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A Marshal.

Methodist Benevolent Societies.
Literary and Philosophical Society.

Music.

A Marshal.

Foreign Consuls.

Revolutionary Officers.

A Marshal.

Officers of the Army and Navy of the United States.
The Members of the Bar.

Judges of the United States, State, and City Courts.
The Reverend the Clergy of all denominations.
The Officers of the Rail Road Companies.

The President and Directors of the L. C. and C., and S. C. C. and R. R.

Companies.

Committee of Arrangements.

Members of the State Legislature.

Governor of the State, with the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House.

The Relatives of the late R. Y. HAYNE.

The Hon. GEO. M'DUFFIE, with the Mayor of the City, and the Hon. HENRY DEAS, Chairman of the Committee.

City Council, with the Officers of the City.

A Marshal.

The following regulations will be observed :

1. The military escort will be moved at 10 o'clock, A. M., from the brigade parade ground, down Meeting-street, and take post on the South Bay Battery-right resting on the East Bay Battery, and faced to the North.

2. The civic Societies are requested to report themselves to the Marshals before half past ten o'clock, A. M., and will be arranged in the order in which they are named, on the South Bay Battery, between King and Meeting-streets-right, resting on Meeting-street, faced to the North. 3. The Fire Companies will be arranged according to the dates of their charters, in Meeting-street. Right, resting on the South Bay Battery. 4. The other parts of the procession, and all who will compose the same, are requested to assemble on the South Bay Battery, on the North pavement, between King and Meeting-streets.

5. The procession, when formed, will move along the East Bay Battery, then counter-march, and move up to Meeting-street, thence up Meetingstreet to the Circular Church.

6. As soon as the procession arrives at the church it will be halted, and opened to the right and left, facing inwards, and advance from the rear.

7. The ceremonies in the church will consist of a Prayer by the Rev. Dr. Post, Pastor of the church; an Anthem by the choir; the Eulogy by Gen. M'DUFFIE, and conclude with appropriate music.

8. The galleries are reserved exclusively for the accommodation of the ladies, and no person, except ladies, will be admitted to the church before the procession enters.

9. The following gentlemen have been appointed Assistant Marshals,

by the Mayor and the Committee of Citizens: Major T. L. WEBB, Dr. A. G. HOWARD, J. M. WALKER, R. N. GOURDIN, and W. H. INGLESBY, Esquires.

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Simultaneously with the above publication by the Marshals, the Mayor also issued the following Proclamation, which was very generally observed by the citizens on the day on which the Eulogium was delivered:

MAYOR'S OFFICE, Feb. 6, 1840.

Whereas the Committee of Citizens who were appointed by a public meeting, to select an Orator to deliver an Eulogium upon the character of the late General HAYNE, have expressed a desire, that on the day on which the Eulogium is to be pronounced by Gen. M'DUFFIE, all places of business or amusement in the city should be closed; Now, therefore, in compliance with the desire of said committee, and in accordance with the public feeling generally, I do hereby set apart Thursday, the 13th instant, as a day dedicated to the ceremonies which have been directed to be performed in honor of the memory of our distinguished and lamented fellow citizen, ROBERT Y. HAYNE; and I do hereby recommend and solicit, that on that day all the Banks, and other places of business, and all places of amusement, may be closed, in order that all our citizens may unite in a tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased, and participate in the proceedings of the solemn and melancholy occasion, for which that day is thus set apart.

Given under my hand and the seal of the city, this 6th day of February, A. D. 1840, and in the 64th year of American Independence. H. L. PINCKNEY, Mayor.

By the Mayor.

JOHN R. ROGERS, Clerk of Council.

General M'DUFFIE arrived in Charleston on Tuesday, the 11th of February, and took lodgings at the Charleston Hotel, where he was waited upon by the Hon. HENRY DEAS, Chairman of the Committee of Twenty-Five, and a Committee of Council, appointed for that purpose, consisting of the Mayor, and Aldermen LANCE and SEYMOUR. In reference to Gen. M'DUFFIE, and the proper ob. servance of the day appointed for the delivery of the Eulogium, the following Resolutions were adopted by the Council:

CITY COUNCIL, FEB. 10, 1840. Present the Mayor, Aldermen SEYMOUR, PATTON, HUNTER, M’DoNALD, SCHNIERLE, SIMONS, RIPLEY.

