; and a ceremony more august
and imposing in all its parts, or more, calculated to make the deepest
impression both on the eye and the feelings, could not be conceived. But
the propriety of the pomp and magnificence displayed may be questioned,
as the nation was still suffering from the effects of the late expensive
war.

DEATH OF QUEEN CAROLINE.

Although Queen Caroline had borne her wrongs and injuries proudly up
to the coronation of her husband, yet, by the treatment she on that day
received, not only from officials, but the populace, her spirit was at
length subdued. She had placed her last stake on the hazard of a
day; and having totally failed in her object, sunk under the deepest
humiliation. But death came to the relief of all her anxieties and all
her woes. Soon afterwards she was attacked with an obstruction of the
bowels, which, in her state of mind and body, brought on mortification,
and terminated fatally on the 7th of August. Her ruling passion was
strong in death. She directed that her remains should be interred in
her own country, and that this inscription should be engraved on her
tomb:--"Here lies Caroline of Brunswick, the injured Queen of England."
Her funeral procession was attended with riots of a serious description.
The first stage, where it was to cross the sea, was to Romford in Essex.
The road that led to that place from her residence on the banks of the
Thames was through the heart of the capital, by her husband's palace,
and St. Paul's Cathedral. Ministers unwisely sought to prevent the
corpse from proceeding in this direction, and endeavoured by the
military to force it up a narrow street or lane, so that it might reach
the northern outskirts of London, and get into the Romford road
without occasioning any popular commotion. The populace, however,
whose predilection for the queen, now that she was dead, seems to have
returned, were determined that the procession should proceed by the
natural route. To this end the pavement was torn up, trenches made
in the road, and the avenues blocked up in every other direction. The
people triumphed; but at Hyde-Park upper-gate a conflict between the
military and the people took place, and two of the latter were shot
dead. At length the hearse was forced into the city; and here the
procession was joined by the lord mayor and other authorities; the shops
being closed, and the bells of the different churches tolling. It is
said that his majesty, who