The Sun.
London, England, 1817-11-17 00:00:00

FROM OUR CORRHSFONDENT.

CLAREMONT, Monday Slanting, Nine 0' Clock.—
Lord Melville, Mr.Vansittart, and Mr. Can►:ing's
visits-yesterday were b►tt of short duration. The
Duke of York remained between two and three
'hours.

The pulpit and reading desk, and the 'pew of
the late grievously lamented Princess; in which
she and the Prince occasionally attended, in zhe
parish church of Esher, have been covered with
black cloth. The, Rev. Mr. Dagle, the Rector,
preached a Funeral Sermon yesterday upon the
occasion. The Reverend Gentleman took hiS text
front the 146th Psalm, and 4th verse :—" His
" breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth ;
"in that very day his thoughts perish." He en-
larged upon the loss the whole parish would sus-
tain, as well as the Country at large, by the awful
and dark visitation of Providence by the unex-
pected death of the Princess in the bloom of youth
and apparent health. Her Royal Highness's vir-
tues he much enlarged upon, and forcibly de-
scribed her as the poor man's friend, and the
protectress of the fatherless and widow, who
must, with all the inhabitants of the Country,
deplOre her •lamentalrie loss. The Reverend Gen-
tleman then, with mach' effect, turned the event
of the sudden death of the amiable Princess to
the edification of his hearers, urging them to
prepare to meet death, as none of theni knew but'
they might be as soddenly called from this.earth. •
He concluded by urging all to repentance, to
apply and seek for salvation at the Throne of Grace,
before it was too late, as the Lord delighted not
in the death of a sinner.

I.''iNtisoß, Friday Evening, Nov. 14.—The time
is fa,t approaching when the hour of irreparable
grief will be mote acutely felt by the public, in
the finieral of the Princess 'Charlotte of Wales.
Every subserpient arrangement is finally sett led front
this day ; anti it no longer remains a secret, that
the. corpse will be removed how Claremont on
Tuesday next, in funeral procession, moving
through the retired villages of Walton, Stepper-
ton, Lalehani, the town of Staines, and pass the
celcblated spot ut Runnymede.
the arrival of the mournful procession, the
bodies will be deposited in the apartment at the
Lower Lodge, in St. Alban'S-street, Windsor,
where the woi k of stilemn preparation com-
menced this zifternoon. The Royal Horse Guards
(Obit) are likely to perform the sad office of
escorting their departed and ever-to-be-regretted
Princess, from Claremont to this destination. tjp
~.citing, nu orders were issued
to the regi•,,Pot, further than the calling in of
the different detachments from Newbury -and
Maidenhead, to assemble here on Mon Jay next.
The 3d Regiment of Guards will do the duty of
flanking the procession on Wednesday evening,
atid bearing the flambeaux. The remaining de-
tachment will march in here on MO:lday, forming
a corps of more than 700 men They.will line
the route from the Lower Lodge down St. Alban's-
street, along High-street, up Castle-hill, to the
south entrance of St. George's Chapel. We be-
lieve the Horse Guards will, on this occasion, be
dismounted, to
.pt event the confasiOn of their
horses warding off the spectators in the darkness
of the night.

This morning an order was given to the privates
of the 3d Regiment of Guards, to dispense with
their ~tearing bla'ck crape round their left arm, in
order to prevent the invidiouS distiuction that
would arise among tl►eir comrades who bad not
furnished t hemseives with a corresponding emblem
of mourning. But even this interdiction does not,
in the remotest degree, deprive them of the coin-
plimenttiry return which their spontaneous feel-
;ngs have merited from a generous public.
It is well known that the disconsolate and
heart-broken Prince LEQroLD will follow the
corpse of i►is separated affectionate consort. -No-
thing but the failure of bodily health will coun-
teract the determination already formed of his
following an adored companion to the verge of the
tomb. Three state carriages, with the most re-
veredfriends of the Prince Regent, will likewise
accompany this solemn cereu►ouy, besides the
presence of the Royal Dtikes, the Cabinet Minis-
ters, the retinue of her Majesty, the Princesses,
and the households of the great Officers of State..
It will be a subject of interesting record, if we
allude to die silent tomb i❑ which will be depo-
sited the remains of the Princess Charlotte of
%Stales.

Tke Royal Dormitory adjoins to the east end
of St. George's Chapel. Irmade a must ruinous
a,..!,,aratice until the year 1800, when his Majesty
or►lered the windows and other external parts to
be repaired. In the year 1810, his Majesty was
dete.tmined to construct within its walls a Royal
Dormitory;

An excavation was formed of the whole leogilv
and width of the building, to the depth of 15 leer
front the surface. In this the sepulchre is con-
structed. The dimensions of the tomb are 70 feet
in length, 28 in width, and 14 in depth. The re-
ceptacles for bodies on the sides of the tomb are
formed by massive Gothic columns, of an octagon
shape, supporting a range of four s!,el yes, each
af which, in the space between the c, la nos, will
contain two bodies, the whole range of -arch side
admitting thirty-two bodies. At tin east ,2nd arc
five nitches for the reception of as I; any c
In tile middle, twelve low tombs arc crecr.H for
the Sovereigns. The sepulchre will tie's con ::10
eighty-one bodies. The columns are of ne 3ath
stone, anti the shelves of tine Yorkshire scone.
A sulitetcraneous passage is formed horn the vaultH
tinder the choir of St. G.:rage's Chapel, in which

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an a`ftitu►c sn.tdt., neat. the ascent h, 11. e a.1:41
fot• t'.22 bodies to descend. the colunn
smiinf,,,,s xtinitod Emit ,:vcr llt'e't nth.

In this illart,..oleom are thlositctl the hodies
the Princes Amelia, who was 'interred Nov. 13
1810; and the Duchess of Brunswick, ihterie
March 31, 1813.