Star. — London, England, 1830-07-16 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF Tim LATE XING. The fourth British Sovereign of the House Brunswick was last night consigned to the tomb of his ancestors, at Windsor Castle. In the various arrangements for the obsequies of the late King no. thing was omitted which could serve to heighten the effect of Royal pomp and pageantry. The details have been minutely given from day to day, ever since the Royal demise ; and nothing now remains for us but to state the last tributary honours which were offered to the illustrious deceased. Windsor, it will readily be supposed, exhibited even at as early hour this wonting a scene of halide. May persons who had, doubt. laxly, been stretched upon couches, safes; or chairs, where beds could not be obtained, thronged the streets. The guns in the Great Park commented firing at sunrise this morning, sod at intervals o five minutes, continued throughout the day. When the doors were thrown open for the public to witness the ceremony of lying in state, crowds presented themselves for admittance. With few exceptions, the proceedings were conducted with propriety and decorum ; but occasionally an officious constable, or an underling in office, exercised his authority with a dictatorial power; and on more than one occasion the constable's stave was employed in a manner not very much to the credit of the party who wielded it, nor to the com fort of the individual upon whose back, shoulders, or arms, it was exercised. The mon fortunate individuals, who bad been provided with general pass tickets, or with others, allowing the bearer to pass through the southern entrance to the state apartments, had no dif- ficulties of this description to encounter, every attention being paid them by the inferior official officers whom they had to pass. The de corum and silence observed in the multitude wen remarkable, unless we take into consideratkm that the object was a gratification of the sight only, which in so short a period of indulgence absorbs the other senses. It would seem that but little attraction existed with respect to the service in Windsor church, which took place at the usual hour of Morning prayers, for but few pews were occupied. There is an air of mystery pervading every thing in this town among the official persons, as though what you asked was likely to commit them in certain quarters: as an example,on inquiring of the beadle whether Service was to be performed, he said, laconically enough, " Yes.'"jAt what time ?" " Am," rejoined the man. " There will be a ocreoon, 1 apprehend ?" " Yes," said be. " Pray who macho it ?" " The regular Clergyman," answered the beadle. Never was there a place where so little information is to be obtained, without a fee among the undentrappers, as in this same Royal borough of Windsor t Give money, and then they will tell you what little they may know, but, without unloosing the purse. strings, your information must be scanty indeed ; As the day advance.] the crowd increased, and, before noon, Windsor felt all the profit, and some of the discomfort, of 10 or 12 thousand people squeezed into a place not capable of comfortably accommodating as many hundreds. White-plumed Fiekl-offiters and their Aides.du.camp, paupers and professional pickpockets, Heralds and Punuivants in their gorgeous tabards, Gentlemen Pensioners in all the pride of gold lace and black crape, and the sable.clad multitude of " the middling class," mixed up in ad. mirable confusion. At half past two o'clock the King and Queen, escorted by a de tachment of the 9th Lancers, under the command of Major Camp. bell, arrived at Frogman Lodge from the Queen's Lodge in Busby Park, followed by a string of carriages with their immediate at tendants. Their Majesties were received by the Duke of Wel lington, who had arrived half an hour before them; and shortly after their arrival his Grace left Frogman Lodge, and drove into the Castle. Soon after his Grace's departure their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Sussex and Gloucester, and the Prince Leopold of Sue Coburg, arrived at Frogmore Lodge; and at four o'clock they dined with their Majesties. A cavalry guard of ho. nour front the Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards were sta. tianed at Frogmore; and as soon as his Majesty alighted be walked amongst them, and conversed with them freely—not only with the officers, but with the privates, complimenting them on their discip line and appearance. In the meantime, their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Cumberland, Prince George of Cumberland, and