The Statesman.
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powdered and her tresses black, were an excellent
contrast to the handsome, Lord It •• • • put on
rouge upon his wife and the Duchess of Bedford in
the painted chamber ; the Duchess of Queensbnry
told me of the latter, that she looked like an orange.
peach, half red and half yellow. The coronets of
the peels awl their robes dike:nisei them strangely ; it
required all the heacity of the Dukes of Richmond
and Slarinorougl, to make them noticed. One there
was, though of ano is r species, the noblest figure I
•yer saw, the high-censtahle of Scotland, Lord Errol ;
as one saw 111111 it; a space capable of containing him,
one admired biro. At the weclrlinz, dressed in tissue,
, he looked like one of the giants in Guildhall, new gilt.
It added to the energy of his person, that one coinitler•
erl him acting so coosiderable a part in that very ball,
where so few year.. azo one saw his father, !cold Kil-
marnock, co:Aril:ll.d to the Mock. The champion
acted his part adociral4, and dashed clutyci his gaunt-
let with priori &fiance. Ills associates, Lord E••••,
Lord Talbot, and the Doke of Bedford, were woeful;
Lord Talbot piqled himself on hacking his horse
down the hall, and not turning its rump towards the
King, but he had taken sad, pal::s to dregs it to that
duty, that it entered Lackwards ; and at his retreat the
spectators clapped, a terrible inikcorttici, hut suitable
to such Bartimioniew-rair doing. •. Ile had twenty
alone! <.+. and came out of pore. creditahl!. lie had
taken away the table of the knizlits of the Bath, and
was forced to admit two in their old pla• e, and dine
the others in the court of request,. Sir Wm. Stau-
hope said, "We are ill-treated, (or tome of wa are
gentlemen." Beckfold told the Earl, it was bard to
reuse a table to the city of London, whom it would
cost ten thousand pounds to banquet the Ring. and
that his lordship would repent it, if tly.y had n•O a
table in the hall ; they bad. To the barons of the
Cinque-ports, who made the same complaint, he said,
" If you come to cue as lord-steward. I tell yor, it is
impossible ; if, as Lard Talbot, I am a match for any
of you.**

TO TILE 110 N. 11. S. CONWAY.

A rlinrton-street, Sept. 13, 17.1.

The coronation is over even a more gorgeous
sight than I imagined. I saw the procession and the
hail ; but the town was io the (lath. In the morning
they bad forgot the sword of state, the chain for
King and Queen, and their canopies. They used the
Lotd Mayor's for the first; and made the last in the
hall : so they did not set forth till noon ; and then,
by a childish romplinolit to the King'," reserved the
illumination of the hall till his entry, by' which
means they arrived like a funeral, nothing being per-
ceivable but the plume: of the knights of the Beth,
which seemed the hearse. Lady Kildare, the Duch. si.
of Richmond, and Lady Pembrohe, were the capital
beauties. Lady Harrington, the finest figure at a dis-
tance, old We.:inorcland, the most majestic. Lath'
Hertford could not walk, and indeed I think is in a
way to give us great anxiety. She is going to Ragley
to ride. Lord Beauchamp was one of the King'i.
train-beaters. Of all the incidents of the day, the
mokt diverting was, w/sat, .happaned to Use 4~11.
She had a retiring thamber, with eat eonvenienees,
prepared behind the altar. She went thithet—in the
soma eu.outdieot, what found she hut—the Duke of
Newcastle'. Lady flardevicke died three &it s before
the cerenony, which kept away the whole house of
Yorke. Some of the prerves were dressed otec night,
slept in arm-chairs, and were waked if they tumbled
their heads. Your sister Harris's maid, Lady Peter-
borough, was a comely figure. My Lady Cowper re-
' fused, but na's forced to walk with Lady ID". Lady
raluiouth Iva.. nut there ; on which George Seir vn
said, "That those peeresses who were most es"d to
dk, did nut. ' I carried my Lady Townshend,
Lady ilertfqrd, Lady Anne Connolly, my Lady Her.
ycy, and Mrs. Clive, to my deputy's house at the gate
of Westminster-hall. My Lady Towoshend said she
should be very OA to see a coronation, as she never
had seen one. Why," said t, "Madam, you walked
at the last " Yes. said she, " hat I saw
nothing of it : I only looked to see who looked at
me." The Duchess of Queensbury walked her
affectation that day was to do nothing preposteiuus.

TO THE COUNTESS OF AMESBURY.
Strawberry-!till,.Srpt.27. 1761.

