The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-18 00:00:00

p;!!: c..L 1141 Cc),UNTEsS DO,WAISI •";F•

. CHATHAM.
A rot:-: rwOr o'clock on Saturday afternoon 'tbe
remains of thia trtily respettable anti illostriousr
Lady were interred in Westminster Abbey, With'
appropriate splendour and. solemnity. The forerai.
procession to the Abbey tonsisted, besides the
hearse, of fi've mourning coaches, drawn by
horses, each. One of these, in which the Low.
'net of the, deceased, as a Countess, was carried,
preceded the hearse. The ,hearse and moorning
coaches' Were appropriately decorated with ewot.
(berms, ..are. exhibiting the twofold armorial he...r.
.ings of the deceased, as a Barontos in her own
right, and as the wife of an Earl, both which were
surmounted by the respeCtive coronets. The mourn.i
ing coaches were followed by eighteen earriages,
belonging to the tel ,tives, friends, pr adherents`
the noble family of PITT.
The procession entered the Abbey in the follow..
ing order a person dressed in full mourn.
jog,' carrying the eoronet of the deceased Countess'
on a culttion ; her Ladyship's domestic Cii;iplair. •
followed,: The body %vas then borne, in tt,cotlite
covered with crimson velvet, richly, but not gaUdilys,
ornamented. rite mourners were nine in 'number,.
domesticS of het Ladyahip, car aLllirrents of the.
pne of these followed the etiffit) sisal;) •
and ;.eared much affeCled.
The procession bad no sooner entered the
than the.-,m6b, who were colleited on the. ot, ,;de.
(anti who, it seems, by permitted tillage,. rce:tri
such things,.as a kind of legal prize) rushed 1,1
ward, witivinticceht, almost sActilegiims haste, al ti
despoiled the hearse, &c. of all theestutcheons ;00
armorial bearings that were attached to it.
About half way between the' Western Gate aft,
the Choir, the procession was met by several
the prinelPal Dignitaries and ECCICSiaitiCS of
Chapter, and the greater part of the Choral Esta
blishment of the A!slyyy: the organ immediately'
struck tip, and those parts of the burial setvici
appointed to be sung on solemn or extraorlinaty
occasions, were chanoted by these dentlemen.
blsty was not taken into the Choir : thetrocessio'n•
filed off to the left, and pot:ceded to the No;
cross isle, :thou' the .centte of which is,Situattdm
family Vault. The coffin being lotvered tom
vault, the remainder of the. burial service wits per_
formed, arid the organ, pealing at intervals,
greatly to the rffe& of this solemn scene'. The hi,t
t.ad offices being finished, the mournets, &e. with.'
drew to the coaches, and the procession retutnttl
nearly in a!imilar order to that is which it,came.

The. vault is not opposite to, or very near, t!
splenditi.montiment, which the grateful munificer;—!.
of Parliament decreed to the transcendent talen!'.
anti, virtues of the late illustrious Earl of CrIA-ritA,3,.
hut at a distance of about 25 or 3o feet therefv.l,:,
and nearly opposite the monument of Lord Ron vlt'r
MAIINtIts. It .is of small dimensions, the length'
not exceeding ten feet, the breadth sir, and the
height about eiet feet. In the bottom are de.
posited the coffins, of the.late Earl, and his second
daughter, Lady HARRIET ELIOT, who died in
September 1786.
The coffin of the late Countess Dowager was de.
posited
,upon; ghat of the Earl ; the lid was mow-
merited witha Olin double' moulding' highly gilt ;
within which were a single row of large embossed.
nails, On ti large square gilt plate, were engraved
the name, heraldic dist.naions, &c. of the deceased,

Among the carriages which formed part of the
procession, we noticed those of the £ I r! of Amy
,td Gm cNVILLE. Lady CAMALIOX Lurki4 P..u.
LET and Hoar."

THE POOR.

ritAd.rs Ttom. THE REPORTS Or THE StletIETY
fOtt CITTEILINt ff E CONDITION Or THE r 0011.•

