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London, England, 1818-11-18 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1818.
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DEATH OF THE QUEEN.

In the greater part of our impression of yesterday,
e announced the fatal event, for which the nation
{bad been so long and so painfully prepared—At one
I o'siool, in the afternoon, Her MArasrr expired !

Her MAJESTY was born on the 19th of May, 1744,
mod, till the last two years of her life, has enjoyed an
*latest uninterrupted, state of goodlealth.
The first chaege of a serious nature in the state of,
ew
the QuauN, was cn Monday afternoon, which was
of such a nature as to cause Sir HENRY HALFORD to
write to the Panics REGENT, and the language of
the letter was such as to induce the REGENT to send
for the Duke of YouK, to accompany him to K

Palace. Their Royal Highnesses remained at. Kew
till near one o'clock, when her MAJESTY having re-
covered f:orn her serious, attack, their Royal High.'
'teases left their afflicted Parent for the night.. ,Het'
MAJEETT, however, passed a disturbed night, but
only similar to what she had frequently done for
some time past, and the Physicians sent off an ac-
count to the REGENT, a little before eight o'clock, to
is: effect. In two hours afterwards a serious change
took place in her MArenT, and Sir HENRY H.tL-
iottn off an express to the REGENT, which ar-
avid soon after eleven o'clock at CarltOn Hoare, and
tie statement was so alarming, that the Pamet sent
i'ar the Duke of YORK to attend him instantly, to-ac-
sompany him to Ke'w Their Royal Highnesses ar.
rived at Kew Palace before half past twelve o'clock,
and immediately resorted to the Chamber of their ex-
piling Parent, who, we are happy to say, was per-
''ectly sensible. The scene. was most truly distressing.
Witil.the PRINCE REGt.s.-r, who had the trying task
of supporting her in her last breathings, and who has
been so incessant in his attendance day and night,
icing and ordering every thing that could possibly be
dzviszd for her relief, in her long and afflicting
ill-
aess of six months. His Royal Highness was assistei
by the Duke of YORK and their Royal Sisters. The
expiring scene of the 'venerable and amiable QuEust,
the heartrending feelings of the REGENT and all
present, it is impossible to describe. They were sup-j
ported with much difficulty to a private room, where
the REGENT continued several hours, supporting and
Affording every possible comfort to his jointly of
tlicted Hoyal Sisters, and then left Kew for town.'
The first official communication which arrived in
town, was about half-past two o'clock, at Carlton
House, sealed with black, addressed to Viscount Stn.
mourn, as Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
also to Sir Heszav Tortuzus, from the Duke
, to postpone his Royal Highness's Levee.—,
melancholy tidings were soon circulated, and
were made very nunterously at • Carlton
and at three o'clock the following notifica-
issued to the Nobility and others who were
inquiring :

CASIJOIC Hans, Velvinosz 17.
MAJESTY expired at one o'clock till; day,
pain"

*sitter+ on paper with wide black edges.--
four o'clock the lamented event was oiliCially
iced by Lord SIDMOUTR in the following
LETTER TO THE LORD MAYOR.

Whitehall, 17th Ncomnber, 1818.
1.01111—:pit kitty painful duty to inform your,
of the death of her Blajesty thwiduzEN.
melancholy event took place at Ira Palate
;lock this day.—l have the honour to be,
Your Lordship's most obedient,

" SIDIROUTII.

/tight lion. the Lord Mayor," &e.
:clock last night was published the following
',IMPLEMENT TO TIIENum.; cAzi:rrE.
Temmar, Novalana 17, Isle.
• .1 Whitehall, November 17, lIIIL
day, at one o'clock, the Queue departed
to the inexpressible grief of all the Royal
after a tedious illness, which her MAMMY
the most pious fortitude and resignation.
if great and exemplary *nue% which so
distingilished her MAJPATI throughout
life, were the object of universal. esteem
admiration, amongst all classes of his Ma.rerrv's
and render the death of this Illustrious and
excellent Princess an unspeakable loss t 4 the
nation."

