The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-07-20 00:00:00

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ri•RTH WALSH AM AND DILHAM CANAL.
eXTOSICE is hereby given, that a General Quarterly
41,11 fleeting of the Committee of Management, will be
held at my Ocoee, No. 20, Broad-street, Golden-square,
London. on MON DAY, the 6th Day of August next, at Eleven
o'clock in the Forenoon.
W. A'BECKgTT, Prinelpal Clerk.
'NATION'

,ATIONAL MUTUAL INSURANCE BENEFIT IN-
STITUTION,
51. TNIMADNICEDLE-STREPT, LONDON.
THE FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
A of the FREE MALE MEMBERS of this Institution.
will be held at the Paul's Head, Cateaton-street. on WED-
ressoAl-, Auabst 1, ISt!, at Eleven o'clock precisely. for
the Election of Oercera for the Year ensuing, and on other
business of the Institution.
T. WIWAMIII„ Stu.
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etOWNATION t or, a Peep into Westminster
Abbey, a Batirleal Poem.
What matters who wears the Crown of France,
Whether a Richard or a Charles possess it—
They reap tt.e glory,—they enjoy the spoil,—
'4.• %.11114 pty—we bleed."
Swakey's WAT TTLZI.
Printed for J. Johnston, OS, Cheapside.

CIORONATION RUFFS.—The MASTER of the
A.../ ROBES having appointed O. F. CHIANG and Co.
Una Manufacturers in Ordinary to his Majesty, the Peers.
Privy Councillors, Knights Grand Crosses of the Bath, and
others, who officially attend the Procession, are respectfully
invited to inspect an elegant ASSORTMENT of RUFFS,
in the style and shape approved by the Herald's College,
Iron' Five to Fifteen Guineas each ; also Ruffles Frills. &c.
of the Real point and Brussels fabric.—N.B. Court Lap.
pets, Dresses, Laces, &c. in splendid variety.-117. strand,
timer:Pet-House.

LOOKING GLASSES and FURNITUKE.—Seve-
raI large SECOND RAND PLATES.lnitable for
Chialneys. Piers, and Chevals, are now on sale. on Reason-
able Terms, at COOPS'. ELLIOT, and Comma's, Cabinet,
tphoinevy, and Looking-Glass Maaufactory. 93, Bishops-
gate-street, Within.—New Glasses %taunted, as large as 130
by 72 Winos, 120 by SO. or any less dimensions. at very
Eednced Prices.—Plate Mess for Windows, titled in at a
greater Mather advantage than Crown Glass.
Noblemen, Gentlemen, Surveyors, Proprietors of Hole%
and others, will find thi4 Warehouse deserving attention.
Yrom its extensive Variety of the best manufactured Cabi-
net and Chair Work. constantly on Sale, every Article be-
ing offered at a consi.lefahle Reduetioo.
Furniture dcllvered to any part of the country, without
till, of injury br ensconce of packing.

