The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-21 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF LORD NELSON.

As we are now enabled from authority to announce
that a public funeral will be accorded to the remains of
the great Duke of Wellington, it is deemed neither inap-
propriate nor ill-timed, on the present occasion, to offer
the reader an account of the obsequies of the naval hero
of England, Lord Nelson. It is derived from the Annual
Register for the year 1806, and it has been copied by all
the biographers of the victor of Trafalgar.
The Great Hall at Greenwich Hospital was on Sun-
day, the sth of January, 1806, thrown open for the ad-
mission of the public to see the coffin which contained
the body of our naval hero, when the confusion and im-
petuosity of the crowd, who had been long waiting for
admission, was such as was perhaps never equalled. It
was calculated that upwards of 20,000 persons were un-
able to gain admission. On the second and third days
the crowd was equally great; but some troops of Horse
Guards having arrived to assist the volunteers, the in-
gress and egress were effected with more regularity,
though not without many persons suffering severe in-
jury. The arrangements for the solemnity were as fol-
low:—In the funeral saloon, high above the corpse, a
canopy of black velvet was suspended, richly fes-
tooned with gold, and the festoons ornamented with
the chelenk or plume of triumph, presented to his
Lordship by tho Grand Seignior. It was also
decorated with his coronet, and a view of the
stern of the San Joseph, the Spanish admiral's ship,
already quartered in his arms. On the back field, be-
neath the canopy, was emblazoned an escutcheon of his
arms, the helmet surmounted by a naval crown, and en-
riched with the trident and palm branch in saltier—
motto, " Palmam qui meruit terat;" also his shield, or-
namented with silver stars, with the motto, " Tris juncta
in uno;" and, surmounting the whole, upon a gold field,
embraced by a golden wreath, was inscribed in sable
characters the word " Trafalgar," commemorative of the
proudest of his great achievements. The Rev. Mr.
Scott, the chaplain of the Victory, who, in consequence
of his Lordship's last injunctions, attended his remains
from the moment of his death, sat, as the chief mourner,
in an elbow-chair at the head of the coffin. At the foot
of the coffin a pedestal covered with black velvet, richly
fringed with alternate black and yellow, and supporting
a helmet surmounted by a naval crown, ornamented with
the chelenk, or triumphal plume, with models richly gilt,
end his Lordship's shield, gauntlet, and sword. Ten
mourners were placed, three on each side of the chief,
and one at each corner of the coffin, all in deep
mourning, with black scarfs, their hair full powdered
in bags. Ten banners elevated on staves, and
emblazoned with various quartering? of his Lord-
ship';; arms and heraldic dignities, each bear-
ing its appropriate motto, were suspended
towards the coffin, five on each side. A railing in
form of a crescent, covered with black, enclosed the fu-
neral saloon from the great hall, by the ellipsis of
which, from right to left, the spectators approached and
receded. Both the hall and saloon were entirely
sur-
rounded at the tops by rows of silver sconces, each with
two wax lights, and between each two an escutcheon of
his Lordship's armorial dignities. The aquatic part of
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