has a long 'and itteroachable cwsrdrb
441
venty-foes years, fifry-sNits of which have
A sharing the first Throne in the World, bees,
-the midst of bodily sulfaings, whose sere.

rity and opinemin wimergiarve only solved tis
ds-
play the courage and resignation of their victim.
Till within the last twelve months, her MAJESTY had
enjoyed an excellent state of health, the result of a
strong sutural constitution, kept unimpaired by the
equinimity of her temper, and the moderation and.
simplicity ,which she preserved in her high estate, in
the midst of all the refinements of a most luxuri-
ous age and a splendid Court. Since the period of
her last journey to Bath, her strength had been
gradually declinhtreoitill the dreadful complaint,
.which has at last terminated her existence, broke
forth with a deg* of violence, which, at her ad-
vanced age, left but slight hove: of her recovery.
Still her constitution was so radically good, and
the attentions which she received from all the
members of her family were so constans and so sooth-
ing, that medical skill, seconded by such aids, pro-
longed an existence, which seemed at its close, and
for many months disappointed the grave of its prey.
It has now opened, however, and devoured the aged
and venerable parent on the very eve of the anniver-
sary of the day when it closed over the mortal re-
mains of her blooming grand-daughter (the lamented
Princess CHARLOTTE) and'her infant son 1
Whilst no Queen has so long shared the throne of
this Empire as her late MAJESTY, so none has ever
displayed in that exalted station more of those virtues,
which do honour to the character of a female in every'
sphere. Fertile above most women, she divided her
care and affections amongst her numerous progeny,
with a degree of ardour and sincerity which produced
from them the most graterul returns. As a Queen,
she was affable Ind condescending. Though born a
German, she had none of the pride and haughtiness
.attributed to her nation. She maintained the dignity
of her rank, but evinced the most winning courtesy,
towards all those who were introduced to her presence.

It is not always the goOd fortune of real worth to
*quire the meed of popularity, and still seLdomer
to retain it during a long series of years, after it has
been acquired ; and in the case of her MAJESTY, this
evanescent quality in popular esteem was strikingly
exemplified. In the early part of her MAJESTY'S
reign, no Princess who ever shared the thr.ate of
titese rranr., enjoyed a greater or more justly de-,
served share of popularity, which continued undi-
minished even when Lord BLITE's Ad ministration had
brought a temporary odium on the character of her
beloved consort. Such was the universal respect with
which she was regarded, that Colonel BARRE, then
one of the most violent of the Opposition speakers,
in alluding to the character of the Court, could not
withhold a warm and splendid eulogium on the " mild,
tender, and unassuming virtues" of the Qt/sex. In
progress of time, however, and particularly about
the period of the meditated Regency, in 1789, the
tide of popular favour began to turn strongly against
her MAJESTY ; and, aided as the occurrences of that
period have been, by all that the wanton calumny of
the base and profligate (for it has been the rare virtue
of her MAJESTY'S character, to make all the base
and profligate of the land her enemies), has since
been able to contribute, to poison and estrange the
public mind—it was the misfortune—we are consci-
entiously persuaded, the unmerited misfortune—of
her Manerv, never after to regain entirely that place
is the love and affections of her people, which was
the joy and pride of her early life.
The accusation made against her NiAtesry, at the
time of .the Regency Question, was, that she had
changed in a great degree the whole complexion and
purpose of her life, and become an active and zeal-
ous mover of the springs of party. But when Queen
CuAni.orres conduct on that occasion is traced to
its source, it will be found, that so' far from any
change in her character having taken place, her MA-
JESTY was only acting up to the dictates of those
feelings and attachments which had gained for her
previous Character so much unqualified esteem.
The ruling principle of the Queeses life was a de-
voted love for her Royal Husband ; and at the time
of that melancholy lapse in the KING'S faculties,
which left the reins of Government for a moment
unoccupied, her MAJESTY was taught to believe (w e
will not say how justly) that her support of the Mi-
nister was indispensably necessary to the protection
of the interests and independence of her afflicted
consort. If on this trying occasion, therefore, she
acted so as to displease the people at large, let it be
reisetabered that it was from obeying the impulse of
one of the noblest of human affections—from the
superabundant* of her conjugal love—that she was
so unfortunate as to incur that displeasure ; and let
the holy purity.of tke motive compensate, as it un-
doubtedly will in the impartial scales of history, for
any errors of conduct to which it may have led.

