placed on deck. Tuesday, she arrived at Greenwich; the body, still being in the coffin made of the wreck of L'Orient, was then enveloped in the colours of the Victory, bound round by a piece of rope, and carried by sailors, part of the crew of the Victory, to the Painted Hall, where preparations were made for the lying-in-state on January 5, 6, and 7, 1806.

On January 8, the first day's procession by water took place, and the remains were removed from Greenwich to Whitehall, and from thence to the Admiralty, with great pomp and solemnity. barges was nearly a mile long, and minute guns were The procession of fired during its progress. The banner of emblems was borne by Captain Hardy, Lord Nelson's captain. The body was deposited that night in the captain's room at the Admiralty, and attended by the Rev. John Scott: it is the room to the left, as you enter the hall.

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On Thursday, January 9, the procession from the Admiralty to St. Paul's moved forward about eleven o'clock in the morning; the first part consisting of cavalry regiments, regimental bands with muffled drums, Greenwich pensioners, seamen from the Victory, about 200 mourning coaches, 400 carriages of public officers, nobility, &c., including those of the Royal Family, the Prince of Wales, Duke of Clarence, &c., taking part in the procession. The body, upon a funeral car, was drawn by six led horses. The military force numbered nearly 8,000 men. the City officers took their place in the procession. At Temple Bar,

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Upon arriving at the Cathedral, they entered by the west gate and the great west door (fronting Ludgatestreet), ranging themselves according to their ranks. The seats were placed under the dome, in each archway, in front of the piers, and in the gallery over the choir. The seats beneath the dome took the shape of the dome, and held 3,056 persons: from the dome to the great west door, behind an iron railing, persons were allowed to stand. The body was placed on a bier, erected on a raised platform, opposite the eagle lectern. At the conclusion of the service in the choir, a procession was formed to the grave, with banners, &c. The interment being over, Garter 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 procession, arranged by the officers of arms, then returned.

For a few days the public were admitted by a shilling fee, and allowed to enter the inclosed spot, directly over the body, looking down about ten feet, and were gratified with a sight of the coffin in the crypt, placed upon a platform covered with black cloth. Upon this spot was subsequently erected an altar-tomb, upon which was placed the coffin, within a black marble sarcophagus, originally made by order of Cardinal Wolsey, but left unused in the tomb-house adjoining St. George's Chapel, Windsor. It is surrounded with a viscount's coronet upon a cushion; on the pedestal is inscribed "Nelson." The remains and the tomb have been removed a short distance; and upon the spot has been placed the granite sarcophagus containing the remains of the great Duke of Wellington.

Nelson's flag was to have been placed within his

coffin, but just as it was about to be lowered for that purpose, the sailors who assisted at the ceremony, with one accord, rent it in pieces, that each might preserve a fragment while he lived. The leaden coffin in which the remains had been brought home, was, in like manner, cut in pieces, which were distributed as "relics of Saint Nelson"-as the gunner of the Victory called them.

LORD CASTLEREAGH'S BLUNDERS.

CASTLEREAGH was the most inelegant rhetorician in the House of Commons. He possessed unquestionably very considerable power of mind. An excellent judge, himself one of the most skilful of living debaters, and who sat with Castlereagh in the House of Commons, has said that he often pursued his object in debate with striking discernment and sagacity. But, in doing this, he blundered through every conceivable confusion of metaphor. He would often hesitate, often seem confused, often express himself by some strange Irishism that became the ridicule of his opponents; but he seldom lost the thread of his argument, nor delivered a speech that was logically inconsequential.

It was a strange instance of the feebleness of rhetoric against the strength of rotten boroughs, that the Government of the country was so long represented, in the most polished assembly of Europe, by a man who could not speak in debate with the signs of education which almost any gentleman would evince in his conversation. When Lord Castlereagh said, in the House of Commons, that " he would then embark into the feature on which the proposition before him mainly hinged," there

is no wonder that Tom Moore asked what were the features of a gate? When he commenced a reply to an inquiry--if he really said as was reported-touching a resolution of the Allies at Vienna, with the words, "I and the other Sovereigns of Europe," the House must have laughed at the awkward slip which let fall the conviction, no doubt justly resting on his mind, that he had been on an equality at Vienna with every crowned head. It was the custom and delight of Sir James Mackintosh to record every inelegant phrase as it dropped from Castlereagh's mouth, in a little book which was ever in his pocket as he went down to the House. This little book, an hour or two later, was reproduced at many a Whig dinner-table. "What do you think Castlereagh has been saying just now?" Mackintosh would ask, almost before shaking hands with his host and hostess, as he drew the little book out of his pocket; and all conversation was suspended to hear the best joke of the evening. We know not what Sir James Mackintosh's literary executors did with that little book; but if they destroyed it, they have certainly incurred the penalties of a high breach of trust.

ACCESSION OF QUEEN VICTORIA.

IN the Diaries of a Lady of Quality we find the following very interesting entry :

"June 1837.--On Monday we were listening all day for the tolling of the bells, watching whether the guests were going to the Waterloo dinner at Apsley House. On Tuesday, at 21 A.M., the scene closed, and in a very short time the Archbishop of Canterbury and