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COURT AND FASHIONABLE.

On Thursday se'nnight the King left the Pavilion for London; but, after holding a council at Carlton palace, at which the Recorder's report was received, and Parliament farther prorogued till early in February, his Majesty gladdened this town, by once more returning to it, on the following Saturday. His Majesty's return was speedily followed by the arrival of the Duke of Dorset, the Marquis of Anglesey, Lord St. Helens, Sir Charles Paget, and Colonel Thornton, who, with the Great Chamberlain, Lord Gwydyr, had the honour of dining with the King. The evening party was increased by the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess Cowper, Lord and Lady Binning, Lord Viscount Melbourne, Lord Bingham, the Hon. Mr. Curzons, and Colonel and Mrs. Cavendish.

On Sunday, the following day, his Majesty attended divine service in his private chapel. In the royal pew also were the Master of the Horse, the Lord Steward, the Marquis of Anglesey, and Lord St. Helens. The Royal Equerries and Sir Charles Paget were in the pew adjoining. An impressive discourse was delivered by Doctor Pearson, from John xvii. 15. The lessons of the day and the prayers were read by the Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The King's entire band, as usual, was on duty. Mr. Attwood managed the organ. The sacred service began at noon, and ended soon after two o'clock.

The Earl and Countess Cowper, and Viscount Melbourne, had the honour of dining with his Majesty on Sunday.

On Monday, the palace dinner party included the Earl of Galloway, Lord Uxbridge, and the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen.

The Marquis of Anglesey, the Earl of Galloway, Lord Uxbridge, and Sir Charles Paget, took leave, and were in the departure list on Tuesday.

There was an evening party at the palace on Tuesday; the same noble personages were present, as on the preceding Saturday.

Lord Gwydyr took leave, and departed for London this day se'nnight.

The Duke of Dorset, Lord St. Helens, Lady Gwydyr, the Earl and Countess Cowper, Mr. Luttrell, and Mr. Congreve, had the honour of dining with his Majesty on Thursday.

The King attended divine service at his private chapel yesterday.

PICTURE GALLERY.-During the last fortnight, the visits to the above splendid cabinet have been much increased-several applications have been made to purchase two of Loutherbourg's productions there, but the prices offered have been rejected. The

subjects in question are "A land Water Spout," and "A country Churchyard." The first exhibits a scene of desolation in the truest touches of nature; it presents the bursting of a cloud which has struck the pinnacle of a rock, and the terrific gush of the water is seen, deluging the vale beneath. Rocks, trees, habitations, all are uptorn, and mingled with the impetuous torrent. To the right are discovered three figures, a father, mother, and daughter; they have sought refuge on the shattered trunk of a tree; the fragment to which the latter clings for safety, has yielded to the destructive sweep, and her parents, in their eagerness to save, are descending with her to perish in the frightful ruin below. To the left is the vestige of a watermill, but scarcely a trace of the fair face of nature is to be recognized—all is expressive horror, and, as it were, the convulsion of the universe. To heighten the sublimity of the general spectacle, a flash streams from the heavens and illumines, with a pallid glare, the scene of elemental chaos. The tints of this picture, mellowed by time, are less vivid than what usually mark the productions of this artist; its accurate disposition of light and shade are much improved thereby-the whole produces an effect seldom equalled, upon the extended scale, and very difficult to be surpassed. The other picture, "The Country Churchyard," is a composition from Gray's celebrated elegy

"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lee,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.'

In this painting, the objects depicted in the above lines, together with the glimmering landscape," the " ivy mantled tower," and the "moping owl, which to the moon complains," are all embraced in the same glance; and the melancholy tinge which the parting day" sheds over the landscape, is finely in unison with the pathos which reigns in the poet.

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A morning paper of Tuesday told us, in no very equivocal terms, that the appointment of Private Secretary to his Majesty, which was understood to have been abolished, had been revived since the King returned to Brighton. What the next discovery from the same sapient source may be, it is impossible to saybut this we know, that the revival mentioned has no more foundation in truth, than had the announcement of dangerous indisposition in the King, at a time when his Majesty's complete recovery from the gout had been satisfactorily confirmed-and which the paper alluded to had the folly to usher into public notice.

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EPITOME OF BRIGHTON.

(Continued from page 131).

CHARITY SCHOOLS.-In this town there are also several of those great blessings to civilized society, called Free Schools, two of which, for the education of twenty poor boys each, were founded by private individuals, many years ago; but the last established, and most momentous, excepting the National School, in Black Lion-street Lane, was, by public contributions, in 1807, called the Union Charity School, in Middle-street, where the full complement of pupils, upon the system recommended by Mr. Lancaster, extends to the daily education of three hundred poor boys, A girls' school, upon the same plan, in the same street, was also opened in 1809; and besides these, there is a Sunday School and School of Industry for females, in Church-street

BRIGHTON DISPENSARY AND COUNTY INFIRMARY.-In 1809, a most useful and beneficent institution was founded here by the friends of suffering humanity, under the denomination of the Brighthelmston Dispensary; and which, to use the language of one of its annual reports, " is a form of charity established on the most unobjectional principles, extending its hand, when most needed, to those, who are incapable by sickness, or accident, of assisting themselves: and it may safely be asserted, that no mode of alleviating the bodily sufferings of our fellow creatures is more effective nor less ostentatious. In common with all medical establishments, this returns the blessing to society which it has received, affording the most powerful means of checking the progress of infectious diseases, by the prompt assistance of medical advice, and arresting, at the beginning, the sources of misery and death."

