The Sun.
London, England, 1818-11-20 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS.

[FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.]

[Morning Post.]
THE LATE QUEEN.

The PRINCE REGENT held a Council yesterday,
when a Proclamation was signed by his Royal
Highness for assembling Parliament on the 14th
of January next, for the dispatch of divers
weighty and important affairs. This proceedin:,
as we yesterday stated, is legally imperative upon
the Executive Power, in consequence of the la-
mented demist of the Queen, the Regency Amend-
ment Act of the last Session distinctly prescribing
that the Great Council of the Nation shall meet
within sixty days from the date of that event—the
care of the person of the King (the subject that
must primarily occupy their attention) being in
the mean time entrus:ed to the Members of her

late M jesty's Council.
The Lords of the Council, as our Readers are
already Wormed, assembled on Wednesday at the
Council Office, to examine precedents as to the
Funeral of her Majesty. The meeting was held
ag,reeahly to the precedent of the death of Queen
Caroline. Yesterday the Prince Regent held a
Privy Council at Carlton House, for the purpose
of receiving their Lordships' report upon the sub-
ject, which was attended by—

The Arehliishop of Canterbury, the Lord President of the
Council, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, the Secretaries of State for the Home An d Colo-
nial Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Lord
Steward, the Master of the Horse, &c.

The Lord President mule the report of the pro-
ceedings of the Lords of the Council on Wednes-
day, when it was resolved that the funeral of her
late Majesty Queen Charlotte was not to be con-
fined to the forms and ceremonies observed on the
occasion ct the Funeral of Queen Caroline, but to
he left to the direction of the Lord Chamberlain.
An Order was signed for assembling Parlia-
ment for the dispatch of business on the 14th day
of January next ; as was also an Order fot• a new
Form of Prayer to be used in all Churches and
Chapels next Sunday, on the subject of the de-
mise of the Queen.
The Lord Chief Justice Abbott was introduced
by Viscount Chetwynd, who attended as Clerk of
the Council, with the usual forms, when his
Lordship was sworn in a Privy Councillor, and
took his seat at the Board accordingly.
Sir Robert Dallas, the Chief Justice of the
Court of Common Pleas, also was introduced,
sworn in a Privy Councillor, and took his seat at

the Board accordingly.
The Prince Regent gave audiences to the Earl
of llatrowby, Earl of Liverpool, Viscount Mel-
ville, and the Duke of Montrose.
Soon after the breaking op of the Court, the
Regent lett town for Kew, to condole with his
afflicted Sisters. The whole Court appeared in
toll di ess black, on account of the demise of her
Majesty.
Yesterday the Deputy Earl Marshal, Sir George
Naylor, and Mr. Mash of the Lord Chamberlain's
Office, attended the Prince Regent at Carlton
[louse, to take his Royal Highness's commands
upon the subject of the Funeral of the Queen.
The Dean of Windsor and Sir George Naylor
attended with Mr. Mash at the Lord Chamber-
lain's Office yesterday. Carbon House is closely
shut up on the present melancholy occasion. The
inquiries of condolence of distinguished persons
yesterday were very numerous.
Inquiries of a similar nature were also made
after the Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess
Augusta, at the Queen's Palace, and at the Duke
of Cambridge's house, on Kew Green, where their
Royal Highnesses removed on Wednesday night
from Kew Palace. The answers given to the
kind inquirers were, " Their Royal Highnesses
were as well as could be expected."
The Queen's Palace was closed on Wednesday
and yesterday by France and Banting, by order
of Colonel Stevenson ; every window that had not

shutters was closed with thick canvass.
Last night, about half-past eight o'clock, a
hearse and tour arrived at Kew Palace, followed
by a mourning coach and four, in which were
Mr. Wanting, the Royal Undertaker, and his As-
sistants, with the leaden Coffin, in which the re-
mains of her Majesty are to be deposited. It is
lined with wood ; the inside consisting of a bed,
pillow, sheet, and the side linings of plain white
satin, with a full fluted trimming all round of the
same ; the whole solemnly and magnificently fitted
up. The most profound silence prevailed on the
occasion.
As soon as the death of her Majesty was known
at the several out•ports, all the vessels hoisted
their colour3 half-mast, and the Royal Flags were
only hoisted half-way up the flag-staff. At
Brighton the Church hells olled their mournful
peals, and the Theatre and all the Libraries were
closed.