The National Register.
London, England, 1821-09-03 00:00:00

TILE PRAYER.

" Transient is our life, perishable all fortune and glory of the
earth ! Thus, All-wise (aorr, thou hest ordained it 1 But in
death are terminated all the hardships, trouble*, and sttf'ering►
that attend the life of man in this state of imperfection. Not
in this world, where we are strangers, where we live in a
constant struggle with adversities and our own infirmities, no.
only in that to come, for which thou hest created our immortal
spirit, do we find the desired felicity, and purer, untroubled,
uuperishable 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 farrow.: ONE
in this sacred place, and at the coffin of a Deceased, whom thy
All-wise will once destined fur a terrestrial throne, and now
after a rare change of destiny, has called into the hind of
eternal peace.

With hearts deeply affected do we view the burying place of
this descendant of a beloved and princely family. Thou, ber be-
nign Creator, didst adorn her with high advantages of mind
and body, and Bidet 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 Princes, she
was. Unseen:bahle, 0 Eternal, are thy wept After a Iran.
scent and troublesome life, she has now finished her earthly
career, and her unanimated body returns to the vanit where
her evernnemorable father, her brother, her relations aie
resting.

•` 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 termi-
nation of her severe trials ; whereby, after thy most benign
intention, she should be purified of human infirmities, and be
prepared for a better life. Thanks to thee for the comfort thus
thou heat richly granted her in her last hours ; thanks fir the
great strength thou didst inspire her with, both in her life and
in her last moments, to a patient and courageous endurance of
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 life. 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 most righteous LORD, recompense her in that state
of perfection for what was but deficient here on earth But
to us let her evee-memorable remembrance be a moving and

beneficial lesson, thus to believe, thus to hope, thus to live, that
we may once courageously pass over to die life of just reynital.
And now, most gracious GOD, preserve livewise to us graciously
the remaining most beloved members of our princely family.
for our joy and for the welfare of eur country, and attend their
days with thy richest blessing ! Grant our most pious wisLes!..
AmEst."

While the Minister was uttering this beautiful and
pathetic prayer, all were deeply affected :—the military
did not disdain to express their emotions in an audible
manner, and several times we saw the Great Chamber-
lain wipe away the tears front his fine manly counte-
nance. As to the immediate mounters, including the
servants of the Queen's household, we never saw more
unequivocal and affected sorrow. When the prayer was
finistied, and before the mourners left the tomb, the
hundred young ladies were admitted, anti formed a large
circle round the platform : they strewed flowers on the
floor; and then having prepared soine wreaths, arranged
theni in diflerent forms on the coffin ; they then knelt
down, tittered a short prayer, and retired amidst the
tears and sobs of the company. Even Sir G. Nayler,
was visltily affected by this heautilid and pathetic inci-
dent. The f ral was over about two, and in less
than half an how the streets were completely empty,
and all was as silent as the tomb to which the Queen had
just been solemnly consigned.

Thus ended the funeral of the amiable and perse-
cuted Queen of England. The hand of power was
to the last exerted to deprive her of her just rights,
and to the last the love of the people defeated the
malice of her enemies. She chose rightly in choos-
ing to be buried at Brunswick. In England she
had faithful friends, but there her enemies were
powerful and brutal; and the expression of their
enmity might have violated even the sanctity
of the tomb: in Brunswick she was loved and
idolised by all classes, from the great officer of
state to the meanest pauper. In England her dust
might have been mingled with that of some of her
cruellest persecutors: in Brunswick she will be
mingled with the congenial ashes of heroic relatives
and dearest friends. Our readers will not be sur-
prised to learn, that the frank and affectionate
Brunswickers feel no very good-will to England,
which they consider as the land of suffering and
persecution to their beloved Princess; but nothing
could exceed the respect and kind regard they showed
to those faithful English, who, having fought the
good fight for her while alive, now with sincere and
disinterested attachment accompanied the remains of
their broken-hearted mistress to a distant grave.—
Among the English present, were Lord and Lady
Hood, Lady Anne Hamilton, Dr. and Mrs. Lush-
ington, Mrs. and Mrs. Wilde, Alderman Wuod, and
his son, the Rev. T. Wood, Mr. Hownam, and Mr.
Wilson (son of Sir Robert): amongst the Foreigners,
Count Vassali and Capt. Hesse: Mr. Austin and
the household were all there also.
It is right to mention, that the executors applied
at Brunswick, before the funeral, to Mr. Calvert to
restore the plate which had been taken off the
Queen's coffin at Colchester; and that Mr. Calvert
answered, that he conceived himself to be without
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authority to comply with their request. After the
funeral the executors made a second application, but
we believe without success; it was, however, clearly
understood, that if the plate should be restored,
the actual authorities at Brunswick would offer no
opposition to its being placed on the coffin.—On
Sunday the 26th ultimo, a funeral sermon was
preached by Mr. Wolff, at which all the mourners
attended.

