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followed:-the progress baffled all the skill and exertions of his physicians, and his Royal Highness died at ten o'clock on Sunday morning, January 23, 1820.

The later years of the Duke of Kent were distinguished by the exercise of talents and virtues in the highest degree worthy of a beneficent Prince and of an enlightened English gentleman. There was no want nor misery which he did not endeavour to relieve to the extreme limits of his embarrassed fortune. There was no public charity to which his purse, his time, his presence, his eloquence, were not willingly devoted, nor to the ends of which they did not powerfully conduce. The traces of his intercourse with the inhabitants of this great metropolis, on occasions of benevolence to the morals and happiness of his poorer fellow-creatures, will never be effaced from the grateful hearts of those who saw and heard him. At the time of his death, besides his other offices and dignities, his Royal Highness was invested with those of a Knight of the Garter, Thistle, and St. Patrick, a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, Keeper and Paler of HamptonCourt Park, Colonel of the Royal Scots Regiment of Foot, and since the year 1805, a Field-Marshal of the Army.

His Royal Highness was tall in stature, of a manly and noble presence. His manners were affable, condescending, dignified, and engaging; his conversation animated, his information varied and copious; his memory exact and retentive; his intellectual power, quick, strong, and masculine; he resembled the King in many of his tastes and propensities: he was an early riser, a close economist of his time; temperate in eating; indifferent to wine, although a lover of society; and heedless of slight indisposition, from confidence in the general strength of his constitution; a kind master, a punctual and courteous correspondent, a steady friend, and an affectionate brother.

Upon the arrival of the Royal corpse at Windsor, the following was the order of the funeral procession:

Naval Knights of Windsor.
Poor Knights of Windsor.

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Vicar and Curate of Windsor.
Physicians to his late Royal Highness.
Chaplains to his late Royal Highness.
Secretaries to his late Royal Highness.
Equerries to his late Royal Highness.
Grooms of his late Royal Highness's Bed-chamber.
Pursuivants of Arms.

Heralds.

Comptroller of his late Royal Highness's Household. A Gentleman Usher. The Vice-Chamberlain of A Gentleman Usher. his Majesty's Household.

Choristers and Lay Clerks of St. George's Chapel.

Minor Canons.
Prebendaries.

Dean of Windsor.

A Gentleman Usher. The Coronet of his late A Gentleman Usher. Royal Highness, upon

a black velvet cushion, borne by Norroy, King of Arms.

The Body,

Covered with a black velvet pall, adorned with eight escutcheons of
his late Royal Highness's Arms, under a canopy of black velvet.
The Supporters of the Pall were Lord Cathcart, Sir H. Dalrymple,
Gen. Needham, and Gen. Gascoigne.

The Supporters of the Canopy, were General Sir G. Nugent, Gen. Sir
W. Keppel, Gen. Sir A. Clarke, General Cartwright, General
Gwynn, and General Manners.

A Gentleman Usher. Garter Principal King of A Gentleman Usher. Arins, Sir Isaac Heard.

Supporter, the Duke of Dorset.

The Chief Mourner, his

Royal Highness

THE DUKE of YORK,

Supporter, the Duke of Wellington.

in a long black cloak, his train borne by Col. Berkeley, Hon. Col. Stanhope, Lord Alvanley, and Sir Culling Smith. ́

THE DUKE OF CLARENCE,

in a long black cloak, his train borne by Sir J. B. Warren, and Sir C. Pole.

THE DUKE OF SUSSEX,

in a long black cloak, his train borne by Major-Gen. Sir. G. Walker, and H. F. Stephenson, Esq.

THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER,

in a long black cloak, his train borne by Ed. Currey, Esq. Col. Dalton, and Col. Higgins.

PRINCE LEOPOLD,

in a long black cloak, his train borne by Baron Hardenbroek, and

Lieut.-Col. Sir R. Gardiner.

Two Gentlemen Ushers.

Yeomen of the Guard.

The Duke of York, as chief mourner, sat at the head of the corpse, his supporters on either side, and the bearers of the canopy.

Throughout the aweful ceremony, all eyes were turned upon the Dukes of York, Clarence, Sussex, and Prince Leopold, whose feelings cannot be described. The Duke of Sussex, so long the intimate companion, and resident under the same roof at Kensington palace, with his lamented brother, in vain rallied his firmness to support him under this trying affliction, and his Royal Highness gave vent to his feelings in unrestrained and overwhelming anguish. The grief of Prince Leopold was manifested in a calmer, but not less expressive manner. His Royal Highness appeared sunk in abstract contemplation. He now mourned for the husband of his sister-when last in this Chapel, he wept over the bier of his wife, the beloved and lamented daughter of England.

The first sign of decay in the excellent constitution of his Majesty, appeared in November, when, after suffering much from a severe cold, he was attacked by a slight species of diarrhoea, which, after some days, yielded to anodyne, and astringent medicines, and all apprehensions with respect to it ceased.

1820. On the first of January, the following bulletin was published, and probably was meant to prepare the public mind for a change in his Majesty:

"Windsor-Castle, Jan. 1.

"His Majesty's disorder has undergone no sensible alteration. His Majesty's bodily health has partaken of some of the infirmities of age, but has been generally good during the last month."

This official notice was far from producing the impression of immediate danger; and, compared with the reports that had previously obtained circulation, tended rather to induce the belief of a reinstatement. All the intelligence, from oral information and other sources, leads to the conviction, that it was not till several days

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had elapsed from the publication of the bulletin, that his Majesty's symptoms became a source of peculiar anxiety and solicitude to his medical attendants. At that period his disorder returned with greater violence, and, in despite of the utmost skill of his physicians, several of whom remained in constant attendance, continued from day to day to make visible inroads on the health and strength of the Royal Patient.

His Majesty, in his second attack, rejected animal food. The most nourishing diet, in every form that could be devised to tempt his appetite, was prepared for him, but seemed to fail in its purpose of sustaining or recruiting exhausted nature. A few days before his death, he became almost reduced to a skeleton. The general decay to which his constitution was reduced, showed itself in the usual symptoms. It was evident his blood was becoming torpid and chilly; for though artificial means were used to raise the temperature of his apartments, yet he continued to manifest increasing suffering from cold. Among other distressing proofs of his debility and approaching dissolution, he lost his remaining teeth: he also lost his appetite, which had been previously so hearty, that it had been usual to medicate his food in order to procure digestion, and prevent any injury from the tendency to excessive indulgence. It was not, however, till within two days of his decease, that he kept his bed entirely, though for several days previously he had not risen at his accustomed early hour.

The symptoms became so alarming, that Sir H. Halford came express to town, and had an immediate audience of the Duke of York. The consequence was, that his Royal Highness's carriage was immediately ordered, and without a moment's delay he set forward with posthorses for Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness appeared agitated as he got into the coach; and there was an air of mystery and hurry in the whole affair, which gave but too much reason to anticipate the distressing nature of Sir H. Halford's communication.

The rapid movements of official personages throughout Saturday and the preceding day, strengthened the belief of the alarming crisis which his Majesty's indis

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