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hour. She spoke very calmly of her case ; and when I 

 told her of the satisfactory opinion which I had just 

 heard from her medical men, she said, "Oh no, my 

 dear Mr Brougham, I shall not recover ; and I am 

 much better dead, for I be tired of this life." 



On my way to York I wrote as follows to Lord 

 Grey : 



"GRANTHAM, August 5, 182.1. 



" MY DEAR, LORD GR.EY, As you may be desirous 

 of knowing really how the Queen is, I write this to 

 say that, though she was still in great danger when I 

 left Brandenburgh House yesterday at four o'clock, 

 yet she was better, and had several favourable symp- 

 toms. The day before there seemed hardly a chance, 

 but the inflammation had not returned ; the pulse 

 was good, both strong and moderate ; she had had 

 refreshing sleep, and the stomach quiet. The obstruc- 

 tion still continued, in spite of 35 grains of calomel 

 in her, besides twenty more supposed to have been 

 rejected, and castor-oil and jalap, &c., enough to 

 physic a hundred people. 



" The two risks she runs are, the obstruction con- 

 tinuing, and inflammation coming on when it is re- 

 moved ; but the pulse is now such that they can 

 easily bleed her again. She lost sixty-four ounces 

 altogether. 



" I saw her on Friday night, when she signed her 

 will, and she seemed not to be very ill, and her voice 

 and hand were as firm as I ever saw any person's. 

 She said to me that she was quite sure she should die, 

 but did not mind it. However, there was something 

 made me believe she did not at all think so. 