Prince Frederick of Prussia, arrived front Kew, and drove directly to the Castle, where their Royal Highnesses had a table prepared for them. Tables were also prepared in the Castle for the Earl Marshal and his party; the Lord Steward and his party—consitting of the Mi. nista, of State, the Foreign Ambassadors, &e. At seven o'clock his Majesty, escorted by a party of the Life Guards and the Horse Guards Blue, the Red and the Blue mingled together indifferently, proceeded in state to the Castle ; the detach. man of the Bth Lanons, who escorted their Majesties from the Queen's Lodge at Bushy, lining the road, in extended ales, from Frogmore Lodge to the entrance by George the Fourth's gate. His Majesty's carriage was drawn by six of the black state bones, del. yen by his late Majesty's state coachman; and his Majesty was greeted on his way by the subdued cheers of the multitude. THE PROCESSION FROM THE STATE CHAMBI TO THE CHAPEL From five o'clock the crowd, which throughout the day was im. manse in every part of the town, began to diminish, and the num bers who remained to witness the funeral procession were much less than could have been expected. From the applications made to the departments which had authority to issue tickets for the " lower court,* it was expected that more would be issued than the space in that part of the Castle could conveniently hold ; but this was not the case. At half-past seven o'clock the numbers who had obtained admission were not sufficient to fill one-fourth of the space from which strangers might have an opportunity of witnessing the pro. i cession as it moved along. Before 7 o'clock, a battalion of the Foot Ouards wu marched into the lower court, and placed in close file along the sides within the platform. Strangers were allowed to stand close to the platform on the outside. There were no horsemen standing on the . outaide, as was the ease at the funeral of George 111. and (we believe) at the funeral of the Duke of York. There were a few of the Horse Guard' Blue placed at distant intervals outside the line occupied by the spectators, but they did not in any way incommode those who came to witness the procession. F(0111 half-put 7 o'clock until the movement of the procession the attention of the public was ex cited by occasional groups of military officers on duty, and of others, who were to form part of the procession, lag and repealing along the platform. At nearly eight o'clock the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of Lon don, Chester, Lincoln, and Winchester, Sir R. Peel, and the Earl of Radnor, passed up the platform, on their way to the state apart ments. Sir R. Peel wore the Windsor uniform. At half-past eight the trumpets and kettle-drums announced that the prepara tions for the movement of the procession had commenced. A band of trumpets and drums was stationed at that part of the platform which enters the lower court. They played the " Dead March in Saul," and continued playing until the procession advanced to where they were stationed. It was now past tnilight, and flambeaus were given to every fifth soldier at each side along the line, the effect of which when lighted was very imposing. Front the mo ment the trumpets and drums began, the utmost silence prevailed amongst the spectators. Reny voice was hushed, and nothing was heard but the music, and the tread of some officer who occasionally passed along the platform. At the moment when the procession began to move, two rockets were let off as a signal to the artillery in the Long Walk, which then commenced firing minute guns, and continued until another rocket announced that the are mossy was concluded in St. George's Chapel, and that the mortal remains of his late Majesty were consigned to the tomb of his ances tors. 11 was impossible to conceive any thing more imposing than the appearance of the procession as it entered that part of the plat. form which was situated in the lower court. The slow and solemn music, the silence of the spectators, the sombre appearance of the troops leaning on their reversed muskets, and the stillness and serenity of the evening, all contributed to make the spectacle in wresting. THE NORTH AMR About half.past nine ilre procesa; began to show itself in the interior of the Chapel. It was more numerous than usual, more pompous, more Bawdy, and yet the general impression was—that it was more tumultuous than mapificent—mom pretending than in. teresting. When the Royal Body appeared an intense curisoity was expressed to see the present Wig as mourner. This curiosity was all but disappointed, for his Majesty not having an