The Prince Regent's orders of plate in silver and, more importantly, silver-gilt during the Regency were prodigious. In 1806 Faringdon had noted in his Diary that "the Prince has also ordered Plate from Rundell's to the amount of #70,000 among which are articles which can never be required to be used." In June 1811 he gave a party at Carlton House to celebrate the King's birthday, with over 3,000 guests, "which surpassed in splendor anything of the kind which ever took place in this country" (Repository, vol. VI (1811), p. 167). "The supper table extended the length of Carlton House. The Prince sat on a raised throne in the Conservatory at the head of the table with, behind him, a three-tier sideboard covered with crimson drapery, constructed to exhibit with the greatest effect a profusion of the most exquisitely wrought silver-gilt plate, consisting of fountains, tripods, epergnes, dishes and other ornaments" (Diary and Correspondence of Charles Abbott, Lord Colchester, 1861, vol. II, p. 338, quoted in Carlton House: the Past Glories of George IV's Palace, exhibition cat., The Queen's Gallery, London, 1991, p. 44). The following day the general public was admitted to see the decorations and such crowds ensued that Prince William, the Duke of Clarence, was forced to attempt to instill order in his best quarterdeck manner.