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solemn dirge, which gave the scene 

 altogether a truly grand and im- 

 pressive effect. At the porch of 

 St. George's Chapel, the body was 

 taken out of the hearse and placed 

 upon a bier, which was carried by 

 ten yeomen of the guard. On 

 entering the chapel, the ailes ap- 

 peared lined with several troops of 

 the royal horse guards, partly 

 under arms, and partly with light- 

 ed flambeaux ; the organ opened 

 its pealing tones, and Dr. Croft's 

 admired funeral service was sung 

 by the whole of the choir. The 

 duke of Brunswick had arrived 

 at the dean of Windsor's in the 

 afternoon, and acted as chief 

 mourner ; he was supported by 

 barons de Hackel and De Norten- 

 feld. Among other noblemen 

 present in the procession, were 

 the lord chamberlain, the earl of 

 Winchelsea, lords Somerville, 

 Rivers, St. Helen's, and Arden. 

 The body being placed near the 

 altar, the chief-mourner took his 

 seat in a chair at the head of the 

 coffin. The service was perform- 

 ed by the dean. The gentlemen 

 of the choir sung the anthem, " I 

 have set God always before me," 

 by Blake. The funeral service 

 concluded with — " I heard a voice 

 from Heaven ;" after which, Garter 

 King at Arms proclaimed her late 

 RoyalHifjhness's style, which ended 

 the ceremony. 



APRIL. 



Extract of a letter from Buenos 

 Ayres, dated April 3. — '< On the 

 30th ult. a boat of about 17 feet 

 keel arrived at this place, with six 

 persons on board. The following 

 IB th« account they have given :— 



They sailed from New South 

 Wales, on board the brig Isabella, 

 George Highton, master, on the 

 4th of December last ; they made 

 the land about Cape Horn on the 

 2nd of February, and Falkland 

 Islands on the 7th of the same 

 month. In the morning of the 

 8th, about one a. ra. the vessel 

 struck on the rocks, and was 

 wrecked. The crew and passengers 

 got on shore on a desert isle, form- 

 ing one of the group of the Falk- 

 land Islands, and the weather 

 being moderate they were enabled 

 to save from the vessel the pro- 

 visions and stores. On the 23rd 

 of February, having raised the long 

 boat, and decked her, it was 

 agreed that a part of the unhappy 

 sufferers should embark in her, for 

 the purpose of arriving at some 

 inhabited place, where the means 

 might be procured of sending a 

 vessel to bring away the other part 

 of the crew and passengers. The 

 six men who arrived here accord- 

 ingly put to sea on the 23rd of 

 February, and after a voyage of 

 upwards of 450 leagues on the 

 ocean, they arrived in this river, 

 without having seen the land for 

 36 days. Nothing but the pro- 

 tection of the Almighty could 

 have preserved them from the in- 

 clemency of the weather, consider- 

 ing the great fatigue they must 

 have endured, both in mind and 

 body, and so long a navigation in 

 seas almost proverbial for storms. 

 On the first intelligence of the 

 event. Captain Heywood, of his 

 majesty's ship Nereus, gave in- 

 structions tolieutenant W. D'Aran- 

 da, commander of the Nancy brig 

 of war, to prepare for sea, and to 

 proceed to the relief of the unhappy 

 sufferers ; it is expected she will tail 



