The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-07-18 00:00:00

LORD IIRIA? CDANIBFRLAIN'S OFFICE.

.Jcty 17, 111‘21.
Nqne of the Lord Great Chamberlain's Tickets ad-
mit to the ,►hbey.
All lieroos proceeding► from the Ilan to the Abbey
rrn-t be furnished with a Ticket from the Earl Mar-
shal.

No. I. Person's havinr sea's in the King's bn'.
n ill proceed from the Hall to the Abbey by the smith
u,r behind the hrone. through the passage of the
house of Lords, Peers' ohl Robing Room, by the
Prerrsses' Platform to poet's Corner.

No. 4. Foreign Ministers by the acme war.
3. The Peeresses and Peers' unmarried (laugh-

ter. .

4. The Lord Great Chamberlain's box, No. 3.
5. The Earl Marshal's box.
6. The Lord High Ste►rard's box.
7. The Lord Iligh Con,table( box.
S. 'the Lord High Constable of Scutland'A box.

The persons in the following boxes will proceed by
tint Itlargaret's•street, to the door of the Peers'
flobinz Room, along the Peeresses' Platform to Poet's
urner.

No. 9. The Lor.loreat Chamberlain's box, No. 1.
10. The Lord Chamberlain's box.
11. The Lord Steward's box.
12. The Speaker'. boy.
13. The Surceyol General's box.
14. The Auditor of the Exchequer's box.

15. The !loam of Ureen Cloth's box.

The persons in the following boxes will proceed
arongh the Speaker's Court, across the platform at
the north door, to the door of the Peers' Robing
Room, where thee enter the Peeresses' Platform :
No. 16. The 1.0 r.: Great Chamberlain's box, No. 2.
I 7. The 'feller of the Exchequer's box.

711 e Peers and Pric►• Councillots' tickets ►rill pro-
ceed ht• the mirth floor, turning immediatel► to the
left to the door of the Peers' Robing Room, ►rhea
t; ey ail! enter the Peeresses' Platform.

LORI% 11117 AT CH CM•ERLAIN•S ourtcr,
JuLY It'. IS2I.

Pn,,res or Peer4' attendants will be admitted into the
hoses in their costume, which will be consiiiered as toll
(Signed) urn.

Then hole of the preparations In the Green-park
fur a display of lire-works, a balloon, bce. have been
il;,eontinued, and the materials removed to Hyde-park,
as a much more commodious situation. Five more
rrrillery wazgons arrived on Monday evening from
‘Vordwich-Warren, with rockets and other pputech-
ol.eal devices.

Yesterday Marquees were erected in Hyde-park, and
other preparations made for fire-works and illnissina-
five, preparatory to the Coronation. A couple of sheep
will be roasted in a field near the Orange Tree, New-
tons!, and brer will be distributed among the people.
A balloon and parachnte will ascend from Hyde-
park at twelve o'clock. Two, persons will rise in the
Ulnae, and, it is said, that one of them will descend
in the parachute.
A regatta and bo.rt•race are preparing for the Ser-
pentine liv,•r. The most expert wateriness on the
Thames are engaged to start at one o'clock, and fifty
of the handsomest heats will be in attendance to re-
ceive company.
In the evening, the hanks of the Serpentine will be
illuminated with coloured lamps, Chinese lanterns,
and transparencies. Bands of music will be stationed
at different points, and a grand fire-wort: will be dis-
placed on the right banks of the Serpentine.
A man of war, dressed with all her colours, will be
anchored between Blackfriars and Waterloo-bridges,
which will fire salutes and salvos from the commence-
ment of the Coronation ceremony throughout the day.
And six men of n•ar's launches fitted up as rocket-
boats, will row backwards and forwards from South-
wark-bridge to Westmiuster-bridge during the day.
anal after dark throwing rockets and signals.
At night, several of the largest rockets will he
thrown up from Primrose-hill, by which light-balls will
be suspended by parachutes in the air, nearly a mile
high, where they will continue to burn for many mi-
nutes, and he visible from every part of the town.
The illuminations at the !admiralty will occupy the
entire range of the screen in front of the building, and
surmounted by the Royal standard from the apex of
the pediment over the portico. This magnificent

