purse ever open to distress or misery. Though the natural enjouement and gaiety of her disposition impressed those who only saw her in the circle, with the idea of tranquillity, of happiness; yet it cannot be doubted that the series of cruel and unmerited sufferings she underwent impressed her mind very deeply, and perhaps slowly conduced to produce those attacks of sickness which in the end proved fatal. Banished with every circumstance of indignity from the throne of Denmark, she yet retained no sentiment of revenge or resentment against the authors of her fall, or against the Danish people. Her heart was not tinctured with ambition, and she looked back to the diadem which had been torn from her brow with a calmness and a superiority of soul which might have made a Philip the Fifth or a Victor Amadeus blush. It was not the crown she regretted: her children only employed her care. The feelings of the Queen were absorbed in those of the mother; and if she wept the day when she quitted the island of Zealand, it was because she was then bereft of those dear objects of her maternal fondness. Two or three months before her death, she showed with transports of joy to Madame d'O-, her first lady of the bedchamber, a little portrait of the Prince Royal her son, which she had just received. It happened that this lady, some few days after, entered the queen's apartment at an unusual hour: she was surprised at hearing her Majesty talk, though quite alone. While she stood in this attitude of astonishment unable to retire, the Queen turned suddenly round, and addressing herself to her with that charming smile which she alone could preserve at a moment when her heart was torn with the most acute sensations, “What must you think," said she," of a circumstance so extraordinary as that of overhearing me talk, though you find me perfectly alone? - but it was to this dear and cherished image I addressed my conversation. And what do you imagine I said to it? Nearly the same verses which you applied not long ago to a child sensible to the happiness of having found her father; verses," added she, "which I changed after the manner

"Eh! qui donc, comme moi, gouteroit la douceur De t'appeller mon fils, d'être chère à ton cœur!

Toi, qu'on arrache aux bras d'une mère sensible,

Qui ne pleure que toi, dans ce destin terrible."

Madame d'Ocould not speak : she burst into tears, and, overcome with her own emotions, retired hastily from the royal presence.

When she was first apprehended to be in danger from the disorder which seized her, anxiety and consternation were spread through her whole little court, which idolized her; but when she expired, no language can express the horror and silent grief visible in every apartment of the palace. Leyser, the physician who attended her Majesty during her whole illness, dreaded the event from the first moment. She saw it, and, impressed with a presentiment of her approaching death, which proved but too true, "You have twice," said she, "extricated me from very dangerous indispositions since the month of October; but this exceeds your skill: I know I am not within the help of medicine." Leyser desired that the celebrated physician Zimmermann might be called in from Hanover. He was so; but her Majesty's illness, which was a most violent spotted fever, baffled every endeavour. At the beginning her pulse beat a hundred and thirty-one strokes in a minute, but during the two last days it was impossible to count them. She bore the pains of her distemper with exquisite patience, and even showed the most delicate and generous attentions to her maids of honour who waited by her. Her senses, speech, and understanding, she preserved to the last moment; and only a short time before her death expressed the most perfect forgiveness of all those enemies who had persecuted and calumniated her during life. Monsieur de Lichtenstein, Grand Maréchal of the Court of Hanover, presided at the funeral rites, which were conducted with a pomp suited to her regal dignity. Her Majesty's body was interred with her ancestors the Dukes of Zell. The streets and the great churches were

thronged with crowds of people, drawn by the sincerest grief and condolence, to behold the mournful obsequies of their benefactress pass along in silent state. It was a scene the most affecting and awful to be imagined: nothing was heard but groans, invocations to Heaven, interrupted by sobs and tears, through every quarter of the city. The death of this amiable princess most strikingly reminds one of that of Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, in the last century. They were both eminent for their accomplishments of mind and person; they equally constituted the brightest ornament of the

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Abingdon, Willoughby Bertie fourth Earl of,
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Adam, Mr. reconciled to Mr. Fox, 13
Addington, Dr. Anthony, remarks respecting,
156; appointed to attend George III. 329;
his opinion of him, 331

Mr. afterwards Viscount Sidmouth,
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ib.; remarks respecting his appointment as
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Addison, Mr. comparison between, and Dr.
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Adhemar, Count d', French ambassador, parti-
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Adolphus, Prince, present Duke of Cambridge
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Anne Genevieve de Bourbon, Duchesse de Lon-
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Anne of Austria, comparison between and Marie
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Arcot, Nabob of, see Mahommed Ali.
Arden, Richard Pepper, attorney-general, after-
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defence of administration, 96; remarks re-
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Artois, Count d', his unpopularity, 67; separa-
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Astley, Sir Edward, M.P. for Norfolk, speech of,
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Augustus, Prince, present Duke of Sussex, en-
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Austria, Maria Theresa of, her fortitude, 68

190

Bastard, Mr. amendment of, to Mr. Pitt's motion
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Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, second Earl, states
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Bearcroft, Mr. his observations relating to Mr.
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Beauchamp, Viscount, afterwards fourth Marquis
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Lady, Marchioness of Hertford, her
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Beaufoy, Mr. remarks on his eloquence, 114;
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moves the repeal of the Corporation and Test
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Beaumarchais, M. author of "Le Marriage de
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Belgiojoso, Count, appointed by Joseph II. of
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Benfield, Paul, Burke's accusations against, 92;
his transactions with the Nabob of Arcot, 93;
returns to England, 94; elected M.P. for
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Berkeley, Frederick Augustus fifth, Earl, anec-
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