THE SERVANT OF GOD. duction of balls and routs at Lambeth Palace. The Countess, resolved if possible to put a termination to such indecorous proceedings, solicited a personal interview with the Archbishop, and in the most delicate terms, remonstrated ; but her remarks having no effect upon his Grace, she applied for a private audience of the King. George the Third immediately granted her request ; and accompanied by the Duchess of Ancaster and Lord Dartmouth, -the nobleman mentioned by Cowper as " one who wears a coronet and prays,"-she repaired to Kew Palace. The King and Queen Charlotte received her with the utmost condescension and friendliness; and having conversed with their Majesties for up- wards of an hour, she had the satisfaction of learning that they fully participated in her sentiments on the subject. A peremptory admonition was addressed to the Primate by the King, who afterwards spoke of Lady Huntingdon as " an honour to her sex and nation." To the age of fourscore and upwards, Lady Huntingdon retained all the vigour of youth. At that advanced period of life, she was in the habit of sitting for six or seven hours a day, writing letters; while her heart and mind were still occupied with planning still greater and more extensive schemes for the universal spread of the Gospel. As, however, she began to feel some premonitory symptoms of weakness-such as the contraction of her throat, which limited her to a milk diet-she 29
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=