COURSE OF EXI
Amsterdam, 12 17 C. F.
Ditto, at eight, 12 11
Rotterdam, It 18
Antwerp, 12 9
Hamburg'', 38 2
Altona, 38 3
l'aris, 3 days' sight, 2.5 70
Ditto, 46
hourdeaux, 26
Fraukfottou the Maine, 158
Petersburg'', 81 3 U.
Vienna, El. Flo. 10 25
'1 rieste, Ef. Flo. ►O 25
Madrid, 314—Cadiz, 36*
35i—Bal eelona,3sl

PRICE 0
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. 7C
3 per Cent. Consols 16
3i per Cent.
4 per Cent. 95i
5 per Cent. Na,y 1091
Lug Ann. 191

:FIANCE, Auc. SI.
Seville, 34—Gibraltar,301
Leghorn, 47—Genoa, 43i
Malta, 45—Venice, 27 60
Naples, 394—Lisbon, 5d
Oporto, 50—Bahia, 59 '
Rio Janeiro, 49
Palermo, 116
Dublin, 14 per cent.
Cork, 9 per cent.
Foreign gold in bars, 31. 17s.
100. per oz.
New Doubloons,
New Dollura,4a. 10d.
Silvrr iu bat s, a tandard, 4
I 1 tl.

STOCKS.
Ontnitim 0.
Imp. 3 per Cent.
intliA BMWs 62
Indi• Stock
Exchequer Mils 3.. prem.
COllll. for At. 761
Lottery Tickets £l9 18s.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ton Don :
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3.

Mr. Alderman Waithman has very properly ad-
dressed Lord Bathurst (in the absence of Lord Sid-
mouth, the Secretary fur the Home Department,)
on the subject of the outrageous conduct of the Life
Gdards on Sunday last, and a document more cre-
ditable has seldom been seen. We would by no
means " set down aught in malice," but we hesitate
not to say that the regiment was disgraced that day,
and of the officer's conduct, we may add, that he be-
haved nunlike a gentleman, unlike a man, and cer-

tainly unlike & British officer. It is for Government
to apprize us, by the line of conduct adopted in this
instance, whether or not the military power is
to supersede the Constitution, whether or not
the uscostmooded sword is to replace our Statutes,
whether or not the highest Civil Power we
know, is, in the person of a High Sheriff of
the first county in the Kingdom, to be set at
nought, and himself to be threatened with assassins,.
tion by a lawless and infuriate soldiery. No praise
of the worthy Sheriff can reach his deserts—his
courage, coolness, presence of mind, and conciliation,
doubtless saved the flowing of torrents of blood on
Sunday last, and if England do not, in imitation of
the Roman senate, present her citizens with a civic
crown for saving the life of a fellow-creature, Mr.
Waithman's brow will be adornel with a chaplet of
gratitude, woven by the hundreds whom his firmness

saved from butchery in this instance—those who
would have been widows and orphans will pray for
the Preserver of their husbands and fathers, and the
recollection of the events of that day will solace him
at the most fearful period of his life—on his death-
bed.

