The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-09 00:00:00

HER LATE MAJESTY.

[THE TIMES.]
When, at the beginning of last week, her MA.
JESTY'S illness first assumed a serious character,
Dr. Holland requested her permission to send
for another physician, observing, that whatever
might be his own individual skill and attention,
yet the public would necessarily expect, in the
case of a Queen, that every possible aid should
be had recourse to, her Majesty answered with
a smile to the following effect :—" My dear
" Doctor, do what you please : if it will be any
"relief to your own mind to call in assistance,
" do so; but do not do it for my sake : I have
t; no wish to live; I would rather die." Indeed,
from the first moment that her Majesty was as-
sured of the very serious nature-of her indisposi-
tion, she clung to the assurance with joy and gra-
titude, and listened with a reluctant ear to the
hopes of recovery which her physicians and
friends held out to her from time to time. " Why
" do you wish me to live ?" she exclaimed on
one occasion in the early part of her illness ;
" life to me can be nothing but a series of sorrows
" and persecutions : I shall be much happier in
" another world than in this." It was observed,
that she desponded too much ; that public opinion
was in her favour, and would make her amends
fcr all her-sufferings. 1-ler Majesty asked "what
" public opinion had done for her." It was an-
swered, that it had defeated that late dreadful
attempt to ruin her—the Bill of Pains and Pen-
alties. Her reply was prompt and firm—" What
" am I the better for the failure of that bill ?
" If it had passed, I should have been degraded ;
" and what is my situation now ? I have indeed
" the empty title of Queen,; but am I Queen of
" England ? Have I the privileges, the power,
" the dignities of a Queen of England ? No, no:
"lam a mere private person—l am not Queen
"of England." It will be recollected that on
Friday last the symptoms of her Majesty's dis-
order had become very alarming, and the physi-
cians had scarcely any hope of her recovery.
She received the announcement of her danger
with admirable calmness and composure ; and
shortly afterwards proceeded to make her will.
There was an air of cheerfulness about her after
she had signed it, which induced one of her pro-
fessional advisers (we understand, Mr. Brougham)
to express a hope that she felt herself easier and
better. Her Majesty answered, " Oh, no, my
" dear Mr. Brougham, I know I shall die, and I
"do not at all regret it." Mr. Brougham said,
that he was of a different opinion, and expected
her Majesty "to recover, but added, that,the step
she had just.taken was perfectly proper in case
of accident. Her Majesty persisted in saying,
that she knew she was dying. In the course of
the evening she took occasion to say—" I do not
" know whether I shall suffer bodily pain in
"_dying, but 1 can assure you that I shall quit
" this world without regret: I have no great rea-
c son to be attached to life."

On Saturday and Sunday, in spite of some
'favourable symptoms which inspired the phy-
sicians with hope, she still expressed her firm
conviction that she should die. She seemed to
feel pleasure in talking on the subject, and re-
joiced in anticipating her release from trouble--
lzer escape from the malice of her enemies. She
said, that in this world, whether in England or
abroad, the rancour of her persecutors would al-
ways beset l►er : and it was only in another
world she could look for peace and justice. She
expressed the deepest regret that she was so
little able to reward those faithful servants who
bad stood by her in her difficulties ; but hoped
that. Government would not let them want. She
declared herself warmly grateful—and hoped
her gratitude would be made known—to that
generous portion of the people of England whose
support of her had been most steady when most
Ni-anted, and who had never been frightened
from her cause either by the power or the calumny
of her oppressors. " England," said her Majesty,
" has certainly been to me a land of sorrow and
" persecution, but I know how to love those
" faithful English who have always sympathised
" with my sorrow, and have done all in their
" power to defeat the malice of my perse-
" tutors." It was on this occasion that she
observed that her enemies had been for
years plotting and conspiring to destroy her :
" at last," said she," they have destroyed me,
" but I forgive them. I die in peace with all
" mankind." Shortly after, she 'sent for Ma-
riette Brune, to whom, (as we mentioned yester-
day) she declared her perfect forgiveness of her
sister's (Demont's) cruel falsehoods. All who
had an opportunity of seeing her Majesty were
struck with the glorious trait in her character,
that though her heart was evidently broken with
the recollection of the deep injuries she had re-
ceived, and though an indelibly strong image of
the injustice of her enemies was always present
to her mind, yet she never used a harsh or angry
expression against any individual: she freely
forgave them all, spoke of them in terms of pity,
and even made allowances for their conduct on
the score of the weakness and frailty of human
nature.