'EXTRACT VRONI AN ACCOUNT OF .2 FRtE-
ctiApst; sCHoot.s IN w.EsT.writETT, stATEN-
DtALS. SY lotiN 'DoUGEN, E;i2.
'ON the 3d of May Igo:, there were opened in
West-street, in the parish of St. Giles, Pay-schools
for zoo children of the Poor of that neighbourhood:
They have since been increased to the number of
t+cichildren. The Schools are of the Established
Church, and connected with the Free.chapel in West,
street;. Red are either kept in the house adjoining
the Chit4.4"T'zemil belonging to it, or in the chapel
its lf, wheeetite children attend at the times, of di.
tine service on Sundays,•_ morning and evening, and
Tuesday tvenings ; and also on hursday mornings,
from nine o'clock to
.one, being the time fixed for
their 'public examinatio'n.
For the education of each child, the parent pays,
iii advance, a shilling a month. It is curious that,
in these payments, until the severe weather came
there had scarcer* occurred an arrear of a Oil.
ding,"kom the first opening. Some failures in pay.
silent have since occurred, but not in many in.
stances ; and though the payments amount to thir.
teen shillings a year for each child, yet the rapidity
with which those vacancies have been filled up, and
the applications. that are daily made for admission of
children, give scone reason to believe, that, if the
'isehool.imuse were adapted to receive soo children,
itl3tead of 24,0, it would soon be filled.
As it will shew one mode, in which a general and
rational system.of education for the poor might be
adopted at a very trivial expence, I will state the
putgoiogs of these three Schools, and the funds by
which they are' supported. The only persons em.
yloyed in them, pre a master and two mistresses, ;
t.livitling between them the charge of 40 children,
colleded in three separate Schools each of which
occupies one of the three upper floors of the house:
boys which, it must be confessed, are not sufricient.
lv couimodious for so large a number of Scholars.
the salary of the toaster is sol, a year, and of the
two mistresses pl. and pl. a year; which includes
their board, and every other ineidental,esmence ex.
cept coals and candles for the schools, and,theelean.
ing of the house. For these three articles the mas.
tee is allowed 161. eos. a year. The charge for
house-rent, .Ste, is sol.a year. Of books, paper,
4c. the annual expend~ is about 151. .To this will
remain to be added the sum Of 901. for clothing 90
of the children, who are the nominees of annual sub.
ee:ribers of one guinea each,, or of bentliaors of ten
guinea's each. • -
Before I had stated she expenses of these schools,
I..should have observed, that ehere arc also, on this
establishment, Supday Senools for 100 additional
ohildren, who are not paid for by their parents....
'lire children of all the schools attend in the free
cl'oPei on Sundays!, and lead the psalmody of it
viol .legree of corn:does% and ietelligence that
estust surprise any one, who considers' the thin
time which they .have tad to learn the turn S, and
how unpromising scholars they must have.been at
the first. Their progress is owing chiefly to the
sehool.master, ,who possesses run only a particular
talent: for instrudiort in sacred musk, but a biogular
pleasure in teaching it, The singing is also on.
proved by a weekly practice after Tuesday evening
I.dure, when Mr. and Mrs. Gurney,. and their
thildten, and about fifty of the coogregation; join
with much benefit and pleasure.
The total expenditure of the Day.schools anti
Sunday Schools, being 3831. los, is peovWed as fol.
lows /st, by f{4l. of annual subscriptions : adly,
'by s6l. paid by the poor for their children's
cation, at t 35. a year for each child; and 3tily, by.
the .predeee of twomoreing anti twobeveningcharity
sermons, producing together + sol. making together
a total of :901. and leaving a trifling balance to an.
aver contingent expenses. When the cost ofthith.
jog the 9cechildren is deduded, the current expense
of these Schools for 240 children, trod of time Sunday.,
schools for iv childreo (in so unfavourable a situa.
tion as the centre of St. Giles's), will not exceed by
enure than 371. pas., the paytnents which the parents
do willingly make for their children's instrudion.

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* This has increased the congregation at the tree Chapel,
sot only on Sundays, but at the Tuesday evening i.et.tures t
40,11." or their por4Solltqine lid curinay 4tifirst to se;
%heir chilart:44 to near them sing. Of these Orents, the
greater part urn now become regular frequenters of the Cita-
pel, and devout and attentive heart.l.,4,
f The Sc;rrnonit at in May and NOvernber the lattcx were
oil the' tiyt ti of the preceding trio nth of Novembir,. when the
ietrlleztion, from an audience of tOOO parsolisOlie greater,part
of.thein the poor of that neighbourhood, amounted to 281.
vs. 6d.

P.XITtACT fdY. A T.FTI.P.It 1.110?.1TilY ./.O•TiIoNnNIER
1'g0ry.,04.0. IiODE, ,AT DE15.1,7, Tn His
Coickhk,PONDENT LoNfw:V.

" The Astronomer HARDiNG, assistant to Dr.
Scutt of:rag, on the 19th of 'February last has
SC-ell again, through a seven feet 'telescope of HE It •
scHe lA, at Lilienthal, in the Duchy of Bremen,
tie moveable star first discovered by Dr. OtatrAtS,
at.Bremeo, on the. ,z8t1) ,of March last year, and
-which soon after was observed by several other
Astronomers untie( 27z° right ASCerldQll, ard 7.°N.
dediomion, exatlly where Dr. Gnus, of Buns_
wit*:, by'his calc'ulatio'ns, had determined it 'to be.
On the 2zd of February, Dr. OLBErts. also
ohserved it,- through five feet Dot.LoNn ; it ap-
prared very pale, like u star_ of Iv!) njagni.,
tilde. Mr. I] Ait 1) N(; could mit see it through one
of the best tlirec tectDoLt.otiti telescopes. Accord..
Ing to the situation and the run of its totirst, this
moveable star, which the: discoverer proposed to
n .me Pellv, may be alirisiiad to be an extniordinary
Mallet , wit have, thert7fpre, diseo!tred two planet.
al bodies, Ceres 2r4.1 Pailas, placed at the carne
d,stanci from the Snit, where, in consecrence of the
hdirmonions ,prop Orr loos in the planetary spheres,
ot.l: one* wis.expefActl these several years.''
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