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whole moved towards the Admiralty, where a clear and extensive area was kept, by parties of the military, horse and foot; and the whole entered, in a solemn pace, the Admiralty gate; when the body was conveyed to the apartment on the left of the Great Hall, called the Captain's room, which was lighted with forty-six wax lights fitted in sconces, and, on each side the coffin, were six candles. On the top of the coffin were placed the coronet and cushion. The Rev. Mr Scott, chaplain of the Victory, who has sat up every night with the corpse, since it has lain in state, remained with it the whole of the night in the Admiralty.

The Lord Mayor, Corporation, &c. did not land at Whitehall-stairs, but proceeded in their barges to Palace yard stairs, where they landed, and returned in their carriages to the city. The boats of the River Fencibles, and others of the procession, except the city barges, returned in order with the tide down stream, firing minute guns the whole way; and, by six o'clock, the streets were quite clear of the populace.

PROCESSION TO ST PAUL'S.

Thursday, Jan. 9.

Long before day light the whole metropolis might be said to be in motion. Carriages were driving in every direc. tion with families of the first distinction; and groupes of men, women, and children of every class and description, felt so much interest in the scene, that they flocked together from every quarter, for I many miles round London, hoping to have at least a glance of the wonderful spectacle. In the principal streets thro' which the procession was to pass, the crowd was beyond calculation. The day dawned (and continued through. out) bright and cheering, when all the tops of the houses, and every window from the Admiralty to St Paul's, were instantly filled with spectators. A paviour, one Johnson, had undertaken to clean the streets, and gravel them all over in 24 hours; and by the assistance of a vast number of labourers, so well

did he conduct the business, that the Herculean task was completely accomplished before nine in the morning.

About eight o'clock, a detachment

of 48 seamen belonging to the Victory, and 43 pensioners from Greenwich hospital, arrived in cars in St James's park, to take their appointed stations in the procession. At same time, a numerous detachment of the royal artillery at Woolwich, with their field-pieces, marched over Westminster bridge to St James's Park, where they took post on the right of the troops previously assembled, consisting of the 21st, 31st, and 79th regiments infantry. The 92d, or Duke of Gordon's Highlanders, a corps which particularly signalized itself in Egypt, under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, drew up in Westminster road, facing Mount row, and soon after followed the royal artillery. In St James's Park were two batalions of foot guards, four squadrons of life guards, the 10th, or Prince of Wales's light dragoons, 14th and 17th.

By ten o'clock, all the volunteer corps within the bills of mortality had taken the stations allotted to them; and so well was this part of the business managed, that no vacancy was left between any corps. The volunteer musters were particularly strong on this occasion, and amounted to upwards of 20,000. Along with four regiments of regulars, they formed a double line on both sides all the way from the Admiralty to the Cathedral. The Duke of Sussex was at the head of the Loyal North Britons, stationed near Bedford street in the Strand. All the Standards were hung with black crape, the officers and men wearing the same round their left arms.

Before nine o'clock, according to notification from the Herald's office, the carriages of the nobility and gentry who were to join the procession, were assembled in St James's Park, and duly marshalled according to the established order of precedency. The dress ordered to be worn, was mourning, without weepers, and with mourning swords; the Knights of the several orders to wear their respective collars, and the naval and military officers in their full uniforms, with crape round their arms

and hats.

At half past ten, the procession began to move from the front of the Admiralty, in the following order :

His Royal Highness the Duke of York, with his Marshal's Staff, led the line. Three squadrons of 10th dragoons.

Part

Part of the 79th Regiment. The band playing "Rule Britannia,” drums muffled.

92d Regiment, in echelons-a considerable depth between each-Colours with Egypt on them, hung with crape -band playing muffled.

The Buffs-drums muflled, playing the dead march in Saul.

Rest of the 79th Regiment, Officers all with Black Scarfs-Colours in crape. The 21st Regiment.

Rest of the 10th Dragoons-Officers on horseback, with black cloaks-Trumpets sounding at intervals.

14th Dragoons.-17th Dragoons. ad dragoons, or Scots Greys. Trumpets preceding them sounding a dead march.

Horse Artillery.

With Guns and Tumbrills.

The civil procession immediately commenced in the following order :

Marshal's men, on foot, to clear the

way..

Messenger of the College of Arms, in a mourning cloak, with a badge of the College on his shoulder, his staff tipped with silver, and furled with sarsnet, Six Conductors, in mourning cloaks, with black staves headed with Viscounts coronets.

