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made the procession go at a round pace, so as to be there 

 before the soldiery could come up ; and this was the 

 more easy because the New Eoad was nearly empty, 

 while the parallel streets were extremely crowded. 

 We then got down the street that slants towards St 

 Paul's, and were soon in the Churchyard. The crowd 

 was enormous, and furious at the appearance of the 

 soldiery. As we moved slowly through it, several 

 officers, not much liking their situation in the crowd, 

 came up to our carriage and entered into conversation 

 with us, manifestly thinking that their being seen to 

 be friends would make things easier with the mob, 

 which it did ; for those officers were not at all mal- 

 treated, as many of the others w r ere. We at length 

 got clear of the City, and went as far as Ilford in Essex, 

 on the Harwich road. We then returned to London, 

 and I can answer for Wilson having been at no meet- 

 ing, or indeed anywhere but at Brookes's and his own 

 house. For whatever meetings there were, all were 

 over long before he left me at Brookes's, where he 

 remained till midnight. His dismissal from the army 

 was grounded, therefore, on an utterly false pretence. I 

 was to start early next morning, to overtake the funeral 

 before it arrived at Chelmsford. I found it had just 

 arrived, and it was deemed proper that the coffin should 

 be conveyed to the church ; but the authorities there 

 objected, and Lushington had to call for the interposi- 

 tion of the magistrates to overcome the religious scruples 

 of the clergy. Next morning it proceeded to Harwich 

 at a continued rapid rate, there being the strictest 

 orders sent from Dublin that the embarkation must be 

 over before the arrival of the King, which was fixed 

 for the next day. On arriving at Harwich we found 



