Star.
London, England, 1817-11-21 00:00:00

THE LATE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.

, NVe have, for a dreary period of fourteen days,
1-'ned with all our cotemporaries in recording the
particulars of that great visitation wlnEh it has pleased
pantwascE to send upon our country, the death of
her Royal Htghness the Princess CHARLOTTZ. We
j. have followed, with an anxious eye, the remains of
our beloved PPINCEiS to the grave, and we have now
little more to do, in the discharge of this part of our
sad duty, but. to collect some scattered notices, and
add a few slight details to our account of the last
I mournful solemnity. Our more important task hence-
' forth; will be to endeavour to extract from adversity
its sweet uses," tO turn our lois to that good account
which she for whOm we mourn would have most in-
tensely wished, to render the viotins a, propitiation—
and toconvert bitter disappointment into* salutary cot.-
mac t inn. In all the provincial toramsfrerm which accounts
;.have yet,teached us, the same solemn indleitiohs of
grief and respect for the departed hope pf BSitatts,ihat
have been so honourable to the metropolis, prevailed
to the utmost extent. All places seem to have felt
-ists they ought on this national calamity ; and as there
'weer was a heavier disappointment to a people thaW
`lit the loss they have thus so unhappily sustained; se
harthere never been a more extensive or deeper sor-
row on any occasion in the mensori of Tan. Coca.'
Way a greater public calamity nnuOatioa ever (Ai
'and an individual ever quitted' a rifore exalted sta!-
tios. with mire claims to the affection, and mote in•
eentives to the sorrow of a whole nation. The

log,hb.: to the best of Sovereigns, whose

character has given a religious brightness to
is dladon ;, the child of a Prince, who in his short
reign has added more to the glory of the British
same than any of his predecessors; and the heir of
he. Crown, thus embellished by a moral virtue, and
ry national glory, could not depart from the con.
ficuous scene in which she was placed. without es-
ti:lag the patriotic sorrow of a welhjudging and af-
itctionate people.
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' What more remains now to be said ? Eulogy ex-
, can have nothing new to supply is praise of
foe so dear us a whole people, thus prematurely con.
ggned to the tomb. Panegyric cannot revive the
r.llte
.... ad, and we must grieve because we grieve in vain.
eligion can alone- cor.sole those who sorrow under
such a visitation. Its soothing whispers teU us that

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loss is her STICRWAL GAIN j and
'-;'. , ......... " RetsteusWrles that the porting sigh,
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' 41 Aryolnts the just to slumber, sot to die,
44 The starting tar we check—we kiss the rod,
u And Got to earth resign bet—but to Goa !' .
At no tormer period 'of our history was !Lore
1r a national feeling of sorrow so universal
i so intense. Those who experienced it most
edgly, were astonished at finding how. little there
4or singularity in their feeling& Every one with
en they conversed. every 4ftresiAsy reteived,
y public joules% they recciatd,' TO& this mow
liege, and breathed the saidealitp"afiliction •
it. This brotherly identity of feeling, in a great
on, is a rare and gracious thing s let it not be
away, and wasted; bat let us cultivate it as a
of-virtue sown in our hearts by the Thyme
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PRIVATE !MITERS. .
' • v Ccestwesit, Thursday, Nov. Oa
7 “ Print* Laoro&n, accompanied by the Rev. Dr.
1.
plena. arrived here at two o'clock this morning
loom Windsor, having left the Lower I.n.ige 'at a
Stearter past twelve. The answer to the enquiries
AMs day is, ' his Serene Highneis is as well as can
Fie expected ; the l'rince has had very little sleep. as.
*ea be elpected, on hit return home.' The
'pea-
proving remarkably fine to day, his Serene High-
has walked out for a short time this morning,
stied by the Rev, Dr. Soma. The inquirers
1 e very numerous to-day—among them were Vis-
nt BOIIGHERHI. and Mr. Hu.aissos, M.P.
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... « Yesterday morning, the Parish Church of usher
is crowded, in expectation of hearing an appro.
it, Sermon, it being the day appointed for the fn.
of the beloved Prins4as, which expectation,
was disappointed in ap extraordinary man-

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. Tile Church Service being read by the Rev.
. . Minix, the Rector, he went into the Vestry,
congregation expecting he was gone to change
E
ia,plice fee his gown and castsokt and to preach
' liamon, bat instead of whichli4lvkl:thefirst who
'. ' kid not of the Church,,:sinkno,Aernion we;
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•*, ed. To the eyenioi, hoarover, many who were
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disappointed went to the Independent Chapel, at
, tfeetogireen. and beard a moot excellent ind,ap.
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lariats liana* on the Aiding occasion by the
bb.. Ctioncou. t, the Manistee of the Chspel.—.
400 e Reveiend Gentleman very forcibly and feelingly
ask upon the time he we! speaking (between eight
ail' aim o'cloci), she hoer at. *hi* deo wet ami.
awe/ peincesms, who woo apieleetiiheideitestle

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•irtues to the neighbours he was then addressing,
was proceeding to her last and meLmcholy destine.,
Lion. The Chapel was crowded to excess.
“ Yesterday the sum of £5O was distributed among
the poor of the parish of 'Esher, according to the ex-
'tent and circumstances of their families, by the com-
mand of Prince LaoroLn. A sad reverse of prospect
for the distressed in this neighbourhood.; the last 450
that, was distributed among them was on the Princess
Csraarorres birth-day, and which was the only
birth-day of her Royal Highness which bad occurred
ssose her residence here."

" WINDSOR, Thursday Morning.