On Monday night it will he remembered that
her Physicians seemed to consider her Majesty
out of all danger : she was informed of their
opinion, but insisted that they were mistaken,
adding, she felt she was dying, and thought she
should die before nine o'clock the next evening.
It is not improbable that her Majesty then felt
the symptoms of incipient mortification. She
sent for Mr. Wilde, who was in attendance, and
added a codicil to her will : we believe it related
to the place of her interment. Her first wish was to
be buried in the same grave with her beloved daugh-
ter ; but, added she, " I can have little hope
46 that the Government will grant this wish : I
" desire, therefore, to be buried in the same
cc vault with my father and brother at Bruns-
" wick." When her Majesty had signed this
codicil, she began to converse at considerable
length with Mr. Wilde ; the physicians fearing
that conversation might disturb her, wished to
withdraw Mr. Wilde from the room, and that
gentleman, from the same motive, was anxious to
go, but her Majesty begged him'tostay. "I thank
‘, my Physicians," she said, " for their kind in-

" tentions ; they mean nothing but what is right ; '
44 but they do not understand my character. They
gc think that it agitates me to talk of death ; they
" are mistaken ; to me, who have little pleasure in
44 the past, and no prospect of future tranquillity
" in this life, it is a pleasure to contemplate my
4C approaching death ; and why may I not speak
" what I feel i" All these observations were
made with such sweetness of manner and such
calmness of tone, as to make an impression never
to be effaced from the minds of these who were
present. The night between Monday and Tues-
day was passed without sleep, owing, it is be-
lieved, to that restless anxiety which usually ac-
companies the process of mortification. On Tues-
day afternoon, about one, she again sent for Mr.
Wilde and Dr. Lushington, and again conversed
on her usual topics. Alluding to the few friends
who had remained constant to her to the
last, and for whom she expressed the most
grateful regard, she took occasion to observe,
that her adversaries had put in practice two
modes of separating worthy people from her so-
ciety : one was to deter them from visiting her
by propagating the most atrocious calumnies
against her and them : the second was, when
they saw her surrounded by persons of honour,
to endeavour by anonymous letters, and all means
in their power, to poison her mind against them,
in order to induce her to break with them.
" Against the first mode of attack," said her
Majesty, 66 I could have no help : the second
" plan I soon detected, and therefore defeated."
She then alluded to the practice of opening the
body after death, and said that she saw no occa-
sion for the operation in her case, and wished it
not to be done. She then begged that she
might not be made a show of after her death.
" There has been," ,she observed smilingly,
" quite enough _of that in my lifetime ; be-
" sides, there are persons who kept aloof from
"me when alive, who may have no objection
" to see me when dead, and there is no good
44 reason for satisfying their curiosity." She then
again adverted with great regret to her inability
to bestow adequate compensations on her ser-
vants, or remembrances on her friends; hut said
their services and kindnesses were deeply writ-
ten on her heart. Mr. Wilde then left her for
some time.' About four o'clock an access of fever
came on, which operating on a frame already
almost exhausted, produced for a short time a
greater exultation of spirits than she had yet ma-
nifested : during this period she expressed her-
self with more vehemence of manner, but still
with the same forbearance of language, touching
the cruel conspiracies of her inveterate foes : but
the fever soon subsided, and she recovered her
usual gentle tone—her usual calm and firm de-
meanour : she was again all resignation to the
will of God. A drowsiness then came on
which lasted till nearly eight o'clock ; when
she suddenly awoke, and observing by her bed-
side Dr. Holland, who, during her illness,
had often expressed a hope of her recovery,
said with a smile and .ascent of the greatest
sweetness—" Well, my dear Doctor, what do
" you think now ?" Her Majesty soon after-
wards became insensible, but remained alive for
above two hours, showing by her breathing a
vigour of the lungs_ and of the heart which the
physicians said exceeded any case they had ever
witnessed. At' length, at twenty-five minutes
past ten, her heroic and persecuted spirit fled to
the region of truth, and justice, and peace. The
anguish of her friends, the agony' of her servants,
we have before described ; and have only to add,
that the physicians betrayed emotions of grief
not often seen among the professional attendants
of a death-bed.

