The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-03 00:00:00

ABDICATION OF THE KING OFrUNEBAL OF THE LATE PRIN.I
HOLLAND. CESS AUGUSTA.
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We have received, by extraordinary express fronl
Brussels, the important news of the abdication of the •
King of Holland.
Our Correspondent writes—" I hasten to communi-
cate to you the most important news just received I))
the Amsterdam papers of Wednesday afternoon, that
his Majesty, before setting out the day before from
the Hague, for the Castle of Loo, announced
to his Ministers his intention of abdicating. In 4
few days a proclamation will be issued, by which his!,
Majesty will inform his subjects of his resolution. 1.0
am enabled to assure you, from private letters I
have received this moment from Holland, that
this news has an official character. The King made
known his resolution to some ot' his Ministers before
departure for the chateau of Loo. The Handelsblad
makes the same announcement, and adds that' " the
King went to Loo with Baron Pagel, one of his oldest
friends, who had recently arrived from Paris, where he
had performed the functions of Minister Plenipotentiary.
The Dutch papers do not even hint at the causes which
have led to this determination on the part of the King ;,
but it is thought in Brussels that he has descended froml
his high estate solely to accomplish in private life the,
union with an amiable lady of hii Court which met so
much opposition when first announced to the Dutch
people about a twelvemonth ago.

The remains of her ►late Royal Highness the Princess"
Augusta lay in State from eleven till four o'clock yester-
-Iday, at Frogmcre.
The apartment in which the mournful solemnity took'
,place was hung and lined with black, the sides lighted:
with nbmerous silver sconces, containing wax-lights in
'double rows, an escoeheon of her late Royal Highness':,
coat of arms being placed between each row.
The coffin was uncovered at the end, displaying the
crimson velvet and gilt ornaments, and at the top of the
Coen was placed the coronet of the late Princess, on a
ieusbion trimmed with gold. Three massive and very
thane some gold candlesticks were placed. on each side of
!the body, containing I..rge wax candles, and on the wall
inearest the coffin was a hatchment of the Royal Arms.
At eleven o'clock, when the public were admitted,
Lady Mary Pelham, the Lady-in- Waiting to the late';
Princess Augusta, sat at the head of the Body as Chief
Mourner, and on either side stood Miss Wynyord, Bed-
' chamber Woman to her late Royal Highness, and Lady
Caroline Legge, Lady of the Bedchamber to the
Duchess of Gloucester.
Robert Laurie, Esq., Windsor Herald, and James
• Pulman, Esq., Richmond Herald, stood at the foot of
the coffin, wearing their splendid tabards, over which
;they wore scarfs of crape.
At twelve o'clock the Ladies were relieved by Lady,
Carteret, Miss Vyse, and Lady Georgians Bathurst ;'
land the H.,ralds by Francis Martin, Esq., Norroy Kine.'
Arms, and Joseph Hawker, EEq., Clarenceux

BRITISH. FLEET IN THE MEDI
TERRANEAN.

Arms.
At one o'clock Lady Mary Pol:ram, Lady Charles So-
merset, and Miss \Vyuyard, took the stations of the other

The following is, we believe, a correct list of the British
fleet now in the Mediterranean :
1. Princess Charlotte lO4
2. Powerful
84
3. Ganges
4. Thunderer
5. Bellerophon 7B
6. Revenge
7. Cambridge
' 8. Asia
74
9. Implacable
10. Hastings '' 72
11. Benbow ""72
12. Edinburgh 72
On passage out—
Rodney 92
Vanguard . ........ 84
Castor
Pique
Inconstant (at Gibraltar, it is said)...
Fitting—
Britannia
Howe
Calcutta . 84
Belleirle (no men)