oaten tattoos was not easily discerned, and was besides al most hidden by a numerous retinue of supporters. Minima eat parr ipso Monarchs suf. The Duke of Cumberland was as visible as any person could wish, nor was the grave presence of Prince Leopold difficult to be discovered. The Duke of Wellington, being small in person, was not perceptible to the eye of the spectators, but they had an opportunity of expatiating on the portly appearance of the Duke of Buckingham. In the procession were his Majesty's Ministers, Viscount Goddrich, the Judges of the Courts, the A and Solicitor General, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of vonshire, the Archbishops of York, Canterbury, and Armagh, the B London, Chichester, Carlisle, Lord Skelmersdale, Lord slneMeld, Lord Gower, the Marquis of Hertford, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Mar. quis Camden, the Marquis of Londonderry, the Duke of Portland, the Earl of Westmothod, Earl Brownlow, Earl Howe, the Earl of Dudley, Viscount Sidmouth, the Duke of Gordon, the Mar quis of Tweedals, Viscount Granville, Lord EllenborOugh, Lord Hill, Lord Glenlyon, Lord illaryborough, Lord Bexley, Lord Strangford, Lord Farnborough, the Earl of Errol, the Earl Rosebery, and Lord Saltoun. _ About ten o'clock the funeral pmeassien entered the choir ; the sound of the trumpets and mulled kettle drums had been previ ously heard, and the notes of the solemn service of the funeral ; nothing could be finer than the performance of the " Dead March in Saul," by the band of the Household Troops. The choir, under the direction of Sir G. Smart, took a Er t l : the service as the coffin entered the Dean, Subdean, and of St. George's Chapel were at the south door to receive the pro. cession. The choristers of the Chapel Royal took their station the entrance with wax tapers, and Sir 0. Smart commenced the vocal part of the burial service, aided by Messrs. Knyvett, Vauglum, Sale. Salmon, Hawkey, Welsh, Goulding, and Clark. The music was tram Handel, Purcell, and Croft. It commenced with the sublime passage— " I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord : he that be lieveth in me, though be were dead, yet shall be live and whoso ever liveth and believed] in me, shall never die.—Jells xi. 25, 26. " I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that be shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin, worms destroy this body; yet in my flesh shall I see GOD whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another..—Job. xix. 25, 26, 27. "We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing oat. The Lord gave, and the Lord bath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord."-1 7riw. vi. 7—Job. 1.21. At this part of the service the procession bad advanced through the great door of the organ loft, and the heralds had marshalled it upon the floor of the choir. The King was immediately behind the coffin, robed in a magnificent purple velvet cloak, decorated with a large star; he walked to the edge of the aperture which led to the tomb, where a chair, covered with black velvet, was provided for his Majesty's use. There was some bustle by the heralds in ushering the members of the procession to their several stalls. The dean and canons advanced within the rails of the chancel, filing right and left before the communion -table, which was covered with massive plate. The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckingham, St. Alban's, Beaufort, &c. took their seats in the stalls in the body of the choir. The Earl Marshal stood near his Majesty, and the Duke of Wel lington, who was in Field-Marshal's uniform, remained behind his chair during the service. Upon purple velvet stools at each side of the Royal Vault, sat as mourners with his Majesty, their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Cumberland, Sussex. Gloceertr, and Prince Leopold. Their mourning cloaks were richly embroidered, and Prince Leopold wore a General's uniform. A dense mass noblemen and gentlemen filled the body of the choir, and there was a gloom and duskiness from the melte of the tapers and Sam. beaus of the military and choristers which was Ul calculated to give picturesque effect of such a ceremonial. The arrangement was as follows, but the line of the order was occasionally much broken a— Tiumpets and Kettle Demme, and Drums and Fifes of the Foot Guards. Drums and Fifes of the Royal Household. Trumpets and Kettle Drums of the Royal Household. Knight Marshal's Men, two and two, with black Staves. Knight Marshal's °Eters. The Kir Marshal. Poor Kn ts of Windsor. ' . Pages his Majesty. Pages of his