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attachment and fidelity, have seen the tear of silent agony steal down her cheek, when she thought no one was near who could observe that the Queen of England wept at the cruelty of her malignant enemies. Few things during the last year of her trials and sufferings gave her so much pain as the circumstance of her refusal to accept of the grant from parliament. She had originally determined in her own mind to accept it, as the first gracious act of the Soverign towards her; but she was otherwise advised, and she yielded to that advice. But the severest blow to her feelings was the necessity which forced her for once to submit to retract what she had said firm as she was of purpose and always decisive, to yield to her enemies inflicted à wound she never recovered: and what gave more anguish still, was the thought that her enemies would in triumph exclaim "She had yielded." And for what? For money; which she cared not for; and which, at last, she only accepted to enable her to pay her debts: for, at the moment she agreed to accept the money from parliament, she had not 107. in the house to defray the common expenses of the day, and nothing at her banker's. She expected that on her agreeing to take the grant, government would have given her a house and some outfit for her establishment, when she would have paid all her debts and have been quite satisfied as to pecuniary affairs, for she never valued money for her own

personal gratification. Instead of this, they deducted upwards of 4,000l. which they had paid for a carriage and house-rent."

The following connected account of the progress of Her Majesty's illness, from another attendant, may help to throw additional light on this interesting and important subject:—

Early in last week Her Majesty felt herself greatly indisposed, in consequence of having taken a very large dose of magnesia, which was supposed to have created an obstruction in the bowels, which was followed by inflammatory symptoms. On Thursday last she was attended by three physicians, Dr. Maton, Dr. Warren, and Dr. Holland. In the course of that day Her Majesty was copiously bled; she passed a quiet night, but her symptoms remained the same. The following day she was immersed for about a quarter of an hour in a warm bath, which moderated the pain, but in other respects was unavailing. Connected with the inflammation of the bowels was a nausea at the stomach, which repelled both food and medicine. Another physician, Dr. Ainslie, was now called in, and Her Majesty's legal advisers, most of whom were on the point of setting off for their different circuits, also attended for the arrangement of her property and other legal matters; and it is understood that her Will was then drawn up. She

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passed an indifferent night, but towards the morning of Saturday obtained some tranquil sleep, and in the course of the day was able to keep some gruel on her stomach. She slept great part of this day, which induced some observers to believe that an inward mortification had commenced. She, however, continued tolerably easy, and passed that night better than the preceding one; but Sunday produced no apparent change in her symptoms. In the course of this day, Dr. Baillie was sent for by express to Gloucestershire. During the night of Sunday she had some relief, and, for the first time, hopes began to be entertained that she had passed the crisis of her disorder. In the morning of Monday her state was certainly more favourable than it had been. At half-past two o'clock on that day Dr. Baillie arrived, and immediately held a consultation with the four other physicians. Her Majesty had been bled with leeches, and found herself able to retain on her stomach a little arrow-root, and some medicine; she had also, at her own request, been raised from her bed, and was seated in an arm-chair where she was first seen by Dr. Baillie. From these and other circumstances the medical gentlemen viewed the case in a more favourable light than they had before done, but hesitated to pronounce the Queen out of danger; though, as was natural, the hopes of her domestics, and others personally interested in her recovery, outstripped the caution

of the physicians. Still Her Majesty was extremely weak and feeble from her long and acute sufferings, and the small portion of sustenance that she had been able to take: and when she spoke (which he did relative to the disposal of her property and other matters) she was very faint, and felt it necessary to be revived from time to time by a smelling bottle. On Tuesday morning it was evident Her Majesty, after a sleepless night, had suffered a relapse, or rather that the favourable appearances of the day had been merely delusive. The primary cause of suffering had, in fact, been permitted to go too far before medical advice was resorted to; and the disorder was, therefore, much beyond the power of medicine when it was first attempted to be relieved. At this time the Queen herself gave up all hope, and declared she could not survive the day. About noon she complained of violent pains in the abdomen, which were shortly followed by convulsion; a strong opiate medicine was now administered, which allayed the pain for a moment, but produced for an hour or two a disposition to dose. About three o'clock the pains returned, attended with the most alarming symptoms. Every means that skill and attention could devise were now employed by the physicians, but it was all in vain. About four o'clock Her Majesty became rapidly worse, her respiration was difficult; about eight she sunk into a state of entire stupor, and having lain for

two hours and twenty-five minutes in that state, at length breathed her last.

The following anecdote illustrates Her Majesty's kind disposition, and the complacency with which she regarded the termination of her life: The Queen told the domestics that attended her on Sunday last, that she wished Mr. Busch to come to measure her for her coffin; she asked again if he was come; the servants made excuses; she told them he must make the shell of cedar wood. Mr. Busch had done a little work for her in cedar wood (a bookcase) at Connaught-place, before she left England, and lately she gave him an order to make a writing-desk of cedar-wood, an exact copy of one she had bought at the late Duke of Kent's sale; this was made, and when finished, sent to her house in South Audley-street; and she ordered the one bought at the Duke of Kent's to be sent to Mr. Alderman Wood, because she had heard that he had given an order to Mr. Denew, the auctioneer, to purchase the desk, as he was anxious to have it as a relic of the Duke of Kent, having seen him frequently writing at it. This was twelve months ago, and Mr. Alderman Wood had never thought of it, until she sent the desk. But this was Her Majesty's disposition; she was always planning to do some kind act. The executors having seen Lord Liverpool, and the government undertaker being ordered to arrange for the funeral, they have complied with

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