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Train-bearer flood behind the Chief Mourner, and near 
him the Relations cf the Deceafed. At the opposite end 
fat the Right Reverend the Lord Bifhop of Lincoln, Dean 
of the Cathedral, attended by the three Canons Refiden- 
tiaries. A Supporter of the Pall flood at each angle ; the 
Afliflant Mourners, Supporters of the Canopy, and Bearers 
of the Bannerolls, on either fide. On the right of the 
Dean were the Chaplains; on the left the Officers of the 
Hcufehold of the Deceafed. The Great Banner was borne 
on the North, the Banner of the Deceafed, as a Knight 
of the Bath, on the South of the Grave; the Standard 
and Guidon behind the Dean; the Banner of Emblems 
behind the Chief Mourner; the Trophies in the angles. 
The Royal Dukes, Foreign Ambafl'adors, and Naval Offi¬ 
cers, had feats referved for them in the front of the South 
fide of the Dome. The Lord-mayor, Aldermen, and 
the whole of the Common Council, with their Ladies, 
were feated in the front of the North fide of the Dome. 
At the Grave was fung, “Man that is born of a wo- 
tnaiv’ See. The remainder of the Burial-Service was then 
read by the Dean ; and after the firft Colledf an Anthem 
was fung, felefted from Handel’s Grand Funeral Anthem. 
There was an excellent contrivance for letting down 
tiie Body into the Grave. A Bier was raifed from the ob¬ 
long aperture under the Dome, for the purpofe of fup- 
porting the Coflin, by invifible machinery ; the apparatus 
being totally concealed below the pavement. This con¬ 
trivance prevented all thefe difagreeable circumftances 
which too often occur at the funerals of the great. 
Upon a lignal given from St. Paul’s that the Body was 
.depofited, the troops being drawn up in Moorfields, the 
Artillery fired their guns, and the Infantry gave volleys, 
by corps, three times repeated. The fervice of the in¬ 
terment being over, Garter proclaimed the ftyle; and the 
Comptroller, Treasurer, and Steward, of the Deceafed, 
breaking their ftaves, gave the pieces to Garter, who 
threw them into the Grave. The Interment thus ended, 
the Standard, Banners, Bannerolls, and Trophies, were 
depofited on the table behind the Chief Mourner; and 
the Proceflion, arranged by the Officers of Arms, returned. 
It is a curious and fingular circumftance, that the de¬ 
sign of the Car, exaftly as it was executed, and as it Hands 
now in the Painted Hall at Greenwich, was invented and 
made by a French gentleman well known at the Heralds’ 
office. The occaiional motto, Hojlt deviflo, r equity it, was 
given by the fame perfon. The idea of letting down the 
coffin, by means of flings, was fuggefted alio by him to 
Mr. Wyatt two days before the funeral; and the obelifk, 
in black, erefted by Mr. Milne, entirely removed on that 
account. We thought it but juft to (how that real me¬ 
rit and patriotifm have every-where a claim to refpedt; 
and that foreigners themfelves, in or out of this country, 
could not refufe their tribute of admiration to fuch a man 
as Nelfon. 
The vaft fpace under the dome of the cathedral was il¬ 
luminated by a temporary lantern, the contrivance of Mr. 
Wyatt, confiding of an oftagonal framing of wood, painted 
black, and finiftied at top by eight angles, and at bottom 
by a fmalier odtagon. On it were difpofed about 200 pa¬ 
tent-lamps ; and it was fulpended by a rope from the cen¬ 
tre of the lanthorn. When drawn up, it illuminated the 
whole church, and had a molt impreflive and grand effect, 
contributing greatly to the magnificence of the fpedtacle. 
During the whole of this folemn ceremony, the greateft 
order prevailed throughout the metropolis; and t as the re¬ 
mains of the much-lamented hero proceeded along, every 
poflible teftimony of farrow' and of refpedt was manifefted 
by an immenfe concourfe of fpedators of all ranks. From 
the Admiralty to the Cathedral, the fireecs were lined 
with the feveral Volunteer Corps of London and Weft- 
minfter, the Militia, and many other military bodies both 
cavalry and infantry.. 
