The National Register. — London, England, 1821-09-03 00:00:00

-7e HER LATE MAJESTY'S REMAINS. EXTRACT OF A LETTER ►ROM !MADE, DATED AUG.2O. Between three and font- o'clock two or three Hamburg passage vesaels, which had been employed for the purpose, arrived at the Stone.ttairs, with the hearse, the mourning rOdeilell and other carriages, belonging to those who at tended the funeral. They were all carefully taken out by a crane near the landing place. if ALF-FAAT rive o'cr.ota.—Thonsandt of people are now collected in all the places within the view of the quay, anxiously waning the arrival of the Royal corpse, which it coming tin the narrow river Schwinge ; the nth batta lion of Hanoverian infantry is drawn up in front of the place; and a squadron of Instant, or lancers, is stationed Its th it position, from which it can precede the funeral.— The Burgers in their mooriting dresses arc ids° waiting to joi n the procettion. The 1)44 are tolling mournfully the guns are firing; and the individuals who compose the surronteding assenildige are waiting silently and deco rously to pay the latt honour to their Queen. ARRIVAL OF THE FUNERAL. . . . Between six and the boat containing the Royal coffin, and the other boats with the mourners, the attendants, and Hu itish naval officers, came up to the lauding ;dace. In consequence of the late hour at which the hearse and mourning coaches' arrived, it was impos sible to put them in stick a state of readiness as to make use of them in the procession $ and therefore it was re solved that so much of the fomentl as regarded the pro. cession to the chords sl Id be a walking one. The moosners and attendants then walked up the steps, the coffin was taken out by she undertakers' men, who Iliad been bronght from London for the purpose of assisting at the funeral. Sir George Nayler walked before the coffin, bearing the clown and cushion in Isis,hands ; be was pre ceded by Ft body of Malawi, while the infantry lined and prevented the populace from bites ruining the line of It is impossible sufficiently to deserille the sensations which at this time were visible in the contacts:tilers of all those who came to witness this mourninl ceremony.— The Germans are well known to be as benevolent a race of people as any in the seat Id ; their natural sympathies were now wound up to the highest pitch; they recollected that an illustrious female, a native of their awn country, bail, a little more than six and twenty years before passed through their town, on her way to the possession of bridal felicity and royal splendour; they now beheld the sad remains of that distinguished lady cattier, np the very steps which she had mice descended in the glow of health, of youth, 111111 beauty. These recollections. as well as the loyalty for which they are all distinguished, operated so powerfully on their feelings, that tears of sorrow were seen trickling down their cheeks. A solemn sound now proceeded at intervals from a moiled drum; the corpse was carried slowly forward. Lord Hood, as chief mourner, walked immediately behind the body; he was followed by Lady Anne Hamilton and Lady Hood. Next ratite Dr. and Mrs. Lushington t after them Mr. and Mrs. Wilde; the Rev. Mr. Wood and Mr. William Austin walked next e then followed Count Vassali, Lieutenant HOWII4III, &C. &c. Marlette Bitten was also in the procession. which moved slowly and mournfully along through the pi incipal streets leading to the church of St. Williadi. I should have stated that, as soon as the corpse was landed, the Lutheran Pastors belonging to this place, namely, Herman Rodartz, Bulsch, Major, and Hinderthier, together with two or three dignified Eerie 'navies, one of whom (Dr. Ruperti) enjoys a rank and authority equivalent to that ofa Bishop, took their sta tions in front, and led the way into the church. On arriving there, the military filed elf on each side. The ciao was carried in slow and solemn 'lace along the aisle to the altar, where it was placed on the catafalque erected for the occasion in the centre of this venerable snot, which had been previously hung 'amid with black, and in the front of which festoons of ci ape were suspended. All room' the altar immerous candles were lighted ; the branch which bong over it was also covered with lighted candles. Atter the coffin was laid down, a solemn dirge was perfumed on the organ ; and, a little after seven o'clock, the company who had crowded into the church quietly and decorously retired. The coffin was guarded all night by a party of soldiers, together with two of the undertakers' wen, who were relieved in regular succes sion. Tuttscrefr, Auc. 21.—At eight o'clock this morning the braise and mour oo ll g coached were put in a state of readiness to proceed on their join:slay. About half past nine eight Site horses were put to thr hearse, which wiredrawn up to the barrnek square, close to the hotel Herzog sou Cumberland, where Sit George Nos ler, Mr. Calvert, and others appointed to conduct the funeral, had taken up their residence fur thl night. Allow eleven o'clock, the hearse, accompanied by sixteen mounted Holum, proceeded to the church, outside which a military guard of honour was stationed ; guards were also placed in the church, and candles were aril hurtling.