A letter on the necessity of a public inquiry into the cause of the death of ... the Princess Charlotte and her infant / [Jesse Foot].

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826
Date:
1817
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Credit: A letter on the necessity of a public inquiry into the cause of the death of ... the Princess Charlotte and her infant / [Jesse Foot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LETTER. THE shock which the whole nation has felt by the death of her Royal Highness the Prin¬ cess Charlotte and her Infant, has thrown the people of England into a deplorable state of melancholy, perhaps never so universally and so extensively experienced before under any calamitous circumstance whatsoever. We are called upon as a coroner is upon an inquest, to ascertain how the particular and un¬ fortunate visitation hath fallen so heavily upon the whole nation, and at a time too when its hopes were elevated to the highest pitch of ex¬ pectation ; when, looking forward, in the tran¬ sports of joy, with sure and certain hope” that the offspring of a branch so promising M ould tend to perpetuate the descent of so va¬ luable, so religious, and so endearing a mother# I repeat it, the shock cannot but be felt, from the sudden change of so high an expectation, without exciting an extraordinary alarm in every breast. It cannot but be so felt, not only in England, but over all Europe. The general conversation that has passed, up to the period of my wTiting this paper (for I would not sit down to write till I had heard all that A 2