When the King visited the Opera in 1821, the preparations cost upwards
of £300. The ante-room and the box were hung with satin, and festoons
of gold lace.

When his Majesty visited Covent Garden Theatre in 1823, there were 4,255
persons present, and the receipts were £971. 18_s_. 6_d_.--_Companion to
the Theatres_.

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SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY.


EMIGRATION.

_NEW COLONY ON SWAN RIVER_.


We have abridged the following very important and interesting
information respecting the New Settlement on the Western Coast of
Australia, from the last Number of the _Quarterly Review_. The writer
appears to have profited by access to official sources, and thus
enhanced the value of his paper; but, disposed as we are, generally,
to coincide with his views on the subject of _Emigration_, we do not
think it necessary to detail them in this place. We have, however,
retained the "Regulations," as issued from the Colonial Office, and
made occasional quotations from Captain Stirling's Report; besides
availing ourselves of a pamphlet lately published, entitled "Hints on
Emigration to the New Settlement on the Swan and Canning Rivers."[2]