Funeral of King George the Fourth. (Continued from page 84.) THE PROCESSION. OUR last No. (442,) described the Ceremonial of the Royal Body Lying-inState in "the King's Drawing Room," in Windsor Castle. From this apartment a platform was constructed precisely in the same manner as that used at the funeral of His Majesty George the Third-being formed of deal timber, about 15 feet wide, and covered over with weather-boarding. The roof or ceiling was covered with black cloth, and the supporters, and the flooring covered with the same material, while a light festoon of black cloth fringed the whole of the roof from end to end. The platform reached from the State Apartment across the Lower Court to the door of St. George's Chapel, whence it was extended down the south aisle and up the naive, parallel with the floor of the choir. As we have restricted our details of the Lying-in-Stute to one day, so we shall confine ourselves at present, to the day of the Funeral, Thursday, July 15. To describe all the preliminary arrangements would occupy too many of our columns, and as they have appeared in the public journals, day by day since the death of his Majesty, it would be rather tedious to repeat them. All we shall therefore attempt will be such a narrative of the splendid ceremony as may hereafter be referred to as an event of history. On the morning of the funeral, a party of artillery, with twelve nine-pounders, arrived from Woolwich, and bivouacked under the trees of the Long Walk. At four o'clock on Thursday morning, they commenced firing, and continued to fire every five minutes during the day. At the same hour the bells in St. George's Chapel, and in Windsor Church began to toll, and thus gave noVOL. XVI. H The visiters to the Lying-in-State began to pour into the town at an early hour, and the road from the High-street of Windsor to the Castle gates was filled with a dark moving mass of persons. The road from London thither was a full tide of busy life; whilst thousands from the towns and villages round Windsor halted thus far on their pilgrimage to the tomb of royalty. The town itself: bore anything but a first import of gloom as the day advanced, the whirl of carriages, and the to-and-fro anxiety of the people, almost induced one to disregard the mournful bells and guns; but the dark, and, contrasted with the weather, unseasonable, dresses of the crowds, soon brought us back to the recollection of the sad event which they had assembled to witness.* The King and Queen reached Frog One of the accounts says, "As the day ad vanced the crowd increased, and before noon, the good town of Windsor felt all the profit and some of the discomfort, of ten or twelve thousand people squeezed into a place not capable of comfortably accommodating as many bundreds. White-plumed field officers and their aids-du-camp, paupers, and professional pickpockets, heralds, and pursuivants in their gor geous tabards, Gentlemen Pensioners, in all the pride of gold lace and black crape, and the sable-clad multitude of "the middle class " mixed up in admirable confusion. more soon after mid-day, and dined there at four o'clock en famille. At six o'clock a body of cavalry began to line the streets leading to the Castle, keeping a space clear for the convenience of those who had tickets of admission to the funeral. At the same time, the individuals who had tickets for the Chapel and the Lower Court began to arrive in great numbers. About this time" the Etonians" marched in a sort of procession from the College to the Chapel, accompanied by their masters and tutors. At seven o'clock, the King, escorted by a party of the Life Guards and the Horse Guards Blue, proceeded in state to the Castle; the detachment of the 9th Lancers, who escorted their Majesties from the Queen's Lodge, at Bushy, lining the road in extended files, from Frogmore Lodge to the entrance by George the Fourth's Gate. His Majesty's carriage was drawn by six of the black state horses, driven by his late Majesty's state coachman. The Queen did not, as it had been announced she would, accompany his Majesty. The King wore a plain suit of mourning. About the same hour, a battalion of the Foot Guards was marched into the Lower Court, and placed in close file along the sides within the platform. The strangers were allowed to stand close to the platform on the outside. There were no horsemen, as was the case at the funeral of George the Third, except a few of the Horse Guards, who were placed at distant intervals outside the line occupied by the spectators; and they did not in any way ir commode those who came to witness the cortege. Meanwhile