late Majesty. Apothecary to his Majesty. Apothecary t his late Majesty. Surgeons to his late Majesty. The Curate of Windsor. The Vicar of Windsor. Gentlemen Ushers Quarterly Walters to his late Majesty. Pages of Honour to his late Majesty. Grooms of the Privy Chamber to his late Majesty. Gentlemen Ushers Daily Waiters to his late Majesty. Sergeant Surgeon to his late Majesty. nysteians to his late Majesty. Household Chaplain to his late Majesty. Equerries to his Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg. Equerries to his Royal Hp die Duke of Gloucester. • Equerries to his Royal H the Duke of Cambridge. Equerries to his Royal Ones' the Duke of Sums. &perdu to his Royal Higienses the Duke of Cumberland. equerries to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Aides-de-Camp to his late Majesty. Quarter Master General Adjutant General. Equaries to his late Majesty. Clerk Marshal and First Equerrylo his late Majesty. Gentlemen Ushers of the Privy Chamber to his late Majesty. Grooms of the Bed Chamber to his late Majesty. Master of the Robes to his late Majesty. The Members of the Royal Hanoverian M The Lords of the Admiralty, attended by their Secretaries. Solicitor General. Attorney General. Barons of the Exchequer. Justices of the Court of Common Pleas. Justices of the Court of King's Bench. The Lord Chief Baron of The Lord Chief Justice of the Exchequer. the Common Pleas. The Vice Chancellor of England. The Master of the Rolls. The Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Comptroller of his late Majesty's Treasurer of his late Majesty's Household. Household. Privy Councillors (not Peers) attended by the Clerks of the Council in Ordinary. Pursuivant. Eldest Sons of Barons. Eldest Sons of Viscounts. Pursuivant. Barons. Pursui•ant. Bishops. Pursuivant. Eldest Sons of Earls. ' Herald. Viscounts. Eldest Sons of Marquises. Herald. Earls. Herald. Eldest Sons of Dukes. Herald. Marquises. Herald. Dukes. Herald. The Minister of State of Hanover. The Earl Marshal of The Deputy Lord England. Great Chamberlain. 'l'he Lord Privy Seal. The Lord President of the Council Archbishops. The Lord Chancellor. The Archbishop of Canterbury. Norroy King of Arms. Lords of his late Majesty's Bed Chamber. Oold Stick. Captain of the Yeomen Captain of the Honourable Band of the Guard. of Gentlemen Pensioners. Groom of the Stole to Master of the Horse to his late Majesty. his late Majesty. BANNERS to be borne by Paz's, viz: The Banner of Brunswick. The Banner of Hanover. The Banner of Ireland. 1 he Banner of Scotland. The Banner of St. George. The Union Bonner. THE ROYAL STANDARD. THR ROYAL CROWN Supporter: OT HAXOvss, 811 = S Gentleman Usher. bens on a Purple Velvet Gee Dim Cushion, by Blow Coursier Mof Arras. THE IMP ERIAL CROWN Sapporter : OT THI UNITZD Z/TODONI Su pporter s OreetimaaUsher. bores on a Purple Velvet Gestleurea Usher. Cadges, by Clareseeuz ling of Arms. TM Lord Steward et Keeps: of his late Majesty's his late Majesty's Household. Privy Purse. The Lord Climbs/kin Goodman of Ms late Majoity's Heossboa Usher Muter of his lase Majesty's Household Gentleman I Usher. j il THE ROYAL. BODY, at 7 a 11 , ~.ci c 4 .... ..3 '. 1 m ......e ... II .. ••• 2. . : cs 4 I" ; - 41: 1 11 0 t tE . 0.4 I N I t e. g 1 4' .. : . 11 2 ig = c c ... F f n a g 1 -." ti n Covered with a Purple Velvet Pall, 2 . Co n. g.•-adorned with Tat Kecocheons of the V C ./ a t S' i Imperial Arms, under a Canopy of ti i Purple Velvet. First Gentleman Garter principal King of Gentleman Usher Usher Daily Waiter •Arms, bearing his of the Black Mod, to his late Majesty. Sceptre. bearing his Rod. The Cap of Maintenance, The Sword of State, borne by the Marquis of borne by the Duke of Winchester. M enjoin: et. TIM coin , 11011111IIR, THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, In a long Purple Cloak, with the Star of Supporter: the Order of the Garter embroidered there- Suppo rter : A Duke. on , wearing the Collars of the Garter , the A Duke. Bath, the Thistle, St. Patrick, and of the Royal Hanoverian Guelph ic Order, at. tended by his Royal Highness Prince GEORIBE Of CUMBERLAND. Train Bearets—Two Dikes. Sixteen Peers, Assistants to the Chief Mourner. panicles or Tilt BLOOD ROYAL. His Royal Highsmith* Duke of His Royal Highness the Duke o Sussex in • long black cloak, Cumberland in a long black with the Star of the Order of cloak, with the Star of the Or. the Garter embroidered there. der of the Garter embroidered on, and wearing the Collars of thereon, and wearing the Col. the Garter, the Thistle, andthe dare of the Garter, the Bath, Royal Hanoverian Guelphie St. Patrick, and the