The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-12-01 00:00:00

LONDON,
TUESDAY, Dactaiste I, ISIS.

THE QUEEN.

Since the issuing of the ceremonial, some of the
Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal, St. James's
lace, have beets commended to attend at the funeral
of her late MAJESTY, at St. George's Chapel,
Windsor, to preform the funeral service and the
funeral anthem, with the Gentlemen of the Windsor
Choir. Those commanded to attend of the Chapel
Royal are, the SUE-DEAN, Messrs. Nam),
HAWES, WELSH, VAUGHAN, KNYVETT, W. K N V-
IM?. J. SALE, BEALE, and six of the young
Gentlemen, under the direction of Mr. HAWES,
their muster.

Every possible exertion has been made to secure
punctuality and regularity in the movements of the
Royal solemn Funeral Processiou of the late QUEEN,
that no movement may be too soon or too late, espe-
cially from Frogmore to St. George's Chapel,
Windsor. The ground from one place to the other
has been measured, and proves to be 1,600 yards,
and it is calculated by those conversant with move-
ments at such slow paces, that the Procession will
be 35 minutes proceeding from Frogtnore to St.
George's Chapel.
The Lurd Chamberlain's office was yesterday.
during the whole of the day, in the greatest state of
bustle, all ranks sod degrees applying to Mr. Mont
for instruction and advice relative to the mournful
Royal Procession.
Soon after seven o'clock last evening the state,
or outside coffin, arrived at Kew Palace, in a hearse
drawn by four black horses, from the manufactory
of Messrs. FRANCE anti BANTING, in London. The
hearse was followed by two mourning coaches, in
which were Mr. BASTING and his assistants, who
removed the state coffin from the hearse to the great
dining-liall, and placed it in the recess prepared fur
the Royal remains lying in state this day. Mr.
Main, of the Lord Chamberluir's Office, was in
attendance to direct the proceedings, and the corpse
of her late MAJESTY in the leaden coffin was
then removed from the Royal Chamber, down
stairs, sod placed in the state coffin.
The coffin is of the best Honduras mahogany.
Its length is six feet two inches, and the widest part
is two feet four inches. The whole is covered with
the best Genoa silk velvet. The sides, ends. head,
and feet, are of proportionate sizes, in pannek
ornamented with gilt nails, with one large
row all round, forming a border. Each corner
has plates, on whit are handsomely en-
graved the Queen of ENGLAND'S Crown and
two branches of palm, with the letters Q. C.
the initials for Queen CHARLOTTE. The in-
scription on the plate has already been given,
The engraving of it is very finely executed. It em-
braces nearly ell the characters of writing, and
almost all the hues are different specimens of
the art. The handles are handsomely set with-
in • pannel frame. the centres of which are rich-
ly embossed. The outside scrolls are very rich
and highly burnished. The whole is gilt, and of
the very best materials, and executed by the most
eminent artists and manufacturers.

Yesterday morning the late QtmEN's set of
black horses were removed from the King's Mews,
Charing.crosr, to be in readiness for her late
Ma-
JtarY's funeral. The Life Guards, and others of
the military, left London on their way to Windsor.
to be in readiness for the funeral.

The Dole of YORK called at Kew yesterday,
about twelve o'clock, oo a 'ilk of cot:doleuce to

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his Royal Siler., en Mb way from Outlanda to
London, and soon after hitt arrival at York House,
St. James's Palace, his Royal Highness waited
upon the Poincu RunenT at Carlton House,
and remained with his Royal Brother a consider-
able time.

• German and fiamburgh Papers of recent dates
have arrived. They notice the pieparations that
ore making at Ulm towards erecting that town into
a fortress of the Germanic Confederation. This in-
tention does not meet with the approbation of the
inhabitants, who tremble prospectively at the anti-
cipated horrors of sieges, bombardments, and
blockades, and already fancy the devastation of
their beautiful villas and country seats at the
approach of an enemy. Were an inhabitant of
same remote country, unacquainted with the na-
ture of the European system, and ignorant of
the characters of the several Governments, to
arrive suddenly in Europe, and take a general
view of every state—observe the immense armies
that are kept on foot, paralysing the exer-
tions of industry, and remark the anxious care
with which fortresses are created, and troops raised
and disciplined, he wistild naturally imagine that
we were on the eve of a general wart but were he
then informed that hostilities had but just tenni-
siated—that the Chiefs of the respective nations
had met in council—that they laid promised never
more to unsheath the sword, and had called their
God to witness the sincerity of their professions, he
would flee in horror from the contamination of our
presence, mod bless his goad stars for having saved
him front a people whose actions belied their ',nada ;
who, while they promised peeve, were thirsting for
war, and whose conduct appeared throughout to
he a refinement of hypocrisy. The martin" atti-
tude of the five great Powers of Europe at the
present moment is a gloomy comment upon their
proceedings in the late Congress, and 'hews,
while they encourage others to a confidence in
aaisticg circumstance*, how little they are disposed
to feel it themselves.

