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THE EVENING STAR. , LONDON. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1817. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK r Reduced eti—Cooa. ssf—Far Nov. its, as}} —For Ops.seff 4 per Cent. 9944-5 per Coat. Navy 10444 ladle Bonds es 99 pr.—Exchequer Bes 19 ri pr. , THE LATE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. The preparations for the funeral of our beloved departed P 111,2031 are at length completed. The form of the ceremonial was last night (and not be fore) definitively arranged. All that has hitherto lien stated upon this sublect is trmneous. The fol •.: I tw in' particulars may be relied upon as authentic : The body was on Saturday night deposited in the State c.,ffin, and to-morrow evening it will be re moved from Claremont iit.,as private a manner as possible, under an escort of cavalry, to Windsor, ' where it will lie in state all Wednesday. At eight • o'clock in the evening of that day the mournful pro. cession. from the Lower Lodge. to St. George's Chapel will commence. It will be flanked by the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), every fourth horse bearing a flambeau. Prince LEOPOLD will be the • Chief Mourner, supported by their Royal Highnesses 'the Dukes of Yonx and CLARENCE. Four Baronesses Will be the pall bearers, and the canopy will be sup ported by eight Geode:nen U.hers. The fdllowing Pare some further particulars, derived from another source: Saturday evening the coffins and urn were removed : in a hearse and four to Claremont, 'whither Mr. MARSH, of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, had pre "eiously gone. The object of Mr. MARSH% visit, we oaderstand, was finelly to take Prince Leneatn's in stroctioos as to the course which it may be his wish to . have observed in removing the remains of the Patacess and her infant to Windsor, preparatory to interment. His Serene Highness, we.leare, has ex pressed the strongest wish that the procession from ,Claremont should be conducted in the most private' manner possible. In deference to this desire, we us., derstand a hearse, drawn by eight horses, with appro.' •priate decorations, and attended br six mourning coaches, each drawn by six beautiful black horses ' , is to proceed to Claremont on Tuesday afternona.j There are also to be in attendance about 40 motes' pages, and" bearers, on horseback, together with every other attendant necessary to give solemnity to life scene. • .• Soon after six, the bodies of the mother and in fant, with the urn, will be placed in the hearse, and Move on at a slow pact. A mourning coach, con. mining Lis Serene Highness as chief mourner, will immediately follow—his Serene Highness having ex• pressed his desire to be as near the body as possible ; •MOd this will be succeeded by the other mourning • containing her Royal aghness's physicians, ' ' the principal Officers of her Household, male lad female. The whole will proceed at a (nor pace, and with out lights, across the country to Windsor, taking the road along Walton-bridge, through Staines to the .main Hounslow road, the bells of every village church through which the mournful cavalcade passes, ringing for the departed. As 'there will be no stop page,it is expected the procession will reach 'Wind. aot soon after twelve o'clock. It will immediately !advance to the Lower Lodge,- where every prepare. 4lni will be made for its reception. The bodies will L 'be conveyed into a room prepared for their lying in k sate. The coffins will be placed on a bier under a a'ich canopy of black velvet, ornamented with a pro fusion of plumes, and will there remain till removed laitlheir last sad depository in St. Georges Chapel. The room in question has been covered in every pas • .bwalls, mils& and floor, with black cloth. Escut ralsatoos. bearing the Arms of her Royal Highness. .ate suspended in various directions. and a profusion f'uf wax lights will give a melancholy splendour loth*. 