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patches, and at the same time said something to him in a whisper. His lordship placed the box under his arm, and hurried down to the king, who was sitting in his cabin.

On the 12th the king perceiv ing, notwithstanding the adverse weather, that the steam-boats passed and re-passed from Dublin, determined to proceed in one of them, and thus arrived at Howth, in a manner quite unexpected. The people manifested every token of respect and affection; but no military or police were present, owing to the landing having occurred in a different part from that where, in consequence of previous announcement, preparations had been made for the king's reception. An opportunity, however, far more grateful, was thus afforded of witnessing the loyal disposition of the people, all classes of whom escorted the carriage to the vice-regal lodge in the Phoenix-park; where, on his entrance, his majesty addressed the multitude as follows:"My lords and gentlemen, and

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my good yeomanry"I cannot express to you the gratification I feel at the warm and kind reception I have met with on this day of my landing among my Irish subjects. I am obliged to you all. I am particularly obliged by your escorting me to my very door. I may not be able to express my feelings as I wish. I have travelled far--I have made a long sea voyage; - besides which, particular circumstances have occurred known to you all,—of which it is better at present not to speak. Upon these subjects I leave it to

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delicate and generous hearts to appreciate my feelings. This is one of the happiest days of my life. I have long wished to visit you my heart has always been Irish. From the day it first beat, I have loved Ireland. This day has shewn · me that I am beloved by my Irish subjects. Rank, station, honours, are nothing; but to feel that I live in the hearts of my Irish subjects, is to me the most exalted happiness. must now once more thank you for your kindness, and bid you farewell. Go and do by me as I shall do by you-drink my health in a bumper; I shall drink all yours-in a bumper of good Irish whiskey."

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On the arrival of the intelligence of the queen's death, the following notices were issued:

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"Phoenix Park, Aug. 1821.

half-past seven, A. M.

My lord-I feel it my duty to acquaint your excellency, that I have just received a letter from the earl of Liverpool, announcing the death of her majesty the queen. This event took place at Brandenburgh house, on the night of the 7th, at twenty-five minutes past ten o'clock.

"I have the honour to be, with great regard, my lord, your excellency's most obedient humble SIDMOUTH. "His excellency the lord lieutenant, &c. &c."

servant.

"Mansion-house, Dublin, August 11, 1821. "The proposed illumination on the king's arrival will not take place previous to his majesty's public entry into Dublin, which, on account of the queen's death, is necessarily postponed.

A. B. King, lord mayor." (0)

His

His majesty, on account of the queen's decease, remained in private at the vice-regal lodge, until the 17th, when he made his public entry into Dublin in the midst of a scene of the greatest general exultation ever witnessed in that

country.

So early as six o'clock in the morning, the greatest bustle was every where indicated. The shops were shut, and before seven o'clock, some very elegant and tasteful laurel wreathes, with shamrocks entwining, and surmounted by large ornamental crowns, were in many parts of the city drawn across the streets, from one house to the opposite.

At eight o'clock the gentlemen of the city and county, met according to their respective appointments, and principally on horseback. As soon as the equestrians had taken up their position, and arranged that they should fall in two and two after the royal cavalcade, taking precedence of all other private persons on horseback, the remaining inhabitant householders of the city who were on foot arranged themselves in the same line. The different guilds had several tasteful banners, and many of them had bands of music. Before ten o'clock the whole of these parties were arranged in the most orderly manner; the equestrian groups extended for nearly a mile at each side of the road from the Parkgate, and the pedestrian parties continued the lines almost to Eccles-street, from which the remaining streets along the whole route to the castle were lined with single files of the military composing the Dublin garrison. The houses were at this time so

crowded in every direction, and the streets except the central space for the procession, so thronged, that from the castle to the circular road there was hardly a vacant spot to be found. The brilliant display of beauty in the windows in Sackville-street and Cavendish-row, the fine architectural objects upon which the eye fell between the Rotunda and Carlisle-bridge, presented a coup d'ail of the most striking description. Mid-day fast approached, and the workmen were still employed on the triumphal arch at the entrance to Sackville-street. Mr. Morrisson, the college architect, had had little more than twentyfour hours' notice to prepare the structure, and he lost no time in making all the necessary preparations: still the hurry and bustle prevented it from being so complete as the designer intended it should be. It is due to the artist to state, that the workmen had introduced orange paper flower ornaments, among other colours, in the decorations; but on observing the former, he had them immediately removed, to obviate the possibility of party feelings where all parties sought unanimity. About the time that the scaffolding was removed from the arch, and the place cleared from its incumbrances, the civic procession made its appearance on Carlisle-bridge, advancing towards the barrier.

