LAST DAYS, DEATH, FUNERAL OBSEQUIES, &c. OF HER LATE MAJESTY CAROLINE Âuelle Beige) QUEEN CONSORT OF GREAT BRITAIN: EMBRACING A FULL AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE CONNECTED WITH THAT MEMORABLE EVENT. BEING A CONTINUATION OF THE ROYAL MARTYR, OR MEMOIRS OF QUEEN CAROLINE. EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS. London: PRINTED FOR AND PUBLISHED BY JONES & CO. 3, WARWICK SQUARE. Order of the Procession. Page 99 104 Route of the procession from Hammersmith to Kensington barracks 111-Hyde Park Corner 113-Retrograde movement-Park Lane 115-Hyde Park-Fatal conflict between the Military and the Populace 116-Cumberland-gate and the New-road 120-Stoppage at Tottenham-court-road 122-Tottenham-court-road to the City 124-Route from Whitechapel to Romford 128-Chelmsford 134-Colchester 137-On the road to Harwich 145-HarwichArrival of the Funeral Procession, and embarkation of the corpse.. 147 General feeling excited during the whole progress of the procession.. 158 Death of Honey and Francis...... Inquest on the body of Richard Honey.... on the body of George Francis... on Richard Honey resumed.. Inspection of the troops by witnesses... 159 160 180 181 189 201 210 Summing up, and address to the Jury, by the Coroner... 250 Verdict of the Jury ..... 258 Final Interment of the Queen's remains at Brunswick.................. Marks of respect displayed by the Brunswickers..... Addresses from a Deputation of Citizens to Lord Hood, Lady Hamil 281 ton, Alderman Wood, &c. ...... 284 Trial of the Rev. R. Blacow for a libel on Her Majesty... Dismissal of Sir Robert Wilson from the service, and biographical sketch of his life... 352 Directions to the Binder. ENGRAVING, Last Moments of Her Majesty, to face the Title page. THE ROYAL MARTYR. WE have already, in the Memoirs of Her late MAJESTY, under the title of 66 THE ROYAL EXILE detailed at large, the whole of those interesting and important events with which the life of her Majesty, during a period of thirty years, has been chequered. We have followed the long train of base, unmanly persecutions, which have succeeded each other, down to the period of Her Majesty's acquittal from the foul and infamous charges of the late trial; and having, in common with our Country, exulted in the frustration of that infernal plot, and the triumph of virtue and innocence, we considered our task at an end, and that the Subject of it would be left to the uninterrupted enjoyment of conscious innocence, and the ardent attachment of the people. But alas! the Tragedy was only in its progress-hastening towards that awful close, which we now resume the pen to detail: and millions of eyes have since been suffused in tears, on learning the fatal catastrophe, that CAROLINE B of BRUNSWICK, the greatest-perhaps the best woman of her day, has sunk by what may be called a premature death, borne down by an accumulation of unwearied and unceasing persecutions. The Coronation, that despicable, unmeaning pageant, which could answer no purpose but of adding to the already insupportable burdens of an insulted and oppressed people, furnished fresh occasion for insult to the Queen. Hér Majesty, while she despised the idle pomp and ceremony of the coronation, was well aware that important rights and prerogatives were connected with it, and her usual undaunted courage and heroic mind would not suffer the future rights of a Queen of England to become curtailed or annihilated in her person. It may therefore be considered not irrelevant to enter into a brief detail of Her Majesty's firm and judicious behaviour on that, like other trying occasions. Finding that every other means had failed, and having issued a protest against the decision of the Privy Council, excluding her from participating in the ceremony, Her Majesty determined on the last and only remaining effort, of gaining admission as a spectator; and for this purpose, set out from her house in South Audley Street, as early as six o'clock. Having proceeded through the Parks to Westminster Abbey, shouts of applause were heard in the direction of Dean Street, Her leading towards the western door of the Abbey, announcing the approach of the Queen. Her carriage was drawn by six beautiful bay horses, elegantly caparisoned, and accompanied by Lady Hood and Lady Ann Hamilton. Another carriage followed, drawn by two horses, and containing Lord Hood and the Hon. Keppel Craven. She passed the barrier without interruption, and proceeded by the King's Arms Tavern, to nearly opposite the door of Westminster Hall. Majesty then stopped for a few moments, apparently uncertain what course to take, as she had hitherto met with no obstruction, and yet had received nothing like an invitation to approach. At this moment the feelings of the spectators were wound up to a pitch of the most intense curiosity, and most painful anxiety. The persons who immediately surrounded her carriage knew no bounds in expressing their enthusiastic attachment, while many of those in the galleries, apprehensive of the consequences of the experiment which she was making, could not restrain their fears and alarms. In the mean time great confusion seemed to prevail among the officers and soldiers on and near the platform; the former giving orders and retracting them, and the latter running to their arms, uncertain whether they should salute her by presenting them or not. Astonishment, hurry, and confusion, seemed to agitate the whole multitude assembled either to witness or compose the ensuing pageant.-We never |