The Vice Chancellor. The Master of the Rolls. The Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Treasurer of the King's Household. Privy Counsellors (not Peers): The Right Hon. John Beckett, C. Bagot, W. S. Bourne, W. Huskisson, F. J. Robinson, Sir J. Nicholl, R. Ryder, N. Vansittart, C. Arbuthnot, C. Long, C. Bathurst, T. Wallace, W. Dundas, G. Canning, Sir W. Scott, W. W. Pole, Sir A. Paget, G.C.B. J. C. Villiers, Charles Manners Sutton. Bluemantle Pursuivant. Eldest sons of Barons: The Hon. W. G. Harris, F. Stewart, H. L. Rowley, C. J. Shore, Eldest sons of Viscounts: The Hon. G. A. Ellis, R. W. Chetwynd, F. J. Needham, Barons: Lords Prudhoe, Harris, Decies, Alvanley, Lilford, Rolle, Braybrooke, Bishops: Oxford, Chester, Exeter (Clerk of the Closet to his Majesty), Salisbury Eldest sons of Earls: Lords Pelham, Binning, Brudenell; Viscounts Sandon, Bernard, The other Viscounts present supported the Canopy. Eldest sons of Marquises: Viscount Castlereagh, K.G., the Earl of Ancram. The remaining Earls who attended walked in other places. Lancaster Herald. The Marquises present walked in other places. Dukes : The Dukes present supported the Pall. The Deputy Lord Great Chamberlain : Lord H. Howard- Molyneux-Howard. The Deputy Earl Marshal: The Lord Privy Seal : The Earl of Westmoreland, K.G. The Lord President of the Council: The Earl of Harrowby. Lords of his Majesty's Bed Chamber: Lords Amherst and Graves; Earl Delawarr; Gold Stick Earl Cathcart, K. T. Captain of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners: Earl of Courtown. The Banner of Brunswick, borne by Lord Howden, G.C.B. The Banner of Ireland, borne by the Earl of Roden, K. St. P. The Banner of St. George, borne by Lord Howard of Effingham, K.C.B. Supporter: A Gentleman Usher. The Royal Crown of Hanover, borne Supporter: A Gentleman Usher. The Supporter : Gentleman Usher. R. Powell, esq. The Lord Steward A Gentleman Usher. Supporter: Gentleman Usher. S. Randall, esq. The Imperial Crown of the United The Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's THE ROYAL BODY, A Gentleman Usher. Covered with a fine Holland Sheet and a Purple Velvet Pall, adorned with Ten Escutcheons of the Imperial Arms, carried by Ten Yeomen of the Guard, under a Canopy of Purple Velvet. Five Gentlemen Pensioners with Battle Axes reversed. Bulkeley, the Earl of St. German's, the Earl of Veru- lam, the Earl of Mayo. Buccleugh, the Duke of Richmond. Supporters of the Pall-The Duke of Dorset, the Duke of the Duke of Atholl, K.T. the Duke of Beaufort, K.G. Chetwynd, Viscount Sydney, the Earl Brownlow, the Earl of Chichester. Five Gentlemen Pensioners with Battle Axes reversed, Garter Principal King of Arms: The CHIEF MOURNER, his Royal High-. Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod: Sir T. Tyrwhitt, knt. Supporter : The Marquis of Buckingham. Train Bearers: The Marquis of Bath; the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G. assisted by Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg. The Duke of Gloucester. The Council of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, as Custos Persona The Lord Chancellor; the Archbishop of Canterbury; Lord Arden; the Archbishop of York; the Rt. Hon. Sir Wm. Grant; the Marquis of Camden, K.G.; Lord St. Helen's; the Lord Bishop of London; the Earl of Macclesfield; Lord Henley, G.C.B. Master Master of the Household to his late Majesty on the WindsorEstablishment: B. C. Stephenson, esq. Groom of the Stole to his late Majesty on the Windsor Establishment: Grooms of his late Majesty's Bedchamber: Vice Chamberlain to his late Majesty on the Windsor Establishment: Lord J. Thynue. Vice-Adm. the Hon. Sir A. K. Legge; Hon. R. Greville; Vice Adm. Sir Harry Neale, bart.; Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. Campbell. His late Majesty's Trustees: Count Munster, represented by Baron Best, K.C.B.; Major-Gen. Sir Herbert Taylor; Sir John Simeon, bart. Equeries to his late Majesty: Generals Gwynne, Manners, Cartwright, Garth; Lieut. Gen. Sir Brent Spencer, G.C.B. Upon the arrival of the Procession at St. George's Chapel, the Knight's Marshal's men, the trumpets and drums, filed off without the door. At the entrance of the Chapel, the Royal Body was received by the Dean and Prebendaries, attended by the Choir, who fell immediately before Blanc Coursier King of Arms, bearing the Crown of Hanover, and the Procession moved into the Choir, where the Royal Body was placed on a platform, and the Crowns and Cushions laid thereon. His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the Chief Mourner, was seated on a Chair at the Head of the Corpse, and the Supporters on either side. The Princes of the Blood Royal were seated near the Chief Mourner. The Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household took his place at the Feet of the Corpse; and the Supporters of the Pall and of the Canopy arranged themselves on each side of the Royal Body. The service was commenced by the Dean of Windsor. It was about nine o'clock when the first part of the Procession entered the South aile, and the whole had not taken their seats within the Chapel until ten o'clock. The Anthem of "Hear my Prayer," was sung by Masters Marshall and Deering in a superior style; and the celebrated Funeral Anthem by Handel, upon the death of Queen Caroline, was sung by Messrs. Knyvett, Sale, Vaughan, and Masters Marshall and Deering. Sir Isaac Heard then proclaimed the style and titles of his Majesty, and the Royal Body was lowered into the vault about half after ten o'clock. The ceremonial terminated about eleven o'clock, and as the Royal Dukes were