The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-08-17
DEATH OF QUEEN MARY; WIFE OF WILL.
S. a. .t...i... 20. LIAM Ill.,; zez,fill VI

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AT length the injection (the smal!-pox)"'
spread to the palace, and reached the young
and blooming Qleen, She received the intl-
nation of her danger, with true greatness of
soul. She gave. orders that every lady of her
bed chamber, every maid of honor-nay, eve
ry menial servant who had not had the small q
pox,- should inst autiy leave Kensingtop House.
She locked herself up during short time in
her closet. burned some papers, arranged 9th
ers, and then calmly awaited her fate, Dur
ing two or three days there we're many alter
nations of hope and fear. The physicians
Fcontradicted each other and themselves il a
way which sufficiently indicates the state ;of
medical science in that age. The disease was
measles it was scarlet fever; it was spotted
fever; it was erysipeias. Atone moment some
symptoms which in truth showed that the
case was almost hopeless, were hailed as in
dications OF, returning health At length all
doubt was over, Radcliffes opinions proved to
be right. 1t was plain that the Green was
sinking under smallpox of the most malig-'
nant type. .--
All this time William remained night and
| day near her bedside. The little couch on
which he slept when he was in camp, was
spread for him in the ante-cbamber, but he
scarcely lay down oni it. The sight of his mis-
| cry, the Dutch envoy wrote. was enough to
melt the hardest heart. Nothing seemed to
be left of the man whose serene fortitude had
been the wonder of old soldiers on the disas-'
that fearful night amorg the sheets of ice and
banks of sand on the coast of Goree The
very 'domestics saw The tears running uncheels,
ed down that face, of which the stern compo :
sure had seldom been disturbed by any triumph
or by any defeat. Several of the prelates
were in attendance. The King drew Burnet
aside, and gave way to an agony Of grief
There is no hope,' he cried. I was the hap.
piest man on earth, and am the most misera
BILE. She had no fault. none; you knew her
well, but you could not know, nobody but
myself could know her goodness -.
Tenison undertook to tell her that she was
dying. He was afraid that such commnni.
cation, abruptly made, might agitate her vio-
lently, and began with much anagement-
But she soon caught his meaning, and with
that gentle, womanly courage which SO often
: Epnts our bravery to shame, submitted herself
to the will of God She called for small
cabinet in which her most important papers
we've locked up gave orders that as soon as
. she was no more it should be delivered to the
q King and then dismissed worldly cares from
her mind. She received the Eucharist, and
repeated her part of the Office with unimpar.
ed memory and intelligence though in feeble
voice. She observed Tension had been long
standing at her bedside, and, with that sweet
courtesy which was habitnal to her, faltered
out her commands that he would sit down, and
T. repeated them tilfhe obeyed. ii s'ssaf -r.
: After she had received the sacrament she
u sank rapidly. and uttered Only few broker
!. words. Twice she tried to take last fare
n well of him whom she had loved SO truly ant
entirely, but she was unable to speak. H,
e had a succession of fits SO alarming that BIZ
Privy Councillors, who were assembled in
j. neighboring room, were apprehensive for hi
d reason, and life. The Duke of Leeds, at the
u request of his colleagues, ventured to assume
i the friendly guardianship of which minds de
e ranged by sorrow stand in need. A few min
utes before the Queen expired, William wa.
u removed, almost insensible, from the sicl
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