The Royal Family, and the particular friends of his Serene Highness united their efforts to abstract him from the contemplation of these melancholy objects of his departed happiness, and a temporary retirement from Claremont was resolved upon. That the salubrious qualities of the sea air might be conducive to the restoration of the injured health of his Serene Highness, cannot be questioned; but with the remembrance of his irreparable loss weighing heavily upon his mind, a more appropriate place than Weymouth might have been chosen, at which, so many mementos of her whom he had lost would momentarily present themselves to revive those painful emotions, which a total absence of sorrowful reminiscences might in a certain degree have alleviated. It may be urged on the other hand, that with the exception of Brighton, Weymouth is the only place which could offer a royal residence to his Serene Highness; but as he afterwards rejected that residence, and chose that of Lady C. Damer, at Came, in the immediate vicinity of Weymouth, another convenient residence might have been formed of the words, HORATIO NELSON, "Honor est a Nilo,"

is familiar to every one. It may therefore be considered by some

as a singular coincidence, that the words PRINCESS CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA OF WALES may be transposed as follows, omitting only the letters, P. C., which as they stand for PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, may, with propriety, be placed at the head, thus :

P. C.

HER AUGUST RACE IS LOST ;

O FATAL NEWS!

selected on a different part of the coast, unattended with those afflicting associations which the vicinity of Weymouth must present to the illustrious widower. Melancholy extracts its food and is kept alive by objects which, in the eye of apathy or indifference, possess no intrinsic value; but which by the sorrowing heart are doated on, with the affection of the miser for his secret hoard.

Scarcely, however, had the mind of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold began to recover from the oppressive weight of its affliction, than a lamentable event occurred, which not only retarded his recovery, but set the tongues of calumny again agog, and positive guilt was immediately attached to the unfortunate suicide. The afflicting circumstance of the Princess Charlotte's decease had excited the particular attention of the members of the medical profession, and especially of those who peculiarly devote themselves to the obstetrical department. By many carping individuals, error upon error was discovered in the management of her Royal Highness during the period of her labour, and to those errors only was her decease, in their opinion, to be attributed. A Jesse Foot attempted to write himself into notice by discovering some of those errors, and by loudly calling upon Par

According to a notice in the London Gazette, the Prince Regent has been pleased to direct, that Prince Leopold should in future assume the title of Royal Highness.

liament to institute an immediate inquiry into the conduct of the medical attendants of her Royal Highness.-The Editors of the Gazette of Health heaped their unworthy animadversions upon the head of men, with whom, in point of professional ability they stand in the proportion of the light of a candle to the effulgence of the sun. The torrent of calumny, its source springing in impurity, rolls along its feculent flood, and in its blackening course spares not the upright, nor the innocent. We now feel all the delicacy, and all the genuine goodness of heart, which prompted the letters of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold to Sir Richard Croft. If any thing could have consoled him and strengthened his mind against the unfeeling attacks of his adversaries, it would have been these proofs of royal kindness and condescension. An excess of delicate feeling, a susceptibility to painful regret, an extreme anxiousness in respect to the proper discharge of professional duty;when such sentiments as these grow too painful for the wounded spirit to bear, and rise into momentary madness, it is difficult to conceive a case more strongly appealing to our sympathy and sorrow. The great leading cause of Sir Richard's melancholy state of mind is obvious. Under this experienced professor's hands it had pleased Providence that the hope of the nation should be suddenly extinguished; and, as in a professional practice embracing so wide a cir

cuit, some desperate cases must naturally occur, which end in the decease of the patient, envy or malice immediately promulgated every one which had terminated in death; and not only the skill, but the moral character, of the practitioner was laid open to the attack of the malevolent. The long-discredited story of the substitution by Sir Richard of a male child for a female one, in one of the most noble and opulent families of the kingdom was revived; and the machinations of his enemies, (for where is the man of merit without them?) so far succeeded, that letters were daily received by Sir Richard from some of the most eminent families, declining a continuation of his professional services. These arrows, shot by premeditated malice, pierced into a spirit peculiarly sensitive of honor, and ultimately led to that catastrophe which every feeling and candid mind must regret.

The particulars of the suicide, committed by this unfortunate gentleman, as disclosed at the Coroner's Inquest, are as follow:-Doctor Thackeray deposed, that he was on a visit at his sister-in-law's, Miss Cottin, in Wimpole-street, and that Sir Richard Croft being, on February 13, in attendance on Mrs. Thackeray; and, appearing much fatigued, about eleven o'clock was prevailed upon, after many entreaties, to retire to rest. He appeared anxious to get up at any time they might call him to attend Mrs.

Thackeray, she having exhibited symptoms of approaching delivery. About two in the morning, Dr. Thackeray was awakened by the servant maid, who told him that Mrs. T. was in labour. He went down stairs immediately to knock at the door of the room in which the deceased slept, and found it ajar; he went into the room and found the deceased lying upon the bed on his back, with a pistol in each hand; the muzzles of both at either side of his head; they had been discharged; he was quite dead, and it was the opinion of Dr. Thackeray that he died the instant he shot himself. He could have no intention of shooting himself when he went to bed, as he did not close the door of his apartment. Dr. T. observed to the deceased before he went to bed, that he, Dr. T., was in great agitation. Sir Richard, "What is your agitation compared to mine?"-And Dr. T. imagined at the time that he was suppressing his emotions. The deceased

bled at the nose several times during his attendance.

Mr. George Hollings, Surgeon, had observed a considerable alteration in the deceased's state of mind, and his manners, for some time past, and believed him to be in a state of derangement, caused by the unfortunate event at Clare

mont.

Dr. Latham and Dr. Baillie had also observed a considerable agitation of late in the deceased, and believed he committed the rash act in a