Star.
London, England, 1821-08-15 00:00:00

FROM TILE TRIES.

14 The conduct of the Government will inspire unmixed dis.
gust, especially if what their own ministerial organ imputes to
them be true—that the Military were detannined to rends
fruitless all attempts to check the Procession : that the °Sur
at the Guards said his orders were peremptory; and k tte
consequences what they might, he must purser them.' Ot de
I Military themselees, we shall say nothing : they are, is itch
eases, the mere instruments of the will of others. But what
shall be said of the Government which could (we will not uy
order, but which could) allow Englishmen to be sabred and
shot, because they were anxious to stew a greater respect to the
memory of the Quest( than Ministers held consistent with their
own bitter hatred of the illustrious deceased

" had the Procession been suffered in the first instance to
take the regular route, and to pass by the inain road through
Hyde Park-corner., and so directly on to the City, not a mur-
mur would have been heard, not a blow struck, tnuch less a
valuable life sacrificed. But no : they cared not what came-
quences might ensue, so that they could execute their design of
'tabbing the Public of their desired means of paying respect te the
1 great object of their affectionate regret. One only opportunity re-
mained of insulting the mortal part of the yet unburied %Tax;
and that opportunity was'not to be lost, though the blood ce
Englishmen might be shed in pursuance of the paltry deign.
The events of yesterday will become part of history, and the dis-
gust of the future Chronicler will become checked only by hi
incredulity, when he has to record the immense distance be-
tween the People and their Rulers—between the disinfest:sod.
and constant. and invincible affection of the first, and the low,
subservient, interested malice of the Luterov
FROM TIIE MORNING HERALD. 1

" Yesterday the metropolis resented a spectacle of which ]
the Government and the nation have reason to be ashamed. It
is difficult to imagine anything more in discord with the gene-
ral habits and feelings of civilized men—indeed, more painfully
revoking, than to behold the march of a dead body to its grave
marked in the tempestuous accompaniment of popular shouts,
rude strife, violence, and bloodshed. Bat how much more de-
plorable is such a scene when the contending parties are the
Government of a great kingdom on the one side, and the popu-
lace of its capital on the other—ovhilet the object of unseemly
disgraceful contention is the corpse of a Queen! Such was
the scene of yesterday. From the time the cavalcade accom-
panying the Queen's remains left Brandenburgh House until it
reacted Temple-bar, this march of death was one continue
battle between the troops who escorted the corpse and the po-
pulace, who hovered round, or followed it—the roomer avoiding
the line leading to the City of London, and the latser keeping
them to this line by force and contrivance—oome paying the
forfeit of their lives for their lamentable victory.
" ft will be observed by the copious accounts which we give,
that almost every attempt of the directors of the cavalcade to
skin the city was defeated, by their Ending the roads or streets
torn up by the mob, or blocked with carts, trees, and every
other means—or by the multitude which sometimes opposed it-
self as a rampart. We have as yet no account that may be rzlied
lon of the number who suffered ; but it is supposed that several
have been wounded, and at least one killed. And why this
scene of humiliation and bloodshed?—Merely to prevent the
corpse from passing through the City of London—to prevent
one of those exhibitions which would have passed away and been
forgotten with the following morning ! What a figure does the
Government makeinthis affair ? The diplomatic correspondence
between a Lady in Waiting and a Prime 'Minister was ludicrous
enough, if we may apple that word where the business of death
is the matter in debate—the affair was still worse when we find
the wisdom of the Cabinet manoeuvring with the ppulace, by
mysteriously concealing the route traced for the cavalcade. But
words cannot describe the abject and pitiable situation of those
who committed themseists in a petty conflict, and exposed
themselves in the eyes of England and Europe, by failing to
enforce their own intentions.

14 We are very sorry that Lord Lnmaroom should have been
(If he really is) the person to compromise the dignity of Govern.
ment in this unhappy business. It is true, the commands d
his MAJIIITY may have been technically received; but can it be
doubted that the exercise of a discretion on the spot, when the
Sovereign was at a distance, did not come within his Lordship's
power and responsibility? men in.power never learn that
popular vapour derives strength only from compression, and is
utterly imbecile when left to evaporate unconstrained? But do
we blame Lord ',vitamin, for not enforcing, as he might have
doze, the execution of the orders of Government? Far from
it r the forbearance was humane; but we blame him, or who-
ever ordered this business, for having got into a situation from
which it was impossible to escape without carnage or derision."

PROM THE NEW TIMES.
" It is impossible that any reflecting man can peruse the ac-
count of the. fatal proceedings of yesterday without the most
painful emotions. Disguise it as we will, it was the triumph of
mob law over the constituted authorities of the kingdom. DeplY
responsible to their country are those men who, by inflammatory
speeches, and paragraphs in newspapers, excited the poi:elate to
resist what ought to them, and to every subject in the realm, to
have been sacred, the lawful command of a lawful and propel'
authority. We say nothing of the indecency of disturbing the
obsequies of the dead by tumult and bloodshed : we speak of a
more serious and alarming evil, the open defiance of law ; and
the avowed will of the mob controulirg and overpowering tNe
authority of the State. It Is dreadful to hear, as we did heat
last night in the streets, not one but twenty of the rabbit tolling
of the exploit of the day as a Victory !—A victory? Over what?
Over Law and Order, over all the bulwarks of Liberty, and all
the safeguards of Lift. If the Law be not immediately art!
strongly resorted to—if the guilty promoters of seditious :melt
be not forthwith proceeded against and brought to justice, we
must say that the Govornment of the country will be henceforth
held at the tenure of tn. re popular caprice. The br.ath of a
cltn.agogue suffices to blow into the air every power which doer
tn.t rest on the support ut an dfivieot system of law."