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g?AY>Uf and oftentation was avoided, while every thing 
was done confident with dignified fimpiicity. Never, on 
any f'uch occafion, were feen Co many perfons of eminence 
freely and intimately mixing with the people of every clal's 
in the fame expreliion of lorrow, and penetrated by the 
fame fentimerit of reverence. The abfence of the prince 
of Wales was a difappointment to the people in general. 
It is, however, jtiftice to his royal highnefs to fay, that he 
came »o town on purpofe to pay the lad tribute to his de- 
ceafed friend ; but he found that court-etiquette forbade 
his attendance at a private funeral. Lord Holland, there¬ 
fore, was chief mourner. 
The ftreets, through which the procefllon was to pafs, 
were gravelled over; the palfages leading into Pall-mall, 
Charing-crofs, Parliament-ftreet, Sec. were fenced up by 
sr temporary railing and gateways. The Royal Wefttnin- 
fter, Col. Robertfon ; the Loyal City of Weltminfier, the 
Hon. Col. Eden; the St. James’s, Col. Lord Amherlt; 
the Royal York Mary-le-bone, Col. Lord Vifcount Dun- 
cannon ; the Prince of Wales’s, Col. M. P. Andrews; 
the Loyal Britifh Artificers, Col. Burton; and feveral 
other Corps of Volunteers; paraded at an early hour, and 
lined the ltreets quite from the Stable-yard to the Abbey. 
A band of mufic was (tationed at St. James’s Palace, one 
at Carleton Houfe, one at the Admiralty, and one at the 
entrance of the Abbey, which played lolenvn airs as the 
procefiion palled. This was done in preference to their 
marching, as having lefs the appearance of pageantry. 
At two o’clock the procefiion fet out from the Stable- 
yard. It was nearly two miles in length, and moved 
amidft an awful fdence, the trueft mark of general grief 
and veneration. The hearfe which bore the body prefented 
a fpebfacle every-vvay appropriate to the dignity of the 
occafion. It was an open lofty carriage, of fpacious di- 
menfions; from the bafe or platform of which role an 
oblong pyramidical altar, afcending by four fteps covered 
at top by an arched canopy, fupported by four pillars at 
the corners; the whole richly hung with black velvet, or¬ 
namented with the armorial efcutcheons of the deceafed ; 
and the whole furmounted by a rich and fuperb plume 
of oftrich-feathers.—At the top of the altar was placed 
the body, in a coffin covered with black velvet, orna¬ 
mented in a ftyle of Ample elegance, with lilver gilt 
nails and efcutcheon-plates. 
Immediately after the hearfe followed in mourning 
coaches, each drawn by fix horfes, 
Lord Holland, Chief Mourner, fupported by Earl Fitz- 
william and Lord Howick. 
Train-bearer, Mr. Trotter (Mr. Fox’* Private Secretary.) 
Pall-bearers. 
Lord Chancellor, Earl of Thanet, 
Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Carlille, 
Duke of Devonlhire, fy Earl of Albemarle. 
Other Mourners in Coaches. 
Earl Spencer, Earl Moira, 
Lord Ellenborough, Lord Henry Petty, 
Lord Grenville, Mr. Windham, 
Lord Sidmouth, Mr. T. Grenville. 
Mourners on Foot. 
Ear] Cowper, Mr. Byng, 
Lord G. Cavendifh, Lord Wm. Rulfell, 
Lord J. Townlhend, Lord R. Spencer, 
Mr. Curran, M. R. I. A. Solicitor General, 
Mr. Whitbread, 
Mr. Sheridan, 
Lord Cholmondeley, 
Marquis of Hartington, 
Earl Percy, 
Marquis of Taviftock, 
Earl of Befborough, 
Lord Duncannon, 
Earl of Jerfey, 
Earl of Barrymore, 
Duke of Leinfter, 
Mr. W. Smith, 
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Mr. Adam, 
Attorney General, 
General Walpole, 
General Fitzpatrick, 
Mr. Plumer, 
Mr, W. Wynne, 
Mr. Tierney, 
Mr. Giles, 
Mr. Fonblanque, 
Mr. Jervis, 
Sir Thomas Miller, 
Dr. Parr. 