The Patron of this most excellent institution is his Majesty ; the President is the Earl of Chichester, and the Vice-Presidents are the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Egremont, Lord Sheffield, and Thomas Read Kemp, Esq.

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In 1812, at the suggestion of the Earl of Chichester, a Sea Bathing Infirmary was added to the Dispensary, and which has been found beneficial in a very eminent degree.

The restorative blessings of this institution having been so widely felt and acknowledged, its liberal supporters have come to the resolution of yet farther extending its benefits, by the erection of an hospital of suitable dimensions, as soon as the contributions shall amount to a sum to justify such an expenditure; and in aid of which, the Earl of Egremont has advanced one thousand pounds, Lord Gage, two hundred pounds, the Earl of Chichester, one hundred guineas, the Earl of Ashburnham, one hundred guineas, Sir M. J. Tierney, Bart. physician in ordinary to his Majesty, one hundred pounds, the Right Hon. John Trèvor, one hundred pounds, Walter Burrell, Esq. one hundred pounds, Edward Goff, Esq. one hundred pounds, and ten pounds per annum, in perpetuity; and there are besides many other subscribers in the voluntarily contributing sums of from fifty guineas down to five pounds. The Rev. Dr. Holland is a subscriber of ten guineas, and three guineas annually.

Under the above encouraging auspices, there is no doubt but this great work of considerative benevolence will ultimately be completed; but as its resources must be entirely drawn from the voluntary offerings of the compassionate, and a heavy sum is yet required to give a permanent foundation to the superstructure which philanthrophy would raise to succour the afflicted, some time may yet elapse ere it benignly resolves itself into the desired completion.

CHARITABLE SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS.-Perhaps there is no town of its magnitude in the United Kingdom, where charitable societies and generous associations are more numerous than in this; and though some of them appear as too limited in their means, and too confined in their operations, for any very essential advantages to arise from them, yet are they often productive of such benefits to the Industrious poor, than could scarcely have been derived from apparently more comprehensive sources.

DOLLAR SOCIETY.-Among others, there is what is termed the Dollar Society, instituted in November, 1813, and so called, from every annual subscription to that amount, entitling every such subscriber to recommend one person, yearly, to become a partaker of the charitable fund.

Before her late Majesty left the town, after her first visit in 1814, she most graciously condescended to become the Patroness of this society, accompanying her protecting regard with a donation of ten pounds; and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Elizabeth and Mary, at the same time, became the Vice-Patronesses of the institution, with a kind donation of three pounds each.

Besides these illustrious personages, there are various and distinguished Vice-Patronesses attached to this Society, includ

ing the Marchioness of Downshire, Baroness Sandys, the Countess Dowager of Harcourt, the Countess Dowager of Rosse, the Countess Dowager of Ely, the Marchioness Cholmondeley, Lady Sheffield, the Hon. Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Luther, &c.

This society directs its attention to that description of the local poor not deriving assistance from parochial resources-it extends its kindness to the chamber of sickness and the abode of unforeseen calamity; and, particularly to deserving persons bending beneath the pressure of years, adapting its relief to the complexion of circumstances; and which, by a careful and judicious distribution of its benefits, and the increasing support it so deservingly meets with, is found to answer all the benevolent purposes for which it was most feelingly designed. (To be continued.)

LIFE AND REIGN OF CHARLES THE FIRST.

(Concluded from page 133.)

Notwithstanding these successes, the Houses seeing how desirous the whole nation was of a personal treaty, recalled their votes of no-address, and ordered that a personal treaty should be held with his Majesty, at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, to begin on the 18th day of September next following. But the Commissioners which were sent to manage this treaty, spent so much time upon each nicety and punctillio of the propositions, before they drew towards a conclusion, that they gave the officers of the army too much opportunity to frame and publish a remonstrance, bearing date at St. Alban's, on the 16th of November. In which it was declared that the King was the sole cause of all that bloodshed which had been made in the kingdome, that he was incapable of any further trust in the publick government, and that nothing could be more expedient to the safety of the Commonwealth, than to bring him to the bar of justice. Nor staid they there, but in pursuit of this design, some of the officers were appointed to go into the Isle of Wight, and, having seized upon his person, to bring him over to Hurst castle, in Hampshire, whence they brought him, by degrees, to Windsor, and at last to Westminster. On the other side, the Independent party in the House of Commons (holding intelligence with the army) voted

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