removal of the regalia.-Want of precedents to

guide the preparations.-Exertions of Sir Walter

Scott.-Embarkation and rapid approach of the

King.-Resort of eager multitudes to Edinburgh.

-First appearance of the squadron.—Arrival.—

Landing;-deep feeling of the people.-Advance

of the royal procession.-Summons at the barrier

of the City.-Entrance of the King.-Beauty of

the vistas.—Sublimity of the crowded Calton

Hill.-Spontaneous burst of loyalty from a crowd

of mechanics.-Silent and solemn entry into Holy-

rood;-associations of the moment.-Final ac-

claim.-George the Fourth seated on the Scottish

throne.
Page 31.

LETTER III.

No details given but such as lead to important moral
or political conclusions.-Levee and drawing-
room;-reflections, from association of contrast, in
Holyrood. Local coincidencies;-the chiefs and
clans in Holyrood in 1745 and 1822.-The King's
attention to the Highlanders.-The royal progress
to the Castle;-objections to it considered;—its
pomp Scottish exclusively.-The King on the
halfmoon battery of the Castle.-Politic review of
the yeomanry.-Peerage of Scotland did ho-
nour to their country-their ball to the King-
The banquet-effect on the guests of the King's
presence; his health drunk, and reply made
amidst the report of cannon;-graceful manner of
announcing the new dignity of the chief magistrate
of Edinburgh;-fervent blessing invoked by the

King, on the Land.-The King attends divine ser-
vice in St Giles's Church ;-becoming behaviour of
the crowd in the street ;-judicious discourse of the
officiating clergyman.-National monument found-
ed.-Visit of the King to the theatre.--Public feel-
ing towards the King becomes more kindly.-The
King's improved health, and ease of mind-His visit
to Earl Hopetoun, and re-embarkation - Page 68.

LETTER IV.

More didactic views No exaggeration of public feel-
ing-Foundation of homage to royalty in natural
impulse-Nations of antiquity, Jews, Persians,
Macedonians, Assyrians, Greeks, and Romans-
Grand Monarque of the French-Effect of royalty
on men of the strongest minds and greatest accom-
plishments, Samuel Johnson, Goldsmith ;-no sla-
vish feeling in this homage-Theory of Adam
Smith-Sympathy with the joys and misfortunes
of kings; death of Charles I. and Louis XVI.
This feeling disinterested.-Hesitation of the people
in opposing even a bad king;-Cæsar's wounds,
Cæsar's will.-The dominion of the great easy;
King of Macedon led in triumph by Paulus Emi-
lius.-Man a king-making animal;-the Jews de-
manded a king of their prophet Samuel.-Distinct-
tion the object of revolutionists;-apt to be-
come courtiers. Illustration by the court paid
by the lower orders to the late Queen.--Level-
lers hate all power but their own; are proud,
haughty, and tyrannical; have a slight hold of the
people.-Illustration by the feeling shewn by the
whole kingdom on the death of the Princess

Charlotte and her infant.-Opinion of Edmund
Burke.

LETTER V.

Page 102

A more interesting inquiry how the natural impulse
to pay homage to kings is exalted and purified in a
free people;-absence of fear.-Affection for a be-
neficent despot;-instance of Henry Fourth of
France.-Veneration for British king is a lofty
sentiment of patriotism;-the concentration of a
nation's glory in a chief unknown to a republic;-
no slavery in this feeling, it is manly loyalty.—
Summary and application of facts and statements
in the Letters.-The demagogue contends against
nature. The sincerity of the popular feelings has
been tried for two months;-reasons of their ex-
pected permanence.-Political animosity disap-
peared, and will not be revived.-Good-will among
all ranks, and evident tendency to reconciliation be-
tween lower and higher.-Continuance and expect-
ed permanence of good disposition towards the
king;-demagogue defeated through the better
feelings of the people;-the Monarch's presence
destroys their work of years.-Conclusion.-Power
of Sovereign's presence not overrated—The effects
as well as the feelings NEW.-Difference of feelings
of inhabitants of London, with whom the King
abides-anticipated effects of the same sort of visit
to other parts of England, as that paid to Scotland.
-Impartiality of the Sovereign's regard for his
three kingdoms. Such intercourse with his people
beneficial to the character of the Sovereign;-af-
fords the choicest luxury a king can enjoy.

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ALTHOUGH nearly two months have elapsed, Sir, since the visit of our gracious Sovereign to his Scottish dominions, the writer, who now uses the freedom to address you, is unwilling to abandon the hope that the task of telling the tale and pointing the moral of that auspicious event, with all the poetry, the painting, the high excitement of which it is susceptible,—will yet be performed by

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you. The page of chivalry is your own; and when you hold high discourse of kings and heroes, who, besides, shall hope to be listened to? Assured, nevertheless, that no one that ventures into this field can anticipate, although he may have the good fortune to incite you, he begs to be allowed, while you yourself are yet silent, to submit to you some views of this inspiring subject which have occurred to him; for if it have been his good fortune, to catch even a breathing of that lofty sentiment, which glows with so much fervour and purity in your bosom, to whom else can he impart his feelings, if permitted to commune with you?

Although much has been said on the subject of the late Royal visit, some of its nobler features have not yet been steadily looked upon. The lessons of deep moral import which it inculcates, are more likely to stand revealed, now that the glare of its externals has vanished, and its political bearings more likely to be observed,