Rev. George Treweeke

Funeral 
Of Lord De Dunstanville.

On Saturday the 14th inst. at half-past seven o'clock, the mortal remains of the late Right Honourable Lord De Dunstanville, once the pride and boast of the County of Cornwall, were removed from his Lordship's late residence at Kensington Gore, London where he breathed his last, and conveyed on their way  to their final earthly resting place—the family vault of the Dunstanvilles, at Tehidy, near Camborne in this County.   The funeral procession was on an un-commonly extensive scale of sombre grandeur, and
consisted of  outriders and  ten pages on horse-back—the hearse richly emblazoned with the he-raldic honours of the deceased,   splendidly work-ed  on hangings of rich black silk velvet,   in a raised  circle of  embossed silver,   and drawn by six stately horses, superbly plumed and covered with escutcheon hangings of black velvet,   on which was worked, in a similar manner to the hearse,  the arms, crest, motto, &c.   Jennants of silk and silver were thickly interwoven with the hearse and horse plumes.   The hearse was fol-lowed by two mourning coaches, with six horses each,richly caparisoned, containing some of the deceased nobleman's principal domestics, and the cavalcade was brought up by the private carriages of Lady Bassett, his Lordship's daughter, Sir John St. Aubyn,    Sir Thomas Lenard.     J.  Winfield, Esq.  Richard Tuckfleld, Esq.—The pages, mules, drivers, and postillions wore splendid badges on their cloaks,   with the  family crest  worked in sil-ver on black velvet.  The coffin is of mahogany, enclosing a leaden one, and is covered with the richest crimson Genoa velvet, studded with silver gilt nails, with embossed plates and handles to correspond. The inscription plate is of brass of considerable thickness, and has deeply
engraven on it—

The funeral procession, in the order we have stated,  progressed from London  at a walking pace,  and  on  Friday the 20th inst,   it arrived in the  city of Exeter,  where the body of the deceas-ed Nobleman  was lodged  at Pratt's Old London Inn ;   the  Cathedral bell  tolling on the  melan-choly occasion.   On Saturday the procession moved on to Okehampton.  On Sunday 22d inst, immediately  after   Divine Service   at  Launceston, a very extensive and solemn procession of his Lordship's respectable friends and tenantry from the North of Cornwall,  most of them in deep mourning,   joined a respectable  body of persons of  the town  and neighbourhood of Launceston, and went to Poulson Bridge,which divides the Counties of  Devon and  Cornwall,   where  they met the hearse and mourning coaches, and the whole solemn procession in carriages and on horses moved on to Launceston.   It is hardly possible for any person not a spectator to form a conception of the scene which Launceston pre-sented, such a respectable and numerous proces-sion had never before been seen there, and not-withstanding the weather the streets were crowd-ed with spectators, and the windows were filled with well-dressed persons of both sexes.   The bells,   from being muffled,  had a solemn sound. As the hearse came from London at a very slow rate  it was unavoidable  but  that  it must have been at  some town  on Sunday.     Had  it arrived at Launceston any other day, every shop would have been closed.   In the numerous cortege which entered Launceston, we observed about 64 of his Lordship's tenantry on horseback,   all  with silk hat-bands and mostly in mourning, then came the Mayor of Launceston  and his friends  in a car-riage, then the carriage of G. B. Kingdon, Esq., another carriage with the Rev. J. Davis and D. King, Esq.,   then the hearse  with 6 horses draw-ing it, and mourning coaches each drawn by 6 horses.   Numerous gentlemen besides on horse-back, among whom were Edward Shearm, Esq., Collins Brown, Esq.,   —  Brendon, Esq.,  and others, and a great number of outriders attending the coaches.   The Gentlemen were in deep mourning. The body was lodged for the night at the White Hart Inn,  where  it  lay  in state,   surround-ed by the emblems of departed greatness, which all persons of respectable appearance were per-mitted to view.      On Monday morning,   at half past seven the procession left Launceston, attend-ed as above stated, and proceeded on its way to
Bodmin.

The procession reached Bodmin on Monday afternoon.    It was met   at the entrance of the town by the Mayor and Corporation, and a great number of the respectable inhabitants, who pre-ceded it through the principal streets to Oliver's Hotel, where the corpse was lodged in the long room, and lay in state with the same ceremony as at Launceston. The shops were closed, and a universal feeling  of regret prevailed  throughout the town ;   and on Tuesday morning   the Mayor and Corporation, &c. &c. accompanied the pro-cession out of town on its way to Truro.

On Tuesday afternoon    the solemn  tolling  of the  muffled minute bell   announced the approach of the funeral procession to Truro.   The shops were immediately closed, and the Mayor and Corporation with a great number of the respectable inhabitants went out to met (sic) it,   and walked two and two before the hearse to Pearce's Hotel, where  the corpse  was  taken out,   and lay in state in  the great room  for several hours,   where a large  proportion   of   the   inhabitants of Truro were allowed to pass round it,   in  the same way as at Launceston and Bodmin.

