had opened, that the meanest person and most uneducated character reads a moral in the vicissitude that requires no commentary. Daily I go with my respectful and most warm enquiries to Sydney Place, to know how the Bath beverage agrees with her Majesty, whose weakened and disordered stomach terribly wants ameliorating. We are flattered with the hope that the progress is all on the right side, though slow. But she looks better, and is much more like her native self, than upon her second arrival. The Princess, the dear, sweet, and accomplished Princess Elizabeth, is visibly better for bathing in the Bath waters; and I sometimes permit myself to hope they may sufficiently profit from these springs to be tempted to return to them another year. I have just read a letter from Miss Knight, dated Rome, in which she mentions, with great regard and intimacy, Mr. Mathias, and speaks of him as belonging to her select society, without any reference to the alarming stroke and attack which preceded his journey, and simply as one who enlivens the Italian coterie. How delightful is such a recovery! PART IX. 1818-1819. Mrs. Piozzi renews her correspondence with Madame d'ArblayContinued indisposition of General d'Arblay-Madame d'Arblay's narrative of his last illness-His presentation to Queen Charlotte at Bath-Presents from the Queen and Princess Elizabeth-Visit of a Roman Catholic priest-Death of General d'Arblay-Letter of condolence from Mr. Wilberforce-Dr. Elloi, the Roman Catholic priest, desires the conversion of Madame d'Arblay-She convinces him of its hopelessness-Friendly visits and condolences-Approaching dissolution of the Queen-Madame d'Arblay's son a deacon of the Church of England-The Queen's death-Sketch of her character by Madame d'Arblay-Funeral Sermon. PART IX. 1818. From Mrs. Piozzi to Madame d'Arblay. MY DEAR MADAM, Bath, Thursday, February 26, 1818. I HAD Company in the room when Lady K―'s note arrived, desiring I would send you some papers of her's by the person who should bring it. I had offered a conveyance to London by some friends of my own, but she preferred their passing through your hands. Accept my truest wishes for the restoration of complete peace to a mind which has been so long and so justly admired, loved, and praised by, Dear Madam, Your ever faithful, H. L. P. Who attends the General? and why do you think him so very bad? Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Piozzi. Bath, February 26, 1818. THERE is no situation in which a kind remembrance from you, my dear Madam, would not awaken me to some pleasure; but my poor sufferer was so very |