Affiftants to the chief mourner, viz. Earl of Dartmouth, Earl Cornwallis, Earl Talbot. (Lord Steward of his majefty's houshold,) Earl of Pomfret, Earl Harcourt, A gentleman ufher. The three lords of his royal highness's bedchamber, viz. Earl of Ancram. The grooms of his royal highness's bedchamber, viz. N. B. Lords, lords fons, and privy counsellors, were likewife called over, and fome attended. At the entrance of Westminster Abbey, within the church, the dean and prebendaries, attended by the choir, received the body, falling into the proceffion juft before the officer of arms, who conducted the lord chamberlain; and fo proceeded into King Henry the VIIth's chapel; where the body was depofited on treffels, the head towards the altar; the coronet and cushion being laid upon the coffin, and the canopy held over it, while the fervice was read by the dean of Westminster; the chief mourner, and his two fupporters, fitting on chairs, at the head of the corpfe; the lords affiftants and fupporters of the pall, fitting on ftools on either fide. The part of the fervice before the interment being read, the corpfe was depofited in the vault, and the dean having finished the burial fervice, Garter proclaimed his royal highnefs's ftyle as follows: Thus it hath pleafed ALMIGHTY GOD to take cut of this tranfitory life, unto his divine mercy, the late moft high, moft mighty, and moft illuftrious Prince WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, duke of Cumberland, the duke of Brunfwic and Lunenburgh, marquis of Berkhamstead, earl of Kennington, vifcount Trematon, 'baron of the Ifle of Alderney, knight of the moft noble order of the Garter, and first and principal companion of the moft honourable order of the Bath, fecond fon of his late moft excellent majefty king GEORGE the Second. Twenty-one pieces of artillery were drawn into the park, and fired minute guns during the ceremony; and three battalions, viz. one of each regiment of guards, were drawn up in St. Margaret's church-yard, and fired vollies, on a fignal given, as foon as the corpfe was depofited. Ceremonial Ceremonial of the private interment of his late royal highness Prince Frederick William, in the royal vault in king Henry the Seventh's chapel, Westminster Abbey. ON N Friday night, the 3d of January 1766, the body and urn of his royal highnefs were conveyed from Leicefter fquare to the prince's chamber at the house of peers, in a hearse drawn by fix white horfes, adorned with white feathers. The next evening, about a quarter before ten o'clock, a fignal from Weftminfter bridge, by the firing of a fky-rocket, was given, that the funeral proceffion of his royal highnefs was begun; which fignal being answered by another from the centre arch of London bridge, minute guns were immediately fired at the Tower, and fo continued (as at the funeral of the duke of Cumberland) until, by fecond fignals from the faid places, it was known the whole funeral ceremony was ended. The great bells in feveral of the churches in London and Weftminster alfo continued to toll, until the funeral The chief mourner, a duke. His train borne by a baronet. Gent. ufher. Supporter, a duke. At the entrance within the ab. bey, the dean and prebendaries, attended by the choir, received the body, and fell into the proceffion, juft before the officer of arms, who preceded the lord chamberlain's and fo proceeded into king Henry the Seventh's chapel, where the body was depofited upon trefiels, the head towards the altar; the coronet and cushion being laid upon the coffin, and the canopy held over it, while the fervice was read by the dean of Westminster; the chief mourner and his two fupporters fitting on chairs, placed for them at the head of the corpfe; the lords affiitants, and the fupporters of the pall, on ftools on each fide, the fupporters of the pall being nearest the body. The part of the fervice before the interment being read, the corpfe was depo fited in the vault, the dean having the fub-dean on his right hand, and Garter on his left, ftanding at the lower end of the opening of the vault. vault. The corpfe being interred, the dean went on with the office of burial; and, when that was over, Garter concluded the ceremony by proclaiming his royal highness's titles. The pall was fupported by lords Edgcumbe, Scarfdale, Bofton, and Beaulieu; the duke of Kingston was chief mourner, his train borne by Sir Thomas Robinfon, bart. The supporters, the duke of Chandois and marquis of Rockingham; affiftants, earls Talbot, Cardigan, Albemarle, Pomfret, Peterborough, Litchfield, Coventry, and Ashburnham, poor perfons bearing flambeaus feveral coaches belonging to thofe who were mourners; fifty mufqueteers of the fecond company; fifty of the first; fifty light horse; two of the king's coaches filled with the dauphin's favourites; another coach of the king's, in which were the dukes of Orleans, Trefmes, and Fronfac, with the marquis de Chauvelin; a fourth, in which were the archbishop of Rheims, an almoner of the king's, the confeffor of his late royal highnefs, and the minifter of the parish. church of Fontainebleau; the pages of her royal highnefs the. dauphinefs, and the queen's pages, twenty-four ef the king's pages, and several of their majesties equer Ceremonial of the Interment of the ries; four trumpets belonging to late Dauphin of France. FTER the death of his royal the equerries; the heralds at arms; the mafter of the ceremonies; the marquis de Dreux, grand-mafter A highnets, his body remain- of the ceremonies; four light ed expofed in the caftle of Fontainebleau, where the king or dered the duke of Orleans to continue, to command the detachments of his houfhold, both military and domeftic, which were to do duty there, and to give all the proper orders relative to the obfequies, and removal of the body from Fontainebleau to Sens, where his royal