sters. A day was fixed for the Coronation; and among those who
would have to assist in the ceremonial, no one ventured to hint on the
possibility of the Queen having any position in it. On the 3rd of May,
the King received addresses at Carlton House; and on the 10th, his
Majesty held his first Levee since his accession to the throne, at
which nearly 1800 persons of distinction were present, who testified
their attachment to his person in a manner that must have left him
little to desire. It was known that his consort intended to agitate the
empire from end to end, and her arrival was looked for in a few weeks;
but the families of the great political party that formed and supported
the Government, betrayed no uneasiness--indeed, the most influential
regarded, or affected to regard, the coming struggle with a quiet
disdain, that evinced their confidence in the loyalty and good sense of
the nation. "His Majesty's Opposition," however, talked and looked very
differently;--the Democratic party were vehement in their denunciations
of the Queen's wrongs, and the leading Whigs began to come forward
prominently as champions of her rights. This is about the date of the
following communications:--

RIGHT HON. THOS. GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Cleveland Square, May 4, 1820.

MY DEAR LORD B----,

I have but little news to tell you. The general arrangement of the
Civil List, by replacing it as it stood in 1816, is so much better
a bargain for the public than I had expected, that I for one am
well contented with it; and if report be true, it was obtained by
nothing but the most determined refusal of the Ministers to do
more. Still, however, I understand that the Admiralty Droits are
unpopular enough to threaten the Government with a good deal of
embarrassment; for undoubtedly, if they have bargained with the
King for the statement of 1816, when he had the Admiralty Droits,
they cannot in equity deprive him of that part of his bargain.
Brougham seems by his speech to have conceived the notion of giving
the King _compensation_ for them; but it seems to me to be but
a bad bargain for the public, to make them, under the present
pressure, purchase out a remote contingent future revenue, which
can arise only out of a war that no Power in Europe is rich enough
to make, any more than ourselves.

Nobody knows what Brougham's motion will be to-mo