The National Register.
London, England, 1818-12-06 00:00:00

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No. 5G5.--VOL. XI.

1315.

PRICE 90.

LYING IN S rATE OF HER LATE MAJESTY.
The arrangements for this amernowy occupied seve. 'al
hours. The dining hull, and anti or coffee room, had
been previously covered with black cloth on the sides,
etiling and floors, said the canopy was tastefully fes..-
tamed. At the head &Cali.; coffin was affixed to the
cloth a silk hatahmunt, wit e late Queen's Arias. An
• :anista pall was placed or . coffin, except a mean
of the foot, whipls, ivied uncovered for the
Mihri4 visa.. On each side of the coffin were placed
tour silk eicute.beans with the royal ar-as. Near the
keeftekhe coffin, on thetop, was placed a Crown on a
*nation. The coffin was enclosed with a large square
space, for the rovul attendants to be stationed, and not
to be- interrupted by the Public, who were to be ad- I
milted. On each, side of the coffin were three round
pillars, covered with black, of the height of the coffin
when on the trcseels. On each of these were placed
remarkably large wax candles, in proportionate sized
candlesticks. Round the sides of the nano were '44 wax
candles, in white branches. The anti or coffee-room
was fitted up in a similar manner. The carriage entrance
to the Palace was new gravelled, and a considerable
distance roiled the outside of the vets was enclosed
with posts anti ropes, awl a narrow path separated by
sitnilar means far the departure Af the company. The
livery setoißis appeared in mourning. About nine
o'clock a guard of honour, the whole in white gaiters,'
marchcd to the Palace, the Officers with crape wadi'
and sashes, and crape round their hats and clips ; the i
top of the colours was covered with crape, and the i
drums with black cloth, except those on actual duty ;1
their arms were piled on the lawn, in the front of the
Palace, and the colours loweek(l. Townsend and Sayers
the Bow-street Officers, and Perry the Constable, with
a party of the I'atrole, were in attendance to keep order,
&c. Mr. Mash, of the Lord Chamberlain's Office,
who had the arranging every department of the cere-
monial and procession, was in attendance to direct the
opening of the ro.na for the reception of those who were
admitted to the soleum scene; und every thing passed
off with 'tile most perfect decorum and awful silence.
The company began to arrive about 10 o'clock, and were
admitted into the temporary enclosure, and ..cased on
to the Palace yard, where theme were a number of men
distributed in different parts, in black cloaks, black
cloth caps, and staves, where the ,ickets were shewn to
some Gentlemen of the Lord Chamberlain's Office.—
On the outside of the Palace dour were six M .rsha;men,
in their full uniform, with black silk scarfs and sashes,
crape sword knots, crape roe ad the right arts, and black
silk hat-bands. At the entrance of the Palace were
Mr. Gardner and Mr. S:( ymour, the Grooms of the Bed-
chamber, in black scarfs and hat bands, to receive the
tickets. The compete/ then passed through a short
passage to the hall where the remains were deposited,
when the wax candles above described were lighted,
which gave the whole the meat awful, grand, and majes-
tic appearance possibly to be conceived. The Dowager
Countess of Harcourt, ole of tin Lades I.f the Bed-
ehamber to the late Queen, appeared as Chief Mourner,
in which she we.: relieved by the Countess of Ilcitester,
another of the Ladies of the Bedchamber; they wet e
losiStVd by Gore and Vincent, Eel a. Cell-
tlemen Ushers to the lute Qtteen, and two Maids of
Honour and two Bedchanther Women. The Ladies
wore black crape veils, and tOe Gentlemen were in full
.('ourt dresses. A party of the King's Body Guard,
consisting of an Exon, a Yeoman Usher, and eight Yeo-
men, weeing state uniforms of black, with the em-
'breiderel 1 arts in back and front, with crape round
their caps, and their batene covered with it, were about
the corps, vie. the Yeeman Usher received the com-
pany ; two of the Yeomen at each corner of•the corpse,
'end the Kxon emeltieted theecempany out, or in case
arty one remained too long, he politely desired them to
pass 'an. The anti-room -.as seise) attended by Yeomen
in mourning, Sze. ()a the compeny leaviag the palace,
they entered the pkastas, greceds, w here two (Sae
Marshall:ten were in asst teem: c, to direct them out.
-Every pelM,O. 606 their dcranitire, appeared intyreased
Witt, the solemnity of the seeme.

