ion from these troubles was created by the general
election which took place during the summer. Men were too busily
employed in securing the election of their favourites to think of the
troubles by which they were surrounded.

DEATH OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE.

During the last session of parliament, in consequence of the Queen's
declining health, two amendments had been made in the regency bill; the
first empowering her majesty to add six new members, resident in Windsor
to her council, in the event of her absence from that residence; and
the second repealed the clause which rendered necessary the immediate
assembling of a new parliament in the event of the queen's death. These
amendments were opportunely made, for her majesty, after a lingering
illness of six months, expired at Kew Palace, on the 17th of November,
in the 75th year of her age. Her remains were interred at Windsor on the
2nd of December, and the day was observed with every suitable mark of
respect. Queen Charlotte possessed those accomplishments which add grace
and dignity to an exalted station. As a wife and a mother she was a
pattern to her sex; performing all the tender and maternal offices of a
nurse to her offspring, which is so seldom performed by persons even in
less exalted stations than that which she occupied. Her morality was,
also, unquestionably of the highest order: during the period in
which she presided over the British court, she preserved it from the
contamination of vice, notwithstanding the dangers proceeding from the
licentious examples of other European dynasties, as well as from that
moral relaxation which our own prosperity was so well calculated to
produce. During the reign of Geo-ge III., indeed, England presented from
the throne the example of those virtues that form the great and binding
link of the social chain. To this may be in part ascribed our happiness
in having withstood the storm which visited the rest of Europe with all
the horrors of invasion or anarchy. "The wicked are overthrown, and are
not; but the house of the righteous shall stand."

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

{A.D. 1819}

The new parliament met on the 14th of January when Mr. Manners Sutton
was reelected speaker, and Chief Baron Richards took his seat on
the woolsack _pro tempore_, in consequence of the lord chancellor's
indisposition. Both houses were occupied till the 21st in swearing
in their respective members, on which day the session was opened by