1. ,blowt-rendisig scene. • • . Apartments have been .prepared for the conve. received be by his. Royal Highness the Duke of ton& and line of his Royal Brothers, who are to accompany bias as Chief Mooniest.. Adjoining the room in which the Royal remains are to lie in state, is ma anti-chamber, also fined with 1 Math cloth and lighted with was, in which the sve. • " r 1 persons who are to take . part'io the proceedings so assemble. It is notintentleallatiat the Public • • be &floated indiscriminately to 4w the coillaa ding is to be lorpros quiet owl:0401c Bede • be prepared for all dig persons who May auteleb * t oy the precession as mourners from Clarinet, 'di :47 the Lodge and at the White kiiirt. Summonses +a* bees sent to all those persons 1 u s e menu at the fn.neral is considered news ' ; *Meant whom are an the Ministers of State, mad the various AXEcers of hi. Majesty's Household. W the Royal bakes in Eagibod will also be present, Use meth Meet of whom trims LIAPOLD will M. es Chief bieureer. Trove already stated, thit 'the Primessise ii . ea: east to commence it motions by eight o'cirbk. reins arches roar s an aveias will be formed from entrance if tin Lees 'to dogmas tithe A W is Tblre-lialiemt: of -Foot Girard* a • I . ' 2. •.% great proportion of whom will bear flambearz. An avenue will also be formed within the Chapel, from the entrance at the south door to the Chair, by the Horse Guards, likewise beating flambeaux, and thiss an uninterrupted passage will be preserved, and all contusion prevented. The space en either side of the avenue will be opened for the reception of the public. The Chapel itself has been completely lined with superfioe black cloth. The altar has been sepatated from the rest of the choir, and seats erected for the reception of the Nobility and Gentry who do not take part in the Procession, but Who have expressed an anxiety to be present during the ceremony. Tickets will also be granted, as far as prudence will permit, for the gratification of persons within the aisle of tfie Chapel, who may view the passing scene from behind the soldiery. " CLAREMONT. N0V.15, Saturday Monolog. Nibs o'CUck. " Prince LiroAcres indisposed and afflicted state has not prevented him from Liking the air during the week, except yesterday, when it did not cease rain ing till the evening. His Serene Highness walks in the most retired ,parch of the park and pleasure. grounds. He was accompanied by the Rev. Dr. Sttota, who is his Constant companion in section, to soothe his sorrows, which is an arduous task, as the Doctor has need 9f a comforter himself, having been the Sub-Preceptor of the Princess, and to him she was particularly endeared by repeated acts of kindness. It is believed here, as stated in the Lon. don Papers, that Prince LaovoLD intends following his beloved Princess to the grave as chief memrsitr, not on)in the state procession at Windsor, but she in the so removal from hence toWindsor, which is understood is to take place in the night, but the precise amen not known here. H The present Duke of GLOUCUTER followed his ,•fother, the late Duke, as chief mourner, who died in Loyd9n. but he did not go with the procession from London, which was in the day tire I but his snes went to 'Windsor privately, and Royal4ligh joined the procession there." MUTH= INTEREST= PARTICVLARt. " CLAIMIONT. Sunday, Four eClu.k, P.M. " Last evening was the time appointed for the final enclosure of the body of. the most exalted and beloved of Princesses in her State Coffin, &c. Mr. MARli s of the Lord 'Chamberlain's office, arrived early to superintend the proceedings. *high were ar ranged so to take place, that the feelings of Prince La aquas might not bc harassed by the sight Or know- ledge of any thing that was going on ; and at seven o'clock, when • hiS Serene Highness retired to his private room, the Rev. Dr. SHORT end Dr. STOCIC. MAR, his resafent Physician; accompanied him; and it was so arranged that they were to renatin with him, to.engage his attention. Soon after the retire• ment of the Prince, the plumbers attending for that ' ptirpose, proceeded to solder the lead coffin. The remov.al of the state coffin from Londor to this place . had beeu very judiciously arranged—it left the house of Messrs. Fnasce and BANTINO, in Pail Mall, be tween five and six o'clock. in a hearse, drawn by four, horses, followed by a mourning coach, in which was the outside urn, and the outside coffin for the infant; ' another mourning coach followed, in which was Mr. BANTINO, one of the Royal Undertakers, and his as sistants. They proceeded on the toad in a private manner, unnoticed, and only baited for a sheet time at Kingston Bottom, to rest and feed the horses.