time that the military have been employed, instead of the beadles of the parish, to empty a church of those who may linger after. service time. I mean the first time in England; for I am aware that Louis XIV. used his dragoons in much the same way 140 years ago in France.

I know not whether you have been made acquainted with the fact, that the two persons who were left by consent of Mr. Chittenden, the undertaker, to watch the Queen's inscription, were, after the church was shut, forcibly expelled-hands were laid upon them they resisted-help was given to their adversaries, and, after a scuffle at the altar, they were turned out. It is to be presumed that the Queen's inscription was shortly after torn off, and Thomas's inscription put on. The executors have heard nothing of their plate, at least they had not when at Harwich. Do you know that the crown and cushion were not deposited at the head of the coffin in the church at Colchester, or at Chelmsford? A gentleman of her Majesty's suite complained of this to Mr. Undertaker Bailey, who replied, "We have orders to show no state.” I leave you and the public to make your own comments on these facts, and am, Sir, yours, &c.

AN ATTENDANT ON THE QUEEN'S FUNERAL. P. S. Bound's name is certainly Round. The man is a distributor of stamps at fifteen hundred or so a year, and performs the duty by a deputy, to whom he gives perhaps 150l. I commend him to Mr. Hume's pruning hook.

We will now pursue the narrative of this extraordinary funeral procession. The cavalcade proceeded from Colchester about half past five, a. m.; when the inhabitants were all out as at mid-day; the hearse was escorted by three troops.

The procession made a halt at Manningtree for a few minutes, on its road to Harwich, having been received by the villagers along the road with the same feelings of regret as in the former part of the journey.

The villagers of Mistley Thorne were most of them in deep mourning, and seemed to take an

anxious part in the funeral obsequies of her Majesty. All the vessels that were in Manningtree river had' their colours hoisted half-mast high, and some of them had them even covered with crape. The bells of the church tolled in mournful sympathy with the grief which was visibly expressed in the face of every individual around. About a mile and a half from Mistley Thorne, from the ascent to the summit of a hill, an opportunity was afforded of taking a coup d'œil of the whole of this mournful procession. It extended for more than a mile in length. The mourning carriages, with dragoons placed at intervals between them, and flanked by crowds of people all bending their steps to Harwich, would clearly prove to a stranger that the obsequies which were then celebrating were those of a person of rank; but the indecent haste at which the cortège proceeded would prevent him from supposing that they were the obsequies of a Queen. The procession proceeded four miles an hour, which, rapid as the pace was, would not have appeared so indecorously so, if it had been always uniform; but it frequently advanced at the rate of seven miles an hour, and then made a long halt to prevent it from proceeding at more than the average rate of four miles in that period. The foot people endeavoured, but in vain, by running, to keep up with the escort, and though occasional halts allowed them from time to time to come up with it, before they could regain their breath, the race recommenced.

An hour's ride brought them to the church of a small hamlet on the top of a hill called Dovecour. At this place all was tribulation and anguish.

“The sea," writes a person from the place, at the time," has just opened upon our view; and one of the most prominent objects upon it is the Glasgow frigate, stationed at some distance from Languard Fort. In the river are seen at the same time the six smaller vessels which are to accompany that vessel on its voyage to Germany. The boats around them seem to be almost innumerable. entrance into Harwich is also visible. No cavalcade has marched out to meet the procession, but the hills are lined by a population amounting to at least four times that of the population at Harwich."

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At half past eleven the procession arrived in Harwich. It was met on the outside of the town by a detachment of the 86th, of about 150 men, with a stand of colours, and band. The crowds of well-dressed people in mourning who were waiting on the slopes of the fort, and on the edges of the road, certainly expected a procession of a very different kind from that which wound down the hill into the town, after the assurance given by Lord Liverpool to Lady Hood, that the funeral should be conducted with decency, order, and in a becoming manner. The procession as it entered Harwich was literally such as is now mentioned. A small advanced guard of cavalry preceded; Mr. Chittenden the undertaker, on a lame horse, headed; ten undertakers on horseback, in pairs-a miserable

spectacle, both as to cattle, dress, and persons, some with shoes, some with gaiters, others in boots, some in spurs, others not-followed their leader. Three mourning coaches and six, one of which contained the real directors and lords of this strange ceremony, Mr. Bailey and Mr. Thomas; the two others, containing the servants of the Queen's household, came next. Mr. Bailey was the head undertaker, and Mr. Thomas the deputy of the nonexistent Lord Chamberlain. About 25 cavalry, 4th Dragoons, followed. Then came her Majesty's own carriage, drawn by six bay horses, containing Sir George Nayler, his companion, the cushion and crown; the crown, a tawdry bauble decorated with white beads, strung round in a manner that would have disgraced a country stage. Then followed the hearse, drawn by eight black horses. No plumes on the horses-a few paltry feathers on the hearse. No plateaus of feathers carried, as is the case at almost all respectable funerals. The Royal arms were still left upon the hearse, but all the escutcheons, if there ever had been any, were removed from the horses. No attendance of heralds or marshal's men. Two undertaker's men on foot graced this part of the procession, and the same number of cavalry as had preceded the Queen's carriage followed the body. Nine mourning coaches, containing Lord Hood, Lady Hood, and Lady Anne Hamilton, and others of her Majesty's family, were next seen: one appeared to contain undertaker's men, and another nothing but luggage.

The wretched appearance of the carriages, of the horses, of the drivers, and of the trappings, surprised every spectator. Then followed the private carriage of Mr. Brougham, containing Mr. Brougham and Sir Robert Wilson. Near this carriage were remarked Mr. Hume and Mr. Hobhouse, who had attended the funeral from London. A mourning coach and six succeeded, apparently empty. Then came Lord Hood's private carriage and four. Lady Perceval's (the wife of Lord Perceval) carriage and pair came next. The carriage of Mr. Saville, of Colchester, with that gentleman and another in it. Dr. Lushington's empty carriage. The Rev. Mr. Fonnereau's family, of Christ church Park, Ipswich, in an open barouch and four. An empty gig. These equipages, brought up by another detachment of dragoons, closed the "decent," orderly," and " becoming" funeral of the Queen of England-the wife, as the new inscription says, of the most potent Monarch George the Fourth!! But if the reader be astonished at the foregoing details, how will he be surprised at what ensued? The executors, suite, and friends of her late Majesty, were kept in entire ignorance of the intention of Government as to the embarkation, either as to time or place. The ladies, who had got into the carriage before six o'clock, knew not whether they were to proceed on board immediately or to stay for refreshment. The procession, as before described, marched into the town. The dragoons preceding played the Dead