The National Register.
London, England, 1821-07-22 00:00:00

CORONATION

OF
HIS 31.1JESTY GEORGE THE FOURTH,

THURWAY, JULY 19,

The extensive preparations for this ceremony have
occupied many months, and we. had from time to
time detailed their progress. 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 seats for which
TWENTY GUINEAS each were demanded a month
ago, were glad to take twenty shilling: the clay 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, coming on foot
across Bridge-street *lnd 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,
*Hi 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 ally 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 istajosty
THE QUEEN.
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A considerable crowd assembled about her Ma-
jesty's houc, in South Audley-street, soon after •1
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 Hamilton 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, " Hie Queen !" " The Queen !"
The Queen immediately appeared in her coach of
state, drawn by six bays. Lady Hood and Lady
Anne Hamilton sat opposite to her Majesty. Lord
Hood followed in his own carriage. Her Majesty
looked extraordinarily well, and acknowledged, with
great dignity and composure, the gratulations of the
people on each 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-1t alk, and by Storey's-gate, along Prince's-
street, to Dean'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
tbuusand voices kept up a constant cry• of "The
Queen !" " The Queen for ever !" The coup chtil
from the mat along the Green-park, which was the
must su•iking 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
silent 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 in the
scene of the King's coronation, shouts of—" The
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 came in sight
of the coronation platform and Westminster-abbey,
the coach stopt for akw minutes. The eheeritag ot•
the crowd Q,l the while was cordial and incessant.—
W hen the coach advanced towards Dcan's-yard a
rerson in the box behind, who froM the colour of