We much fear the line of conduct Ministers
mean to adopt, may be anticipated from the tone of
my Lord Buthurst's reply to Mr. Sheriff Waithman's
statement—it is not so decided as the Letter of
Thanks of Lord Sidmouth„ after the Manchester
murders, but it isinthe sa ue, key.—Mr.Waithman's
rejoinder will be read with pleasure, by all those
who would rather live under the Constitution, than
under the rule of Sword and Carbine. A partial
change of Administration, it is said, will take place
on the King's return from his Irish revelliigs.—We
shall hail with delight any change, by which may
be introduced a single Member to the Cabinet, who
would rather England should be ruled by Love
than Fear—who would prefer the adoption of
means to conciliate the affections of the people, to
making them the subjects from time to time of
Military Slaughter and Tyranny.

Loci NOTEL—A public meeting was held on
Thursday, the 23d, in the Exchange dining room,
Manchester (pursuant to a requisition) " to consider
of the measures necessary for securing a satisfactory
currency of these towns and neighbourhood, in con-
sequence of the cessation of the issue of small notes
by the Bank of England." The meeting was very
numerously and most respectably attended. About
half-past eleven o'clock the Boroughreeve was called
to the chair. A series of resolutions was then read
to the meeting, stating strongly the well known in•
convenience of a currency depending on private se-
curity. The efficient resolutions were the following:
sl hat the following declaration be adopted by the meeting
and recommended to the inhabitants at large:—
•' M•sciisstCß, Ana. 23, 1821.—We, the undersigned,
being deeply impressed with the iucunvenience and danger
to be uppreliended from the circulation of local notes in this
great mercantile town, do hereby declare it to be our inters•
lion not to receive any such notes in payment after the Slit
instant, except in cases of ex(reme necessity; in all which
we pledge ourselves not to circulate such notes."
Moved by Mr. Richard Owen, seconded by Mr.
Allen, and resolved unanimously—
•• That the gentlemen who signed the requisition for this
meeting be mho/Wiled a committee, with power to sold to
their nu ober, for the purpose of • allying the preceding re-
solutions into erect, and of procuring tue co oisc rat of the
merchants and initnufacturers, shopkeepers, and others, in
such steps as may he thought Net essary with the view of pre-
semilig the intioduction of a dangerous mid unsittisfactory
currency into this important commercial district ; and that
any five may be competent to act."

SPORTING.—The Grand Jury of the county of
Bedford, at the late Assizes, entered into the fol-
lowing resolution:—
" We. the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury of the county of
Bedford, assembled ut the Suminer .sires, having taken into
consideration the very backward state of the growing crops, and
the injury the cultivators of the land would thereliwe sustain, it
their farms were to be interfered with by sportsmen so early as
the Ist day of September, do resolve, that we will not begin to
shoot, and that we will make use of all legal means to prevent
others from shooting upon our estates respective,y before Friday
the 14th of September, in the present year: and we recommend
this present resolution to the ail-option of the land owners in ge-
nelal, lot the protection of the &meta."

The St. Antonio, from Lisbon to Barcelona, was
captured on the 29th ult. on the waft of Huelba, by
an armed brig, and a xebec under Spanish colours,
which, after taking out the cargo, part of the pro-
visions, and plundering the crew and passengers,
allowed her to proceed, and she arrived at Cadis
the 31st ult.

A gentleman shooting grouse on the hills of the
Hon. W. Malik, last week, discovered a covey of
young partridges, almost full grown, a considerable
way in the Grampians, under the protection of a
mulr-cock and hen. The old partridges were not
present. We leave it to naturalists to determine
whether the grouse bad taken possession of the par-
tridges' nest, and hatched their brood; or whether
they had taken the brood under their protection
after the parent birds had been destroyed.
A snake's nest was last week discovered in the
vicinity of Truro. It was singularly constructed,
and contained 14 eggs, of a dirty white colour,
about the size of those of the blackbird. One of
the eggs being broken, a young snake. perfectly
formed, of a dark colour, was exposed to view, cu-
riously coiled round the inside of the shell. On
being freed from its confinement it raised its head
and unwound itself to the extent of six inches, with
all the activity peculiar to these supple animals.
A few days since, Mrs. Prowse, who lives at
Mount Edgeumbe Lodge, near Plymouth,• left a
ba.ket of live cockles outside the door, and on her
return found a robin which had flown ink) the

