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foot ; on fuch occafions the gartifons, or detachments they 
commanded, parade, and a portion, -defignate ted the “ funeral 
party,”” precede the corpfe in open order, with their arms 
reverfed, the drums ranfiled; and the band playing the de ] 
mn. airs, {uited to the occafion 
wearing crapes both e left ar 
corps and the ‘ion ee being refpectively 
The pall is {upported by oificers o 
equal, or of fuperior rank to the deceafed, whote {word and 
e 
& pre- 
vioutly difengaged from the ftaff. Th € chief mourners ‘among 
aac with the itaff of the ‘deceafed, and of the ftation, 
. follow the corpfe, and the whole sy pafs — a 
ormed he feveral-regiments wearing their fide 
arms, which, as foon as the hae e pro al, clofe and fol- 
rder. On arriving near the place of interment, the 
line is again formed, and the funeral party open to the right 
and left, se on their arms reverfed in a forrowful pofi- 
ion. . The etple oes aaah shaving 
ta! 
o 
a 
[om 
conclude the ceremony ne firing ae vollies over the corpfe, 
as the earth is filling over ing the whole time the 
colours of the fortrefs are «lowered os half-maft high, and 
d, 
minute guns are fire rre{ponding in number with the 
be of the deceafed. 
To 0 flicers of inferior rank proportionate honours are 
paid; thofe wh anded —— being fired over b 
aed igs il a a by the refidue as 
. Captains are spent ee by their own com- 
eae as eee Sens and by a proportion of pee as 
mourners: fubalterns by frnall parties to fire over, 
refidue of the company as mourners. Even a 
has a funeral party of a ferjeant, a corporal, 
and if his conduct while 
e 
a private foldier 
and twelve men ; 
iving gave fatisfaction, mott of the 
will be mae to atten n fome occafions, non- 
mmiffioned officers and rivates have been fo highly 
este sae as eaten dey mournful followers to be ver 
numer 
Nawal funerals depend much on circumftances: where 
they take place in any friendly pert, the corpfe is generally 
ent afhore to be interred according to the forms above de- 
fcribed, the marines furnifhing the fu ee party, and a 
fa: a number of officers attending to bear the pall, toge- 
ther with feamen to bear the coffin, and to followas mourners. 
When an officer of high rank is to be interred, the enfign of 
the fhip, and the flag of the.deceafed, are lowered half way 
down their re pe si flaves ; = barge pupil corpfe 
the rowers 
Agta ng with black, 
opt 
oO 
crapes 
band, which in ae as Ww ell ae as- in oS finery has its- num 
e 
jnflromente furnifhed with black ‘ribbon, the drum 
muffled and covered with black crape, perform ln mufic. 
. All the fhips in port lower their colours to half maft, and 
the fhip from which on co ae proceeds to the thore, i in 
sa eo ee minute 
\t fea, and i an an eneiny s “seis fick a mode of inter- 
not e, therefore the body, if not preferved 
for the po of heme buried afhore, muft be fewed up in 
a-hammock, _ pl again be cafed either in black wool- 
_ len, &c. or ina n fhell ; being duly laden with fhot, or 
el ner ous fu vaste it is laid upon a grating taken from 
one of the hatchways, and laid upon the lee-gunnel. ‘There 
i ufual fervice is performed by the chaplam, or, for want 
of one, by fome officer, and the corpfe is launched into the 
Zs 
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y 
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deep. ‘It is fometimes the practice to fit out the fhip’s 
barge, or her long-boat, &c. on fuch occafions, and to caufe 
the body to be rowed from fhip to fhip, receiving from each 
fome token of refpeé&, fuch as manning the rig sging in 
end bleh ng the econ to hal matt, performing fo- 
lem and occafionally by firing a pee ee of 
eons eccee ervice is pa he in the boat bearing the 
one uaa: is then configned to the deep. 
t is not eafy to defcribe the decorum which prevails on 
ee oceans nor to give an adequate idea of the impref- 
n made very large portion of any crew ae an 
agreeable soon, His corinne to « Davy Jones’s 
Locker,’’ asit is technically called, produces much afiiGtion 
among thofe wh 
ay 
acket, w a 
from a fen: acquaintance ee the naval. character, one 
fhould expe to witnefs. The abfence o 
who, according to 
- ene = nee ; every thing calls the loft affo- 
ck to the memor ys in which his good qualities are {ure 
to ca indelibly 3 recorded ! 
FUNERAL Oration, or Sermon, a difcourfe pronounced in 
oe of a perfon deceafed, at the c pace of his fu neral 
cuftom of m aking funeral orations i 8 very ‘ancien 
he 
The Romans had it it ae ftanding ; 
twelve years of sa 
divers parallel inflances. 
he cuftom feems to ‘have begun with the republic ; at 
leat, ne firft funeral pe we read of was that of Brutus,, 
who expelled the kings, and was the firft conful; who having, 
been killed in a battle aga ainft the -Etrurians, /audabatur 
pro ‘firs was praifed in the forum by Valerius Publicola. 
his ¢ ue. 
ede fome authors will have the ne more ancient.. 
ave maintain it to have been in ufe among the Greeks ; 
that Solon, who, according to Aulus *Gellins, gave 
laws to the Athenians, in the time when the elder Tarquin: 
Rome, was the firft author ee fomething 
like which, it (es the orator Anaximenes has ‘left i in ie 
ing. See Polydore Veet De Invent. Rer. lib. iii. cap. Ic. 
See DEMONSTRATIV 
F > in Ca hy, a town of South America, in: 
the province of Popayan ; iO miles §. of Patto. 
FUNFKIRCEN, or Five Churches, a town of Hungary,. 
fituated in a a es foil between the Drave and the Danube, 
the fee of ab pas erfity 
place py ious +» and b had : at . ae ents 3, 
but when the Turks obtained poffeffion of the town, the. 
tiniverfity declined, and it has never fince recovered. The 
mber of its’ “ina bitants. is about 12,000; 110 miles W.. 
N. lat. 46° 6!. 
time 2000 ftud 
of ‘Belgrade. g. 18 
N kingdom of Africa, 
fituated between the Zaire and the Coanza, fubje& to 
nziko, 
FUNGI, in Botany, a Natural Order of Plants, a fourth: 
of the clafe Crypiogamia, as originally eftablifhed by Lin-. 
neus, is reckon ong the Acotyledones by Juffieu. This: 
order: includes al thot ese acy known by. 
the name of Mufhrooms, as well a umerous. tribe o 
fimilar vegetable bodies, differing in pene from a watery 
pulp of. very fhort stdin - a leathe ery or. even. woody 
texture, often very permane not properly be 
faid to have any herbage, ce lefs any thing like leaves or. 
flowers in appearance, however their. different parts may 
pertoxp. 
