The National Register.
London, England, 1816-05-19 00:00:00

THE ROYAL FAMILY.
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ROYAL VISIT TO THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.
Her Majesty, attended by his royal highness the Duke of
Clarence and the Princesses Elizabeth and Mary, yesterday
went to inspect the two Hones of Parliament. Soon after
twelve her Majesty arrived at the private entrance to the
Howe of Lord., in her private carriage drawn by a pair of
horses. The Royal Batty was received at the entrance by Sir T.
Tyrwhitt, who conducted them to the House of Peers, in srhick
the Lord Chancellor and the Earl of Shafisbury waited their
art ival. The Duke of Ciacenec explained to her 31ajesty the
ftin: :if the House, and called her attention to every thing
worthy of observation. Her Majesty then took her leave of
the Le.r.l Chancellor, and proceeded to the House of Commons.
11 the door of the lobby of this House late was tee. lord Ly the
Speaker 41111 the miter otil-era of the House: the forint ti
her Majesty by the hand. and led her edo the body ut'
House, and folly explained the untere of it: proceediti. Hor
Muje,dy aftcen arils partook of a exit( collation in the Speaker s
house, and at two o'clock tented highly gratitied with her
nun

Sunday List her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte
and his Serene Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg
attended Divine Service again ut Weybridge Church,
which attracted a very crowded congregathm. They sat
in the Duchess of York's pew. The Church-yard, through
which they walked to the church, was crowded with spec-
tators, who received them with marked attention and re-
joicings, which the Prince and Princess very condescend-
ingly acknowldged. At the conclusion of the afternoon
service they set out for London in their new travelling
carriage. They were preceeded by another Royal csarriage,
in which were their attendants. They arrived ut ten
minutes befbre six o'clock at Camelfhrd House. A crowd
was assembled'ut the gates in Oxford-street, who received
them with loud huzzas. Hereford-street, which is open
to Catnelthrd I louse, was also crowded at the iron-railing
which separates the court-yard from the street, to ser the
Prince and Princess get out of their carriage. They were
received in the hall by Baron Hardenbrook, Sir Robert
Gardiner, the Pages in Waiting, and other attendants.
Soon after their arrival dinner was served up. Their
return to London being soon known in the higher
circles, Hyde Park w.N snore crowded in the afternoon
than it has been any Sunday this season, with carriages;
horsemen and pedestrians ; but the coldness of the wind,-
and the frequent showers which 'Li:Railer tour o'clock dis-
persed most of them: great numbers of well dressed per-
sons, however, loiteredubout the neighbourhoodof Camel.
ford House, which was also crowded in the interior with
all ranks, leaving their respectful congratulations. It 's-
utterly impossible for us to find room for the immense'
names with which we have been furnished.

It will be seen by the Ordinance of the Prince Re-
gent, in the Gazelle of Tuesday, that Prince Leopold
takes precedence of the Archbishop of C.mterbury, the
Lord Chancellor, and all Peers, except the Royal Mikes.
His Serene flightless of course ranks iannediately next
to the Duke of- Gloucester.

The Princess of Wales arrived at Tunis the b2ginning
of the present month ; from which place her float
Highness was to embark in a few days for Constantinople.
We understand his Royal Highness the Prince Re-
gent has burn pleased to order a Patent, creating thC.
Riglrt Hon. the Lard Mayor a Baronet of the. United
Kin ,4,10 m.
The anniversary of the British Institution for die
Edu-
cation of the Poor, was held at the London Tavern on
Monday lust ; when a most satisfactory report was made
to the meeting. The Duke of Kent, on thanks being
voted to him (on the motion of Mr. Adams, the Anicrieua
Ambassador), spoke nearly as billows.

