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the great judgment he showed, and the bright example 

 he displayed, in bringing up his children. Great as 

 was the sorrow throughout the land at his unlooked- 

 for death, I fear me there may be yet greater grief for 

 the loss of so wise, so sure a safeguard from evils yet 

 to come ; but let me hope these may be only the fore- 

 bodings of the old man of eighty-four. 



As connected with the Princess Charlotte, I give the 

 following extract from a letter I wrote to Lord Grey : 



" November 6, 1817. 

 



" This is indeed a most melancholy event, and likely 

 to lead to great difficulties ; but of this hereafter. 



" Vansittart wrote to a friend of mine this morning, 

 saying that till half-past eleven the Princess was going 

 on as well as possible ; then some bad. symptoms ap- 

 peared ; and at half-past twelve all hope was over (this 

 differs a little from the Gazette). Vansittart adds 

 that she behaved ' with great firmness and resignation/ 

 which looks as if she had been sensible to the last. It 

 is believed to have been a hsemorrhage, owing to a bad 

 conformation. The child was killed to save her. She 

 was extremely agitated by its death, which they tried 

 to conceal from her ; but she was so impatient about 

 seeing it that they were obliged to tell her. The 

 account of M 1116 - Lieven is that she fell ill from this 

 moment; but I take TegartV* to be the medical account, 

 and I have given it above. 



" The Prince arrived at Carlton House at nine this 

 morning, from Suffolk. He got out of one carriage 

 into another, and went to Claremont. His being away, 



* Tegart, an apothecary of great skill and high medical character, who 

 lived in Pall Mali 



