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HIS LATE MAJESTY GEORGE IV.

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HIS LATE MAJESTY GEORGE IV. the Gazette of Tuesday was pub- iLS ,E(L2N Thursday last. It contains a notice from the Earl ^Marshal's office, requesting "all Peers, Bishops, Eldest Sons of Peers, and Privy Councillors, who propose to assist at the Interment of his late Most Saered Majesty King George the Fourth, appointed to be solemnized in the Royal Chapel of St. George, at Windsor, on Thursday evening, the 15th of July, are requited to signify their intention by letter, on or be- tore luesday next, in order that the necessary tickets of admission may bp transmitted to them." J^REP «R^0NS ^OR FUNERAL are going on with rapidity at Windsor. A very considerable body of workmen were engaged on Thursday and Friday in f throwing up the covered way along which the funeral procession will move from the Royal entrance to the R Castle in the new Court, to St. George's Chapel. This cov e passage, which necessarily winds over a large space of ground in the Castle, is on the same scale as Lthat prepared forthe funeral of King George III., and the arrangements will be precisely the same. The body will he in .state in the old state drawing-room," or the icings drawing-room, as it is sometimes called, on the northern flank of the Castle. To this apartment the public will be admitted from the great quadrangle by what has heretofore been called "the Queen's great staircase; and, after having passed through the suite of rooms, they will retire by the narrow and somewhat inconvenient way by which visitors and strangers are admitted to view the old state apartments. The body will lie in state for two days. I The State Coffin for the remains of his late Majesty, '18 *W°VERED WITH CRIMSON velvet. It is larger than F Y ^AT are usually made, measuring across the shoul- ders three feet one inch and a half. The ornaments consist of eight massive scroll frames, chased, burnished, and gilt in the best manner; eight handles of similar pattern to those made for the coffin of his Majesty George the Third; sixty corner-ornaments, with EN^ graved palm branches, Royal Crown, and the letters -R* The coffin will be studded with between nine and "ten thousand highly burnished and gilt nails. e plate on which the deposituaq will be engraved is ot a size proportionate to that of THE coffin; IT is nine- T«EN inches and a half in length, seventeen inches and a half in width at the top, and fourteen inches and a quarter at the bottom. '.¡ The following is the inscription issued from the Col- [ lege OF Arms, to be engraved on the silver plate which is soldered on the leaden coffin, and also on the plate which is to be placed on the State Coffin 1. Depositum r' Serenissitni Potentissimi et Expelleniissimi Monarchae GEORGII QUART1, Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regis, t D Fidei Defensors, KegM Hanoverse ac Brunsvici et Lutieburgi Dacis. 1 Obiit XXVI Die JuBii, Anno Domini MDCCCXXX. /Etatis LXVIXI, _j. Regaique, sui XI. CIJYLN MAJESTY had signified his intention of being the hief Mourner at the funeral of the late King but it MS been mentioned by one of the attendants, that the JVINJ £ nas BEEN dissuaded from risking the emotion, which would be the concomitant of such an exertion. "¡;-

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