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Poor Knights of Windsor,
Pages of the Royal Family.

Pages of the KING.

Pages of her late MAJESTY,

Gentlemen Ushers Quarterly Waiters to his MAJESTY.
Gentlemen Ushers Quarterly Waiters to her late MAJESTY.
Pages of Honour to his MAJESTY,

Pages of Honour to her late MAJESTY.
Apothecaries to the PRINCE REGENT,
Apothecaries to the KING.
Apothecaries to her late MAJESTY.
Surgeons to the PRINCE REGENT.
Surgeons to the KING.

Surgeons to her late MAJESTY.
The Curate and Rector of Kew.

The Curate and Rector of WINDSOR.

Grooms of the Privy Chamber to his MAJESTY.

Grooms of the Privy Chamber to her late MAJESTY.
Gentlemen Ushers, Daily Waiters to his MAJESTY,
Gentlemen Ushers, Daily Waiters to her late MAJESTY,
Serjeant Surgeons to the KING.

Physicians to the PRINCE REGENT-Sir W. FARQUHAR, SIR G. BLANE,
Sir W. KNIGHTON, Sir M. J. TIERNEY.

Physicians to the KING-Sir L. PEPYS, and W. HEBERDEN. Physicians to her late MAJESTY-Sir F. MILLMAN, and Sir H. HALFORD. Clerk of the Closet to the PRINCE REGENT, Rev. GEORGE FREDERICK BLOMBERG. Household Chaplain (at Windsor) to his MAJESTY, Rev. ISAAC GOSSET. Equerries to the Royal Family.

Military Secretary to the CoMMander in Chief, Maj.-Gen. Sir H. TORRENS, G.C.B. Equerries to the PRINCE REGENT.

Clerk Marshal and First Equerry to the Prince Regent.

Adjutant General,

Quarter Master General,

Major-Gen. Sir J. W. GORDON.

Lieut-Gen. Sir H. CALVERT,

Equerries to the KING.

Clerk Marshal and First Equerry to the KING, Lieut.-Gen. F. T. HAMMOND. Equerries to her late MAJESTY-Hon. Sir E. STOPFORD, Hon. A. UPTON, and Hon. C. MURRAY.

Gentlemen Ushers of the Privy Chamber to his MAJESTY-JOHN HALE,
R. CHESTER, W. C. MASTER, and G. T. HATTON, Esqrs.

Gentlemen Ushers of the Privy Chamber to her late MAJESTY-T. FAUQUIer,
C. ROCKE, Esqrs. and Major-General Sir T. B. PECHELL, Bart.

Officers of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Chamberlain to the Great Steward of Scotland, Viscount KEITH, G.C.R. Grooms of the Bed Chamber to his MAJESTY-General FINCH, Colonel THOMAS, General STEVENS, Colonel STANHOPE, General Sir J. CRADOCK, General Sir W. KEPPEL, Bon. F. GREVILLE, Sir

Solicitor General,

Sir R. GIFFORD.

A. K. LEGGE, Sir H. BURRARD

NEALE, General Sir H.
CAMPBELL.

Her late MAJESTY'S Solicitor General,

ANTHONY HART, Esq.

Attorney General,

Sir SAMUEL Shepherd.

Her late MAJESTY'S Attorney General,
J. VAUGHAN, Esq.

Comptroller of his MAJESTY's Household,
Lord GEO. THO. BERESFORD.

Treasurer of his MAJESTY'S Household,
Lord C. BENTINCE.

HERALDS.

Privy Purse and Private Secretary to the PRINCE REGENT,
Sir BENJAMIN BLOOMFIELD.

Lord Chief Baron-Right Hon. Sir R. RICHARDS.
Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas-Sir ROBERT Dallas.
Vice Chancellor-Sir John Leach,

Master of the Rolls-Sir THOMAS PLUMER.

Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench-Sir CHARLES ABBOTT,
Lords of the Bed Chamber to the PRINCE REGENT-Lord BOSTON,
Earl POULETT, Lord CHARLES SPENCER, Marquis of
HEADFORT, Viscount MELBURNE, Lord JAMES
MURRAY, Vis. PETERSHAM, Vis. Lake,

Earl DE LAWAR, Lord GRAVES,

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Minister of State of HANOVER-Count MUNSTER.