" The attendance to-day surpasses my most sanguine etpee
tations. I have at former meetings leaked forward to preside -
at the next returns.--Not so now.--1 am .about to leave my b.:.
loved country. Perhaps years may elapse ketimo I nicet sea
again. Let toe hear while 1 ant :inroad that this ciiiiseprospers,
and I pledge mys&l that when the purposes of hey aiisence are
accomplished—when I return, I will place ODIC TIWILiAND I-
NEAs at the disposal, and for the use of the Institution. 1
L
have not done it before, it is because I had it not ia my power.
I am desirous that this last act—this pledge of my love to it,
should be alien record. 1 fecl gratified that this came
from the Ilinister of the •United States. I lived long in the
ncighboorhoed of the United States, and it was e‘or a grief t•
me that the two countries shook, be at variance. Their lui-
gliage and their interests are the SarPaa and their friondship
should be inviolable. I return my thanks to this Assetoloit ."
The intermit part of the new English Opera lions*
is now nearly appniaching to a finish. The stage is
completely formed, and the scene-painters are busily em-
ployed in the painting-rooms. The housi4it is said, will
be opened on his Majesty's birth-day.
The Rev. R. C. Mattt;in, the author of the new Tra-
, !roily at I)r:try-lane, is the son of W. I,tturiu, Esq. tun
of the Clerks of the Roads in Ireland. The author was
educated at Trinity College, and is at present a Curate
in the parish of St. Peter. in that City.
onecii-S'ilace office 'as' thronard Thei;:day and 4'6day witis
jewPrers, dress-makers, soliocanaket•s, b :kers, confectioner.,
,yo..xe. to prefer charges t.:34lst a very dashing female
10914. r, railing hersclts Miss Moe, who now appearesil before
then ill the tire"' of a servant girl. Site tied represented
her-
,ett'as the dati2hter tit' a 'vveirr, at CanKrburv, with a fortune
A' 12,40001. a sear, upon her renting of age, anaetated ; that she
• had come to I.tooloo to he iviarred, against her father% colteribt,
•to the son of a Otamot•gansliiie Barotset. One of the v•min
pla Maws, of whoa+ the Laths had taken lodgings, in Mallon-
fur- buithiegs, was so far hoaxed as to preside a Itaalptaoa, dia•
q,` r ter the es:retied bcidegrooin, and so Set not ro me, t him at
the inn, and welcome him to taws. Wise he was gone,
however, the Rride gave then% the slip, and was not beard of
until clue was takeaaluto tusloiy, ISLE w.• scakuilled till Me*.
day next.

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I .104,4710 N OF 7'HE DE.II).
TO T.IE EDITOR OF TUE NATIONAL MOISTER.

