Loss of the American Colonies--Political Struggle--The King’s health unsatisfactory--Life of the Royal Family at Windsor-- Mrs. Delany--The Queen and the Widow--Early service in the Chapel Royal at Windsor--Rev. Tom Twining and Miss Burney-- Miss Burney’s Reception by the Queen--Promenade of the Royal Family on the terrace--The Queen’s ‘dressing’--The Queen’s partiality for Snuff--Country life of the Royal Family at Kew --Princess Amelia; the King’s great affection for her--Scene on the birthday of the Princess--Margaret Nicholson’s attempt to assassinate the King--The Queen’s dread--Her fondness for Diamonds--Mrs. Warren Hastings--The present from the Nizam of the Deccan--Unpopularity of the King and Queen--Their affection for each other--The Queen’s tenderness to Mrs. Delany --Reconciliation of the King and the Prince--A pleasant scene --Another Court Incident. The loss of the American Colonies, and the triumph of Lord North and Fox, two men whom the King hated, and who forced an Administration upon him, had, in various degrees, a serious effect upon his health. He became dejected, but when Fox’s India Bill was thrown out by the Lords he had the firmness--a firmness suggested by the Queen--to turn the obnoxious Cabinet out. Pitt succeeded as prime minister, and no one saw him in that post with greater pleasure than Charlotte. She continued to support both King and Minister through the tremendous political struggle which followed, and during which Pitt more than once expressed his determination to resign. ‘In such case I must resign too,’ said the King, adding that he would sooner retire with the Queen to Hanover than submit to a ministry whose political principles he detested. The public admired his firmness, and for a season he was again popular--popular, but not safe. His health was in an unsatisfactory state; and it was at a season when he required to be kept in a state of composure that an attempt was made to stab him by an insane woman named Nicholson, as he was leaving St. James’s Palace by the garden entrance, on the 2nd of August, 1786. As he received a paper which she presented, the woman stabbed at him, but with no worse result than piercing his waistcoat. Before we show how the news of this attempt was received at Windsor, where the Queen was then sojourning, we may glance briefly at the nature of the life passed there. It was generally of a pleasing aspect.