The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-18 00:00:00

[TUE TIMES.]

The last cruel scene is now-before our readers,
the last outrages by which the soil of England
could be disgraced have been perpetrated against
the remains of an illustrious Princess, who, while
she lived, never trod that soil but as a sufferer
from insult and persecution. The details which
we presented in our jourual•of yesterday, descrip-
tive of the, progress from Colchester to Harwich,
and of the indignities which there crowned the
work of shame, are yet too vivid in their im-
pression to require that we should retouch them.
The forms and incidents of the drama may be di-
versified, but the plot is uniform. What were the
emotions of those faithful friends who clung through
all trials to their beloved mistress, we leave to
every, honest heart to judge from its own virtuous
sympathies. What would have been the impulse of
the whole British nation, had they witnessed those
anal testimonies of unabated bitterness towards
her memory, they have already proved. The
precise motives which inspired the immediate
actors in this revolting scene, we can no other-
wise explain, but by supposing that malice had
accumulated in proportion to the checks which
it had received ; that the victory "gained by the
citizens of London on Tuesday last, had roused

to further 'violence the evil Passions which it dis-
appointed ; and that the -parting impiety to-
wards the Queen, was an act of height-
ened vengeance ' against the people who
would have cherished her.. Placid be the bosom
of tie deep which bears her 'dust, and propi-
tious the winds that waft it to the resting
place of her fathers: England has been to her
but a stormy and inhospitable c6a.st. Yet what
has she not done for England ? The spring and
illustration which she has communicated to the
national character of Englishmen, during the sea-
son of her adversity, and with that adversity for
its cause, will for successive years, and in mani-
fold directions, be found acting on behalf of our
best interests as a people. To have supported in-
nocence mider persecution, gives a pride of recti-
tude and a consciousness of power which can
never fail us when the trial becomes our own ;
and that we should be henceforth virtuous and
brave, much is effected when we have already
shared the triumphs of fortitude and virtue.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Nothing can exceed the enthusiasm of joy with
which the people of Ireland greet the King on his
arrival in that country. It is exceedingly delight-
ful to read of the perfect uniformity of opinion,
the harmony of sentiment,that now prevails among
the people of the sister island. The King is at
this moment the most popular man in Ireland,
and so fervent seems to be the devotion of the peo-
ple to his person, that, as one of the Dublin papers
very justly remarks, '4 the word loyalty is far too
cold to express their feelings." This popularity
of the King in Ireland is by no means a new-
born sentiment, although it may, under the pecu-
liar circumstances of the moment, burst forth with
more than ordinary animation. While his Ma-
jesty was yet Prince of Wales, he was a great
favourite with all classes of persons in that coun-
try, and his Majesty used frequently to declare
that he never should forget the confidence and
affection shewn to him by the Parliament and
People of Ireland, when on the occasion of the
late King's unhappy indisposition in the year
1788, he was, as Prince of Wales, invested with
the title of Prince Regent of Ireland, and em-
powered to exercise all the functions of the
kingly office during the illness of his illustrious
father~ •

[NEw TIMES.]
There is a very loud and general demand that
the planners and promoters of the late daring
riot should be brought to justice. The people of
England wish to live under, the dominion of law.
They utterly deny that the fluctuating and ea-
pricious will of a rabble ought to control lawful
authority. With law, there is liberty ; without
it, nothing but a reign of terror. The mob
boast that they have obtained a victory. Fatal
boast for them and for the whole community ! It
can only lead to new excesse3, and those excesses
must terminate in anarchy or despotism, unless we
speedily come back to the point from which we
should never have departed—tile absolute and
uncontroulable power of the law of the l&nd.—By
the law of the land, the clear undoubted law,
the king, acting, as he always does, under the
constitutional advice of his responsible Ministers,
has the controul and direction of his Queen Con-
sort's funeral. This is a matter of absolute right,
an undoubted part of the Royal Prerogative. In
the exercise of that right his Majesty was ad-
vised to act, and did act, with the most delicate
regard to the wishes of the deceased Queen.
Several points were particularly noticed in her
will. She desired to be buried at Brunswick—
she desired that her corpse should be removed in
three days—she desired not to be opened, and
she desired that the inscription on her coffin
should be—

" Here lies CAROLINE of Brunswick, the INJURED Queen'
of England."
This last was the only wish resisted on the part
of the King's Government ; and no man of sense
or candour will say that it ought not to have been
resisted. In the first place it was a direct false-
hood. Far from having been injured, the Queen
had been treated with more indulgence than ever
woman, in her unfortunate predicament, was
treated. We have no wish to revive the memory
of her misconduct, but we cannot consent to cover
it by a false and scandalous Libel on the King.
Secondly, the wish to have, such an inscription
was an uncharitable and unchristian wish, ill-
suited to the time when it bears date, the sth of
August, she being then on her death-bed and dying
on the 7th. But in kindness, it may very well be
doubted whether such a wish did spontaneous-
ly proceed from the Queen herself. Much
more likely is it to have been suggested, for the
purposes of faction, by some heartless adviser,
who was near her at a moment when pain and
weakness had broken down the faculties both of
her mind and body. Be it as it may, however, this,
and this alone, was forbidden by the King's Go-
vernment to be carried into execution; and, there-
fore no person could lawfullymake such an attempt.
In every thing else, it was the anxious desire of
his -Majesty's Government to conform to her
Majesty's wishes. They agreed that her body
should not be opened; they agreed that her re-
mains should be transferred to Brunswick ; they
would have had her remains removed within the
three days if that had been practicable ; and, in
fact, they were removed as soon as it was prac-
ticable. Coupling the repeated desire of the
Queen to be buried at Brunswick, with the re-
quest to be removed in three days; it was clear
that she wished to have a funeral as private as
was consistent with her exalted rank : and if we
give credit to the statement of her having declar-
ed that she had been too much made a show of in

her lifetime, it would have been plainly contrary
to her wishes to have had her conducted in pomp
through the City of London. I. determining
that this should not be done, tterefore, the Go-
vernment acted as faithful Executors of her Ma-

jesty's will; and those who opposed their deter-
mination, have opposed, not only the commands
of lawful authority, but the express wish of
the Queen herself.—Now who were the per-
sons that acted thus indecently and illegally ?
—First, there were the 'secret conspirators
who formed a plan to arrest the progress of
the funeral, to block the roads, break up the
pavements, and turn the procession out of its

course. Secondly, there were horsemen, who at
different points formed obstructions themselves,
and incited and encouraged the mob to acts of
direct force and violence; and, thirdly, the poor
deluded individuals who lent themselves as tools
of this infamous conspiracy, and who, as is usual
in: such cases, suffered in their own lives and
limbs for the Villainy of those who thrust them
into danger, but kept out of it themselves‘