Ceremonial of the private interment of his late royal highness Prince Fre derick William, in the royal vault, in king Henry the Seventh's chapel, Westminster Abbey. 0% N Friday night, the 3d of January 1766, the body and urn of his royal highness were conveyed from Leicester square to the prince's chamber at the house of peers, in a hearse drawn by fix white horses, adorned with white feathers. The next evening, about a quarter before ten o'clock, a fignal from Weftminster bridge, by the firing of a fky-rocket, was given, that the funeral proceffion of his royal highness was begun; which fignal being anfwered by another from the centre arch of London-bridge, minute guns were immediately fired at the Tower, and fo continued (as at the funeral of the duke of Cumberland) until, by fecond fignals from the faid places, it was known the whole funeral ceremony was ended. The great bells in feveral of the churches in London and Westminster alfo continued to toll, until the funeral Gov. to his R. H. The coronet, A gent, ulher. The pall fupported by four barons. Gent. ufher. king at arms. Garter principal Gent. Supporter, a duke. At the entrance within the abbey, the dean and prebendaries, attended by the choir, received the body, and fell into the proceffion, just before the officer of arms, who preceded the lord chamberlain ; and fo proceeded into king Henry the Seventh's chapel, where the body was depofited upon treffels, the head towards the altar; the coronet and cufhion being laid upon the coffin, and the canopy held over it, while the fervice was read by the dean of Westminster; the chief mourner and his two fupporters fitting on chairs, placed for them at the head of the corpfe; thelords affiftants, and the fupporters of the pall, on ftools on each fide, the fupporters of the pall being nearest the body. The part of the fervice before the interment being read, the corpfe was depofited in the vault, the dean having the fub dean on his right hand, and Garter on his left, ftanding at the lower end of the opening of the vault. wault. The corpfe being interred, the dean went on with the office of burial; and, when that was over, Garter concluded the ceremony by proclaiming his royal highnefs's titles. The pall was fupported by lords Edgcumbe, Scarfdale, Bofton, and Beaulieu; the duke of Kingfton was chief mourner, his train borne by Sir Thomas Robiulon, bart. The fupporters, the duke of Chandois and marquis of Rockingham; afliftants, earls Talbot, Cardigan, Albemarle, Pomfret, Peterborough, Litchfield, Coventry, and Athburnham. poor perfons bearing flambeaus: feveral coaches belonging to thofe who were mourners; fifty musqueteers of the fecond company; fifty of the firft; fifty light horfe; two of the king's coaches filled with the dauphin's favourites; another coach of the king's, in which were the dukes of Orleans, Trefmes, and Fronfac, with the marquis de Chauvelin; a fourth, in which were the archbishop of Rheims, an almoner of the king's, the confeffor of his late royal highnefs, and the minifter of the parithchurch of Fontainebleau; the pages of her royal highnefs the dauphinefs, and the queen's pages; twenty-four of the king's pages, and feveral of their majefties Ceremonial of the interment of the late equerries; four trumpets belongDauphin of France. A FTER the death of his royal highnefs, his body remained expofed in the catile of Fontainebleau, where the king ordered the duke of Orleans to continue, to command the detachments of his houthold, both military and domeftic, which were to do duty there, and to give all the proper orders relative to the obfequies, and removal of the body from Fontainebleau to Sens, where his royal highnefs had defired to be interred. Saturday the 28th of December, every thing being ready for the departure of the funeral, the archbishop of Rheims, great almoner, performed at ele. ven in the morning, the ceremony of railing the body, which was placed in the carriage deftined for conveying it to the metropolitan church of sens; the funeral proceflion began to move, a little af ter, in the followng order: Sixty ing to the equerries; the heralds at arms; the mafter of the ceremonies; the marquis de Dreux, grand-mafter of the ceremonies; four light-horfe; the funeral car, on both fides of which marched a hundred of the king's Swifs guards, who were furrounded by a great number of the king's footmen. Four of the king's almoners fupported the four corners of the pall. The commandants of the genş d'armes, light-horfe, and mufqueteers, marched near the wheels. The fieur de Saint Sauveux, lieutenant of the body guards, followed the carriage, at the head of his detachment, which preceded fifty gens d'armes. All his majesty's troops, as well as the pages and footmen, carried flambeaus. The march was closed by the coaches of the mourners. About feven in the evening, the proceffion arrived at Sens; cardinal de Luynes, archbishop of that city, received his royal highnefs's body at the church door; the archbishop of Rheims prefented it to the cardinal; the bier was carried into the choir; the cuftomary prayers were chanted; after which the duke of Orleans, and all the other perfons, who had accompanied the proceffion, retired. His highnefs's body continued expofed in the choir for that night. The next day, being the 29th, a folemn fervice was performed by the cardinal de Luynes, at which the duke of Orleans and all the above-mentioned perfons aflifted. After this fervice, his highness's body was interred in the vault which had been conftructed for that purpose. Ceremonial of the interment of the late Chevalier de St. George. ON Saturday the 15th of Jan 1766, his body, after having lain five days in ftate in his own palace, was removed in grand cavalcade to his parish church, the church of the Holy Apoftles, dreffi d in royal robes, a crown upon his head, a fceptre in his hand, and upon his breaft the arms of Great Britain, in gold and jewels. The whole court, and the members of almoft every order and fraternity at Rome, as well religious as fecular, fixteen of them with colours flying, attended the cavalcade. A thousand wax tapers, befides those borne by other attendants, followed the body. Four