidst the shouts of "Long live his Majesty" from all classes of the spectators. About half past eleven, the Duke of Clarence, in the Jason frigate, came into the roads under a royal salute; his Highness proceeded in the launch to the Nymphen to take farewell of the King. His Imperial Majesty embarked on board the Royal Charlotte yacht about six o'clock, amidst the roaring of guns from every The Emperor part, and set sail immediately. was on deck most of the night, and took no refreshment, as he was very sick. On his leaving the ship, he called out in English for all the sailors to come on deck, when he said, " Farewell, my boys," which was returned with the most enthusiastic cheering. Prior to his leaving the vessel he made the Captain's lady (Capt. Scott) a present of a ring, said to be worth one thousand pounds, and the Captain one of less value.

BIRTHS.

At Barn Hall, near Colchester, the lady of Brigade-Major Treeve, of a son.

The lady of Richard Westmacott, Esq. R. A. of

a son

Of the hydrophobia, Henry Rex, aged thirteen, son of G. Rex, a waterman of Southsea. He was bitten in the cheek and over the eye by a mad dog, on the 25th of March last. He continued very well until the morning of the 13th of June, when he appeared indisposed; he then grew rapidly worse, and complained exceedingly of violent pains in the chest and throat, and on his seeing water, his agony increased. He foamed at the mouth sufficiently to wet many cloaths, and would frequently exclaim, "O, father, is that from the dog?" He was bled profusely, but without any good effect. He retained his senses until near his death, when the effects of the disorder were extremely violent; but the paroxysms abated about an hour before he expired.-Another person was bitten in the wrist by the same dog; but as the part was immediately cut off, it is thought it will not be attended by any bad con

sequence.

In the sixth year of her age, Sidney Lukin, the second daughter of S. A. Leeks, Esq. of Fludyerstreet, Westminster,

Mrs, Elizabeth Dunning, wife of Mr. Alex. Dunning, Solicitor, Maidstone.

At his house, Kensington Gore, beloved by his

Mrs. Robert Winter, of Great Russell-street, of relations, and sincerely regretted by them and a

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In the prime of life, Katharine, wife of Mr. Mills, of Holywell-street, Strand.

At his house in Spitalfields, after a lingering illness, Mr. John George Speck, aged seventytwo years, crucible and melting-pot manufac turer, whose death will be long and deeply regretted by all who had the happiness of knowing him.

At his house at Twickenham, the Right Hon. William, Viscount Howe, General of his Majesty's Forces. His Lordship was third son of Scrope, second Viscount Howe, and Baron Clonawly, of the kingdom of Ireland; he succeeded Suddenly, at his house in the New Road, Tothis brother, Richard Earl of Howe, in bis Irish tenham Court, William Francis, Esq. of Highhonours, Aug. 5. 1799. He was the fifth Vis-bury Grove, Middlesex.

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