Ladies.
At two o'clock, Lady Carteret, Lady Caroline Legge,
Ind Miss Vy se, came into waiting.
And at three o'clock, Lady Mary Pelham, Lady
Charles Somerset, and Lady Georgiana Bathurst, attended,
until the ceremony closed. Albert William Woods, Esq.
(Portcullis), Charles George Young, Esq. (York), ano
other Heralds, took the duty alternately until the close of

the solemnity.
Her Royal Highness's Pages were also in attendance.l
The passages both for ingress and egress were entirely
covered with black cluth, and were lighted by silver

sconces.
A party of the Rifle Corps were on duty in the grounds
)f Lodge, and the external arrangements were under
the control of the London Police. The public were
admitted to the ceremony with the greatest facility. !4o
At seven o'clock last night, the remains of her late Royal ft.
Highness were removed from Frogmore to St. George's
CoPpel, in the following order:— i".
A detachment of the 9th Lancers (the Queen's Royal
Regiment), three abreast, bearing flambeaux. ...
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The band of the Ist Life Guards performing the " Dead ,'
March in Saul," between the flourish of trumpets,
drums, &c.
Trumpets and drnms of the Royal Household.
Sergeant trumpeter. tt.,
Footmen and grooms of the Royal Family in state liveries, -,
wiih silk hat bands and black gloves, bearing flambeaux. ''''.
Footmen and grooms of her late Royal Highness, in deep t..
mourning, bearing flambeaux.
The carriage of her late Royal Highness, in which was the
coronet of her late Royal Highness, attended by a •'''
Gentleman Usher.
THE HEARSE,
Drawn by eight horses, decorated with escocheons of her
late Royal Highness's arms. -,1
The carriage of the Queen's roost Excellent Majesty. '
The carriage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex,
t
containing hia Royal Highness.
The carriage of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, bridge, containing his Ro% al Highness, end his Royal
v, Highness Prince George of Cambridge.
t. A mourningcoach:,drawn by six horses, containing Lady'
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Mary Pelham and Miss ifynyard. —,
A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, in which were
the Pages, &c., of her late Royal Highness.
A mourning coach, drawn by four horses, in which were
her late Royal Highness's Dressers.
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The whole of the procession was flanked by the 9th
Lancers and Ist Regiment of Life Guards, on duty at
Windsor, every third man bearing a flambeau.
Upon arriving at Windsor Castle the Cavalry filed off„:;ij
and the procession won flanked by the 60th (the King's t?
Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot, every man bear. 4.;
mg a flambeau, from the guard-room to the Guard of';
Honour at the entrance of St. George's Chapel, where the 1"
drums and trumpets of the Royal Household, and the
footmen and grooms of the Royal Family, filed off without
the door. ft
At the entrance to St. George's Chapel the Dean and 'lt...
Prebendaries, attended by the choir, received the body .s.
and the procession, having been formed, was flanked by
die Life Guards, every man bearing a flambeau, .and;';;
' moved down the south aisle and up the nave, into the
hoir, in the following order : 0
. Pages of her late Royal Highness. t
Apothecaries who attended her late Royal Highness, 4,,
Messrs. Moore and Stevens.
Curate and Rector of 'the new parish church of Windsor,
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Rev. Isaac Gossett, Rev. Mr. Selvryn.
Equerries to the Queen,
Col. Cowper Col. Sir Sliraucl G. Higgins. ti:;
Equerry to Duchess of Keut. Equerry to Duchess of
Colonel 'Wildman. Gloucester, f:
Colonel Sir A. Macdonald.:
Captain' Seyor,ur, Equeiry to Prince Albert. t
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: Colonel Bouverie, General Sir E. Bowatcr,,,
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k Equerry to Prince Albert. Equerry to Prince Aibeit.;,
Grooms in Waiting to the Queen, I
General Hon. Sir William Lumley; Hon. Wm. Cowper..
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Lords in Waiting to the Queen,
Viscount Torrington ; Lord Liiford.
Heralds,
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Robert Laurie, Esq., Windsor.
'James Pelham, Esq., Richmond ; Charles George Young,
Esq., York.
Norroy King of Arms,
Francis Martin, Esq.
Choir of Windsor.
Prebendaries of Windsor.
Hon. and Rev. Mr. Stopford, Hon. and Rev. Mr. Cust,
Hon. and Rev. Mr. Moore, Rev. Messrs.
Roby, Markham, and Canning.
Dean of Windsor,
Rev. Dr. Hobart.
The Master of the Horse. The Lord Steward.
Earl of A' bemarle, G. C. H. Earl of Erroll, K. T.
Clarenceux King of Arms,
Joseph Hawkins, Esq.
A Gentleman The Lord Chamberlain A Gentleman
Usher, of her Majesty's Household. Usher,
Mr. Hobhouse, The Earl of Uxbridge. Sir W. Martin
THE CORONET
c A Gentleman of her late Royal Highness A G
Uesher,ntleman
=' Usher, upon a black velveteusbion,
' Major Diggle borneby aGentlemanUsher Capt. Green.
Mr. Blackwood.

