St. Paul's before nine, the firing of the Park | the smallest delay or interruption. The city guns announced, soon after ten, that their majesties had entered their carriage at St. James's; and the royal procession began in the following order, each carriage being drawn by six caparisoned horses, except that of their majesties, which was drawn by eight creams. Household of the duke of Gloucester, The duke, Household of the duke of York, Household of the duke of Clarence, QUEEN'S HOUSEHOLD. First coach-Ladies of the bedchamber Second coach-The maids of honour Third coach-Equerries. Fourth coach-Ladies of the bedchamber. Fifth coach-Master of the horse. KING'S HOUSEHOLD. Sixth coach-Gentlemen ushers of the privy-chamber. Seventh coach-Equerries. Eighth coach-Lord steward, &c. Ninth coach-Lords of the bedchamber. THEIR MAJESTIES, With the mistress of the robes to the queen, and the lady of the bedchamber in waiting. PRINCESSES. Attendants on the princesses. The princesses were dressed in purple satins, trimmed with gold, and wore bandeaus of purple and gold in their hair. The horses of the twenty carriages of state, amounting to one hundred and twenty-two, formed, perhaps, the finest equestrian sight ever seen in any country. Those of the duke of Gloucester were bays, of the duke of York white, of the duke of Clarence roans, of their majesty's household black. The crowd in the streets, from St. James's to the cathedral, was immense; but the carriage-way was kept entirely clear for the procession, which reached the cathedral without militia, light-horse association, and the gentlemen of the artillery company, kept the strictest regularity in the city; while the various detachments of troops in other quarters, added to the grandeur of the scene, and preserved the completest order. During the procession of the house of commons down the left side of Fleet-street, the lordmayor, the two sheriffs, four of the commoncouncil (as representatives of the corporation) in their carriages, preceded by the marshals and city officers, went to Temple-bar, where they waited to receive his majesty; to whom the lord-mayor delivered the city sword; which being graciously returned by the king, the lordmayor, with the sheriffs and city deputation, all elegantly dressed in their gowns of office, rode bare-headed before his majesty to the cathedral church. His majesty was received with every mark of attention, respect, and applause, which his goodness of heart, and love for his people, so eminently merited. Particular marks of respect were also bestowed on many others; among whom Mr. Pitt was particularly noticed; the plaudits bestowed on him silenced and overpowered the hisses and clamours of a few malcontents, planted in different places apparently to insult him. When the procession reached St. Paul's, the lieutenants, taking the flags from the waggons, attended by the seamen and marines, divided themselves for their captains to pass up to the body of the church, to their seats in the galleries on each side of the choir. The colours, on being brought within the church, were carried in procession under the loudest shouts of applause, and grand martial music, to the middle of the dome, where they were placed in a circle. The princesses, with the dukes of York and Clarence, prince Ernest, and the duke of Gloucester, and their respective suites, on their alighting, formed a circle within the church, regularly from the great west door, with the lord-mayor, sheriffs, aldermen, and the admirals on the opposite side, where they waited to receive their majesties. The common-council of London, in their mazarine gowns, were ranged with their ladies, in two spacious galleries, which filled the semicircle of the dome ; and, from the number of beautiful women present, added not a little to the grandeur of the spectacle. 1 A very excellent sermon was preached by the bishop of Lincoln, dean of St. Paul's, from 2 Samuel xxii., 1-3. And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song, in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hands of all his enemies. The lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer. And God of my rock, in him will I trust; he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation. An anthem was sung, the same as when queen Anne went to St. Paul's. At half-past two o'clock, a signal being given from St. Paul's that the service was over, the park guns were fired. In returning, the procession of the royal family's carriages was reversed, their majesties going first. The whole conduct of the procession, and the business of the day was such as reflected great credit on those who superintended its arrangements. Not any accident happened, that could tend to throw a cloud over the splendour of the day. The soldiers who lined the streets conducted themselves with the utmost decorum. The populace thronged into the streets from all the avenues, and The king, on his alighting at the church, was received by the bishops of London and Lincoln, who walked on each side of his majesty, preceded by the heralds at arms, and prebendaries of the cathedral. Her majesty, led by earl Morton, followed with her suite; and the princes and princesses, according to their rank, with their attendants, in procession. On the arrival of their majesties and the princesses within the circle formed by the colours, they were lowered; and the royal family respectively made their obeisances to the company assembled in the different parts of the church, which were re-pressed upon the military with great force; turned with the loudest acclamations and congratulations ever perhaps heard on any occasion. The service was chaunted by the minor canons, the lessons by the sub-dean. At the end of the first lesson, the flag-officers entered in two divisions, right and left of the king's chair, the ends of the flags being supported by those officers, who