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ANECDOTE

OF LADY RACHEL RUSSEL.

O woman ever united more real fortitude with fo much tenderness and feeling as this illuftrious character.

She was the most affectionate of wives; and yet bad fufficient ftrength of mind to take off the proceedings at the trial of her illuftrious husband, Lord Ruffel, no other perfon being permitted, by an inhuman Judge, to use a pen or pencil on the occafion. And many years after, when she was in a very advanced age, her two daughters, the Ducheffes of Bedford and Devonshire, happening to lie-in juft at the fame time, one of them

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died