A long strip design on two plates of the royal procession (left to right) to St. Paul's similar in intention to BMSat 7524. On the extreme left is Temple Bar, through which the royal coach has just passed, followed by two mounted Life-Guardsmen. In the royal coach (not the glass coach actually used) sit the King and Queen; facing them is a very ugly woman (? Mrs. Schwellenberg; actually, two ladies of the Queen's bedchamber). Pitt as the only postilion rides the near leader of the eight cream-coloured horses. The coachman and the three footmen standing at the back of the coach may be intended for politicians but cannot be identified. Immediately in front of the King's coach rides the 'LORD MAYOR' (Gill), holding the City Sword, which he has just offered to the King, see BMSat 7524, and in great difficulties with his horse, whose mane he grasps. One man seizes the reins, another holds the Mayor's leg. He is bald-headed, as are the citizens who precede him. In front of him ride three pairs of citizens wearing civic robes, all in difficulties, and riding very badly. One of the two foremost falls backwards screaming, both arms in the air. Before the City contingent of the sheriffs and four Common Councilmen rides a man on a goat with a leek in his hat, evidently Sir Watkin Lewis (cf. BMSat 6509). Behind the cavalcade is visible here and there a row of bayonets, held at varying angles. In front of the procession, and on the extreme right, are the City Militia who guarded the route on the east of Temple Bar. They are of grotesquely unsoldierly appearance, holding their muskets with extreme awkwardness, as in BMSat 7524.
<p><br>Above the heads of the procession is a line of first-floor windows (on the north side of Fleet Street) crowded with spectators, who lean out waving their hats. Two windows are immediately above the King's coach. Next is the signboard, a cock, and then a balcony or stand, with a piece of drapery inscribed 'Long Live the King'. Below the next window is a board: 'Royal Wax Work Here you may see King Solomon '[cf. BMSat 6486] in all his glory!' (evidently Mrs. Salmon's famous wax-work exhibition). After a crowded window without an inscription is a stand in which are musicians with flutes, fiddle, a French horn, oboe, &amp;c, as well as a party of spectators. Its drapery is inscribed: 'And all the People rejoic'd and sung
<br>Long Live the King!
<br>May the King live for ever!'
<br>A Union flag is inscribed 'God save the King'. In the next window are two men wearing shirts and nightcaps, yawning violently, and some other ugly spectators; the inscription, 'Seats Two Guineas', has been scored through and replaced by 'Seats 5 Shillg' (twice). Under the next window we inscription 'Seats three Guineas' has been struck out and replaced by 'Seats in the second Floor only 2s-6d'. Under the next window: 'Seats in the Gutter one shilling'. A lady in the next window wears a loyalty bandeau (see BMSat 7522); beneath the window: 'Four Seats in this Window for a Guinea, Ham and Buttock of Beef included'. On the extreme right is a crowded balcony with the inscription 'Long live the King'. After the title is etched: 'With an exact View of the Lord Mayer carrying the City-Sword Bare headed &amp;c.'  29 April 1789
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1789<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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