The Mayor stated that he had convened Council, to lay before them an

invitation from the committee of citizens, appointed by a public meeting, to select an Orator to deliver an Eulogum upon the late Gen. HAYNE, that the Council and city officers should attend the delivery of the Eulogium by Gen. M'DUFFIE, on Thursday next.

The Mayor then submitted the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That Council will walk in procession on Thursday next, and attend the delivery of an Eulogium upon the character of the late Gen. HAYNE, by the Hon. GEORGE M'Duffie.

Resolved, That all the city officers be requested to unite in the procession, and attend the exercises at the Circular Church; and that on that day, the city offices be closed, and city work suspended, from the hour of ten to three o'clock.

Resolved, That the collecting committees be requested to proceed, on the day after the delivery of the Eulogium, to the collection of contributions in their respective wards, for the erection of a monument to the memory of Gen. HAYNE.

Resolved, That a committee, consisting of Aldermen SEYMOUR and LANCE, be appointed to wait upon Gen. M'DUFFIE, on the part of the City Council.

To this committee the Mayor was added.
Council then adjourned.

JOHN R. ROGERS, Clerk of Council.

The day having at length arrived for the delivery of the Eulogium, the citizens began to assemble at an early hour, and, at the time appointed, a civil and military procession was formed, and the other ceremonies took place, of which the following account is extracted from the Charleston Courier:

"The civil and military procession was an imposing funeral pageant; our community uniting, without distinction of party, in the grateful office of mingling the cypress and the laurel on the tomb of the lamented HAYNE. It was formed at half past 10 o'clock, A. M. at the South Bay Battery, by Col. T. D. CONDY, Maj. T. L. WEBB, the Hon. J. S RHETT, Dr. A. G. HOWARD, WM. S. BRISBANE, WM. H. INGLESBY, THOS. CORBETT, Jun., and JAMES M. Walker, Esquires, acting as Marshals of the day. It consisted of the Hon. GEORGE M'DUFFIE, the Orator of the occasion, supported, on the right and left, respectively, by the Hon H. L. PINCKNEY, Mayor of the city, and the Hon. HENRY DEAS; the City Council, and Officers of the city; the Relatives of the deceased; the Members of the State Legislature; the Committee of Arrangements; the Presidents, Directors, and Officers of the Louisville, Cincinnati, and Charleston Rail Road Company, and the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company; the Clergy; the Judges, and Members of the Bar; Officers of the Revolution and of the Army and Navy of the United States; Foreign Consuls; the various Charitable and other civil Societies of the city, with their banners in crape, in the order of their charters; the citizens generally; the Brigadier General and Staff, and Officers of the Militia; the Fire Masters and File Companies of the City and Neck, the Military Escort, formed by all the volunteer uniform corps

of the city, under the command of Colonel J. E. B. FINLEY, and the Cavalrythe Marshals being posted at the head and rear, and on the flanks of the columns, and at proper intervals in the body of the procession. The procession thus formed, moved, in reversed order, to the solemn strains of appropriate music, along East Bay-street to Broad, up Broad-street to Meeting, and up Meeting to the Circular Church in Meeting-street, the doors, windows, and balconies of the public buildings and private houses, in the line of the procession, being thronged with the fair and sympathizing daughters of our City and State, uniting with the sterner sex in the common demonstration of grief and honor for the beloved and distinguished dead. On arriving at the church, the procession opened to the right and left, and moved inwards from the rear, (which then rested, such was the great length of the column, near the corner of Broad and Church-street,) and thus entered the Church. During the procession, minute guns were fired from the South Bay Battery, the Banks and stores were closed, and the colors of the shipping in the harbor were displayed at half mast.

