TOPICS OF THE DAY.
MELANCHOLY DEATH !—We are sure that, in announcing to the public the following death, we shall not fail to excite their deepest sym- pathies. The young lady—for she was of the softer sex—was new to our shores and our climate ; the rudeness of which has at length proved fatal to a constitution naturally delicate, and which required the warmth of more southern regions to nourish it into vigour. Though few of her sex had a loftier presence, or could raise their heads higher when occasion called for an assertion of superiority, and though none was ever more courted by the attentions of the rich and the great— kings and princes being amongst her daily visitors—no one ever bore her honours more meekly, nor displayed a more amiable sense of the kindness even of the humblest of her friends. Indeed it was remarked that she bestowed as much of her familiarity on two old and some- what homely domestics, that had accompanied her hither from the country of her fathers, as upon majesty itself. And yet, strange to tell, such were the allowances made for the simplicities of her taste and the singular equanimity of her general temper, by these uncourtierlike preferences she neither excited envy nor provoked estrangement. It must be a consolation to the numerous friends of the deceased, that she was attended throughout her long and wasting illness with the most tender care, and that all that the most skilful physicians could prescribe was tried to lengthen her valuable life and to soften her lamented departure. For the announcement of her death we must have recourse to our friend the Morning Post, as we feel that no language of ours could do the event so much justice.
"We feel a never-by-any-words-to-be-expressed grief in announcing to our readers, the by-thousands-of-fair-eyes-to-be-long-bewailed death of his never-to-be-mentioned-without-loye-and-reverence Majesty's Giraffe ! This beautiful young creature died at Sandpit-gate, after a long-lingering-and- with-the-utmost-patience-sustained malady, on Sunday last ! His Ma- jesty and the Court are in the deepest affliction ; and we have reason to believe, having been confidentially informed to that effect by a gentleman who is honoured with the acquaintance of the second gentleman of the Lord
• Chamberlain's first gentleman, that had it not been for the never-previous- . to-the-introduction-of-the-free-trade-system-experienced. distress of the Coventry ribbon-weavers, a general mourning would have been ordered."
Previous page