standard is entirely new for the occasion, aertwas
terday hoisted for a short time in presence of be Lords;
of the Admiralty.
All the Public Offices will he illun►inatrd.
Yemen! .y morniw,, 11. It. 11. the D.►k• sf Cam-
bridge, with a party of friends, •isitrd Weistrinster
hall and the Abbey ; he was attended by M. Dorset
Pellowes, and expressed his highest admiratin of the
scene presented to his moire. While his Ito:al Nigh•
nes! was in the 11411, Mr. Dynsoke, the Chatnpon, rode
on his charger, and went through the usual wine of
backin.r. Nis floral Highness manifested to satis•
fection at the manner in which Mr. Dymoke 'reformed
his task.

We understand that the Champion will rte from
his house in Hill-s!reet, llerkelec•sgcar.•. on totiorrow
mo-nine. to Westminster, at about nine o'clocklle will
be attired in his full costume, and will be attenird by a
troop of Horse Guards. His 'Squires and Pares rill fol-
low him. in three carriages. On the arrival of thsCham-
pion at his stable, he will repose himself till equired
to enter Ilse Hall between the first and secondcourse.

The 11arquess of Anzlcsea's horse w•as yeterday
morning practised in his paces in Westuoinstorgall.
Thr fluke of Wellington will ride a white csargcr.

The Honourable Artillery Company ha►e rceieed
from his Royal Highness the Duke of lasses,
their Colonel, to assenible at the Armours• Haase. to•
m .rrow molting at one o'clock, and procee►l toWest-
minster.

REGAL/.4 3.1C114..r'!

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE STATESM4X.

Among the Coronation Regalia, deseribed in yester-
day's SrarrsmaN, is the Ampulla or Widen taglet,
which contains C.?, oil with which the King is
anointed. In France, before the revolution, they had
theSaialeilaspu,,le or I hily Cruet, which came from hea-
ven, according to the lezends of the. einrch. The
following account of this precious vessel may sot be
uninteresting at the present moment. It is translated
from Salgurs' amusing work, De• Erteurs tt let
PreYNKr.la repandwi daea la Silt if a..—PAri .4, I !.4 ID.
1 hardly know any history of France where
mention is not made of the Sainte-Ampoule. Be-
fore the Revolution, the order of St. Rani de Reims
preserved it with the greatest care; it was taken
front their treasury at the Coronation of our Kings,
but four llosta;es, chosen from among the Nobles
of the highest rank at Court, were previously re-
quired for it.
The yitl.rar and children were persnatkd that the oil
of the Sainte Ampoule rose or fell, like a II ter,
according as our kings were !tick or well. When the
abridgment of the history of France, by the Abbe Rs-
gois, is put into the hands of a child, he does not fail
quickly to learn that the Sainte-Ampoule cause down from
heaven at the baptism of King Cloth; that it was
hrought by a dove it hirer than snow, and was placed at
Saint Remi to be thenceforth used at the coronation of
our monarchs.

' The first who mentions this miracle is Ilinentar,arch-
bishop of Helms. " The clerk who carried the holy
unction, says he, being unable to approach for the crowd.
the holy bishop, Remi, lifted up his eyes to heaven, and
implored the divine pity; immediately there appeared a
dote whiter than snow, bearing in his beak the Sainte-
Ampoule, full of holy oil. of an otiose sa exquisite sad
sweet that the whole astn.nobly wag perfumed ily it."
• stinietn, W11:1 NMI in the ninth century. pepsins ihr
same prodigy. but be adds, that it was the Holy S; irit
in oerson that came in the form of a dove, that an
embassy of such importance might not be entrusted to
a common pigeon.
The author of the life of St. Clotilde, posterior to
.timoin, outdoes his predecessors ; hr i 14.11 res us that
the dove brought two vials, one for the King and the
c.Acrfur tA. Qacen.
' le Breton, n Monk of St. Denis, and pre-
ceptor to one of the natural sons of Philip Augusts's,
recounts the story rather differently. Ile maintains
that it Wag not the crowd that hindered the approach
of the clerk charged with the holy unction, but tlsat
it was the devil who maliciously broke his bottle,
with the intention of retarding the ceremony, or by
making the king damn himself by some act of impa-
tience.