It is understood that Dr. Lushington and Mr.
Wilde attended Lord Liverpool yesterday morn-
ing for the purpose of showing the will, and
taking instructions as to the funeral of her
Majesty. All that has transpired is, that his
Lordship said he should give orders to prepare a
squadron to convey her Majesty's body to Bruns-
wick, according to the request in her will. The
executors to her Majesty's will are Dr. Lnshing--
ton, Mr. Wilde, the Marquis Antaldi, and Signor
Felice. The two foreigners are men of the high-
est respectability ; the first a man of letters, the
second a judge : they are both from Pesaro.

WEDNESDAY, TEN O'kil.ooK.—Trammersmith
this morning presents but a gloomy appearance. Soon after
twelve last night, the bell of the parish church began to toll,
and its deep tones continued during several hours, at intervals,
to remind the inhabitants of their loss. It was not until near
midnight that the fact of her Majesty's decease was fully pro-
mulgated in the town. Persons left Brandenburgh-house
almost instantly upon the event ; but they were severally cau-
tioned not to disclose the news, lest the assembling, at such a
moment, of a large concourse of persons might produce con-
fusion, and impede the necessary arrangements. The whole
neighbourhood for several hours afterwards continued restless
and unquiet. Some persons wandered up and down in quest of
par ticulars ; others were busied in sending offintelligence to their
friends. Private parties sat late in conversation ; and many houses
of public entertainment were not closed during the whole night.
A different sensation prevails this morning. Anxiety has given
way to silent regret. The gates of Brandenburgh House, yes-
terday thronged with visiters, are now deserted; persons pause
for a moment, but pass on without inquiry. Throughout Ham-
mersmith the shops of the tradesmen are shut; the windows
of the private houses are half closed ; the flag, hoisted half
mast high at the church steeple, drenched with wet, flaps hea-
Vily in the wind ; and the rain, falling in incessant torrents,
adds to the sombre appearance of the scene.--These public
tokens of sorrow for her late Majesty are not confined to the vi-
cinity of her own residence. In Knightsbridge and Kensing-
ton—all the way, indeed, from London to Hammersmith—the
shop windows (with few exceptions) are closed ; and we under-
stand that, lower down the road, similar symptoms of affection
and respect are universally manifesting themselves.
TUE METROPOLIS.-The several theatres are
closed on this evening (Wednesday) : they will again be shut
on the night of the funeral. The expression of feeling in Lon-
don is very general. At noon this day there were not, in the
long line of way between Blackfriars-bridge and the Elephant
and Castle, a dozen shopkeepers who did not partially close the
fronts of their dwellings. The few tradesmen who stood as ex-
' ceptions were chiefly of the Society of Friends, whose religious
tenets forbid them either to make merry or weep after the things
of this world. Throughout the Lambeth-road, at Bermond-
sey, and at Camberwell, the same demonstrations of sorrow ap-
peared. In many parishes the bells tolled during the whole
morning ; and nearly all the ships in the Thames had their flags
flying half mast high. When the account of the Queen's death
reached South Audley_street last night, a vast concourse of per-
' sons were surrounding Cambridge-house. On the bulletin benN;
read, there was a general shriek from the females assembled;
many fainted, and were carried into Alderman Wood's house
opposite.—Upon the receipt of Lord Hood's note, announcing
her Majesty's decease, the Lord Mayor immediately sent di-

rections to one of the Vergers of St. Paul's to toll the greatbell;
but this the Verger declined doing until he had other instruc-
tions. A message was then sent to Mr. Lingard, the principal
Verger, who said he must consult the Rev. Dr. Wellesley, the
Residentiary Canon, on the subject. Mr. Lingard, we under.
stand, repaired accordingly to Dr. Wellesley, who resides at
Chelsea ; and, we presume, obtained his concurrence, as the
bell commenced tolling at one .o'clock, and continued to toll
until three.—(lßlD.)

