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THE number of the Royal infants is still but two; and the assertion has even been denied that Dr. Loco& has orders to be in constant attendance at the Palace. In the mean time, the Queen has walked with the Prince daily.
Her Majesty was visited on Tuesday by Prince George of Cambridge. Prince Albert was visited on Saturday by the Duke of Cambridge ; on Tuesday, by the Crown Prince of Wurtemberg. The Dutchess of Kent went to the Italian Opera on Saturday. On Tuesday, her Royal Highness visited the Dutchess of Gloucester. The Duke of Cambridge, the Dutchess, and the Princess Augusta, went to the Italian Opera on Saturday. On Monday, the Duke visited the Dutchess of Gloucester. The Duke, the Dutchess, and the Prin- cesses left town for Kew on Monday.
The Duke of Sussex is very ill, and has been so throughout the week. The Royal Family send to Kensington Palace each day to learn the state of the Duke's health ; and calls of inquiry are numerous.
According to ancient usage, the Royalicharities of Passion-week have been dispensed at Whitehall. On Monday, 800 aged and infirm persons received Sr. each': one lof the women was a hundred years old. On Tuesday, were given the gate-alms, of 13s. each, to 168 men and women. In the Chapel Royal, on Mannday Thursday, twenty-form men and twenty-four women, (twenty-four years being the Queen's age,) received each, from the Archbishop of Canterbury, as Lord High Almoner, a white purse containing twenty-four silver pennies, a red purse con'aining 2/. 10s, and the men received an allowance of woollen clothing, 1/. 15s. being given to the women in commutation.
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