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gone out, Bad got fhe “key; but be expe&ed her every 
minute. After waiting about five minutes, Bonner 
went to the door, kicked it violently, and broke it 
open : he then entered the room where the body lay 
in a coffin, the lid being over it. Shortly after, a per- 
fon, unknown to the plaintiff, entered the houfe, and in¬ 
quired of the officers whether they had identified the 
body; being anfwered in the negative, they all went into 
the room where the corpfe lay ; and, Bonner having pulled 
the lid of the coffin on one fide, they all infpe&ed it; and, 
the officers having inquired of Baker and Heafman, if that 
was the perfon they wanted, they faid Yes. Heafman, or 
the man in poffeffion, then lighted two candles: one they 
placed at the back-door, and the other at the room-door 
where the deceafed lay. They then flung the front door 
of the houfe wide open, and Baker, Heafman, and various 
other perfons, came in and out of the houfe continually 
during the whole night—making a great noife, fitting on 
the flairs, and drinking and regaling themfelves until five 
or fix in the morning.—-The next day, Tuefday, the man 
in poffeffion demanded the key of the room where the 
body lay from the plaintiff’s daughter, which file gave 
him ; but on the Wednefday file applied to Baker for it 
again, for the purpofe of cleaning out the room, previous 
to the interment of the deceafed, which was to have taken 
place in the afternoon of that day. After much hefita- 
tion, he returned it to her. The room was then cleaned 
out, and every thing prepared for the funeral. About 
four o’clock the undertaker and his man came, for the 
purpofe of removing the body to the place of burial 
(Shoreditch-church) ; when Vorley, Borman, Heafman, 
and Baker, entered the houfe; the two latter bringing 
with them a fhell, which they took into the room where 
the deceafed lay in his coffin. Vorley and Borman then 
called the Ion on one fide, and told hint he had better pay 
the debt, and prevent bis father’s corpfe from being taken 
away by Baker and Heafman. He told them it was out 
of his power to do it. On that, Baker and Heafman, with 
another perfon, took the body out of the coffin, naked, and, 
having literally crammed it into the fhell, they put it into 
a cart before the houfe, where they buffered it to remain 
for upwards of half an hour, which drew together an im- 
menfe crowd of perfons, many of whom threw mud againft 
the houfe, and behaved in the moft riotous manner. They 
then conveyed the body to Heafman’s houfe, where it was 
put into his cellar. The body was kept in the cellar un¬ 
til the nth of Oftober, when Heafman, with the afiiffance 
of four men, conveyed it to a burial-vault in Bethnal 
Green, and there left it.—The above fadls were clearly 
made out by the evidence of J. A. Elliott the fon, and 
Charlotte Bifhop the daughter, of the deceafed. The de¬ 
fendants called no witneifes ; and the jury, after retiring 
for a few minutes, returned—Damages 200I. The refuit 
of the above trial, we hope, will fet the vulgar opinion at 
veil, “ that a creditor may arreft the dead body of his 
debtor;” and we hope it will be the la ft difgraceful fccne 
cf a fimilar kind ever exhibited in this country. 
At the interment cf the duchefs-dovvager of Br.uivfwitk 
on the 7th of April, (fee p. 158.) an important difeovery 
was made. It had been long fufpedted that the remains 
of king Charles I. were depofited at Windfor. Indeed, 
Wood in his Athens:, and Mr. Herbert in his Memoir, 
both fiate the fuppolition. The prince-regent. being at 
Windfor, he was, of courfe, confuited about the mode of 
exploring thefe royal remains, which hedirefted to' be done 
in his prefence. Sir Henry Halford attended his R. H. to 
the vault; when, the leaden coffin being unfcldered, a body 
appeared, covered over with a cered cloth ; on carefully 
(tripping the head and face, the countenance of the un¬ 
fortunate Charles immediately appeared, in features ap¬ 
parently perftft as when he lived; the left eye, at the firft 
expolure, was open and full, but the admiffion of air cauied 
it immediately to disappear. The fevered head had been 
carefully adjufted to the (boulders; anti the moft perfect 
refemblance to the portraits was remarked in the oval 
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fltape of the head, the pointed beard, See. On lifting up 
the head, the fifiure made by the axe was clearly difeo- 
vered by fir H. Halford ; and the fltfh, though fomewhat 
darkened, was found to be in a tolerably perfect fiate. 