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The Observateur of Brussels publishes a French
translation of a note, on the affairs of the East, ad-
dressed on 31st August by the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs to Sir Henry Lytton Buiwer, her Bri-
ethnic Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at Parts. in
the absence of his Excellency Earl Granville. This
document was officially communicated to the French
Government, and subsequently printed and transmitted
,to the allied Courts. Our correspondent at Brussels
,sends us the following copy of the original in English,
which we lay before our readers :
Foreign-Office, August 31, 1840.
Sre—Various circumstances have prevented me from
iooner transmitting to you, and through you to the
French Government, some observations which her Ma-
,jesty's Government is desirous of making upon the Ine-
Imorandurn delivered to me on the 24th of July by the
French Ambassador at this Court, in reply to the me-
morandum which I had delivered to his Excellency on
the 17th of that month ; but I now proceed to do so.
Her Majesty's Government observed, with great
satisfaction, the friendly tone of the French mernoran-
dam, and of the assurances which it contains of the
'Jar-nest desire of France to maintain peace, and to up-
nold the balance of power in Europe. The memoran-
dum of July 17 was conceived in a spirit of equal
friendliness towards France ; and her Majesty's Go-
vernment is as anxious as that of France can be to
preserve the peace of Europe, and to prevent any de-
rangement of the existing balance of power.
Her Majesty's Government also saw with much
pleasure the declarations which the French memoran-
dum contains, that France wishes to act in concert
eith the other Four Powers in regard to the affairs of
'he Levant ; that she has never been actuated in these
matters by any other motive than a desire to preserve
ecace ; and that in the judgment she has formed upon
1.110 propositions which have been made to her, she has
never been influenced by any selfish interests of her
own, being in fact as disinterested as any other power
can be in the affairs of the Levant.
The sentiments of her Majesty's Government upon
these points are in all respects similar to, and corre-
sponding with, those of the Government of France.
For, in the first place, in the whole course of the nego-
tiations which have been going on upon these matters
during more than twelve months, it has invariably been
the anxious desire of. the British Government that a
concert should be established between the Five Powers,
Ind that all the five should agree in a common course of
conduct; and her Majesty's Government feels that it can.
refer for proofs of this 'desire to the various propositions
which from time to time have been made to the Govern-
Intent of France, and which are alluded to in the French
(memorandum ; and, in the next place, her Majesty's
!Government can safely affirm that no power in Europe
can be less influenced than Great Britain is by any selfish
views, or by any desire or expectation of exclusive ad-
vantage to arise to herself out of the settlement of the
affairs of the Levant ; for, on the contrary, the interest
of Great Britain in those affairs is identified with that of
l'.etroree at large, and lies in the maintenance of the in-
itegrity and independence of the Ottoman empire, as a
!security for the preservation of peace, and as an essential
!element in the general balance' of power.
In these principles the French Government has de-
clared its full concurrence ; and it has stated that con-
cerrence upon many occasions, but especially in Mar-
lbel Sou,lt's despatch of the 17th of July. 1839, which
was communicated officially to the Four Powers, in the
collective note of the 27th of July, 1839, and in the
r..
of French
his Chambers,
!speech of the King the to his in
December, 1839.
In these documents the French Government declared
its determination to maintain the integrity and inde-
pendence of the Ottoman empire under its present dy-
nasty, as an essential element of the balance of power,
and as a security for the preservation of peace ; and it
is also asserted in Marshal Soult's despatch, its resolu-
tion to oppose, by all its means of action and influence,
'every combination which might be hostile to the main-
tenance of that integrity and independence.
The Governments of Great Britain and of France
are, therefore, perfectly agreed as to the objects at which
[their policy in regard to the affairs of the Levant ought
Ito aim, and as to the fundamental principles by which
ghat policy ought to be guided ; and the only difference