Royal Ha. Orda ; his train borne by two novetian Guelphic Order; his Gentlemen of his Royal High. Train borne by two Gentlemen tales's Household. of his Royal ighnese's House hold. His Royal Highness the Prince His Royal Highness the Duke Leopold of Saze Coburg in a of Gloucester in a long black long black cloak, with the Star cloak, with the Star of the of the Order of the Garter Order of the Garter onkel. embroidered thereon, and dered thereon, and wearing wearing the Collars of the the Collars of the Garter, the Garter, the Bath, and the Bath, and the Royal Hance. Royal . Hanoverian Guelphic verian Guelphic Order ; hiw Order • his Train borne by Train borne by two Gentle. two Gentlemen of his Royal men of his Royal Highness's Blghness's Household. Household. A Royal Guard of Honour , composed of one hundred and forty rank and file, with Officer :and non-commissioned officers in equal proportions, ftont the King's Company, the Coldstream and id Regiments of Guards, commanded by the Captain of the King's Company. Gentlemen Pensioners, with their axes reversed. Yeomen of the Guard, with their partizans reversed. Soo after his Majesty was seated, the 39th and 90th Psalms were sang. Psalm suis.--1 said, I will take heed to my ways : that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle while the ungodly is in my sight. I held my tongue, and spoke no. thing: I kept silence, yea, even from good words, but it was pain and grief to me. My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing, the fire kindled, and at the last I spoke with my tongue. Loan, lot me know my end, and the number of my days s that I may be certified how long I have to live. Behold, thou hest made my days as it were a span long ; and mine age is even as nothing in respect thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain : he beapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. And now, LORD, what is my h o zf ees truly my hope is even thee.— Deliver me from all mine ; and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish. I became dumb, and not my mouth, for It was thy doing. Take thy plague away from me : lam even consumed by means of thy heavy hand. When thou with rebukes dot chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment: e man therefore is but vanity. Hear my prayer, 0 Losie, and wit h thins MD consider my calling ; hold not thy peace at my tears. Foe I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner: as all my fathers were. 0 spare me a little, that I may recover my strength before I go hence, and be no more seen. Glory be to the Faison, fice. As it WU in the be ginning, &c. Psalm :a—Loan, thou has been our refuge from ace generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made; thou art Goa from everlasting, and world without end. Thou tumest man to desteuction s again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday : seeing that is past as a watch in the night. As soon as thou seatterest them, they are even as a sleep: and fade away suddenly like the grass. • In the morning it is green, and groweth up : but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. For we consume away in thy displeasure and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. Thou has set our misdeeds before thee: and our secret sins in the light of tby countenance. Fax when thou art angry, all our days are gone we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are three score years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years • yet is their strength then but labour sad sorrow ;so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. But who regardeth the power of thy wrath for even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Turn thee again, 0 LORD, at the last: and be gracious unto thy servants. 0 sandy us with thy mercy, and that boon : so shall we rejoice sad be glad all the days of our life. Comfort us again DOR after the time that thou bast plagued us; and for the years wherein we have emend adversity. Show thy servants thy work: and their children thy glory. And the glorious Majesty of the LORD our (lon be rpm us : prosper thou the work of our hands upon us, 0 prosper than our handy-week. Glory be to the FAssza, fie. As it was in the beginning, Ike. Then followed the Lesson taken out of the 18th chapter of the former Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, which was read by the Dean of Windsor in a solemn and impressive tone. " Now is Canter risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dea d. For as in Adam all die, even so in Cream shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order; Caltsr