In the fame vault was alfo found a decayed leaden coffin, 
containing the remains of Henry the Eighth, which con- 
fifted of nothing more than the fkull, with fome hair on 
the chin, and the principal limb-bones. 
We have mentioned .that add re fie 3 vvett prefented to 
the princefs of Wales from almoft every town in the king¬ 
dom, upon the iffue of the delicate inveftigation.—It will 
be proper to notice the proceedings of the city of Lon¬ 
don upon this occafion. 
On Saturday the 3d of April, in confequence of a vote 
of the common kali on Friday, the city-remembranccv waited 
on the princefs of Wales at Montague Houfe, and deli¬ 
vered the following note: “The lord-mayor, aldermen, 
and livery, of the city of London, in common hall aflem- 
bled, having yefterday voted an addrefs to her royal high- 
ne(s the princefs of Wales, and ordered the flieriffs,"at¬ 
tended by the remembrancer, to wait on her royal high- 
nefs, to know when (lie would receive the fame ; the re¬ 
membrancer now attends, to know her royal highnefs’s 
pleafure in refpecl to the time when the (heriffs may wait 
on her for this purpofe.” 
To this note her royal highnefs in a few minutes deli¬ 
vered the following anfwer in writing, in perfon: “ Im- 
preffed with the deepeft fenfe of gratitude for the unex¬ 
pended honour the lord-mayor and the noble city of Lon¬ 
don intend to confer upon me, by prefenting an Addrefs 
of congratulation on the happy annihilation of a confpi- 
racy againft my honour and life; I feel myfelf unable to 
do jultice to my feelings, in expreffing rny grateful ac¬ 
knowledgments for the lincere intereft the lord-mayor and 
the city of London have evinced for my welfare and hap- 
pinefs. The melancholy event of the duchefs of Brunfi- 
wick’s, my mother’s, demife, involves me at this moment 
in the deepeft affliftion. I (hall not fail, however, to fend 
on Monday next an anfwer to the lord-mayor, and f he riffs, 
to exprefs more fully my fentiments on the honour in¬ 
tended to be conferred upon me.” 
On Tuefday the 6th, the (heriffs waited on the princefs 
of Wales, and received the following anfwer: “When 
the remembrancer waited upon me unexpectedly on Sa¬ 
turday luff, to give me the firlt intimation of the high ho¬ 
nour conferred upon me'by the citizens of London in 
common hall aflembled, the anfwer which I made will 
have conveyed fome expreffion of my feelings on an oc¬ 
cafion fo interefting, important, and gratifying, to me. I 
am lure I (hall not be mifunderftood, w hen I "lay, that my 
affliction from the recent lofs of my beloved mother, and 
the peculiar circumftar.ces of my fituation in other re- 
fpeCts, may render it difficult for me to give a due reception 
to the lord-mayor, aldermen, recorder, (heriff's, and the de¬ 
putation of the livery of London. I alfo feel diffident of 
giving them the trouble of a public attendance upon me. 
I (hall be at my apartments in Keniington Palace on Mon¬ 
day next, at two o’clock, for the purpofe of receiving the 
addrefs.” " 
The addrefs was prefented on the 12th at Keniington 
Palace. The procefiion confided of the two city-marlhals 
on horfeback; the date-carriage, in which was the lord- 
mayor and his attendants; aldermen Combe, Wood, Good- 
behere, and Heygate; (heriff Blades, (heriff Hoy and his 
chaplain; the city-remembrancer, the chamberlain, the 
comptroller, the folicitor, the town-clerk, and about 150 
of the livery in their gowns. On their arrival, her royal 
highnefs entered from a back anti-room into the grand 
dining-room, and took her lfation at the upper end of the 
room, with Iter back to a fmall marble flab, before a large 
looking-glafs. Ladies Charlotte Lindfey, Charlotte Camp¬ 
bell, and Anne Hamilton, her ladies in waiting, flood on 
her right hand, and Mr. St. Leger, her vice-chamberlain, 
on her left. The town-clerk, in the abfence of the re¬ 
corder, approached the princefs, and read the follow-us- 
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