Adderley Hall, the seat of Sir Corbet Corbet, Bart.
The ringing of the bells, and display of a large flag on the tower of the church, ushered in the morning.
Divine service was performed at ten o’clock before the largest congregation ever assembled there, and an excellent and most appropriate sermon on the occasion, preached by the Rev. M. Judgson.
After service ended, a Royal Salute of 21 guns was fired from an eminence in the front of the park at Adderley, and dinner immediately served up to upwards of 100 children, educated at the Adderley School—the military band playing ” God save the King.”
At two the labourers and their wives and children, to the number of 150, had a plentiful banquet in the riding house: when this was finished, Sir Corbet, after a Short and impressive speech, drank the King’s health, with three times three, which was followed by “God save the King,” played by the full band, and sung by the company present. While the band and attending servants retired to another room to dine, the labourers had a plentiful supply of excellent ale. All the tenants’ wives and daughters were invited to tea at the Hall at six, and a very hand-some display of fire-works took place at seven and continued till eight. The cannon were again fired, when the female party adjourned from the hail to a very handsome suite of rooms over the riding-house. Joined by the tenants, &c., the festive dance now commenced, and continued, with the intermission only of a very handsome supper, till a late hour in the morning.