the first fruits; afterwards they that are Canter's at his coming. Then cometh the end. when be shall have delivered up the kingdom to GOD even the Father, when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. For he must reign till he bath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death; foe he bath put all things under his feet. But when he saith All things are put under him, it is ntabi. feet that be is excepted which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto hint, then shall the Sox silo himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that (ion may be all in all. Else what shall they do which are bap tized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? Why are they then baptized for the dead ? and why stand we in jeopardy every hour ? I protest by your rejoicing, which I have in CHRIST Jest's our Lord, I die daily. If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what adventageth it me if the dead rise not? Let us est and drink, for to.morrow we die. Be not deceived, evil communications corrupt good manners. Awake to righteousness and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of GOD. i speak this to your shame. But some man will say How are the dead raised up ? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou soweth is not quickened except it die; and that which thou soweth. thou soseth not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or ut some other grain: but (ion giveth it a body, as it bath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh ; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestial ; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of t h e terrest i a l i s another. Thai is one glory et the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of tbe stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resur. section of the dead ; it is sown in corruption : it is mimed in incor. ruption n it is sown in dishonour ; it is raised in glory : it is sown in wesknes ; it is raised in power: it is sown a natural body ; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written. The first man, Adam, was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quicken. in spirit. Howb e it that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is naturals and afterwards that which is spirituaL The Pint man is of the earth, earthy; the second man k the Loan from heaven. As is the earthy such are they that are earthy : and as is the heavenly, spch are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall olio boar the imap the heavenly. Now this I say. bred:ran, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of OoD ; neither doth co:replies inherit incorruption. Behold I show you a mystery : We shall not all sleep ; but we sh all all be Changed, in a :nosiest, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; (for the tram • shall sound, and the dad shall be mimed ineoesuptible, sad we shall be changed.) For this easeuldblo must put N hisselvt• tion and this mortal must put on immort a li t y ta ale ones t. cw ruptible 611811 have put on ineorruption, sad this mortal shall hate put on immortality ; then shall be btowibt to pass the 'Laying that is written. Death is swallowed up fa victory. 0 Death, whete is thy sting ? 0 Grave, where is thy victory ? Th e st i ng o fd eat h is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to GOD, which giveth us the victory through our Loan Jtsus Cuarsr.— ITherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye :steadfast, unmovable, al ways abounding in the work of the LORD: forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not vain Ia the Lord." Next came several of the grand dignitaries of State, and imme. 'diately after the coffin was borne in, spading to the order laid down in the programme. His Majesty, as chief mourner, having the Duke of Cumberland on his right, and the Duke of Sussex ea his left, while close behind him were the Duke of (Heutester mad Prince Leopold. The Earl of Vend= Karl Cathcart, the Earl of Errol, sad some other noblemen of dist inction s curled imperial ban ners, and stood immediately near the spot under the canopy where the coffin was deposited. After the lemon, the fine anthem vim given as follows : Hear my prayer, 0 OOD :-and hide not thyself Atom my petition. Take heed unto me, and hear me : bow I mount in my prayer, and am vexed. My heart is disquiet:d within m-; and the fear of death is fallen upon me. Then I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove : then would I flee away, and be at rest. The Dean of Windsor then read the usual passages prescribed