immediately followed the bearers in regular succession, advancing to the altar, to deposit the trophies of our naval success, which his majesty seemed to view with much attention; and the whole of the spectators appeared to partake in the royal feelings on this most happy occasion. but the latter did not suffer themselves to be provoked into any want of humanity; but kept the populace from pressing into the line of procession, without the least appearance of heat, amidst all the confusion which such a spectacle must naturally have produced. The year 1798 was most inauspicious to the internal tranquillity of the kingdom; Ireland was in a state of open rebellion, the main object of which was the separation of that country from Great Britain, with the avowed intention of treating it as a conquered country. The extent of this famous rebellion may be gained from the report of the secret committee of the house of commcns of Ireland, in which it ap pears, from the examinations of Dr. M'Nevin, | ment of a revolution, and the separation of Ire land from Great Britain; that Parliamentary reform and Catholic emancipation, were used as mere delusive veils to cover their designs; that the French directory, between whom and the directory of the union a regular correspondence was for some time kept up, on being applied to for a loan to enable the promoters of the rebellion to effect the proposed revolution, refused to comply with the request, unless they were permitted to send an army of sufficient force to take possession of the country as a conquest to their arms; and, finally, that there was at that time an agent from the united Irishmen residing in Paris. These are the leading points of the report of the secret committee, and which leave no doubt of the real designs of the chief actors concerned in the rebellion. Mr. Arthur O'Connor, Mr. Neilson, and Counsellor Emmet, that an executive directory of the Irish Union was instituted at an early period of the discontents (1791), of which lord Edward Fitzgerald, Dr. M'Nevin, Arthur O'Connor, and Mr. Emmet, were members; that in the year 1796 lord Edward Fitzgerald and Mr. Arthur O'Connor set out for Paris, in order to negotiate with the executive directory of France for the invasion of Ireland by a French force; but that, fearful of a discovery of their intention, they proceeded no further than the Rhine, where they met general Hoche, to whom they communicated the object of their mission: that that officer formed arrangements with the executive directory; that a fleet, with general Hoche and a formidable army on board, was, in consequence of these arrangements, sent to Ireland in the The spirit of party had now risen to an alarmmonth of December following; but not being ing height, and it was unhappily fomented by expected by the directory of the union till the some of the most eminent politicians of the spring of 1797, the people were not prepared His majesty, however, determined to to receive the enemy when they arrived at mark his displeasure at the conduct of one of Bantry-bay. That Dr. M'Nevin afterwards the principal leaders of the tumultuous proceedwent to France on a similar mission, and suc-ings which then disgraced the country, and acceeded in obtaining a promise from the direc- cordingly on the 25th of May, a board of privy tory, that another attempt should be made; council was held at St. James's, when the clerk that a fleet was accordingly fitted out in the of the council having produced the book conTexel, and several thousand men embarked on taining the list of privy-councillors, and having board of it, for the purpose of invading Ireland; | laid it before the king, he instantly took his pen that the troops, after remaining some time on and drew it across the name of Charles James board, were disembarked; that the fleet, which Fox, and returned the book to the clerk without was under the command of admiral de Winter, making any comment whatever. put to sea without the troops (probably for the purpose of giving battle to the British squadron, and with the hope of clearing the way for the transports to come out); and that the result was, the glorious victory achieved by admiral Duncan on the memorable 11th of October. It appears also from the report, that the real object of the union was all along the accomplish day. This extraordinary act of his majesty was attributed to a toast which had been given by Mr. Fox, a few days before, at a meeting of the whig-club, when, at the close of his speech, he said, "I'll give you a toast, than which, I think, there cannot be a better, according to the principles of this club-I mean The sovereignty of the people of Great Britain." disaffection in the minds of those who had presumed upon a complete revolution in the affairs of the country. A nobleman, high in rank, a very short time before, had been dismissed from all offices, for giving as a toast, "Our sovereign, the people." Although Mr. Fox's toast was evidently paraphrastic, the object was too clear to be mis-ness of the king were especially manifested at taken. The erasure of Mr. Fox's name from the privy-council gave rise to an excellent bon mot which was uttered by one of the most celebrated wits of the day, who being one day in conversation with his majesty, the discourse turned upon the manner in which Mr. Fox was said to bear the mark of his sovereign's displeasure. "I know not how he may bear it," said the wit, "but I can only compare him to a melted guinea," "How so, how so," asked his majesty. "Because," replied the wit," he has "he lost your majesty's countenance." Mr. Fox was, however, not the only celebrated character who was, at this time, visited with his majesty's displeasure. The name of Henry Grattan was also erased from the list of the privy-councillors, in consequence of the part which he took in the tumultuous proceedings in Ireland. Although disloyalty