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

CORONATION
of
MS _MAJESTY GEORGE THE FOURTH,
OR THURSDAY, JULY 19,1811.
The extensive preparations for this ceremony have
occupied many months, and we have from time to
time detailed their ;ingress. The whole of the
neighbourhood of Palace-yard and the Abbey, was
occupied with erections to accommodate spectators
of the procession, and we fear many persons who
had speculated on an avidity of application for seats
will be most serious losers—such was the paucity of
demand, that the proprietors of scats for which
TWENTY GUINFAS each were demanded a month
ago, were glad to take twenty shillings the day be-
fore the Coronation, and subsequently a crown was
not refused by the chagrined Erectors of these splen-
did buildings.
Very early on Thursday morning, as soon as
shortly after three o'clock, a few ladies and gentle-
men were seen in court-costume, coining on foot
across Bridge-street and towards Westminster-hall.
There was nothing like a crowd in the streets at
that time—scarcely a spectator was seen in the
booths, and along the royal platform the Guards lay
slumbering with little apparent comfort. Before
4 o'clock the line of coaches was full on the eastern
side of the division from Parliament-street to Cha-
ring-cross; on the other side it extended only to the
Horse Guards. The general effect was greatly re-
duced by the large proportion of hackney coaches,
with all their squalid accompaniments, which occu-
pied this space. Through St. James's-park elegant
carriages began early to pass, and great numbers
wandered slowly along on foot, manifestly anxious
to learn the motions of the illustrious lady who was
refused any part in the pomp and ceremony of the
day. Every where, indeed, the only topic of interest
and of conversation was the situation of her Majesty
THE QUEEN. _ _ _

A. considerable crowd assembled about her Ma-
jesty's house, in South Audley-street, soon after 4
o'clock, As soon as it was ascertained that her Ma-
jesty's coach was making ready in the yard, the
crowd, both in South Audley street and in Hill-
street, became very great. The wall opposite to her
Majesty's house in Hill-street was soon covered with
spectators, who announced to the crowd below each
successive step of preparation. " The horses are to ;"
" every thing is quite ready ;" " the Queen has en-
tered the coach," were the gradual communications,
and they were received with the loudest cheers.
Lady Anne I lamilton arrived a few minutes before
five, and was most cordially and respectfully greeted.
Soon after five the gate was thrown open, and a
shout was raised, " the Queen !" " The Queen !"
The Queen immediately appeared in her couch of
state, drawn by six bays. Lady Hood and Lady
Anne Hamilton sat opposite to her Majesty. Lord
Hood thllowed in his own carriage. Her Majesty
looked extraordinarily well, and acknowledged, with
great dignity and composure, the gratulations of the
people on cacti side of her coach. The course taken
was, through Great-Stanhope-street, Park-lane,
Hyde-park-corner, Green-park, St. James's-park,
Bird 'cage-walk, and by Storey's-;,•ate, along Prince's-
street, to llean's-yard---a way, it must be observed,
the least likely to attract notice, or to gather
crowds. The crowd accumulated immensely along
this line : the soldiers every where presented arms
with the utmost promptitude and respect ; and a
thousand voices kept up a tonstant cry of " The
Queen !" " The Queen for ever !" The coup (tail
from the road along the Green-park, which was the
most striking that can be imagined ; the whole
space presented one mass of well-dressed males and
females hurrying with every possibility rapidity to
accompany the Queen, and shouting their attach
ment and admiration. The two torrents that poured
along the south side of the park and the eastern end
occasioned the greatest conflux at Storey's-gate.—
As soon as the Queen's arrival was known i❑ the
scene of the king's coronation, shouts of—"
Queen," at once arose from all the booths, and hats
and handkerchiefs were every where waved in token
of respect. As soon as her Majesty Caine in sight
of the coronation platform and Westminster-abbey,
the coach stopt for a few minutes. The cheering of
tee crowd all the while was cordial and incessant.—
the coach advanced towards Deau'a-yard
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