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CHAPTER XVI 

 18301831 



Lady Mackintosh's death Sir James Mackintosh a member of the 

 Board of Control Hensleigh Wedgwood engaged to Fanny 

 Mackintosh Elizabeth in London The second reading of the 

 Reform Bill A meeting between Wordsworth and Jeffrey 

 Josiah Wedgwood defeated at Newcastle Edward and 

 Adele Drewe Fear of cholera Mrs Patterson and Countess 

 Guiccioli. 



LADY MACKINTOSH had left home in the autumn of 1829, 

 and after staying in Paris for a time, went to Chene to be 

 with her sister Jessie. She died there on the 6th May, 1830, 

 from what appeared to have been a paralytic seizure. 



Madame Sismondi to her sister Mrs Josiah Wedgwood. 



[CniNE], May 25th, 1830. 

 [After speaking of Lady Mackintosh's illness.] 



She was, too, so little demonstrative herself that one 

 could never shew her the little caressing tendernesses that 

 others are continually exciting and which she seemed to 

 disdain, tho' I have reason to think she did not in reality, 

 but would have been cheered and comforted in accepting. 

 One evening that we had been sitting up together very 

 late. . . . Harriet [Surtees] affected to leave her by herself 

 at that hour, threw her arms round her neck and kissed 

 her as she wished her good night. She never answered, 

 never returned it, never looked at her. Yet the next 

 morning she told me she had felt it tenderly. Her faults 

 of temperament were redeemed by many great and noble 

 virtues, and I cannot but think her death, thus sudden and 



