We have every reason to know, that he who had so ardently expressed his wish that a copy of the Scriptures might be in the possession of, and read by every subject in his dominions, duly appreciated in his own mind their inestimable value, and no doubt, while in possession of reason, they were to him, when journeying onward to the spiritual Jerusalem, as a well-spring in the valley of Baca. As The protracted sufferings and existence of the monarch were now fast drawing to a close. early as the month of November, the hitherto firm health of his majesty had undergone a sudden alteration; and though the immediately dangerous symptoms of the attack were removed, they were productive of a state of general feebleness and decay, which his immediate attendants soon perceived to admit but of one termination. No bulletins, except the monthly reports of the physicians to the council over which the Duke of York presided, were however issued; and the country received the notification that on the evening of the 29th of January, 1820, King George the Third had breathed his last, without sufferings, and almost without a disease, after having attained the 82nd year of his age, and the 60th of his reign *. * Dr. Aikin. |