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The last visit which the Princess paid was to Lord and Lady ÖSSULSTON. This was about two months before her confinement. The last visit which her Royal Highness received was from the Duchess of YORK, who remained at Claremont about an hour, the same evening the Princess was confined.

Mrs. GRIFFITHS, who attended the Princess CHARLOTTE, is an experienced nurse, and about sixty years of age. Her husband, who has been dead many years, was in some department of the Custom-house; and Mrs. G. has herself had a large family, and has reared six children. She is greatly esteemed by many noble families, as an active, assiduous, and affectionate nurse; and, from the commencement of the Princess's labour, was scarcely

an instant absent.

Though circumstances have lately transpired to prove that the accouchement of the Princess was not premature, yet, previous to its occurring, an opinion was credited that a week or ten days must elapse before it could be looked for. The Lord CHANCELLOR, when called up at five on the Tuesday morning, and apprized of the Princess's confinement, said he was taken by surprise, as one of the medical gentlemen, whom he had seen on the Saturday preceding, assured him that he did not think his attendance would be required at Claremont for ten days. His Lordship had, in consequence, delayed engaging post-horses; and, upon the exigency of the moment, and notwithstanding the number of stable-keepers, four horses could not be procured nearer than St. Martin's-lane.

The several coffins in which the remains of the Princess CHARLOTTE were interred, weighed together between five and six hundred pounds. At Claremont they were borne into the hearse by sixteen men, in the employment of Messrs. FRANCE and BANTING. In the procession formed in Windsor Chapel, eight Yeomen of the Guard bore them for about a quarter of an hour; and two of those men, who were not in a robust condition, have been since much indisposed.

That religion is the surest source of consolation to the heart of man when it sinks in mental suffering beneath the burden of sorrow, is a truth which every Christian gratefully admits in his most satisfactory convictions; and, when the shock of grief is sudden and unlooked for, it would seem to be the natural movement of his soul to make its supplicatory appeal to heaven for that aid which it knows to be ever at hand in all its reviving influence.

If this is the pious acknowledgment of our individual experience, it surely must be the feeling of a people stricken by some unexpected and unforeseen calamity-for with a country that claims to itself a peculiar character of Christian sincerity, the principle of piety is in no degree weakened, but rather acts with increased efficacy by the general adoption of it; and that sentiment which every man avows as a becoming confession of his dependence upon Divine Providence for the continuance of his felicity, as well as for support under distress, must necessarily operate with a more diffusive interest when the joy or grief pervades a whole nation at once. That sympathy which is common to all, and is by all thus acknowledged,

will necessarily be evidenced by a testimony as unfeigned as it is universal; and the faith that prompts it associates the sensibilities of all in one common energy of devotional impulse.

In such a state of the public mind, struck down to the dust by a thunderbolt of death, which had risen and destroyed its proudest and its fondest hopes, was it to be wondered at that the population of these realms, yielding to the first gush of their griefs, should seek to pour out the lamentation of their hearts in the temples of religion, and implore, at the throne of grace, the intervention of the Divine Mercy to avert from their native land those fearful results which their forebodings taught them to contemplate in the late awful calamity.

The virtues of the illustrious object of their solemn regrets had drawn towards her their reverent affections-the promise which they rejoiced in of a multiplied blessing drew the tie of loyal regard still closer between them and their future queen. The engaging qualities of her personal demeanour conciliated every rank of society; and the accents of praise were heard from every tongue-the higher orders of society confessed the purity of her greatness, and the humble dwelt with delight upon the sincerity of her condescension.

The hour drew nigh which was to make her the mother of an heir to the throne of British kings-the anticipations, the wishes, the prayers of all who knew how to value the unsophisticated excellence of her character, were directed towards heaven in anxious suspense-that hour came, but not the blessing with it-alas! the day in which such an hour was found, so dark and disastrous, so full of bitterness and woe. Our hope was turned into despair-the joyful expectations of millions were converted into tears and anguish, and the tremblings of affliction shook the heart of the country. Then was displayed the ingenuous spirit of Britons, and a sceue of mourning presented itself, which exalted their native simplicity of benevolence into the highest standard of national beniguity. They had won the meed of valour by the most glorious victories-by the prowess of their arms they had given peace to the civilized world-but never did their laurel'd fame raise them higher in the scale of true greatness than did their mournful self-abasement when, on the day of those funeral rites which consigned the mortal remains of their august Princess to the darkness of the grave; they crowded in multitudinous concourse to the hallowed houses of prayer, and sought, in the ordinances of religion, that help from on high which it well became the brave to beseech when their days of triumph were thus overshadowed by the sudden night of desolation; and she, whose brow they would have gladly enwreathed with the chaplet of their country's glory, was in one eventful instant numbered with the dead. It is the sacred criterion of patriot truth to love the country of our birth for the sake of those virtues which grace our brethren of the soil-virtues which depend not for their designation upon doubtful or devious qualifications, but which prove their positive claim to our regard by the decided uniform properties of their excellence-among these may justly be ranked a reverence for religion; aud never was this reverence more earnestly, or with

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deeper interest, exemplified, than in the sad day of memorial to which these remarks refer.

