In the city of London the traders who frequented Blackwell Hall, then the great emporium for woollen goods, canvassed actively on the Whig side.
[Here the revised part ends .-- EDITOR.] Meanwhile reports about the state of the King's health were constantly becoming more and more alarming.

His medical advisers, both English and Dutch, were at the end of their resources.

He had consulted by letter all the most eminent physicians of Europe; and, as he was apprehensive that they might return flattering answers if they knew who he was, he had written under feigned names.

To Fagon he had described himself as a parish priest.

Fagon replied, somewhat bluntly, that such symptoms could have only one meaning, and that the only advice which he had to give to the sick man was to prepare himself for death.