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Rh when a stroke she received on the head by the fall of a window, and a long disorder which attacked her immeditately afterwards, threw her into the most imminent danger. Her life was despaired of; and by the advice of a physician sent to visit her by the Prince, she was, by his orders, removed to Paris, to the house of the Hospitalieres, in the suburb St. Marceau, where she could more easily receive the assistance her situation required. The Duke of Orleans had the goodness personally to recommend her to the superior and sisters, and to engage not only to pay her board, but likeways all the medicines and trouble that should be thought necessary. That Prince has undoubtedly received the reward of his charity in the other world; but in this, the unhappy Le Blanc reapt very little benefit from his good intentions. In this society, which, by her means, hoped to procure a Prince for its protector, and in him undoubted security for her board, Le Blanc found herself in a manner totally neglected. I shall leave the reader to imagine the melancholy reflections of this unhappy girl, on being, by the death of her noble patron, left weak and languishing, without either relation or friend to take care of her among these religious, who, by that event, saw all their expectations blasted; at the same time, in case of her recovering, she foresaw what neglect, and how many