THE I..STE KING.

THE accounts that have appeared iii the columns of our contempora- ries, of the last moments of the Kings ;dn.,' amide proof of the small re- liance that is to be placed on the inf'orotrition professing. to be derivea from the Castle. TItere is not one particular in which any two of them agree, unless where they copy their intelligelice from one time or from the same source. The hour of his 3lajesty's demise lias been disputed ; some fixing it at thirty ;Mentes past two—others at fifteen minutes pest three—a third party, whiell aims at scrupulous exactness, :It thirteert ini_ mites past three. The spot where he died is as unsmtled ; 1.y one. it is stated to have been a bed—by another, a commit-1w a third, a chair, 'The persons in the chamber are equally the subject of dispute ; smile say the medical attendants were presto:It—stems that 11111W of I m wm.:, — some say Si!- .Wathen Waller \Vela to 1:■t11 Sir Henry 1.1alnes1--oe'ss,, that he never optitted his 3Isjosty'5 side. The hinge titeef • Monarch isits little agreed on as env thieg else. Etiquette ess-. ooess said, any publication of the ;tit tlientie particulars but we lisl:sss tss assert, that the time mentioned in the bulletin trits osossest--.', •I King hemi, net ill his bed, where in fact he had not lain for sesos lint on a chair, to wItiell he had but a moment before been oetioos

Sir W. Waller was, we believe, lty the King's Side!. I:.

WaS ill the act of advancing, rvlufit the crisis orr:ved. 'Ws the King felt the discharge of blood, and time fatal sinking that ;11...maist - pied it, he is said to have feebly grasped Sir Wathen Waller's 1mi tool. :to . 1 to have exelainted—" 3Ty hay, this is death." L'ii ;m_' mmm Ims 1%,' EC MIS observed, at the same moment, to move his lutnol as if o, = farewell to Sir Henry Halford; but before he maild reach. tins 31onarost side, death had pals-led it for ever.

Of thme. real nature of the King's diseesismothing is officially cannel- ' nicated bat wlutt the post n2ortem examination informs us. it is melee- Stend. to have menifested itself so early as January last. It was not, however, sn set-ere as to interrupt his airings in the Park, in witisit he took great deli:4lit, and which he continued, when the weather was lino, solate as the 12th April. Ile did not quit, the Castle after that day. The first bulletin appeared on the 15th; other bulletins appeared on t I me 19th, 22.(1, Nth. and 2fit1m. Prom the 2,6th, they were published dailv. Puncturing,. of the legs of the Royal patient is said to have taken place early in May, and again in the beginning of June ; but no other ope- ration was performed, though this was very confidently asserted—so con- fidently, that we were at one time induced to give credit to the ac- count.

The exact period when his Majesty's disease was considered hopeless is not known; but it is said that the medical attendants looked on it as • mortal more than seven weeks ago, notwithstanding the bulletins with which the public were daily deceived.

The site of the disease, it will be seen, was in the heart ; the dropsy Of the chest was symptomatic. Ilre subjoin the post mortent exami- nation.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE APPEARANCES OBSERVED ON INSPECTION

OF THE MORTAL REMAINS OF IIIS MAJESTY GEORGE IV.

"The body exhibited but little sign of putrefaction, and the anasarca had disap- peared, excepting* some slight remains of it in the thighs. " Notwithstanding the apparent emaciation of his Majesty's person, a very large quantity or fat was found between the shin and the abdominal muscles.

" Abdonom.—The omentem, and all those parts in which fat is ueuallydepoeited, were excessively loaded with it. The abdomen (lid most contain more than an Mince - of water. The stomach and Intestines were somewhat contracted : they were or a darker coloar than natural, its consequence of their conteining mucus iiimed with blood, and in the stomach was found a clot of pure blood, %I-el/Jibe; about six ounces. alio liver was pale, and had an unhealthy granulated appearance. The spleen, although larger than usual, we riot otherwise diseased, and the pancreas was in a sound state. The siemehl ries:ire of tlme. large intestine (tile coloM had formed unnatural adhesions to the I, tidier, accompanied by a solid inflammaetry deposit, of the size of an orange. Upen a careful examination of this tuinour, a eire or cavity was found in its centre, which contained a urinary calculus of the size if a filbert, and this cavity commenicated by Me:LBS of a small aperture with the inte- rior of the bladder at its fundes. In other respects the bladder was healthy, and

. the prostrate gland did not appear to be enlarged. The kidneys were also free front disease.

