The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-08-06 00:00:00

~~
_..
. ;:

merchant's harvest, to whir!, we look forward with
ple•isure, expecting to have 6001) bnshels in hand, for
irbiell we are building a store or granary.
The climate of the Island of Van Dittman has been
represented to he the finest in the world, but as yet,
thoti2h we are near our summer solstice, I have not
f.bomi a day in which a tire would not have been agree-
al.le ; the town being situated under a high mountain,
co'. jest to heavy rains and changeable unsettled
wc.ltiser."
IVe mast wait more letters from this new settlement,
to correct or confirm this unpromising and desponding
account. The island is no doubt quite unsuited for
cockney shopkeepers and traders.

CORONATION PROCESSION.
—...--
[Among numerous speetatorsofoneidentical scene there
will necessarily be different impressions created. On an
occasion like that of the Coronation of the King, those
who went prepared and paid to admire, would only
extol the magnificence of the spectacle and the loyalty
displayed by t'oe spectators. The daily papers did all
which duty could exact from them in these respects, in I
return for the accommodation of the Reporters provided
Ity the Lord Breat Chamberlain. But while all the usual
agents of the press were in this manner engaged, why
were the services of that courtly functionary, the Poet
Laitrear. not pnt in requisition on the occasion ? A hundred
pounds a year and a hutf of sack :night, one woad sup-
s ose, have produced a description of the spectacle suf-
ti. lends, florid, in either verso or prose. Bot if Mr.
Robert Southey's muse was not sufficiently stimulated
to make the attempt, Sir Walter Scott was resolved not
to let the occasion slip, but embodied his ideas of the
scene in the form of a letter. Sir Walter, as principal
alerk of the Conrt of Session in Scotland, obtains from
the Stare an atinnal income; it is supposed, of ROM a
year, and • must therefore be animated with twelve
,
times the zeal for the State thin Can be felt
by Mr. Southey with hit hundred [sounds. Sir 1
Waiter, therefore, found it " impossible to conceive a
ceremony more august and imposing in all its parts,
and more calculated to make the deepest impression
hoth on the f. e and on the feelings." The feelings,
iedeed, the Baronet had in view appear to be chiefly
tl:ose which occupy the breasts of boys and ladies;
for in noticing the galleries in Westminster-Abbey,
he particularly mentions that which was " most ap-
propriately occupied by the Westminster school-boys.
in their white surplices, many of ;whom might on that
day receive impressions never to be lost during the test
of their lives." As for himself, after describing the
"rich spectacle of the aisles, crowded with waving
plumage, and coronets and caps of honour," which
hr leaves his readers to imagine, he then exultingly
Willis his correspondent if he " has made his journey
of four hundred miles to little purpose ?" A man of
Sir Walter's celebrity, would hardly risk the reputa-
tion of his taste and judgment by acknowledging
the least degree of disappointment. Accordingly,
j
whatever he saw, he "sate with surprise, amounting
to astonishment." But among the things which ems
prised him, it appears that this uaz not the least, that
~ matitings warred either awkward or indieros
o!:ii.11 could mar the t;eneral effect of the solemnity.
Considering that it is hot one step front the sublime to
Cie ridiculous, I own," says he, " I consider it as
surpri,ing that the whole ceremonial of the day
s'istil.l hive passed away without the slightest cir-
carustatiee which could derange the general tone of
s,;'eno feeling which was suited to the occasion."
" Many men, many minds"—llorace Walpole, Earl
of Orford, a min accustomed to Courts, observed of
Pie Coronation of Oeorge 111. : " Well'. it was all
de!ightfol, but not half so charming as its being
over.—The gabble one beard shoat it for six weeks
',ewe, and the fatigue of the day, could not well
b.. compensated by a mere puppet-show ; for puppet-
s'aor it was though it cost a million !•'—Similar im-
pi e{sions slid the scene produce on the minds of many
of our correspondents, whose communications on the
sab;ect we have long delayed to notice. As a speci-
men we now present the following :3