ANUEL INN, NIL CLEMENT'S,
STRAW&
GENE.R AI. OFFICE. FOR TRAVA.LING AND CON-
-1 EVINO PARCELS AND IIERCHANDIZE.
THE following MAILS and other COACHES
go from the above Inn:—
Paris Roy at Mail, ris Dover, Tuesday and Friday Nights,
et twat% e.
Portsmouth and Onsport Mail, through Godalnsing, Pe-
terstield, and Purtsra, every Evening at a quarter past 7.
and Sanday at half pact 0. Ott its arrival a packet sails to
the Isle of Wight, to convey passengers and •
111,1a1144ftels solder to Chichester, through D
Ernsworth.d.c. '•
Glouersts r Mail, through Henley. Oxford. and Chelten-
ham, etery Et ening at a quarter-past 7, and Sunday at half-
past 6.
Poser avid Canterbury Mail. through Gravesend. Chat-
ham. and Fever.liatft, etery corning at a qiinrter past 7, and
Sunday at hail vast 6. Fromratiterbury. passengers iota par-
cels are conveyed to Deal, Margate, Itainsgate, Sandwich,
; amt from Doter, parcels are co.uveyed to Fulkstone,
kiandgate. ilytite. Ditnchurch, Romney, and I.ydfl.
Milford Mail, through Carmarthen. I.landilo and Haver-
fordwest, every evening at a quarter-past 7, and Sunday at
half-past 0.
Bath and Bristol Post Coach, lq grey only four Inside,
through Reading, Marlborough. Caine, and Chippentiam,
et cry Morning at a quarter-past 6.
Bath a n.! Bristol light Post Coach, every afternoon at 3.
Bath li: lit Post Coach, in two days, to carry four inside.
through Artidettitead, Reading, Marlborough, Devises, and
Melkshain. Nionday, Wednesday. and Friday Mornings at 9.
This envoi is chiefly intended for the accommodation of
Families. lovalids. &e. who cannot undergo the fatigue of
much a distance in one day.
Brighton light Post Coach, throngh Reigate and Cuck-
field. every Morning at S.
Cheltenham Original Post Coach, to carry only four in-
side, through Henley and Oxford, every Morning at 7.
Chichester, Bognor, and Petworth 120 c-coach. Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday Mornings, at a quarter before 7:
Doter and Canterbury Light Post-coach, every Evening
at half-pact b.
Ditto, every Morning at half-past O.
Godalming, and Guildford Telegraph Coach, through
Epsom. Leatherhead. Clandon and Horsley, Tuesday,
Thursday. and Saturday Mornings at 10.
Ditto, throaah Kingston. Dition. Cobham. and Ripley, on
Monday, Wednesday. and Friday Mornings, at 10.
Henley Coach through Maidenhead, every Afternoon at I,
Sunday excepted.
Littlettempton, Arundel. and Petworth Coach. Tuesday,
Thursday. and Saturday Mornings, at half-past 7.
Margate. Ramsgate, Deal. Sandwich. and Brettistairs
light Post-reaches. every Morning and Evening.
Oxford Light Post-coach, through Henley, &a. every
Morning at 7.
Portsmouth new anti elegant light Post-roach, the Regu-
lator, to carry only four inside, through Kingston, Guild-
ford. Petersseld, and Portsea, every Morning at 8.
Coaches from Portsmouth to Chichester, on the arrival of
the Mail, through Emsworth. Gotham. ite. to Bognor.
Salisbury Poast-coach. to carry only four inside. through
Staines, Basingstoke, Whitcburch, Andover, he. every
Morning at 7.
Stroudwater Coach (removed from the Bull and Mouth,)
iinil7l! A hhiplon. Faringdon, and Cirencester, Tuesday,
'Thursday and Saturday Mornings at a quarter before 7.
Tewkesbury Poast-coach, through Oxford and Chelten-
ham, every Morning at 7.
Wallingford and Vantage Coach, through Maidenhead.
Nettiebed, and Harwell, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
Mornings at 7.
NORTHERN COACHES.
York. Newcastle, ant' Edinburgh Coaches, and to all
Farts of the North, every Morning, at a quarter past 8.
Manchester. Lancaster, Kendal. Rochdale. Huddersfield,
Brabford, Leeds. Halifax, Rotherham, Sheffield, aid Nor-
wich Coaches, Daily.
Shelled and Rotherham poet coach, called the Rocking-
ham, every morning at eight, and the Nelson at Nine.
Sunderlacd. Stockton, aid Yam coach, every awning,
to the George Inn. Sunderitall.
CARRIERS—To Twiebotham.Beentford. and !Amor*.
every Monday, Wellnesday, Friday, sad Saturday. •
FAMES and Co. Proprietors.
Parcels and Packages are safety sad eiriveditfoasly cm. I
veyed from this Inn to every Cky, Tswa, Village. and'
Country Seat lathe followingeounties.vis. Boas.
Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Hants. Hereford, elletiesesor,
Kent, Oxford. Somerset, Survey, Bassos, Was, Weresehte,
South Wales. all parts of the Isla of Wight, Jersey, Owns-
sey, aid all parts of Frame; sad to ell Parts of the Nor&
••• Take notice, that no packs" boatalstag glass, clliak
watches, plate, cask or Bank rates. however weal the
valve, will be mounted for, if leer or Mr say
other parcel or pesseager's luggage, pt wed= N. ',LIZ
maims speeded as such mhos &Skop' at dhs Mat
paid for accordingly
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CO4ONATION OF HIS M.UNTI" .... 9
-.GEORGE THE FOURTH.
In our last we presented a detailed account, Irons
secular observation. of the proceedings that -took
place in Westminster Hall, and of the progress of th •
procession from thence: we now proeeed to alike de•
scription of what occurred in Westininster Abbey no
the arrival of the Procession there. Previous to that
'description, it is desirable, for the understanding of
the ceremonial, to attempt to convey some idea of the
internal derorations and arrangements that had bceu
made in that venerable edifice.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
In or:Lsr to make oilr description as concise as pos.
?tilde, we most desire the reader to place himself at
the grand western entrance to the AVocy, and to con-
ceive .11 the screens and wood work, which usually
