large, extensive blessings to the community under her rule, if she had lived to fill the throne of this united kingdom. "But as the Almighty has been pleased, in the course of his providence, to disappoint our sanguine hopes, by removing her, we trust, to a better world, we bow in, humble submission beneath his chastening rod, and pray that the Universal Sovereign will cause good to arise out of the national affliction; and that He may still continue to be a wall of fire round about, and, the glory, in the midst of our land." No one member, either of the present or any former royal family, was ever so long, so generally, and so deeply lamented. Prince Arthur and King Edward VI. both died at a tender age, and were doubtless mourned by their contemporaries; the Aurora of a day glorious to England, seemed to open with the dawning virtues of Henry, eldest son of James I., and the death of the Duke of Gloucester, sole surviving child of Queen Anne, by excluding the Stuart line and introducing that of the illustrious sovereign of Hanover, afforded no small consolation amidst the afflictions of the nation. But when the morning star of the House of Brunswick became eclipsed for ever, the dynasty itself seemed ready to be extinguished; a whole nation felt the shock, not as an event to which royalty itself is incident; but were lost and bewildered in wonder first, and then in horror, as if visited by some great convulsion of nature. At length, when no longer astounded with terror and surprise, the striking and infrequent example was beheld, of a whole people voluntarily clad in black and diffused in tears. So great indeed, and so general was the moral effect of this sympathy, that it proved at once contagious and fatal: for the sudden communication of her Royal Highness's premature and lamented fate produced a similar catastrophe on the part of many a delicate female who also became in rapid succession, both a mother and a corpse! The remains of her Royal Highness were deposited in a mahogany coffin, lined and trimmed with white satin; the bolster and pillow, being covered with the same; the plate, which was of silver gilt, bore the following inscription: The body of the infant was embalmed in the same manner as that of the Princess, and placed in a separate coffin. The following was the Order of Procession : Naval Knights of Windsor, in full dress uniform. Pages of the Royal Family. Pages of the Prince Regent. Pages of their Majesties. Solicitor to her late Royal Highness. Comptroller of the Household of her late Royal Highness. Surgeons of her late Royal Highness. The Curates and Rectors of the parishes of Esher and Windsor. Physicians who attended her late Royal Highness. Chaplains to his Serene Highness. Quarter-Master-General. Adjutant-General. Officers of the Duchy of Cornwall. Chamberlain to the Great Steward of Scotland. Comptroller of the Prince Regent's Household.} Treasurer of the {Prince Regent's Household. Master of the Prince Regent's Household. Heralds at Arms. Privy Purse and Private Secretary to the Prince Regent. Lords of the Prince Regent's Bedchamber. Norroy King of Arms. The Bishop of Exeter. The Bishop of Salisbury. The Bishop of London. The Ministers of Hanover and Saxony, Count Munster and Baron de Just. The Deputy Earl Marshal. His Majesty's Ministers. Choir of Windsor. Six Minor Canons. Prebendaries of Windsor. Dean of Windsor, Hon. and Rev. Henry Lewis Hobart, D. D. Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard. The Groom of the (The Lord Steward of his The King's Master Stole. Gentlemen Ushers. Gentleman Usher. { Majesty's Household. S The Coronet of her late Royal Highness, borne of the Horse. upon a black velvet Gentlemen Ushers. cushion by Colonel Addenbroke. Garter Principal King of Arms, bearing his Gentleman Usher. Secretary to the The Lord Chamberlain of Lady Grenville. The Coffin The Supporters of the Pall, Lady Arden, Lady Ellenborough. Covered with a black velvet Pall, adorned with eight escutcheons of her Royal Highness's Arms, and carried by eight Yeomen of the Guard, under a canopy of black velvet, borne by eight Princes of the Blood Royal, their trains borne by two Gentlemen of their Households. Ladies of the Bedchamber to her late Royal Highness. Her Majesty's Establishment at Windsor. Ladies Attendants on their Royal Highnesses the Princesses. Attendants on her late Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte. Attendants on her Majesty and the Princesses.' FRANCIS HORNER, Esq. M. P. To Biographical sketches of two celebrated legal and politi cal characters, who have left this frail and transitory scene of existence, we have now to add a third. The former died at a mature age, in full possession of a splendid reputation, and long after they had attained high professional honours: for the Right Hon. George Ponsonby had been seated on the woolsack; and the Right Hon. John Philpot Curran, had also worn the ermine; but the subject of the present memoir was cut off, when he had but just attained manhood, and without being able to realise those hopes, which had been formed from his early talents and his numerous virtues. Francis Horner, of whom we are now about to treat, was born in Edinburgh, August 12, 1778. He could not, like the first of these two great men, boast either of wealthy relatives or high family connexions; he of course disclaimed those adventitious advantages of birth and fortune, on which the world ge |