It was impoffible to obtain a correfl lift of the other 
nobility and members of the houfe of commons who at¬ 
tended on the occafion. 
The whole proceeded up Pall-mall, down Cockfpur- 
ftreet, Charing-crofs, Whitehall, and to Weftminlfer-Ab¬ 
bey, in very flow time; the trumpets founding, at inter¬ 
vals, a folemn dirge; and the regimental bands, with 
muffled drums and fifes, alternately playing the Dead 
March in Saul, and the German Funeral Hymn. The 
procefiion did not reach the abbey until half pail four ; 
when it was received by the clergy, and conducted to the 
grave in the north tranfept, where the fervice was per¬ 
formed in the ufual manner. The ceremony concluded 
foon after five o’clock ; and the whole of the company 
and attendants then difperfed, as there was no return of 
the procefiion. The ftreets were immenfely crowded ; 
and the windows, and even the houfe-tops, throughout: 
the whole line of progrefs, thronged with fpeflators. 
At the period of Mr. Fox’s death, the ftrength and po¬ 
pularity of the adminiftration were much inferior to what 
they had been at the time of its accefiion to power. The 
country had expelled from the talents and reputation of 
its members, either the refioration of peace, or a more fuc- 
cefsful profecution of the war; and in both expectations 
it had been difappointed. It had looked to important re¬ 
forms in public expenditure, and to a rigid inquiry into 
pad malverfations and abufes. It was not fatisfied with 
the exertions of minifters in regard to the firft; and, with 
refpett to the fecund, its hopes had been grievoufly damped 
by the acquittal of lord Melville, which was very gene¬ 
rally conflrued into a proof, either of weaknefs that was 
unable, or of connivance that was unwilling, to punifii 
him. The coldnefs with which the profecution of lord 
Wellefley was viewed by one part of the government, 
and the indecent warmth with which his defence was 
undertaken by another part, had difgufled and offended 
a numerous and refpeflable part of the community, 
to whom that nobleman was particularly obnoxious. 
The increafe of the income-tax was univerlally felt; and 
the fuppreffion of exemptions, however profitable to the 
exchequer, had added feverely to its preffure on the poor 
and induftrious. The additional allowance to the princes 
of the blood had made a great impreflion on the public 
mind, not on account of the magnitude of the fum, but 
becaufe the propofal originated with thofe, whole profef- 
fions of economy were Hill frelh in its recolledftion. The 
reform of the army was the jufteft claim to popularity, 
which the adminiftration had yet to offer ; but the art of 
their political opponents had contrived to reprefent its 
author as an enemy and contemner of the volunteers, and 
to excite againft him, in the minds of that numerous and 
refpe&able body of men, feelings of general refentment 
ana indignation. By fimilar arts, the American inter- 
eourfe-bill, a meafure which had no other fault but that 
of doing nothing, was reprefented to the ffiipping-interefi: 
as infallibly calculated for their deftruCtion. In addition 
to thefe caufes of unpopularity, the feeble and injudici¬ 
ous management of the patronage of government, by which, 
the friends of adminiftration had been difgufted, and its 
enemies encouraged without being conciliated, had weak¬ 
ened the ufual influence of government, ftrengthened the> 
jealoufies and fulpicious among its partilans, and excited 
the hopes and iucreafed the boldneis of its opponents.. 
From the union of thele caufes there was a general fpiric 
of difeontent and difiatisfaclion fpread over the nation, at 
the moment when the death of Mr. Fox feemed to Joolea, 
the bonds that held together the different members of the; 
adminiftration. 
So fenfible was the opposition of the declining power, 
and popularity of (he miniftry, that, during Mr. Fox’s 
illnels, fome of its leaders are underllood to have made, 
private overtures to the court, for taking back the reins 
of government, which they had differed to drop from their- 
hands fome months before. How thefe overtures, if ac¬ 
tually made, were.received, we are unable to communicate. 
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