March in Saul on their trumpets. The infantry, with arms reversed, took up the tune, going before the cavalry. The infantry had one stand of colours; the cavalry, two standards. The head of the procession arrived on the jetty before Lord Hood, the executors, or any person knew what was to take place. The troops drew up, opened their ranks, and formed a line on each side. Mr. Chittenden and his ten men dismounted; and it then, for the first time, appeared that the body was to be instantly removed. Mr. Wilde, the only person authori tatively employed by her late Majesty who was to be seen, was on foot near the jetty. This gentleman, the executor of her Majesty, was at first stopped, and had to get permission of a deputy to follow the Royal body as the coffin was carried down the jetty; and permission was graciously granted after some delay; the favour was extended to Mr. Hobhouse and to Mr. Hume, who stood by him. The soldiers and constables kept back the crowd. All the latter part of the procession, except the Queen's coach, and the hearse, were necessarily up, far behind. The Queen's coach now drew and Sir G. Nayler and his companion got out. The crown and cushion were previously handed out to an undertaker's man, who carried it tottering, apparently unaccustomed to carry crowns, and stood alone without a single attendant near him in front. The hearse drew up next, and Mr. Chittenden, and his ten slip-shod undertakers, dragged the Royal coffin from the carriage. They raised it

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on their shoulders, and moved off, preceded only by Mr. Chittenden, without waiting a single instant, down the jetty. It is scarcely credible, but it is a fact, not a single attendant of any descriptionno military officer-no civil functionary! no, not a soul attended the Royal corpse. No pall-no plumes. A decent man would have thought that, as is the practice at every funeral, some little stop would have been made to allow Lord Hood and the Ladies of her Majesty's household to come up and follow their Royal mistress. But no; the body and the undertakers had advanced full thirty yards, and were on the edge of the outer jetty before Lord Hood could get from his carriage, and hurry after the coffin. The next carriage, containing Lady Hood and Lady A. Hamilton, was opened in haste by some common fellow, and there being no person to receive them, either civil, military, or of the Queen's household, Lady Hood nearly fell on her face, the undertakers proceeding all this time with their burden, Lady Hood and Lady A. Hamilton standing alone, looking round them, at a loss, apparently, whither to go or what to do. Mr. Hume, and Mr. Hobhouse came back in haste from their position on the edge of the jetty, where they stood with Mr. Wilde. Mr. Hume gave his arm to Lady Hood, Mr. Hobhouse to Lady Anne Hamilton, and followed Lord Hood. The body still was carried forward. By this indecent haste, neither Dr. Lushington nor Mr. Brougham, nor any of those more immediately connected with he

Majesty, could join the body until this unpalled coffin was slipped off the undertakers' shoulders upon the slings and under the crane, that in a minute or two swung it from the shore. Be it recollected, that this part of the ceremony, as far as regarded England, was, in fact, the funeral of her Majesty. Not even Mr. William Austin, the residuary legatee, could come up to be a mourner in the procession of five! Mr. Brougham, Dr. Lushington, Mr. Alderman Wood, Sir R. Wilson (who had travelled post from Paris on from Paris on purpose to attend), -not one of these gentlemen, nor any of the suite, could come up except just in time to see the slings wound round the coffin. It was at this moment, that in the faces of all the ladies and gentlemen above mentioned, the deepest grief was depicted. Not a person refrained from shedding tears.

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vulgar hands that were bustling about the last rites of departed Majesty added to the horror and sorrow of the scene. Some naval officers, who had taken their station previously on the jetty, seemed much affected. The band which had preceded the coffin played the Dead March in Saul. This was the only tribute of homage which distinguished the ceremony. The barge of the Glasgow frigate, bearing the half-hoisted standard of England, with its commander, Captain Doyle, and Pilot Kegie, had been drawn under the point of the jetty, and six other men of war's boats attended on the outside ready to tow it off. A few minutes before twelve, the body was raised by the crane.