to experience it) as a dangerous and porithable thing, and to turn their thoughts to eternity, as the only folid and durable glory. I requeft my fifter to continue her tenderness for my children, and to fupply the place of a mother, if they have the misfortune to lofe their's..

I befcech my wife to forgive all the evils the fuffers for me, and all the unafinefs I may have given her during the term of our union; as the may be fure that fhould the think he has any thing to reproach herself with, I can never think so.

"I warmly recommend to my children, after their duty to God, which must take the lead of all things elfe, to be united among themfelves; to be fubmillive and obedant to their mother, and grateful for all her care and folicitude for them: I defire them to look upom my fifter as a fecond mother. I recommend to my son, if ever be bas the misfortune to become King, to devote himself to the good of his fellow-citizens; to forget all hatred and refentment, and particularly every thing relative to my misfortunes and griefs; to recollect that he can only further the welfare of the people by reigning according to the laws, but at the fame time to remember that a King cannot cause the laws to be refpected, or do the good he may have in his heart, unless he poffefes the neceffary authority; otherwife he is cramped in his operations, and, infpiring no respect, he is more hurtful than ufeful.

"I recommend to my fon to take care of all those who were attached to me, as far as the circumftances he may be in may allow him; to remember that it is a facred debt which I have contracted towards the children or relations of thofe who have perifhed for me, and who have become unfortunate on my account. I know there are many who were attached to me, who have not conducted themfelves towards me as they ought, and who have even been guilty of ingratitude; but I forgive them (often in times of trouble and etfervefcence we are not mafters of ourfeives); and I requeft my fon, if occafions thould offer, only to recollect their misfortunes.

Ifhould here with to teftify my acknowledgments to thofe who have hewn me a true and difinterested at

tachment; if, on the one hand, I have been fenfibly affected by the ingratitude and difloyalty of perfons to whom, or to their friends and relatives, I did all the good I could, I have, on the other hand, had the confolation to fee the gratuitous attachment and interest of many, all of whom I request in the prefent fituation of things to accept my fincere thanks.

"I fear to compromise them, were I to fpeak explicitly; but I specially recommend it to my fon to feek opportunities to acknowledge their fer

vices.

"I fhould, however, think I fhould calumniate the fentiments of the nation, were I not openly to recommend to my fon Meffieurs de Chamilly and Hue, whofe true attachment to me engaged them to fhut themselves up with me in this place of confinement, and who thought they might become victims for fo doing. I alfo recommend Clery to him, whofe care and attention I have every reafon to be fatisfied with ever fince he has been with me.

"I freely pardon those who guarded me in fight for the ill-treatment and reftraints they imagined they ought to fhew me. I have found fome fenfible and compaffionate minds: May they have the heartfelt fatisfaction of enjoying that tranquillity to which their way of thinking justly entitles them.

"I request Meffrs. Malefherbes, Tronchet, and de Seze to accept my fincere thanks, and warmest expreffions of fenfibility, for all the care and trouble they have had on my account.

"(Signed) Louis."

The Commiffaries of the Temple found in the King's defk fome gold coin, to the amount of about three thoufand livres. It was done up in rouleaus, and on them was written, "To Ma lefherbes." This grateful bequest of the deceased Monarch was not immediately complied with: the money was depofited in the Secretaries office.

After the execution, the King's body was carried to the burying-ground of La Magdelaine. To accelerate the diffolution of it, lime was thrown into the grave. Guards were placed to prevent its being taken away in the night.

The grave in which the body was depofited was fourteen feet deep, and feven in width. TABLE

GEORGE THE SECOND.

THIS Monarch, though he had courage, integrity, and many other good qualities to recommend him, was but little converfant in literature or the fine Arts, as appears by the character given of him by Lady Bolingbroke(the niece of Madam Maintenon), and his refentment to Hogarth about the print of the March to Finchley. He had no manner of relish for English Poetry; and whenever Pope ufed to be praised in his prefence for his great tafte in this art, he used pettishly to exclaim, "Why does that man fool away his time in verze for? why does not he write profs, which every-body understands ?”

The King, when he was young, was prefent at the battle of Oudenarde, and expofed his perfon with fuch fingular bravery upon that occafion, that the Duke of Marlborough, confidering him fo nearly related to the Crown, thought it neceffary to put him under an arreft. This battle dwelt fo much upon his mind, that he retained the fuit of regimentals he wore upon that occafion, with the fword, to the laft hour of his life, and frequently upon review-days, during the war, would call for his Oudenarde fword.

