1806.] 



Deaths Abroad. 



97 



PEATHS ABROAD. 

 On thei'lft of r4ay, at the i.;-.l p. .lace of 

 Aranjuez, her moft fcrcne highnefs D jiina Ma- 

 ria Antonio de Courbon, Princefs of Afturhis. 

 The loni; and painful illnefs, which termi- 

 nated lat.illy to the valuable life of her high- 

 refs, was iKuberculous phthifis, the refult of 

 mal-conforn.ation. From the tin-.c of her 

 ro_\al highne.'"s's arriv:il in Spain, the phyijcal 

 conititulional debility under which ire Jabour- 

 cd was ir.ani.efted by the piileneis o; htr 

 countenance, the flaccldity of her mufclcs, 

 the coldnd's of her fkin, the opprciTion at her 

 brftift, and pal))irauons or' tlie heart of' whith 

 fte compLiined, and wliich were accon.panled 

 by irrc^ul. IV febrile exacerbations. Thefe dif- 

 ferent fymptoms were all greatly aggravated 

 by the two abortions which her highncfs un- 

 fortunately experienced. On Che 6th of lail 

 November, at the royal refidence of St. Lo- 

 renzo, ilie was attacktvl with an univevCal 

 arthriftis, acco.Tipunied by vomiting, hectic 

 fevtr, dilTiculty of breathing, cou^h, and 

 fpitting of blood, which ob.ti. lately continued 

 till the middle of December, when the fymp- 

 toms began to abate. In cunfequence or this 

 a, p :reMt relief, and tile repeated rcqueics of 

 her highnef,, (he was removed with t!ie court, 

 on the '2d of FL'bru,;ry of t'le prefent year, 

 to the royal palace of Aranjuez ; wh' le, 

 from the mildncfs of the temperature, her 

 kighnefs recovered from her fecer, coi:;;ii, 

 and vomitings, and (though with fome fa- 

 tigue) Ihe occafKinilly took an airing in a 

 coach. Put tliis relief was only trjni"i:nt j 

 for on the loth, between ei^ht and nine in 

 the morning, after an attack of cough and 

 iacreal'ed palpitation ol the heaic, her .high- 

 nefs brought up a confiderable quantity of red 

 fpunious blood ; and at four the .olio .v. rig 

 morning, from three to four ounces of well 

 charaCle-ized pus, which latter circumftance 

 confirmed the opinion previouily conceive! of 

 the exigence of tubercles, or vomic.e m the 

 lungs, [n co.^fequence of lier daneeiuus fitu- 

 ation, the holy viaticum was adniljiiltcred to 

 her highncfs in the pvefcnce of lioth tiieir 

 Wajeihes ; and cont nuing fubject to occa • 

 fional convullive fpafnis, ihe experienced fo 

 fevere an attack on tie 19th, that her imme- 

 diate difl'.ilution being apprehended, it was 

 judged jiccelfuy to admiuilter extreme unc- 

 tion. From th.1t period the fyrr.ptjnis alter- 

 nated with more or lefs violence, their rcmif- 

 fion allowing lier highnefs to get occafionally 

 •ut of bed, until the middle of April ; v.hcn 

 becoming aggravated, .particularly the opprcf- 

 fion at tne chell, the pjlpitalion.^, purulent 

 expedotatioiis, und febrile exa'-erbatlons, it 

 was round necclliiiy to adminiiter the holy 

 viaticum a fecond time, not neglecting the 

 employment ol fuel, medical means as were 

 dei;med neccfl'ary Co afford relief. Ffom this 

 period the whole concourfe of fymptoms be- 

 came greatly increafed in violence, until the 

 deceale of her nigi;ncfs. Thi-i fafil event 

 took pine, notwithttanding the /kill, vigi- 

 ilkivMHtY Mas. .No. 146. 



lence, pnd care employed by the feven phy- 

 ficians C liis Majefly's houfehoid, ivho, by 

 the cxpr::.'s order of thiir ^faie•.ii!■s, .ven- ',n 

 acie.-id.!nce day and night upon l.er nighn rfs. 

 The phyf:c:ans, who held long and r-pc.itcd 

 confuhations in order todev;fe the molt fuit- 

 able and eftci^tu:;! meafures for her relief, 

 luve the fatisfx'tion of know'ng that t!;ey 

 performed all th.it w.is incumbent on them ; 

 fcver.,1 of the remedies that they empluyed 

 were, aciording t.j her highnefs''s ftatement, 

 the fame as had been prcvioufly prefciibed for 

 her acNapIrs. namely, a miik diet, viper 

 broth, edu'corating decoctions, &c. 1".;e 

 opinion entertained by th? phyicians from the 

 very commencement of the difeife, and iheir 

 prognofticuion of its faal t-rminition, were 

 confirmed by tiie appearances of the boty oa 

 opening it, prepar.:tory to its beiiig emba'med. 

 The heart appeared of an i.nufual m.agnitude, 

 tlic ventricles, the finufes, auricles, and all 

 t!ie large vertcls ifl'uing from its cavities, were 

 en'arged or aneurifmaticj the iiucrior por- 

 tion of the left lobe of the lungs was greatly 

 augme.itefi in fize, of a livid colour, accom- 

 panied with a purulent fxtravafatio.i. i^iter- 

 mixed with blood. In the upper part of both. 

 fides, near the firft true rib, there was found 

 a portion of it fchirious, andclofely adiierinj 

 to the pl-.ura, with ulcers containing pus. 

 'i he abdominal cavity, on being opened, was 

 found filled with a- lerous fluid, contituting 

 afc.tic dropfy, as was clearly foteleen j the 

 ftomach was v e: y iniall j both th '.t viic us and 

 t'le fmaller inteftines wtre in an inflamed 

 ftate, aud of a livid appearance : the wiiols 

 of the body was aaafarcjus, and covered with 

 livid i'pots. 



At Paris, M. Retif de la Bretonne, in 

 the T'i'i year of hi; age. This originul and 

 copious, and itiil more //aiirrs author, wiote 

 more thha 100 voluiucs, which met wuli 

 fucce.'s. He iia.l been a journeyman printer^ 

 at! it I? f.iii that he fet up one of his Works 

 Wi..;wut having ever written it. There is 

 much humour in his Pa'fai: Pe'icr.'i, ^wh'ith. 

 is but too true a pitluve of the ic/V.'eit vices 

 and mo(t difgulting manner;. His yie ^c i:?</it 

 Fere, lefs known, is p?.■^ap3 !.is bcft produc-. 

 tion. He was nicknamed che Jean Jacques 

 Roufleau of theStieets, a title that wcii cha- 

 raclerifed him. 



Jn ti-.e Full: Indies, aged 2\ years, Evelyn 

 Seymour, ^ent , godicn of the Duchefs of 

 Kingftoii, to whojp her Grace bequeathed a 

 han.liome leg..c.y. He was a delcendant of 

 the Seyniouis, of the BoUin, near Ro.'s, and 

 miaihipman on .board the Hon. Con!pan\'s 

 cruifer, the Princefs Augufta. Eeing engaged 

 in an expedition with t-.vcnty-four men, ia 

 crolling a river near Bombay, che boat upfet, 

 and IVJr. Seymour, with tvi'cnty-two or i-.ii 

 brave followers, w^s drowned. 



Ac Cape Breton, Mr 'W. Woodfall, chief 



juftice or that ifund i:e was the Ion of the 



late Wr. W. Vv' , and vas a. young man of 



a very refpcdtabie *;haia£'ler : his talents inj 



N profeiiio.ul 