the Procession was marshalling in St. George's Hall. After the soldiers had flanked the platform, they grounded arms, and leaned pensively on them, waiting for the procession. During this time the machine in which the royal corpse was to be conveyed to the tomb, passed up the platform, and gave us an opportunity of noticing that it was a strong but light frame of wood, like a small cart, placed on low castors. The purple canopy also that was to be borne over the coffin, was carried up. The crowd now grew more indifferent than impatient, and some of them, by their conversation, evinced a levity of feeling which was neither creditable to their heads nor their hearts. Still, the general expression was any thing but that of sorrow, and throughout the ceremony, the same coldness (to speak impartially) must be regarded as a sign of the times, and may remind us, that "what the present generation have gained in head, they have lost in heart." At length, rather before it grew dark, flambeaux were distributed among the soldiers, (one to every fourth man,) and lighted, so as to increase the effect of the contrast, between their martial uniforms and the black cloth around them, the soldiers not being in mourning; the officers, however, had crape round their arms and scarves over their shoulders. The time appointed for the procession to commence was nine o'clock; but half an hour before that period, the preparations being completed, the slow and wailing sounds of the trumpets and kettle-drums announced the movement of the train. At the same moment two rockets were let off from one of the castle towers as a signal to the artillery in the Long Walk which then commenced firing minute guns, and continued till another rocket announced that the ceremony was concluded. From the moment the trumpets and drums began, every voice was hushed. A band of trumpets and drums was stationed at that part of the platform which enters the lower court. They played "the Dead March in Saul," and continued playing until the procession had advanced to the place where they were stationed. All eyes were now directed to the upper part of the platform, and all was breathless expectation. In a few minutes the glittering dress of the knights-marshals' men and of the mili tary band, as they moved slowly forward, came into view. The music approached, and became "deeper and deeper still." The procession then moved across the platform to St. George's Chapel, in the following order : (See the Engraving.*) The annexed is the official account of the Ceremony, from the Second Supplement to the Landon Gazette of Friday, July 16. It is dated "Earl Marshal's Office, July 19, 1830." It dif fers, in some particulars, from our Engraving; but from the evidence of our own observation, we are disposed to think the Official Programme in accordance with the intended order rather than that in which the procession actually moved; and we believe this to be the concurrent testimony of all who witnessed the pageant, and have subsequently examined the official description. In the annexed Engraving, the Platform would only have tended to confuse the train, and is accordingly omittted; and for reasons still more obvious, the files of Guards are not introduced. His late Majesty's Band of Music. Trumpets and Kettle Drums, and Drums and Fifes of the Foot Guards. The Deputy Knight-Marshal-George Head, Esq. Terrel, William Ball, Edward Blake, Thomas Robinson, John Elphick, John William Loades, Samuel Dessulles, Benjamin Percy, George Downes, Thomas Apothecary to His late Majesty :- Surgeons to His late Majesty's Household :- Sir Samuel Gaskoin. Moore. John Strachan, Esq. John O'Reilly, Esq. The Vicar of Windsor : The Reverend Isaac Gossett. Gentlemen Ushers Quarterly Waiters to His late Majesty : Robert Brown, Esq. Pages of Honour to His late Majesty: William Henry Hervey Bathurst, Esq. William Lewis, Esq. Frederick Hamilton, Esq. Arthur Somerset, Esq. William Chapman Fowle, Esq. Grooms of the Privy Chamber to His late Majesty: Richard Powell, Esq. Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to His late Majesty, Surgeon to the Person of His late Majesty : Sergeant-Surgeon to His late Majesty : . Henry Southey, M.D. Sir M. Tierney, Bart. Sir H. Halford, Bart. K.C.H. Household Chaplain to His late Majesty The Rev. Dr. Blomberg. Equerry to His Royal Highness the Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg :- Equerries to His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester:Captain Stephens. Sir Howard Douglass, Bart. Lt.-Col. Edmund Currey. Equerries to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge:Col. Sir Henry Cooke, K.C.H. Col. Keat. Sir W. Davison, K.H. Lt.