It has been the lot of her MA JURY to be con-
nected with a long and very eventful period of our
history; and, there are perhaps, few individuals of
equal rank in history, who have passed through so
long a period so irreproachably. In other countries,
and in other times, we have seen the wives of Princes.
courting the admiration of the world by proud dis-
plays of magnificence and luxury, or by the still more
meretricious charms of personal grace and beauty ;
but in the example of our lamented Qum+, we have
beheld her animated by an ambition whose well-
springs are to be found in all the purest issues of the
heart, seeking to be " a crown of glory to her !sus-
, band," and an example to the people over whom a high
',destiny had placed her, by the quieter paths of domes-

dc happiness, ei moral improvement, and of praetical
piety. Raised to the exalted eminence of Consort to
one of the most powerful Monarchs in the world at the
early age of seventeen, her innate good sense, and well
grounded principles of religion, led her from the
very first to chase that course of pure and upright
conduit from which in after life she never deviated.
A shining example of virtue in her own conduct, she
gave her royal countenance to those alone who did
virtuously. The QUEEN of a country long distin-
guished as the favourite abode cf all the charities of
domestic life, she preserved her chiefest favour for
those whose private lives presented the brightest ex-
amples of their country's peculiar worth. Blessed
with a husband whose sentiments and conduct
were always in admirable unison with her own, the
natural influence which the female Head of every
Royal House has in formiug the character of those
who revolve around it, was left to operate un-
ehwarted ; and hence it was that, by the mere force
of her MAJzsrl's personal character, the manners
,of the Court of Britain became so distinguished for
their ptuity, that it became, in fact, what ought for

ever to silence all detractors from her fame—the
most moral of all the Courts of Europe. The basis

of that system of discrimination which her MA:esry
invariably observed, throughout the whole course OEI
her long reign, was a delicate regard for female ho-
nour. The virtuous mothers of our Lind rejoiced in
her as a pattern to mothers , our daughters looked
11p to her as the guardian genius of their innocence,
and the zealous trimd of every hope tha: innocence
'can form ; and as long as moral •::ortla and active
benevolence are thought to add an ornament to ex-
alted station, so long, we feel well assured, will the
memory of Queen CHARLOTTE be respected and
cherished.

The habits of her MAJESTY were regular, metho-
dical, and economical ; but it was an economy which

enabled her more liberally to dispense her bounty to
deserving objects ; and many a retired and solitary-
sufferer has been cheered by her Royal Benevolence
Without knowing the hand from which the succour
proceeded. Her charities were numerous, though se-
lect, and in amount were much larger than has been.

generally supposed ; they were in the strictest sense
unostentatious—in a word, they were truly Christian.

