The National Register.
London, England, 1821-09-02 00:00:00

BRUNSWICK,

The people of Brunswick hail received no intimation that her
:Majesty was to be buried in the tomb of her ancestors till the
Thursday evening, when it was announced that on very next
night the funeral was to take place. The authorities, and the
general population, equally expressed disgust at this precipitate
ntennent of their illustrious and beloved Princess ; but it was
understood that the order was peremptory, end could not be dis-
puted. Little doubt remained that Count Alumaer was the per.
son who had issued the mandate to conduct the funeral obsequies
of the Queen of England in a manner least calculated to afford
the people an opportunity of manifesting their attachment and
respect. But the scheme, from whatever source, utterly failed
of its intended effect. The enthusiastic regard of the Bruns-
%tickers 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-
lation of 60,000 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
Garettee ; and determined by their swift unbespoken pomp,"
to put to shame all the elaborate preparations of a College of
Heralds.

10 O'CLOCK, FRIDAY NIGHT, August 24.
At this hour Lord and Lady Hood, l.aely Ann Hamilton, Dr,
and Mrs. Lushington, and Mr. and Mrs. NVilde, and the other
mourners who had previously arrived at ,Brunswick. were in-
formed that the hearse with the mortal remains of the Queen had
arrived at the outer barrier, about a mile distant front the inner
barrier, or- antrance into the town. They immediately ordered
their cartiages, and proceeded to the place provided for their re-
ception, wh•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, at the head of whom the late Duke, the brother of the
Queen, fell gallantly fighting at the battle of Waterloo. It was
eleven o'clock, and Sir G. Sayler was prepating 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 had an urgent
request to make on behalf of the people of Brunswick ; it was,
that a deputation of respectable citizens might be permitted to
draw the funeral car. Sir George Sayler began to express his
disapprobation, though without assigning any reason. Captain
Hesse here interposed, and with an apology for his intrusion,
asked, whether the request of the citizens of Brunswick was to
be considered as a mark of respect or otherwise. To this it was
instantly answered, that it was certainly as a mark of the pro-
fonndest respect for the illustrious deceased. Sir George Sayler
still maintained the appearance of opposition, but slowly entered
his coach. The various mourners now ascended their carriages,
and an order was given for the procession to move. The Scene
that now presented itself, at once solemn and magnificient, baffles
all description : 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 from the outer to
the inner harrier, 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
neighbouring towns and villages: some families had followed
the funeral cortege from Celle, and others even from Hamburgh.
The solemn tolling of the bells, the suppressed sobs of the women
and the deep silence of the teen, 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 only arrangement
made by the authorities—so great and so just was their
confidence in the good disposition of the people—was
an escort of about SW con tables. The men alone were
to the streets, the women wt re at the windows of the
houses ; and there was not a house in any street through
which the procession passed which had not every window
crowded with spectators of the female st x, a!l dressed in
black, and all expressing by their anxious attention the
deep interest which they took in the solemn ceremony
pasiing 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 the whole multitude.—
At the door of the church the Minister and Municipality
stood ready to receive the body; the coffin was lifted
front 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 a 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 increaae the sombre etlect, the
illumination was scanty. Owing to positive orders
received from the same mysterious quatter to which we
have before alluded, no service, not even a funeral chant
MIS 10 be pc:gm:wed in the church; and this, for some
absurd pretence that, as the Queen had died abroad, it
was to be considered that these rites had been already
pertormed, and that the ceremony at Brunswick was
merely depositing the body of the deceased in the
family vault—a ceremony which was always performed
without funeral service, as in the case of the late
Duke of Brunswick, the fattier of the deaceased Queen.
But this was a mete idle pretence: the late Duke was
absolutely interred, and with all funeral ceremonies and
services, out of It dominions, during the tyranny
of litionaparie, alter whose defeat he was disinterred and
removed to Brunswick. The Queen of England had not
been so interred : no religious ceremony had been per.
formed on her; and decency, as well as religion, required
that a Queen should not becurtailed or those rites which
belong to the luneral of the meanest subject: hut de-
cency and religion were slight motives with those who
thought only of hurrying away from the sight of an
affixtionatelitople the object of their attachment, though
that object was now insensible and powerleu. The love
of the people here again made ample compensation for
the curtailments of power. Even the officers of state
expressed their regret that they were forced to comply
with orders manifestly unreasonably and disgusting ; and
the worthy minister of the cathedral, who loved and ye.
iterated the virtues of the late Queen, showed by his
manner that he was no party to me Oficial arrangement.
As the corpse passed Along the aisle into the place °lselin!.
ture, 100 young ladies of the first families in Brunswick,
dressed in white, stood on each bide and scattered flowers
before it. In a few seconds the coffin and the mourners
had all arrived in the vault of the illustrious house
of Brunswick. The entire space is very large,and already
contains 57 coffins of different branches of that ancient
family. A portion, about seven tarns square, was up-
rated from the rest by hangings o: black cloth, and was
illuminated with wax lights. In the middle of this secs
lion stood a platform, raised about two feet from the
ground : 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 fiAhting
against the tyranny of Buonaparte ; and here, in this
appropriate spot, was now deposited one a brave as the
bravest of her race, and who fell in a great and eon-
rageous struggle with a persecution more unjust, inure
unrelenting, than ever scourged 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 senuble.looking
man, about GU years of age, stood at the head of the
coffin, and, in a voice tremulous with emotion, tittered
a prayer in the German language, of which the follow-
ing is a ttanslation:---