by the Ritual, and in the meantime the body was let down into the vault ; Sir George Naylor as Garter King at Arms, throwing some earth upon it when the time arrived for performing that part of the ceremony. The second anthem was by Handel in the following words, and a finer sacred strain could not pasibly be beard : When the ear heard him, then it bleated him ; and when theeye saw him, it gave witness of him. He delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. Kindness, meekness, and comfort. were in his tongue. If there was any virtue, and it there was any praise, he thought on those things. His body is buried in peace. But his name liveth evermore. During the whole progress of the service the King appeared deeply affected His Majesty sat at the head of the coffin in front of the Communion Table, and the scene before him was or.e highly adeulated to make a powerful appeal to his fetlings. It was nu. possible for,him not to reflect that all earthly pomp was fleeting r,tl evanescent, and that th, ugh the successor to a Crown, he was still the survivor of a brother. Ut vivant genius animi, ducenda ramen aunt Funera natorum, rogue aspicientlans amato Conjugis, fratris, plensgoe so. oasts %Lae. We regret to say that in the course of the ceremony an sezident occurred which had very nearly proved tiral to Sir Astley Cooper. A piece of the carved work of one of the stalls in which he was seated, fell suddenly upon his forehead, directly over he eve.bruw. and cut him so severely that the blood is.ued trim the wound in pro. fusion, staining his white handkerchief all over. The lump of wood weighed not less than twenty pounds, and we beard butt say that had it tillen on the crown of his head instead of 1).1 hie brow, it must inevitably have killed hint. A young page, who was sitting very near to him, sustained some par isl J.-jury from the accident, but it was very fortunate tin rc watt no serious result in either use. The heat in every art of the choir was so oppressive that several per.ons were unable to endt.r: it, and one gentleman fainted while standing close to the altar The whole ceremony was over within five minutes to eleven, and the King, at tended by the great Officers of state, and the members of his suite, retired to his private closet ; while Sir tirorge Nsyler procl tinted the style and titles of the late Monarch with all the customary forms. Thus ended a pageant, splendid in itself, yet, at the same time, not by any means realising all tl at was anticipated from it ; and if any thing were wanting to show the ingratitude of human nature. we might observe that some of those courtiers who owed the deepest obligations to Omige the Fourth were seen looking with smiling countenances over his tomb at a moment when it was to close upon bins for ever THE ICE OF LONDON. Though tiecirieficeireOiTnie;e; was Windsor, on account of the august and solemn ceremony which we have hove described. yet the appearance of this great capital was of a kind to excite anti arrest attention. The Loan MATOIII had called upon the citizens, by public rotice,to show respect to the day of his late Majesty's funeral, and the all was not only readily and generally, but zealously and universally complied with. Every shop and place of public business was closed, and in a great number of instances the shutters even of the private dwel were up. The streets, however, 3s were pretty closely thron with passengers during the day, the consequence in part of t he cessation of all ordinary business, and in part of the anxiety to witness some part of the ceremony at Windsor, towards which ambers were seen hastening in the early part of re day. The continued tolling of the bells, especially in those quarters of the city which are thickly studded with churches, had as extremely solemn and mournful erect. The intervals of the tolling were, as regularly as possible, one minute each during the day. la the evening the streets were mote crowded than during the day. This was to be ascribed to the firing of the cannon at the Tower and in the Park. Tills late hour, or rather till this morning, Pk/usenet, the Strand, and the other great t horoughfarcs were thronged. Sixty minute guns were fired at the following places r—At Gravesend, from 6 until 7 o'clock ; at Purfiect, from 7 to 8 ; at Woolwich, from 8 to 9; at the Tower of London, from 9 to 10 ; at fit. Jimors Park, from 10 to 11; and at Windsor, from II to 12 edge. The cannon on the north.taat ba.tion of the Tower. opposite the Royal Mint, which had not been used since the inter nment the late Duke of York, were fired on the occasion. Tim vessels on the Thames joined in the usual nautical mode of es. pressing sorrow, by displaying their flags half-mast ; and praying so fine a day, they made an elegant appearance, their silks fluttertnia gracefully in the wind. The Royal standard was hoisted at the Tower and Somerset-house. WISTMINSTSI AissT..