30 DEATH OF WILLIAM THE FOURTH. 



On the evening of the 21st of June, we received 

 the melancholy intelligence of the death of our late 

 most gracious Sovereign, King William the Fourth. 

 To all classes of his subjects his mild and paternal 

 government has endeared his memory ; and none 

 however they may differ with him, or with each 

 other, upon that great political revolution which 

 will render the name and reim of the Fourth 



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William, no less remarkable than that of the Third, 

 will refuse the tribute of their sincerest respect for 

 qualities that adorned the sovereign while they 

 exalted the man. By the naval service, in which 

 he had spent the early part of his life, his name will 

 long be remembered with affection ; he never lost 

 sight of its interests ; and warmly supported its several 

 institutions and charities, long after he had been 

 called by Providence to the Throne of his Fathers. 

 We bore the first intelligence of his fate, and the 

 account of the accession of our present most 

 gracious Queen, to every port at which we touched 

 up to the period of our reaching Swan River. 



