of pure, glittering white, unlike the slightly-shaded tinges which candles seem to cast from gold plate. The dessert-service at the Duke’s was of china, a present from the King of Prussia, and made emblematical of the life of the Duke, commencing with a view of Dangan Castle, the (supposed) birth-place of Arthur Wellesley, and going through a course of views of all the places rendered interesting by his presence or remarkable by his deeds, down to the porcelained pictorial representation of the crowning glory at Waterloo. While all these matters were in progress, people who nursed superstition were prophesying some calamity to come; and certainly, among the incidents of the coronation of George IV., was one which would have been counted ominous in earlier days. The gallant Marquis of Anglesea was Lord High Steward on that occasion, and it was part of his office to carry the crown up to the altar before the Archbishop placed it on the King’s head. It was heavier than the gallant Lord High Steward had reckoned upon, and the glittering crown, ponderous with gold, diamonds, and other precious stones, slipped from his hands. He dexterously recovered it, however, before it reached the ground. Among the medallic records of the time one was the work of an enemy of Caroline of Brunswick. A bronze medal of the time is extant which has the Queen’s head, on the obverse, with the inscription: ‘CAROLINE, D. G. BRITT. REGINA.’ On the reverse is the head of Bergami, with the inscription: ‘COUNT B. BERGAMI.’ CHAPTER XII. A CROWN LOST, AND A GRAVE WON. The Queen’s agitation--Her illness--Her sufferings--Desires her diary may be destroyed--Her death--Sketch of her life-- Her mother a foolish woman--Every sense of justice outraged by the King--Inconsistency of the Whigs--The Queen persecuted even after death--Disrespect shown to her remains by the Government--Protest against a disgraceful haste to remove her remains--Course of the funeral procession interrupted by the people--Collision between the military and the populace --Effort to force a way through the people ineffectual--The procession compelled to pass through the City--The plate on the Queen’s coffin removed--The funeral reaches Harwich--The Queen’s remains taken to Brunswick--Funeral oration--Tombs of the illustrious dead there. The coronation-day killed the Queen. The agitations and sufferings of that eventful day called into deadly action the germs of the disease under which she ultimately succumbed. Once only, between that day and her death, did she appear in public, at Drury Lane Theatre, and even then she may be said to have been dying.