132 Caroline Lucre 'tia Herschel. [1819-1821. 



ferent places in the country, but she was sinking in a 

 rapid decline, and died in the autumn. 



Nov. Wth. The remains of Mrs. Beckwith were 

 brought to Upton to be buried, and to me Avas left the 

 melancholy task of keeping up my poor brother's spirits on 

 such a melancholy occasion, when at the same time my 

 own were at their lowest ebb, and being besides much 

 molested about this time by the rejoicing of an unruly 

 mob at the acquittal (as they called it) of the Princess of 

 Wales. 



From the 26th to 29th I was with my brother. 



March. We lost our brother Alexander, who died at 



Hanover.* 



***** 



May 22nd. Again with my brother. My chief care was 

 to see that my brother was not fatigued by too many visitors, 



and reading to him to prevent his sleeping too much. 



***** 



***** 



' The volume ends in October, 1821. 

 " Here closed my Day-book, for one day passed like 



* The following notice is from a Bristol paper : 



"Died, March 15th, 1821, at Hanover, Alexander Herschel, Esq., well-known 

 to the public of Bath and Bristol as a performer and elegant musician ; and, 

 who for forty-seven years was the admiration of the frequenters of concerts and 

 theatres of both those cities, as principal violoncello. 



"To the extraordinary merits of Mr. Herschel was united considerable ac- 

 quirement in the superior branches of mechanics and philosophy, and his 

 affinity to his brother, Sir William Herschel, the illustrous astronomer, was 

 not less in science than blood. To a large circle of professional friends the 

 uniform gentlemanly manners of Mr. Herschel have rendered him at once an 

 object of their warmest regard and respect." Alexander Herschel returned to 

 Hanover in September, 1816, and was enabled to live in comfortable inde- 

 pendence until his death at the age of seventy-six, through the never failing 

 generosity of his elder brother. 



