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    of the very curious letters written by " Mrs Morley , " from first to last , which the Duchess gave to the world : — " Dear Mrs Freeman—farewell .

    I hope in Christ you will never think more of leaving me , for I would be sacrificed to do you the least service , and nothing but death can ever make me part with you . "

    " I really long to know how my dear Mrs Freeman got home ; and now I have this opportunity of writing , she must give me leave to tell her , if she should ever be so cruel

    as to leave her faithful Mrs Morley , she will rob her of all the joy and quiet of her life ; for if that day should come , I could never enjoy a happy minute , and I swear to you I would shut myself up , and never see a creature . "

    The following is an entire letter , which appears to have been written in the course of the year in which they separated : — " Saturday night .

    " My dear Mrs Freeman—I cannot go to bed without renewing a request that I have often made , that you would banish all unkind and unjust thoughts of your poor , unfortunate , faithful Morley , which I saw by the glimpse I had of you yesterday , you were full of .

    Indeed , I do not deserve them , and if you could see my heart , you would find it as sincere , as tender , and as passionately fond of you as ever , and as truly sensible of your kindness in telling me your mind freely upon all occasions . Nothing shall ever alter me . Though we have the misfortune to differ in some things , I will ever be the

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    same to my dear , dear Mrs Freeman , who , I do assure you once more , I am more tenderly and sincerely hers than it is possible ever to express . "

    But Mrs Freeman had discovered that her Majesty ventured to have some regard for an humble cousin of hers ( Mrs Masham ) as well as for herself , which she pronounced on both sides to be the most _ungrateful

    and amazing enormity ever heard of . Hence she fell in a rage , and the rage roused the poor Queen , and so came the catastrophe . We have now another Queen on the throne , whom we have hitherto known in youth , and

    youth only . We know her but publicly however : we cannot be said to know anything of her real character ; and probably it is known to very few , if completely even to those ; so truly feminine is the retirement in which she has been

    brought up . If the report , however , of her mother's intellectual and moral qualities be well founded ( and the fact of that tranquil education says much for it in many respects ) , we may hope , that England

    will experience the advantage , for the first time , of having a Queen brought up in a mother ' s arms , and in a manner at once feminine and wise . We may , in that case , look to seeing Womanhood on the throne in

    its best character , and therefore , such as may give life and advancement to what is best and manliest in the hopes of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/11/