highness had defired to be interred. Saturday the 28th of December, every thing being ready for the departure of the funeral, the archbishop of Rheims, great almoner, performed, at eleven in the morning, the ceremony of raifing the body, which was placed in the carriage destined for conveying it to the metroplitan church of Sens; the funeral proceffion began to move, a little af ter, in the following order: Sixty horfe; the funeral car, About seven in the evening, the proceffion arrived at Sens; cardinal de Luynes, archbishop of that city, received his royal highness's body at at the church door: the archbishop of Rheims prefented it to the cardinal; the bier was carried into the choir; the customary prayers were chanted; after which the duke of Orleans, and all the other perfons, who had accompanied the proceffion, retired. His highnefs's body continued expofed in the choir for that night. The next day, being the 29th, a folemn fervice was performed by the cardinal de Luynes, at which the duke of Orleans and all the above-mentioned perfons affifted. After this fervice, his highnefs's body was interred in the vault which had been conftructed for that purpose. Ceremonial of the interment of the late Chevalier de St. George. Ο N Saturday the 15th of Jan. 1766, his body, after having lain five days in ftate in his own palace, was removed in grand cavalcade to his parish church, the church of the Holy Apoftles, dreffed in royal robes, a crown upon his head, a fceptre in his hand, and upon his breaft the arms of Great Britain, in gold and jewels. The whole court, and the members of almost every order and fraternity at Rome, as well religious as fecular, fixteen of them with colours flying, attended the cavalcade. A thoufand wax tapers, befides those borne by other attendants, followed the body. Four gentlemen, particularly diftinguished by the deceased in his life time, fupported the pall. At this church, which was hung with black from one end to the other, and filled with fkeletons holding wax tapers, a folemn requiem was per formed by cardinal Albani in his pontificalia, affifted by twenty other cardinals; the mufic by the muficians of the Apoftolic palace. The pope intended to have affifted, but was prevented by the coldnefs of the weather. The bed of ftate was illuminated with eleven hundred wax tapers, and over it this infcription, Jacobus Magna Britannia Rex, Anna MDCCLXVI, with divers medallions in front, reprefenting the feveral orders of chivalry in Great Britain; the three crowns of England, Scotland, and Ireland, to which were joined the royal infignia, viz. the purple robe lined with ermine, the velvet tunic, ornamented with gold, the globe, the fceptre, the crown, and the croffes of St. George, and St. Andrew, &c. He lay there for three days, and none but the Italian princes, and English, were allowed entrance. The third day, in the evening, the body was carried on the fame bed of ftate to St. Peter's, to be buried. The proceffion began with the children of all the charity fchools; deputations from the principal churches, amounting to fix hundred men, divided into twelve companies, all in ancient dreffes of different forms, with tapers; about a thousand friars, of different orders, with torches; the finging boys of St. Peter's dressed in purple filk gowns, and about 50 canons, all finging hymns. Round the body was the English college, with four cardinals, upon mules covered with purple velvet trappings; the chevalier's fervants in 12 coaches, lined with black velvet, clofing the proceffion. The next morning W 7HEN general Bouquet of fered peace to fuch of the revolted tribes of the Iroquois, as till then held out against us [fee P. [44. and p. [181. of our laft volume] it was on condition, that they fhould first deliver up every prifoner in their poffeffion. Upon this they brought in near twenty, and promifed to deliver the reft; but as their promifes were not to be regarded, the general marched on to the heart of their country, where he obliged them to bring in all their prifoners, even the children born of white women, and for that purpose to tie those who were grown as favage as themselves, and were unwilling to leave them, to the amount, in all, of two hundred out of three; it being computed that another hundred ftill remained difperfed over the Shawanefe able to fpeak the fame language, or for fome time, to be fure that they were children of the fame parents! others flying from place to place in eager inquiries after relations not found, and trembling to receive an answer to their queftions! diftracted with doubts, hopes, and fears, on obtaining no ftiffened into living monuments of account of those they fought! or horror on learning their unhappy fate! The Indians too, as if wholly fhed forgetting their ufual favagenefs, bore a capital part in heightening thefe most affecting scenes. They delivered up their beloved captives with the utmost reluctance, torrents of tears over them, recommending them to the care and protection of the commanding officer, and continuing their regard to them all the time they remained in camp. They vifited them from day to day; brought them what corn, fkins, horfes, and other matwhile in their families; accompaters, they had beftowed on them nied with other prefents, and all the marks of the most fincere and tender affection. Nay, they did not stop here, but, when the army marched, fome of the Indians folicited and obtained leave to accompany their former captives all ed themselves in hunting and bringthe way to Fort Pitt, and employing provifions for them road. on the ftill further, and gave an inA young Mingo went ftance of love which would make a figure even in romance. He had taken fo great a liking to a Virginian young woman who was amongst the captives, as to call her his wife. Against all remonftrances of the imminent danger |