"LORD HOOD.--Will your Majesty go in alone? "Her Majesty at first assented, but did not persevere, "LORD HOOD.--Am I to understand that you refuse her Majesty admission? "Door-keeper.--We only act in conformity with our orders. "Her Majesty again laughed. "LORD HOOD.--Then you refuse the Queen admission? "A door-keeper of a superior order then came forward, and was asked by Lord Hood whether any preparations had been made for her Majesty? He was answered respectfully in the negative. "LORD HOOD.--Will your Majesty enter the Abbey without your ladies? "Her Majesty declined. "Lord Hood then said, that her Majesty had better retire to her carriage. It was clear no provision had been made for her accommodation. "Her Majesty assented. "Some persons within the porch of the Abbey laughed, and uttered some expressions of disrespect. "LORD HOOD.--We expected to have met at least with the conduct of gentlemen. Such conduct is neither manly nor mannerly. "Her Majesty then retired, leaning on Lord Hood's arm, and followed by Lady Hood and Lady Hamilton. "She was preceded by constables back to the platform, over which she returned, entered her carriage, and was driven off amidst reiterated shouts of mingled applause and disapprobation." Her Majesty returned through Pall Mall, St. James's Street, and Piccadilly, followed all along by a great concourse of people. In St. James's Street the water had previously created abundance of mud, and this material the crowd bestowed upon some public offices which were prepared for an illumination. During the whole course of her Majesty's progress no accident occurred. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 68: The beautiful anecdote which Mr. Lingard furnishes from Bede of the debate on the conversion of the Northumbrian king, _Edwin_, we cannot forbear transcribing. The high priest of the heathen rites having spoken--a thane "sought for information respecting the origin and destiny of man. 'Often,' said he, 'O king, in the depth of winter, while you are feasting with your thanes, and the fire is blazing on the hearth in the midst of the hall, you have seen a bird, pelted by the storm, enter at one door, and escape at the other. During its passage it was visible: but whence it came, or whither it went, you knew not. Such to me appears the life of man. He walks the earth for a few years: but what precedes his birth, or what is to follow after death, we cannot tell. Undoubtedly, if the new religion can unfold these important secrets, it must be worthy our attention.'"--_Lingard's History_, vol. i. p. 92.] [Footnote 69: The see of Canterbury was restored to the primacy again by Cenulf, the successor of Egfurth.] [Footnote 70: Ep. Car. Mag. ap. Bouquet, tom. v. p. 260.] [Footnote 71: Titles of Honour, p. i. chap. 1.] [Footnote 72: See Mr. Turner's Anglo-Saxons, Spelman's Life of Alfred, &c.] [Footnote 73: Taylor's Glory of Regality, Addit. Notes, p. 310.] [Footnote 74: Lingard's History, vol. i. p. 350.]