Forty-eight pensioners from Greenwich Hospital, two and two, in mourningcloaks, with badges of the crests of the deceased on the shoulders, and black staves in their hands. Forty-eight seamen of his Majesty's ship the Victory, two and two, in their ordinary dress, with black neck handkerchiefs and stockings, and crapes in their hats.

Watermen of the deceased, in black coats with their badges. Drums and Fifes.-Drum Major. Trumpets,-Serjeant Trumpeter. Rouge Croix, Pursuivant of Arms (alone in a mourning coach), in close mourning, with his tabard over his cloak, black silk scarf, hatband and gloves. The Standard borne in front of a mourning coach, in which were a Captain of the Royal Navy, supported by two Lieutenants, in their full uniform coats, with black cloth waistcoats, breeches, and stockings, and crape round their arms and hats.

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Trumpets.

Blue Mantle Pursuivant of Arms (alone in a mourning coach) habited as Rouge Croix.

The Guidon borne in front of a mourning coach, in which were a Captain of the Royal Navy (Capt. Durham) supported by two Lieutenants, dressed as those who bear and support the standard.

Servants of the deceased, in mourning, in a mourning coach.

Officers of his Majesty's Wardrobe, in mourning coaches. Trumpets.

Rouge Dragon, Pursuivant of Arms (alone, in a mourning coach), habited as Blue Mantle.

The Banner of the deceased as a Knight of the Bath, borne in front of a mourning coach, in which were a Captain of the Royal Navy (Capt. Rotheram) supported by two Lieutenants, dressed as those who support the Guidon.

Officers who attended the body while it lay in state at Greenwich, in mourning coaches.

(Here followed the private persons in the procession, according to their precedency, from Knights Bachelors to the Prince of Wales, the juniors always going first.)

A Herald (alone in a mourning coach) habited as the other Officers of Arms. The Great Banner, born in front of a mourning coach, in which were Captain Moorsom, and two Lieutenants, as with the other banners. Gauntlet and Spurs, Helmet and Crest, Target Sword, and Surcoat, in front of four mourning coaches, in which were Heralds, habited as before. A mourning coach, in which the Coronet of the deceased, on a black velvet cushion, was borne by Clarencieux King of Arms, habited as before, and attended by two Gentlemen Ushers. The Six Lieutenants of the Royal Navy, habited as before, bearing the bannerolls, in two mourning coaches. The six Admirals, in like habits, bearing the canopy, in two mourning

coaches.

The four Admirals, in like habits, supporting the Pall, in a mourning coach. (These were the same as in the proces. sion from Greenwich.)

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THE BODY, Covered with a black velvet Pall, adorned with six Escutcheons, under a Canopy, and placed on a Funeral Car, decorated wit Escutcheons, Bannerolis, and Emblematical Devices,the Car drawn by six led horses.

Garter Principal King of Arms (in a mourning coach), habited as the other Officers of Arms, with his Sceptre, attended by two Gentlemen Ushers. The Chief Mourner, Admiral Sir Peter Parker, Bart. (as Admiral of the Fleet), in a long mourning cloak, with his two Supporters, Admirals Lord Hood and Radstock, and his Trainbearer, Hon. Capt. Blackwood, all in mourning cloaks, over their full uniform coats, black waistcoats, breeches, and stockings, crape round their

arms and hats.

Six assistant mourners, Vice-Admirals Caldwell, Hamilton, Nugent, Bligh, Sir Roger Curtis, and Sir C. M. Poie, (in two mourning coaches) in mouraing cloaks as before. Norioy King of Arms, (in a mourning coach) habited as the other Officers of Arms.

The Banner of Emblems, in front of a mourning coach, in which were Capt. T. M. Hardy, and two Lieutenants of the Royal Navy, as with the other

Banners.

Relations of the Deceased in mourning coaches.

Officers of the Navy and Army, according to their respective ranks, the Seniors nearest the Body.

The servants, who attended the carria. ges in the Procession, in mourning, or with silk or crape hatbands and gloves.

Some of the Royal Dukes carriages were filled with Equerries or Officers belonging to the Household, others were empty; the Prince of Wales had two carriages in his place in the procession; the first carried Mr Sheridan and some other Gentlemen belonging to the establishment of the Prince; in the last the Prince himself was seated, with the Duke of Clarence on his left, the Earl Moira and another nobleman in the front. Before the Princes of the Blood were seen the following persons: The Lord President of the Council.

Dukes-Norfolk, Earl Marshal; Devonshire, St Alban's, and Montrose.

