The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-15 00:00:00

TUE LATE KING OF PRUSSIA.

The Prussian Gazette publishes the following :
"It will be a consolation to my people, in their
just sorrow on account of the decease of the King
my beloved brother, to know the good thoughts
and desires which he wrote with his own hand, in
contemplation of death. Accordingly I desire that
these last wishes, dated the 6th of August, 1854,
should be immediately made public.

" WILLIAM."
The Royal docxment which is referred to in the
preceding note is as follows :
" Charlottenburg, the day of the Transfiguration of
our Lord Jesus Christ, August 6, 1854.
"How I wish to be interred.

"If God the Lord decree that I terminate my terrestrial
career peaceably in my country, and if, which I fervently
entreat of Him on my knees, my tender and belOved Elise
shell surviNe me, this paper is to be delivered to her imme-
diately after my death. Whatever she shall change shall
be executed as if that were written here ; her order shall
be mine. Moreover, I w;sh one day to repose by her side,
in the same tomb, as near to her as possible.
"As soon as my decease shall have been certified by the
physicians, I wish my body to be washed and opened. My
heart, deposited a large heart formed of granite from the
country of Marche, and placed at the entrance of the vault
in the mausoleum of Charlottenburg (and consequently at
the feet of my Royal parents), shall be enclosed in the
ground and covered by it. My resting place shall be the
Church of Peace, before the steps which lead to the holy
table, between the marble pulpit and the commencement of
tho seats, on the left (on the right of the.alts.r) of the line of
the middle of the body of the church, in such a manner that
one day the Queen may repose on my right. The space
indicated in all its breadth from our church seat as far as
those opposite, as well as the intervals between the public
seats up to the pillars of the choir, shall be paved afresh in
marble, from the funds which I shall leave, in the simplest
manner, but in harmony with the floor and with the holy
table. Immediately above my tomb shall be placed an ob-
long slab of white marble, flat, level with the pavement of
the church, and similar to the two slabs of the mausoleum
of Charlottenburg. There shall be engraven upon it the
monogram of Christ, with the following inscription :
" ' Here lies in God his Saviour, with the hope of a bliss-
ful resurrection and of a merciful judgment, depending
solely on the merits of Jesus Christ our Divine Redeemer,
the late, &c.'
" At my interment there shall be observed the same cere-
mony as that used for the King my deceased father. The
funeral shall take place at the cathedral of Berlin if I die in
the neighbourhood of Berlin; but if I die in the vicinity of
Potsdam it shall be solemnized in the Church of Peace,near
Sans-Souci.
" As soon as the termination of my life shall have been
ascertained by the physicians,there shall be sent 150 thalers
of gold to the poor of the cathedral, in accordance with my
own custom every time that I receive the holy sacrament at
Easter. The same sum shall also be placed at the disposal
of the other churches where I have communicated, for their
poor ; that is to say, the Church of Peace, the parish church
of Errnansdorff, the cathedral church of Spandau, the
Evangelical church of Fischbach, and the church of the
Oratoire of Paris."