The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-22 00:00:00

ry his Majesty, was then exquisitely sung by the whole choir,
while the coffin rested over the grave :
" Hear my prayer, 0 God ! and hide not thy face from my pe-
tition.
" Take heed unto me, and hear-me, how I mourn in my prayer,
and am vexed.
" My heart is disquieted within me, and the fear of death
fallen upon me..
" Then I said, 0 that I had wings like a dove ; then would I
flee away, and be at rest."
This was followed by the choir singing—
" Man that is born of a woman bath but a short time to live,
and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a
flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continucth in
one stay.
" In the midst of life we are in death ; of whom may we seek
for succour, but of thee, 0 Lord, who for our sins are justly dis-
pleased?
" Yet, 0 Lord God most holy, 0 Lord most mighty, 0 holy
and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of
eternal death.

" Thou.knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts ; shut not thy
merciful ears to our prayers ; bat spare us, Lord most holy, 0 God
most 0 holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy
Judge eternal;' suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death
to fall from thee."

At the conclusion of this part of the ceremony the coffin was, by
the operation of the hidden machinery in the womb of the vault,
I gradually loitered into the aperture, and as the earth was cast upon-
the body, the Dean proceeded to say.
" Forasmuch as it bath pleased Almighty God of his great
mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here de-
parted, we therefore commit his body to the ground ; earth to
I earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the
'resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ, who
shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious
body, according to the ttiighty working whereby he is able to
subdue all things to himself."
The Dealt continued the service, which was partly read and
partly sunk, and while the coffin was yet lowering, the whole
choir struck up—,
I "eard a voice from Heaven, saying unto me—Write ; from
"ncef°'::n blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; even so
"Jl/.4-file spirit, for they rest from their labours."

The collect being delivered, as the body was lowered .into the
vault, the following part of Handy s Funeral Anthem, com-
posed for the funeral of Queen Caroline, was performed with suit-
able effect : • _

" When the ear heard him, then it blessed him ; and when the
eye saw him, it gave witness of him.
" He delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless, and him that
had none to help_him.
" Kindness, meekness, and comfort were in his tongue ; if
there *as any virtue, and if there was any praise, he thought on
those things.
"! His body is buried in peace, but his name lived' evermore."
The Dean here conchided with the grace, and Sir Geo. Nayler,
'Garter King at Arms, proclaimed the style and titles of the illus-
trious Prince in the following form :
" Thug it hath pleased Almighty God to take out of this tran-
sitory tf.! unto his Divine mercy, the late most High, Most
Mietty, and Most Illustrious Prince Frederick, Prince of Brims-
v•iick Lunenburgh, Duke of Yoik and Albany, Earl of Ulster,
Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and of the most
Honourable Military Order of the Bath—Brother of the Most Il-
lustrious and Most Potent Monarch George IV., by the Grace of
God King of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faitb,
King of Hanover, &c. &c."
After this the Chief Mourner, and the other distinguished per-
; sons of the procession, slowly retired.
The ehoir being partially clear, the spectators within the chapel
were admitted to a view of the coffin. It was very nigh the stir-
' face of the descent, and was without any covering, excepting the
coronet and baton, which were placed across it on cushions.
It was dearly. 11 o'clock before the ceremony conclvled. The
end of the funeral service was announced by the discharge of a
,reekti from the Castle-yard, after which the artillery in the Long-
began to fire, and discharged three rounds of 15 guns each,
at half minute time. . . .

The throng of carriages to take up. the several distinguished
persons who formed part of the procession, in the funeral and at
the chapel, was immense ; but by a little after 12 o'clock the
whole had cleared off without any accident that we heard.
It id hardly possible for any person not a spectator, to form a
conception of the scene which Windsor presented, at, and for
nearly three hours previous to, the entrance of the funeral proces-
sion. In the streets through which it was to pass, every apart-
ment of the houses, from the roof to the basements, was filled with
lights and company ; and, in despite of the severity of the wea-
dter, many of the windows, early in the evening, were open, and
filled with females, wrapped up as much as possible from the cold
and damp, but still exposing themselves apparently to consider-
] able hazard.