TO THE EDITOR OF STATE.SMAN.
Ravin.? read in your paper a few evenings hack, a
descrivtion of the scenes in Hyde park, on the day of
the Coronation, I have sent you a few observations
th it I made on the day of the Coronation, and on
tl:e evening before in Palace-yard. Should you
think them worthy of your notice they are much at
you service. I am. Sir, your's respectfully,
IS, Union-street. Aug.% 190. J. W.
In the afternoon of the lath of July, accompanied
by my wife, I passed down King-street, Westminster.
in my way to view the Coronation preparations. At
this time of the day, about 5 o'clock. the whole pave-
ment and part of the carriage-road was thronged with
pedestrians, all pushing forward to the spot which was
to be the theatre of the morrow's pageant. Here every
thing assumed the greatest activity : the sound of the
carpenter's hammer rerounded on all sides; intlnstry and
incenuity seemed strained to their utmost in the erec-
tion of the various stands, for the accommodation of that
part of the public who might be happy enough to
secure a neat. Most of the stands were puffing off the
superior accommodation which they afforded for sight
and culinary accommodation ; but from the indiffer-
ence of behaviour of the proprietors of the stands,
1 was led to believe that it would be a very difficttlt
matter to obtain a seat at any of these wooden edifices,
particularly as notice was affixed to the front of one
that " this gallery will close this evening at 7 o'clock."
Oh ! thought 1, the seats are all bespoke.
The most conspicuous preparations were at the cor-
ner house of King-street, a pubic-house, the owner of
which had taken down the whole brick work of the
front, and fitted up each floor with elevated seats—
and the whole being bung with scarlet and blue
drapery looked extremely gay. I was led to enter the
central pavilion. Here were the most extensive ar-
rangements made ; cloths laid for at feast 400 per-
sons, knives and forks, Itc., all under cover, and pa-
tent lamps provided fur night lights; the waiters all
clean, and numbered to correspond with the tables. .1
saw a closet full of lobsters and small pies, large
baskets of lettuce washed and cleaned, ready for Bal-
lads; barrels of beer ranged side by side, all tapped
with new cocks; and in an enclosed space in the room
of the pavilion was erected a stove and boiler in solid
brick work ; water laid on, and in fart as substantial
as though a Coronation was expected to take place
every week for seven years to come. Every comic-