My heraldry was much more offended at the coro-
nation with the ladies that did walk, than with those
that walked out of their places; yet I was not so
perilously ang►y as my lady Cowper, who refused to
set a foot with my I.tily M • •• • : and when she was
at last oblige;l to associate with her, set out on a
round trot, as if she designed to prove the antiquity
of her family by marching as lustily as a maid of ho-
hour of queen Gwinivvr. It was in truth a brave
sight. The sea of heads in Palace-yard, the guards
hone and foot, the scaffolds, balconies, and procession,
exceeded imagination. The hall, when once illumi-
nated, was noble but they suffered the whole parade
to return into it in the dark, that his Majesty might
he susprised with thetoickness with which the sconces
eatched fire. The champion acted well ; the old Pala-
dins hail neither the grace nor alertness of Rinaldo.
Lord Effingham and the Duke of Bedford were but
nnto.vard knights errant ; and Lord Talbot had not
much more dignity than the figure of General Monk
in the Abbey. The habit of the peers is unbecoming
to the last degree: but the peeresses made amends for
all defects. Your daughter Richmond, Lady Kildare,
and Lady Pembroke were as handsome as the graces.
Lady Rochford, Lady Holderness, and Lady Lyttleton
looked exceedingly well in that their day; and for
those of the day before, the Duchess of Queensbury,
Lady Westmoreland, and Lady Albemarle were sur-
prising. Lady Harrington was noble at a distance,
and so covered with diamonds, that yon would have
thought she had bid somebody or other, like Falstaff,
rob use the exchequr.-. Lady Northatnptuts was very
magnificent too, and looked prettier than I have seen
her of late. Lady Spencer and Lady Bolingbroke
were not the worst figures there. The Duchess of
Ancaster marched alone after the Queen with much
majesty ; and there were two new Scotch peeresses
that pleased every body, Lady Sutherland and Lady
Duntnore. Per contra, were Lady P• • •, who had put
a wig on, and old E • • •, who had scratched hers off;
Lady S•• •, the Dowager E•• •, and a Lady
S • • • with her tresses coal black, and her hair coal
white. Well! it was all delightful, but not half so
charming as its being over.—The gabble one beard
about it for sit weeks before, and the fatigue of the
day, could not well be compensated by a mere puppet-
shoi; for puppet-show it was though it costa million.

.ANOMIG..&i..m.r

IL,

N.

'BSS AND DEATH OF BONAPARTE.

FCRTIIP.R PARTICULARS.
" Bonaparte may be said to have died rather he-
roically than otherwise, as the pain arising from the
disease must hare been very acute, and he never ut-
tered a complaint. Ile refused medicine as useless,
and stated, a month previous to his death, that he
should never rise from his bed again. At that period
he also said, that he was confident he knew better than
the surgeons what his disease was ; and that it was
the same that his father died of. Tile pain that it
wave Nut, he described as if a knife had been run into
his body, and broke short off, the wound closing ex-
ternally afterwards. A few hours previous to his de-
cease he is said to have gradually drawn his jsands from
his sides, and to have clapped them over his breast,
ilossbtle*s offering up a prayer at the same time. He
then released them, and they fell into their former po-
sition. Dnring ti.e latter part of his illness, his eyes
were constantly fixed on the full length portrait of Isla
son, which was bung up by his request at the foot of
his bed ; and it seems that his attachment to the child
' was very great. The last words of Bonaparte have
not yet been recorded : they were uttered in a state of
.
sienna's*, but still sinew what was working iu his
mind :—• Mon Ps' was the first word, and afterwards
be murmercd what seemed to the hearers to he Fats
d'Arnorrx.' tie shortly afterwards said France,' and
never spoke again. The head and face of Bonaparte
were isunsensely large in proportion to his body; they
may with great propriety be said to be the only parts
that could be reckoned fine; his face, I 1 hours after
his death, was one of the most interesting that could
he imagined, but from the extreme heat of the climate,
the decay was so rapid that shortly afterwards the fea-
tures collapsed ; and at the time that be was laid in
state, after his having been opened, the countenance
had undergone a total alteration. His body was alto.
:ether mean ; hones very small, and very little muscle :
—he was very fat, even at the time of Isis death. On
opening him, Ili* heart was found very small and
feeble, and loaded with fat : his liver was large, and
one of his kidneys reversed. It seems that he would
hare died much sootier lithe liver had not forced itself
into the hole in his stomach, and hindered the aliment
from escaping : but, except from a slight irritation,
naturally to be expected at this part of the liver, as it
was in contact with the diseased quarter, it was com-
pletely sound and healthy, and did not show the least
symptoms of the complaint which be was stated by
Mr. O'Meara to suffer under. His hand was rather
effeminate, but beautiful. The wounds on his body
were as foliose :—a small wound ou the head, received
from the halbert of an English serjeant at Toulon ;
nme above the knee, by a spent ball, received at Ra-
tiabon ; and one near the ancle, a deep musket bail
gran., that he received in Italy. His cranium did not
give the satisfaction to the craniologists that was an-
ticipated. A great deal of tronble was taken by Doc-
tors Mitchell and Burton to have a cast of his face and
cranium ; but unfortunately the quality of the gypsum
which was only to he procured froru the island, was
such as rendered all their attempts fruitless. A short
time previous to his death, be scratched an N with a
peulsnife un a snuff box, which he presented to Dr.
Armlet for his attendance on him, and has left the
above gentleruan 500 Napoleons. It is valet (Marchand)
is a very superior young man ; it is said be has amply
provided fur him ; and he made him a Count, previous
to his death, exacting a promise from Bertrand and
Montholon that they would respect him as such. It
appears that Bonaparte, 'luring his whole confinement
at St. Ilelena, never allowed any of his suite to relax
in those attentions and duties that he had formerly ex-
acted as Emperor. He always dined alone ; no one
was allowed to sit in his presence ; and to insure the'
impossibility, he took care to have but one chair in
Isis room. Indeed, from all accounts, Bertrand and
Montholon, and the rest of his suite, had no sinecure
in their retreat with the Emperor, and they have as
least proved their fidelity in their continuing with
him until Isis death. It is now ascertained, from the
acknowledgment of Bertrand, that the book called
The Thirty-onc Days was the production of Bonaparte
himself. The effects at St. Helena are said to be left
to Bertrand and Montholon ; they are very valuable,
consistiog chiedy of plate and the finest Seve China;
a most beautiful antique cameo snuff-box, given to
hint by the Pope, he has left to Lady Holland with a
slip of paper in it written by himself, in acknowledg-
ment of her kindness; but the rest of Bonaparte's
! will was kept a secret at St. Helena."

