"In pensive thought recal the fancied scene, See Coronations rise on every green."— Pope . The coronation of our monarchs presents a wide field of meditation to an intelligent eye. It is an epitome of the genius of the monarchy, and a miniature exhibition of the leading events of our annals. Connected, in point of fact, with the first establishment of Christianity in this island, it also perpetuates some of the earliest British notions of public liberty; and while it confirms the hereditary clai

"History—the picture of man—has shared the fate of its original. It has had its infancy of Fable ; its youth of Poetry; its manhood of Thought, Intelligence, and Reflection."— Anon. No. 1. The Regal Chair. The Regalia of England are the symbols of a monarchical authority that has been transmitted by coronation ceremonies for upwards of ten centuries. But the incorporation of England, Scotland, and Ireland, into one united kingdom,—an event peculiar to the coronation of George IV, to have recogni

On Thursday the 19th day of July, 1821. ARRANGEMENT FOR THE ASSEMBLING OF THE PEERS AND OFFICERS. His Majesty was, during these preliminary arrangements, in his chamber, near the south entrance into Westminster Hall. The peers were then called over in the House of Lords by deputy Garter; and proceeded to the Hall, where the other persons appointed to walk in the procession had been previously marshalled on the right and left by the officers of arms; leaving an open passage in the middle, so that

His text was the 23d chapter of the Second Book of Samuel, and the 3d and 4th verses. "He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds." Such, observed his Grace, were the words of a pious Prince, whose opinions had been matured by experience. A steady adherence to the maxims there laid down could scarcely fail to preserve from error, and would at once inspire the subject with a rever