gentlemen,particularlydiftinguished by the deceased in his life-time, fupported the pall. At this church, which was hung with black from one end to the other, and filled with fkeletons holding wax tapers, morning morning the obfequies were again performed, and the body depofited in a vault, where it is to continue till the place intended for its final interment is ready. An account of what happened on the Indians being compelled to deliver up their English prisoners by general Bouquet. WHEN general Bouquet of peace to fuch of the fered revolted tribes of the Iroquois, as till then held out againft us [fee P. [44 and p. [181. of our last voTume it was on condition, that they thould firft deliver up every prifoner in their poffeffion. Upon this they brought in near twenty, and promifed to deliver the reft; but as their promifes were not to be regarded, the general marched on to the heart of their country, where he obliged them to bring in all their prifoners, even the children born of white women, and for that purpose to tie thofe who were grown as favage as themselves, and were unwilling to leave them, to the amount, in all, of two hundred out of three; it being computed that another bundred fill remained difperfed over the Shawanese towns. It was inpoflible to paint the various fcenes of joy, and terror; expectation, difappointment, and horror; and all the moft tender paffions, which appeared on this occafion; fathers and mothers recognizing and clafping their once loft intants; husbands hanging round the necks of their newly recovered wives; fifters and brothers unexpectedly meeting together after long feparation, fcarce able to speak the fame language, or, for fome time, to be fure that they were children of the fame parents! others flying from place to place in eager inquiries after relations not found, and trembling to receive an answer to their queftions! diftracted with doubts, hopes, and fears, on obtaining no account of those they fought! or Atiffened into living monuments of horror on learning their unhappy fate! The Indians too, as if wholly forgetting their ufual favageness, bore a capital part in heightening thefe most affecting fcenes. They delivered up their beloved captives, with the utmost reluctance, shed torrents of tears over them, recommending them to the care and protection of the commanding officer, and continuing their regard to them all the time they remained in camp. They vifited them from day to day; and brought them what corn, fkins, horfes, and other matters, they had bestowed on them while in their families; accompanied with other prefents, and all the marks of the most sincere and tender affection. Nay, they did not ftop here, but, when the army marched, fomic of the Indians folicited and obtained leave to accompany their former captives all the way to Port Pitt, and employed themfelves in hunting and bringing provifions for them on the road. A young Mingo went ftill further, and gave an inftance of love which would make a figure even in romance. He had taken fo great a liking to a Virginian young woman who was amongst the captives, as to call her his wife. Against all remonftrances of the imminent danger danger to which he expofed himfelf by approaching the frontiers, he perfifted in following her, at the risk of being killed by the furviving relations of many unfortunate perfons, who had been captivated or fcalped by thofe of bis nation. Thefe qualities in favages challenge our juft esteem. They thould make us charitably confider their barbarities as the effects of wrong education, and falfe notions of bravery and heroifm; while we fhould look on their virtues as fure marks that nature has made them fubjects of cultivation as well as us; and that we are called by our fuperior advantages, to yield them all the helps we can in this way. Cruel and unmerciful as they are, by habit and long example, in war, yet whenever they come to give way to the native dictates of humanity, they exercife virtues which Chriftians need not bluth to imitate. When they once determine to give life, they give every thing with it, which, in their apprehenfion, belongs to it. From every inquiry that has been made, it appears that no woman thus faved is preferved for bafe motives, or need fear the violation of her bonour. No child is otherwife treated by the perfons adopting it, than the children of their own body. The perpetual flavery of thofe captivated in war, is a notion which even their barbarity has not yet fuggefted to them. Every captive whom their affection, their caprice, or whatever elfe, leads them to fave, is foon incorporated with them, and fares alike with themselves, Among the children who had been carried off young, and had long lived with the Indians, it is not to be expected that any marks of joy would appear on being reftored to their parents or relations. Having been accustomed to look upon the Indians as the only connection they had, having been tenderly treated by them, and fpeaking their language, it is no wonder that they confidered their new ftate in the light of a captivity, and parted from the favages with tears. But it muft not be denied that there were even fome grown per fons who fhewed an unwillingnes to return. The Shawanefe were obliged to bind several of their prifoners, and force them along to the camp; and fome women, who had been delivered up, afterwards found means to escape, and run back to the Indian towns. Some, who could not make their efcape, clung to their favage acquaintance at parting, and continued in bitter lamentations, even refufing futtenance. The following paragraph from the fpeech of the Shawanele chief, on delivering his prifoners, is a ftrong proof of what is above obferved, concerning their tendernefs and affection for the captives whom they have preferved. "Father," fays he to the Englith, glish, "we have brought your fleth and blood to you: they have been all united to us by adoption; and although we now deliver them, we will always look upon them as our relations, whenever the great Spirit is pleafed that we may vitit them. We have taken as much care of them as if they were our own fleth and blood. They are now become unacquainted with your customs and manners; and there |