Not receiving any call or direction
from his mistress, as was usual, he stopped the carriage and
discovered her, as he thought, in a fit, or ill, and drove to
St. George's Hospital, which was near at hand. When there it was
discovered that she must have been dead some little time. Mrs.
Carlyle's health had been for several months feeble, but not in a
state to excite anxiety or alarm.
On the following Wednesday her remains were conveyed from London to
Haddington for interment there, and the funeral took place on Thursday
afternoon. Mr. Carlyle was accompanied from London (whither he had
returned immediately on the receipt of that solemn message) by his
brother, Dr. Carlyle, Mr. John Forster, and the Hon. Mr. Twistleton.
The funeral cortege was followed on foot by a large number of
gentlemen who had known Mrs. Carlyle and her father, Dr. Welsh,
who was held in high estimation in the town, where he had practised
medicine till his death, in 1819. The grave, which is the same as
that occupied by Dr. Welsh's remains, lies in the centre of the ruined
choir of the old cathedral at Haddington.
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