• r **.•
LMORNING HERALD.]
The west end of the metropolis, yesterday,
presented a scene of gloom'and sadness that struck
to the heart of every beholder. At least nine
shops out of ten were partially closed, and the
majority of the private houses had the shutters
closed, or the blinds drawn. The houses of seve-
ral of the most distinguished personages who had
taken a decided part against her Majesty during
her life-time exhibited the same sombre appear-
ance. At the mansion of the Lord Chancellor in
particular, the shutters in the lower part of the
house were shut quite close, and in the upper part.
the blinds were drawn. Most of the 'looses in St.
James's-square were also in the same state,—
Somerset House and the other public offices
were partially closed, but the.business proceeded
as usual. At Carlton House the shutters in
front were all closed ; but whether in conse-
quence of the recent melancholy event, or the
absence of his Majesty, we are not able to state.
The noble line of houses from the Pultney Hotel
westward to Hyde Park Corner, were shut up
with two exceptions : one of them the mansion
of his Grace the Duke of Wellington. The resi-
dences of the Duke of Devonshire and Lord. G.
Cavendish were quite closed. The late residence
of. her Majesty in St. James's square was closely
shut up, Brandenburgh House was closely shut,
and no persons but those who had special busi-
ness were suffered to approach nearer than the
lodge.
Hammersmith, Wednesday night,
Eleven o'Clock.
Immediately after the death of her. Majesty,
on Tuesday night, Lord Hood dispatched a courier with a let-
ter to the Earl of Liverpool, announcinc, the event, and request-
..
ing to knew whether his Majesty's Ministers were prepared. to
take any part in the necessary arrangements consequent upon
her demise. The Noble Earl was at his seat, Coombe 'Wood,
and the courier did not arrive there till after twelve o'clock.—
His Lordship had then retired to rest ; but he returned a verbal
answer to Lord Hood's letter, acknowledging its receipt, and
stating that he would be in town, at Fife House, early in the
morning, and ready to confer with any of the gentlemen.
from Brandenburgh House on the subject.—Accordingly Dr.
Lushington and Mr. Wilde had an interview with his Lordship
at Fife House, between 19 and 1 o'clock yesterday morning, and
in consequence Messrs. France and Banting, of Pall-mall, the
King's upholsterers, received instructions to proceed to Bran-
denburgh House, and make the necessary preparations, in their
department, for the funeral They arrived in the afternoon,
aecompanied by one of the clerks from the Lord Chamber-
lain's Office, and remained here several hours. Mr. Wilde also
arrived from town this afternoon, and appears likely to continue
here all night. There is no truth in the statement given in some
of the Evening Papers that Mr. Ala. Wood had arrived here
from town, with an artist to take a cast of her Majesty's counte-
nance. The Alderman has not left the house since her Majesty's
decease, nor does he intend to leave it till the funeral takes place.
An artist (whom we have not learnt) certainly did call at Bran-
denburgh House this morning, and applied for. permission to
take a cast from the face of the illustrious deceased; but we be-
lieve his request was not {Wanted.—Her Majesty's physicians
had a consultation at Cambridge House to-day, on 'the subject
of the embalmment, and we understand that operation will be
pe formed to-morrow (this day.)--So far back as Sunday last,
her Majesty talked of her approaching dissolution with
a composure which deeply affected her attendants. She
repeatedly expressed an earnest desire that her remains
might be deposited in the sepulchre of her family at Brunswick.
Among other matters of minor import, she desired that her
coffin might be of cedar, anti that it might be made by Mr.
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work. We believe it is intended that her Majesty's remains
shall lie in state the day previous to their removal, in the long
gallery at Brandenburg House.--(lbid.)

