The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-15 00:00:00

+,ain.

'Let it be admitted that the delivery of the after-
birth t*: Hs effected by ten o'clock at TliOrt, auk
that the room was cleared or wedicill Gendeme:k
from that time to a (ptarter before twelve, i
is only aft hour and three quarters. The Reporter
of the Medical Journal says that she was "
frequently small supplies of nourisl:ment ; but at
this time sire became ret•tless, end rather talkative ,

(what is meant by rather), and complained ~t 1
being, sick ; there is not a word s:1;d about dm
gruel, and chicken broth, she really-was sick, for she
vorni(ed, but nothing ‘va.s ejected except a little
camphor julep, which the Editor wisely says she
had taken, and she again u.-15coniposed. At halt-
past twelve, however-,• the E:lit or says" the breath-
ilL4 became iMpeded, the respie,kiory nr;.faiis
.evidenllN under the in hence of spa Syn, t7rrrl eonti-
ulled itr that stu'e till she breatheti her test at half.-
past two o'clock excittly jive hours ,and a half aft&
her delicery,--0 tar the Editor.
The ittuch-t 0-be-lamented Yt incess, I am sorry
to say, htwars tc, twy mulerstanding to have brert
in a sitnisiou past all human art at a quarter
o'clock—that is only one hour a ad three q,:ax.
ters alter the manual extraction of tile alter-birth
and during this hour and 'tlires (platters • that

lleipurrhage was 'pouring tnto. Ahe which
'was afferwards fdond in a " considerable "
• ti;y in the inspection of,Sjr EVBEARO
°'4ol' l'ir:syinproms that followed, let. the party say
what they will, of spasms, &c., were nothing but
• the common symptoms, not particularly belong 7
• ing. as they iii their cant have remarked, to the
Ref al Family, bu't symptoms of every person, of
every• Patient who dies from exhaustion and .loss
of blood. This change of scene, from hope to
6ra t , introduced to the fatal bed chamber, Dr.
• SlMS,;and. Dr. for the first'tinie, when
hri• fate was seated; a quarter' before twelve, ine•-
• ‘itably sealed.
!have hut just one more observation to make,
it diedelivery of theiintant and the delivery of
the after-hit th were so effected as to leave the.
Princess '• as well aml composed as Ladies usually
e immecli-ately after delivery," how .happens it
• that Dr. BAILLIEj who was so courteously in-
vited to he present upon the occasion, as this
Blifor says he was., did not pay•his respects to
his Royal Mistress., and,' be the first to offeelier
his congratulations I h fs 101.10 7.11y3.0

One more question that now strikes
these three medical Gentlemen', who `signed three
welt-authenticated di,pateheg, giving us at least.
the Report tip to nine o'clock on Wednesday
evening, the time when the Princess was delivered
of ,the still-born Infant, could think of separating
without coming to some sort of resolution-of
tilling the Public what passed afterwards; for
hithert6 we knoW nolhing of it authenticated
fr2m t tient up to the moment of her Royal High-
' ness's expiration in my opinion was a
dory ; the Public expected it was due to.them.
• Was it not for the Public inforMation that they
signed and sent away the three other dispatches
What credit shaThWelte-reafter pay to well-authen,
tit:ated dispatches:if we only have the juvanda
and not the Ledendu ! ! !—Let the Public draw the
cuutiusion.

