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INSTITUTION, 32, lIACITILLWITREIT, I'IOIIADILLT
The Ant of a *erne of load public medley we beat
of this hutitation took plaos on Friar elambs,
the Bebool-rot. Albany-street, Beffeeffelefh i the
Bev. W. H. Burrows, 8.D.. I. the sum The
Chairman oddment the semis( In • imp effective
and at ha conclusion the teeter!, l 4
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t ry sad present c Adidas of the darlty, la the course of
which he stated the intitution bed beet miablihed Is 1246;
that In the fire year of Its futrastarm the mem at 1,2171 7a.
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lied kept moving is in • highly escommthl eassaer, teeeh-
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tb. patronage of the Closes aad the Priem Comore, sad
a large aumber of nobility sad gushy ; Mese It. Let
establartment upwards of 140121. bad boa ma* et
which upwards of 12,0001 bed beta ashmalood by demi&
somata ; they bad elected 42 mimes, 112 et whom
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mother to vsus stfficted aid distreaed membies, toilet
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a lewsted r spite.) of more than 11,0001., Om gertiemeathe
beyond a d .übt due payment of the pmelems sad boom
madly of the iastitatioa. Venous members of the eaten
minas 'peke in favour of the institution, sad readdiems
were shpt. d arkamethiging Its great impothemee In deems-
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the had aulbsellito sad the rermers la the poodasiba
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the haommess• of hoorag a verdant Ise epos the move-
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the latedkm of membee poristers end mirth a sherthrly tn.
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lead•; sad, be would he for o meeenre for the se-
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the sypdanaset of a ammeittoe to wadi the=j
takes be 'ore the earasskrioa, sad radar* e
dew • uvabt be deemed swereary. Yr. Corr mcamad the
melon. Mr. Bridgman qa .'toned whether theyleteme wee
litterterd et all in the matter, seeing dist them memo*
turnpikes in the pariah. Mr. Hodges replied the 4 Haft
roe elsoliebed the tires, ot roaßtbising pore wok
a pad= of the Mgrrarreesi would la doom ea
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mem lidememe, M.P., sad others, the modem we Moped
sal a eammistoe agyobaid.
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James Swami ; Afraraist
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Willelw Themes Bekaa.
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ifessars of the Court of George IV. By the Duke
of BUCKINGHAM. Hurst and Bleckett.
These volumes are a continuation of the under-
taking which the present head of the house of
Buckingham commenced by the publication of his
" Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George IV."
Their title does not exactly describe them. They
are not exactly memoirs. They are rather collie-
dons of family papers and letters, written by pub-
lic men of more or less eminence, with just sufficient
added narrative drawn from common sources—such es
Alison's History, Penew's "Life of Sidmouth," and
Knighton's Memoirs—to serve for connexion and
elucidation. The letters were addressed to the
father of the noble author, the Marquis, subse-
quently the Duke, of Buckingham, by persons
moving in or about the Court and Houses of Parlia-
ment, by Lord Grenville, Mr. T. Grenville, Mr. Free-
mantle, and Mr. C. W. Wynn, to gratify the natural
desire of so great a lord to know what was doing in
the highest regions of the state.
The opening of the book finds every one about
the smut, together with its illustrious head, is deep
psrplexiiy and alarm at the expected, visit
of Queen Caroline, who had already got as far
as St. OMAIM on her journey to England. The King
was in adieu rage, the Misaities in • complete
pooh, the people in incipient rebellion. We see it
all in them letters, se if the scene were passing before
us, and we also see, which is some consolation, that
the great folk, whoa relentlessly perneouted the
poor Queen at the bidding of theirimperious mas-
ter, did so in the conscientious belief that she was
guilty of the offences which had been laid to her
charge. Even some of the great whigs of the day
we find reluctantly admitting that all had not been
right on the shores of the Italian Lake, and that it
was a crowning mercy that the Queen should die so
immediately after she bad served a great political
purees. The whigs at that time led the people in
their resistance to the wishes of the crown, and it
was mainly through their parliamentary exertions
that the ministers of the day were obliged to burn
the green bag, and withdraw the bill of pains and
te:re, after a narrow majority in the House of
Our author, with better taste than some of
hie correspondents, touches only in the lightest possi-
ble manner on the vexed question of the unhappy
guru's guilt or innocence, and although his own
i opinion s obviously unfavourable, he never forgets
the good old rule which teaches us to speak only
good of the dead. He cannot conscientiously say
much good, but he treats the matter with delicacy
and reserve' and leaves the documentary evidence
pretty much to the unbiassed judgment of the reader.
