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    was on account of some indecencies spoken of Mary Queen of Scots 1 On which she replied , " Jurieu must support the cause he defends in the best svav he can . If what he savs of the Queen of Scots be true , he is not to be blamed for the use he makes of it .

    If princes will do ill things , they must expect the world will take revenge on their memories , since they cannot reacli their persons / ' This shewed her knowledge of mankind . But this great and good woman was soon to be taken away , an

    irreparable loss to the King and to the Nation . " In Dec , 1694 , the Queen was attacked with what appeared a transient indisposition , from which she soon in a great degree recovered . But the disorder returning with more

    serious symptoms , the physicians of the household were called in , who pronounced it to be the measles , and very improper remedies were applied , for" it was soon ascertained to be the

    small-pox ^ of the confluent and most malignant sort . She probably thought herself in danger from the first , as in an early stage of the illness she shut herself up in her closet for many hours , and , burning many papers , put the rest in order . The new

    Archbishop ( Tillotson ) attended her , and when no hope of recovery remained , he , with the King ' s approbation , communicated to her the true state of her condition . She received the intelligence with the most perfect

    composure , and said , ' She thanked God she had always carried this in her mind , that nothing was to be left till the last hour ; she had nothing then to do but to look up to God , and submit to his will T and continued to the

    last uniformly calm and resigned . She gave orders to look carefully for a small escrutoire to be delivered to the King . The day before she died , she received the sacrament ; all the Bishops who were attending being admitted to receive it with her ; afterwards she had her last interview with

    the King , to whom she addressed a few broken sentences imperfectly understood . Cordials were administered , but in vain . She lay silent for some hours , and from a few words which then dropp / ed from her lips , it was perceived that her thoughts were wandering . She died on the 28 th December , A 694 , about one in the naorniiii " ,

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    in , the 33 d year of her age > and sixth of her reign ! She was buried a $ Westminster , with unusual honours , both Houses of Parliament assisting at the solemnity , and her memory was consecrated by the tears of the

    nation . All distinctions of party seemed for a moment to be forgotten , and absorbed in one general sentiment of affectionate and grateful admiration . The King was justly inconsolable for her loss . During her illness he had given way to the most passionate bursts of grief , and after

    her death , he seemed for many weeks and months plunged into the deepest melancholy . The necessity of attending to the great affairs of government at length roused him in some measure from his lethargy , and he gradually recovered his composure of mind , but to the last moment of his life he

    retained the tenderest affection for her memory . " But we now proceed to William , by the delineation of whose character we need riot be long detained . It is better known to the public than that

    of Mary 9 and has been fully ascertained . History tells us , that the Bill . of Rights being duly prepared on Feb . 12 , 1689 , the very next day being Wednesday , the two Houses went in solemn procession to the Banqueting House at Whitehall , where , with no

    other pomp that what arose from the greatness of the occasion , and the names of the illustrious magistrates who assisted , they tendered the crown of these realms to the great national deliverer William , and joined to him in form and title his consort Mary , the eldest Protestant issue of the late

    Sovereign James . The Parliamentary declaration of the Bill of Rights was first read with a loud voice by the Clerk of the Crown . Then the Marquis of Halifax , who had acted as Speaker of the House of Lords throughout all the discussions , on his knees made a tender of the crown . William

    answered for himself and his consort . He made the rights of the nation , as declared in the Bill 9 the foundation of his acceptance . ' * Tm * 9 , " says the Monarch , meaning the Bill of Rights , " is certainly the greatest proof of the trust you have in us th ? it can be given , that is the thing which makes us value it the more , and we thankfully accept what you have offered to

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    26 King William ami Queen Mary , as

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1826, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2544/page/26/