"Tea CAIITLS Yssn-.Upwards 01400 of the Foot
Guards lined the paths leading to the porch of the
Chapel, in single files, and every fourth man held a
flambeau. There were 330 used on this occasion.—
General Bocrom bad the command of the infantry.
At. ninco'clockk precisely the gates were thrown open,
and the proiession moved on in the following order :
A Guard of Honour, consisting of 50 men of the
Horse.guards, took their station in the open cause-
way opposite cue portico I nine of the trumpeters
followed in state liveries. The pages of the Royal
Household, and the establishments of their MAJalp
Tills, the Pao= RIOINT. and Prince LIIOIPOLD,
walked to the Chapel door, most of them holding a
flambeau. The hoarse was dra.wn by eight of the
King's black horses, escorted by a detachment of the
10th- Royal Hussars. The next carriage, with six
horses, was the Princess AuGusTa's, containing Prince
L zorom, Dukes of YORK and CLASS: Mitt mourners.

ig The second was the private carriage of hii Se-
rene .Highness, closed up. The third, fourth. and
4ftb,-were the carriages of the Petecz REGENT j the
sixth and seventh were those of the Duke of YORK
.11110 eighth was that of the Duke of Sussex; the ninth
was the Duke of CDSUSERLAND.S ; and the tenth, the
'Duke of Gi.ouesersa's. 'Each of them were drawn
braht horses; the Coachmen in full State liveries,
414Urhat-bands. Another detaelimerst of •50 of the
AsterstGuards closed the procession. With the es.
, • of the first carriage, with his Serene Highness
Print, Lzoitow, and the Dukes of YORE and CEA-
nowt, the rest moved in the procession with the win-
dow blinds closed. The corpse being conveyed into
the Chapel, a line was formed three deep by the mi-
litary, and the procession moved along the west
chancel, up the centre aisle, into the choir. Upon
their entrance, the body was placed on is platform in
the centre of the choir, near the entrance to the vault.
His Serene Highness Prince LEOPOLD as Chief Mour.
ner, sat in a chair at the head of the corpse, and their
Royal Highnesses the Dukes of YORK; CLARENCEr
SUSSEX; CUSIBERLAND, and GLOUCESTER, his sup.
porters, in chairs on each side. The Knights "of the
Garter, wearing their ribbands and stars, were seated'
in thttr respective stalls. The Ministers of State,
Officers of the Household, and all coaneeted with
the procession, were iecommodated in the body of
the Choir, to which part no other persons were,
admitted.

" -The solemnity of the scene was opened from
Dr. Caere and Pirecox's Burial Service, jointly, by
Mr. Serros, at the organ; after which, the 89th and
90th Psalms were chaunted in a solemn manner, and
with powerful effect. The Hon. and Rev. H. L.
HODART, than of Windsor, read the Funeral Ser-
vice, in a most impressive manner, in the Sovereign's
stall... Alter she first lesson, the favourite Anthem,
Inposeld by Dr. Moser, from the 16th Pula,
have set GOD always befcre me; for he is no my
right hand, therefore I shall not tall'—was introduced
iiith very impressivir effect, and song by the Gentle-
men and Boys of the Choir. At the chilli of this
'Anthem, the Reverend Dean left his stall, and pro-i
ceeded to the vault, during which the second part of
the Burial Service was performed by the Choir. The'
remaining part of the prayers were then read by the
MAW, at the close of which, the Deputy- Garter
King of Arms proclaimed the style aod tide of her
Royal Highness in the usual manner and form.—
The Deputy Garter was so affected in performing
this last sad duty, that his voice faultered, and it was
impossible to hear this part of dr* ceremony. At
this momentous period, the attention of the whole of
the auditors in the choir and chancel loft was direct-
ed- towards Prioce'LltOPOl.D. His Serene Highness
became extremely agitated with the ceremony, and
immediately left the choir. The congregation de-
parted, whilst the orgau 'played the Dead March in
Saul, by HANDEL.
From the shortness of time for completing the
preparations, the west chancel and the aisles of Saint
George's Chapel were twit hung with black, and it.
was only confined to the choir, which was covered
with black cloth.

. n As it was contrary to etiquette for Peers of the
Realm to follow the corpse of a member of the
Royal Family, the neat ih succession to the Crown,
it was arranged, that all the applications of the No.

kern apart of the funeral cermarpy should
beedetlisted ; and for this reason, the earsiages of the
Cdits?aet Ministers, Ambassadors, sad the Officers of
the Hitasehold, proceeded so the north enemata of
the Chapel.
el In this distinguished assemblage to pay their
last respect to ;he memory of the Psusessi CHAR.
LOTTia weft—
" The Dukes of Misty's, sad Marlborough.
° Mandan sr Hartford, Chulassodeley. ildhlmuTo Cara-
wsldss and Wisehiger.
or Asdibliesp stCastithury, the Lards Bishop a Lasko,
flaidassr, and Esher
• Thu Lard Chisedlsr, Zatta Lksrpest, Bedwaria,

Melville, and Wmussorlaud i Lords Sidmouth, Castlereagh,
Harrowby, l/facelesfisid, Grenville, Ellenborough. Harcourt,
WinchUsea, Chiebester, Henry Howard (as Depot, Earl Mar-
shal of England), Keith, Yarmouth, St. Helen's, Jahn Tbynne,
George Berr.ford, Arden, Somerville, Vernon, Amherst* James
Murray, Delaw a.^e, Jocelyn, William Gordon, Gravel, Clarks
Spencer, Lake, Om
" Count Mur.rter and Beano de lust.