In his perfonal economy he was very exact about trifles. He had all his thirts, cravats, handkerchiefs, &c. regularly numbered, and it was fuffi cient to put him into a very great paffion to give him any of thofe articles that did not exactly correfpond in number with the other. The fame exactness went to other circumstances. One day, as the Page was carrying a bag of money after him to be depofited in a fmall iron cheft, which he conftantly kept in a clofet near his bedchamber, the bag burft, and one guinea in the fall rolled under the door of another closet, where fome piles of wood lay." Have you picked up all the money (fays the King)?" "All but one guinea, Sire, which has rolled in amongst the wood, and which I fhall VOL. XXIII.

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look for prefently." "No, no-we fhall look for that guinea now; fet down that bag there, and affift me in removing this wood.' The Page obeyed, and to work they both went; when, after toiling for about a quarterof-an-hour, the guinea was found. "Well (fays the King, pleafed with his difcovery), I think we have worked hard for this guinca, but as you feem to have laboured the moft, here take it for your pains; I would have nothing loft.'

When he first went to Drury Lane, after Garrick had got the management of that Theatre, the order was Richard III. During the courfe of the performance, Garrick, as it may be firppofed, ftrained every nerve to catch the attention of the King, but in vain : when Tafwell, however, came forward as Lord Mayor of London, the King, who had been talking to Lord Delaware, inftantly turned round and exclaimed, "Oh, here comes my Lord Mayor of London! I always pays refpect to my Lord Mayor of London." Garrick, who eyed him from the fide of the fcene, could not endure this preference, and every now and then used to exclaim, "What a pity it is he does not understand the language.'

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The King's favourite play was, "The Bold Stroke for a Wife."

When the King went to Kensington, Richmond, or Hampton Court, he had his jefts almoft for every part of the road. Amongst others, a Ladies Boarding-school at the entrance of Kenfington, whose name (by changing the initial letter) produced a word fit only for the loweft of the vulgar, was a favourite one, and which his courtiers almost daily laughed at for several years,

From not being well acquainted with the politer terins of refentment in our language, his phrafes, when he fpoke difrefpectfully of anybody, were fometimes very grofs. In particular he

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ufed conftantly to call the late Duke of Newcale, whenever he thwarted his measures, "One d-d fon of a b-."

The King had good private intelligence from the Continent, and fome times ufed to furprife his Minifters with information which they had not, He one day afked Lord Holderneffe, who was then Secretary of State, where the Pretender was "Upon my word, Sire, I don't exactly know, I fhould fuppofe fomewhere in Italy; but I'll confult my laft difpatches."" Poh, poh ! man, don't trouble your head about your last dispatches, I'll tell you where he is-He is now at No.-in the Strand, and was last night at Lady- 's rout; what fhall we do with him " -Lord Hderneffe, furprifed at this account, propofed calling a Council. Here the King again interrupted him by faying. No, no, we hall manage this bufinefs without a Council: let him ftay where he is at prefent, and when the poor man has amufed himself with looking about London, he will go home again.' The fact turned out exactly as the King faid.

The King had great perfonal bravery, and was prompt upon every occafion to thew it. During the late Lord Chatham's adminiftration, his Lordship had advices of fome French troops landing in the Weft, and the Minifter, being confined with the gout, fent his Secretary, Mr. Wood, to Kenfington, at twelve o'clock at night, with the news. The King was in bed, but rofe to give him audience. Mr. Wood then delivered his difpatches, which he read with great compofure, and after meafuring the room with large ftrides for fome time, haftily called cut, "Pray, Mr. Wood, what horfe fhall I ride to-morrow?" Wood, ftartled at the queftion, replied, "Upon my word, Sire, I don't know; perhaps the people about the Mews can inform your Majesty."—"Aye, aye—you fay right, you don't know to be fure, how should you know? But I will ride my rean German horfe, and put myself at the head of my Guards directly."-Wood begged Majefty would go to bed, and wait for a further account-which he reluctantly complied with; when in a day or two afterwards the intelligence turned out to be nothing more than a French privateer, which had landed a few failors, who had made depredations

on the country people, and failed off again.