AMIN! his jitefspect up the centre aisle, to be, at
they now are, entirely (Lei 'fished, and a new 'tad an
entirely different structure to be substituted in the:r
stead. Ile must also conceive the different monuments
of ancient grandeut which in many places adore, and
in as many disfigure, its walls, to be subtracted from
his view, and in their places numerous galleries to
meet his eye, glittering in all the pomp of Modern
magnificence. Indeed, with the exception of Mr.
Pict's monument, which is placed over the western
gate of the Abbey, scarcely another is r isil•le to the
spectator at that point : and if it were not for the
light elegance of its architecture, and the fit led cor-
nices of its ichif, he might almost forget that lie was
standing in Westminster Abbey. The middle aisle is now
open front the western entrance to that poled in which
it joins upon Henry Vll.'s Chapel, and the pavement
of it up to the transept is matted, and in the middle
covered, as in the platform out of doors, with a ',road ' 9.
purple cloth. The side aisles are each divided from
the main aisle by wooden partitions, which, in or
?ao.)
diLse
to admit free commnitication between the differe
parts of the cathedral, are cat into various kind of
arches, thus hiding the nakedness which would other-
wise have been dis:•ernable, had the galleries been
supported on rafters thrown across from one pilaster
to another. A row of galleries runs along these
aisles, till you conic to cite entrance of the choir, ele-
vated to nearly the sante height as the grand door of
entrance to the Abbey. At the entrance of the choir
a kind of triumphal arch is raied, under which the
procession marches, and in which are places assigned
fur the dams and trumpets, and also for the boys of
Westminster School. Having passed this archway,
under which you mount a flight of steps, two rows of
galleries, one above the other, run on each side of
the aisle till yon come to the theatre, whi.ch is the
oblong formed by the intersection of the centre aisla
with the two transepts. All these galleries as well
as the benches situated just before them on the pave-
ment of the aisle, were covered with scarlet cloth,
and form a cheering and magnificent prospect
for the eye of the spectator to rest on. 'I lie
benches within the choir, to which we are now
alluding, are the benches on u bleb the Knights
Commanders of the Bath, the Pi ivy Councillors, and
Knights of the Harter, nut being Peers, the Judges.
and different law officers of the Crown, take their seats
during the ceremony of the Coronation. The theatre
is directly under the tower of the Abbey, and on a
platform of four steps, raised in the centre of it, co-
vered with cloth of gold, and surrounded by the rich-
est Turkey carpets, stands the coronation chair of the
Kings of England, of which, as it has been so often
described, we shall not attempt to give any decription
on the present occasion. Ott the north and south sides
of the theatre, are the north and south transepts of the
Abbey-church, in which seats covered with scarlet
cloth were assigned for the Peers, and plain matted
seats for the spectators who sat behind them. At each
of the four pillars which support the main tower of
the Abbey, seats were reserved for the Heralds and
officers of arms ; and near to the south villar
I stand the pulpit, out of w'.tich the Coronation sermon is
I preached, beautifully decorated with crimson Tel-
set and gold. On rising another Hight of steps yell
INNS, to that platform on which is the altar and the com-
menion-table, and on which are placed the chairs and
fadatead used by the King daring the sermon and lit;r.y,
mill also the old chair of St. Edward the Confessor. The
floor of tbisylatfornt is strewed with the most superb
Persian tapestry, whilst the walls which surround and
rise from it are hung with 'he most beautiful darna3c.
On the north side of this platform is the gallery of the
Earl Marshal and that assigned to the foreign Ambas-
sadors; on the south side that of his Majesty and the
Royal Family. Underneath the gallery assigned to the
Foreign Ministers, and opposite to that of the female
branches of the Royal Family, is the seat of the Bi-
shops ; and above the altar is the gallery assigned to
Peeresses and their families. Above them, in gradual
order, rise the seats of the choristers and the gentlemen
of his Majesty's band, fancifully fringed with scarlet;
and as a finale to the view from the grand western en-
trance stands the superb and majestic organ of the Ab-
bey. Besides these preparations for the comfort and
cor.venience of those whom curiosity or necessity oblige
to attend, boxes for spectators were fitted up in the cor-
nice galleries which run round the whole extent of the
Abbey, and which were decorated on the outside in the
same manner as those which we have already described.
Such was the outward appearance of the inside of the
Abbey previous to the admission of strangers in any con-
siderable numbers; and if we are to believe the opi-
nions which we heard expressed by those around us, it
gratified every expectation which they bad been acmes-
tooled to form concerning it.
About four in the morning the gates of the Abbey
were thrown open. A large concourse of persons had
collected themselves in the aria (formerly the church-
yard) between the north door of the building and the
Gaildhall of Westnsiestsr. The *sot row of the milted
gallery was rapidly sposoplai (principally by han.l-iinso
and well-droused females), but nut the slightest coat-