We have received Near York, Boston, and Bal-
timore Papers to the titli, and Philadelphia to the
Bth last. The prot,iiu ty of the French General
LALL6MAND, mid his band of followers, to Mexico,
has alarmed the Spaniards, who have sent is force to
destroy the works erected by Or General, and to
break up the establishment at G.llveton.

‘Ve have received Paris Papers of Friday last.
It is asserted by a writer in Galignani's Met-
sever. a Paper published in Paris in the Eng-
lish language, that the expenditure of France flir
the ensuing yeur will be less than that of the present
year by the sum of 285 millions of francs, or about
twelve millions sterling. If such he an immediate
consequence of the removal of the Army of Occups-
the French nation may be well resigned to the
payment of the contributions to the Allied Powers,
which fall far short of this annual saving.
The Fire per Cents. on ‘Vrdnesday closed at
69 f.; but on Thursday they improved by 30 cents.
Bank Actions are 1,545 f.

A Dutch Mail has brought Papers to the gittli
ultimo. The extreme Scarcity of money winch
has been very generally felt on the Coinineut, has
had the effect of paralysing the trade of several
towns in the Netherlands to an alarming degree.
To remove the cause of the evil, the King of the
NETHERLANDS, it is said, has order( d slims of
money to he issued to a large amount, for the pur-
pose of discounting hills, and even the rumour of
tins event has had a bent ficial influelice upon the
course of exchange and the public funds.
The Knights of Saint John are said to ha►e ad-
dressed u very spirited remonstrance to the late
Congress, complaining of the, deprivation of 11Ialta,
and demanding justice from the Allied Sovereigns.
They found their dein:nal upon the principle of
legitimacy; but they are not aware that legitimacy
does not imply justice, except in the ca►es of
crowned beads of the old dynasties, rt.e where-
fore should the Emperor of AUSTRIA here .
been permitted to deprive Venice of ►ts long-esta-
blished political existence, or the mi►erable King
Of SARDINIA, to lord it over the magnificent and
once powerful Republic of Genoa ? The report
that the Emperor of RUSSIA had proposed the re-
moval of IlowApAuTe f St. Helena to Cusan,
where the Ex-Monarch might be under the especial
surveillance of the Russian Autocrat, is again con.
tradicted, with an assurance that NAPOLEON'S fate
is irrevocably fixed.

On Sunday last fifteen sail of transports arrived
at Dover from the coat of France, conveying
about 450 men and horses of the Royal Waggon
Train, being the last div:siost of the British t pa
forming our contingent of the Allied Army of Oc-
cupation. The entire body of our troops has been
transported across the Channel within the short pe-
riod of five weeks, with the loss of only one man,
who in sudden alarm threw himself overboard, un-
der circumstances wherein it was impossible to sane

him. Not n British soldier in arms now remains
within the French territories, and we may at length
he said to have escaped from she embarrassments

and dangers consiegtiviit upon the French Rr•vulu-
t'
. Respecting the policy of having originally
provoked the tremeni;ous war from which we have
but low been completely reli rcpt, conftcting opi-

