The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1865-10-12

nlnlSelf ABOUT 10 D0 hanged Tor loyalty
when just as the rope is round his neck,
he says: "My little girl entered my bed
chamber, and put an end to my dream
that the tailor had just brought home
my clothes for his Majesty's birthday"
In his "Temple Beau" the beau is dun
ned ''for birthday suit of velvet, e4O."
Be sure that Mr.. Harry Fielding was
dunned too.
The public days, no doubt, were splen-
did, but the private Court life must have
been awfully wearisome. 81 will not
trouble you," writes Hervey to Lady
! Sundon, with any account of our Occu-
pations at Hampton Court. No mill
horseever went in a more constant track,
Or more unchanging circle; SO that by
the assistance of an almanac for the day
of the week, and a watch for the hour of
the day, you may inform yourself fully,
without any other intelligence but your
memory, of every transaction within the
verge of the Court. Walking, chaises,
levees, and audiences fill the morning.
At night the kings play at commerce
and backgammon, and the queen atquad-
rifle, where poor Lady Charlotte runs
her usual nightly gauntlet, the queen
pulling her hood, the Princess Royal
rapping her knuckles. The Duke Of
Grafton takes his nightly opiate of lot
terry, and sleeps as usual between the
Princess Amelia and Caroline. Lord
Grantham strolls from one room to an
contented ghost that oft appears, and is
forbid to speak; and stirs himself about
as one people stir a fire, not with any
design, but in hopes to make it burn
| brisker. At last the king gets up; the
pool finishes; and everybody has their
dismission. Their MMesties retire to
Lady Charlotte and my Lord Lifford
my Lord Grantham, to Lady Frances
and Mr.. Clark; some to supper, some to
bed /; and thus the evening and the NOR
ming make the day."
The kings fondness for Hanover occa-
stoned all sorts of rough jokes among his
English subjects, to whom sn.er-Aya.@
and sausages have ever been ridiculous
objects. When our present Prince Con-
sort came among us, the people baWled
out songs in the streets indicative of the
| absurdity of Germany in general. The
sausage shops produced enormous saus-
ages, which we might suppose were the
daily food and delight of German prin-
ces. l remember the caricatures at the
marriage of Prince Leopold with the
Princess Charlotte. The bridegroom was
drawn in rags. George ILLS wife was
called by the people beggarly German
duchess; the British idea being that all
princes were beggarly except British
princes. King George paid us back. He
of Germany. Sarah Marlborough once
coming to visit the princess, while her
Royal Highness was whipping one of
the roaring royal children, "Ahv' says
George who was standing by, "you have
no good manners in England, because
you are not properly brought up when
you are young" He insisted that no
English cooks could roast, no English
coachman could drive: he actually ques-
toned the superiority of our nobility,
our horses, and our roast beef! s -
While he was away from his beloved
Hanover, everything remained there ex-
actly as in the princes presence. There
were 800 horses in the stables, there was
all the apparatus of chamberlains, court
marshals, and equerries; and court as
semblies were held every Saturday where
all the nobility of Hanover assembled at
what can't but think fine and touch
ing ceremony. A large armchair was
placed in the assembly-room, and ON it
the kings portrait. The nobility adj
vanced, and made bow to the arm
chair, and to the image which Nebuch-
ednezzar the king had set up and spoke
under their voices before the august pic
ture, just as they would have done had
the King Churfurst been present him.
self
HeWas always going back to Hanover.
In the year 1923 he went for two whole
years, during which Caroline reigned for
him in England, and he was not in the
least missed by his British subjects. He
went again in '35 and '36; and between
| the years 174O and 1875 was no less than
eight times on the Continent, whiA
amusement he was obliged to give up at
the outbreak of the Seven Years War.
Here every days amusement was the
same. "Our life is as uniform as that of
a monastery" writes courtier whom
Vehse quotes. "Every morning at elev-
en-, and every evening at six, we drive
in the heat to Herrenhausen, through all
enormous linden avenue, and twice
day cover our coats and coaches with
dust. In the kings society there never
cards, he sees always the same faces, and
at the end of the game retires into his
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