The Ablie de Vertot, who has published a long
dissertation on the .Sainte-Ampoule, pretends that
nobody ran deny this miracle ; and the reason that he
gives is, that it rests on long tradition, which, alone, is
worth all the testimonies of historians; that it is
mentioned in the office of Coronation of our Kings ;
and fina!ly, that such a prodigy is most bonoltrable
for the throne of France, and that we ouzlit to flatter
oarselres greatly at being governed by Princes, who
are the Lord's immediate anointed.

' But it is replied to the Abbe, that it is not enough
that a miracle should be honourable; it is fit that it
should also be reasonable. That of the Sainte-Am-
poule violates all the laws of reason, since to admit it,
we must suppose that there are in heaven olive tre-s,
pigeons, glass-blowers, and an elaboratory for the pre-
paration of perfumes. lie is told, also, that contem-
porary historians say nothing of this miracle; that
liregory of Tours, the greatest reporter of peedigies,
does not say a word of it ; that St. %esti, and :trims,
Bishop Of Vienna, in their letters to Clovis on his
baptism, preserve the most profound silence on the
subject; that the Archbishop Hincmar, who first
mentioned it, lived 350 years after Clovis; and that,
besides, he was but a compiler of romantic tales,
worthy of Cinderella and Little Poucet ; that he re-
ports serious!y that a brilliant light descended into
the church of Reims on the eve of the baptism of
Clovis; that it collected during the night upon the
head of St. Remi, so that he resembled a walking illu-
mination, which lighted up the Church and Convent
better than a thousand tapers. He recounts also that
St. Kcini gave to Clovis, a flaggon of pare and gene-
rous wine, which could never be exhausted, and
which ruse or fell as the King was to lose or win in
battle. Clovis, who carried it with him every where,
regaled his a hole Court and Army wish it, and yet
the fleggon was always full; there was nothing want-
ing but the five loaves and two small fishes to make a
complete repast.
These idle tales diminish very much the faith due
to Ilincmar. But it is possible, without any miracle,
that a dove may have brought the Sainte-Ampoule.
We know that the ancients trained pigeons to carry
their letters, and it was not more ditheult Li make
them carry a little vial. These pious fraids wereco.o-
mon enough in former times, and, as they served the
ends of religion, there was seldotn any sernple to em-
ploy them. When Name wished to give his laws to

the Romani, be caused them to be dictated by the
nymph Egeria : the Priests, hislconlidatits, making a
'bidd descend from heaven. Mahomet had also his;
dune that whispered in confidence in his ear ; Socrates
his familiar genial ; and St. Paul. the Hermit, big
crow. which brought him every morning a little loaf
for his breakfast. The vulgar anti the ignorant have
always been the privy purse of the crafty.'
London, Jul! 18. W. 0.

TO THE EDITOR OF 771 E STATES.WAX.

Manchester, July 10, 1011.