-Gen. Joseph Fuller, G.C.H. Equerries to His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex : Charles Tennyson, Esq. M.P., Hon. Edward Gore, Capt. Dillon, Col. Wildman, Equerries to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. Sir John Conroy, K.C.H. Col. H. Wyndham. Col. F. W. Trench. Lieutenant-General F. A. Wetheral. Aides-de-Camp to His late Majesty : Col. Lord Saltoun, C.B. Col. the Marquess of Tweedale, K.T., Col. T. Downman, C.B. C.B. Col. R. H. Dick, C.B. Col. Sir George Scovell, K.C.B. Quartermaster-General of the Forces, Col. Lord Downes, K.C.B. Col. Sir Charles Broke Vere, K.C.B. Equerries to His late Majesty :— Major-Gen. Sir George Quentin, K.C.H., Major-Gen. Sir A. Barnard, K.C.B., E. H. Delme Radcliffe, Esq., Lt.-Gen. Sir R. Bolton, G.C.H., Lt.-Gen. Bayly. Clerk-Marshal and First Equerry to His late Majesty : Lieut.-Gen. Sir T. Francis Hammond, G.C.H. Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber to His late Majesty-J. Russell, Esq. H. Hope, Esq., the Hon. J. R. Townshend, Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Houston. K.C.B., The Lords of the Admiralty, (not Peers or Privy Councillors,) attended by John Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Knt. Barons of the Exchequer, Sir William Bolland, Knt. and Sir John Vaughan, Knt. Sir John B. Bosanquet, Knt., Sir Stephen Gaselee, Knt., and Sir J. A. Park, Knt. Sir James Parke, Knt., Sir Joseph Littledale, Knt., Sir John Bayley, Knt. Right Hon. Sir Launcelot Shadwell, Knt. The Master of the Rolls-The Right Hon. Sir John Leach, Knt. Lord Tenterden. (His Lordship walked as a Baron.) Privy Councillors (aot Peers) attended by James Buller, Esq. and Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville, Esq., Clerks of the Council in Ordinary :— The Rt. Hon. John Calcraft. The Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker. Eldest Sons of Barons: The Hon. W. Pole Tylney Long Wellesley, the Hon. John Henniker, the Hon. James Henry Legge Dutton, the Hon. John Hobart Cradock, the Hon. George Augustus Murray, the Hon. Henry Stafford Jerningham. Eldest Sons of Viscounts: The Hon. Wellington Cotton, the Hon. G. Agar Ellis, the Hon. A. Hill Trevor. Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms-Francis Townsend, Gent. Barons: Lord Wallace, Lord Tenterden, Lord de Tabley, Lord Bexley, Lord Ravensworth, Lord Prudhoe, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Montagu, Lord Southampton, Lord Skelmersdale, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Farnborough, G.C.B., Lord Forester, Lord Maryborough, Lord Hill, G.C.B., Lord Henniker, Lord Grantley, Lord Elphinstone. (The remaining Barons who attended, walked in other places.) Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms-James Pulman, Esq. Bishops : The Lord Bishop of Gloucester; the Lord Bishop of Carlisle; the Lord Bishop of Exeter; the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, Chancellor of the Most Noble Order of the Garter; the Lord Bishop of Rochester, Clerk of the Closet to His late Majesty; the Lord Bishop of Lincoln; the Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the Garter; the Lord Bishop of London. Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms-William Woods, Esq. Viscount Holmesdale, Viscount Grimston, Viscount Bernard, Viscount Ingestrie, Arundel Herald of Arms Extraordinary-Walter Aston Blount, Esq. Eldest Sons of Marquesses-The Earl of Uxbridge and the Earl of Belfast. Earls-The Earl of Dudley and the Earl of Wilton. (The remaining Earls who attended walked in other places.) Windsor Herald-Francis Martin, Esq. Eldest Sons of Dukes-The eldest Sons of Dukes walked as Assistants to the Dukes who supported the Pall. Marquesses-The Marquess of Clanricarde, the Marquess of Exeter, K.G., the Dukes (The Dukes present walked in other places.) The Earl Marshal of England :- The Deputy Lord Great Chamberlain :→ The Lord Privy Seal : The Earl of Rosslyn, G.C.B. The Marquess of Cholmondeley. Chester Herald-George Martin Leake, Esq. Archbishops : The Archbishop of Armagh. The Archbishop of York. : The Lord High Chancellor : Lord Lyndhurst, in his full robes of office, bearing the Purse. The Archbishop of Canterbury. Norroy King of Arms-Edmund Lodge, Esq. The Earl Howe, G.C.H., the Earl of Chesterfield, Lord St. Helens, G.C.H., the Earl Amherst, Lord Strathavon, Viscount Lake, Lord Glenlyon, K.C.H. Captain of the Yeoman of the Guard : The Earl of Macclesfield. Captain of the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners :- Master of the Horse to His late Majesty the Duke of Leeds, K.G. |