The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-11-05

The Patriot accounts, we think, very IA
tionaly for the manner N which the mistake
occurred
We lately noticed the assemblage at
Charlottesville Of hree # the gr atrst men
Of this nalion,-Thomas jefferson, james
Madison aud James Monroe. How dliir-
emily are these things done IN Europe =
Scarcely any person out Of the metropolis
knew that the President had left it-unac-
,eompanicd by the long tram of eourtiers
aud sycophants, Who fawn upon and natter
an English King, and almost lick the dust
he treads on. We have been amused and
Disguised by the perusal OF some of lie re-
marks Of the Scotch Editors, and we offer
them To our readers, as sample Of the SER
Witty of the land y eokeS.n
alt is admitted Says one ofthem) that
His Majesty Ming George the Fourth bo,os
with anriuaiied elegance and grace =, lie
continues" In passing and bowling to the
myriads, who assembled on all occasions
during his maiesiy's late visit to his setro-
polls in Scotland, every individual felt that
his majesty bow Was particularly directed
towards him. This deiusion, the effect of
his maiestys grateful manner, operated in a
greater d.gsee, perhaps, on The lOorthy CHI
scns Of Duaiec itan on any Others Of has ma
jcSiys subjects his majesty bowed TO
me, says one his majesty bowed parti-
cularly 10 me, says another; In short eyc-
~ citizen of Dundee who went to Edin-
burgh in this occasion had special boi0
from his majesty Aud these astonishing
things are related with as much gravity as
il they were heis and as ii, beng SO, they
were worthy of notice The following
znecdote is related in the Dundee paper -
" A worthy mdl,-maa placed himself on a
high wall Ganking the road along which his
majesty had 10 pass, from Dalkcth to Ilo-
lyrood house. In bowing, his maiesty's
eve operated as gun-Shot 10 the astounded
mall-nan God bless me, he surely kens
me ? he exclaimed ; and instantly fell back
from the top of the wall TO the ground, Il
height Of ten feet !" His Malesty,n
must laugh in his sleeve at the simpelons !;
aud, If the English papers speak truth, he
laughs openly too. Ii is stated, that when
he FIRST mel Sir William Curtis, in their
Highland dresses, " both burst outinto laug
at the sight of each other" On one day
the papers are filed with "a scientific HSi
of all the dishes which were served up al
the civic banquet'--on the next, il is an
nounoed. from the best authority that his
majesty was quite coafoaaded, at the first
appearance Of Leith But what it was
that +" cogjoanded' hun, we are not Inform
ed And then, we are told, with much so
lemnity, that two nephews of Sir Walter
Scott, after the banquet, kneeling, pre-
scented his majesty with silver ever and
basin, in which TIE King dipped his fugers
and bowed - la the whole course o,
this parade and show, we have met with bu,
ore scene with which we were not dispusted
A, he splendid dinner in Edinburgh the
Duke of Hamilton beiug toasted, rose and
spoke in the following independent and
manly tone-the more remarkable as il is
the only thing Of the Kind which took place
in this raree show" of splendor and ser
Witty -
No man was more ready than he wa.
to come forward and pay homage to tn,
honor aud dignity Of the crown hut at the
same time he was not to forget the Just and
Jealous care which he was boundto pbscry.
towards the rights aud Interes ts of the PEG
pie under this free constitution. He felt ;
pfide in showing every respect ard honor I,
~holneoeyer wore the crown of thes,
realms but in SO doing, he repeated thai
he must not forget in honoring the king
that he had also duties IL put in claim for
and MAINTAIN on the part of the people
which wereinterwoyen with the best rio ht.