. ,
_ The mansion of Claretitimt became deserted in
the morning, and on the 7th, which was the day
after, so close did one professional man follow
another,t Sir EVERARD HOME, as SUrgeon to his
ajesty, made his visit; and here is offered serious
room for inquiry. - .
The cpies-tion is, whether Sir EVERARD came
there to perform the office of. embalming only p•
•.whieh might have been,,quietly•done and - with
the exposure of only those parts which, are. cm-
dained by general usage.to.beinchnied
in ,the.prp}
cess of embalming If he Was sent there'P”reth
for that purpose, .nothing can be more efear. than;
that he exceeded that commission, and :that. he
enteredintO•a regular • and • general` examination,
beginning- at the head and ending at the extrenrest
part of the ti unk of the Royal body. The Public.
will nbserve, that there is no question upon this.
fact, drat it stands confessed, and has been, pub-
lished, and that the,presumed motive, forsooth,.
for such minute dissection was, to-ascertain what
. was the cause of the Princess's death. Ile tells us,
.particularly, that he examined the brain, that he
examined the- heart, and found that the pericar-
dium contained 2 ounces of red coloured fluid,
that- the stomach Contained nearly three pints of
liquid (how sit,gular it was that the camphor
when the Priricess vomited, shonid haVe made
its escape, and should have been known to be cam-
phor when it' left three pints of fluid be-
hind it, as before 12 o'clOck the Princess's power
ofsWallowing was past',. and her final doom was
• fixtql ! !)
•
At length, in the prosectiting of this dissection,
there comes, out an important confession, that
which Tidies Newspaper, feeling that it was
so important, suppressed, when it copied from
the Monthly journal; and which happens to be
the only thing worth attending to for obtaining
the true cause, and the only cause, of the death of
the Princess. I repeat it again, if we throw aside
every thing else to account for the cause of the
- Princess's death, and keep only this which fol.
logs, we have the true cause of her death ; and
if we leaie this out, the cause cannot be accounted
for. From what I hive said, it is worthy to re-
mark the loose manner in which this important
paragraph is here put down as an article in Sir
EV F RAR D HOZsiE'i Catalogue of Dissections :
*".rhe uterus contained a cousiderable quantity
of blood, and extended as high up. in the. abdomen
as the navel, and ,the hour-glass contraction was
still very apparent."

The word " considerable," to do the Editor of
the Medical Journal justice, is put in italics. I.
dare say this arose • from his surprize, because
there are points beyond • which good men will
never go. It•is curious to remark, that Sir Eva-
HOME, so exact as he was about the fluid in
the ventricles of the brain, in the measurement of
. the fluid of •the heart, and of the stomach, should
have been content with calling the .quantity of
blood found in the uterus by the indefinite term
•" considerable," when if this viscus had not un-
dergone the mOst important sufferings in the ca-
tastrophe, it never would, God knows, have been
bislot.t-o have ;of into any examination or ex
posture ht all. How is, this to be accounted for
That is another question.
The opinion that seems to-be adlteittl'to by the
three Medical Gentlemen, Doctors IlattlitE,
and. Sit Riot-fano CROFT, all along frotwthe time
• that their publication came out °ollie Friday
nrirning after the death of Oft •,,Princess,'
w hich publication I alluded to in my'forinerletter,'
' and-which was inserted in all the NewspapetV
word for word; came troth those threeCentlemen.
To this publicatiOry.their names' were never put'
they then were at "a IOSs, or wished os to belieVe.
that they were at a lost, bai`w to explain the on.;
expected death; Of. Iterji.oyal 'Highness to the
Public, • attd.thereffirc itAnight be presumed, and
the Publit Will see the:. reason froth what I have
said, why ,Sit:,,EvEtuart HOmp,,Artstdatl-of ini-
balminwotily., went intd, thOrougiritivestigatibb,
for some rethoy,eattse or other,ll'ininuteilistee-'
Lion of.eVAl.4oart,' instead..6rbeint cohtentet*
witb.ttigi'mp-St4dc-ixi.nrate of all causes; mathely,-
• thafiif considerable, 'lint unmeasured;
y of blood in the uterus ; lie could meat.'
stnithe Leirrite ventricles of the 7 brain, the,
stomich, aihlollihart, but upt the blood in the
.
uterus, 11}11F`•
To--.WI4IIPAAV the attention from a: •real *Object
k a itc,VATIV" canitnou order, and if there

were not more of the Faculty than themselves,
the thought might have.-been successful.
.That there.shOuld ¢e a ,union of sentiment be=
tween Dr. BAlLire,-.Sir RICH4ED CROFT, and Sir
Even/till) HOME, Lean readily forgive.
Sir EVERARD HOME and Dr. BAILLIE
.are so far,
akin, as Sir EVERARD HOME..was.Brother-irt-Law
to JOHN HUNTER, the thiCIC- of Dr. BAILLIe7;
berefore, both Dr. 13AILLIE anti Sir RICHARD
CRUET could have the easiest iceeis.litissible, if
'they had so pleased, lo the Diiecting Chamber
during the examination. They had. even a right
to it ; and it will-be ever a matter of ,-astonkab-
ment bow it came to 'pass., that Dr. BAIL LILT
whose greatohjett of Lis life has been to attend
dissections, Ikflin had been, a Lecturer in Wind-
mill-sti eet„ and who has publihired a popular
Book of Morbid Anatomy; chiefly from,the Notes
.61 Dr. WILLIAM HUNTER, and equal, as .some say,
to any thing by MottoAGNt, shoniti,not have been
pre•eut- during this erentttel process, when the
united judgiiieur of all of them was pretended to
be foiled iri .finding oy.t that unexpected' cause of
death,. and imploring that fatecatastrophe which
has thus eclipsed the most exalted hopes of the.Em-