TIT ST,

-..=_—_ —_ ------ .
nance seemed to beam with pleasure, in expec-
tation of the employment and profits of the ensuing
'lay. I found similar and as extensive preparations
made at the yarinns stands, every spot of standing
room now turned to a view of profit. 'Several erections
were mowed above the cliimitieson theilifferent house
tops ; the Sessions-house, and even the National school-
rooms Witt fitted np, one as a gracti &afloatling-room
while the school-room, appropriated for the use of the
girls. was fittcd'up es a•ball-room, and the roof of the
building tram covered with seats, which were offered to
be let at one guinea each, including admission to the
ball-room in the evening. At this time lumpy thousand
persons were on the ground, and several .f the Oxford-
blues in their Cuirasses were riding to and fro along
side the platform, and the workmen
.had begun to re-
move the temporary enclosure. It was with much dip
ficultv that one could cross from George-street to Pa-
lace-yard, where several of the foot-guards were posted
to prevent the populace from walking near the scaffold
or platform. I walked into Palace yard, with a view
of going out at the South-pm!, np the steps to the
bridge, but here a stror g baraiercumpelleil rep to return
and pass through the passage that leads into Bridge-
street, there being just room enough for one person
to pass the unfir.ished barrier that was being formed
at this place.
Among all the persons looking on, I do net believe
that so much expectation was excited by the content-
plation of the ensuing day's ceremony as I have wit-
nessed is Sinithfield the day when Bartholomew fair
was to be prodaimeel. As far as I mold hear from the
little groups of spectators, who in many parts had
formed themselves into circles, to interchange opinions
upon the Coronation and its results, the leading sub-
ject was the expence of the s.rime and the manner in
which the Queen was iikelv to be treated. Here would
have been a fine opportunity for the King to have ren-
t dered himself popular. I was much pleased with the
coolness of jemper with which these little groups tiis-
cussed the Matter.
1 Upon my return home, I accidentally took up a
Newspaper, in which a paragraph caught my eye; it
was the Report of the Visits of a Benevolent Society,
i made to the abodes of the wretched. Here was de-
scribed sickness, rant, actual starvation, in short.
*very thing calculated to mice np the very acme of
,human mi.very. I could scarcely believe that the de-
scription before my eyes was existing, in the same
country, in which I !tail but a few moments before
witnessed such Vaal sums of money lavished in tem-
porary erections, fui one day's use, and the extras-a-'
gant prices paid for a few moments gratification of the
.eye. I hate not fogetty enough to agree that our King,
'the common father of his people, altonld be thus sm.-
rounded by glittering show, at the time that many of
his children are pining fur the want of the coin non
necessities of KC+. 1 have sent yen the paragraph in
questiwi. I will now attempt the scene on the day
of the Coronation. I passed through Lambeth New
Cut a little past 2 o'clock in the morning. At this
time numbers were moving in the direction for West-
minster, time road leading to, and also the bridge was
chick p strewed with rasongers, mewing and quietly
passing towards Parsee-yard. Aernie tile road at the
bottom of the Bridge was a strong barrier, through
which I painted, and then proceeded on to Palace-yard.
Here I sottnninte nmsed on the scene before me. The
platform, which had been entirt ly stripped of its tem-
porary inelosure, was now covered with foot soldiers
laying down, anti as closely packed as herrings in a
cask. Some were covered with their coats, and others
had pulled part of the matting of the platform over
them. Here and Mere was au officer wrapped up in
Isis watch coat, parading up and down. The Oxford
Blues were in part about In Palace-yard, on the raised
pavement, while other parties, having brought the
heads of their horses together, hail dismouvol, and
were holding conversation with the populace, or gal-
Lotting with some of the frail fair, who were attracted
to the spot by the novelty of the earassirrs. It being
scarcely day-light the scene presented something like
what has been many tittles described during the late
Icor, when the army tironaked on their arms in ex-
pectation of an attack from an enemy ! At half-past
2 the twilight just enaliled me to discover that some-
thing like human forms began to station themselves in i
some of the erections in front of the honors. As day
light racrensed, it discovered to the view many gay
dressed ladies who had taken seats for the day, whoa*
nodding pinnies waved gracefully aloft. At S o'clock
the great door of the Hall opened, and by standing
on the soldiers plait'. roe, I caught a view down
I
the Hall. The light being at this time very dim.'
the view conveyed to my mind a sort of feeling sitisi-f
lar to what I think Belzoni must hare experienced
on entering the famous Egyptian tomb. The cam-!
pang for the Hall now arrived quickly, and had to
walk down the platform from the end of George-
street to the Hall door, between the pp.strate racks
of time soldiers. At this time vou might walk about
with as much ease as if you were in Cheapside in the
forenoon. Several ladies and gentlemen appeared on
tl.e different stands, the foam,. dressed, certainly
more fit for the ball-room, than such open exposure
to the morning air: but before five o'clock, tnany had
wrapped their heads up in their shawls, and appeared
to sutler much from the cold. Time greatest silence
prevailed a: g the crowd, while the carriages con-
tinued setting down company, and very little confusion
was to be observed i4ll sssss g the carriages, indeed it had
more the appearance of setting down company to a
funeral than the grand imposing spectacle of the
crowning the lairti's anointed. Here were Lards and
banbury cake men. ladies anti artisans all mingled
together in perfect good humour, or rather they tip-
pea red to view each other as indifferently ass though
they were of different species. As the stun beamed
forth the ladies assumed a more cheerful appearance.
and these stands that had yet a little company
began to attract the attention of the populatas.l
Much anxiety was visible among the keepers of the
several stands, in consequence of the Wan, of nenspony-
Men were stationed about carrying plaearditito invite
persons to time different erections, and I balker that
places for which four guineas had been asked the day
before, might bare been obtained for as many shillings ;
and I suspect in sotne instances it was a hay:crown ea-
hibition. Much industry was used to persuade people
to take places—" Auto many are Mere, Sir—l'll take
the party for 40 shillings." I' counted there were nine
persons ; this was less than a crown each : and before
the show began, (1 must here state that the conduct
of the troops on linty was moat praiseworthy). The ar-
rival of the Queen is described fully in your paper (and

Are ~~.

correctly.) I again Visited the scene at 2 o'clock in the I
afternoon, just twelve hours after some of the company
had taken their seats, and after half the spectacle had
heeteiteen ; how different the appearance! Th 9 morn-
ing: rosy countenances of the ladies were exchanged for
pile, fatigued, and sleepy fares. The colour !lad en-
tirety. disappeared, or flail so blended itself with the
white, by perspiration and the frequent use of the
handkerchief, together with the dust arising from the
continual moving of the populace in front of the stands,
which was carried on them by a gentle wind, that I felt
I much regret that so many had exposed themselves to
such incoarerricrace to satisfy their curiosity. Many
bad surrendered themselves into the arms of .Morpheus,
others sat yawning and gaping, lit at their case,
while the seats were so thinly occupied that all life or
spirit seemed fled. Many already seemed to repent
ever coining; indeed, the whole appeared to he enjoyed
by no one. Every thing was dull and heavy in the
extreme ; neither the living sounder music which hail
been promised, nor the joyous shouts of satisfaction
were beard; aid I left the scene in disgust long before
the King returned from the Abbey.
THE QUEEN'S ILLNESS.

