project to any one, for
if it were known in Saxony, _my whole enterprise would be ruined.
Adieu, most tenderly loved sister_. Do not forget me. Farewell, the
multiplicity of my occupations will not permit me to write at
greater length. _Apropos, I beg you_ to go now and see the princess
palatiness; you will find her with the Bishop of Kamieniec, and
Kulagowski; _she will be very grateful for this attention from you;
it must be agreeable to her_; you will brighten a little the
gravity of this trio. _Adieu, I embrace you with all my heart, and
am, as ever, your most affectionate and attached sister,_
FRANCES.

_A thousand tender and friendly messages to your husband; I conjure
him always to retain a place for me in his memory._

In 1776 the Polish diet assigned large pensions to all the heirs of
Augustus III.; the half of that bestowed upon Prince Charles was
revertible during her lifetime to his wife, the princess royal, Frances
Krasinska.

During her sojourn in Dresden, she gave birth to a daughter, the
Princess Mary; she educated her with the greatest care, but was soon
forced to leave her; her many sorrows developed an insidious malady,
which finally proved fatal. She died on the 30th of April, 1796, aged
fifty-three.

Madame Moszynska, who had shown herself a friend to Frances in her
prosperity, and, what is still more rare, also in adversity, was
grievously afflicted by her death. It was she who announced it to
Madame Angelica Szymanowska, born Swidzinska, whom Frances had held at
the baptismal font with the prince royal in the cathedral church at
Warsaw, in 1760.

DRESDEN, _June 8th, 1796._

I comply with your request, madame, but with extreme grief; the loss you
have sustained is a most cruel one to me; indeed it is the deepest
affliction I have ever known. The princess royal's malady began about
two years ago. She then felt pains in her breast; some physicians said
her disease was cancer, while others assured her it was tumor.

An incision was then made, and she was better during some time. But the
disease soon made the most fearful progress. The inflammation appeared
upon the outside, and she felt the most acute pains in her breast and
throughout the whole length of her arm. She patiently endured the most
excruciating torments. Having tried various modes of treatment without
experiencing a