Deputy Earl Marshal-Lord H. HOWARD, M. HOWARD.

His MAJESTY's Ministers-Earl of WESTMORLAND, Earl of HARROWBY, Viscount
SIDMOUTH, Earl BATHURST, K.G. Right Hon. NICHOLAS VANSITTART,
Viscount MELVILLE, Earl of MULGRAVE, Right Hon. GEORGE
CANNING, Right Hon. C. BATHURST, Right Hon.
WILLIAM W. POLE, Right Honourable
FREDERICK JOHN ROBINSON.

Archbishop of YORK -Right Honourable EDWARD VENABLES VERNON, D.C.L.
Lord Chancellor-Lord ELDON.

Archbishop of CANTERBURY-Right Hon. CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, D.D. NORROY King of Arms.

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The Lord Chamberlain of his MAJESTY'S Household-Marquis of HERTFORD,

THE ROYAL BODY,

Covered with a fine Holland Sheet, and a Black Velvet Pal!, adorned with Ten
Escocheons, carried by Ten Yeomen of the Guard, under a
Canopy of Black Velvet,

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H.R.H. the PRINCE REGENT, supported by the Marq. BUCKINGHAM and SALISBURY.
Assistants and Train Bearers to the Chief Mourner.

Their R. H. Dukes of YORK and SUSSEX,
Train Bearers.

Master of the Horse to her late MAJESTY-Earl HARCOURT.
Lord Chamberlain to her late MAJESTY-Earl of MORTON.
Secretary and Comptroller to her late MAJESTY-Sir HENRY F. CAMPBELL,
Private Secretary and Treasurer to her late MAJESTY-Major-Gen. HERBERT

TAYLOR.

Mistress of the Robes-Marchioness of BATH.

Ladies of the Bed Chamber-Countess HARCOURT, Viscountess SIDNEY, Countess of HARRINGTON, Countess of MACCLESFIELD, Viscountess MELVILLE, Countess of CARDIGAN.

Keepers of the Robes- Mrs. CHARLOTTE BECKENDORFF, Miss S. BECKENDORFF. Women of the Bed Chamber to her late MAJESTY-Hon. Mrs. A. M. EGERTON, Lady RADSTOCK, Hon. Mrs. COURTENAY, A. BOYLE, Mrs. MARY GWYN, Hon. Mrs. AUGUSTA LEIGH,

Maids of Honour-Miss CAROLINE VERNON, Miss

AUGUSTA BRUDENELL,

Miss SEYMOUR COLMAN, Miss LOUISA WROTTESLEY, Miss ELIZABETH
COURTENAY, Miss LOUISA MURRAY.

Women Attendants on her late MAJESTY.

Ten Gentlemen Pensioners, with their axes reversed.
Forty Yeomen of the Guard, with their partisans reversed.

The Royal Body having been borne to the steps of the Altar, was placed on a platform prepared to receive it; the pall was removed, and the crown and cushion placed upon the coffin. The PRINCE REGENT, as Chief Mourner, being seated in a chair at the head of the corpse, surrounded by his Supporters and Train-bearers, standing, the funeral service commenced in the usual manner, as performed in cathedrals, at the demise of the great and the illustrious.

Immediately on the entrance of the body into the Chapel, the Choir had commenced the impressive burial service, composed by CROFT and PURCell. The second verse, “I know that my Redeemer liveth," was then played with exquisite tenderness, and as exquisitely sung by the principal vocal performers.

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KENT'S celebrated anthem of "O Lord, hear my prayer!" was next sung at the express desire of the PRINCE REGENT, by two boys from the Chapel Royal, and two from St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Their voices were extremely fine, and their delivery of the anthem highly impressive ; after which the usual burial service was read by the Honourable and Reverend the Dean of Windsor.

During the performance of the anthem “Man that is born of woman," the platform was gradually lowered by imperceptible machinery, and at twentyfive minutes past nine o'clock, the car, and the coffin which it upheld, descended below the surface of the pavement. At the moment of its dis appearance, the Dean read the sublime passage, "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God," &c. &c.-The next part of the service, "I heard a voice from Heaven," was then sung by the Choristers, and the remainder of the office of interment read by the Dean.

