Unhappily his physical infirmities made it impossible for him to reside at Whitehall.

The air of Westminster, mingled with the fog of the river which in spring tides overflowed the courts of his palace, with the smoke of seacoal from two hundred thousand chimneys, and with the fumes of all the filth which was then suffered to accumulate in the streets, was insupportable to him; for his lungs were weak, and his sense of smell exquisitely keen.

His constitutional asthma made rapid progress.

His physicians pronounced it impossible that he could live to the end of the year.

His face was so ghastly that he could hardly be recognised.