The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-30 00:00:00

THE LATE KT,NG.

The statement made in the Times of Monday last of
Ithe post mortem examination of the late King, is sub-
stantially correct. His late Majesty's primary and mortal
disorder was, an ossification of the vessels of the heart, and
that organ was, as we mentioned, enveloped in masses of
fat. Sir Astley Cooper remarked, that he never saw the
heart so oppressed with that morbid obstruction to its'
action ; the surgical instruments had to unfold thick
masses of fat. The Setjeant-surgeon, it is said, discovered
also a small calculus, which had evidently for some space
of time Ite::n formed in the further cavity of the bladder,
and it was this which had for the last three or four years
required, near the Royal person, the occasional attendance
iof a surgeon (we believe Mr. Brodie, and in ordinary at-
Itendance Mr. O'Reilly), although the local functions were
not generally so impeded as to indicate the fixed existence
lof actual local disease.

The late King's physicians were of opinion, after 6..
!post mortem examination, that his Majesty's struggle
against death would have been probably prolonged for
phree or four weeks, had it not been for the rupture of thy
(blood-vessel last Thursday; the evacuation which ensued,
I though not considerable, was yet sufficient to exhaust the
shattered remains of the King's constitution. The rup-
ture of the blood-vessel took place during a violent fit of
coughing.

The remains of his late Majesty were on Monday night
enclosed in the leaden coffin, the Lord Steward, who
remains in attendance, directing these arrangements. The
coffin is placed on trestles in the chamber of the deceased.,
The bc,dy itself was enveloped in a triple roll of cerecloth.
Early yesterday, in consequence of orders from the
Lord Chamberlain's Office, the necessary preparations
were made for 'fitting up tl►e new state apartment of
Windsor Castle for the lying in state of the body : to
have performed that ceremony in St. George's Chapel
would, it was thought, prove inconvenient for the final
arrangements of the funeral. his late Majesty will IP-
interred in the vault of George 111., beneath St. George's
Chapel, and upon the trestle, or abutment, next that
which bears the coffin of his lamented daughter, the
Princess Charlotte. The lying in state will be for two
lays, and the funeral ceremony will be rather more splen-
!did in its accompaniments than that of the preceding
Monarch. It is said that the Knights in their different
ordera will be summoned to attend. Such 111►nisters of

the Government who are Knights have usually taken
their plumes and collars at these pageants; but it is sale
- they wit be now required, by virtue of their orders, to
appear marshalled as at the coronation, only attired in
sables. This, perhaps, is a rumour set afloat by the
• good folks at Windsor, to make a ceremony always itn-
posing, still snore attractive, for visitors who will have
much money to spend on the occasion.
To-day (Wednesday) is market-day in Windsor, and the
next market-day after the Royal demise, is the usual time
for the Windsor Corporation to proclaim, after their
fashion, the reigning Monarch. The orders, however, for
this ceremony, emanate from the Secretary of State's office,
and late last night they were not received in Windsor.
The usual intimation by Saturday's Gazette of the Royal
demise, was duly forwarded by Sir Robert Peel to all the
Chief Magistrates of towns corporate, and upon these they
ought no doubt to act. Windsor, however, is, it seems,
privileged place, and requires a special stimulus.
The technical details of the post mortem examinat:
were on Sunday evening officially transmitted to the of
of the Secretary of State for the Home Department
they have net been since published, though they fe
gossip of Windsor. Any body conversant wit!
-Magazines is aware that Ibis professional dise,

authentically' announced in the cases of George
the third mot-arch of that name (lied of old age
ticulars are only interesting aid they may throemedical science, in which suhjects have a coal-
with Kings, and an additional claim from +1
they pay for it.
The rumour promulgated by one of or
that the late King had expressed some
beneath his own private chapel
no vault beneath the or"

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