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dually lowered by imperceptible machinery, at twenty-five minutes past nine o'clock, and the car and the coffin which it upheld descended below the surface of the pavement. At the moment of its disappearance the Dean read the simple prayer, 66 Forasmuch that it hath pleased Almighty God.”

The third part of the service, “ I heard a voice from Heaven," was then sung by the choristers, and the remainder of the office of interment read by the Dean.

Throughout the sad ceremony, all eyes were placed on His Royal Highness the Prince Regent. He seemed absorbed in grief. His Royal Highness was long known to have been the favourite son of his august mother, and this was that occasion when filial piety would have shown all the traits of its genuine affections. Besides, perhaps, the natural and suitable grief of His Royal Highness for the loss he had now endured was augmented by the remembrance, that the remains of his only child was deposited in the same vault. The splendour of royalty, the pride of dominion, have no consolation for such an' bour as this. The grief of gazing for the last time on the coffin of a fond mother is insupportable. As she is lowered in the tomb where we are never more to see her, whence we shall never hear again the sound of her voice, we feel as if one of the strongest and tenderest chords were torn from the breast. The soul sighs through all its inmost recesses, to know that the sacred shrine in which its ethereal essence was first enkindled, has fallen to ruin, and is soon to be blended with the common lifeless earth. He too was her first-born, the first who reflected back her maternal gladness. He was her favourite. In his adversity, for he had his adversity, she loved him still she solaced and advised him, and her heart clung to him the more, the more he was afflicted. He was her nightly meditation, and her waking thought was a prayer for the happiness and the safety of the future monarch of her people. The filial assiduity with which he attended her both before and during her fatal illness, proved that her partiality was well bestowed. He watched every evening by her bed-side with an attention which was honourable to himself, and exemplary to the coun

try; and now that he is finally separated from her, he stands the peculiar object of a generous nation's sympathy.

The whole of the melancholy rites were concluded before ten o'clock. Sir Isaac Heard, as Garter King at Arms, now at the close of his 88th year, came forward at the conclusion, and standing near the grave, in a voice tremulous from emotion rather than from age, proclaimed the style and titles of Her late Majesty. The Prince Regent, the Great Officers of State, and the nobility present, then retired. As the mourners and attendants on this striking ceremony began slowly to separate and to quit the chapel, the solemn swell of the organ, which then struck up the “ Dead march in Saul,” produced at once the richest and most soothing effect. The numerous company separated without the least disorder or inconvenience; and in a few minutes after the obsequies of Her late Majesty had closed, no vestige remained of the solemn pageantry which had just passed before the eyes of the spectators. .

His Royal Highness was repeatedly observed, during the ceremony, to shed a tear, though he struggled to maintain his wonted serenity and fortitude. As the coffin gradually receded from view, His Royal Highness kept his eye fixed upon it.

. When it was no longer visible, he rose, and, Sir Benjamin Bloomfield bearing his train, passed along the side of the open vault, towards the altar, and left the chapel by the western porch, accompanied by the Dukes of York and Sussex, the Dukes of Montrose, Beaufort, and Newcastle.

During the funeral service, the Royal Chief Mourner alone was seated. Lord Liverpool carried the sword of state before His Royal Highness.

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No. XXXI.

Rt. Hon. EDWARD BARON ELLENBOROUGH,

OF ELLENBOROUGH IN THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, F.S.A.; LATE

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH; A MEMBER OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL ; AND A TRUSTEE OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Motto. "Compositum Jus Fasque Animi."

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HE Laws were originally seated in Westmoreland, and after humble beginnings, received their first illustration from one of the best, most pious, and most Christian-like Bishops who has adorned the Church of England since the memorable period of the Reformation. The virtuous and liberalminded prelate here alluded to, was the late Dr. Edmund Law, Archdeacon and Bishop of Carlisle, to which see he was promoted in 1768. He was born in the parish of Cartmel in the county palatine of Lancaster; his father, a clergyman of the establishment, having removed thither on account of a small benefice on which he lived, and by means of which he educated and brought up his family.