basket, vainly endeavouring to escape from one of
the shell-fish, which had caught the bird by•the
foot. and preserved its hold with such tenacity, as
to deprive the little flutterer of two claws before he
could be extricated.
It is said the King was not quite pleased with
the Bank of Ireland. Instead of showing the cash-
room in its proper form and appearance, it was cot,.
verted into a sort of theatre, in which his Majesty
was erhibiled. The Governors and Directors ap.
peared in their common habiliments, instead of being
full dressed, as was their duty. When they ushered
his Majesty to the apartment where the notes were
struck off, the key was not to be tbund; and to
crown all, and accomplish the seine of their bad taste, .
they placed the chair for his Majesty behind the
statue of his royal father, of blessed memory ! It
created a sensation which was visible, but, perhaps,
not clearly definable.
Anecdote of Lord Chief Justice Iloll..—During a
riot in Holborn, when the populace were about to •
pull down a crimping-house, a body of -guards were
ordered to march from Whitehall to disperse the
mob. An officer was dispatched to the Lord Chief
Justice, to acquaint him with the design, and to •
desire him to send some of his people to attend the
soldiers, in order to give it the better countenance.
The officer having delivered his message, the Lord
Chief Justice said to him, " Suppose the populace
should not disperse at your appearance, what are you
to do then !" " Sir," answered the officer, " We
have orders to fire upon them--" Have you, Sir,"
replied his Lordship, " then take notice of what I
say ; if there be one man killed, and you are tried
before me, I will take care you, and every soldier
of your party shall be hanged. " Sir," added he,
go back to those who sent you, and acquaint them,
that no officer of mine shall attend soldiers; and let
them know at the saute time, that the laws of tills
kingdom are not to be executed by the sword; these
matters belong to the civil power, and you have
nothing to do with them." Upon which he ordered
his tipstsffs with a few constables to repair to the
place ; and the minute they appeared there was an
end to the riot.

Extract of a letter from Barcelona, dated 15th
August :—" For eight days past we have been under
great alarm here, in consequence of symptoms of the
yellow fever having broke out its our port. Our
authorities are taking every possible measure to pre-
vent its reaching the shore, and we hope the evil
will be crushed in its infancy. Great numbers lt
the inhabitants have, however, precipitately left the
town, and still continue to leave it, as hitherto tie
symptoms have not diminished The
tion with the shipping has been of course cut off.
The Ga die de France says, that the King of Ea,
land will proceed to Vienna atter his visit to his Han•
verian dominions. "It is expected that his Majesty
will arrive there about the lath of September.—
Prince Esterhazy, who announced this news, has
given orders tin. the necessary preparations at his sect
of Eissenstadt to receive George the Fourth, on his
way thither. His Majesty will only make a sho; t
stay amongst us, us lie will depart early in (Mahar
to return to England, taking Paris in his route
thither."

COLON/AL LIMBER DUTY.
LIVLUPOOL.

•Tnasery.Cliagebers. Jaly 9.
GENTLEMEN,-1 and directed by Lie Ltottki et>111111:s14011e1.5
of his Majesty's Treasury to state to you. that it being itnpo • •
bible for the masters of such irt.ssels as kit the country pressous
to the passing of the Act of the piesent S,ssion. I arid Y George
cap. 37. for the purpose of loading timber in the B. ntaa
North American Columns, to be aware of the regulations estao-
tithed by that Act, their Lordships, then hire, desire that you
will dispense with the certificate required by the 11th mectau of
the said act, and with the oath art the master as to the growth
and identity of any timber which may be im from any
British colony or plantation in America. in ..I case: a here the
vessels importing the same shall arribe to a port of Great Britain
previous w the Ist Septemberdois:s.ile,r.. s
L SH ING TO N."
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