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    1. Anglo-Celt - Duke of Wellington funeral, Freeman death - October 28, 1852
    2. Kay Stanton
    3. "The Anglo Celt" Cavan; Thursday, October 28, 1852 FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. We (Times) believe that the following programme of proceedings at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington will prove to be in the main correct. The remains of his Grace will remain at Walmer until four days before the funeral, which will take place between the 17th and 19th of November. They will then be removed to Chelsea Hospital, where the body will lie in state for three days, and on the evening before the solemnity it will be removed to the Horse Guards. On the morning of the funeral, the funeral cortege will be formed at the Horse Guards, and will proceed by Charingcross, the Strand, fleet-street, and Ludgate-hill to St. Paul's. Six regiments of infantry, eight squadrons of cavalry, and seventeen guns, will take part in the procession, that being the number of troops to which his Grace was entitled by his rank in the army. A body of Marines will also form a part of the cortege, which will be headed by eighty-three veterans from Chelsea Hospital, who shared in the Duke's campaigns, the number eighty three representing the years to which his Grace had attained. We have reason also to believe that the Field-Marshal's baton of the deceased Duke will be borne on the ocasion (sic) by the Marquis of Anglessy, his companion in arms; and that representatives from those foreign sovereigns in whose armies his Grace before the rank of Field Marshal will assist at the solemnity, each bearing the baton of the deceased. With a view of diminishing as much as possible the delay inseparable from a long file of carriages, it intended to make the procession as much as possible a walking one, and to dispense, as far as consistent with the solemnity of the occasion, with an unnecessary train of vehicles. It is also hoped that good sense and good taste of the city will, on this occasion, consent to waive its claim to procedence, and that the Lord Mayor, after meeting the cortege at Temple-bar, will fall into procession after the Prince Consort. Finally, it is not intended to line the streets through which the procession will pass with military. The guardianship of the thoroughfares will be left to the police, and to the good feeling of the public, who will thus have an opportunity of beholding the mournful spectacle without the interruption of a line of soldiers and of testifying their respect for the mighty dead, by their decorous and orderly demeanour. DEATH OF W. D. FREEMAN, ESQ., ASSISTANT BARRISTER At twelve o'clock on Wednesday, Mr. FREEMAN, the learned Assistant-Barrister for this county, was seized with a sudden illness whilst presiding at his Quarter Sessions in the court-house of this town. Mr. O'SHAUGHNESSY, Solicitor, was in the act of addressing the court, when his worship had evidently become dangerously ill. His head dropped, and he seemed to have become quite unconscious of all that was passing around him. Dr. Croker KING, who was in the immediate vicinity of the bench, at once tendered his professional assistance. Mr. Freeman, apparently astonished at Dr. King's approach, feebly directed the business to proceed. He became instantly insensible; and with the assistance of Dr. King, Mr. O'LOUGHLIN, Crown Prosecutor and some other gentlemen, he was caried (sic) off the bench to his chamber, where Drs. BROWNE and COLAGHAN were in prompt attendance, but all professional assistance was unavailing. He remained perfectly unconscious; and at a quarter to four o'clock he breathed his last. Immediately after his demise the clerk of the peace proceeded to Dublin with the official intimation to the Lord Chancellor of the melancholy event. Meanwhile the court was adjourned until next day, when if a locum tenens be not up that time, appointed, a further adjournment will take place. The late Mr. Freeman was distinguished for a vigorous and manly style of eloquence. He was particularly remarkable for his successful defence of prisoners, and succeeded to the position occupied in the Crown Court, on his circuit, by the late Mr. O'CONNEL. - Galway Packet. QUICK WORK. - On Thursday last Hans HAMILTON, Esq., was sworn in by the Lord Chancellor as Chairman of the county Galway, in the room of W. D. FREEMAN, Esq., deceased. It was absolutely necessary that this apparent precipitancy in filling up the office should take place, inasmuch as no power is vested in the authorities to appoint a person to review the registry, where the Chairman of the county has ceased to exist. The registry was fixed to take place on Friday at Galway, and, therefore, unless some person were appointed Assisant Barriser, great public inconvenience must have ensued. - Mail.

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