[BRITI theRESS.]
The intelligence of with the utmost rapidity yesterday morning
throughout all parts of metropolis. Few
seemed to have expected it, but to the immense
majority of the people it appeared to come with
all the surprise that is felt when one hears of a
sudden death. The intelligenCe every where
produced an• extraordinary sensation, and opi-
nions were freely expressed and freely canvassed
respecting the effects which the event might be
supposed to produce upon the.political aspect of
public affairs. An expression.of regret was most
general, but it was accompanied for
.the most
part with the melancholy admission made by the
Royal Sufferer herself, that death was to
be considered, with respect to her, as a
merciful relief from a state of deep . and un-
alleviated distress. The great bell of St.
Paul's was tolled at intervals throughoutthe day,
announcing to the public that another- mem-
ber of the Royal Family was added to the long
catalogue of mortality which that family has so
recently exhibited. Iler Majesty is the sixth
member of the Royal Family who has claimed
the-tribute of public sorrow within-dm short in-
terval which has elapsed since the close of liosti-
lilies. We have within that time witnessed the
successive demises of the Princess Charlotte of
Wales, of Queen Charlotte, of the Duke of
Kent, of King George,lll., of the Duchess of
York, and of 'her late Most Excellent Majesty.
—These we notice exclusive of the deaths of in-
fants, and they offer to the contemplative mind a
lesson awfully impressive. In consequence of
the absence of the King,-the place of burial, and
other arrangements for her Majesty's funeral,
cannot be known for some days.—The Theatres
were closed last night, as a mark of respect to
her memory, but it has been intimated to the
several Managers that the Theatres need not
continue •clostid during the time previous to her
Majesty's interment.

[MORNING POST.]
Expresses have been forwarded to his Majesty
in Ireland, to announce the death of his Royal
Consort. There are various accounts of the ori-
gin of her Majesty's illness. It is said by some
that she was taken ill at Drury-lane Theatre, in
consequence of having drank some lemonade
whilst in a state of perspiration—others say that
the beverage was cyder. On the Sunday previous
to the attack, her Majesty attended Divine Ser_
vice atliammersmith Parish Church, and appeared
to be in excellent health and spirits. At that
time her Majesty entered into conversation with
several persons of the Town, with whom she was
very affable and condescending.
[For a Biographi:al Sketch of her late Majesty, see the Fourth
Page.]

LITERARY REVIEW.

DON JUAN. Cantos Three, Four, and Five.

The admirers of poetry and original genids
will see with pleasure that the noble Author-4f
this singular Work has renewed his attention to
•it to a considerable. extent. The same 'spirit
which characterised the first two-stanzas appears'
in the three now added. There appears also the
same suprising facility in the invention of new and
ludicrous rhymes; and it is evident that though the
Author has devoted much attention to the pur-
suit of such rhymes, it has not led him from the
developement of the most delicate, intricate, and
complicated feelings of the human heart, or from
accurate, striking, and vivid descriptions of the
beauty, variety, grandeur, and sublimity of the
scenes of Nature, and of the productions of Art.
The interesting story of the loves of JuAs and
lIAIDEE proceeds, and many affecting scenes
are described, in the progress of which many pro-
found observations on human life, and admirable
maxims for human conduct, fall from the author
with a careless ease," like dew-drops from the lion's
mane." We shall not anticipate the pleasure which
the Reader will receive in the perusal of this ex-
traordinary, and we may add, beautiful work,
but at present content ourselves with extracting
from the fourth Canto the dream of HAIDEE,
which may well be compared with that of ELOISA,
so beautifully imagined by POPE, whom the
folly of modern hypo-criticism will not acknow-
ledge to be a Poet of a very high, if not of the
highest order. The noble Poet,while introducing
the passage which follows, happily styles dreaming
" The mystical usurper of the mind."
She dream'd of being alone on the sea-shore,
Chaired to a rock ; she knew not how, but stir
She could not from the spot, and the loud roar
Grew, and each wave rose roughly, threatening her;
And o'er her upper lip they seem'd to pour,
Until she sobb'd for breath, and soon they were
Foaming o'er her lone head, so fierce and high
Each broke to drown her, yet she could not die.