Iwhich exists between the two Governments, is a differ-
ence of opinion as to what means are best calculated to
attain the common end,-,7-a point upon which, as the
French' Memorandum' 'obiervess various opinions may
Inaturally be expected to exist. . ..
Upon this point there has, indeed, arisen a consider-
labla difference of opinion between the two Geyer n-
'Ments—a 'difference which seems to have become wider
Ind more confirmed in prOportion as the two Govern-
ments.have more fully explained their respective views,
Ind which, for the present, has prevented the two Go-
eernments from co-operating together for the attainment
of their common object.
On the one hand, her Majesty's Government has all
.11,.)ng declared the opinion that it would be impossible to
[Maintain the integrity of the Turkish empire, and to up-
lhold the independence of the Sultan's throne, if Mehe-
Syria to
ilnie,t).i
cAs
tlyi , ws
Ge roe\ teor
nbince n leftt hasin t
slit ea
to:de
tut:
ittio ne
considers
iSdyerrisa
S.
be the military key of Asiatic Turkey ; and that if Mehe-
met Ali were to continue to occupy that province, in
addition to Egypt, lie would be able at all times to me-
nace Bagdad to the south, Diarbekir and Erzeroum to
the east, and KOnitib, and Russia, and Constantinople
Ito the north that-the- same-spirit of ambition which
has' led Mehemet' :Ali ,on former.oceasions to'r-e'irOlt '
.tguinst .his. Sovereign would soon prompt him again to
takeup arms for further 'encroachment ; and . that
for this purpose he would always keep a large
irmy on foot ; that the Sultan, on the other hand,
,nti,t see the danger by which he would constactly
be threatened, and must be obliged also to remain
umed ; that thus the Sultan and Mehemet All would
!ontinue to maintain large armies to watch each other ;
'hat collision must inevitably arise out of mutual sus-
oicion and alarm, even if there were no intentional ag-
Jession on either side ; that any such collision would ne-
'eessarily lead to foreign interference in the interior of the
Turkish empire, and that such
.interference so occa-
,sioned would produce the most serious differences be-
wieen the Powers of Europe.
But her Majesty's Government has pointed out a
.anger still greater than this, as a probable, if not cer-
tain consequence of the continued occupation of Syria
)y Mehemet Ali ; and that is, that the Pacha, coafid-i
ing in his military strength, and tired of his political eon- I
lition of subject, should execute the intention which
fie frankly informed the Powers of Europe two years
ego, be would never abandon, and.should declare him
,elf independent. Such a declaration on his part would
!,e an undeniable dismemberment of the Ottoman em
pire ; and yet that dismemberment might happen un-
ler circumstances which would render it more difficult
!'or the Powers of Europe to co-operate together in or-
ler to compel the Paella to retract such a declaration,
than it is for them now to combine in order to force
aim to evacuate Syria.
llcontended that all those Powers who wish to preserve
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theinertesgli;jtyesot's Government, therefore, has invariably
of the Turkish empire, and to uphold the
independence of the Sultan's throne, ought to unite to
1
assist the Sultan in re-establishing his direct authority
in Syria.
The French Government, on the other hand, has
argued that Mehemet Ali, if once secured in the per-
, rnanent occupation of Egypt and Syria, would remain
the faithful subject, and would become the firmest sup-
porter of the Sultan. That the Sultan could not go.
ivern Syria if be got it back again, and that the military
'and financial resources of that province would be more
available for the Sultan's defence when in the hands of
to n of devoted
Mehemet Ali than if they were restored to the bands
of the Sultans himself; that implicit reliance might be
Alih'sisabpjurortaetisotans i of s
any further
aplmabceitdiouuspovniev‘ll,.lse,het
in andem
fidelity to his sovereign ; that the Pacha is an old man,
land that at his death, in spite of any hereditary
!grant made to 'his family, the whole of his acquired
poiver would revert to the Sultan, because all posses-
sions in Alahometan countries, be their nominal te•
Inure what it mai. are practically nothing more than
Lfeholds.
i vernmeet, moreover -
i The French Ge e his , conlentled that
,Mehemet Art would never of oivn accord consent to
'evacuate Syria ; and that. the only means which the
Powers of Europe eensa employ to compel him, would
'be either naval operations, which would be insufficient,
nor land operatic)
. os, which would be d
not dangerous ; that