THE PRAYER.
" Transient is ourlife, perishable all fortune and glory of flit:
earth ! Thus, All-wise GOD, thou hest ordained it ! But iz
death are terminated all the hardships, troubles, and sufferings
that attend the life of man in this state of imperfection. Nut
in this world, where we are strangers, where we live in
constant struggle with adversities and our own infirmities, no,
only in that to come, for which thou host created our immortal
spirit, do we find the desired felicity, and purer, untroublee.
unperishable 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 INFLICT E ONE
in this sacred place, and at the coffin of a Deceased, whom thy
All-wise will once destined for a terrestrial throne, and now
after a rare change of destiny, has called into the 1a :d
eternal peace.
" With hearts deeply affected do we view the burying place of
this descendant of a beloved and princely family. Thou, her be-
nign Creator, didst adorn ha with high advantages of mind
and body, and didst 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 Princess she
was. Unsearchable, 0 Eternal, are thy ways l After a trail.
sient and troublesome life, she has now finished her earthly
career, and her unanimated body returns to the vanit where
her ever-memorable father, her brother, her relations are
Besting.
" 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 term•-
nation of her severe trials; whereby, after thy most benign
intention, she should be puriged of human infirmities, and he
prepared for a better life. Thanks to thee for the comfort thou
thou host richly granted her in her last hours; thanks for the
great strength thou didst inspire her with, both in her life are/
in her last moments, to a patient and courageous endurance l't
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 lire. 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 must righteous LORD, recompense her in that state
of perfection for what was but deficient here on earth I But
to us let her eveemiemorable remembrance be a moving and
beneficial lesson, thus to believe, thus to hope, thus to live, that
we may once courageously pass over to the life of just requital.
And now, most gracious Gorr, preserve livewise to us graciously
the remaining most beloved members of our princely family,
for our joy and for the welfare of our country, and attend their
days with thy richeat blessing Grant our most pious wishes
Ants."

COURSE OF EX
Amsterdam, 12 17 C. F.
Ditto, at sight, 12 14
Rotterdam, 12 13
Antwerp, le 9
Hamburgh, 38 2
Altona, 38 3
Paris, 3 days' sight, 25 70
Ditto, 26
Bourdeaux, 2(
Frankfort on tlieMaine, 138
l'etersburgli, 81 3 U.
Vienna, Ef. Flo. it) 9.5
Trieste, Ef. Flo. 10 2;
Madrid, 314—Cadiz, 36f
Gilboa, 354 —Barcelona,3sf

;RANGE, AuG. 34.
Seville, Ssi—Gibraltar,3ol
Leghorn, 47—Genoa, 43i
Nlalta,4s—Veniee, 27 60
Naples, 39i—Lisbou, 511
Oporto, 50—Bahia, 39
Rio Janeiro, 49
Palermo, 116
llnblin, 9} per cent.
Cork, 9 per cent.
Foreign gold in bars, 31. 17s.
100. per oz.
New Doubloons,
New Dollar+,4s. 10d.
Silver iu bars, standard, 4s
, 11d.

' STOCKS.
Minium 0.
Imp. 3 per Cent.
India Bonds 60
India Stock
Exchequer Bills 51. prem.
Coax. tor Ac. 7U
Lotiery Ticket+. £lO 18s.