r. ELIZABETH FRY, with great cordiality in his own capital. On the 30th of January, 1842, he met her by appointment at the Mansion House, where they had luncheon. " I have seldom seen," she says, " any person more faithfully kind and friendly than he is. The Duke of Cambridge was also there, and many others who accompanied the King." At the Mansion House the King arranged to meet Mrs. Fry the following morning at Newgate, and afterwards to take luncheon at Upton Lane. In the summer of 1843, Mrs. Fry visited Paris for the last time. During that year the rapid and visible decline of her health awakened the solicitude of those around her. The following year she had re- covered sufficiently to repair to Bath, in the hope of deriving some benefit from the hot springs. But daily her health became worse, though she still con- tinued true to her own guiding principle -"We must ,work while it is called day." In 1845, the state of her health caused many anxious inquiries to be made respecting her by high and low; and public prayers were offered up for her recovery in many Continental Protestant churches. The Duchess of Sutherland and her daughters, the Chevalier Bunsen and his family, with many others, besides her own family and connexions, would drive down to Upton Lane, to offer their sympathy. As the summer advanced, her family, in 1845, hoping she would benefit by the sea air, engaged a house for her at Ramsgate. But her physical powers 42
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