At eleven o'clock, the lord mayor, in his state coach, drawn by six beautiful horses, and accompanied by the board of aldermen, recorder, sheriffs, and common council in full dress, and robes of the most magnificent description, left the Mansion-house

in state, to take up their position within the barrier erected at Cavendish-row. His Lordship and the corporation were hailed as they passed by with the most friendly and cordial greetings.

A little before twelve o'clock the corporation formed within the triumphal arch, the gate of which was closed. The lord mayor, whose state on this occasion appeared to give great satisfaction, was accompanied by the city members, sir Robert Shaw, bart. and Mr. Ellis, one of the masters in chancery they alighted from their carriages on arriving at the barrier, and formed at each side. They were received with three cheers. The city marshal (John Stamer, esq.) advanced on horseback from within to the gate, he was followed by the city engineer, A. Coffey, esq. The bands then played God save the king, and afterwards, in succession, several Irish airs, amid the plaudits of the people. As the clock struck twelve the distant echo of a royal salute aroused the attention of the immense multitude assembled near the barrier. They knew it to be the signal of the king's departure from the vice-regal lodge in the park, and the welcome summons of the cannon was reechoed by the loudest and most reiterated shouts of the people, and the guns of the vessels on the river.

At ten o'clock, two of the royal carriages were despatched from the lodge to the castle, and returned with some members of his majesty's household. Shortly after their return, a squadron of the 3rd dragoons arrived, and formed in the lawn in front of the lodge; and at a quarter past ele

ven, the commander of the forces, accompanied by the staff, and sir Charles Grant, the commander of the garrison, dressed in the splendid uniform of the 15th Hussars. On the arrival of the gallant general and his staff, they were loudly cheered by the populace. The procession entered the park a few minutes afterwards, and proceeded to their stations, as before described, headed by a military band on horseback. Before twelve o'clock his excellency the lord lieutenant's state-coach, which closed the procession, reached the gate, escorted by a squadron of the 12th Lancers. On the arrival of the procession at the northerngate, an officer was despatched to announce to his majesty that the necessary arrangements were then completed for his reception. At five minutes after twelve, the king entered an open carriage, drawn by eight beautiful horses, led by his majesty's grooms, and attended by a numerous train of grooms and footmen in magnificent liveries. His majesty was dressed in a full military uniform, decorated with the order and riband of St. Patrick. He also wore the star of the order of the garter. The king held in his hand a cocked hat, surmounted by a rich plume of white feathers falling over the leaf; and in the front of his hat, in the place of the usual military cockade, he wore a remarkably large octagon rosette, composed of full grown shamrocks. His majesty wore a mourning crape around his left arm: he seemed in excellent health and spirits. Shouts from the assembled multitude in the park greeted his majesty upon ascending his barouche, and he immediately acknowledged (0 2)

them

them by repeated inclinations of his head, with dignified yet somewhat familiar motion of his hand. The king was accompanied in his carriage by the marquisses of Headfort and Winchester.

As soon as his majesty was seated in his carriage, a rocket was discharged from the ground adjoining the lodge, which signal was repeated by an artilleryman stationed for the purpose at some distance, and a royal salute was immediately fired from cannon placed adjoining the Wellington Testimonial. A great concourse of persons were assembled at the private entrance to the lodge, a general impression having gone abroad that it was from thence he would take his departure. At this period so intense was the anxiety amongst the numerous assemblage of spectators, that the most perfect silence prevailed. Not a sound could be heard; every individual seemed to entertain a fear of distracting his own attention, or that of his neighbour, from the grand object of their expectation, by giving utterance to the softest whisper. His majesty reached the northern gate at half-past twelve, where he

