[ 2646 ] enabled to bear with fortitude and resignation the Highness's health and feelings should enable you to peculiarly afflictive dispensation, which has pro- continue in the midst of us; but wherever your ceeded from His wise, but inscrutable Providence. Serene Highness may be, the prayers and blessings May tranquillity of mind be soon restored to your of Great Britain will attend you. Serene Highness, and may you long live in the en- Given under the Seal of our Corporation of New joynieut of health and happiness. Romney aforesaid, the 6th day of Decem- ber 1817. To His Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick, Duke of Saxe, Prince of Cobourg. To His Serene Highness Prince Leopold of Saxc Cobourg. WE, His Majesty's most dutiful and loyal sub- jects, the Mayor, Aldermen and Chief Burgesses The humble Address of the Mayor, Sheriffs, of the Ancient Borough of Newport, in the.Isle of Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Wight., with feelings ot unfeigned sorrow, beg Norwich. leave to offer to your Serene Highness our tribute WE, the Mayor, Sheriffs, Citizens and Com- .of condolence, on the irreparable loss which you monalty of the City of Norwich, in Common Coun- have lately sustained. The personal character of cil assembled, with the most profound sorrow, re- your Serene Highness, and your unbounded attach- spectfully beg leave to assure your Serene High- ment to one so dear to us as your late Royal Con- ness how unfeignedly we sympathize in the pre- sort, .whose untimely fate we all deplore, has en- mature and most afflicting decease of your Royal deared you to the nation; and though the cord Consort, the Princess Charlotte Augusta. which bound you to us has been cut a-sunder, and We deplore this dire event as a national cala- the hopes of seeing your posterity seated on the mity—grief oppresses every heart, and the country, Throne of our Monarchs, have been destroyed, yet as one family, laments the irreparable loss of such we assure your Serene Highness, that we shall long combined excellence, goodness and greatness. ^cherish the remembrance of the bright example We implore the Almighty to grant your Serene which you and our amiable Princess held out to the Highness fortitude to endure this awful, this se- world ; we trust your Serene Highness will derive vere trial ; and to afford your Serene Highness •consolation from this remembrance, and that the that true consolation, derived from exemplary piety Almighty disposer of events, will heal the wounds and submissive2 resignation, and from the well- .that he has inflicted in your Serene Highness's founded assurance, that your departed and justl • heart. regretted Princess, is now receiving the reward of In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set her exalted virtues. our Common Seal, this filh day of Decem- Your Serene Highness will be pleased to accept ber, in the 58th year of his Majesty's reign. the assurance of our hit;h regard and attachment, with our prayer, that you may long continue to To His Serene Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe reside in a country, to which your manners and Cobourg of Saalfeld. character are so congenial, and where your Serene WE, His Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects, Highness must be ever deservedly venerated and the Mayor, Jurats, and Commonalty of the Town beloved. and Port of New Romney, in the County of Kent, Given under the Common Seal of the said City, most respectfully beg permission to assure your the 5th day of December, in the 58th year Serene Highness, that while most deeply deploring, of the Reign ot His Majesty King George the in union with all the subjects of this kingdom, Third, and in the year of Our Lord 1817. our own irreparable loss ; we feel with reverence, the sad pre-eminence of your Serene Highness's [Transmitted ly the Mayor.] grief, and should not presume to attract your Se- rene Highness's attention for a moment, but for To His Serene Highness the Prince Leopold of the hope that the universal sympathy of a great and Saxe Cobourg. loyal nation, and its heartfelt tribute to the virtues of Her late Royal Highness the Princess Char- FULLY sharing in the general sorrow, and en- lotte, might he acceptable to your Serene High- tering into all your Serene Highness's agonized, ness's feelings. We pray earnestly for the restora- feelings, the Inhabitants of the Staffordshire Potte- tion of your Serene Highness's health, and the mi- ries, beg to offer their sincere and heartfelt condo- tigation of a sorrow which, although we deeply la- lence on the recent melancholy event, in the death ment that your Serene Highuess should endure, of your Serene Highness's late Illustrious Consort, we glory in, as the highest tribute to her, on the Princess Charlotte. whom the fond hopes of this nation have long been We will not attempt to recount her virtues, nor fixed, and under whose offspring, directed to every dwell upon that loss, which each of us makes his •virtue by your Serene Highness's wisdom and affec- own 3—to partake ot your griefs—to ponr balm tion, we hoped our posterity would be governed to into your wounds, woidd rather be our office—and the latest ages severe as the dispensation is, we must not forget Grateful to your Serene Highness for the happi- that it was the will of that Almighty Power, who, ness of our lamented Princess, and for the bright however inscrutable his ways may be to man, ". or- example ot" domestic virtue afforded to us by your dcreth all things for his good."—A nation's sympa- -Serene Highness, it must be considered by this thy commingles with your woes, and may the suc- aatioa as an inestimable blessing, that your Serene couring hand of Heaven support your Highness in,