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Funeral of His Majesty King George the Fourth.

Upon the arrival of the Procession at the south door of St. George's Chapel, his late Majesty's Band of Music, the trumpets and drums, and the Knight Marshal's Men and Officers, filed off without the door.

At the entrance of the Chapel, the Royal Body was received by the Dean and Prebendaries, attended by the Choirs of Windsor and of the Chapel Royal, (who fell in immediately before Norroy King of Arms), and the Procession moved down the south aisle and up the nave, into the choir, where the Royal Body was placed on a platform under a canopy of purple velvet (having thereon escocheons of the Royal Arms, and surmounted by an Imperial Crown,) and the Crowns and cushions were laid upon the coffin.

His Majesty, the Chief Mourner, sat on a chair of state, at the head of the corpse, and the Supporters stood on each side. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Cumberland, Sussex, Prince George of Cumberland, the Duke of Gloucester, and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, were seated near his Majesty. The Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household took his place at the feet of the corpse; and the Supporters and Assistant Supporters of the Pall and of the Canopy arranged themselves on each side of the Royal Body. The Peers, Assistants to the Chief Mourner, arranged themselves behind the Princes of the Blood Royal. The Peers bearing the Banners were placed on each side below the altar. During the service the Knights of the Garter present occupied their respective stalls, with the exception of the Duke of Wellington, who bore the Sword of State, the Duke of Beaufort, one of the Supporters to the Chief Mourner, and the Peers who supported the pall. The Ministers of State, the Great Officers of the Household, the Nobility, Bishops, Privy Councillors, Judges, and Law Officers, were placed in the vacant and intermediate stalls, and in the lower seats on each side of the choir. The Grooms of the Bedchamber, GentlemenUshers of the Privychamber, Equerries and others, composing the Procession, were arranged on each side of the altar, on which was placed the gold plate of the Chapels Royal.

The part of the service before the interment and the anthem being performed, the Royal Body was deposited in the vault; and the service being concluded, his Majesty, the Chief Mourner, was conducted from the choir to the chapter-room of the Chapel, preceded by the Sword of State. After a short pause, Sir George Nayler, Garter Principal King of Arms, pronounced near the grave the styles of His late Most Sacred Majesty, of blessed memory, as follows:"Thus it hath pleased Almighty God to take out of this transitory life, unto His Divine Mercy, the late Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch,

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GEORGE THE FOURTH, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter; King of Hanover, and Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh. Let us humbly beseech Almighty God to bless and preserve with long life, health, and honour, and all worldly happiness, the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, Our Sovereign Lord WILLIAM THE FOURTH, now, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter; King of Hanover, and Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh. GOD SAVE KING WILLIAM THE FOURTH!"

After which the Marquess of Couyngham, Lord Steward of the Household to his late Majesty, and the other officers of his late Majesty's Household, broke their staves of office, and, kneeling near the grave, deposited the same in the royal vault; whereupon their Royal Highnesses the Princes of the Blood Royal, the Great Officers of State, Nobility, and others, who had composed the Procession, retired.

The Knights of the several Orders, present on the occasion, wore their respective Collars, with white rosettes. In pursuance of his Majesty's order, the Great Officers of State, his Majesty's Ministers, and the Officers of the Royal Household, appeared in their state uniforms, with. black waistcoats, breeches, stockings, and buckles, uniform swords with crape, and black feathers in their hats. The officers of the Army and Navy appeared in full dress uniforms, with the mourning directed to be worn by them at Court. The Bishops appeared in their rochets; the Peers, eldest Sons of Peers, Privy Councillors, and others, not included in the Royal order, appeared in full dress black.

The Procession, from the Royal Apartments to the Choir of St. George's Chapel, was flanked by the Grenadiers of the Foot Guards, every fourth man bearing a flambeau. From four o'clock in the morning until nine in the evening guns were fired at intervals of five minutes, and from nine o'clock until the conclusion of the Ceremony minute guns were fired.

Such is an abstract of the official accounts authenticated by the signature of the Earl Marshal. After the chapel was cleared, both of the funeral cortege and spectators, the Duke of Cumberland descended into the royal vault, to witness the performance of the last necessary arrangements; and, having remained for an hour and a half in the Chapel, before his departure saw the stones replaced at the entrance of the sacred tombhouse of his Family.

OBITUARY.-Gen. Meyrick.-Wm. Everett, Esq.

the rebels arrived, that they overpowered the King's troops in the town of Wexford, took possession of the place, and for three days regularly mounted and relieved guard on the same parade as had been occupied by his Majesty's forces. The aspect of affairs was serious in the extreme, when General Meyrick put himself at the head of two battalions, and marched to the relief of the place; the rebels fled before his arrival, and tranquillity was restored. General Meyrick continued in Ireland till the Peace in 1802, having command at Clonmel, and subsequently at Galway.