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uions will, of course, continue to be entertained, Sii I
loug as the political drama is supported by those
who extolled or condemned the measure at its com-
mencement ; but it is our misfortune, that, even
at the present moment, when no doubt is felt by
any party that our danger was on many occasions
imminent, and our eventual escape almost miracu-
lous, the calamities we have sustained in our own
persons, and entailed upon our posterity, by en-
grafting in our system of government an enormous
load of debt and taxes, together with a standing
army of most appalling magnitude, are of such a
nature as to render it questionable whether the coun-
try could have suffered any thing worse by remain-
ing at peace, and encountering with ordinary pru-
dence in our Rulers all the dangers threatened by
the prophetic imeginingsof the war party. In jus-
tification of the British Cabinet, it is indeed said,
that the war against France was highly popular in
this country, and that the Government in resolving
on it merely fulfilled the wishes of the people.
But will it be said by the advocates of the Minis-
ters that they would have undertaken the war
merely because it was popular, if it did not inert
their own approbation ? No, we are convinced they
will not utter so strong • censure against them as
to represent diem without a will of their own,
blindly following the voice of the multitude. An
honest Minister, who finds it impossible to act in
pursuance of his own views of state policy, end at
the saute time to obtain the sanction of the public
voice, has no alternative to save his conscience and
his character but the resignation of his office. Mr.
PITT, and those who with him advised the French
war, must, therefore, undergo all the responsibility
consequent upon the measure, or be branded as
dishonest men, who sacrificed their principles to the
love of [dare. If, however, the war were indeed '
popular, of which, in the present corrupt state of
the representation of the people iu Parliament, no
proof can be adduced, the dangers we have in-
curred, the sufferings we have endured, and the
hopes of national amelioration, which the late war
has miserably blighted—these will, we trust, teach
us iu future better to appreciate au existing good
without vainly seeking to avoid an imaginary evil ;
but, *those all, warn us to shun the vortex of conti-
nental quarrels, wherein we may indeed purchase
wreaths of military glory, but in which we shall
see vainly buried the wealth and resources of our
country.

The Dublin Papers to the 27th ult, have at.
rived. Another Protestant Petition is about to
be prepared and presented to Parliament, in favour
of Catholic Emancipation. The laudable example
of the town of Newry, in addressing Mr. GRANT,
was quickly followed by the county of Gal.
way, and the Gentlemen of that county have in
their turn, furnished a precident which the rahabi-
tants of the principal town of the North of Ireland,
Belfast, lisve nut been slow to adopt. A requisi-
tion has been presented to the Sovereign, calling
upon him to couvene " a Meeting of ALL religious
denominations in the town of Belfast, to take into
consideration the propriety of presenting a Petition
to the Imperial Parliament for the total Repeal of
that Penal Code which has so long disqualified
their Catholic Fellow.subjects from participating
in all the advantages of the British Constitution."
The Requisition is signed by above 100 most re-
spectable gi !ideate,' and merchants, unit Wednes-
day (to-stioirow), the .2tl of December, is appoint-
ed for the Meeting, to take into consideration the
propriety of presenting a Petition to the Impe-
rial Parliament for the total It.peal of that Penal
Code which has so long disqualified their Catholic
Fillow-stilijerts from participating in all the ad-
%waltzes of the British Constitution.
'llse Gentlemen of the county of Sligo have
agreed to address Government on its present trau-
quit state, which they represent to be such as not
to requite the interference of any extraordinary
establishment of police.
We are exceedingly sorry that Mr. HAY, so well
know; to the people of Ireland by his Wog and
meritorious services us Secretary to the Catholics,
should hate found it necessary to complain of pe-
ciiiiiaiy embarrassments, incurred in the gratuitous
discharge of his public duly. In a letter dated
Dubl n, oth November, published in The Free-
weva's Journal, Mr. HAY mates, that an executiou
issued against him so far back as the tat July,
Tani, for a public debt of 259/. ItidePendent
of toiler just and honourable claims. It will he
not only a disgrace to the Catholic Body. tint also
to the Protestant Community favourable to the
Catholic. Claims, should Mr. HAY, who has KO
Stre)Ogi V entitled himself to their gratitude, by Lis
zeal, euergy, and fidelity in their
cause, be refired I;is rights to their justice.

l'efterday Ent BATHURST and Count MuN-
STEa had ausLeacra of Co! BEGENT at
Curituu-hour.

The Porcupine, SCOTT, from Vera Cruz, for
who.e iarety "uosiderable ilpprtliCll6loll4 %rile en.
tertained. (riving to her being so lunch out of time,
arrived sok at the Havanna!' ineviiit. to the 29th
of October. She has a very valuable cargo on
110,4'4 en which itniurancrie to the amount of
rlO,OOO/. sire eir,t icti at Lloyd's,.
The .hip Allsgranr. (;()DA an, from Virginia to
Cork, iiiit'into Kt!twits 43i1 last, very leaky. hav-
io4 lied fourieen fret water in her hold at sea, and
ulibgett to throe g:r at tent ufthe clog,' overboard.