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His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in his state carriage, drawn by 



eiij;ht cream-coloured horses. 



His Royal Highness was accompanied by two of his 



Officers of State. 



A troop of Horse Guards followed. 



The Dukes of York, Clarence, 

 Sussex, and Gloucester, were in the 

 procession. The silver trumpets 

 sounded at intervals. After the 

 royal carriages came two of the 

 Heralds, in costume, on horseback. 

 In the carriage with the Regent 

 were the Duke of Wellington and 

 the Duke of Montrose. 



The Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and 

 other City Officers, fell into the 

 procession at Temple-bar. 



The Peeresses, and other indi- 

 viduals who were accommodated 

 with seats in the Cathedral, ap- 

 proached by Holborn to Newgate- 

 street, down Warwick-lane, to the 

 north gate of the church. 



Great order was preserved in 

 the streets. The windows and 

 housetops were crowded with 

 spectators. 



About "12 o'clock the proces- 

 sion reached St. Paul's gates. 

 Most of the Nobility, the Great 

 I.aw Officers, and the Members of 

 the House of Commons, had taken 

 their places when the Prince Re- 

 gent arrived ; his Royal Highness 

 was preceded by his brothers, the 

 Dukes of Cambridge, Sussex, 

 Kent, and York, according to 

 their respective seniority, and the 

 Duke of Gloucester, who was 

 warmly greeted by the populace. 

 Nothing could equal the splen- 

 dour of the Prince Regent's equi- 

 page and horses, and their trap- 

 pings. The Duke of Wellington 

 walketl on the right hand of his 

 Royal Highness from the carriage 

 to his seat in the church. 



On the arrival of (he procession 



at the great western gates of tiie 

 Cathedral, it moved along the nave 

 of the church, through the screen. 

 Immediately on the right hand 

 side of the chancel was the seat 

 constructed for the Prince Regent 

 and his party. It was covered 

 with crimson cloth, the cushions 

 of velvet and gold. The Duke of 

 Wellington was seated on the 

 right of his Royal Highness, with 

 the sword of state before him. 



Over the pew, if so it might be 

 called, in which his Royal High- 

 ness was seated, was a lofty and 

 magnificent canopy, with an ele- 

 vated dome in the centre, the 

 whole of crimson fjordered with 

 gold. 



On the right of the Regent 

 were seated his Royal Brothers, 

 and the Duke of Gloucester, in a 

 pew by themselves, covered with 

 crimson ; the Prince Regent's face 

 was towards the high altar : they 

 looked across the chancel with 

 their right to the eastern end of 

 the church. The Ministers of 

 State occupied the lower end of 

 the chancel : the Peers, Foreign 

 Ministers, Members of the House 

 of Commons, &c. &c. filled each 

 side, on benches, one above ano- 

 ther, mounting almost to the top 

 of the arches. 



The liturgy was performed after 

 the Cathedral manner, Te Deum, 

 &c. being chanted. After a ser- 

 mon by Dr. Law, Bishop of Ches- 

 ter, the splendid cavalcade moved 

 in inverted or<ler from the Cathe- 

 dral to Car!eton-liou»e. 



0. The Duke of Wellington 