On the 15th February he was re-appointed to the same rank, and in September, 1803, received the rank of Major-General, being removed to the British staff in the next month, but in March, 1804, he was again placed on the staff of Ireland. He commanded in Dublin, and in 1810 was promoted to the rank of Lieut.-General. His rank of full General he obtained in 1821. He was uncle to Dr. Meyrick, of Goodrich Court, Herefordshire.

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OBITUARY.-Wm. Everett, Esq.-John Hammond, Esq.

few years ago. He was, with his bro-
ther-in-law, the late John Thring, Esq.,
a banker in Warminster; he left issue a
son, Joseph Everett, Esq. of Heytesbury,
who had a grant of arms at the London
College in 1811, and is the head of the
banking establishment of Everett and
Co. Warminster. III. William Everett,
of Horningsham, Esq. baptized at Hey-
tesbury, Jan. 13, 1741, married in Lon-
don Jane Wickhamn, and had issue four
sons and three daughters, viz. 1. Thomas,
whose decease we now record; 2. the
Rev. William Everett, M.A. New Coll.
Oxford, Dec. 17, 1801, B.D. June 28,
1810, junior Proctor of the University in
1809, Vicar of Romford, co. Essex, mar-
ried Marianne, daughter of Charles
Dundas, Esq. M. P. co. Berks, and died
3. John Gale
1828, leaving issue;

Everett, ob. s. p.; and, 4. Joseph, in
the army, ob, s. p. Of the daughters
of William Everett and his wife Jane
Wickham, Jane and Charlotte are both
living cœl., and Alicia, the eldest, bap-
tized Sept. 25, 1768, at Horningsham, is
the widow of the Rev. William Ireland,
M.A. St. John's Coll. Oxford, July 7,
1780, Vicar of Frome, Somerset, for 25
years, and a magistrate for the same
county, to whom she was married Feb.
20, 1792; he died 1813, aged 59, leav-
ing issue the Rev. John Ireland of Nun-
ney, near Frome, M.A. Queen's Coll.
Oxford, Oct. 10, 1820, Rector of Queen
Charlton, co. Somerset, cœl. and four
daughters; 1st and 4th daughters, Har-
riet and Alicia (Ireland) are both cœl.;
2. Lucy (Ireland) is wife of the Rev. W.
Gretton, son of the late Rev. Dr. Gret-
ton, Dean of Hereford, and has issue;
3. Frances (Ireland), married 1820, the
Rev. Stephen Hyde Cassan, M.A. of
Magdalen Hall, Oxford, Jan. 22, 1818,
F.S.A. of Mere Vicarage, co. Wilts, (son
of Stephen Cassan, Barrister at law, Esq.
of the Middle Temple, second son of
Stephen, Barrister at law, of Lincoln's
Inn, of Sheffield Queen's co. Esq.), and
has issue Algernon - William Cassan,
Gertrude-Anne-Caley Cassan, Frances-
Alicia Cassan, &c. IV. Joseph Everett,
fourth son of William of Heytesbury, and
Alice Gale his wife, died leaving issue by
Kellow, Esq.
his wife daughter of
four sons and three daughters; of the
sons, 1. Charles Everett, cœl. (living
1830), a banker at Salisbury; 2. the
Rev. G. Frederick Everett, M.A. of Bal-
Jiol Coll. Oxford, April 9, 1818, who, in
1813, obtained the honour of first class,
(living 1830); 3. Henry-Turner Everett,
(living 1830), a banker and solicitor of
Salisbury; 4. Edward Everett (living
1830), Barrister at law, of the Middle
Temple, M.A. of Balliol Coll. Oxford,

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Jan. 31, 1824; of the daughters, Caroline and Harriett Everett are cœl, and Maria ob. cœl. V. Robert Everett, fifth son of William of Heytesbury and Alice Of the three daughGale, oh. s. p.

ters of William Everett and Alice Gale,
(Alicia, Mary, and Elizabeth), Alicia
married Turner, Esq. and ob. s. p.
at Bath a few years ago; Mary, de-
ceased, married the late John Waldron,
Esq. of Trowbridge, and had issue two
sons and one daughter; of the sons
William Waldron is an acting magis-
trate for Wiltshire, and head of the
Juhn
banking establishment at Trowbridge,
Wilts, and Frome, Somerset ;
Waldron, late of the King's Dragoon
Guards, died April 13, 1830 (see part i.
of the present volume, p. 381); and
Maria Waldron, living cœl.