REVIEW' OF LITERATURE.
THE PitillikißLETEEß.
The Twenty-Fifth Number of the Pamphleteer
having nppeareel, we mho)); as useal, lay before our
readers a briefanalyei., orits contents:-
-The first article ie. a Letter from Mr. Brougham to
the late lamented Sir -Samuel Rotuilly, upon the Abuse
of Charities ; the merits of which, it having already
gone through nine edition. it is needless for us to
ilseell upon, though we rejoice to sec it given to the
Public in every possible *ape, before the hi:portant
subject on which it treats is again submitted to the
consideration of Parliament. To this letter may be
added, us illustrative of the same subject, a letter to
Henry Brougham, Esq. which is the last article in the
present number, from a Master of Arts, of Queen's
College, Oxford, upon the hest method of restoring
Decayed Grammar Schools. This is an original pro-
duction, now for the fitst time ma le public, though
the intiirmstian which it contains was collected before
the publication of Mr. Brougham's letter to Sir Samuel
Romiliy, is come quenee•of the laudable exertions made
by the Author himself, 'toWards restoring the rights of
an ancient Grammar School iu the South of England.
Among other excellent remarks which are brought for-
ward, we particularly admire the author's anxiety to
do away the attempt which has been made to construe
the receipt of parochial relief into an incapacitation
from receiving gratuitous education. Must justly does
he ul enve, trial it would indeed " be impolitic to deny
to a degraded poptilation, the means of rescuing a next
generation from the saute lot." ,
The next subject of importance in this number is a
pamphlet on the Animal South America ; by a Mr.
Buckeeidge, son of the late American Judge of that
Lame, and Secretary to the Commission recently ap-
pointed by the America* Government, to South Ame-
rica. The writer is a warns advocate Ile the 'emanci-
pation of the Patriots, and whin it is considered what
great advantages the com• Mere° of England mw derive
than their fixing 'heir imitogalasue taaasuretiosis, we
plc:inane much less eloquence and three of reasoning
than he has displayed would suffice to bring the bulk
of our readers ever to hinepinians.
Connected in a great measure with the same subject,
possessing equal claim on mar sympathy and respect, are
the " Political Remarks ' of de Vastey, Pre-
minor to the Prince Royal of Hayti, " on some French
V.'erks and Newspapers, concerning that Kingdom,"
which have been translated exclusively fur the Pamph-
leteer, and will be fuund calculated to awaken a lively
interest for the people whose cause they advocate with
equal energy of feel %rand strength of argument.
" Roman Cathelie Principles in reference to God and
the King, by the Bev. Jolts Kiri," is another article in
this number, well descrvittg of commendation, us
cal-
culated to do away the ithjust reproaches which are
more disgraceful to the panics who leek,: theca, than
to those against whoni their are levelled. It is a re-
publication from the original edition of I 680, and is
one of the numerous instances of judicious selection by
which the work b,:fore us is distinguished.

tiate, of the wise and salutary regulations which he hors
made in the Parish of Eletching, immediately under his
own eye. Not only his time, but his money also, bi,s
been expended in tilt, real scrvice of the pour—not in
mere idle altus_;i►ing, but in solid works for their ael-
vantage, and we think no one will rise from the peru-
sal of itis " Ohs?rvations," without feeling that as a
politician and a benefactor he is equally entitled to the
gratitude of all ranks of people.
Another veteran in the cause of Public Good, is the
Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, wha has giveu in this
11111111)er a Collection of Papers on different subjects, viz.
`• flints regarding the Policy of establishing a Colony
on a great scale at the Cape of Good Hope, and the
advantages to be derived therefrom." " Hints regard-
ing the renewal of the Charter of the East India Com-
uany." A Letter "To the Committee of Merchants
interested in the Warehousing or Bonding System," and
another " l'o the Proprie:ors of the I'uhlic Funds in
general, and ofallank Stock in particular."
The only article that remains to be mentioned in this
number is Mr. Cooke's " Thoughts on the Expediency
of Repealing tile Usury Laws ;" a subject which has of
late greatly engaged the attention of the public, and
to which it is inttch to be hoped the consideration of the
Legidature will be seriously turned, as it is one of the
greatest important:et° our commercial interests--it is
well handled by Mr. Cooke, who takes the same view
of it which has bee'n given by Mr. Bentham, and some
other of our hest writers on Matters of Political Eco-
nomy.

