The Sun.
London, England, 1812-05-16 00:00:00

ME. PEr CEVAL'S FUNERAL

The remains of this truly estimable charaaer were
this morning removed from his house in Downing-
street.
The ceremony commenced at nines o'clock,
and tiselbody, deposited in a plain hearse, was taken
to Charlton, in Kent. •The hearse was drawn
by six horses, and was followed by five mourning-
coaches, with six horses each.
Lord ARDEN, Mr. PERCEVAL'S brother, was in
the first coach, ,Chief Mourner, and was accom-
panied by the Seeretary and Chaplain of the de-
parted Cientlettan.
The Lon) CHANCELLOR, the En-1 of LrvEß-
root., and Mr. Secretary RYDER were in the second
'coach.

Lord-• REDESDALE, Lord IPERCEVAL, Marquis
WELLESLEY, the Earl of WESTMORLAND, Lord
SILThIOUTH, Lord CAMDEN, and the Earl BUCK"
INgIiAMSHIRE, and two or three other Noble-
men, whose names We could not learn, appeared
in the remaining coaches. The family carriage fol-
lowed,, and after them were.2l coaches, in which
were the pall-bearers and other-mourners.

There was no ostentation or needless parade in
this mournful- procession, but all was marked by
motet simplicity. The deceased Gentleman ‘vas
held in such respell, that many distinguished as'
raders of both parties had expressed a wish to join.
in the melancholy ceremony, • but circular letters
had been sent to the Members of both Houses 41
orderto prev2nt all appearance of ostentation on an
occasion thai had excited so much grief: in the whole
nation, and as it was not the wish of his own famill
that any magnificence, should .mark an: event so
Meting in its nature.

A great concourse of people attended, and it N'34
some consolation to observe', that in all faces there

was an expression of sincere deje.aion and spy'
patty. A party of the City Lig.ht Horse attend"
ed at Newington Putts, and accompanied the prc'
cession to the Church, in 'order to testify their
respe& for Mr. PERCEVAL, who was a Member and
Ticasurer to that valuable addition to our Volenteilt
defence. •

BELLINGHAM, we understand, will certainly he!
executed before Newgate. •

JOHN BELLINGHAM.—As every particular relating
to the assassin of MT. PERCEVAL 'is at present ince-
resting to the public, we have thrown together 3
few of the numerous anecdotes in circulation fe.
spe6ting him, takihg Care-that they should be such
as, possess the greateSt claim to belief on account of
their apparent authenticity.--A Lady, who iS 3
friend of his farni!e; and was yesterday leaping !oWt3
ft r Liverpool, Obtellied en order from the Sherds to,
be adMitted to. a ei.-nve'rsation with him
and to be the bearer of any message to his I.oe
jelesed to write, a:lle„;ing that he• would rathel°l
till to-morrow (Fridry), th it he might acquaint her
with his. liberation, we:ich he confident dnticiPa!:
ed, before the going out r.f 'the post: Winl3 t01:i
person Was with the prisoner, be received a 51113„
box, containing one 50, ovu 20, and several to
and-51. Bank-mites, amounting altogether to an°
a hundred guineas. We could not ascertain 'be:.
ther this sum was an anonymous gilt, or came 11,
a known friend, to meet the expellees of the 1r33
Bellingham himself had no money beyond w:ot yr
had in his' pocket when he committed the mt-ird;
He was a man of regular habits, seldom an'er,,
'from his lodgings after ten o'clock, and often lire
to tea by five, after which he did not again go abrn3
lie was punctual in his attendance on divine vvnc;
ship, and had marked out the lessons forWhitsnou3l
in his Prayer-book, before the corms'''
sion sion of the crime. We have heard that he was e%"
vagant ihis younger days, and by no means a Matt
;:„
tern of domestic happiness since his marriage, rTis
withstanding the feeling allusions to his wife in 1.0.).
' defence would seem to indicate the contrarPd.
.Within these two years 'he received aiegacy of 4°
from an aged relative at Brompton.'. He has lat-ei;f
had few visitors ; one Gentleman of the narne
Wilson, called on him on Monday, the day of ,„i,
assassination. This act seems to have been Precjrle
fated by poverty, for he had arrived at that extrend
verge, that he :felt himself unable, on the (2cl
May, to spare the payment of his month's lodgil.'6l
which for the three preceding months be had settle
regularly to a day. But . the most singular relatiLic,
that has come to our ear,,connected with this stwctle
ingevent, is, that a person in a public party in. t
,t
London Tavern, at the instant when an indistin,te
ruwogr of the murder or Mr. Perceval reached the
room, If it is so, then Bellieghs,.o
has done,it." If this be true, it, is a circurnii,alw
well worthy the attention of the Privy Council.
By the China, fleet, the arrival of which WC *
o
litifrve.
noun on Thursday last, we, have lean
following particulars :—" On the evening
the 12th January, Captain C. C. MAcret NTnsici
of the Earl Balcarras, was killed by the burstiog.:,
one of his quarter-deck nuns; which was rene3n
One of the Commodore's signals to the fleet.
DUE,LLING.—Private information baying; men
e3rit
recei..ed by the Magistrates of Bow. street, t.`t
General BLIGH 311(1 the Hon. EDWARD BLIGEI
going to fight a duel on Wimbledon. Corm-non, v'.'3o
rants were issued againSt Om, and Lavender vier
dispatched to take them into custody, the•fortore,
haying challenged the latter, supposedeto be ere
speetipg some farmily dispute. The parties %!`
respectively bound over to keep the peace.. ter,-
On ThorsdAy night the house of Mr. Chand'o
in stamford-street, Blackfriars,road, was broke ("1"
and robbed of several articles of plate, -&c.

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