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pricei allowed for them as charged in the
audited account, of which the King himself had
aPP1'0ved.
Independent of the relation which this paper
bears to the subject of these memoirs, it is a
curious document, and will be interesting as
such, as long as the history of the progress of
the arts in this country excites the attention of
posterity.
I have now but little to add to these memoirs.
But they would be deficient in an important
event, were I to omit noticing the death of
Mrs. West, which took place on the 6th of
December, 1817. The malady with which she
had been afflicted for several years smoothed
the way for her relief from suffering, and
softened the pang of sorrow for her loss. She
was in many respects a woman of an elevated
character; and her death, after a union of more
than half a century, was to her husband one of
those irreparable changes in life, for virhich no
equivalent can ever be obtained.