—Yesterday divire iscre7ce •a- stye heated at Westminster Abbey, on the occasion of the funeral of his late Majesty George IV. A sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Holosobe, one of the Prebendaries, who took his text front the Ist sharer of Job, last verse. The service commenced at ten o'clock, being an hour earlier then was expected by numbers of persons, who did net reach the Abbey till eleven. Thu* msny individuals who wished to be present on this occasion were disappointed of hearing Divine Service, for the congregation was coming out whilst nu. merous candidates for admission were arriving. Prayers were of fered up in the afternoon at three o'clock. Sr. James's CZUSCII, PICCADILLT.—Yesterday being ap pointed *Reba petformance of the obsequies of our hoe Sorereigu, was consecrated to the offices of piety appropriate to so mournful an occasion. Divine service was accordingly solemnised in the perish church of St. James, at three o'clock in tile afternoon ; but the con gregation of this fashionable sanctuary, we were sorry to find, con sisted of not more than half a donut individuals —a number that contrasted strangely with Its spacious dimensions. A similar tin - menial, it is said, would have been observed at the Chapel Royal, but for the unavoidable abeam, of the choir avid ecclesiastical ufa ciaht, who had repaired to Windsor, luring been required to 0,1•INI at the funeral of the departed King. ST. Jesse's, CL NICNWELL.—The Kit icy cornna need here at six o'clock. The church was, as usual upon such ruelancbolv occasions, hung with black. The preacher addressed the very nu merous and respectable congregaticn assembled, taking his test foot, the 146th Psalm : Put not yuur trust in princes, nor in the sun man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth—h. re. turneth to his earth—in that very day his thoughts perish." Ile proceeded to enforce the truth of the word, of the iespre writer, by a reference to the late Wigwam of the triumph of th• grave over the artificial splendour of the throne, and the proud magnifi cence of terreetrial monarchy. George IV. elept with his fations ; end his sufferinp,which had excited so much 'tympani an:onget his subjects, but too literally verified the saying, that there was tic royal road to the grave. They should remember, however. that kings were not exempt from the frailties incident to human nature, and they should bear in mind that his private character in no way interfered with the public excellenews of his glorious raga. As a monarch he might be described as affectionate, ki!..1.• meeciful, and horsiest, and the regret occasioned by his death was universal and sincere throughout the es entry. Atter congratulating his auditory upon the acct salon to the gracious Sovereign who nos tills the throne, the reverend preacher concluded with an ittpreesiee lecture upon the iustablity or human life and eke I rung mature ir all earthl ppects. Tx is n y em ros agora es.—The congregation of Po:supreme, Spanieh and Oriental Jews, maenibleci at thew eynagegue s in Reviemark near St. Mazy Axe, at three o'clock Intensely, and aervice can . malted as usual ; after which a fume) sermon was delivered by tbt Rev. David lit idols. The text was taker. trom 2slKmita, chap —" 1 will gather thee unto thy fathers. arie $ shalt be gathereet into thy grave in peace." The boys of the orphan charity echo° sang the 21st, fast, and 72el Psalms. Then followed the prayer or onr present Most Gracious Sovereign, her Meister, ,net all .he Rms. Faintly. The synagogue was hung with hlaiit and the alias reading.deak, ke. wets covered with the wan Sr. DUNSTAN'S, STLPSIP:T.—The grand peal of ten bell* i• the tower of Se. Dunstan's church, • epssy, and the ling at elge bells in the sile of St. Mary, Hotkezltklte, wer e muesli yeetei day, and several peals were twig at intervals daring the day. as • *ken of respect to the atertiostry of hie late Majesty. George IV. the Moony, the late ILAs age was stoat so she most of ph*. balls of bout photo; besides the toted chitties, ad weed were rung se oaths-bells of the two peels. The troveh N :h nioseafisl o plinstessoft a suniber of paten. as in •h de, we ehwralrrs, sod the deep and senswous tome d t. • bells raised a fogless of awe awl saeleweholg is the oriole .. all promise ‘4, 1 07 ,N I i `; t i , I