Authentic and Impartial Memoirs of Her Late Majesty; Charlotte Queen of Great Britain and Ireland Containing a Faithfull Retrospect of Hearly Days Her

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1819 Excerpt: ... limit: the manufactures of Great Britain never appeared to more advantage; the whole court being dressed in suits entirely British. Soon after, Andrew Stone, Esq. her Majesty's treasurer and receiver-general, paid to Robert Dingley, Esq. (treasurer to the Magdalen charity) 300/. as her Majesty's royal gift and bounty towards building a new Magdalen house. The Dauphiness of France having died at Versailles on the 13th of March, bequeathed several religious jewels to the Queen. Their Majesties were extremely concerned to hear that the King of Denmark was taken ill of a scarlet fever; and, notwithstanding it was deemed infectious, the Queen of Denmark most assiduously attended him both day and night. The King and Queen, attended by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Brunswick, were pleased to honour the incorporated Society of Artists of Great Britain with their presence at the Great Room, in Spring Gardens, on the 22d of April; and expressed their satisfaction in observing the several genuine performances exhibited there, and the flourishing state of the polite arts among their subjects. At a quarter before nine o'clock in the morning of the 5th of July, their Royal and Serene Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Brunswick, set out m one of his Majesty's coaches for Dover, on their return to Germany. The young Prince of Brunswick set out sometime before them. His Royal Highness Edward Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, who had set out on his travels through France and Germany, died at Monaco, about eleven o'clock in the morning of the 17th of September, of a malignant fever, after a severe illness of fourteen days. His Royal Highness had danced rather too much at the chateau of a person of fashion; and this had not only fatigued him, but occa...