pire.
In the Contemplation of Truth-, and that is
what we are in search of, and .that is ivliat -the
Medical Gentlemen persist in keeping hack from-
us, the Public say, that they must have it ; al-
though it be wrung frbm•them. In the contem-
plation of Truth, the Public ,miglit become their
own Limners of Art, and with Kery little.'diffi-
culty; for the.figure of Truth is sblair, so clear,.
so self-evident, and of a substance sn tangible, it
comes so boldly out of the canvass,' that it,can
never be seen and mistaken ; whereas, its coutl•ter-
frit, worse than a bad copy, wily not stand).
close inspection, and must vanish
,by 'coMpa.4,

rtson. .
'The afflicting losi of thiS most invaluable 'Prin-
cess,
,sinks deeply 'in the hearts of 'every' faMily in.
the Kingdom, more especially when they Contem-
plate, that she was hereafter to-shew by her ex.,
ample, those 'virtues which should-W.' a guide :to a
rising' generation, both in private life as well as in
public. 'Whenever they reflect, it will coMe.home
Co their bosoms',aild fill theni full of sorrow, for
"'no human sorrow, has' been like this •Sorrot'v."
The general mounting outwardly expressed,' has •
proceeded directly 'from their 'inward feelings ;
their Lamentations in tliC Pttbhic Paints haVe
been relechoed froth one extremity of the Empire.
to the other.—The deep affliction will continue
unabateiV until we are assured, that her. irf;
reparible Death, and ; that of . her infant,:
,cattie frOM the Band.. of rroyidetice alone.—
.
'.l his nitist be cOnsiclered as our only comfort.
Tlie Public
,Will, when they are assured of that,
be ltifth'e first instance stsbmiisively resigned, and.
in the next calmJY'reconciled.- Is tide this sonie7
thing ? it the thrill In this Case be not worthy to:
be inquired into, when and upon What occasion
was it ever. P.O pressed upon us' before ? We ask it
for our comfort. ller filial
.:duty
.tO her Royal
Parents was equally united in' her heart, thOugh
they Were separated front each other ; her ex -
tiMple of conjugal love will 'be -recorded to the
last moment of time ; and her retirement from
the gaieties of the town strengthened her mind
and perfected Tier virtues ; her religion devotions
were constant and sincere, and she altvilYs evinced,
a ft iendly condescension to the.poor.,.These we're
her private virtues ; and there was the sisrestliopes
that when 'the time clime for her to wear the
Crown, that she would have mildly governed ac-
cording to the Laws of the Empire. --As to, the
Royal Infant, we are thus deprived'by the stroke
of death of another succession of hopes to the
Crown ; the Sweet Roie is plucked before it
bloomed, Sweet Rose !
" Thy Root is ever in its Grave." HERBERT.
There is a charge at the. concluSion of the Edi-
tor's 'Criticism against those who have disturbed
this question ; so that if the Gentlemen of the
Faculty at Claremont choose to remain mute,
I must be content. The very reason why
I am not content, is because they are mute.
The word phalanx but ill applies to me and
my. Printer, for that is my only, phalank.
If it be meant for me, he has brought into
one word what the Poet Ovid has taken four to
explain the 'same thing ; he says nos Duo turba
sumus. There is also an insinuatiOn as if malice
bad something to do with the .business ; what
.1
write I put my name to, and it is for the Public
to judge,. whether, th 4 can discern any malice or
envy 'or pride. I 'will close this letter with a de-
scription which the 'Reader may apply as he likes.
Envy first originated in the bosom of folly through
pride ; it is afraid of being disclosed, and its dark
disguises are not 'to 'be unfolded or' softened.—
Merit in others is a weight which Overcomes the
envious like the Giant so well known in the fable,
who was an enemy tothe Gods, and consequently
was by' the Gob set on fire. He hurled on all
sides, but 'in vain, the, fire which was devouring
• him; lie struggled'and blisphemed•in his pro,
found prisOn; and thought that he ,swats making
the World tremble, but 'he only. shook Mount
Etna which oppressed him, it fell, and• he was
entombedin the mass.
Dean-street, Soho, Dcc. 1817,

JESSE FOOT.