SIR.
It has soften occurred to me as a very extraordinary circuits-
Statece,ittatt age so famed for its litimanity,benevolencemnd piety,
as the present, that the practice of digging up dead bodies, by
what are called resnrrection men, tOr the porpoise of supplying
soNeett for dissection, to aid the students in surgery, has never
yet beam sufficiently reprobated. or indeed noticed, by any
at the distinguished pious and humatic writers of the present
day. Surely this cannot be iio4ll any other cause dun' mere,
inattention; for who can rationally conceive, that a practice
su riseolting to VOllllllllll sib wantonly used, and other-
-wise so nllOOll5 and disgusting, can be contemplated with
in-
thisr, +4 nee by those w hose exertions in the cause of sullering
basuaitity and Jls have hitherto clammed them 'with the.
honours of imperishable and who are associated on her
scroll with the good and great of all ages noel clime.? But, how-
ever this silence may be interpreted by solve, to me it has
.er appeared an insolvable enigma; tOr I fan never 'oppose,
at least until I ant better informed, that this slisgrartild
practice is at all recour-ileable ( whatever specious reasons may
be urged iu its favion) either with religion or morality. It is
not sty intention, in this coninmaication, to enter into a very
wide field of observation; but merely, by MM.` few cursory
restiarks, to (haw the attention of your readers; ill the hope
dart some one better qualified than myself may pursue the
theme; as it is a subject which I humbly conceive to be, in
its eel fain mural effects, fraught with the most deadly means
of corrupting Inc Kourre of our best feeling., and brutalizing
Use human s 'oat osier.
If we look back into the history and progress of civilization
from the eat litst periods of antiquity, we shall find that the
ranetity of the grave was proportionably recognized as a prin-
ciple of piety, with the advancement and cultivation of itn•
prove sl ma iiiii -re. The buria of the dead has, at every period,
been held as expiatory religious cereo iiiii ; and the quiet
repose of their mouldering ashes as a neecesary means for the
peace of the soul, and as an indispensable respectful duty
a Inch the living owed to the manes of the deceased. Nettling
can be more beautiful, nothing more sweetly moral, nothing
more refine.ily pious, than this veneration towards those who
have passed away to that hall ill from whence they ought never
to return to be cut and mangled, and almost ere their lamented
remains are cold, by the riithl-ss knife of the unfeeling sim-
plest operator. punnet places have ever been hallowed spots
soon form or other of religion has at all times consecrated
those mournful receptacles; and in general they have been
situated remote front the bustle and noise of life, sequestered,
peat-chid, and holy. Those who are unmindful of the dead,
those who violate the sacred temple of the grave, and who
with sacreligions hands outrage the quiet ntausuleum of their
l.feless brethren, and who pay no voluntary homage of the
heart to the tomb, are men who will not scruple to wound the
tenderest and best foriings of our nature, and sear with bruta-
lity the eyquisite soot cc's of sensibility. Those who are indi/Pr.
eta aboitt the dead, ore uhleelingly careless ;;1 the tiring. The
ancients, though vary ing in their ceremonies, did any thing but
disturb the last sad tenement of man; and this scat a truly
pions feeling, as every religion enjoins the expiatory offering
acid prayers, and the undisturbed repose, of the breathless
lineaments of the departed. Let him, mho regards religion as
an incumbent dusty of man towards the author of his being,
tread lightly and reverentially. over the raised turf of the grave;
and let him, while he come lonia tes the calm dwelling of its
silent ioliabitant, re-fleet on the- outrage committed on piety and
decency in the wantonly distilrbiag the bones laid lowly at
rest. Based and lettioited be the habitations ;II those who no longer
lire among us.
Is this, or is this not, a religious and refined community ? If
it is, let sus act emisieteetly, and let us abandon a practice
which is, in its ft ightful details, impiously rlisgtostimr, and
which in its consequences is altogether savagely bear ilizing.
If, on the ess.strars, we have 110 acquaintance with relineinent
or religion. let us endeavour to aim at that degree of civiliza-
tion, whi•.ll in the ancients, without she fijir of the
induced whale to respect the brows of their buried fellinv
mortals. Rut ae bane ; and in the' name of our holy
tmtla, which so btanlifilil.prescribes to ms the rashly :diem of
the social qualsties as a means of salvation, let us porgy our
habits trout such: an 111111.11111 Ned viuhttiun of our moral duties,
011'01101 tilt' *Ma of the grave, set an example of real,
unallectell piety to (ho rising generation.
Ilut wisats• see impiety and perverted reason may sophistically
mge in it- favor, und yeti can hardly anticipate any thing,
sate only On the miserable groom' of expediency., 1 slop eyes
he of sopittion, that the morals of it•commuttity, involy ine 'nary.
due. :icy, and retied feeling, is of infinitely 11101 e imisortatice
to general It.sispiness, than this Annie plea of lieCClPity applied
in justiBcatiuu cut the practice, which, in the most liberal view,
can only benefit a few unfortunate individuals. To the plea
Coarser of ex peel:m.47, on the setae of its utility to the liVillg,.
I atolver, 4 the mentionof • ye elhknown 'fact ; s in. flow
the world flits IV en more pereuh us than it is laps, and that
when the sliss relinfl of human bodies was never or scarcely
ever praetised. Tile tooth is, I believe, that the he4hria al,
was these inneh teener known than it is at present; and shot,
ton, when the 3.iti tit operators doseeted beasts of 1•11.1111g111IN
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