We would presume that those of the clergy of our venerable establishment, who, in the true spiritual concern of faithful pastors, met the anxieties and consulted the feelings of their respective flocks, will by their own impresssions justify ours. It is not for us to enter into the question of church discipline, nor would we take upon ourselves to decide upon the propriety or impropriety of those opposite measures which were adopted by that respectable body; but we will honestly confess, that in every instance, whether in church or chapel, or meeting, by which access to the rush of affectionate fervour and devotional disposition was given to the sorrowing clouds, we are inclined to recognize a more prudential and a more pastoral accommodation of the public sentiment, than in the pleas which have been urged for the refusal of it.

We cannot conceive that if it had pleased God to have reversed the result, and to have filled the country with joy, by sparing the life of the estimable mother and that of her hoped-for offspring, a day of thanksgiving.would have been appointed—and sure, we are, that not an inhabitant of the British dominions whose head and heart could comprehend and feel the mercy of the providential boon, would have suffered any purpose of temporal concern which might have been at all dispensed with, to have interposed between his joy and his gratitude, his patriotism and his piety-may we not, then, as justifiably conclude, that the expression of grief at the total subversion of all this prospective good was entitled to an attention equally consistent with the general sentiment; and that this attention could not have acted in a more appropriate direction than that which might blend the public feeling with the duties of religious reflection.

It is upon extraordinary occasions that more than ordinary energies may be expected to be put forth, and upon this ever-to-be-deplored. event we have to bear witness to some of the most impressive and appropriate discourses that have ever proceeded from the pulpit. Most of those ministers of religion who wisely thought that a more important scason could not be adopted to improve the public mind, while thus sensitively conditioned, have allowed these sermons to pass through the press; and those which we have recorded by their several texts may certainly be registered among the ablest specimens of prompt ability and intellectual aptitude of unpremeditated eloquence. We do not particularize any of them among so many excellent ones, such distinction would be invidiousbut we content ourselves with one unreserved declaration of our opinionthat while the religious feelings and habits of our countrymen are thus unequivocally expressed and thus liberally consulted, neither the throne nor the people can possess a surer ground of relative dependence and reciprocal right, than that which inculcates with equal authority of dictate, the commands of God and the laws of man, and unites the doctrines and consolations of faith with the duties and affections of social life.

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R: Aspland, of Hackney (Hunter).

W. A. Armstrong, of Cheshunt....

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R. P. Beachcroft, Rector of Blenham (Seeley) Genesis
T. F. Bowerbank, of Chiswick (Rivington)..
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J. W Cunningham, Vicar of Harrow (Cadell)
J. Churchill, of Thames Ditton (Coxe)
W. Chaplin, of Bishops Stortford (Conder)

R. Chatfield, Vicar of Chatteris (Richard-}

H. Cox, Hadleigh, Suffolk (Williams).
S. Crowther, of Newgate-street (Payne,
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Dr. Chalmers, of Glasgow (Longman)
E Craig, of St. Edmund's Hall
J.Evans, of Worship-street, Finsbury
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C.F. Fenwick, Walton, Somerset (Long-
man and Co.)

A. Fletcher, of Albion Chapel, Moor-
fields (Tew, Tower-Hill)

J. Fletcher, of Blackburn (Conder)
J. Garbett, of Cardington, Lincoln
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R. Gray, Rector of Bishopwearmouth
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G. C. Gorham, of Queen's College (Seeley)
R Goodman, of Jew's Synagogue, Den-
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G. Hughes, Curate of Walthamstow
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C. S. Hawtney, of Monmouthshire (Seeley)
C. J. Hoare, Vicar of Blandford (Hatchard)
C. S. Hawthrey, of Bethnal green (Seeley)..
J. Holmne, of Southminster (Rivington)
J. Ivimey, of Eagle-street Chapel (Button)
J. James, of Oundle

J. Kerby, of Lewes, Sussex (Button)
J. Kello, of Bethuel-green (ditto)
JKeysall, Rector of Breedon (Longman)
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T. Morell, of St. Neott's (Conder)
W. Marsh, of Colchester (Baldwin)

D. M Nicoll, of Wesley's Chapel, Leeds
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J. Nance, Rector of Old Romney (Ri-)
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W. G. Plees, of Cressing (Ogles and Co.)
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H. Philpot. of St. Margaret's Cross Gate"
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Pendegrast, of Barnham (Rivington)

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H. G. Watkins, Rector of St. Swithin's (Cox)
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From the various effusions which have been transmitted to us on this deplored subject of an empire's regrets, we have selected the following, as blending in a superior degree the beauties of poetic imagery, with a graceful energy of expression, and an unaffected sincerity of feeling.

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