Star.
London, England, 1830-07-01 00:00:00

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The opening of the body of the late King, to ascer-
tain the cause of his death, was performed by command
of his present Majesty. The Lord Chamberlain, in
consequence of the order, issued summonses to the Ser-
jeant-Surgeons of the King, Sir Astley Cooper, and Sir
Everard Home: the latter gentleman was prevented
from attending owing to illness. Mr. Mash, the Comp-
troller, and Mr. Martin, the principal Clerk of the Lord
Chamberlain's office, were present as representatives o
the Lord Chamberlain. When the operation was
finished, the body was embalmed by Mr. Nuesey, as the
Apothecary to the King. Tho remains were then wrap-
ped twice in cerecloth. The following is the inscription
issued from the College of Arms to be engraved on the
silver plate, which is soldered on the leaden coffin, and
also on the plate which is to be placed on the state coffin :
Depositum
Sereniulmi Potentissimi et Excellentissimi
Monarchs
Georgii Quart'
Dei Gratis Britanniarum Regis
Fidel Defensoris
Regis Ilanoverre ac Brunsrici et Luneburg' Duels
Obiit rum. Die Junii
Anno Domini MDCCCXXX.
&tads sus LXVIII.
Regnique sat XI.
Tho workmen at the King's Palace at Pimlico were
taken off their work on Saturday, in consequence of the
decease of his Majesty. They resumed work yesterday.
The Duke of Leeds gave orders at the Palace yesterday
to make preparations for the present King's inspecting
the edifice.

An opening and communication have been begun, and
will soon be completed, from the residence of the King,
when Duke of Clarence, in the Palace at St. James's, to
the state apartments of the Palace. The passage will
lead into the King's bath-room, which leads through the
closet and other apartments into the state room.
Prince Frederick of Prussia came to town yesterday
*ow Kew. The Earl of Aberdeen paid a visit to his
Royal Highness at the residence of the Duke of Cumber-
land, in the King's Palace, St. James's. The noble Earl
remained a considerable time with the Prince.

The Prussian Minister visited his Royal Highness
yesterday.
The Duke of Cumberland, it is mentioned, will proceed

immediately after the funeral to the Continent to break
up his establishment there, and, of course, preparatory to
his taking up his permanent residence in England.
Prince George has the two favourite ponies which his
Majesty used to drive about Windsor Forest, &c.
His Majesty William IV. it is said, will continue his
residence at Bushy for some time, preferring that and
Kew to the half-finished residence of Windsor Castle ;
even the celebrated terrace, on which George 111. and the
public used to walk, is, and long has been, partially
stopped against the public.
A Deputation, headed by Lord Bexley and Sir R
Inglis, had a conference with the Duke of Wellington
yesterday at the Treasury.
The name of Adelaide is not new in the list of Qaeens
of England. The second wife of Henry I. was Adelaide,
a Princess of Louvain. The mother of King Stephen,
daughter of William the Conqueror, was Adele, which
is, in fact, the same name.
Sir F. Burdett has been for some time suffering from a
rather sharp attack of gout ; he was, however, yesterday
and the day before, enabled to ride out in the parks, with
his right arm in a sling. He was attended, which is un-
usual with the hon. baronet, by a groom.
It is said, that Tuesday afternoon, the Marquis of Co-
nyngham (who, in his capacity of Lord Steward of his late
Majesty's Household, is still lingering in the Castle)—
heard an unusual noise in the chamber heretofore occu-
pied by his lady, the Marchioness, as her especial dor-
mitory ;—which chamber is in the same tower and
on the same floor with the Royal chamber. Hearing
this unusual noise, the Marquis proceeded thither, and
found the access to it much impeded by the carpets
which had previously covered its floor. However,
the Noble Marquis made his way over these obstruc-
tions, and entered the chamber, where he found,
some five or six strange men without their coats,
busily at work with their hammers and ripping chissels,
denuding the chamber of its draperies, &c. &c. Of
these strange men the Noble Marquis instantly demanded
—" Hey!—what's all this about?" To which demand
the strange men replied, "We are taking down her
Ladyship's bed, my Lord, and putting up the Queen's."
And thereupon the Noble Marquis retraced his way over
the piles of removed c .rpets and other lumber at the
door, without stopping to enquire by " whose authority"
they had presumed to do this. That authority, it is
added, was no less a person than his Grace of Montrose,
Lord Chamberlain to the late King, and also to his pre-
sent Majesty, King William.—Herold.
In commenting on the death of the King, the Dum-
fries Courier says :—" Death has been busy in our high
places, and the most exalted in the land has fallen.—
George IV. breathed his last early on the morning of
Saturday, the 26th, now sleeps with his fathers, and is
with the kings who were. From many circumstances, and
from none more than the nature of his disease, his case was
considered hopeless nearly from the first, by those who
had access to the royal presence; and though the most emi-
nent physicians were in attendance, relieved one another by
turns, and nursed, where others merely prescribe, the
whole resources of the healing art were lavished on the
august sufferer in vain. In all probability, an ordinary
patient similarly affected, would have sunk into the grave
weeks ago ; but under all the circumstances of
anxiety, solitude, restlessness, sleeplessness, languor, and
pain, this reflection presents so little that is consoling, that
it seems almost the part of humanity to regret that his
Majesty's sufferings were so long protracted. Skilful as
were the hands that unweariedly sought to assuage his
pangs and smooth his pillow, even opiates yielded little
relief ; the trappings of state could not conceal the pro-
gress of mortality ; from the commencement of the
struggle, the sad accompaniments of a sick-bed were
• conspicuous in the palace • they - in the cot-