Her M.s.sesrv's figure was very pleasing, but her
countenance, though not without attraction when she
smiled, could not boast any claim to beauty.
Her late Nlaresvy, whose maiden name was SOPHIA
CHARLOTTE or CA Nouxit of Mecklenburgh Strelitz,
was born in May 19, 1744. She was the youngest
-daughter of cHARLE,I LEWIS, brother to FREDERICK,
the third Duke of Mecklenburgh. Her father,
however, though in the immediate line of inheritance,
as his brother the reigning Duke had no issue, and
was unmarried, did not succeed to the principality :
he died before his brother, and thus, upon the death
of FREDERICK, the succession devolved upon his ne-
phew, ADOLPHUS FREDERICK the Fourth, brother to
her present MAJESTY. In respect to her MAJESTY'S
union with our beloved and afflicted Sovereign, it
'seeps necessary to observe, that this event was not
a matter of mere state policy, but of preference and
,election. His MAJESTY had not long filled the Throne
before he acquainted his Council, in a meeting con-
vened for the express purpose, " that having no-
thing so much at heart as the welfare and happiness
of his people, and that to render the same stable and
permanent to posterity being the first object of his
reign, he had, ever since his accession to the throne,
turned his thoughts to the choice of a Princess, with
whom he might find the solace of matrimony, and
the comforts of domestic life: He had to announce to
them, therefore, with great satisfaction, that, after
the most mature reflection and fullest information,
he had come to a resolution to demand in marriage
the Princess CIIARLOTTE of Mecklenburgh Strelitz,
' a Princess distinguished by every amiable virtue and
elegant endowment, whose illustrious line had con-
stantly shewn the firmest zeal in the Protestant reli-
gion, and a particular attachment to his MAJESTY'S
family."—Such were the terms in which his MAJESTY
announced his Royal intention to his Council on the
Bth July, 1761. The negociation commenced at
Strelitz, and the Earl of lIA RCOVRT, his MAJESTY'S
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, con-
cluded the treaty of marriage on the'lsth of August
following. Preparations were immediately made for
the reception of the Royal Bride in England. She
Mecklenburgh on the 24d of August, and arrived
after a tedious voyage of ten days, at Harwich, on
the Sth of the following month.
Her MAJESTY rested one night, that of her arri-
-101, upon her journey, at the house of the Earl of
Astacoarr, at Witham, in Essex, froydrence she
set out early next morning, and arrived at the Pa-
lace of St. James's, where she was received by his
Meantsre and the rest of the Royal Family, At nine
upon the same evening the marriage ceremony was
solemnized by the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, in
the Royal Chapel, under circumstances of appro-
priate splendor and respect. The usual congratula
tory Addresses were presented to their Maansvies
from both Houses of Parliament, the two Univer-
sities, and all Counties, Cities, and Corporations in
the,Kingdom. The Grand Assembly of the Nation
prepared likewise a testimony of their duty and mu-
nificence. On being formally acquainted with the
marriage of the KING, they provided for the support
of her Pdansary, agreeably to the Sovereign's wishes,

a jointure of £lOO,OOO per annum, which
upon her by an Act of the Legislature, t3set;.,
the Palace of Richmond and Buckilgharn n
u.
In the following year the joy of the nation •
creased by the birth of an heir to the Throne,
hope of continuing the Protestant succession
M ilywasnowchangedtoa
a and
ale binh of an heir was of itself
cje Annjtty t, :an established the popularity of a
tilis. s
have fm
of ENGLAND, even had she wanted those man,
tues which her MAJESTY was so well known.

In the Court of King's Bench yesterday„
arguments on a mere point of law, the event of be
MAigsrv's death was communicated about three
o'clock to the Chief Justice and the Judges, in a let,
ter from one of the Barons of the Court of Et
to Mr. Justice BAILtY, who imniedia'ely after
the Court.

The Bulletin of the morning cone:rued to
at the Queen's Palace till past four oclock. No
vial account of the decease of her MaJtstr
been received there till it was sent from lark,
House, when the Palace was closed, and Color.
STEPHENSON, who had been in attendance &nil
the morning, left for Kew with all possible ipcet
_st. Paul's Bell, and yisose of all the other Churche
of the Metropolis, tolled at intervals through art
'whole of the evening ; the several Theatres %vet
shut, and published notices that they Wwl4l !tiro
closed till further notice ; and most of the -hops I
Bond. street, Piccadilly-, &c. were hall .crsed (As di
melancholy occasion. But slots% ithstanding all tt.:
publicity, the death of her MAIEiTY was Se slat,
known or believed from the previous f:ereirrc.
similar reports, that numbers of per.ons i^ car,.i.tee
and on foot flocked as usual to the ditre:ent
in the hope of obtaining admission, but dine,
AU was dark and dtvaiarr :Ls dais!
The Duke of NORFOLK, as Hereditary fairer
shal of England, came to Town this day, •
customary recommendation for a General
to commence on Sunday next.

