Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-10-27
CONCLUSION OF IHACHERAY'S P0R-
TRAIT OF KING GEORGE III.

TRAIT OF KING GEORGE III.
King Georges household was o model of on
English gentleman's household. 1t was early; it
was kindly; it was charitable; it was frugal; it was
orderly; it must have been stupid to a degree
which | shudder now to contemplate. No won
der all the princes ran away from the lap of that
drcary domestic virtue. 1t always rose, rode, din
ed Al stated intervals. Day after day was the
ssmo. Al the same hour at night the King kissed
his daughters Jolly cheeks; the princesses kissed
thsir mothers hand; and Madame Thielke brought
tho royal n~ishtcap. Al the same hour the equer-
ries and women in waiting had their little dinner,
and csckled over their tea. The King bad his
backgammon or his evening concert; the equerries
yauned themselves to death in the anteroem; or
tho King and his family walked on Windsor
slopes, the King holding his darling little princess
Amelia by the hand; and the Eton boys thrust
their chubby cheeks under the crowds elbows; and
the concert over, the King never failed to take his
enormous cooked hat off, and salute his band and
say, Thank you, gentlemen.
A auieter household, a more prosaic life than
this of Kew or Windsor, cannot be imagined.
Rain or shine, the King rode every day for hours;
poked his face into hundreds Ct cottages round
about, and showed that shovel hat and WinCsor
uniform to farmers, to ~pig-boys, to old women ma
king apple dumplings; to all sorts of people, gen.
tie and simple, about whom countless stories are
told. Nothing can be more undignifed than these
stories. When Haroun Alraschid visits a subject
incog., the latter is sure to be very much the tet-
ter for tho caliph's magniicence. Old George
showed no such royal splendor. He used TO give
a guinea sometimes; sometimes feel in his pockets
and find he had no money; often ask a man a hun
dred questions about the number of bis family,
about his oats and beans, about the rent he paid
for his house, and ride on. On one occasion he
played the part of King Alfred, and turned a piece
Of meat with a string at @ c%ottager's house. When
the old woman came home, she found a paper with
so inclosure OF money, and a note written by the
she royal psncil: Five guineas to buy a jack 1t
was not splendid, but it was kind and worthy of
Farmer George.
One day, when the king and queen were walking
togtther, they met a little boy-they were always
fond OF children, the good folks-and patted the
little white head. Whose little boy are you p
asks the Windsor Uniform. L am the kings beef
eaters little boy replied the child. Ga which
the king said, Then kneel down, and kiss thu
queens hand But the innocent offspring of the
beefea.er declined this treat. No. said he, 4
won't kneel, for if l do so l shall spoil my new
breeches.' The thrifty king ought to have Rugged
him and ~knighted him on the spot. Georges ad-
mirers wrote pages and pages of such stories
about him. One morning, before anybody else was
up, the king walked about Gloucester town; push
cd over Molly the h~duse-maid, who was scrubbing
the door steps, with her pail; ran up stairs and
woke all the equorries in their bed rooms; and
then trot;ed down TO the bridge. where, by this
time, \ dozen of louts were assembled. What
10 this Gloucester New Bridge p asked our gra
ciuus monarch; and the people answered him
Yes, your Majesty why. then, my boys sale
he. let us have a huzzsy!' After giving shsm which
intellectual qualification, he went home to break
fast. Our fathers read Ihese simple tales will
fond pleasures; laughed at these very small jokes
liked The old man who poked his nose into ever.
cottage; who lived on plain. wholesome roast ant
boiled; who despised your French kickshaws; Wit
who was q true hearty old English gentleman
You may have seen Gilray's famous print of hin
in the old wig, 10 the stout old hideous Windsor
uuiform-as the King Of Brobdingnag, peering a
Q little CULVER, whom be holds up in bis hand
willis. in the other he has an operagiass, through
which be surveys the pigmyi our fathers chOs'
to se. up George as the type Of a great king; an'
the little CULVER was the great Napoleon. W
pridsd ourselves on our prejudices; We blustsre,
and Dragged With absurd vain-glory; We dealt t
our enemy a monstrous injustice Of contempt an
scoru; We fought him with all weapons, moan a
we'll as heroic. There was no lie We could noe b
lieve; no charge of crime which our furious pref
dice would not credit. thought at one time
making a collection Of the lies which the Freuc
had written against us, and we had ~publishe
against them curing tho war; it would be a sIrane
memorial Vt popular falsebood.
In The capital Burney Diary and Letters, ii
home and court life of good old King George an
good old Queen Charlotte are presented at porter
.ious length. The king rose every morning at sil
and had two hours to himself. He thought it e
Terminate to have a carpet in bis bed room. shortl
before eight, the queen and the royal family wer
always ready for him, and they proceeded to 1h
kings chapel 10 the castle, There we're no FIRE