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‘INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES ano DEATHS tn and neaR LONDON. 
With Biographical Memoirs of diftinguifbed CharaGters recently deceafed. 
Ceremonial of the Public Funeral of the late 
Vice - Admiral Horattro Viscount 
Netson, K B., &e., &e., Ge. 
On Wednefiay the 8th of January the firft 
part of this grand funeral ceremony, and na- 
tional tribute of refpect to the remains of the 
immortal Neifon, was carried into execution. 
At half paft 7 A.M. the heralds, and the na- 
val oficers who were to affift at the proceffion 
by water, affembled at the Admiralty, and 
thence proceeded, about $, to Greenwich. 
At i¢ they aflembled at the Governor’s houfe 
within Greenwich Hojpital ; where they 
were met, in the council-chamber, by the 
Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and the Committee 
efpecia!ly appointed on this occafion by the 
Corporation of London ; and proceeded to 
their feveral barges. The Hero’s body was 
then carried from the faluon, where it had 
lain in ftate, through the great hall, out at the 
eattern portal, round the Reyal Charlotte 
ward, téthe north gate, and placed on board 
the ftate barge. Thecoflin wascovered with 
a velvet. pall, adorned with eicutcheons. 
During the procefiiun from the great hall to 
tne barge, a very noble band of mufic played 
the Dead March in Saul ; minute-guns were 
fired ; a and the bells tolled in uniion. The 
proceffion moved abouttwelve o’clock. The 
funeral barge was rowed by fixteen feamen be- 
longing to the Victory ; the other barges by 
picked men from the Greenwich penfioners. 
They had all theirflags hoifted half-ftad high ; 
and, as the proceffion paffed the Tower, a 
mute-guns were there fired. Not a vefle 
was fuffered to d:fturb the proceffion. The 
decks, yards, rigging, and mafts, of the nu- 
merous fhips on the river were all crowded 
-with fpe€tators; and the number of ladies 
wasimmenfe. At aquarter before three the 
procefion approached Whitehall-ftairs ; the 
King’s, Admiralty, Lord Mayor’s, and City 
barges, immediat ly drew up in two lines, 
through which the barge with the body paff- 
ed. All the oars were advanced, and the 
trumpets, and cther bands, played the Dead 
March in Saul, with other dirgeful ftrains, 
with the moft impreflive effet, the gun-boats 
Gring minute-guns all the time. Exactly at 
three, the funeral-barge began to difembark its 
charge. Every nmeceffary preparation had 
been made at the Admiralty for receiving the 
body. The captains? room, in which it was 
placed, was hung with fuperfine black cloth 
for thisfolemn octaficn. ‘1 he room was light- 
ed with wax tapers, placed in iceaces on the 
fides. On ‘Thurfday the gth, an hour betore 
dz -y-light, the drums of the dierent volunteer 
corps in every part of the 
arms: The fummons was quickly obeyed ; 
metropolis beat to- 
and, foon after, thefe ae lined the ftreets, 
in pwoxanks, from St. Paul’s.Church-yard te 
the Admiralty. The Life Guards, to+, were 
mounted at their poft in Hyde Park by day- 
-break, where the carriages of the nobility, 
&c., with the mourning-coaches appointed to 
form part of the proceffion, began to be affem- 
bled at 8 o’clock, in a line from Hyde Park 
Corner to Cumberland Gate. By to about 
1c6 carriages were aflembied, of which num- 
ber near fixty were mourning-coaches, princi= 
pally filled with naval officers ; all of which, 
underthe dire€ticn of the preper officers, were 
marfhalled in their due order of precedence, 
and drove into St. James’s Park, to be in 
readineis to fall into the proceffion on the 
proper fignal. In St. James’s Park were 
drawn apall the regiments af cavalry and in- 
‘fantry quartered within ane hundred miles of 
Londen, who had ferved in the glorious cam- 
paigns in Egypt, after the ever-memurable 
victory at the Nile ; and a detachment or fly- 
ing artillery, with twelve field-pieces, and 
their ammunition-tumbrils. At half paft ro 
the procefiion commenced fiom the Admiralty, 
with the march of the feveral regiments, led 
by his Royal Highnefs the Duke of York, 
attended by his Aides-de-Camp and Statf. 
‘Fhe preceffion of carriages, preceded by he- 
ralds, then followed, and having pafled 
through Temple-bar, in its way to St. Paul’s, 
he royal dukes, all of whom attended this 
impreilive ceremony, walted fome time in 
order to be joined by the remaining part of 
the procefton. The magnificent car, on - 
which the remains of his lordfhip were car- 
ried, became the princi; al and moit intereft- 
ing obje@ of univerfal attention. This ve- 
hicle was, from item to ftern, neatly twelve 
feet in length, refembling the hull of the 
Victory man of war:——the name of that fhip. 
being infcribed in its proper place, the word 
‘‘ Trafalgar” on each fide, and ** Nile” on 
its head, which was formed by a figure of the 
Goddefs of Victtory.—On the deck were 
raifed three platforms, one over toe other 5 
on the upper was placed the iplendid coffin 
with the body, over which rofe a moi tatte- 
fuliy conftructed canepy, to an elevation of 
about twenty feet from the ground, fur- 
mounted by rich plumes of black pe 
the canopy was ijupported at the corners by 
four palm trees, the ffems-~of filver, and the 
toliace of burnished gold. On the entabla- 
ture on each fide was the appropriate motte 
of the arms of lord Nelion, ‘* Palmam qui 
meruit, frrat 3” over which was fome elegant 
filver icrell work, in the Greek tafte. “Bhq 
car was drawn by fix led horfes, in funeral 
trappings, and preceded by the heraldic em- 
blenis borne in the front of mourning coacnes. 
Whea- 
