Yeomen of the Guard to close the Ceremony. Knights of the Bath: Sir John Savill. Sir John Mordaunt. Sir Charles Powlett. Sir Charles Howard. Sir Ed. Hawke. Sir Peter Warren. Sir Chas. Williams. Sir Wm. Morden Harbord Sir H. Calthorpe. Sir Thomas Whitmore. Lord Fitzwilliam. Sir John Ligonier, P.C. Sir John Cape. Sir Ph. Honywood. P.C. Sir Tho. Robinson. Visc. Tyrconnell. P.C. Sir Wm. Younge. Sir R. Clifton. P.C. Sir P. Methuen. P.C. Sir Conyers Darcy are to go before. Privy Councillors not Peers: Arthur Onslow, Esq. Henry Legg. Sir Conyers Darcy. Sir Tho. Robinson. Wm. Finch. Hen. Pelham, Esq. Sir Wm. Lee, Chief Justice. Judges before. Sir John Strange, M. of R. Knights of the Bath. Sir John Willia, Ch. J.C.P.C. Sir Paul Methuen. Horatio Walpole. Sir Wm. Younge. Sir John Rushout. George Doddington. Wm. Pitt, Esq., Paymaster-General. Henry Fox, Secretary of War. Sir John Ligonier. General of Companie (?). FOOTNOTES: [74] Doran’s Queens of the House of Hanover. CHAPTER XXX. THE RESIDUUM. And for the rest, what remains? What flotsam did this apparently wasted existence leave upon the surface of the tide of life as it sank beneath it? Indeed, it is little; little that is reliable, little that can be trusted as unbiased testimony of his virtues or his vices. Horace Walpole and Lord Hervey are the leaders of his vilifiers, both King’s men, both hating him. What does Walpole say? “Thus died Frederick, Prince of Wales, having resembled his pattern the Black Prince in nothing but in dying before his father.” “His chief passion was women....” “He was really childish, affectedly a protector of arts and sciences, fond of displaying what he knew; a mimic, the Lord knows what a mimic--of the celebrated Duke of Orleans, in imitation of whom he wrote two or three silly French songs. His best quality was generosity; his worst, insincerity and indifference to truth, which appeared so early that Earl Stanhope wrote to Lord Sunderland from Hanover, what I shall conclude his character with, ‘He has his father’s head and his mother’s heart.’” No great compliment either to his father or mother if this latter assertion be true! Lord Hervey, in summing up the Prince’s character, goes much farther than this, so much farther indeed that his assertions take the colour of a very bitter display of personal animosity and spite. These are his words: