The Princess of Orange; Charlotte de Bourbon--the devoted wife who for seven years, had so faithfully shared his joys and sorrows--lay already on her death-bed.

Exhausted by anxiety, long watching; and the alternations of hope and fear during the first eighteen days, she had been prostrated by despair at the renewed haemorrhage.

A violent fever seized her, under which she sank on the 5th of May, three days after the solemn thanksgiving for her husband's recovery.

The Prince, who loved her tenderly, was in great danger of relapse upon the sad event, which, although not sudden, had not been anticipated.

She was laid in her grave on the 9th of May, amid the lamentations of the whole country, for her virtues were universally known and cherished.