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the quarter of an hour, had expired, Dr. Willis put his Majesty in mind of his royal promise, but to very little purpose, till he added, as the room was rather cold, a longer continuance might injure her Majesty's health." This instantly produced the intended effect, and he took his leave in the most affectionate manner.

IN the latter end of March, 1781, Lord Bateman waited upon the King, and begged to know what time his Majesty would choose to have the stag-hounds turned out. "My Lord," replied his Majesty, with a very grave face, "I cannot exactly answer that; but I can inform you, that your Lordship was turned out about an hour ago!" Lord Bateman was succeeded by the Marquis of Carmarthen.`

AT the conclusion of a review of the 2nd regiment of Life Guards, in June, 1788, two privates went through the sword exercise before the King; after which Lord Cathcart enquired if his Majesty would be pleased to see two of the youngest officers display their science in the use of the sword. He assented, and was much gratified with their execution. His Majesty then turned to the General, and enquired who

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were the oldest officers present; and on being answered that Lord Cathcart and Major Barton were, he desired to see them perform, laughing heartily, and telling his lordship, that he had brought the exhibition on himself. They accordingly turned out, to the great amusement of those present; and though the Major's system savoured a little of the old school, they acquitted themselves very respectably.

WITH the King's attachment to agricultural pursuits, the public are well acquainted; but it is not, perhaps, so generally known, that his Majesty was the Ralph Robinson, from whose pen some very sensible and well informed letters appeared, several years ago, in Mr. Arthur Young's Annals of Agriculture. Mr. Young himself has recorded this fact in a subsequent part of his work.

In the severe winter of 1784-5, his Majesty, regardless of the weather, was taking a solitary walk on foot, when he was met by two boys, the eldest not eight years of age, who, although ignorant that it was the King, fell upon their knees before him, and wringing their little hands, prayed for relief. "The smallest

relief," they cried, "for we are hungry, very hungry, and have nothing to eat." More they would have said, but a torrent of tears, which gushed down their innocent cheeks, checked their utterance. The father of his people raised the weeping supplicants, and encouraged them to proceed with their story. They did so, and related that their mother had been dead three days, and still lay unburied; that their father, whom they were also afraid of losing, was stretched by her side upon a bed of straw, in a sick and hopeless condition; and that they had neither money, food, nor firing, at home. This artless tale was more than sufficient to excite

sympathy in the royal bosom. His Majesty, therefore, ordered the boys to proceed homeward, and followed them until they reached a wretched hovel. There he found the mother dead, apparently through the want of common necessaries, the father ready to perish also, but still encircling with his feeble arms the deceased partner of his woes, as if unwilling to survive her. The sensibility of the Monarch betrayed itself in the tears which started from his eyes; and leaving all the cash he had with him, he hastened back to Windsor, related to the Queen what he had witnessed; sent an immediate supply of provisions, clothes, coals, and every thing necessary for the comfort of

the helpless family. Revived by the bounty of his Sovereign, the old man recovered, and the King, to finish the good work he had so gloriously begun, educated and provided for the children.-Percy Anecdotes.

AT a levee, soon after the experiments on gunpowder had been made, I happened to be standing next to the Duke of Richmond, then Master-General of the Ordnance, and the Duke informed his Majesty, that they were indebted to me for a great improvement in its fabrication. On my saying that I ought to be ashamed of myself, inasmuch as it was a scandal on a Christian bishop to instruct men in the mode of destroying mankind, the King answered, "Let not that afflict your conscience, for the quicker the conflict, the less the slaughter," or in words to that effect. I mention this to do justice to the King, whose understanding it was the fashion to decry. In all conversations I had with him, he appeared to me not to be at all deficient in quickness or intelligence.Bishop Watson's Life.

AT one of the field days, in the vicinity of Winchester, in the year 1778, Garrick found it

necessary to dismount, when his horse escaped from his hold and ran off; throwing himself immediately into his professional attitude, he cried out, as if on Bosworth-field, “A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!" This exclamation, and the accompanying attitude, excited great amazement amongst the surrounding spectators, who knew him not; but it did not escape his Majesty's quick apprehension; for, it being within his hearing, he immediately said, "Those must be the tones of Garrick; see if he is not on the ground." The theatrical and dismounted monarch was immediately brought to his Majesty, who not only condoled with him most good-humouredly on his misfortune, but flatteringly added, "that his delivery of Shakspeare could never pass undiscovered."-Northcote's Life of Sir J. Reynolds.

THE following Windsor anecdote was told me by the late Dr. Heberden:-The clergyman there, on a day when the Athanasian creed was to be read, began with "Whosoever will be saved," &c.; the King, who usually responded with a loud voice, 'was silent; the minister repeated, in a higher tone, his "Whosoever;" the King continued silent; at length the Apostles' creed was repeated by the minister, and