The Barbadoes papers inform us, that some strong
legislative provisions have been made throughout our
islands, against the practice of that species of negro
witchcraft which is fiiiniliarly termed " putting Obi •
upon its victims." The superstition in question is
fraught with the most serious evils ; it is the oommon
link of every foul conspiracy, and has been made the
instrument of the moot atrocious and dreadful crian•s.
The penalty of death has, therethre, brim enaitpil '
against those who profess and practise theOboth system,
us the only means of checking its enormities, until
the slow progress of education and religion shall .su-
persede, in the yet untaught minds of the uegroes, the
now salutary terrors of' legal punishment.
The advises in these Papers from Ceylon are to the
28th of June. Though tranquillity laud not been re.
stored at that period, the In::urgents ere stated to have
met with several checks. Gelwral Brownrigg had so
fi►r recovered from an illness of four months' continua-
tion, as to be able to go out in his palanquin. Captain
Fruti.r and four privates were drowned in the river,
near Candy, on the 11th of Jnom Accounts are said to
have reach►d Calcutta from China, of a partial fitiftire
of the tea corn.

A Washington Paper, of the ‘6lll of October, says
—" •l'he Convention of the State of Illinois, in form-
ing their Constitution, have declared that no person
shall be imprisoned for debt, unless upon the refusal to
deliver up his estate for the benefit of his creditors, in
such mauner c►s shall be prescribed by law, or in cases
where there is strong presumption clfraud; Thus the
youngest sister of the tinnily has attempted what others.
hare. recoil, r 1 from, in respect to their relations of deb.
tor and creditor; as the next youngest (Mississippi)
has done in regard to usury. If these experiments su-
ceed, it is to be boptll that the nations of the Contisle..
ration will not be too proud to tUllow the examples
thus set."

To this article succeeds nue of ii very different com-
plexion, entitled, ' Modern 'headier., and Present
state of .‘e:lteitte. Dein". the Anniversary Oration,
delivered March 9, 1818, before the Medical Societv of
London. By D. Uwini, M. D." Dr. UlfiLIS is very
timetious upon " the ills that fteah is hair to," and .o
long us tee continue tree from any of (Lan ourselves,
we may be ready to grata Oust he is very witty also--
an
d to hope that he Ina m iong MI p.,tiente those
who are of the &tate op. :• 4 l'.with one :dMoliere's el:a •
ratters.
.. Voila un Metlean trai ne plait
Jt petiole gull reassira, i.at:il, tit nouAn."
'l'o the Doctor's Oration sticeueds saran very valuable
" Ob:ervations on the Ittlicy, Al". als, end False
Interpretation of the Kam Laws, auti on the Reports of
the Two Houses of Parliament, by John Earl of She&
tit:l:l..'

Accounts have reached Lloyd's, that four Spani•:h
vessels, richly laden, coming out of La Guirs, hf;l
been taken by the Insurgents, and curried into Mar..
garctta.
A rumour has bran circulated, that an American
vesp..l has been in Davis's '-traits and Baffin's-buy, !ins e
our discovery shlss ; that she entered Sir James Lan-
caNter's Sound ; fluid of )00 fathoms depth,
the water warmer, and was proceeding with a stron:
hope of finding r pas;:se thro:•glt the

This Nobleman huts, with the r.:ost praise-worthy
activity, devoted the time which be Was prevented, by
ittlisposition, from giving to his Parli•araentary
during the last session, to drawing up an coconut, nut
only of the plans he has derived tin the lessei.ing of our
Pour Rates, and improving our uatiouul eh:valeta,
which hus so greatly Ih:trammed under their influence ;
but also of the yr:Joh:id resets which lie has
durirG the espuicuct; offLAiy-'eiglit years as a magis-

lug's Straits.
The Duke of IVellington arrived
Puri... His Grace was expei tea to

lard l'astlereagh ha. apinoit.tea one of the yor,ni.;
Noblenien whu were in his soite at Aix-114..hatoelle,
•Setretary of Ligation lot Paris ; which office: had hevti
beld by Lord Fitzroy Sumerskt.
Sir T. ilidtp :irrivcd nt 3l.uir.w :!oe 2 Lth ofJunc,
wheve he *us rcreived with curconotsy by
the Civil and tlilitAr. A utt.ofe.i :Le Presidency.

clays for Loudon ; lout ace-orililg to
moms, he is nut likely to visit the

Friday, a Court of Directors Wag
folia-huose, when Capt3in A. Ilai

i,,to the et.otootnd of the aliip Bonalmy
Ilckua, Botubay, and Chian.

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