The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London are enti¬ 
tled to the grateful acknowledgments of the public (who 
profited by their attention throughout every department), 
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not only for the effectual manner In which they provided 
for the peace of the city, but for the comfortable accef3 
afforded, under their direction, to all who entered it. And 
it muff not be forgotten, that the fpirited exertions of the 
lord-mayor, now Sir James Shaw, bai t, preferved on this oc- 
cafion the right of the firft magiftrate ro claim precedence, 
at a proceflion in the city, above even the princes of the 
royal blood. Long difeuflions took place between tile 
court and the lord-mayor; at length, upon the reprefen- 
tation and conciliating interference cf Garter Principal 
King of Arms, to whom the prefervation of all rights of 
precedence is entrufted, the affair was Fettled by a warrant 
from the king, afiigning, pro hac vice, a place to the lord- 
mayor according to the pretentions of his office. 
This behaviour of the lord-mayor was fo agreeable to 
the corporation, that, at a court of aldermen, held on the 
28th of January, it was Refolved unanimoujly, “That the 
thanks of this court be given to the Right Honourable 
the Lord-Mayor, for his judicious arrangement of this 
city’s part of the Public Prccelfions on the 8th and 9th 
inftant, in honour of the late Lord Vifcount Nelfon ; for 
that manly, temperate, and perfevering, conduct, which 
procured him a warrant, under the King’s Sign Manual, 
to hold in the proceflion of the 9th inftant, within the 
city, the place due to the chief magiflrate ; viz. that of 
the firft fubjedt of the realm ; for the perfect concert in 
which he adted with the committee of the other branch 
of the corporation ; for his excellent difpol'al and bril¬ 
liant difplay of the military force of this city; for his 
polite attention to all the members of this court, and to 
every other perfon with whom he had intercourfe upon 
that folemn occafion ; and for his liberal entertainments, 
particularly that at his Manfion-houfe on the 9th inftant; 
when Ills hofpitable table was attended by the municipal 
authorities of the city, and honoured by an affemblage of 
eminent perfons, rendered dear to their fellow-citizens, by 
the great fervices they have performed to their country, in 
the honourable profeflions of the navy and army.” 
The four vergers of Sr. Paul’s are faid to have made 
more than a tbouland pounds, by the daily admiflion to 
fee the preparations for the funeral of lord Nelfon, and 
by (bowing the coffin for feveral days after the obfequies. 
The money taken at the door amounted to more than 40I. 
each day. 
The tears of the country were (till flowing on the tomb 
of Nelfon, when death deprived the nation of another of 
her great men. Mr. Pitt died on the 23d of January, 
1806 ; and was buried the 22d of February following. 
Great difference of opinion prevailed in the corporation 
of London, in refpedi to the meafures to be adopted in 
confequence of that event. The fubjedt of difeuflion was 
a motion, in the court of common-council, on the 6th of 
February, “That this court, deeply impreffed with a 
fenle of the inflexible integrity, tranfeendent ability, and 
(plendid virtue, of the late iliuftrious minifter, the Right 
Hon. W. Pitt, do caufe a monument to be eredled within 
the Guildhall of this city, to perpetuate his memory, with 
a fuitable infeription, expreifiveof their veneration for fo 
pre-eminent a character, and of the irreparable lofs this 
nation has 1'uftained by the death of fo exalted and dif- 
interefted a liatefinan.” After a very animated debate, 
the quertion was determin.d in the affirmative by a ma¬ 
jority of fix only; but, when an attempt was made on 
the 28th of the lame month to procure a reverfal of the 
vote, the motion was loft, and the former vote confirmed, 
by a majority of thirty-fix. 
The monument having been determined upon, feveral 
models were prefented for the choice of the corporation ; 
and the one which was ordered to be eredled is placed op- 
polite to that of lord Chatham, and is no difparagement 
to it as a companion. On a lock ariiing from, and fur- 
rounded by, the waves of the fea, in allufion to the na¬ 
tural fituation of Great Britain, the figure of Mr. Pitt 
Hands aloft, before a marble pyramid, in the attitude 
cf lpeaking, and in the coltume of Chancellor of the 
i Exchequer. 