— The corpse was then, under the direction of Messrs. Bailey and Chittenden, the undertakers, carried out by their men, and placed in the hearse ; and as the hearse went away, the guard on each side presented arms.—The hearse then press ceded and followed by Humans, was drawn again to the barrack square. Sir Gorge Nayler then, in a mourning enact' and six, with the crown and cushion, went nit before the hearse, which was f.lluw,d by three or four mourning co iches, and Oise or fuar clittists, all of which was lilted with the pat ties who a alkyd yesterday evening to the church. Six or seven stool waggons. hired fur the conveyance of the undertaker's men, and tither attendants, 11101 brought up the I tar. 1 company of infantry . mai chill before, and another beltiod the ptueession. When Miry came 1., the first gate at the fortress, a auarit of honour siatimied th re presented arms as tile royal corpse passed. Alter the funeral had gone thr. U,Il all the other gates, the infantry guards halted ; they wr le awn up iu rank nod tile tin the side of the road, and after picsenting arms they marched back into the town.— The /total's then twin lied on to Bullleltildr, ;Sere the whole of the parties forming the priscessi tttt are to rest this night. I expect to use, take the funeral tOstitOrrOw mornrog, or pre hap, to be tat Buxteliude before it sets out from that Ili:a - relit:DE, AUG. 21.—Leaeitig Spade al an early L•twr this mutton:, the ',met:smolt arrived in the alter 11001i at Blixtettude. About a quarter of a mile without the t 0.% it, the di'Zellb and magistrates met the Matra', and attended it bareheaded to tile church, where it was dt tor the math. !•501.. r AU, At: a. 22 —TIP- procession was met on its c mit) Sill.do illy the etitz.•tis and authorities oldie 1114 Ce the Mlle iiiilliter as at litixiehude; and twenty liabited In W611.e, strewed flowers before the THE NATIONAL REGISTER brake. Tile Lancers, who hail accompanied the fune ral from Slade, were relieved at this place by a detach ment of Hussars. CELLE, Auo 24 —Some of the most respectable inhabitants of this place requested, as a lavour to the multitude, that the het:rse might he opened fur a moment. Their desire was complied with. At Bergen the Hussars who accompanied the funeral were relieved by a guard of Cuirassiers ; and the entrance id the cavalcade into Celle was marked by demonstra tions of the highest regard and anentiod. authori. ties came out to meet the procession. The bells were tolled; the streets were Hued with soldiers; girls again strewed flowers before the hearse; and the coffin being carried into the great chinch of the city, was placed (by a singular coincidence) upon the tomb of the unfortunate sister of George 111. Matilda Queen of Uenntark. OFFAU. AUG. Y4.—About 110011 this day the proces sioit, on its way to Brunswick, was met at 011ati by the Count Aldenslaben, Grand Chantherlaiu of the Court. That officer intimated to Lord Hood and Dr. Lushing too, that he wished to make arrangements for the inter. meat, which was to take place upon the same evening. Lord Hood and Dr. Loshington resisted a proposal which appeared to them inconsistent with the respect due to the illustrious remains placed under their charge. it was then agreed that Lord Hood, with Dr. Lashing ton, Lady livid, Lady A. Hamilton, Mrs. Litsitingtou, and the remainder of the mourners, should at once go forward to Brunswick ; that the funeral procession should follow so as to arrive at tell at night at the gates of the city ; and that, at that t! me, the personages attending and officiating should go out to meet it. This arrangement was decided upon. The mounters went forward; and the hearse, with the mourning coaches, conti tttt lug its slow and solemn course, arrived about ten o'clock at the outer barrier. BRUM/WM/E. . - _ The people of Brunswick had received no intimation that her Majesty was to be buried in the to,nb of her ancestors till the Thursday evening, when it was announced that on the very neat night the funeral was to take place. The authorities, and the general population, equally expressed disgust at this precipitate nterment of their illustrious and beloved Princess ; but it was understood that the order was peremptory, and could not be digs puts!. Little doubt remained that Count Munster was the per. son who had issued the mandate to conduct the funeral obser i x t of the Queen of England in a manner least calculated to the people an or porttniity of manifesting their attachment and respect. But the scheme, from whatever source, utterly failed of its intended effect. The enthusiastic regard of the Bruns wickers for their sovereign's family, and their particular affection for their deceased Queen, were too deeply rooted and genuine to require any formal notice of preparation. In an instant a popu lauon of 10.000 souls, though without the possibility of concert, seemed actuated by one resolution to show how much sincere respect exceeds the official sorrow demanded by a Government Go/tuft ; and determined by " their swift unbespoken pomp," to put to theme all the elaborate preparations of a College of Heralds. In o'Ccoffe. FRISAT NIGHT , August 2 At this hour Lord and Lady flood, Lady Ann Hamilton, Dr, and Mrs. Lushington, and Mr. and Mrs. Wilde, and the other mourners who had previously arrived at Brunswick, were in formed that the hearse with die mortal remains of the Queen had arrived at the outer barrier, about a mile distant from the inner barrier, or entrance into the town. They immediately ordered their carriages, and proceeded to the place provided for their re ception. wit ch was a large room on the ground floor of an inn. In the middle of the road opposite the door of the inn stood the hearse, guarded by an escort of the black regiment of Bruns. wickets, a( the head of whom the late Duke, the brother of the Queen, fell gallantly fighting at the battle of Waterloo. It was eleven o'cloc - k, and Sir G. Nayler was preparing to marshal the procession, when the Grand Chamberlain and the Commandant of the town presented themselves, and desired a few minutes conversation with Sir George and Mr. Calvert before the proces sion should begin to move. They stated that they bad an urgent request to make on behalf of the people of Brunswick $ it was, that a deputation of respectable citizens aright be permitted to draw the funeral car. Sir George Nayler began to express his disapprobation, though without assigning any reason. Captain Hesse here interposed, and with an apology for his intrusion, as%ed, whether the request of the citizens of Brunswick was to he considered as a mark of respect or otherwise. To this it was instantly answered, that it was certainly as a mark of the pro foundest respect for the illustrious deceased. Sir George Nayler still maintained the appearance of opposition, but slowly entered his coach. The various mourners now ascended their carriages, and an order was given fur the procession to move. The scene that now presented itself, at once solemn and magnificient,baißes all description s no painting could do justice to its striking effect on the eye, no poetry could express the pathos and sublimity of its moral effect on the heart. The whole way front the outer to the inner barrier, a space of little less than a mile in length, and about the breadth of Blackfriars Road, was lined with a dense mass of people. not merely from Brunswick, but from the neighbownng towns and villages& some families had followed the funeral cortege from Celle, and others even tram Hamburgh. Tias solemn tolling of the bells, the suppressed sobs of the women and the deep silence of the men, added an awful and almost painful interest. The procession moved slowly towards the town, and as the clock struck twelve reached the inner barrier.— Here the mourners descended from the carriages, and the whole cortege now proceeded on foot, with the ex ception of Sir George Nayler, who kept his state in the first carriage. From the entrance of the town to the cathedral church the distance is about a mile, and the slow pace at which the procession moved, together with the various streets through which it passed, gave the whole population an opportunity of witnessing the grand spectacle without much inconvenience, and with scarcely any danger. To the people, however, was due the praise of the good order that prevailed. The oily arrangement made by the authoritit s—so great and so Jost was their confidence in the good dispi,sinun of the people—was an escort of about 20 constables. The men alone were in the streets, the %%omen were at the windows of the houses; and here was not a house in any street through which the procession passed which had not every window crowded with spectators of the females. x, all dressed it) black, and all expressing by their anxious attention the deep interest which they took in the solemn ceremony passing before thkm. In this manner the procession moved on to the church, the glare of a thousand torches making every part of it visible to the whole multitude.— At the door of the church the Minister and Municipality stood ready to receive the body; the coffin was lifted from the car, and carried by 16 sergeants of the Bruns wick cavalry, while 16 Majors bore the pall. The ap pearance of the church was solemn and imposing.— Though 2 building of no striking beauty when seen by day-light, its lofty columns and lung aisles hung with black, had by night an appearance of melancholy gran deur, especially as, to increase the sombre effect, the illuluination was scanty. Owing to positive orders received from the same mysterious quarter to which we have before alluded, no service, riot even a funeral chant was to be performed in the church ; and this, for some absurd pretence that, as the Queen had died abroad, it was to he considered that these rites had been already perforated, and that the ceremony at Brunswick was merely depositing the body of the deceased in the family vault.