The public will not have failed to notice the absence
of the name of Lady Flora Hastings in the announcements of Court movements for the last ten days or a fortnight. We deeply regret the explanation of this circumstance which it is our task to give, for it is a truly melan- choly explanation. Her Ladyship is labouring under serious and alarming illness. After bearing up with astonishing fortitude and re- solution against the unparalleled persecution to which she has been ex- posed, the powers of her constitution have, we understand, at length given way, This unfortunate lady is, we fear, sinking rapidly to the grave, an innocent victim, in the flower of her days, to female indeli- cacy, intrigue, and malignity, exhibited, without rebuke, in a sphere where they may be expected to produce future and still more appalling calamities.—Morainy Pose [It was stated yesterday that Lady Flora was rather better.]
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