— They arrived a little before ten o'clock; and entered she Park and the house by the back entrance in the most solemn silence. The State Coffin was conveyed to the bed room, where the remains of the Princess were deposited in the inner mahogany coffin, inclosed in a lead coffin. which hive already been described ; they were lifted into the State Coffin, which is of ma hogany, covered with the richest crimson velvet, or namented in the most splendid ant elegant style, and far surpassing any thing of the kind that has eve, been executed. The handles, which have on former occasions been onky resembling those of trunk handles, are executed in a manner to have the effect of very handsome ornaments, highly finished, and embossed with very superior workmanship. Ibe urn is orna mented in a sistiilar manner: The - coffin of tle infant is covered with crimson velvet, the JrnaMents of silver I those of the Patecrsa's v4/fin and urn are isigisip gilt. The plate on the Pitl4C2+4 9 B coffin was engrevedby Mr. Gra.auer, the King's Goldsmith, in Cocksporstreet. as The spectators of this mournful and heart-rend ingperfornrance weee—The Baron HAILOCNBROOSE, Sit R. GABDINAB, Colonel ADDENBitOICI4 Lady J. Inman, Mrs. CAMPBELL, Mrs. Lawns, Mrs. PAPBX , DoUlte, The great object in faeiktating this so- Mme performance, was to have the wbble completea b e fore eleven o'clock, being the hour at which his Germ Highness bas nightly visited the remains of his beloved Panama since her decease, to weep over them, previous so his retiring to his bed. is Happily the whole was accomplished before the clock Struck eleven, and the persons employed in the operations retired. from view, so that when the Prince entered the room, be could only behold noe cutup substituted for ano(her. The regular Bulletins Mb opening Prince LmeoLo were. discontinued yeseer... day. The answer to the numerous inquirers was. sills Serene Hineness has find some sleep s and is such the sates as yesterday, there being no mark 'tion from agorday. Divine lOritige: was performed today by Dr. diobar, sensual. The Duke of Ybitm paid another v;sit to.da7 to the Prince. Viscount MJLVILLE, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHINWEIti and Mr. CANNING, paid visits of condolence." " WINDSOR, NOVEMBER IS. 14 The time is fast approaching, when the hour of inclinable grief will be more acutely felt by the pub. 'lie in the funeral of the Princess Cnaanorra of WALIIX Every subsequent arrangement is finally ended from thif day ; and it no longer remains a secret that the corps will be removed from Clare mont on Tuesday neat, in funteal procession, moving through the retired villages of Walton, Sheppertow, Laleham, the town of Staines, and pass the celebra ted spot of Runnymede. " Oa the arrival of the mouroful procession, the Wits will be deposited in the apartment at the Lower Lodge, in Ste Alben'i.street, Windsor, where the work of solemn-preparation commenced this af ternoon. The Royal Horse Guards (Blue) are likely to'perform the sad office of escorting their departed and ever-to-be regretted Princess, from Claremont to this destiont on. Up to a late hour this evening, so orders were issued to the regiment, farther than the calling is of the different detachments from New bury and Maidenhead. to assemble here. on M-inday. " The 3d Regiment of Guards will do the duty of fl taking the pro.est-ion on Wedhe , nlay evening, and bearing the fl imbeana. The remaining detach ment will march in heie no Monday, lot fining a corps of more than 700 men. They will line the route from the Lower Lodge down St. Alban's streer, along High-street, up Castle-hill, to the South En• trance of St. George's Chapel. We beliese the Horse Guards will on this occasiqa be ciiimeueted, 'to pre vent the confusion of their horses wlfding off the spectators in the darkness of night. This morning an order was given to the privates' of the 3d Regiment of Guards, to dispense with their wearing black crape round their left arm, in order to prevent the invidious distinction that would arise among their comrades who had not furnished them select with a corresponding emblem of mourning. I)ut even this interdiction does not in the remotest degree deprive them of the complimentary return which their spontaneous feelings have merited from a generous public. 