g, to be conveyed, by steamboat, to Scotland. Even as early as
two o'clock, a considerable number of spectators were assembled, which
increased in every street through which the procession passed. Four
Royal carriages, including those of the Queen and the Queen Dowager, and
many belonging to the nobility, accompanied the hearse. Lady Flora's
body was interred, on the 15th of July, in the family vault at Loudon,
Ayrshire.

There were many books and pamphlets published with regard to this affair,
among which were her mother's letters to the Queen: "The Lady Flora
Hastings, a Brief Sketch"--"A Warning to the Baroness Lehzen, {84}
etc."--"The Palace Martyr, a Satire"--"The Dangers of Evil Council,
etc."--"A Dirge on the Death of Lady Flora Hastings"--"The late Lady
Flora Hastings: Statements of the Marquis of Hastings, etc."--"The Victim
of Scandal."

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At the time of which I write, climbing boys were still employed to sweep
chimneys, and as a sample of the manner in which they were treated by
their masters, I give the following police case. 25 Jan.:

MARLBOROUGH STREET.--Henry Riddle, foreman to Robert Towser, a
chimney sweep, appeared before the magistrates on a summons charging
him under the 4 & 5 Wil. IV., c. 35, with the following act of
cruelty towards James Arnold, a boy about 12 years of age, and who,
for some time past, had been in Towser's employ.

Mr. Rice, a baker, of 31, Up. Seymour St., Portman Sq., deposed that,
on the afternoon of the 18th instant, his kitchen chimney, by some
accident, caught fire; and, in consequence of information thereof
being communicated to the defendant Riddle, he, soon afterwards, came
to the house, bringing with him the boy Arnold, whom he, at once,
desired to ascend, notwithstanding that the lighted soot was, at the
time, coming down into the grate in large flakes.

Mr. Rawlinson: Did you remonstrate with Riddle upon the inhumanity of
his conduct?

Complainant: I did, and begged of him not to send the boy up, as he
would, inevitably, be suffocated; to which he replied, "Oh, d---n it,
I've many a time been up a chimney ten times worse than that, myself,
and why can't he do it?" At this period, I had occasion to go
upstairs, and made my way on to the roof, just as a friend of mine
was about to pour down a quantity of water, when I begged of him not