"The spacious area, aisles, as well as pews, of the Circular Church was crowded with the immense auditory, and the galleries were thronged with ladies, who came to join in the tribute of sorrow and respect, awarded by their husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons, to the memory of the deceased.

"The ceremonics in the church commenced with an exceedingly impressive and highly appropriate prayer, by the Rev. Dr. R. POST, Pastor of the church. The following Anthem, beautifully adapted to the occasion, was next sung by a tuneful choir, to the rich accompaniment of the organ:

"Thou art gone to the grave-but we will not deplore thee,
Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb,
The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee;
And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.
Thou art gone to the grave-we no longer behold thee,
Nor tread the rough paths of the world by thy side;
But the wide arms of Mercy are spread to enfold thee,
And sinners may hope, since the Saviour hath died.

"Thou art gone to the grave-and its mansion forsaking,
Perchance thy weak Spirit in doubt lingered long;
But the sunshine of Heaven beam'd bright on thy waking,
And the sound thou didst hear, was the Seraphim's song.
Though art gone to the grave-but we will not deplore thee,
Since God was thy ransom, thy guardian, thy guide.
"He gave thee, he took thee, and he will restore thee."
"And death hath no sting since the Saviour hath died."

"The Orator then rose and pronounced a noble and eloquent Eulogy on the character, virtues, and services of the illustrious deceased, embracing his biography, even from his birth and boyish days, and through his brilliant and unblemished career of manhood, to its sudden and lamented close, in the faithful and zealous discharge of responsible public duties, and in the highest and palmiest state of his fame and usefulness, in an untimely and stranger grave The interest of the discourse was greatly enhanced, too, by occasional anecdotes illustrative of the energy, and industry, the fidelity to private duty, and patriotic devotion to the public good, which marked the character and illuminated the life of one of the purest patriots and most useful citizens our City and State have ever been called on, in life to honor, and in death to mourn.

"After the delivery of the Eulogy the following Anthem concluded the cere monies of the occasion:

"This life's a dream, an empty show;

But the bright world to which I go,

Hath joys substantial and sincere,

When shall I wake and find me there?

"O! glorious hour! O blest abode !
I shall be near, and like my God;
And flesh and sin no more control
The sacred pleasures of my soul.

"My flesh shall slumber in the ground

Till the last trumpet's joyful sound;

Then burst the chains with sweet surprise,

And in my Saviour's image rise."

On the same day on which the Eulogium was delivered, and almost immediately after its delivery, the following proceedings were adopted by the City Council:

THURSDAY, FEB. 13th, 1840.

Present-The Mayor, Aldermen LANCE, SEYMOUR, KINLOCH, RIPLEY, SIMONS, PATRIck, Hunter, Schnierle, Cogdell, M’Donald, Patton. The Mayor informed Council, that he had convened the members for the purpose of submitting to them the propriety of requesting the Hon. GEORGE M'DUFFIE to furnish a copy of his Eulogy, delivered this day, for publication.

Whereupon, on motion of Alderman LANCE, seconded by Alderman SEYMOUR, it was unanimously

Resolved, That the committee appointed to wait on the Hon. George M'DUFFIE, on his arrival in the city, be directed to request the manuscript of his Eulogy, pronounced this day, for publication, and that the same be printed for the use of the citizens, under the direction of the committee. Council then adjourned.

JOHN R. ROGERS, Clerk of Council. In compliance with the foregoing Resolution, the committee, appointed to solicit the Eulogy for publication, addressed to General M'DUFFIE the following note:

DEAR SIR,

COUNCIL CHAMBER, FEB. 15th, 1840.

We have the honor to inform you, that at a meeting of the City Council on the 13th inst., the following Resolution was unanimously adopted,

viz:

"Resolved, That the committee appointed to wait on the Hon. GEORGE “M'DUFFIE, on his arrival in the city, be directed to request the manuscript "of his Eulogy, pronounced this day, for publication, and that the same be "printed for the use of the citizens, under the direction of the said com"mittee."

In compliance with this Resolution, we respectfully apply for the manu

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