On the morning of Wednesday the weather proved exceedingly boisterous, notwithstanding which  the   Rev. George Treweeke, Vicar of Il-logan,  accompanied by William Reynolds, Esq. and  a great number of   his Lordship's tenantry with  other  Gentlemen,   proceeded in carriages and on horseback   all the way  to Truro    to join the procession.    The shops were again closed, the minute bell  tolled its mournful sound, and about eleven o'clock, the weather being still unfa-vorable with heavy rain, the procession set out from Truro   on  its way  to Tehidy,    preceded by the tenantry, and accompanied out of town by a number of the respectable inhabitants, headed by the Mayor and Corporation, and the Rev. Messrs. Cornish, Dix, Gurney, Collins and Medley, W. M. Tweedy, Esq.  &c.  &c.        The  feeling  of regret for the death of his Lordship was universal—it seemed as if each inhabitant had lost his dearest friend.—At  two o'clock   the mournful spectacle was seen slowly and solemnly winding its way through  the beautiful domain of Tehidy Park, where on its arrival, the corpse was received by John Basset, Esq.   his Lordship's nephew,   and lay in state in the great dining room at Tehidy house, during Wednesday night, and until Ten o'clock on Thursday morning.

The obsequies of the deceased nobleman took place on Thursday,  when the shops at the diffe-rent neighbouring towns were closed; and the miners had a general holiday, and the strongest manifestations of unaffected concern  were evinc-ed  by  the  population  of Illogan   and the adja-cent parishes,    for the  loss of one   who had by his humanity and kindness rendered himself so universally esteemed and beloved.   At an early hour   the surrounding neighbourhood  was pour-ing its myriads into Tehidy, to witness the awful solemnities of the day.   The procession moved from Tehidy about eleven o'clock,   and advanced at a slow pace in the following order.

On reaching the church-yard, the coffin was removed from the hearse, and followed by the mourners, &c. was carried into the Church, where the  Rev. George Treweeke officiated   and read our beautiful Burial Service   in the most solemn and impressive manner, at the conclusion of which, his Lordship's remains  were deposited in the family vault by the side of his father and his late lady.

The following are the names of some of the gentlemen who attended. 

The following are the names of same of the
gentlemen who attended.   His Lordship’s ne-phews, John Bassett, Esq., the Rev. Canon Rogers, the Rev. Hugh Rogers; Capt. Frederick Rogers, R.N.,  and   Wm Rogers, Esq. who fol-lowed  as  mourners.    Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., Sir Anthony Buller, Bart.   J. H. Tremayne, Esq. Col. Hext, and Dr. Taunton—the two latter as surviving officers,  who had served with his Lordship in the regiment of Cornish Dragoons embodied during the late war.—Colonel Dyke : Davis Gilbert ;    Edw. Collins ;      T.. A. Robartes: J. S. Enys ;     W. A. Harris ;       Humphry Wil-lyams ;    Thurston Collins  :    L. C. Daebus ;    G. Borlase ;    John Williams ;     John Wallis ;    G. D. John ;     D. L. Le Grice :    T. Bolitho ,     J. Plomer : E. Shearm ;    W. Reynolds ;   William Warren; Stephen Davey ; E. H. Ball ;      William Tweedy ; W. M. Tweedy ;   Robert Tweedy ; and George Simmons, jun., Esqrs.      Dr. Carlyon; the Ve-nerable Archdeacon Sheepshanks ;   the Rev. Dr.
Rodd ;   the Rev. Messrs. C. V. Le Grice :   T. Pascoe ;   G. Cornish ;   J. Wallis ;     J. Medley ; &c. &c.

We failed in our attempt to count the carriages &c.;  but   at a particular point we had a view of three quarters of a mile of the line of road, every inch of which was taken up with the procession, deeply flanked by pedestrians on both sides the spacious park,   and a considerable portion of which was then in advance.    20,000 persons at the least, and 150 carriages, were supposed to have been present.

Thus has the tomb closed on the remains of a Nobleman who, in the dispensations of a kind Providence,   was blessed with a  “goodly herit-age,"   and who studiously endeavoured  to fulfil the gracious designs for which it was given, by looking on himself merely as a steward, as the honoured instrument  of  dispensing the bounty of an all wise Creator for the benefit of mankind, striving  not merely to be great,  but to be  and to do good.    To depict the constellation of patriotic and  Christian virtues   which centred  in the mind of the deeply lamented deceased, and shone out conspicuously in his character during a long and active life, would be a pleasing task for the Bio-grapher,  who at pleasure  might amplify his sub-ject—but within our limited space an attempt ade-quately to pourtray (^sic) the merits and virtues of the late Lord De Dunstanville  would  be  a hope-less undertaking.            Yet  so  amiable  was  he in  all  the  relations  of life,       that we cannot close  our  very  imperfect summary  of his mournful obsequies,   without  bearing  our  hum-ble testimony to his uniform kindness and ge-nerosity as a master—to his sympathy and li-berality  as  a landlord—to  his  unshaken  fidelity as  a friend—to   his  classical  acquirements as a scholar— to  his  inflexible  integrity   as a man—and   to  his  humility and sincerity  as  a Christian.—In devoted loyalty, and sterling patriotism, he stood unrivalled.    As the unostentatious yet mu-nificent patron of numerous benevolent institu-tions, not only in his native County but in the Metropolis, and many other places; and as the unremitting source of a most extensive private benevolence, his philanthropic and Christian cha-rities were carried out  to the full extent of his ample means—he was indeed one of those who delighted to do good, and ''blushed to find it fame." His Bible was his daily study; hence he not only  learned  to    “devise  liberal  things,"    but that "for him to live was Christ, and to die gain;''  and  that  though   his  “earthly tabernacle failed,” his  “mortal should again   put  on   Immortality .—Reader!  "  Go thou and do likewise.

In Conwall (^sic), as elsewhere, the life of Lord De Dunstanville was looked upon as a blessing—his death is regarded as a public calamity.    But

The Funeral was conducted from London to Tehidy under the superintendence of Mr. Frances, Undertaker, of Bond Street,   assisted by Mr. Brown, and reflects great credit on those gentle-men.