" Thorax.—Two pints of water were found in the cavity of the right side, and three pints and three-quarters in the left side of the cheet. left lung was con- siderably diminished. The lower edge of each lobe of the lung; had a remarkable fringe, which, upon examination, was found to be formed by a depoisit of fat. The substance of the lungs had undergone no change of structure, butt the mucus mem- brane lining the air tubes was of a dark coiner, in consequence or its being turgid with blood. The pericardium (or heart purse) contained about half an ounce ef fluid ; but its opposite surfaces, in several parts, adhered to eaell other, from in- flammation at some remote period. Upon the surface of the heart and peeicardittin there was a large quantity of fat ; and the muscular substance of the heart was so tender as to be lacerated by the slightest force. It was much larger than natural. Its cavities upon the right side presented no unusual appearance ; but those on the left side were much dilated, more especially the auricle. The three sernilunar Valves at the beginning of the great artery (the ;torte) were ossified throughout their substance, and the inner coat of that blood-vessel presented an irregular surface, and was in many parts ossified.

"The original disease of his Majesty Consisted in the ossification of the valves of the

aorta, which must have existed for many years, and which, by impeding the passage of the current of blood flowing from the heart to the other parts of the biely, occa- sioned effusion of water into the cavities of the chest and in other situatiens. This mechanical impediment to the circulation of the blood also sufficiently explitins those other changes in the condition of the body which were connected with ilk Majesty's last illness, as well as all the symptoms under which the King had laboured. • "The immediate cause of his Majesty's dissolution was the rupture of a blood- vessel in the stomach.

"HENRY HALPORD. ASTLEY PASTON COOPER. MATTHEW JOHN TISIINNY. B. C. Snouts."

'We also extract the following interesting medical remarks from the Lancet of this morning.

" In the beginning of January, his Majesty suffered from a severe attack of ca- tarrh, which, as was usual with him, speedily assumed an inflammatory type, and rendered the abstraction of blood necessary. In consequence of altercations be- tween Sir W. Knighton and Mr. O'Reilly, one of his Majesty's apothecaries, Sir W. KMghton always assuming to himself the right to control the medical attendants, Par. O'Reilly did not act with his usual decision, but deferred bleeding the King, until the arrival of Sir Henry Raiford from London. The ur tont inamumato.ir symptoms of his Majesty's tlisorder were now subdued, the Is lag wits considera reduced in etrength, having lost at four bleediags, which wrie pa tinned at slz intervals, nearly live pounds of blood; and the inflammatory at nekisft liehind i troublesome, dry, hard cough. It may lucre be not that his Maj o..tty for manY years had been scarcely ever free from some symptom which intik, ted t .e preseuree more or less severe, of gout in the extremities; but in January, dui cgth• existence of time catarrhal affection, the extremities were entirely free from eve y sip; , of gout. Al the latter end of February, mei even lit lite beginning' of March, le liram sly was well enough to tilkt: iii (e'en:in:try ill an open carriage, :Intl 4,L.C:1,1. Eat y visited the different parts of he fOyal (10:1,-;110, mu which al, terations were tfeitie ferward. (in elfeeley, left April, he rode ill the Perks for the last tine-, anti ea..: 1 some time in the ineneeerie, a piece in which he t tok great de- field. While ti: Ile emessoined ef fedi: and f.tintrie,, and inquired of the

lie, per if he . e brandy a the lemee. The men, on elil eervitut :dills Duke of

Vol lesaill eeeethine ii hielt he theneht mis elejesly would like 1-,etter than Meetly. iii mu :- it said hi. Melesi y. • clierry tV:IA the reply ; it NVZ1.■ Made by my old woman, sire.' The IV itm seemed noel, pteeed by tide mart; a otoltion.

■ 111;leXpre,ell a wish to taste the Iteh Isfeirdial.' tin its beim; handed to Majesty, lie appeared to relidi exceedinely the, to him, novel eilMIIJIMLI, and tiniSheil the remainder of t he bottle.

" The harassing dry coueli and wheezing respiration still continued, notwith- standi rig the remedies that were employed; and his Majesty at the same time was a painful irritation in the urinary passa ,es. It was On the

march) that :Hr. \l'ardrop, en visititie the iir-t called the

:lighten to 111.: tr an alarming From the till xaminitti: the eiceillioiee :And

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iir cells, and irieeerlar- l:•11 hied hetet that rile- mm,. Yleritt el :he :,-; hi -ion or c," .,:Vt• the more

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it- is t It'll he realized.