Throughout the whole of this sad ceremony, all eyes were fixed on the PRINCE REGENT, who seemed absorbed in grief. His Royal Highness was long known to have been the favourite son of his August Mother; and this was that occasion when filial piety shewed all its traits of genuine affection. The natural and suitable grief of his Royal Highness for the loss he had now endured, was also augmented by the remembrance, that the remains of his only child were deposited in the same vault. The splendour of royalty, and the pride of dominion, have no consolations for such an hour as this; and the grief of gazing, for the last time, on the coffin of a fond mother is insupportable. As it is lowered in the tomb where we are never more to see her, whence we shall never hear again the sound of her voice, we feel as if one of the strongest and tenderest chords were torn from the breast. The soul weeps through all its inmost recesses, to know that the sacred shrine in which its ethereal essence was first enkindled, has fallen to ruin, and is now blended with common, lifeless earth. He too was her firstborn, the first who reflected back her maternal gladness. He was her favourite. In his adversity, for he had kis adversity, she loved him stillshe solaced and advised him, and her heart clung to him the more, the more he was afflicted. His prosperity was her nightly ineditation, and her waking thought was a prayer for the happiness and the safety of the future Monarch of her People. The filial assiduity with which he attended her both before, and during her fatal illness, proved that her partiality

was well bestowed. He watched every evening by her bed-side with an attention which was honourable to himself, and exemplary to the country, and now that he is finally separated from her, he stands the peculiar object of a generous Nation's sympathy.

There are few more trying epochs in human life, than following to the grave the remains of a beloved Parent; yet the sorrow with which we perform even that duty, may be heightened by accompanying circumstances, and it was so in the person of the PRINCE REGENT. Could he forget, while gazing upon the yawning vault which was to receive the ashes of his Mother, that there foo lay those of a Daughter, whom he had loved with a singleness of affection, that knew no rival? Could he forget, that within the very pre cincts of that spot where the sad funereal pomp ushered one Parent to the sepulchre, another Parent, heavily stricken by the hand of Providence, a forlorn, venerable Father, wandered darkling through the chambers of his Royal Palace, unconscious,-happily unconscious,-of the mortality that has fallen upon his house. The sources of affliction may be indeed dried up in him, but the reflection that they are so, must open them anew in the bosoms of his children. If imagination reverted but for a moment to his dreary loneliness, his quiet desolation, and his frightful stillness, what anguish must have followed !-Misfortune is a sacred passport to the kindliest feelings of our Nature; and when the loftier emotions of our nature are blended with it, the sorrows of the Throne become a common and a general grief. So is it with us now; and the public condolence which will reach his Royal Highness, will spring from no frigid obedience to precedent and custom, but from a real anxiety to soothe his personal afflictions, by proving to him how deeply they are participated by the Empire at large.

The whole of these melancholy rites were finished before ten o'clock. Sir ISAAC HEARD, as Garter King at Arms, now at the close of his 88th year, came forward at the conclusion, and standing near the grave, in a voice tremulous from emotion and age, proclaimed the style and titles of her late MAJESTY. The PRINCE REGENT, the Great Officers of State, and the Nobility present, then retired. As the mourners and attendants on this striking ceremony began slowly to separate and to quit the Chapel, the solemn swell of the organ, which then struck up the "Dead March" in Saul, produced at once the richest and most soothing effect. The numerous company separated without the least disorder or inconvenience; and in a few minutes after the obsequies of her late MAJESTY had closed, no vestige remained of the solemn pageantry which had just passed before the eyes of the spectators.

The PRINCE REGENT was repeatedly observed to shed tears during the sacred ceremony, though he struggled to maintain his wonted serenity and fortitude. As the coffin gradually receded from view, his Royal Highness kept his eye fixed upon it. When it was no longer visible, he rose, and, Sir BENJAMIN BLOOMFIELD bearing his train, passed along the side of the open vault, towards the altar, aud left the Chapel by the Western Porch, accompanied by the Dukes of YORK and SUSSEX.

Europ. Mag. Vol. LXXIV. Dec. 1818.

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