departing with the other Members of the Procession, a "Solemn Voluntary" was performed. His Royal Highness the Duke of York appeared most sensibly affected. There was a settled melancholy in the countenance of Prince Leopold, which naturally heightened the interest his Royal Highness's presence uniformly inspires. The Dukes of Clarence, Sussex, and Gloucester, evinced considerable agitation of feeling, in which the whole of the spectators appeared to sympathise. In the Metropolis, business of every description was entirely suspended. Divine Service was celebrated, in the Churches, while the deep funeral tone of the different bells proclaimed the obsequies of the Father of his People. This spontaneous homage to his me mory did honour to the moral and loyal sentiments of the British nation. No Royal Edict was required, to call forth this outward sign of affectionate respect. A simple suggestion from the Chief Magistrate of the City of London (and even that was anticipated by public feeling) is the only act of authority, that preceded this general tribute to departed Royalty. Many appropriate and excellent Sermons were preached in honour and commemoration of his deceased Majesty's public and private virtues. The great bell at St. Paul's, and those of most of the Churches, tolled at in tervals the whole of the day. The Union Flag was hoisted half-mast bigh on the Tower, the Admiralty, the Parliament House, St. Martin's Church, St. Giles's, and many other Churches, as also on the different vessels in the River. The Stock Exchange, by order of its Committee, and the Royal Exchange, by order of the Gresham Committee, were closed the whole day. Not only the shops, but the counting-houses of the merchants were closed. Minute guns were fired in the Park, at the Tower, and on the banks of the Thames, from nine to ten o'clock. FUNERAL FUNERAL OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF KENT. In our Obituary of last month, p. 85, we have recorded the sudden and lamented death of his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent.-On Saturday, the 12th instant, his remains were committed to the silent tomb. The body of his Royal Highness lay in state for a short time at Woolbrook Cottage, Sidmouth, previous to its final removal from a scene which, but a few days before, was distinguished by all the joys of domestic bliss and social happiness. This took place in a spacious room, which was bung with black cloth and lighted with thirty wax candles. The glare of day was altogether excluded. The coffin and urn were raised upon trestles, and covered with a rich velvet pall, turned up at each end to shew the splendid materials of which they were composed. At the head of the coffin was a superb plume of feathers, and three smaller plumes placed on each side; right and left were three large wax tapers, in solid silver candlesticks, standing near five feet high. The The whole had an awful and imposing effect. The concourse of persons who were admitted to the solemn spectacle was immense for a country town. company entered at one door, and having walked round the Royal remains, made their egress by another. Every thing was conducted with the greatest order and regularity. On Monday the 7th the procession towards Windsor commenced, attended by an immense concourse of spectators, from the surrounding country, who sin. cerely lamented the early loss of one to whose future residence among them they had looked with the most pleasing sensations. Upon the arrival of the procession at Bridport, the remains of his Royal Highness were placed in the church there, under a military guard, during the night of Monday. On the following morning, at ten o'clock, the procession moved in the same order, halting on Tuesday, the 8th, at Blandford; on Wednesday, the 9th, at Salisbury, and on Thursday, the 10th, at Basingstoke; the same arrangement being observed, for placing the remains of his late Royal Highness, each night as at Bridport. In every town through which the cavalcade passed, the utmost respect was evinced by the inhabitants; the shops were closed-the Church bells tolled, and every other suitable attention was paid which the solemn occasion required. GENT. MAG. February, 1820. On Friday the procession moved on in the same order to Cumberland-lodge, which is situated in the Great Park on the South side of Windsor, and arrived there at six o'clock in the evening. On the procession arriving at the lodge, the coffin was received at the principal entrance of Mr. Mash, attended by Colonel Stevenson. It was conveyed into one of the suit of rooms on the ground floor, immediate at the left of the Hall. Upon the arrival of the procession at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, the drums and trumpets of the Royal Household, the Knight Marshal's men, and the servants and grooms of the Royal Family, filed off without the door. The coffin was one of the largest which has been made for any of the Royal Family. It was 7 feet 5 inches and a half in length; 2 feet 10 inches in breadth; 2 feet and inch in depth; and weighing altogether upwards of a ton. The following is a copy of the Inscription upon the plate of his coffin ;DEPOSITUM Illustrissimi Principis EDUARDI DE BRUNSWICK-LUNENBURG, Ducis Cantii et Strathernia, Comitis Dublinæ, Nobilissimi Ordinis Priscelidis, Honoratissimi Ordinis Militaris de Balneo et Illustrissimi Ordinis Sancti Patricii, Equitis, Filii Quartogeniti Augustissimi et Poten- GEORGII TERTII, XXIII Die Januarii, Anno Domini The Supporters of the pall and canopy bearers were Lord Cathcart, Sir William Keppel, Sir Charles Asgill, Sir Hew Dalrymple, Sir George Nugent, Sir Alured Clarke, and General Gascoyne, all full Generals, in their uniforms, his late Royal Highness being of that rank. At the entrance into the Chapel the Dean of Windsor commenced reading the sublime Funeral Service, "I am the Resurrection and the Life." After the conclusion of the office of Burial, the venerable Sir Isaac Heard proclaimed the style of his late Royal Highness. After the funeral obsequies had been solemnized, the Royal Dukes retired to the Castle JOHN JOHN EARL OF SUFFOLK AND BERKSHIRE. Feb. 23. At Charleton House, Wiltshire, John Howard, Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, Viscount Andover, and Baron Howard of Charleton, a General in the Army, Colonel of the 44th regiment of Foot, Governor of Londonderry and Culmore Forts. His Lordship was born at Tralee, in the county of Kerry, March 7, 1738-9; was page to his Royal Highness William Duke of Cumberland; on Nov. 17, 1780, was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the army; and in August 1783, appointed Colonel of the 70th regiment of foot. He was married at St. Anne's, Westminster, July 2, 1774, to Julia, daughter of John Gaskarth, of Penrith, co. Cumberland, esq. by whom he had issue, Charles Nevinson, Viscount Andover (now Earl of Suffolk); three other sons and one daughter. JOSHUA COOKE, ESQ. On Monday Feb. 7, died, at his house in New College-lane, Oxford, Joshua Cooke, esq. aged 67, for many years an eminent bookseller in that city.-There are few men, in a private condition of life, who have been attended to their grave with feelings of more affectionate attachment than those which have been awakened by the death of Mr. Cooke. First the partner, and afterwards the suc cessor of the truly-respectable Mr. Daniel Prince (who died, at an advanced age, in 1796), he soon secured to his name the fairest reputation as a man of business, by an inflexible integrity, and a long course of laborious exertion. This reputation was accompanied by that reward which, happily, is the almost invariable attendant upon industrious virtue. He was respected by every one both in the University and the City; and on that account was extensively patronized and eminently successful in trade, and for some few years previous to his lamented decease had retired from the fatigues of business with a handsome fortune, acquired in the most creditable of all ways-by the force, that is, of his own assiduity, and the honourable sway of personal desert. With these more affirmative traits of character was associated all the placid virtues. There was no taint of ill nature in his composition-no unkindness or asperity in his language or conversation. He was never known to administer to those ears which are so greedily open to the tale of scandal and malicious inuendoes on the character and conduct of their neighbours. And yet no man was more fond of the rational charms of society; but whereever he was seen he always bore about him those conciliating manners and ob liging disposition-that hilarity, cheerfulness, and good-humoured complacency which accompany the consciousness of well-doing, and are the best evidence of a mind at peace with itself and in charity with all the world. The tempered indulgence with which the reins of paternal authority were guided, secured for him, from his children, their fondest regard and most filial confidence. He treated his friends with a politeness that charmed, and a generosity that came from the heart. Every guest was made happy within his doors. Innocent pleasure dwelt under his roof, and hospitality presided at his table.-During the long and afflicting illness which terminated in his death, the consolations of Christian hope, and his unclouded assurance of the mercy and goodness of God in the promise of a happy immortality, were his refuge and his strong. hold. He bowed with entire resignation and grateful contentment to that searching discipline by which his faith was exercised;—and thus the severity of his trials served but to prove still more surely the solidity of his virtue; and his probationary sorrows (if we may venture to affirm so much on such an awful theme), by softening his devotion, and refining all the tempers of his soul, rendered him a fitter recipient for the felicities of another world, and a brighter example for the edification of this!-Jackson's Oxford Journal. [From a Correspondent.] "Mr. Cooke, one of the most estimable and disinterested friends I ever had, was, if I mistake not, a native of Hereford, whence he removed early in life, and was apprenticed to Mr. Daniel Prince, to whom he became partner, and successor. Mr. Cooke's very amiable temper, and friendly disposition soon procured him an enviable distinction with the gentlemen of the University, by whom he was frequently invited to the honours of the Common Room, and received with the respect due to a man of engaging manners, and well-informed mind. His memory in literary anecdote was uncommonly retentive, and a long acquaintance with the eminent scholars of Oxford, their early history, and progress in public life, rendered his conversation highly interesting. But he possessed more valuable qualities. He was a man of inflexible integrity, and in the relative duties, it would be difficult to mention a parent whose affection was stronger, or more wisely regulated, or whose family more strictly deserved to be named the family of love.' Being left a widower, while yet in the prime of life, he devoted the remainder of it, to promote the happiness of his four amiable daughters, and how well be succeeded, their lasting sorrow will attest." MR. |