The extraordlnary interest which was shewn by the
public generally on Saturday evening, in consequence
of the unfavourable reports in circulation respecting
her Majesty's condition, it is impossible to describe.
The road from Brandenburzh-house was crowded with
anltions inquirers; and not a person left the residene•
but was snrrounded by individuals of rank anal re-
spectability, eager to hear the state of her NlaJcsvv's
health. The distinguished personages who left their
cards in the course of the evening would occupy too
much space to notice.
At eleven o'clock that night, we received the
following Bolletin, direct from Iltaudenburgh-lionse :
•6 No ounterial elms/e her taken place in her Alajest)'s
symptogni since the morning.

" 11. AINSLIE.
" W. El. M ATON.
" YEA.IIAM WARREN.
" HENRY' HOLLAND.
Aupiit 4, 1:19.! ; luo'clock p.m.
Yesterday the avenues to Bramlenburgh-house were
again crowded by respectable perAons at an early hour,
who evinced the most profound anxiety to learn the
contents of the morning's Bulletin. About ten o'clock
it was issued in the following terms :
" Brindembilmth-bouee. Aug. 8. I 321; 9 o'clock.
" Her Majesty has passed the last night better than
the preceding one; but no important amendment has
taken place." (Signed as before.)
To relieve the anxiety of the pnblic the subsequent
notice was posted at the Mansion-house in the af:er-
noon

mansion-house. AIM. 6. half-past five.
"Her Majesty's state his not undertone any alteration
since the morning at ten o'clock."
In the evening her MAJESTV'S Physicians began to
assemble so early as if o'clock. The gates of Bran-
sleubutgli House were surrounded, as indeed they had
been the whole day, with anxious enquirers ; and an
unusual delay taking place in the publication of the
bullet's, occasioned, for a time, very considerable ap-
prehension. The following was the Bulletin :
Iler ills jeety has passed a more tranquil day, and Is not
worse this evening."
(signed as before.)
Brandenburgh-house, Aug. 6. 1621. 10 o'clock p.
The violence of the inflammation had at that time
subsided. but the greatest apprehensions were yet ex-
pressed by her Majesty's medical attendants. An ex-
press was sent off in the course of the afternoon for
1/r. Millie, who is in (iloncesterthire. At eight
o'clock in the evening her Jlajesty was, for the first
time since her indisposition. removesl for the purpose
of changing her IDAL—The consultation was the
longest that has yet taken place. The bulletin was
not issued till near midnight. Some slight nourish-
ment was taken by her Majesty in the course of the
afternoon, with effect. Dr. Holland was the only Phy-
sician in attendance from three o'cbck in the after-
noon till nine in the evening. at which time Drs. Mates.
Ainslie, and Warren, with Mr. Thompson, the Queen's
Apothecary. arrived.
We understand that astonishment has been
excited in the City by the Alm M Aeon not having
received any official Irtlletins of the state of her
Winery's health. In consequence of the deviation
from the usual course of the Home Department,
Lord Boon on Saturday begnn to communicate to the
Nunn Ahem directly from Brandetiburgh-house, the
reports of the gyres's Medical Attendants.

PRICR OF STOCKS TH
Bank Stock 25•11 M
S per Cent. Red •
3 perCetit.Con. 7
34 per Cent.
4 per Coats. 941 3
3 per Ct.liavy HS U§
3 per Cent.
Long Ana 19 7-lei
Imp 3 per Cott.
Irish b per Cent.

- - -
DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
has Stook Me
01111oRonds —0.60 s 595. pas
Rooth-Rea Sleek
Rooth ties Old Ann.
Itz ftills9d. Os. 4s. 64. pen.
thanlans for Money We
Rank for Aonoont
India for ditto
Con. for Aeet 76,11
Lott. Tickets (k.

mare WATSIII AT 14111111011•11111111001 ealroaanw.
Morning 63 m. after 7.—Ereniag 118 a. after 9.
- - -

the &tattOtnan.
.61si EMITISSI STATESMAN" IS MORT AAAAA D WITf " TOR
STATESMAN."

LONDON:

MONDAT [VEXING, AtOCAT G. Iynl.

STATESMAN' OFFICE, TWO O'CLOCK.

Most cordially do we congratulate our readers on
the receipt of the following Bulletin, which was issued
this day at noon. at her Majesty's house in South
Andley-street t and ruo.t fervently do we pray
that the hopes of her MansTs's recovery, which
the favourable symptoms have inspired, way be spee-
dily and completely accomplished.
"The has hail some relief during the night,
and the state of bet MaJzaTv is more favourable to•
tley.

" 11. AINRIIE.
" W. U. Al ATON.
" PELHAM W %DION,
" HENRY HOLLAND.
Ant. 0, 9 o'clock, •. sa."

A file of New York papers was received this morn-
ing, but not of a later date than those of Saturday.'
The only article of importance they contain is the fol-
k/Win 1-
I By the brig Harriet, from Cape Hayti's, we learn