The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-09-03 00:00:00

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BRUNSWICK.

The people of Bruilswick bad received no inti-
mation that her 111;ije.ty was to hr buried in the
tomb of her ancestors till the Thursday evening,
when it was announced that on the very next alight
the funeral was to take place. The authorities,
and the general population, equally expressed dis-
gust at this precipitate interment of their illuatri-
sins :Intl beloved Princess; but it was understood
that the order was peremptory, and could slot be
disputed. Much 103stery seemed io exist as to the
sonlee whence the order einaliated ; but when it
%lAA considered that the evident disposition of the
triclionties at Brunswick aits to pay every mark
of respect in their power to the memory of their
royal countrywoman, and that the King of Elig-
land, its guardian to the itiliot Duke of Brum-
wick, now in Switzerland, is in fret the pre-
arm Sovereign of the principality, little doubt
remained that Count IlJuntter was the prtron

who had issued the mandate to conduct the fes-
bevel obsequies of the Queen of Esiglerol.—But
the enthusiastic regard of. the Brunswickers for
their Sovereign's family, and their particular affec-
tion for the deceased Queen, were too deeply ritere4
and genttine to require any forged notice of incase-
ration. In an lament a pmesefatiott of 40,000 sea.,
though without the possibility of concert, seemed
actuated by one resolution art show how 01110 h sin•
cere respect exceeds 0..4660 sorrow demanded
by a., Government (curette; • end determined by
" theirewift unbeessoken pomp," to put to shame
all deeeleborate preparations uf a College of Heraldte
Tee o'Cloek, Friday night, Avast .24.
At this hour Lord and Lady Hood, Lady An
Ileasiltoti. Dr. and Mrs. Lushington, and Mr. and
Mrs. Wilde, and the "slier mounters who hail
Amity Atrimatiorilkgivaitick. wet, An fttitemil- OKA tike-
hearse with the mortal remains of the Queen had
arrived at the outer barrier, about u milt. distant
from the inner barrier, or entrance into the town.
They immediately ordered their carriages, and
proceeded to the place provided for their re.
eeption, which was a large room nit the ground
door of an inn. In the middle of the road op-
posite the door of the inn stood the hearse.
guarded by an escort of the black regiment of
Brunewickers, at the heath of whosh the hoe Duke,
the brother of the Queen, fell gallaistly fighting at
the battle of Waterloo. Ii was slow elt-ven o'clock.
and Sir G. Nayler was preparing to marshal the
procession, when the Grand Chamberlain and the
Commandant of the town prevented themselves, and
desired a few minutes conversation with Sir George
and Mr. Calvert before the procession should begin
to move. They stated that they had an urgent
request to make ou behalf of the people of Bruns-
wick
: it was, that a deputation of respectable
citizens might he permitted to draw the funeral car.
Mr. Calvert, who from the beginning of the voyage
had behaved in u manner at mice characteristic
of good sense mid gentlemanly heeling, imme-
diately assented to what he considered a most
reasonable request. The horses were then re-
moved front the hearse, and the coffin was depo.
sited in a magnificent open car, while about a
hundred Brunswickers, well dressed, and basting
all the appearance of the respectable classes of so-
ciety, placed themselves in front its the most re-
gular and tranquil order. The various tieiurn.rs
now ascended their carriages, mid an order 11 ra
given for the procession to move. The scene
that now presented itself, nt onre solemn and mag-
nificent. battles all deocrietion : no painting could
do justice to its striking effat on the eye, ;so poetry
could express the pathos and sublimity of its moral
effect on the heart. The whole way from the outer to
the inner barrier, a space of little less than a mile its
length, and about the breadth of Blackfrisri-road,
was lined with a dense mass of people. net metelY
from Brunswick, but from the neighbouring
towns and villages: some families had followed
the funeral cortege from Celle, and others even
from flumburgli. The remit lines of this im-
mense assemblage carried torches; and hunt the
doable rows of willows on each side of the road were
suspended lamps of various colours, green, red, and
yellow. In the distance were seen the illumi.
nated houses of Brunswick, adding by the fan-
(attic variety of their architecture to the picturesque
beauty of the scene, and by their undecayed anti-
quity reminding man of the nothingaess of his ex-
istence, in comparison even with the ddrability
of the comniouest works of Isis own hands. The
solemn tolling of the bells, the suppressed sobs of
the women, and the deep silence of the men, ad-
ded &10 awful and almost painful interest; there
was room, however, fur one pleasurable sensation,
and that of the purest kind, and that was, that
this homage paid to
.the deceased and persecuted
Queen of England was iso mere state ceremony,
but the unbidden worship of manly and gene-
rous hearts. who revered her virtues, and syrups-
thized with her edlictious. 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. Front the entrance
of the town to the cathedral church the dis-
tance is about a mile, and the slow pace at
which the procession moved, together with the va-
rious streets through which it passed, gave the whole
population un opportunity of witnessing the grain'
spectacle without much inconvenience, and a ith
scarcely any danger. To the people. however, was
due the praise of the good order shut prevailed.
The only arrangement made by the authorities—
so great and so just was their confidence in the
good dispositiost of the people—was an escort of
about twenty constables. The Brunswick cavalry,
that, to the amount of about 200. accompanied the
procession. marched slowly by the side's, as state at.
tendering, but took no part in directing the move.
invite el* the immense multitude about them, and
guided their well-managed chargers through a
sound, .+ crowd, in narrow streets, .without alarm-
ing, much lets hurting, a single individual.—
One admirable arrangement here struck us, as
contributing equally to the decorum and the
',they of the scene ;• and this was the total absence
of women from the crowd. Outside the bar-
riers. where the space was very extensive, women as
well us tacit were seen in all partsof the assetoblage;
but in the streets of Brunswick note woman was to
be serer. The men alone were in the street,. the wo-
men were at the windows of the houses; and there
was not a house in any street through which the pro-
cession passed which had not every window crowded
with spectators of the female sex, all dressed in
black. and all expressing by their anxious atten-
tion the deep interest which they took in the solemn
ceremony pawing before them. In this manner the
procession moved on to the church, the glare of a
thousand torches making every part of it visible to
every one of the multitude. At the door of the
church a short scene of confusion took place. but
ou injury ensued. When the hearse reached the