---3 ceremony which was always performed without funeral service, as in the case of the late Duke of Brunswick, the father of the deaceased Queen'. But this was a mere idle pretence : the late Duke was absolutely interred, and with all funeral ceremonies and services, out of his dominions, durii.g the tyranny of Buotiaparte, after whose defeat he was disinterred and removed to Bruitswick. The Queen of England haul not been so interred : no religious ceremony had been per formed on her; and decency, as well as religion, required that &Queen should not becurtailed of tbose rites which Ie•long to the funeral of the meanest subject : but de cency and religion were slight motives wait those who Alit only of hurrying away front the s,ght of an affectionate people the object of their attachmeut, though that object was now insensible and powerless. The love of the people here aaain made ample compensation fur the curtailments of power. Even the of of state expressed their regret that they were forced to comply with orders manifestly unreasonably and disgosinig; and the worthy minister of the cathedral, who loved and vv. iterated the virtues of the late Queen, showed by his manner that he was no party to tire official arratigennent. As the corpse passed along the aisle into the place of sepol lure, 11)1) young ladies of the first families in Brunswick, dressed in white, stood out each side and scattered flowers before it. In a few seconds the coffin and the mourners had all arrived in ►he family vault of the illustrious house of Brunswick. The entire space is very large, and already C 011131119 57 coffins of different branches of that aocient family. A portion, about seven yards square, was sepa ra,ed from the rest by hangings of black cloth, and was illuminated with wax lights. In the middle of this sec tion stood a tut, raised about two fee► from the sutural : on one side stood the coffin of the gallant father of the Queen, at the foot was the coffin of her gallant brother, both heroes slain in battle when ti4htilig against the tyranny of Buonaparte ; and here, in this appropriate spot, was now deposited one as brave as the bravest of her race, and who fell in a great and cou rageous struggle with a persecution more unjust, inure unrelenting, than ever r:ourged mankind. When the mourners were all arranged in the tomb, the Minister, whose name was J. W. G. Wolff, preacher of the Cathedral Church, a mild and sensible-looking Mall, about 60 years of age, stood at the head of the coffin, and, in a voice tremulous with emotion, uttered a prayer in the Germau language, of winch the follow. ing is a translation:— TILE PRAYER. " Transient is our life, perishable all fortune and glory of the earth ! Thus, All-wise (aorr, thou hest ordained it 1 But in death are terminated all the hardships, trouble*, and sttf'ering► that attend the life of man in this state of imperfection. Not in this world, where we are strangers, where we live in a constant struggle with adversities and our own infirmities, no. only in that to come, for which thou hest created our immortal spirit, do we find the desired felicity, and purer, untroubled, uuperishable joys. Penetrated even in the inmost recesses of our hearts, by this solemn and consoling truth, we elevate with pious devotion our hearts to thee, the farrow.: ONE in this sacred place, and at the coffin of a Deceased, whom thy All-wise will once destined fur a terrestrial throne, and now after a rare change of destiny, has called into the hind of eternal peace. With hearts deeply affected do we view the burying place of this descendant of a beloved and princely family. Thou, ber be nign Creator, didst adorn her with high advantages of mind and body, and Bidet bestow upon her a heart full of clemency and benignity. Thy providence placed her where she could and was resolved to do much good, to the honour of her family, and for the weal of the country whose Princes, she was. Unseen:bahle, 0 Eternal, are thy wept After a Iran. scent and troublesome life, she has now finished her earthly career, and her unanimated body returns to the vanit where her evernnemorable father, her brother, her relations aie resting. •` Almighty GOD ! With elevated hearts we glorify thy grace for all the benefits thou hest given to the deceased during her life, and we infinitely revere thy wisdom in the present termi nation of her severe trials ; whereby, after thy most benign intention, she should be purified of human infirmities, and be prepared for a better life. Thanks to thee for the comfort thus thou heat richly granted her in her last hours ; thanks fir the great strength thou didst inspire her with, both in her life and in her last moments, to a patient and courageous endurance of her sufferings and grievances ; thanks for the hopes strengthened in her soul, wherewith, full of desire and serenity and faith, she passed from a mortal to an immortal life. Now may her released soul enjoy the peaceful and blissful tranquillity which this imperfect world cannot grant ! and may thy grace, thou all•just and most righteous LORD, recompense her in that state of perfection for what was but deficient here on earth But to us let her evee-memorable remembrance be a moving and beneficial lesson, thus to believe, thus to hope, thus to live, that we may once courageously pass over to die life of just reynital. And now, most gracious GOD, preserve livewise to us graciously the remaining most beloved members of our princely family. for our joy and for the welfare of eur country, and attend their days with thy richest blessing ! Grant our most pious wisLes!.. AmEst."