Elizabeth Town Gazette

The King's Coffin.—The coffin of his late Majesty George the 3d, is composed of Spanish mahogany, and covered with rich Genoa velvet of royal blue, a few shades deeper in tint than garter blue. The top or cover is divided into three compartments by double rows of silver gilt studs. In the compartment at the head, over a rich star of the order of the garter, is placed the royal arms of England, beautifully executed in dead gold. In the centre compartment is the plate with the inscription. This is of silver, richly gilt, and exquisitely burnished. In the lower compartment, at the feet, is the British lion rampant regardant, supporting a shield with the letters G. R. surrounded with the garter and motto of the same order, also in dead gold.

All the angles of the whole of these compartments are filled up with highly burnished silver gilt plates engraved G. R. III. and surmounted by the royal crown.

The sides and ends of this superb coffin are also divided with silver gilt studs, in the same manner as the cover, so as to leave three spaces on each side and one at each end. These handles are of silver richly gilt, of a massive modern pattern and the most exquisite workmanship; and each handle surrounded by a massive frame work, in the same taste, chiefly in dead gold, but delicately relieved by burnishing.