the hopes which she inspired.

"I think, as far as I can recollect, she is the first royal defunct
in childbed upon record in _our_ history. I feel sorry in every
respect--for the loss of a female reign, and a woman hitherto
harmless; and all the lost rejoicings, and addresses, and
drunkenness, and disbursements, of John Bull on the occasion.

"The Prince will marry again, after divorcing his wife, and Mr.
Southey will write an elegy now, and an ode then; the Quarterly
will have an article against the press, and the Edinburgh an
article, _half_ and _half_, about reform and right of divorce; the
British will give you Dr. Chalmers's funeral sermon much commended,
with a place in the stars for deceased royalty; and the Morning
Post will have already yelled forth its 'syllables of dolour.'

"Woe, woe, Nealliny!--the young Nealliny!

"It is some time since I have heard from you: are you in bad
humour? I suppose so. I have been so myself, and it is your turn
now, and by and by mine will come round again. Yours truly,

"B.

"P.S. Countess Albrizzi, come back from Paris, has brought me a
medal of himself, a present from Denon to me, and a likeness of Mr.
Rogers (belonging to her), by Denon also."

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