We can easily see, however, that the poor lady
nearly outlived her popularity, and that it was the
repulse from Westminster Abbey on coronation day,
that, by breaking her heart, revived in all its original
intensity the waning affections of the people. The
Wynea were busy-letter writers all through this
anxious period. Mr. Charles Wynn in particular seems
to have been Suite a leader in the proceedings against
the Queen. Some very few years since it was a
frequent episode in the proceedings of the House of
Commons to see a pale, haggard gentleman, in the
kat stage of decrepitude, carried to his seat by two
messengers, and then held up in a standing posture
by two members while he made his speech, nearly
always on some question of privilege, and delivered
is a voice of such unearthly heartsease as to cause
the greatest difficulty in catching the purport of his
opposition. His brother, Sir Watkya, was called
"Bubble,"" and himself "Squeak," in those later in.-
'meet days, but in the Backinghambotters Mr. Charles
Wynn figures young and active, a very busy man
indeed, and evidently acting end writing In the ap-
prehension that the ancient glories of England were
fast approaching their final collapse.
The death of the Queen and the sullen mood into
which the people of England fell, as the result of
that catastrophe, drove the King to Ireland, to de-
rive from the wild, frantic hurrahs of Paddy some
consolation for the ill-suppressed and dangerous
mutterings of John Bel It was a famous stroke
of policy that Irish visit, and proved very
advantsgeons for all parties concerned. A real live
King, one who looked like a King, who was ready
to shake hands with anybody, who took kindly to
whisky, and who constantly wore an immense
shamrock in his button-hole, soon became
almost an object of worship with the sus-
ceptible West Britons. It was the little fishing vil-
lage of Howth which had the honour of welcoming
the first English King who bad visited Ireland
sines the days of the Plantagenets. The gigantic
fishermen, punt and ragged, crowded round the
royal visitor as he stepped on shore, and one tre-
mendous fellow was successful in seising the deli-
cate jewelled hand of his astonished sovereign.
The latter stared, shrunk back, and winced, but
soon recollecting himself, smiled graciously,
and, as the French say, "accepted the situa-
tion." The fisherman having given the royal
bead a tremendous shake, held up his own
intmeime grimy paw in the air, and swore with tre-
mendous energy that " the hand which had been
' shaken by the King should never be touched by
map or water to his dying day." The King was
delighted, and seemed highly to appreciate the ex-
lent of sacrifice which his Irish subject was willing
be make to the sentiment of loyalty. Then the
'people shouted " Hurrah for Howth end yet Ma-
Rjetty !" The King laughed heartily at this new
eeder of precedency ; and just as the carriage wee
driving off, one sharp fellow, more collected than
the rest, bawled out " And sure your Majesty won't
forget the window tax." We have in the first
Tame as amusing desoription of the way in whisk
the royal time was spent during the peerage same
the Channel :
The page to Dublin wee tweeted in earn goose*
sad eteliog whick7, la which ha Majesty partook wad
sboniastly, waging many joyous swim sad
on his arrival, to doable is sight even the
✓icious subjects esermblett as the pier to receive Ws. TM
tea wsa, they were la the lad siege of tatozioation. Ere.
ever, they got Mil to the Park.
The Irak visit was one continued ovation. The
letters teem with rapturous comments on the
bra enthusiasm of tbelrish, whom we find,however,
with an eye to the main chance, taking every upper.
amity to dispose the royal mind favourably towed"
the great question of ltman catholic emancipatios.
The repeal of the window tax, their first petition,
was obtained at once, and although emancipation
was not carried until ten pars after, there is no
doubt but that the foundation was laid during the
King's visit to Ireland.
A little further on in the book we have interest•
fag particulars of the royal visit to Scotland. Sober
Sandy proved as willing to play the fool as mad
harum-scarum Paddy had been, and in addition he
insisted on playing it in motley. Universal Cale-
donia at once donned the kilt, and it was not until
Sir William Curtis, the fattest of London alder-
men, turned the sublime into the ridiculous,
by appearing in full tartan and philibeg,
that the national fervour began to cool down,
and this shrewd people exhibited anything like
their normal sagacity and self.possessim. Sir Walter
Scott took possession of the glass I. which the king
first tasted Glenlivet as • relic, and all the pipers in
the country were siunnioned to the welcome. Wade
not find in the letters of this period that the King
was so delighted with picturesquely-costumed Scot-
land as he bad been with wild, ragged Ireland ; but
he was a little older and weaker,and grand sentiments
seldom do duty twice with the same effect.
It is well that attention should from time to time
be recalled to the political history of George IV.'e
reign, if only to show in the way of contrast how
much a government gain. by piecing itself unre-
eervedly en the people. Nothing can be more striking
than the wretchedness of the government as de-
picted in these pages. In the letters of Lord Gren-
ville and others,- It ft always, " this awful state of
things," " the present desperate situation." Even
the words of Wellington at times show signs of
weakness. "All," be said woe, with Bedew ea