The whole of the main avenues and more open spares of the
town were lined thickly with foot soldiers ; most of them bearing
torches, and standing " easily," (according to the military phrase),
waiting until the funeral should arrive ; adding rather to the
seeming disorder by their irregular appearance, which was not
so much like that of troops upon parade, as of men just marched
into a town, and halting to be distributed into quarters. All the
place was thronged with people of the lower class on foot, nine in
ten of them strangers, and a great proportion mechanics from
London, who had walked in advance of the procession all the way,
with very little chance (in Windsor) of obtaining either food' r
lodging. Carriages too were pouring in, from six to eight o'clock
in every direction ; some from the west, as far as from Maiden-
head and Reading, by the road from Salt-hill and Slough ; others
who had outstripped the London cavalcade, by Frogmore and
Datehet ; and great numbers, from town, who had gone round
to Slough and Langley-marsh, to avoid the crowd, entering in
the opposite direction, through Upstone and Eton. Every other
moment almost, the streets being narrow, these vehicles were
either stopping up the way entirely, or meeting and endangering
each other ; and through the whole crush and press, the Life
Guards on duty, and police constables were riding about, giving
directions to the strangers, which were judicious enough probably
in themselves, and intelligible to those who had originally de-
vised them ; but of which the persons to whom they were thus
suddenly delivered, could not understand a point.—Nothing
could exceed the confusion and dismay of a great num-
ber of individuals, who had come in carriages from Lon-
don and other places, on the speculation of seeing the
funeral pass . from their vehicles, and having no ticket
or credential to be present at the ceremony, or any domicile to
retreat to in the town—these persons were driven to and fro al-
most at the discretion of the crowd, or of the guards who direct-
ed the clearing of the ground. The soldiers neither knew nor
could tell any more than " that carriages could not stop in the
streets ;" and those whe even attempted to stop, were so assailed
by the cries of others who were bekind them (and whom they im-
peded), and by the importunities of constable, whose business it
was to show them to the place of their destination, when they
had any, that they lest all powers of judgment, and could give no
" directions to the postilions or coachmen who drove them, but
were anxious only to be out of the way. Some parties of fo-
reigners who had coma thus unprovided, were placed in a situa-
tion which would have been laughable if it had been less distress-
ing ; end the gentleman who acted as spokesmen to one, on being
pressed by 2 dragoons at once, to say where he wanted to go to ?
answered candidly, " that-he had not expected to be asked, and
'd not know." Several vehicles in this way were carried away
by entering into lines of roaches which were going to places to
which the Arst had no access ; and the only possible course was
to " rnofs forward" incessantly ; for a tremendous line Will
pressingis the rl r, and to halt or turn round was eptally,
impracticable. Msnv persons so situated offered any terms for
admission to
louses.' which the funeral would pass, but without
success ;
"4 the.graater part, being unable either to obtain accom-
modation or secs
'lsli4ert ti,ked up in places from which they could
• see nothing untirt
these instances
‘asony was over. As the evening advanced,
th of e
town; Fresh multitudes continued to
throng into
. t.ownt and
`crowd aid confusion consequently to
become more unreansge4ol4util at length, • tas the head
of thi cOhinin, pre&di-I,;•4l6*.ylktat Jus
visible in
carriages
the town, as it apprcarihLd frottt the became
al rush
of the people that direcilOn,,-wwsztward, the gem-
wash of vehicles, and
the clamours of those who drove thee,
them in order; the rapid flinging up
anti;
down lattices,attempted to keel!
and
Wwindowsashes; the flashing of the-lam' of
thos
e
which were privileged to pass forward, as they darted
the
through
hoarse
carriages
the dark streets to the places 'of their' destination
roar of the general multitude; the trampling ne many horses,
the constantly tolling of bells ; the discharge of the half minute
guns in the park ; the crowd of females at the windows of the
houses, seen distinctly as in day-light, by the lights within ,
and the blazing of the torches, reflected upon the arms and breast.-
plates of the horse soldiers, and rather assisted, than otherwise, by
an extremely dark and heavy character of night ; this scene
passing within the town, added to the appearance of a fresh
body of carriages and cavalry, with their funeral trappings,
plumes, escutcheons, and similar paraphernalia—and all with
torches in the distance—formed a general display, not merely ex-
citing, but almost amounting to terrific. The frostiness of the
night, which vras otherwise unfavourable to the exposed specta-
tors, and to the soldiers i who wore their full dress, without great
*oats or cloaks, had tile: convenient effect of preventing the streets