41 It is well known that the disconsolate and heart broken Prince LtoPoLD will follow the corpse of his separated affectionate consort. Nothing but the fai lure of bodily health will counteract the determina tion already formed of his following an adored com panion to the verge of the tomb. Three state ear. riages, with the most revered friends of the Farhat acacia, will likewise accbmpany this solemn cere isohy, besides the presence of me Royal Dukes, the Cabinet Ministers, the retinue of her Mascrev, the Princesses, and the lioukholds of the great Officers of State. "It will be subject of interesting record, if we allude to the sleet tomb in which will be deposited the remains of the Princess Cstattorta of W *UHL 06 The Royal Dormitory adjoins tilt East End of St. George's Chapel. It made a most ruinous ap.: pearance until the year 1800, when his Maxem or dered the windows and other external parts to be re paired. In the year 1810, his Me.resev was deter mined to construct.within its walls a royal dormitory. : An excavation was formed of the whole length and width of the building, to the depth of fifteen feet.frods the surface. in this the sepulchre is constructed.— ' The dimensions of the tomb are 70 feet in length, 28 in width, and 14 in depth. The receptacles for bodies on the sides of the tomb are Formed by mai sin Gothic columns of an octagon shape, supporting a range of four shelves, each of which, in the space between the columns, will contain two bodies, the whole range of each side admitting thirty.two bodies. At the east end are five niches► for the reception of as' .many coffins. In the middle twelve low tombs are erected for the Sovereigns. The sepulchre will thus contain eighty-one bodies. The columns are of fine Bath stone, and the shelve! of fine Yorkshire stone. A subterraneous passage is formed from the vault under the choir of St. freorge's Chapel. in which an iperture is made; near the ascent to the altar, for the bodies to descend. From the columns springs a calked roof over the tomb. " In this Mausoleum are deposited the bodies of the Princess Amine, Who was interred November 13, 1810; and the Duchess of Barnswicx, interred the Slat March, l 813." u WINDSOR. NOVFMNER IG. a Yesterday morning the Duchess of GLourEsran paid a visit to her MAJFirY and the Princesses, and returned to Bagshot to dinner. The Duke of YORK arrived from London to visit her MAJmTY an 4 the Princesses, and went to Oatiands to dinner. Sir Fascia Mit.wasr arrived from Pinner to visit her Mann:, and afterwards west to London. This morning, after Divine Service, her MAJESTY and the Pridcesses, attended by the Ladies in Waiting, took lan airing in the Little Park at Frogmore." 66 PORTSMOLT I H, NOV. IL. Every genttir.e token of heartfelt sorrow is ob. lerved. Amusements and festivities, public and pri vate, have been postponed ; our churches; Chapels, .aad dissenting plsces of worship, have been bang in .sable; and personal emblems of 'mourning sie deep and general. The - whole of the privates bf the 51st Regiment, and the Royal Marines, have pat crape, on their arms, to stew their lamentation ind respect. fir the penman. Wedneiay neat, beiig the day appointed for the funeral of this lamented object of a . nation's grief, all the shops will be closed, and b es i. ness of every kind suspended. u The moment intelligence of the decratte rt Royil Highness reached Cowes, the colours e r t h, Castle were lowered to half-mast, AIM at r Sunday, a salute of 21 guns was fired, at rnirt ite tertals ; which was returned by a miler salute h—r r , the Viper tender, commanded by Lieutenan t then lying in' the Roads. The flags at Hurst and Calshot Castle are also struck half-mr, t , will continue to until after the burial of her Highness." , g CHATHAM, NOVE'.vnER “ Sunday, at Chatham Church, the Itev. Mr. HAk KIR preached an affecting and approprilte serniu. the death of the deeply-deplored Princess CIIARLnTTi from Heb. xi. latter part of the 18th verse. All hear were tmpresssed with melancholy feelings, when then went on.that day w humble themselves before the r e ,' DISPOSER of HUMAN DESTIVIES, whose awful and in scrutable dispensation had so recently consigned d young, beautiful, and amiable Princess, to an one: petted and early death. He deplored that lamen - able event in the most pathetic language, an ,I eye was dimmed with tears. The chord was to which he wished should vibrate. The v.tniti-s human lite were deafly shewn, and a lesson v r . gaol's resignation to the Divise will in this Ldl: I pilgrimage, and the necessity of aspiring after t iii.n , ints and that crown which never fade, wa, forced,with gieat keling and effect." 