Star.
London, England, 1821-08-14 00:00:00

THE CITY ROAD.

By eight o'clock the City-road was crowded from one end to
the other, it being supposed that the corpse would he conveyed
that way, as it is the Military road to Ilarwich. Vehicles of
every description came pouring in from all quarters, and by
nine o'clock the road was completely covered.
At a few minutes after that hour some horsemen, attired as

mourners, came.galloping down the road, and gave it out that
they had seen the Procession turn down Maiden-lane, which
leads to Highgate. In an instant the carriages, and those on
horseback, wheeled round, and set off in that direction In full
speed. The crowd rushed simultaneously down the streets lead-
ing to White Conduit-fields, which were in a few minutes over-
ran by tens of thousands, who sought by a near cut to get into
the Holloway road.
here they were at fault, and no one could give any informa-
-1 don as to the most certain direction to be taken. Numbers pro-
ceeded direct to Highgate, but the stream in this direction was
greatly diminished by their meeting inquirers nn foot and horse-
back, who had received no information of the procession, nor
seen any indication of its passing that way.
A number, however, reached Highgate, upon the calculation
that that was the point near which the cavalcade must certainly
pass, supposing it to have turned off by Maiden-lane. In this
expectation they waited until nearly eleven o'clock,when all hopes
were given up, and they returned highly chagrined to the Me-
tmpolis. The tide which had overrun the fields by White Con-
duit House took various directions, but chiefly towards the
Lower-road, Islington.

At every point contradictory and the most perplexing infor-
mation was given ; horsemen were gallopping in all directions,
communicating the various reports that had reached them, and
all stating that the cavalcade had proceeded in the various direc-
tions in which it was conjectured it might proceed.
The crowd continued to get more dense in the City-road until
about twelve o'clock, when a cry now ran along the multitude
that the Procession had been stopped somewhere by Knights-
bridge, and that it had somehow or other been carried through
the City. Every horse was wheeled round, and the whole was
again in motion. It was not a little amusing to see the rush of
coaches, carts, waggons, fkc. racing down the road, accompanied

by a motley multitude on foot driving everything before them,
shouting, pouring imprecations on the authors of their disap-
pointment, and laughing at those whom they imagined to have
been left in the lurch.

The stream rushed impetuously towards Finsbury-square, part
went down Sun-street, the whole crossed Ashopsgate-street,
and went in the direction of Whitechapel, in the certainty of
being beforehand with the Procession; all looking knowingly at
those who attempted to undeceive them, attributing everything
of the kind to a mischievous desire to hoax them, or to Lovett-
dons of the enemy to divert them from the true route.
The whole of Mile-End was thronged, and patties of artisans
and companies were waiting at several villages, with the ensigns
of their professions decorated with crape. The ardent endea-
vours and anxiety evinced in every direction to testify respect to
the Royal sufferer, bore evidence of deep and general sympathy.
Scarcely a shop was to be seen open in the whole line we have
been describing, whether in the most private or public streets ;
excepting those roads crowded by the multitude seeking the
Procession, all was silent and mournful.
The parish bells were all tolling, and most of them muffled,
which, with the gloomy state of the weather, gave everything a
most impressive aspect. The report that the remains would pass
through the City gained ground, and the whole line from White-
chapel to. Temple-bar was thronged to excess.
At a little before one, a messenger arrived full gallop at the
Mansion House, which bad been closed during the day. It was
immediately rumoured he bad brought the intelligence to the
LOAD MATOM that the remains would be brought through the
City, and it was given out to the crowd of inquirers at the gates
of the Mansion House that his Lordship had ordered out his
mourning carriage, for the purpose of meeting them. The crowd
remained stationary by St. Paul's and in the road to Temple
Bar fur a considerable time.