The preparations for celebrating the approaching
Coronation in this town and neighbourhood, have re-
sin-6M all those angry feelings which the working
classes of people have entertained towards the ultra-
loval authorities of this part of the country for some
years past, hut particularly since the fatal 16th of
August. For the last few months the spirit of reform
has appeared to be as it were in a state of abeyance ;
which has caused many, who so hoped, to believe that
the pertial prosperity of the spinner and weaver bad
eradicated Radicalism, and that witb full bellies, the
" good old times" would return, and that, the people
would readily partake of their beef and beer, and
again become a drut.ken, beastly, ferocious and loyal,
Church anal King Moh.
Although in so papnlons a place, it is not to be ex
pected but that very many persons will be so circum-
stanced, as it regard% their business and employment,
as nut to dare to refuse joining in the loyal proces-
sion, and as there always will hr out of 160,000 peo-
ple a great many ignorant ruffians, who will be ready,
for the sake of a holiday, and " a good fuddle," to
join in any riot which the friends of " Social order"
may think proper to set on foot ; yet, from the spirit
recently manifested at various meetings by the great
'mass of the people, the intended procession in this and
ithe iteightantring towns, will be comparatively slen-
der in number, anal beggarly in appearance.
In Manchester it was determined at a Town'a Meet-
ing to raise a sum of money, by coloutary contribution,
to treat the working classes with beef and ale on the
Coronation day ; and it has since been agreed to give
away 20 oxen. 61) sheep, and .500 barrels of ale ; but
the loyalists finding that the voloutary contribution'
came its but slowly, went about front house to house,
with a book in their hands to collect subscriptions.—
The rancorous anal persecuting spirit which has always
animated the Ultras of this town, is too well known to
all the tradespeople, and the kink which these loyal
collectors of vo!austa-y contributions held in their
hands, might also serve as a black book to note down
a etditioas Radical, who ought not to be employed or
dealt with, any man who might refuse to give hand-
somely: by these means a large 'am of money has been
extorted from the housekeepers, to be spent in making
the ignorant poor, beastly drunk, as the best mode of
showing their loya:ty to the King, and their love of
" Social Order." The general voice of the great mass
of tl►e people here, is clearly and decidedly against a
Coronation at all, under the present circumstances of
the natiati ; and especially as the Queen is to be ex-
cluded from the ceremony, and if possible, thereby dis-
graced. Last week a meeting► of the journeymen
curd waioere of the town was called, to consider of the
propriety of their joining the procession in a body;
one.. I; we, unanimously resolved to decline attending,
becauts., to do so, would appear tosanction the conduct
of 31inistere: because of the Six Acts, which had de
ptived them of their birthright, and that they were
determined not to assemble again publicly, till the
outrage on the Itith of August was enquired into
and justice attune; because the noted Manchester Yeo-
manry Cavalry, were to fora► part of the procession;
anal, lastly, because, of the ill-treatment of the Quern,
and her exclusion front her right of being crowned
with the King.
This meeting wag followed on Tuesday, by one of
the Fustian Cutters, who unenintously declined at-
tending for the same reasons, anal who came to some
resolutions so warm, that no printer in the town has
dared to print them. The Weavers met on Wednesday,
and on Thursday, an immense body of the females of
Manchester met publicly also, anal in both instan.•es
resolutions were passed, deprecating the intruded ('o-
ronation and procession, in terms, and for IV/WIN!
aimilar to those of the hoot and shoemakers. Every!
exertion anal trick is resorted to, in order to lengthen I
atad swell the appearance of the procession; all the
trades are solicited to be present in distinct bodies.—'
Six mail-roarhea are to attend, and all the children oil
the different charity and Sunday schools that can be
prevaiied on to be present.
The Union Rooms Lancaaterian Schools. amounting
to 24:110 children, have altogether declined, anal many
others, particularly those belonging to the Dissenters,
will muster but very weakly. In the National Sunday
School for adult females, consisting of lOU, only 21)
have been induced to sign their names as willing to
attend, all the rest declining. and giving as their prin-
cipal reason, the ill-treatment of the Queen. I
understand that, up to the middle of Saturday last, out
of several thousand journeymen shoemakers, only three
individuals hall agreed to attend; and out of at least
30.00 U weavers, only 17 persons had signed the list as
willing to be present. I flu not learn that one fustian
cutter, (a trade the next ottuerons to the wearers) has
agreed to go.
In Bolton, a meeting of the weavers anal working
people generally, was held last Thursday; when it
was resolved nut to join in the noted Col. Fletcher's
Orange Pio:es-ion, fur the same reasons prin-
cipally as given by the shoemakers of Manchester;
and a placard was ordered to be printed by authority
of the Union Reform Committee, requesting all real
dimpoerd persons to keep their wives, children, and
servants at home on that day.
Scores of the timid loyalists are quitting the town
for that day, as almost every one expects disturbance
and riot ; the loyal men will be all drunk, and of
course quari-elsome, though many that shout "
save the King" in the morning, when sober, and with
their masters near them, will shout more vehemently,
when drunk at night, " Hunt for ever." One thing
seems pretty certain, that if any disturbance does take
place, the drunken loyalists will begin it, and then, as
there are so few military here, and they probably will
be drunk too, the Church anal King mob, will be
" soundly thrashed" as General Lynn says ; fur they
will be outnumbered, as lOU to 1, by sober, though ir-
ritated Reformers: indeed many, Radicals have vowed
that if the Yeomanry offer any insult to the people.
they will be pr.•pared at "one fell swoop" to avenge

all their wrongs. I hope, however, that we shall get
through the silly ceremony without bloodshed, bat the
old inhabitants who know the people well, fear other-
wise. S.