The Sun.
London, England, 1817-11-14 00:00:00

THE LATE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, &c

The clay of pious humiliation and becoming ge-
neral gloom is (as we yesterday stated) again
changed ; and Wednesday, instead of Thursday
next, is the time now definitely fixed. On that
day the mortal remains of our lamented PRINCESS
and her little Babe will be consigned to their
mother earth, and the grave will for ever have
dosed over the dear object of the nation's best af-
fections. But thought the grave will have closed,
the wounds of the heart will continue to bleed.
What a spectacle will this mighty Empire present
on the day of the Funeral. All the Churches will
be open for the performance of Divine Service ; all
the shops, not only in the metropolis, but through-
out the country, will be shut and it is even the
intention of most families to close their dwelling-
Louses, in the same manner as when the desola-
tion of death prevails within. All business will,
of course, be suspended at the Public Offices, and
every person belonging to them will be allowed
to absent himself to attend divine worship. The
Courts of Law, it Is expected, will nor meet, in
order tbat'every mind may be entirely occupied
with the solemnity of the day. The inhabitants
of several parishes have already signed requisitions
to the Churchwardens, calling upon them and the
11 Clergy to adopt measures for the due expression
of the general sense of sorrow.
On Monday next the coffihs, with their pre-,
cious contents, will be removed from Claremont,
to Windsor. The remains of all that was lovely
and beloved, of the youthful mother and her child,
will then lie in State in the Lower Tower until
the last scene be acted on earth, and they have left
no traces of their existence, save in the hearts of
a whole afflicted Nation.
The ceremonial of the funeral procession has
not yet been determined upon ; but some orders
were yesterday issued with respect to what is to
take place on the occasion in St. George's Chapel,
Windsor.

A Canopy of State will be carried over the body
of the PRINCESS, at the funeral.
The Royal Cemetery in which the remains of
Our beloved PRINCESS will be deposited, was con-
structed in 1810, by order of his MAJESTY, at the
east end of St. George's Chapel, for the burial
place of himself and the other Members of the
Royal Family. HENRY VII. first built this edi-
fice of free-stone for a similar purpose ; but that

Prince afterwards altering his intentions, began a

more noble structure at Westminster, and this fa-
bric remained neglected, until Cardinal WOLSEY
obtained a grant of it from HENRY VIII, and
with a profusion of expence unknown in former
ages, designed and began here a most sumptuous
monument for himself, from whence the building
obtained the name of " WoLszv's Tomb-house."
The corpse of the late amiable Princess AMELIA,
his MAJESTY'S youngest daughter, was the first
to repose in this sacred abode. On yesterday seven
years did her funeral take place, and next Wed-
nesday will it be followed by the still more lament-
able funeral of her in whom we fondly anticipated
our future Sovereign, and of her infant PRINCE..

a melancholy illustration of the uneer

tainty of human life 1 The Royal trunk and its
older bandies survive ; the youngest have been
torn away in their opening bloom and beauty !
Yesterday the Dukes of YORK and CUMBER-
LAND, and the Earl of LIVERPOOL, had audiences
of the PRI!CCE REGENT. His Royal Highness in
the morning received a letter of condolence from

the King of FRANCE, written in his own hand.
Numbers of the Nobility left their names and
made their respectful inquiries after the PRINCE
REGENT'S health yesterday at Carlton House. His
Royal Highness continues in the deepest affliction,
but we trust his health will not materially suffer.
We yesterday gave (says The Morning Post) the
substance of the letter which General Sir BENJA-
MIN BLOOMFIELD had written to Dr. Sir RICHARD
CROFT, by order of the PRINCE REGENT; We are
now enabled to lay before our Readers a correct
copy of that communication. It is as follows :
Sir B. BLOOMFIELD is honoured by the commands of the
PIZINCE REGENT, to convey to Sir RIC&IARD Caorr his
Royal Highness's acknowledgments of the zealous care and
indefatigable attention manifested towards his beloved Daugh-
ter, during her late eventful confinement, and to express his
Royal Highness's entire confidence in the medical skill and
ability which he displayed during the arduous and protracted
labour, whereof ,the issue, under the will of Divine Provi-
dence, has overwhelmed his Royal Highness in such deep
affliotion.

Carlton-House, Nov. 8, 1817."

The Dublin Papers received this day are all in
mourning, and manifest a deep sense of the me-
lancholy event which has so unhappily afflicted
the nation. Orders were issued, by command of
the LORD LIEUTEI•:ANT, for a General Morning,
to commence on Wednesday last.
The deplorable event was known in Paris be-
tore ten o'clock in the morning of Saturday, by a
telegraphic dispatch from Boulogne, there being

as yt t no telegraph at or from Calais ; and though

it was too late for the Journals of that day to
speak of it, yet the news was quicklY diffused, and
occasioned a strong feeling of regret, with all
those external marks of it which decorum pre-
scribes. The nuke of ORLEANS, who'had a din-
ner, party for that day, immediately countermand-
ed the invitations ; and even on 'Change a gloom
took place when it was known, and no business
was transacted,