4, DOVER, NOVEMBER 1 ' Notices has been siren i.s our Churches this . that in consequence of the irsterrnent of her late P. 1149111(.5s the , Princess CIDIRL'•TTE of WALr I Wednesday next, that Dtvine Service v. •a be 1 , formed on that day the same as on Sundays. 1:;v, since the sad news reached paver, the flag at th Castle and those on board all the vessels in the hir- Gour have been hoisted only half mast, and mour.•io ; is general throughout the town." " DUMFitTE.S, NOVENITIER t i. ' 6 The Magistrates and Town Council of Damtt... met this day, and unanimously agreed to go to Cleav in a body, in deep mourning, on account r f the mentable death of the Princess CHAnLerrE of WALK,. Most sincerely do we offer our hull:ale tribute of con dolenee, to the husband who has lost such a cons:::1; the father who has lost such a d tuAhter ; and :h -nation that has lost loth a Princess! Never, has been truly said, did England display such a scene , of real sorrow. The blow is given so high—the at fection so heavy—the lesson to humanity is so im. Flre‘sive—that all ranks arpearto feel it as a pcnklin and awful dispensation of PRoviame! It is ;he tender sex every eye is filled with a tear. arpong men every 1/0 quivers with an expretslon or scrrav, and the hearts pi the universal British per:ple are as the heart of a single parent upon this woeful occasion." " DUBLIN, NOVEMBER 13. " The LORD CHANCELLOR 1113 postponed to a fa cure day, on account of the lamcntcd death of her Royal Highness the Princen CHARLOTTE, the grand entertainment which kis Lordship was to have given to-morrow to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, the Countess of TALBOT, and several of the No/07 and two other personages of distinction now in torn. 44 Mr. Fialvvuortea's dinner to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and suite, the LORD Camicsucat and the principal Nobility, which was to have been given yesterday, is also postponed. N Several entertainments of the Nobility and others in high life ate deferred on this melancholy oncasisn. " The Clara Musical Association have closed their Assembly Rooms, and discontinue public playing until further notice, in consequence of the much !a, merited death of her Royal Highness the Prancers CHARLOTTE of WALLS." Never was a mourning so universal as that fot our beloved and lamented Paisms yesterday. Is !host, it was as if the whole community had formed b..lt one afflicted family, and every individual had lost dear sister, an affectionate friend, or a Lind bemf; s tress. Such was the appearance in tle streets. whls: iti.in the Churchet and other places of Divine \`••c:. , , ship, the same mournful tale was again take., t:p. and coupled with those instructive lessons of whieil it was so abundantly fruitful. We were taught tha • in the midst of life we were in death, and were ad monisbed so to number onr days, that we might a ply our hearts unto wisdom. Sever al of the place of religious assembly were more than usually crowded; and in one instance, that of Salters' Hall, re tost'd a much greater number of persons collected arc.:.:d the doors than could obtain admission, or my., an Ci portuoity to hear the attractivepreacher, Dr. Cctv . During the latter end of the preceding Vecit, vi indulged,a pleasing melancholy in surveying the re• patations that were making for accommcdatirg et! religious edifices to the mourning of the nation. In St. Paul's Cathedral we found the pulpit, rt.otil; desks, and communion table, hung with black c'ot t: and in Westminster Abbey, the same parts of de Choir, prepared to be decorated with black velvet. la the Churches of St. Mary, in the Strand, St. Clement Danes, St. Giles, in the Fields, and St. Andrew, Hol• born, with those in Ludgate -street, AldermanSur! , and Eatbolomew-lane, the pulpits and the reading desks, the Clerks desks, and the communion rabies, , were completely clothed in. black, as were those St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, and the pulpit and .tbe Clerk's desk of the Scots' Church, London Wag At tbd Church of St. Paul, Covent Garden, the /