Lest uight Mr. MARSH, of the Lord Chami
Office, and Mr. FRANCE, the Royal Undetul
rived at Kew to make arrangements for
which will, for the most part, accord w
the ceremonial observed on the occasion
Intent of Queen CAROLINL
Letters were sent off by the Gorcrrmt
being Post night prevented the ne(essin• .
Messengers) to all the Royal Dukes, the Prir.,:c an.
Princess of liEssz-Homsornu, :tad to the Duke
GLouctstra, by his travelling private name.
Mr- Vic, the King's Messenger, was the orlh
one sent abroad with the Melancholy tidings, and ht
is gone to Air.la-Chapelle.

New Tiirk Papers to the 9.2 d ult. arrived at a la
hour this forenoon, but we have not met, on a cur,ory
perusal or :heir contents, wi.h any thing of impor.
tance. The PrirstnEvr of the United States and
family was at Virginia, on a tour, on the I3th Octo-
ber. The United States frigate Macedonian putt
into Norfolk in great distress on the 12th October.
She had experienced a tremendous gale of %kind at
the 26th September, was completely dismasted, and
lost three of her brats.

SPANISH EXPEDITION TO LIMA.

filltAirt OP A LSITItt IRON Mt &OMIT TO LLOYD. AT 'mot

At ILLS, PATIO)

" The Trinidad transport, one of the Expedition
from Cadiz to Lima, is arrived at Ensinada—the
troops on board, beaded by a Lieutenart, having
mutinied, and killed five or six of the 04cers, and
'put in there to join the Patriots. They state, that
two other vessels of the Expedition, being ecntlly
discontented, intended going into Valparaiso. One
of the convoy had parted some days previous to the
Trinidad, and they expected to have seen her on their
arrival at Ensinada.—The Expedition altogether is
represented to be in a very miserable condition:'

THE Foam—Consols began this mcrning at 771,1
went to 78, and the market looked very stiff; but a
most sudden and unexpected change took place just
before the Commissioners appeared. One or two
brokers sold very large sums, and in a few minutes
it was announced that an eminent Spanish house had
fiiled for an immense sum, having been deeply
involved in the French Funds. The Commissioners
gave 761 for Reduced, and were served eagerly by
two or three jobbers.—At one o'clock the market
continued to look very heavy.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH, we are happy to heat, was
somewhat better yesterday.
Thursday morning, about two o'clock, a fire brolt
out in a small house at the lower end of the town of
Culliampton, which it destroyed, together witk tom
cottages, before the flames were subdued.

Last week the LAI 1 of Ilaazwooo was convicted
at Leeds, in the mitigated penalty of 20s. and costs,
for not having his name inscribed on a cart belonging
to him. '

The following is an Extract of a Letter from Cal•'
cutta, dated the 2d of May Lord IlAsTist:s is
at Gornckpoor, but is expected at the Presidency in
a couple of months. Trade is very dull, money very
scarce,' and Government advertising for leans at
13 per Cent. The latter, however, is only a bait to
attract lenders. They give 10 per Cent. for one year
only,:w•orth a premium of three additional, and then
die fund verges into the common 6 per Cent. Stock,
which is at present at a discount of 9 per Cent.

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THE ARM

The Earl of DALHOUSIE, it is reported, will shortly
be appointed to the important situation of Governor
,d Commander-in. Chief at the Cape of Good Hope.
&et Pa terWinches Barracks are again filled with troops'
live remaining nearly unoccupied fora length
regiments have arhed
daring the last week, amounting altogethemr
toc up-
'ads of WOO men. They will remain but a short
to there, as they are about to embark for the West
,es, and are only waiting till the transports are
y, as the Medical Department recommend that
should proceed immediately to their destination.
71st (Highland light infantry), the 79th, and
gee&iments, after landing from France, were under
ediate orders for Scotland. They have since been
otermanded. The 71st goes to Nottingham, the
9th to Chichester, and the 91st to Ireland It is er-
oded that the 88th regiment will remain during the
rater in Edinburgh Castle.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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