was received by his excellency the lord lieutenant; and the procession then moved along the route prescribed, in the same order in which his excellency had arrrived from the castle in the morning, according to the programme of assembling and departing already published. The procession then moved forwards towards the city by the north circular road, Eccles-street, Hardwicke - place, Temple-street, Gardiner's-row, to the bottom of Cavendish-row, where the city bounds are. It passed along in the midst of the most deafening acclamations. The king frequently stood up and bowed to the crowds who pressed around him with all the apparent enthusiasm of the warmest affection. Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, and several of his majesty's equeries, rode near the royal carriage, and occasionally advanced to inspect the preparations making for his majesty's reception, and to notify to the proper authorities the approach of the king. At length the head of the procession turned into Cavendish-row, about half-past one o'clock, and advanced towards the barrier in the follow. ing extended order :·

A squadron of cavalry with a band, which, on approaching the barrier, played "God save the king" and "St. Patrick's day." The nobility, &c. in their carriages, with their servants in their respective liveries, in the following order, viz: Esquires about 400.

Governors of the county of Dublin, George Vesey, esq. and Hans
Hamilton, esq.

The high sheriff of the county of Dublin, V. Cobb, esq.
Chairman of Kilmainham.

The masters in chancery, William Henn, Stewart King, and Thomas
Ball, esquires.

The King's Sergeants at Law.

The king's solicitor-general, W. Kendal Burke, esq.
The king's attorney-general, right honourable William Saurin.
Companions of the order of the Bath.-Three attended.

Knights

Knight Bachelors, sir Francis Hapard, John Stevenson, Henry Wilkinson, and Anthony Perrier, knights.

Knights commanders of the Bath, lord Aylmer and sir Ulysses Burgh. Grand crosses of the Bath.-Only one.

Baronets

Sirs-R. Borough, W. Burdett, W. Young, J. Galbraith, J. Stewart, H. Lees, R. Levinge, R. St. George R. Langrishe, R. Wolseley, M. Somerville, R. Bateson, E. Bellew, C. Domville, J. Ribton, J. Strong, F. Flood, C. Coote, R. King, H. Wilkinson, J. Stevenson, N. Colthurst, H. Meredith, W. Burrowes, T. Esmonde, D. Hill, J. Doyle, J. M. Doyle, A. Perrier, W. Burgh, C. Doyle, H. D. Massey, P. Carroll, W. Hert, and W. Brabason.

Provost, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College-in all about 100 attended.

Younger sons of barons.
Younger sons of viscounts.

Barons of the exchequer and justices of both benches according to their seniority-the juniors first-and all habited in their robes. Lord chief baron of the exchequer, right honourable sir S. O'Grady. Lord chief justice of the common pleas, right honourable baron Norbury.

Master of the rolls, right honourable sir W. M'Mahon.

Lord chief justice of the king's bench, right honourable W. Downes. The vice treasurer, sir George Hill.

Privy councillors not being peers

Colonel R. Ward, sir John Stewart, bart. W. C. Plunkett, D. B.
Daly, colonel Bagwell, the knights of Kerry, and judge Radcliffe.
Eldest sons of barons.
Younger sons of earls.
Eldest sons of viscounts.

Secretaries of state, the right honourable C. Grant, and William
Gregory, esq.
Barons-

Kilmaine, Cloncurry, Brandon, Dunally, Louth, Blayney, Lorton,
Castlemaine, Oriel, Carbery, Massy, Waterpark, Howden, Mount-
morris, Ffrench, Dufferin, Hotham, Clonbrock, Clanmorris,
and Walscourt.
Bishops-

Of Meath, Kildare, Kilmore, Derry, Down and Connor, Clonfert, Cork,
and Ross Killala, Ossory, Rapho, Waterford, Elphin, Dromore,
Clogher, Leighlin, Killaloe, Cloyne, and Limerick.
Younger sons of marquisses.
Eldest sons of earls.
Viscounts-

Gormanstown, Frankfort, Hawarden, Allen, Ennismore, Powerscourt,
Doneraile, Ardee, Gory, Monck, and Sidmouth,
Younger sons of dukes.
Eldest sons of marquisses.
Earls

Farnham, Wicklow, Longford, Enniskillen, Ross, Llandaff, Gosford,
Bective, Meath, Donoughmore, Westmeath, Mayo, Belmore, O'Neil,
Carrick and Roden.

Eldest

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