IRISH PRISON Fees.—By an Act passed in the pre-
sent Session of Parliament, all Fees whatever payable
on the Committals, Discharge, or during the conti-
nuance in custody, of any prisuner in Ireland, are
abolished, anfl any officer demanding Fees from Pri-
soners, is subjected to a 6ne of 5/.
The late Abel Wo►th, Esq. in addition to the several
bequests which have been mentioned, has left by his
will 2,500/. to the London Hospital, Whitechapel ;
2,000/. to the Hospital for the Deaf and Dumb, in the
Kent-road ; 2,000/. to the Asylum for the Blind, near
the Obelisk in St. George's Fields ; 2,000/. to the So-
ciety for the Relief of Prisoners confined for Small
Debt• ; and 1,000/. to the Westminster Asylum for
Pregnant Women—making in the whole 26,000/. 4
per Cents.
Canust.c JULY 7.—For some weeks past the wea-
ther has been exceedingly dry, which threatened de-
struction to all vegetation ; but we are happy to state
that, in consequence of a tine rain, which commenced
yesterday morning, the face of nature has assumed a
more cheerful aspect.

There is now living at Mr. Betts's, fishmonger, in
Prince's-street, Westminster, a poor old woman who
has actually lodged in the same apartment from before
the Coronation of George 111. till the present time,
and who, ou receiving notice to quit the same on ac-
count of the approaching ceremony, refines to go, con-
sidering it an extreme hard case to be turned out of
her lodging.
The visitors to see Westminster Hall and Abbey
yesterday morning, were very numerous, many of
them of the first rank. Upwards of 100 addi►ional
hands were pat on yesterday morning, in order to for-
ward the different works, which are all to be finished
this week. The applications for tickets fur admission
to the galleries to witness the passing ceremony, ex-
reed all expectation.

PRICE OF STOCKS '
Bank Stock 434
per Cent. Red 774 If
11 per Cent. Con. 76$iff
se per Coot. R7ll
per Cont..
perCt.Nevy 109 i 41
3 per Cent.
Ltitg i..n I 9 7-161
Imp Seer Cent.
Irish 3 per Cent.

I DAY AT win O'CLOCK.
India Stool 2 5
Dittoßondo —4. s:s 58s. pm
South-Sea Sin k
South Flea Old 41n.
EI 11111s2d. 3.1..15. pr.
Omahas for Mo ey pas
Rank for Amu t
India for ditto
Con, for Acct 7:11111
Lott T.caats all.

MGM WATER AT LANDOM-RRI-oE To-MORROW.
Marring 15 as. after 10.—E%eniag 19 m. a'ter I I.

