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 21 Queen Elizabeth thought the highest praise-- namely, placing about him able and intelligent counsellors. His Royal Highness had laboured under a dropsy since the month of July last, for the relief of which His Royal Highness underwent an ope- ration on the 3d of September. The same unelouded state of his intellects ad- knitted of his reading the newspapers constantly, and of feeling interested in what was going on, had the opinions of his medical attendants been expressed in daily bulletins of his health, this intelligence would have recoiled upon im with a fatal force, by destroying those son- uine hopes of recovery which contributed so es- entially to the efforts of art to do him good; and would have precipitated the sad event which we all how deplore. It is this consideration alone that explains and justifies the silence of the Physi- anteians on the subject of the Royal Duke's health ; -a regular statement of which would have been mhairly demanded, under other circumstances, by he zealous and affectionate attachment of a loyal people to the Presumptive Heir of the Throne. His Royal Highness expired on Friday 5th January 1827, at twenty minutes past nine in the evening. He was in his sixty-fourth year, being born on the 16th of August, 1763. His style and litles were as follows:- Prince Frederiek, Duke f York and Albany, Earl of Ulster in Ireland, Bishop of Osnaburgh, a Field Marshall, Com- Hoander-in-Chief of all the Land Forces, Colonel of the First Regiment of Guards, Colonel-in-Chief of the 60th Regiment of Infantry, Officiating Grand Vaster of the Order of the Bath, High Steward of