and rebellion were at this time prevalent in the country, yet there were many who were not dismayed by the perilous aspect of the times, but who nobly stepped forward to assist the state in its alarming exigency. The actual revenue of the country was found inadequate to the pressing and continual demands which were made upon it, and the patriotism of the country was called into action to make up the deficiency. His majesty set the example by a subscription of 20,000l. from the privy-purse, and this was rapidly followed by subscriptions from every part of the kingdom amounting in the end to a. very considerable sum, and which tended The peculiar friendliness and domestic kind this time, on the occasion of the death of prince Frederick, second son of the Stadtholder, who expired at Vienna about the middle of January 1799, from a malignant fever caught in his visits to the military hospitals, a point of duty never neglected by him, notwithstanding his high, civil, and military rank, he having entered into the Austrian service when his family were forced to fly from Holland. He was the favourite son of the princess of Orange; and our venerable monarch was aware of the fact, and consequently much shocked when he read an account of his untimely demise in a French paper. The royal family were then in town at BuckinghamHouse; and the king, with much feeling, communicated it privately to the queen, who instantly approved of his suggestion of inviting the Orange family to a hasty visit, in order that he might communicate the fatal intelligence with more delicacy to the parents, than could be done through the columns of an English paper, in which they were likely first to see it on the ensuing day. The invitation was instantly sent, and accepted; and the affair most feelingly imparted by the king to the unhappy parents, who were detained as guests at the queen's house for several weeks, and comforted by the most marked attentions of the whole royal family, until the first emotions of parental grief had abated The year 1799 was particularly remarkable for the attention which his majesty paid to the volunteer establishment of the metropolis, and the adjacent counties. He was accustomed to call those associations emphatically the Life occasion on which he could testify his approbation of the loyalty and patriotism, on which those establishments were founded. three cheers were given, and the music played "God save the King." The corps then passed his majesty in grand divisions, in a most cxcellent manner, under the direction of General Dundas, who headed them on horseback; after which they filed off to the stations respectively allotted for them. The whole of the evolutions pointed out to them in the general orders having been performed, and another royal salute of twenty-one guns fired, his majesty, after expressing the highest satisfaction at the martial appearance and excellent conduct of this loyal and patriotic army, departed from the ground at a quarter before one, amidst the joyous shouts and affectionate greetings of the people, who assembled on this occasion to the amount of upwards of 100,000, including all the beauty and fashion of the metropolis. The sight was truly grand and highly grateful; and, notwithstanding the evolutions were considerably impeded by the high wind and some rain, the whole were performed in a manner that reflected much credit upon every corps present, whose conduct fully entitled them to the very handsome con.pliment which his royal highness the commander-in-chief, paid them, by order of his On the 4th of June, being his majesty's birth day, the several associations of the metropolis and its neighbourhood, consisting of sixty-five well-equipped corps, and amounting to upwards of 8,000 effective men, assembled in HydePark, where they were reviewed by the king. The Temple Association, commanded by captain Graham, was the first that entered the park; it arrived at seven o'clock, during a heavy shower of rain, which continued incessantly from the time it left the Temple Gardens. Several other corps followed soon after; and at half past eight the whole were on the ground. The necessary dispositions, agreeably to the official regulations, were then made, and about ten minutes past nine his majesty appeared, attended by the prince of Wales, the dukes of York, Kent, Cumberland, and Gloucester, a number of general officers, and a formidable detachment of the Life-Guards. The line being formed, a cannon was fired, to announce the approach of the king; on which all the corps immediately shouldered in perfect order, and the artillery then fired a royal salute of twenty-majesty, in the Gazette of that evening. The one guns. A second gun was fired on his ma- ground was kept clear by the London and Westjesty's arrival in front of the line, and each minster, and Southwark volunteer of cacorps corps immediately presented arms, with drums valry, who preserved the lines from being inbeating, and music playing. A third cannon fringed by the immense multitude who crowded was fired, as the signal for shouldering, which the park. was promptly obeyed. His majesty having passed along the line, and returned by a central point in front, a fourth cannon was fired, as a signal to load; and upon the fifth gun being fired, the different corps began to fire volleys in succession from right to left. The same load ing and firing were repeated, upon the sixth and seventh cannons being fired; in all fiftynine rounds. On the eighth cannon being fired, I freshments. Her majesty and the princesses, accompanied by the countess of Harrington and lady M. Stanhope, viewed this splendid assemblage of citizen soldiers, armed in defence of the best of sovereigns, and the happiest and most perfect constitution upon earth, from the house of lady Holdernesse, in Park-lane, and that of lord Cathcart, at both of which they received re |