Co ktateiimatt.

" TUE lI*MISS STATISM Pel" IS INCARPORATED WIT 111" TIM
STAMIIIMICI

LONDON:

TUESDAI EVEN:IG, JE.I 10, 1921.
THE QUEEN'S CLAIMS,

Stranger• were not admitted into the Cockpit this
morning. The usual course is, fur the decision of the
Council to be kept a secret until their Report shill
have been laid before the Crown and approved. It is
then to be published by the Clerk of the Council.
It is rumoured that the decision in this else will not
be published until after the prorogation of Parliament.

French papers to the Bth instant arrived this morn-
ing. The news of BONAPARTE'S death had reached
Paris, by a telegraphic despatch, the preceding
evening. The journals are very brief in noticing the
interesting occurrence, and content themselves with
quoting the accounts of it from the London papers;
An article from Vienna, dated June 20, gives the in!
telligence from Hermanstadt, stated below, which we
had previously received by the German papers. The
only addition it makes is a statement of the
fate of THEODORE. It is said that having been
surprised and conducted to Ytrsilanti at Tergowitz.
he was condemned to death the 7th of June,
by a Council of War, and executed the same
day. An article from Madrid dated June 2A, by ex.
press, states that a petard which had been discharged
at Valencia, in the vicinity of the public walk, on the
evening of the 19th, had set the people of that city in
motion. The agitation was great, and occasioned a
rumour to prevail that it was a signal to set General
Et to free. The Captain General and the Political
Chief proceeded through the city to re-establish
tranquillity. The Military Chief issued a Pro-
clamation to quiet the minds of the people, and
to discover the authors of the disorder. The
plan of conspiracy discovered at Seville, had ex-
tended itself to Xeres as well as Cordova. The
General Grimarest and the Brigadier Mir, were to be
chiefs of the movement under the name of the first
and second commandant of the Army of the Faith.—
Amidst the numerous arrests by the Authorities are
mentioned the Brigadier Mir, D. Jean Data, an auditor
of marine, a sergeant, a capuchin friar, and another
person well known. Many other individuals suspected of
having taken a part in the plot have fled. On the 26tis
two deputies submitted to therottes a projet tending
to enforce the Spanish Constitution in Mexico, and
thus to preserve the integrity of the Monarchy. A
Deputation of the Cortes having waited on the King
to announce the approach of the termination of the
Sittings, his Majesty made known his intention of ap-
pearing in person on the occasion of the closing. The
Committee appointed to make a report on the state of
Spain, has represented to his Majesty the necessity of
convoking an extraordinary Cortes during the recess.
—His Majesty immediately submitted the matter to a
Council of State. and it was therein decided that there
should be an extraordinary Cortes. The King will in-
timate his intention on this point in his Speech at the
closing of the Session.
The French Chamber of Deputies assembled on
Friday, as appointed, and proceeded to a farther dia-
cussion on the projet relative to the Censorship. M.
de Donald spoke in support of the law. In the course
of his observations he said, where the popular influ-
ence was encouraged there must be inevitably a war
between the two parties of the king and the people, and
two powers created two societies which could not exist
in the same state. M. de Uirardin delivered an able
reply to the last speaker, and 'hewed clearly that the
Censorship was unconstitutional, and contrary to the
spirit of the charter. Ile was repeatedly interrupted.
Several speakers followed on both sides. M.Dtapleasis
Greneilan, when it came to his taro to address the
Chamber, mounted the Tribune and unfolded an im-
Imense roll. His voice was so feeble that be cold not
be distinctly heard. Previous to his speaking on the
projet, lie presented a sketch (is he called it) of the
despotic reign of the usurper and an enumeratio a of his
most zealous adherents. But," added he " the
Usurper is no more."—(lnterruption in theCenere.)—
Then turning towards the left side, " Cry now," •:,id
he, if you please, Vine rEntperettr." All the Mem-
bers, on both sides, immediately qnitted their- place's,
the Ministers went out, and the Orator left she Tri-
buue without delivering his speech.
The sitting was adjourned.

FRENCH Ft:NOS.—The Five per Cents do not appear
to have experienced the rise, an account of which
stated to have been received yesterday by e:

On Friday they opened at NE 40c. and

!1.6f. 30c.—Bank Actions, 1535 f.

Nris pagers to the 7th instant had
arrired. The King went on Thursday to
where he proposes holding bis Court for

—Accounts from Madrid had reached
the 29th, and from Iron to the t fith ult.

solution for convoking an Extraordinary

of the Cortes was carried by a majority of

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