After the very great fuccefs of The Beggar's Opera, Gay, as it is well known, followed it up by writing an Opera called "Polly," which, however, was not permitted to be brought on the Stage. The late Duchefs of Queensbury made fuch intereft to have it performed, that the afked permiffion of the King to read it to him in the clofe; which his Majefty evaded by faying, " That nothing could give him greater pleasure than fecing her Grace in his clofet, where he flattered himself he could amufe her better than in reading a play."

During fome alterations making in Kenfington Gardens, the King ufcd fometimes to fuperintend them.Amongst the workmen there was a man who, being efteemed a kind of Wit amongst his brethren, longed for an opportunity to fpeak to the King. His Majefty coming near the spot one day where this man was at work, he feized the opportunity, and looking directly in his face, "hoped his Majefty would give them fomething to drink."Difpleafed at this intrufion, and yet afhamed to deny it, the King felt his pockets for fome coin; but finding none, he replied in his German accent, "I have got no money in my pockets.""Nor I neither, by G (fays the workman); and as you have none, I wonder where the D-1 it all goes to." The Sovereign frowned and walked off, and next day the man was removed from about the palace.

The King played in public every Twelfth-night, but never loft above two hundred pounds at a fitting; and this rule he rigidly practifed through life. His private party confifted of the Duke of Grafton (grandfather to the prefent Duke), and Lords Ligonier and Dela

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himself, he found he was fitting on the floor of a fmall room, moft kindly and fedulously attended by a neat little old gentleman, who was carefully wathing his head with a towel, and fitting, with infinite exactnefs, pieces of fickingplifter to the variegated cuts which the accident had created.

For fome time his furprize kept him filent, but finding that his kind phyfician had completed his task, and had even picked up his wig, and replaced it on his bruifed head, he rofe from the floor, and, limping towards his benefactor, was beginning to exprefs his thanks, as well as to enquire into the manner of the accident. These were, however, inftantly checked by an intelligent frown, and a fignificant wave of his hand towards the clofet door. The patient understood the hint, and retired, wondering how fo much humanity and unfociablenefs could dwell together; but how much was he furprised, upon further inquiry into this circumftance, to find that his kind phyfician was no lefs a man than George the Second.

The late Duchefs of Kingston (when Mifs Chudleigh) having obtained for her mother a fuite of chambers at Hampton Court, the King fome time after, meeting her at the Levee, asked her how her mother liked her apartments"Oh! perfectly well, Sire," fays the other, "in point of room and fituation, if the poor woman had but a bed and a few chairs to put in them." "Oh, that must be done by all means," fays the King, and immediately gave orders for furnishing her bed-chamber. In a few months after this order the bill was brought from the Upholsterer, which run thus:

"To a bed and furniture of a room for the Hon. Mrs. Chudleigh, 4,000l." The fum was fo unexpectedly great, that the Comptroller of the Houfhold would not pafs the account till he fhewed it to the King. His Majefty immediately faw how he was taken in, but it was too late to retract. He accordingly give orders for the payment, but obferved at the fame time," that if Mrs. Chudleigh found the bed as hard as be tid, he would never lie down in it as long as the lived."

Lord Albemarle being spoke to by Lord P to folicit the King for the Green Ribband, his Lordship took the Art opportunity to prefent Lord P's

humble duty to the King, and afk the fayour." What, give him a Ribband?" fays his Majefty; "a fellow that has always been voting against the Court? How could you alk it, Albemarle "--"Sire," fays my Lord, "he means to be more grateful for your Majefty's favours in future."-" Well, well, I don't care for that, he's a puppy, a mere puppy, and fhall not have it." The king having faid this, was turning on his heel, when Albemarle afked him what

anfwer he fhould return Lord P—— "Tell him he's a puppy !" "Well but, Sire, admitting this, 'tis a puppy fincerely inclined to follow bis Mafier. "Aye,

fays the King, "are you fure of that "--"Perfectly fo, Sire." "Why then," fays his Majefty, "let the puppy bave bis collar."

The King was likewife much folicited to make the Earl of B (who had been celebrated for his effeminacy) a Duke, which he conftantly refused. Being one day much preffed on this fubject by two Court Ladies, he turned round to them with great goodhumour, and faid, As he had decided in his own mind not to create any Duke, he would fo far oblige them as to make his Lordship a Duchefs.

