The National Register.
London, England, 1821-07-23 00:00:00

tive places appropriated for spectators, and to afford
the utmost accommodation to every person whose
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duty it was to attend the Hall throiiihout the day.
Lord Gwydyr and his deputy were both personally
superintending the arrangements, and most active
in facilitating the necessary accommodation for the
visitors, many of them of the highest rank, who
arrived at the Hall at. day-break. At that hose
the arrival of different official attendants, in draws,
all of them brilliant, but some of them fantastical,
began to develope some of the chivalrous pomp
attending the coronation ceremony. The first
set of official personages who entered in form were
the Barons of the Cinque Ports, with their canopy.
They were attired in richly embroidered dresses,
and attended by eight gentlemen in full dress, who
practised as bearers, the duty of supporting toe
canopy along the area of the Hall;, it was of straw
colour silk, richly embroidered with gold, the
frame studded with silver ornaments, and the
supporting rods of silver, richly embossed ; it had
a light and elegant appearance. At six o'clock,
their Royal Highnesses the Duchesses of Glo-
cester, Kent, and Clarence, and the Princess Feo-
dore, daughter to the Duchess of Kent, entered
their box, with a large retinue of ladies. About
the same time the Prince and Princess Esterhazy
and a number of foreigners of distinction, entered
their box at the opposite side. The foreign am-
bassadors and their suite were chiefly in military
costume, and decorated with orders. At 20 minutes
before seven o'clock the Yeomen of the Guard
entered in due form, and at that time the arrivals of
peers and peeresses at Palace-yard became so rapid
that the gates were constantly thrown open; they,
were however rather rudely closed while a number
of privileged persons seemed to be in the act of
producing their tickets entitling them to ingress,
when shouts from the people assembled iu Palace-
yard announced the arrival of her Majesty the
Queen to claim her right of being present at the
coronation. There was a considerable bustle within
the Hall when this intelligence was commuuicated.
Mr. Fellowes, immediately followed by Lord
Gwydyr, repaired to the gate, and some anxiety was
manifested within the hall, while the Queen was
known to be within the verge of the palace, and
while her Majesty was ei:gaged in the act of assert-
ing her right to be present at the ceremony of the
coronation. About seven o'clock, her approach was
announced by loud acclamations without the barrier,
and a kind of confusion and anxious agitation within.
The burst of applause when her carriage appeared
completely overpowered the ill directed and irreso-
lute ettinas of a portion of the spectators whose in-
terests and connexions prejudiced them against her
person. Her carriage drawn by six horses, passed
the barrier without interruption, and proceeded by
the King's Arms tavern to nearly opposite the door
of Westminster-hall. Hur Majesty there stopped
for a few moments, apparently uncertain what course
to take, as she had hitherto met with no obstruction,
and yet had received nothing like an invitation to
approach. At this moment the teeling-s of the spec-
tators were wound up to a pitch of the most painful
anxiety. Tile persons who immediately surrounded
her carriage knew no bounds in expressing their
enthusiastic attachment, while many of those in the
galleries, apprehensive of the tonscquence attic ex-
periment which she vas making, could not restrain
their fears and alarms. In the mean time great
confusion seemed to prevail among the officers and
soldiers on and near the platforni ; the former giving
orders and retracting them, and the latter running
to their arms, uncertain whether they should salute
her by presenting them or not. Astonishment,
hurry, and doubt, seamed to agitate the whole mul-
titude assembled either to wetness or comp Lee the
ensuing pageant. We never remember to have
observed inure unequivocal symptoms of pain or
horror than were maiiik•sted b people of the most
opposite sentiments, when they saw their Queen
treated like an alien or otttea,i, by the servants, and
at the festive hall of her husband. Every heart
thrilled with pity or indignation. These feeliii6s
were increased as she alighted from her cirriage and
proceeded on foot Irani. g on the arm of Lord
Hood, and accompanied by liar faithful comp..ninns
of affliction, Lady Hood and Lady Aline lialin!tcm,
to demand admission. The applistch of the Queen
towards the ball-door produced it cuasi krable sensa-
tion within : there ryas sets iaimedi ite rtisn to. too
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