Elizabeth Everett, the third daughter, and last surviving issue of William Everett and Alice Gale, married the late John Thring, Esq. of Alford House, near Castle Cary, co. Somerset, Deputy Lieutenant and an acting magistrate for co. Somerset, formerly partner with bis brother-in-law (J. G. Everett) in the Everett, banking establishment of

Thring, and Co. of Warminster, who died Jan. 13, 1830 (see part i. p. 189), leaving issue one son and one daughter. The son is the Rev. John-Gale Dalton Thring, L.L.B., of Cambridge, now of Alford House, and many years Rector of Alford, who married Sarah, sister of the Rev. Richard Jenkyns, D.D., the present Master of Balliol College, Oxford, by whom he has issue; the daughter is Alicia Thring, cœl.

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The late Thomas Everett married Eustace, Esq. by whom daughter of he had no issue. He was buried in the family vault at Horningsham church, Wilts, where his brother, the Rev. William Everett, was interred two years since.

The arms of Everett are," Gules, on a 66 Crest, a chevron or between three mullets argent five pallets azure." gryphon's head sable, charged with three barrulets, that in the middle argent, the other two or," to be borne by the grantee Thomas Everett and his descendants, and by the descendants of his grandfather John Everett deceased.

JOHN HAMMOND, Esq. M.A.

June 7. At Fen-Stanton, Hunts, John Hammond, Esq. M.A. a gentleman as much respected for his talents and li

* Sir William Waldron was Lord Mayor of London in 1413 and 1423.Stow, ii. 261 a.

1930.]

OBITUARY.-John Hammond, Esq.-Mr. Winsor.

terary attainments as esteemed for his moral worth.

Mr. Hammond was a native of Chesbire, and received the elements of his education at the public school of Macclesfield. Having there successfully pursued his preparatory studies, he was sent to Queen's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1777, being the eighth wrangler of that year, M.A. 1780; and was elected a Fellow. No long time bowever after his election, he married the only daughter of James Essex, Esq. F.S.A. the celebrated architect of Cambridge, when of course be vacated his Féllowship. He did not enjoy that lady's society long, and a little time after her decease he set out on his foreign travels, and passed three years in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. Having previously somewhat acquainted bimself with the languages of those countries, perfected himself more thoroughly in them on his travels; he was also minutely observant of every thing relating to the antiquities of the several countries through which be passed, as well as the attainments of the moderns, in art and science. All these particulars he had noted down in his journal with much care, and it was often lamented by his literary friends that they were never made public.

Mr. Hammond, on his return to his native country, married his second wife, and retired to Fen-Stanton in Huntingdonshire, where he had purchased an estate, and devoted himself for some years to the cultivation and improvement of it; returning, however, at intervals to his favourite studies. length resigned his agricultural concerns to the care of his son, and devoted himself to literary retirement.

He at

This gentleman's acquirements were certainly very considerable: with his mathematical and classical knowledge he combined that of Italian, French, and German, and was well versed in the Hebrew and Arabic languages. He used to read every morning a portion of the Scriptures in these two last languages.

Mr. Hammond was also enthusiastically fond of music. His favourite instrument was the violin, on which he practised successfully under the instruction of that eminent musician Mr. Hellendal, then a teacher in that town. With regard to music, Mr. Hammond afforded a remarkable example of the force of early impressions: for after giving up all attention to the study for twenty or thirty years, he returned to it even towards the close of his life, with equal ardour and extraordinary success,

It has been lamented by many of Mr.
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Hammond's friends, that he should not have left behind him any public memo· rial or testimony of his literary character: but we are not aware of any publication of his, unless a few pages on some public occasion, may be called by that name. He had indeed been long meditating to publish an edition of David's Psalms in the original Hebrew, according to the manner in which they are printed by Dr. Kennicott, i. e, in the form of metre or verse, and not as they now appear in the form of prose. And this is the form in which they doubtless ought to be printed: but Mr. Hammond's opinion also was that the Hebrew should be read without points; but this opinion, however just, being uniformly rejected by the Jews, and rarely adopted by Christians in this country, he had suspended bis intentions.

Mr. Hammond in his religious sentiments was a Unitarian, though he dif fered somewhat from the Socinians both ancient and modern. In his political principles he was a Whig, being zea. lously attached to the Revolution of 1688, and greatly interested himself in all matters which concerned the public good; in private life he was an amiable, virtuous and conscientious man, and died generally lamented.

MR. WINSOR.

May 11. At Paris, aged 67, Mr. Frederick Albert Winsor, the founder of the Gas-Light and Coke Company in London, and of the first Gas Company established at Paris.