Marquisses of Douglas and Blandford. Earls-Dartmouth, Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's itousehold; Buckinghamshire, Scarborough, Leicester, Cowper, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Winchelsea, Moira, Westmeath, Fife, Besborough, Clancarty, Darnley, and two more.,

Lord Archiba d Hamilton. wynd, Hawarden, Melville, Hampden, Viscounts-Sidmouth, Gosford, ChetSydney, and three others.

Eldest Sons of Earis-Lord Ossulston, Viscount Castlereagh, Viscount Kirkwall, and Lord Delvin.

Younger sons of Marquisses-Lord Henry Petty, Lord Henry Moore, Bishop of Exeter.

Barons Lord Hawkesbury, Mulgrave, Hutchinson, Holland, De Bla quiere, Aston, and four others.

Eldest Sons of Viscounts-Hon. Hen

ry Hood, and Hon. Thomas Knox. Bennet, Hon. Col Fermor, and Hon. Younger Sons of Earls-Hon.

Alexander Murray.

Eldest Sons of Barons-Hon. Augustus Cavendish Bradshaw.

Privy Councillors-Right Hon. William Windham, Sir William Scott, Kut. and George Tierney.

Younger Sons of Barons-Hon. Cha. James Fox, Richard Ryder, and Christopher Hely Hutchinson.

Relations of the Deceased.

Earl Nelson, Viscount Merton, Thomas Bolton, Esq. Geo. Matcham, Esq. Thomas Bolton, jun. Esq. Geo. Matcham, jun. Esq. T. French Berney, Esq. Rev. Robert Rolfe, Hon. G. Walpole, Hon. H. Walpole.

The following is a general view of their Numbers.

Peers, Peers' Sons, and Privy-Councillors, 51. Baronets, 17. Knights of the Bath, 2. Law Officers, 2. Serjeatns at Law, 2. Knights Batchelors, 5. Officers of the Household of the deceased, &c. 20. Divines, 57. Esquires, about 209. Naval officers, 164. Total, 529.

When the procession came to Temple-bar, the gates were shut; they were, however, presently opened, and the Lord Mayor, mounted on horseback, and bare-headed, took his place in the line immediately after the Prince of

Wales.

Wales. The Sword of State was carried before his Lordship, and his immediate attendants were all uncovered. The Court of Aldermen followed in carriages, and thus by slow degrees the cavalcade attained the front of the Cathedral about three o'clock. Inside of the rails, some time was consumed in arranging the order of procession up the great steps, pursuant to the published regulations. At length every thing being settled, and each mourner in his proper situation, the procession ascended the steps at a slow and solemn pace.

The six Conductors, forty-eight pensioners from Greenwich Hospital, and forty-eight Seamen of the Victory, ascended the steps, divided, and ranged on each side, without the great west door; the rest of the Procession entered the Church, and divided on either side according to their ranks; those who had proceeded first remaining nearest the door. The Officers of Arms, and the Bearers of the Banners, with their Supporters, entered the Choir, and stood within, near the door; and, as there was not sufficient space in the Choir to admit a large portion of the procession, the Nobility, Great Officers of State, Dukes of the Blood Royal, and his Royal Highness the. Prince of Wales, only proceeded into the Choir, with those who had especial duties in the solemnity. Near the entrance of the Church, the Dean and Prebendaries, attended by the Choir, fell into the procession immediately after the Great Banner, and before the Heralds who bore the trophies.

The Prince remained in the Choir about half an hour, and then returned towards the western door, to join the procession when the corpse should ar. rive. In this quarter his Royal Highness remained bare-headed for nearly half an hour, when the corpse entered about a quarter past three. The body was borne into the church and choir by eight seamen of the Victory, followed by the Chief Mourner and two Admirals his supporters; the pall supported by four Admirals, and the canopy by six.

The Chief Mourner, and his two supporters, were seated on chairs at the head of the body, and the six assistant Mourners, and four Supporters of the Pall, on stools on each side. The relations of the deceased also sat near them Jan. 1806.

in the Choir. The Officers of the Navy and Army, who followed in the procession, remained in the body of the church.

The carpet and cushion (on which the trophies were afterwards deposited) were laid by the Gentleman Usher, on a table placed near the grave, and behind the place to be occupied by the Chief Mourner.

The coronet and cushion, borne by Clarencieux King of Arms, were laid on the body, and the canopy borne over it. The bearers of the bannerolls stood near those of the banners.

On the entrance of the body into the church, Dr Croft's burial service was performed until it arrived in the choir. The voices, to the number of 88; 2 of them boys, then sung, "I am the Resur rection," without the organ. The effect of this solemn and sublime music, exceeds all description; it was sung most correctly in time, by a number of principal singers.