After a prefatory education in two different provincial schools, Edmund Law was sent to St. John's, Cambridge. This proved a luxuriant soil, in which the young and hardy plant from the north took a firm hold; for he spread out his branches to the light of Heaven, and fourished with no ordinary degree of prosperity.

It was his good fortune to have had Dr. Cornwallis, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury for a pupil, the Duke of Newcastle for a patron, and the Duke of Grafton for a friend. The degrees of B.A.. M.A., and D.D., all followed in succession, a fellowship, a good living, and the offices of Vice-Chan

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cellor, principal librarian, together with the professorship of casuistical divinity, crowned by the mastership of St. Peter's, seemed to flow spontaneously into his lap from the cornucopia of his Alma Mater. The Archdeaconry of Staffordshire prebends in the churches of Lichfield and Lincoln, the twelfth stall of the cathedral of Durham, and the unsolicited see of Carlisle * may be said to have rendered bim one of the most fortunate dignitaries of the Church of England. Among his friends are to be reckoned some of the principal men of the age in which he lived the learned and liberal Jorten - the acute and original Hartley – the primitive and independent Archdeacon of Cleveland — with all of whom he corresponded for the express purpose of encouraging an anxious and diligent search after truth, while he was closely united to them in a cordial but rational attachment to civil and religious liberty. In 1787, the good bishop died full of years and honours after having numbered fourscore and four anniversaries.t

Edward Law, the sixth child of this learned prelate, by a daughter of John Christian, of Unerigg in Cumberland, Esq., was born in 1748 or 1749, at Great Salkeld in that county.

He attained the rudiments of human learning under the roof of his maternal uncle, the Rev. Humphry Christian, who then resided at Bottsam, near Cambridge. At the age of twelve, the boy, who already began to exhibit the promise of early talents, was removed to the Charter-house, where the infuence of his father had obtained him a place on the establishment.

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. For this last and greatest promotion, he was indebted to the late Duke of Grafton then Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

+ His works consist of, 1. An Enquiry into the Ideas of Space, Time, Immensity, and Eternity.

2. Considerations on the Theory of Religion ; to which were subjoined; ReAections on the Life and Character of Christ.

3. A Discourse on the Nature and End of Death, under the Christian Covenant.

4. A Tract on the Nature and End of catechising, with several pieces in the controversy respecting an intermediate State.

5. His last work was intituled, “ Considerations on the Propriety of requiring subscription to Articles of Faith.” His first was a translation of Archbishop King's “Essay upon the Origin of Exil, with Notes.".

After an excellent education there, in 1768, he removed to St. Peter's, of which college the Bishop had been appointed master in 1756.

Ambitious of distinction, the young Cantab applied himself to his studies with a vigour and perseverance, that promised future excellence. Accordingly, in 1771, we find him one of the Chancellor's medallists, and, in 1773, one of the members prize men, and senior bachelor.

After taking his first degree, with unusual applause, Mr. Law repaired to London, and having determined to adopt that profession which points towards the highest honours in the state, he entered his name as a student on the books of Lincoln's. Inn. Like a great judge of that day *, he practised for some time under the bar as a special pleader, and like him also took

a pupils. This mode of proceeding was obviously productive of two events, each excellent in itself. In the first place, he was enabled to obtain an intimate and thorough knowledge of the technical parts of practice, which proved eminently serviceable both before and after he rose to the honours and dignities of his profession; and in the next, it afforded him an opportunity to form connexions with reputable and wealthy clients.

At length, Mr. Law became ambitious of distinction; and accordingly, after obtaining a “ call," he preferred the Northern Circuit, where both he and his family were of course known. Indeed, his very name, dignified as it was, by the many virtues and accomplishments of his father, afforded ready means for introduction and support.

This seemed however, to be an unlucky period for advancement to a young man, even if possessed of the most shining talents. The leaders then were, Messrs. Lee and Wallace, both of whom afterwards became Attorney-Generals; and such were their acknowleged talents, that they divided between them the whole harvest. At length, they retired in the course of time, and left Mr. Scott (the present Lord Chancellor), and Mr. Law, of whom we now treat, to monopolize the practice, and starve the junior counsel !

# Mr. Justice Buller.

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