'naval operations would expel the Egyptians from
Syria,would
and only provoke Mehemet Ali to make
;
'ail attack upon Constantinople and that the mea-
sures he resorted town such a case to defend
the which must
i
capital, but still more any land operations by troops
to
of the Allied Powers
Gentlemen invited. TSyria, would be morefatal to the independence of the
Lord Hill, Lord Bloomfield, Lord Carteret, Baronl,-
i l'sh empire,
tirAl than could. be the state of things which
Munchausen, Sir:Brooke Taylor, Sir Henry Wheatley, Sir•,:;'', e might be intended to famed
Munchausen, proceedings
William Freemantle, Sir Henry Campbell, Sir Frederiel4r majesty's Government - '
replied, that no
Watson, Sir Joseph Whatley, Dean of Hereford, Rev. J. To this he
be placed o
ldn Mehemet Ali's present
R. Wood, Lieut. Fred. Stephenson, Colonel Vyse, Sir4reliance could
at ambition is insatiable,
hat
Charles Thornton, and Colonel Wynyard. seprotcstatious ; L s ;
and and only in-
et, that to • give Mehemet Al the
Her late Royal Highness's Dressers. kcreases by sueces h
and still t
encroach and
IA to leave within his reach
[ The procession passed up the nave between the ranks of 'eTpower to en
the Life Guards (d. td) carrying flambeaux,4o • covet
~is e , andobrets to co , ,
womu be to sow the certain seeds
that S• . •
entered the choir, where the Funeral Service was Pers?of future collisioes , Ina is not further from
I
'formed. The sentences sang out of the Burial Servicesk,re
eeeeonstantinople than many well-administered
were the composition of Dr. Croft and H. Purcell. Thc::iffr ~ - of other empires are from tne capital, and
Psalm was chanted to Purcell's Chant. The two AnthemsYms, es be governed from Constantinople easily
`were as easily
were the Quartets "Whentthe ear heard her then it blessed. ~. Alexandria ; and it is ' •
her," and Chorus, " She delivered the poor that cried,', vis from that
c,
aoes of that province could b
land the Quartett, " Her body is buried in peace." and thAthat the .resources
Chorus, " But her name liveth evermore." Dr. Elvey 4
presided at the organ. ful to the Su.
lii might at any
Upon entering the choir, the body was placed on a plat- tan, as they we when in the hands of
e turn those
time
be ii in the hands
ue as use-
landa chief who
resources against the Sal-
le and at the disposal
f the Sultan h' '
form, and the coronet and cushion laid upon the eoffin.rand command 0 himself ; that Ibrahim,
der hisorders,
i
[The chief mourner sat at the head of the corpse ; the i 4
suP- f•-•!,having an armyyn __ _
.has means to secure
Iporters on each side; and the supporters of the pall near'A his own succession at Mehemet Ales death, to an authos
the body ; the Lord Chamberlain at the feet of the corpse!i'e
The part of the service. before the interment being read,i4r ,
ity which Mehenlet mi
would ght die possessed ofthat it
Id not be fitting for the Great Powers to advise the
, sited in the vault, and the Dean havingit
the corpse was deposited Sultan to make an ostensible arrangement with Mehe-
concluded the burial service, Garter Principal King ofi "
in met Ali, with a
[Arms proclaimed her late Highness's style.ent on the
t;Z • that arrangement very first occasion on which
The Knights of the several Orders present at the so- e log . applicable to events.
lemnity wore their collars, with white rosettes.. it might become
French Government, however, still retained its
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sessex was prevented
The
b illness from attending the funeral. , opinion, and declared to be a party to any arrangement
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Covered with a black velvet pall, adorned with eigh
eseocheons of her late Royal Highness's arms,
under a canopy,
A Gentleman Garter Principal King A Gentleman
Usher, of Arms, carrying Usher,
Albert W. his sceptre, Thomas W.
Woods, Esq. Sir Wm. Woods, K. H. King, Esq.
Supporter 1 THE CHIEF MOURNER,I Supporter
to the The Duchess of th
Chief Mourner, Bedford, veiled, her Chief Mourner,
veiled, train borne by veiled.
Countess Lady Whatley, Countess
of officiating as of
Charlemont. J a Baronet's Wife. Sandwich.
• His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambrihdge, wearing
the Star and Collar of the Garter, is train
borne by Lieutenant-Colonel Jones.
• His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, also
• wearing the Ensign of the Garter, his train borne
4 by Colonel Cornwall.
Women of the Bedchamber to her late Royal Highness,
Miss Wynyard, Miss Vyse.
•
Ladies invited.
• Marchioness of Cornwallis, Lady Agnes Buller, Lady
• Charles Somerset, Lady Caroline Legge, Lady Charlotte -
Dundas.