The Sun.
London, England, 1818-11-26 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS.

[FROM THE. MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.]

[Morning Post.]
FUNERAL OF THE LATE QUEEN.

Yesterday the Funeral of her late MasEstit was
fixed for next Wednesday. It will take place.in
St. George's Chapel, Windsor, at eight o'clock in
the evening. The procession will he in readiness
to move by ten o'clock in the morning, and will,
proceed at a slow pace. It will halt for an hour
on the road. At Frog more, the private 'residence
of the late Queen, which is about a mile and a
half from St. George's Chapel, the procession will
be jollied by the Prince Regen►, as Chief Mourner.
In addition to the four Marquisses who are to
bear his Royal Highness's train, he will he sup-
ported by two Dukes. From Frogrnore• In the
entrance of Sr. George's Ciripel, tire proces-
lion will be particularly grand, aml sokm-nly rn►•
ptessive.

[New Times 3
THE LA PE QUEEN'S %VIET,.

Itre believe tve may cOutidently state, 'that the
general repot t of her Majesty', having left a will
iR quite correct. We do not, however, pretend to
know what the n.,inute details' of this will may he,
yet we have'reastm ro suppNse the sandl property
that has been left, eonsis•ing princip.dly of Frog.
.thore and personals, is to be divided .between her
,Majes'y's four younger daughters ; and the
~Queen's old and faithful servant, Madame Beckett-
durti., has been It ft her Majesty's enti-re wardrobe.
So far from her Majesty's having died posf,essed
of 'acrmoulated wealth, there is, we ntolersrand,
a debt amounting to a few thousand pounds ; to
discharge which, direction has been left that a
part of the property be sold. 'Co those who have
had the opportunity of knowing the extent of her
Majesty's pricafe charities, this emptiness of purse
will not appear extraordioary; and to those who
have so rijestly hazarded the most uncharitable
conjectures, for positive facts, a complete and direct
ellsWer iS OM). •
Her Majesty has been Queen of this country
fifty-seven years ; during this period her path has
been that of dignified undeviating virtue. Al-
' thOugh the manners of her ;Majesty might appear
cold, her, heart was not so ; and the numbers who
have lived On her private bounty is the best evi-
dence of the truth of this assertion. The Queen
'lever courted popul;irity, nor indeed feared the
contrary. What her iMaj.sty believed to be right
she did, and always acted from principle, as well
as feeling. No circumstance, or accident of life,
ever allowed her Majesty to relax from the most
exalted propriety ; and virtue, however obscured
, by birth, al ‘k sys received front her a distinguished
• and ; ()turntable testimony by the most gracious
reception. As a wife her Majesty .I.as left us the
highest example ; and there must have been toe-
. laticholy moments when few could have had more
to sutler. In her Majesty's, ,late long and painful
:.illness the tender endearments of a mother are
best exemplified in the dutiful and unwearied af-
fection of her children., Her Majesty's memory,
as Queen of this country, must ever he associated
_with all that is high and valuable, in the peat
practical moral duties both of public and private
life.

PlOrning Post.]
TIIE HIGH PRICE OF BREAD.

We lately announced the important fact, that
from the average prices of English Grain, for the
six weeks preceding the 15th inst. it resulted that
Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats, Beans, Peas, and
Flour may be imported for Home Consumptif,n,
till the 15th of February, 1819, when a new
average will be taken, unless prices during the
next immediate six weeks shall again fall below
• the average import rate, in which case, all impor-
tation from the ports between the Eyder and the
Bidassoa will be forthwith interdicted. Now
:what was the plain import of the foregoing state-
:went ? Neither more nor less than this : that,
notwithstanding our late most abundant harvest,
-yet, through the arts of forestallers, middle men,
'and boarders, corn had been artificially raised to
prices which rendered it impossible for the labourer,
on an average of wages, to buy bread for himself
and his family ; for the prineiple on which the
argument for the Corn Bill was conducted was,
that an average of SOs. for Wheat, and 40s. for
Riarley, ;V. would enable the labourers and lower
classes to maintain themselves—and, conse-
quently, the admitted converse was, that higher
prices would reduce them to a state of starvation►,
and involve the community in circumstances of dig-
tress not to he contemplated wit bout horror. The
Corn Bill had the effect instantly to force up the
• price of corn, the ports havirig
.been shut against
; and, notwithstanding, as already
uoticed, our late molt abundant harvest, the prices,
have continued to be forced up, by manoeuvres on
• which we shall not stow enter, till, having reached
the starvation point, the provisions of the Act in
• favour of the labourer have opened the ports for
importation. So far we shall say all was well.—
, The agriculturist was protected against minimum
prices by, tie ports being shut against foreign
corn, and the starvation point having been reach-
ed, the ports, as a matter of course, have been
opened to moderate the effects anticipated by
the Act, in the event oh the otherwise uncontrol-
fable combinatiou against the labourer and ar-
tisan. Ought Hot the Agriculturisti to have re-
mained satisfied with this state of things, what-
: ever cause for dissatisfaction the other classes
might still have found in the operations of the
Corn Bill ? Any rational man will say, 'looking
at the facts as they are, that of all melt the Land-
holders and Farmers should have been the last
to complain against the effects of the Act. Mallow;
dons the fact stand ? In consequence of what they
are pleased to consider as the injurious operation of
the Corn Bill, a general meeting of the Farmers,
Landholders, and others interested in agricultural
produce, for the comities of Middlesex and Essex,
has been held. The ob.jest of the assembly was to
petition Parliament to impose protecting duties