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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.
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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 obserixt
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:—