:eel more par- t a CUrfe,,,,Illiing irregularity well is that lilting Ile: heart's het in the watery Mrs- aditesious, tlitt .:11

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• : I tiums the lungs aml the intes- .- loth immediately preceded his

,1 to bootio:t eThe f /,•-• • ii;tp,-tomo'es, hIlt'milhiul ml account of wiii he deilloostr,te, most oucipiivocal inalomr, I be of the diaemeeee fonliod 1!\* cad,. pi..rlo•I 1,t. dkea “.• ; WO. 110111 1.:1V a■■■■ deternitiled •,::•;.•r or tile iong_,moimosa inn:minnow-yr moon, we are enaveidenly impre:-.ed wedt opinien, that a jirliehtitely-regulatett syeiem of depletlee titi :lave pieeed ben:eh:lee mei even prolonged life.. a'his method of treatim.:- cii,u.iiimi mutt the smolt, eavilicq has bee:: commended by several eminent writers, awl it is HOW the 110st-informed, members of the profession. The King himself thon,hi I html Ow dropsy %Vie, eaused by the bleed- ings to whieli he had heen subjected in January last. It is, however, but on act of justice towards his medical. attendants to declare, that in our opinion, this supposi- tion had nut the slightest foundation i:1 truth."

PRE P.21.11AT S 1'On FrNa iIA L.—II/IOW fire O'CIOCk omm 3lonclay,

a hearse witlt two coffins, the one lead and the other mahogany, arrived. at Windsor Castle. At two o'cloels the llarquis of Conyngliam, the

Earl of Mountcharles, Lord Stratharen, Sir William Keppel, Sir rrede., rick liTatson, antl other officers of the Household, assembled in the roma

trIlere the remains of the King lay. The body, which had previously been wrapped in cerecloth, was lifted into the wooden coffin by Mr. Nussey and the four pages, AIessrs. K 1.1aelitdor, aml Loades. The mahogany coffin was then placed ims the leaden coffin, and the latter was soldered tip.

The 1)ake of Cumberland arrived at Windsor Castle at three o'clock On Wednesday., where he remained in communication with the Lord Steward ;nod tile Household officers until six o'clocic. It is understood that his visit had reference to time arrangements kw the funeral.

The funeral trill taint place at midnight, on Thursday, the lath. The

preparations are going on welt rapidity. A very cmosiderable body of workmen were eneeiged on NVoluesday and tile pre••imis day in throwin,.

up the covered way along whitilt the proceesion will move from the loyal eatraltre to the Castle in the new court, to St. George's Chapel_

Preparations are likewise actively going on within the walls of St. Goorge's Chapel. Tile body is still trek:hell by officers of the Lord Steward's Household, atiol Pages, in succession ; ;111.1 no person, except these attendants, is permitted to enter the apartment.

THE FIT NE RAL--The lying-in-stale will take place in the old " state drawing-room," or the King's of ra wing-room, as it is sot mIst immhi'tmt'lmhlt'Tl. on the northern flank of the castle. 'Fit this apartment the pub' it. will be ,libilitted front thegrestt quadrangle by what has heretofore been called the " Queen's go ,st staircase ;" and after having. passed through the Sllite imf TI MIS, they will retire by the narrow and sonnewhat incottvettient way by Which stran- gers ;ice admitted to view the old state apartments. ()tt the day of the It neral, tlte procession will descend from the apartments by the " (/neen.'s great staircase," into the great quatiraltele ; and from thence along a platform, thrintgit the portcullis arcitwit y. at the lEtSC or the round tower, and down the lower ward of the Castle, to the south entrants! of St. George's Chapel. Here it will enter the sacred edifice ; and, immedi- ately turning to the left, down this SO11011'111 IlaVe, it trill advailist up the m ef 1110110

1 of IC,

to 1;011t, his el.. tit, an interinit tee: We understand that a lady, who long basked in the smiles of Royalty, employed herself in packing up her prides affitircs on the day of his late Majesty's death, and left AVindsor Castle by a postern, with her de- pendents and connexions, the same evening, for Dorking. A certain confidential knight is also said to have taken his departure from all future official and confidential connexion with royalty.—Cloke It is said that a certain favourite retires from the light of the setting sun lyith not less than half a million of its rays rernaiiiitog...._Thee It was currently reported in evelbhoformed circles, that the late Xing has left flinds to pay his brother, the late duke of York's, debts in full. His Majesty's private wealth has been estimated at six hundred thou- saud pounds.—Morning Chrottice.