As the King was returning from one of his excurfions to Hanover, his carriage happened to break down between the Brill and Helvoctfluys, on a part of the road where he and his attendants were obliged to take up with what accommodations they could get at a hedge gin-houfe until another carriage could be got ready. The article of refreshment they had were coffee for his Majefty and two Noblemen who were in the coach with him, and four bottles of gin and bifcuits for the domestics 1 yet the honeft landlord, knowing what guests he had in his house, made his account for this poor fare amount to the enormous fum of ninety pounds. The bill being brought to the late Lord Ligonier, who was with the King, he railed at the fellow's extravagant -demand fo loud that his Majefty over. heard him, and infifted upon knowing what was the matter. Being told, he' fhook his head and faid, "It is an extravagant charge, to be fure; but come, my good Lord Ligonier, pay the money confider Kings feldom pafs this way.'

It is a well known privilege which Ca balong

belongs to the Barons of Kinfale, that they are entitled to wear their hat in the King's prefence; and perhaps all the fucceffors of the firft De Courcy, Baron of Kinfale, have fome time or other exercised this privilege. Soon

after the late King came to the Throne, the then Lord Kinfale had juft come to his title, and was introduced at Court with the ufual ceremonies :-but whether from a miftake in etiquette or pride, instead of juft putting on his hat and immediately taking it off, he walked about the Drawing-room for a confiderable time with his hat on.The Courtiers all ftared, and the whole Circle was thrown into fome embarraffment; when the King, fecing the circumftance, very good-humouredly and politely went up to him, and told him, he believed he was under fome little mistake in the business, for though

The King was a very early rifer, being generally up at five o'clock in the fummer, and fix in winter. In the latter feafon he generally lit his own fire. At this period he read his difpatches, and prepared himself for the conferences of the day, and none of the Pages prefumed to enter till he rang his bell. In the fummer mornings he ufed to walk round Kenfington Gardens, and frequently read the Newfpapers on his returning from his walk, in the alcove facing the front of the palace.

[To be continued.]

"OUR difquifition on the idea of modern forenfic oratory muft," fays Sir GEORGE MACKENZIE, the famous Lord Advocate of Scotland, "be adorned with fome characters of the long robe, to whom Scotland is indebted for her eloquence, and whofe abilities were not exceeded in the Auguftan age; they are examples not only to that kingdom, but to the whole world." Thofe who flourished before CRAIG are scarcely otherwife difcernible than mountains, that diminish not , from their lownefs, but merely from their diftance. CRAIG was enriched with fuch folid and profound learning, that he could fcarcely hope to be eloquent. His authority was of fuch weight in Court, that he did not ftand in need of elocution. CRAIG lived to fo great an age, that Sir GEORGE Compares him to the venerable oak, whofe hade proceeds from the trunk, not the leaves.

SHARPE attained the honour of King's Advocate, not by folicitation, but folely by his cloquence, which was fo confummate, that it oftentimes furpaffed even CRAIG's learning. To thefe fücceeded HOPE, NICHOLSON, and STEWART. This triumvirate, Sir George fays, he no otherwife knew than as we view the fetting fun gilding the hemifphere with its golden rays.

HOPE was wonderful at invent on, and he displayed fuch a fund of argu

ments, that he left himself no time for amplification; he did not plead, but argued. His method was uniform, yet peculiar to himself; for whenever he advanced either an argument or an objection, he always gave his reafons; and if they were at all unfatisfactory, he added reafons to reafons. He was perfect mafter of rhetoric, though it was, in his opinion, unneceffary. HOPE and NICHOLSON might be faid to divide the palm between them; the latter polished the eloquence, the former the jurifprudence of their country.

NICHOLSON, when in oppofition to HOPE, defended a caufe carneftly and elegantly. His exordium, which was facetious, comprehended an eloquent narrative of the caufe, attended with few arguments:-he concluded with confummate judgment.

HOPE was the firft who freed Scotland from the thraldom of fyllogifms, and obliged the Court to give up Ariftotle to Demofthenes, rather than to Cicero.-HOPE was looked upon as the thunder of the bar in his time, and a pattern fit for univerfal imitation.He oftentimes amufed the Court with jokes and puns, but fometimes foaring, eagle-like, out of the fight of the byeftanders, he defcended with miraculous force upon his prey.

STEWART improved his arguments by the depth of his knowledge, and fet them off with agreeable fallies of pleasantry