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The Prince Regent at the time of General Cartwrights arrival at Carlton House was in Bed, & then indisposed, but The General was by instant command ushered in to The Prince's Bedroom, where He deliver'd to H.R.H. the Letter with which He had been charged from Windsor Castle by The Duke of York -- Thus My Friend General Cartwright was the Bearer of that dispatch, which in the first Instance, announced to The Prince Regent that by The Demise of His Royal Father His Royal Highness had become King, of these Realms -- General Cartwright was without delay dispatched from Carlton House, back to Windsor Castle, with a Letter from the King to His Brother the Duke of York -- The Lord Mayor of London immediately on receiving the Official Account of the late King's death from Ld. Sidmouth as Secretary of State, extended the detail of the melancholy event throughout the Metropolis by the deep notes of the Great Bell of St Paul, which He ordered to be tolled --