This part of the service was finished just as they had got under the organ loft. The funeral service then commenced by the Bishop of Lincoln (Dean of St Paul's,) within the choir, which occupied near an hour; after which, as the corpse was carrying to the grave, the Gentlemen of the Choir went up to a temporary orchestra, erected in the front of the organ, where they performed a new Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, composed for the occasion by Mr Attwood. Dr Greene's funeral anthem was then sung. The organ afterwards began to play a solemn dirge, composed for the occasion by Mr Attwood, as the body moved from the choir to the grave.

After the dirge was finished, the burial service, composed by Dr Croft and Henry Purcel, was sung by the gentlemen over the grave, as well as by those in the orchestra. The whole concluded with a selection from Handel's Funeral Anthem, which was extremely grand and appropriate. Indeed every thing was conducted with such regularity and precision, as to confer equal honour on those who planned and those who executed it.

During the service in the choir, the dome of the cathedral was lighted up by 160 brilliant patent lamps, suspended upon an ingeniously contrived frame

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from the centre of the dome, which produced a very striking effect. While the last service was performing at the grave, the chief mourner stood at the head of the coffin, surrounded by the assistant mourners, the Prince of Wales, and his royal brothers, on the right, and Earl Nelson, with the other relations of the deceased, on the left. The nobility and those who had places in the procession

stood behind round the dome.

And now commenced the most impressive, the most awful and affecting part of the whole ceremony: the coffin was uncovered, and the coronet placed upon it; the moment was approaching that was to consign to his last home the mortal remains of a consummate hero; the degree of light was sufficient to give effect to the splendour and magnificence of the scene, but not to afford a distinct view of its actual limits, so that the mind insensibly was impressed with that image of sublimity which belongs to infinity.

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At thirty-three minutes past five, the coffin was lowered into the grave, whither it was followed by the regrets of all that witnessed the affecting scene. Every bosom heaved with unfeigned emotions of sorrow and gratitude; and if that moment were to be the last, every soul of the 10,000, that were present, would be willing and sincere witnesses to the merits of the departed Hero. Oh! immortal NELSON! If it were possible for thy spirit to hover over the place where thy remains are deposited, what bliss ecstatic must thou not have enjoyed in the contemplation of the tribute of feeling and respect paid to thy memory by all descriptions of thy fellow-subjects!

Garter King of Arms then proclaimed the style, and the Comptroller, Treasurer, and Steward of the deceased, breaking their staves, gave the pieces to Garter, who threw them into the grave..

The standard, banners, bannerolls, and trophies, were then deposited on the table behind the Chief Mourner'; and the procession being arranged by the officers of arms, returned. The whole assembly then gradually withdrew from the scene, deeply penetrated with the feelings which the awful ceremony was calculated to inspire.

The Funeral Car was, to use (and not improperly) a nautical expression, from stein to stern, nearly twelve feet in length, resembling the hull of the Victory man of war-the name of that ship being inscribed in its proper place; the word "Trafalgar" on each side, and "Nile" on its head, which was formed by a figure of the Goddess of Victory. On the deck were raised three platforms, one over the other, on the upper of which was placed the splendid coffin with the body, which has been already accurately described, partly covered by a magnificent velvet pall, over which rose a most tastefully constructed canopy, to an elevation of above twenty feet from the ground, surmounted by rich plumes of black feathers. The canopy was supported at the corners by four palm-trees, the stems of silver, and the foliage of burnished gold. On the entablature on each side was the appropriate motto of the arms of Lord Nelson,-" Palmam qui meruit, ferat," over which was some elegant silver scroll work, in the Greek taste. The car was drawn by six led horses, in funer I trappings.

We have now only to remark on this extraordinary occasion, the wonderful order and regularity which were uniformly preserved throughout the whole of this interesting ceremony. The arrangement in every department had been planned with so much judgement, in regard to practicability, that with the exception of such unavoidable obstructions as the presence of so`large an assemblage of persons must necessarily create, no confusion or inconvenience ensued, nor was any impediment encountered, and to the honour of the country be it said, that of all the public exhibitions that ever drew together so vast a concourse of all classes, ages and sexes, did ever less of riot, disorder, or tumult, occur. In St Paul's, though the number exceeded 10,000, the utmost decorum uniformly prevailed. We lament to state, that on the first day several melancholy accidents happened on the water. A boat was run down off Lambeth, when three men were unfortunately drowned; and a young woman with a child in her arms, fell off a lighter near the Temple, and both shared the same fate.

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