The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-15 00:00:00

HORSE-GUARDS, JAN. 12.

GENERAL ORDERS, IN AID OF THE CEREMONIAL TO BE OBSERVED
AT THE FUNERAL OF FIELD-MARSHAL HIS LATE ROYAL HIGH-
NESS THE DUKE OF YORK AND ALBANY, COMMANDER-IN-

CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES.

A captain's full dress guard from the Grenadier Guards, with
a colour, will mount at St. James's Palace, at eight o'clock in the
forenoon of Thursday, the 18th of January, as a guard of honour
over the remains of his late Royal Highness, which will during
that and the following day lie in state from ten o'clock in the morn-
ing until four o'clock in the afternoon of each day.
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Om Saturday, the 20th of January, the Royal body will be re-
removed from St. James's Palace, Windsor, under the escort of a
field officer's guard, with a standard, consisting' of 120 men, to
be furnished by the Second Regiment of Life Guards. This es.
cort will assemble at the Palace at seven o'clock in the morning
of that day, and be relieved at Cranford-bridge by a similar
guard, to be furnished by the First Regiment of Life Guards,
which will proceed with the Royal body to the door of St.
George's Chapel : the first escort to fall in the rear, and form the
rear guard.
The Royal Horse Guards (Blue) to take the duty in Windsor,
and a detachment of that regiment, dismounted, to attend within
the chapel, every fourth.man bearing a torch.—The commanding
officer of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue) will communicate with
the superintendent of the Lord Chamberlain's department, as to
the number of men that will be required for this service.
A battalion of the Grenadier Guards will line the approach from
the Castle-gate to the entrance of St. George's Chapel.
A select detachment, consisting of the oldest soldiers of his late
Royal Highness's regiment, will line the immediate approach to the
entrance, and the space in the chapel where the body comes into
the line of the procession.
A subaltern's guard, from the. Foot Guards, is to mount at the
Porch-gate, and to be responsible to keep all that space clear
from interruption.
A double line of Guards and Infantry of the Line will form

from the Porch down the, street, as far as their numbers will ad-
mit, when the Cavalry must line the remainder of the road as far
as Frogmore.

- From Frogmore to Datchet-bridge the communication must be
kept up- by patrols, in which the rear-guard will take a part as
soon as the procession arrives at Frogmore.
A small picquet of the Household Brigade of Cavalry must be,
placed at the Junction of the roads on the London side of Frog-
more, and at Eton-bridge.

These patrols and picquets must remain on duty until day-
break of the morning of the 21st of January.
The troops for the above service will be as follow :
Two Regiments of Life Guards. Grenadier Guards, 3d Battalion.
Royal Horse Guards. Coldstream, lst ditto.
17th Lancers. Third, Ist ditto.
Grenadier Guards, 2d Battalion. 67th Regiment of Foot.
The Royal Horse-Guards (Blue) and the 67th Regiment of.
Foot being already stationed at Windsor, will take their. duties
from their present quarters.
But the two regiments of Life Guards and the Foot Guards
will receive orders to assemble at, or in the vicinity of, Windsor,
on the 19th inst.

A Captain's Guard of the 17th Lancers will relieve the Life
Guards on duty at the Horse-Guards at four o'clock on Thurs-
day, the 18th instant; and the whole of the 17th Lancers will
move into London to furnish the duties in the absence of the Life
Guards, until the 22d inst., when the whole of the troops will
return to their former quarters.
Major-General Sir Hussey Vivian will take the command of
the whole troops.

Colonel the honourable IL B. Lygon will command the house •
hold brigade.

The Foot Guards will be commanded by Colonel Macdonell, of
the Coldstream.

All the troops employed on this duty are to be in full dress.
The Master-General of the Ordnance will be pleased to make
arrangements for providing a detachment of artillery, to fire minute-
guns in Windsor-park, as on former similar occasions.

By His Majesty's Command,
HENRY TORRENS, Adjutant-General.

.Early on Saturday morning (as near as may be to eight o'clock)
the funeral procession will move from St. James's Palace to St.
George's Chapel, Windsor. It is arranged to proceed up St.
James's-street, Piccadilly, and along the high road by Knights-
bridge, Kensington, &e. resting at Cranford-bridge. It will pro-
bably reach Windsor about ten o'clock; and the interment will
tale place at midnight. It will be a grand military march, at-
tended by all the troops which the circumstances of the times ad-
mit of being brought together. The first portion will be entirely
military; then mourning coaches containing the civil officers, &c.
of his Majesty, the domestics of kis Royal Highness, and the ex-
ecutors (Sir Herbert Taylor and Colonel Stephenson, as we are
informed.) Immediately preceding the hearse will be the car-
riage of the deceased, bearing his coronet on a cushion. The
hearse itself will, for the first time, be drawn by eight of the King's
black Hanoverian horses. We could wish that, instead of that
vehicle common to all, it were, in this instance, a proper funeral
car, more significant of a soldier's burial. Bat whatever it may
be, it is to be followed by his Majesty's state carriage, the carriages
of the several branches of the Royal Family, and of such other
eminent persons as can be allowed to show this mark of respect to
departed Royalty and goodness. Heralds and troops will flank the
whole procession, and bring up the rear.