Anon—she was released, and then she stray'd
O'er the sharp shingles with her bleeding feet,
And stumbled almost every step she made ;
And'something roll'd before ber in a sheet,
Which she must still pursue howe'er afraid ;
'Twas white and indistinct, nor stopp'd to meet
Her glance nor grasp, for still she gazed and grasp'd,
And ran, but it escaped her as she clasp'd.
The dream changed ; in a cave she stood ; its walls
Were hung with marble icicles ; the work
Of ages on its water-fretted halls,
Where waves might wash, and seals might breed and lurk;
Her hair was dripping, and the very balls
Of her aack eyes see.n'd turn'd to tears, and murk
The sharp rocks look'd below each drop they caught,
Which froze to marble as it fell, she thought.

And wet, and cold, and lifeless at her feet,
Pala as the foam that froth'd on his dead brow, -
Which she essay'd in vain to clear, (how sweet
Were once her cares, how idle scem'd they now !)
Lay Juan, nor could aught renew the beat
Of his quench'd heart ; and the sea dirges low
Rang in her sad ears like a mermaid's song,
And that brief dream appear'd a life too long.

And gazing on the dead, she thought his face
Faded, or alter'd into something new—
Like
to-her father's features, till each trace
More like and like to Lambro's aspect grew
With all his keen worn look and Grecian grace ;
And starting, she awoke, and what to view ?
Oh ! Powers of Heaven ! what dark eye meets she there ?
'Tis—'tis her father's—fix'd upon the pair !

BOGNOR, AUG 7.—The early arrival of the
Duchess of KENT, with the Princesses VICTORINL
and FEODORE, may be looked to; Captain Cori-
RO Y, her Royal Ilighness's Equerry, arrived here
last night, and has begun to make the necessary
arrangements -for the- accommodation of the
Household. The house of Sir JOHN HARRING-
TON is taken for the residence of her Royal
llighness.

• DEATH BY FIGHTING.—A boxing-match took
place on Tuesday between Cooper and O' Leary—
Cooper won the battle, after several rounds, h y
a heavy hit, upon the temple of his antagonist ;
and that hit, we regret to state, killed
O'Leary. lie was taken oil' the ground in a
state of stupor to the Cock Inn, at Sutton, where
he expired about nine o'clock. lie was bled,and
there was no want of medical aid, but it was all
to no purpose, as the blow caused a rupture of
one of the vessels of the brain. The deceased
was a very brave men. A Coroner's Inquest will
sit on the body this evening.

The extraordinary passengers who landed at
Dover a few days since were visited by numbers
of the inhabitants ; it is stated that they are na-
tives of the interior •of the Brazils, about 600
miles inland, that in their habits they are Caul-
bals ; they are exceedingly timid at the ap-
proach of strangers, fearing they intend immo-
lating them, nor can their agitations be soothed
until a mutual kissing of hands, as a token of
peace, excites confidence. The man is about five
feet two inches, and the woman rather shorter,
the child is well formed and of good features ;
the man and woman wear ear and mouth orna-
ments, which do not accord with our idea of the
decorative elegance, the ears are stretched until
'they become sufficiently distended to. admit a
large cork, nine inches in circumference, which
is embedded in the ear and hangs down upon the
shoulder ; the lower lip has incisions made in it,
and is then stretched out until it extends suffi-
ciently to contain a similar cork, which projects
the lower lip out to a monstrous size. The man
attempted to escape from the room where they were
confined, by climbing up the chimney, with the
child in his arms, but was discovered. Their
food consists of raw flesh of animals. When
first taken they refused all kind of sustenance,
and it was only on condition of their being treated
with a live monkey, they could be induced to
take any food. They left Dover on Friday, in
company with the Frenchman who has brought
' them over, for the metropolis, where they are to
be exhibited for the amusement of the Londoners.
i (Maidstone Journal.)