It was in 1803 that Mr. Winsor first publicly demonstrated, at the Lyceum in the Strand, the use to which his discovery of gas lighting might be applied. Many, even of high scientific reputation, then denied its feasibility. He afterwards, on the King's birth-day in 1807, lighted with gas the walls of Carltonhouse gardens, in St. James's Park; and during 1809 and 1810, one side of Pall Mall from the house which be then occupied in that street. His house was for many years openly shown, fitted up with gas-lights throughout, to exhibit to the legislature and the public the practicability of his plans.

His memorial to the King for a charter, and the evidence taken before Parliament, and before the Privy Council, bear testimony to the indefatigable and unremitting zeal with which he persevered, until he overcame the ob stacles which prejudice had raised against his efforts, and which threatens

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ed to prevent the general adoption of his discoveries and improvements.

In 1812, however, a charter of incorporation for a Gas-Light and Coke Company was obtained, and success crowned his labours; but his mind having been wholly possessed with the prosecution of an object of such importance, he was too regardless of his own pecuniary interests, and omitted to retain a legal power over the advantages which resulted from his exertions: he unfortunately trusted too much for his reward to the honour of the parties with whom he was engaged.

In 1815 he extended to France the advantages which had attended bis efforts in England. There too he was the first to establish a company, and erect gasworks; but rival interests created other companies, in defiance of patent privileges; these associations, with large capitals, undermined his interests, and he again gave fortunes to others which ought to have been his own reward.

Sic vos non vobis

MR. JOHN NICKSON.

June 16. At Leamington, after a short illness, aged 70, Mr. John Nickson, of Coventry, a member of the Society of Friends.

He was a native of that city, and apprenticed to a relative at Eatington, in Warwickshire. Thence he returned to an uncle in Coventry, with whom he resided a few years, and then entered into partnership with a Mr. Townsend, in the leather trade. On the death of Mr. T. he entered into the cotton trade with the late Mr. Browett, and carried on for many years a lucrative and flourishing business. The decline of that manufacture, and the death of his partner, induced him to enter into another-the fabrication of trimmings-and he was also engaged in the selling of silk by commission. In his younger years he married a Miss Stretch, of Birmingham, by whom he had a son, who died young, and three daughters, two of whom are now surviving.

At that period, and for many subsequent years, he was a most active and diligent antiquary. Knowing that there were in existence many ancient MSS. detailing the remarkable events which had occurred in the ancient city of Coventry, he, with the assistance of his numerous friends, collected them together -be examined the files of the Coventry Mercury, from its establishment in the year 1741-the ancient books and writings belong to the various chartered companies and also a portion of the

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records belonging to the Corporation. From these he extracted every useful detail; and by his careful selection, has formed a volume of great value. It had been his intention to have published a history of Coventry, and a prospectus was issued by Mr. Piercy, a bookseller, but it was not carried into execution. With indefatigable industry he collected the election papers, &c. connected with Coventry during the last century, the whole of which he arranged chronologically in two large folio volumes. He also, in conjunction with two other antiquarian friends, employed a celebrated artist to take drawings of every church, and the remains of ancient buildings in Warwickshire, in order to illustrate Sir W. Dugdale's History of that County. He was a collector of coins; and possessed a valuable series of Coventry tokens, which passed currently in the reign of Charles II. With the friends abovementioned, he had a silver and copper coinage struck off-on one side were represented the City arms, viz. the elephant and castle; and on the other, the ancient and modern public buildings of the City. Several interesting communications relating to Coventry were transmitted by him at various times to the Gentleman's Magazine. He was an active assistant in founding the Coventry Library in 1761. His collections were ever open to the inspection of his friends; and there are many still surviving, who recollect with pleasure the gratification they received from his communicative disposition. In a word, he was a kind warm-hearted friend, respected by his neighbours; and in the various vicissitudes of life, was ever esteemed as a man of unimpeachable honour and integrity. He was liberal in his sentiments; and, during the late eventful times, a truly loyal subject-unchangeable in his friendship, and ever active for the welfare and benefit of his native city.

CLERGY DECEASED.

Jan. 6. At Ayr, the Rev. Robert Baylis Dealtry, LL. D. Rector of Wicklow, and a Prebendary of St. Patrick's, Dublin. He received his University education at Trin. coll. Camb. where he graduated B. A. 1777, being the first Junior Optime of that year, M. A. 1780; and was the author of a Monody on the Rt. Hon. Wm. Pitt, and an Elegy on Sir John Moore, both printed in 4to, 1809'

June 17. Aged 42, the Rev. Thomas Jesup Abbot, Curate of Newmarket, and Vicar of Loddon in Norfolk. He was of Cath. hall, Camb. B. A. 1815, M.A. 1818; and