ing-room, inducing every one to contribute | choice of two evils, either of which was his guinea for printing of the book. The Memoirs tell us that sufficient to becloud all the brightness of her life, and to dampen all her expecta tions of the future. On the one side was "The King, when he came into the drawing- the certainty, should she outlive her father, room, seeing her Grace very busy in a cor- of dependence upon a brother's maintener with three or four men, asked her what she nance, with whom she was upon terms of had been doing. She answered, ، What must irreconcilable enmity; on the other side, be agrecable, she was sure to anybody so humane as his Majesty, for it was an act of char- but who, from all accounts that she heart, a marriage with a royal personage indeed, ity, and a charity to which she did not despair of bringing his Majesty to contribute.' Enough must be an object of disgust to every be was said for each to understand the other, and holder; on the one side a wedding to a dethough the King did not then (as the Duchess formed Prince, on the other a life of maidof Queensbury reported) appear at all angry, en meditation in her royal convent. Lord yet this proceeding of her Grace's, when talked Hervey says:over in private between his Majesty and the Queen, was so resented, that Mr. Stanhope, then Vice Chamberlain to the King, was sent in form to the Duchess to desire her to forbear coming to court; this message was verbal. Her answer, for fear of mistakes, she desired to send in writing, wrote it on the spot, and this is the literal copy: "Feb. 27th, 1728-9. “That the Duchess of Queensbury is surprised and well pleased that the King hath given her so agreeable a command as to stay from court, where she never came for diversion, but to bestow a great civility on the King and Queen; she hopes by such an unprecedented order as this is, that the King will see as few as he wishes at his court, particularly such as dare to think and speak the truth. I dare not do otherwise, and ought not, nor could have imagined that it would not have been the highest compliment that I could possibly pay the King to endeavor to support innocence and truth in his house, particularly when the King and Queen both told me that they had not read Mr. Gay's play. I have certainly done right, then, to stand by my own words rather than his Grace of Grafton's, who has neither made use of truth, judgment, nor honor, through this whole affair, either for himself or his friends. "C. QUEENSBURY." During the year 1733, the anxiety of the nation in regard to a Protestant succession to the crown, then and for many years before and after a subject of paramount interest throughout the realm,-induced the King to communicate to Parliament the intended marriage of his eldest daughter, the Princess Royal, to the Prince of Orange. The match had become one of necessity, it being the only marriage "The Prince of Orange's figure, besides s being almost a dwarf, was as much deformed as it was possible for a human creature to be ; his face was not bad, his countenance was sen sible, but his breath was more offensive than is possible for those who have not been offended by it to imagine. These personal defects, unrecompensed by the éclat of rank or the me essential comforts of great riches, made the situation of the poor Princess Royal so more commiserable; for as her youth and excellent, warm, animated constitution made her, I believe, now and then remember she wasa woman, so I can answer for her that a and acquired pride seldom or never let her lat get she was a Princess; and as this match gave her little hope of gratifying the one, so it as forded as little prospect of supporting the other." After great delay occasioned by neg towards his future son-in-law by the his the indifference of the Princess Royal sickness of the Prince of Orange, and the discussion about ceremonials, the wedding day at last came. "The chapel was fitted up with extreme good taste, and as much finery as velvets and silver tissue, galloons, fringes, tassist lustres and sconces could give. Ta had not loved show better than his daug spared no expense on this occasion, that i would have chosen rather to have given its money to make her circumstances cast, |to have laid it out in making her sea splendid. "The Prince of Orange was a less gr and a less ridiculous figure in this P urally have expected such an procession and at supper, than one co Esop, the Princess Royal could have made in all trappings and such eminence, to haves LTE Europe, that would have been satisfactory to the people. To the Princess it was a He had a long peruke-like hair that fir over his back and hid the roundness of und ure. his countenance was not bad, there was hing very strikingly disagreeable about his But when he was undressed, and came in night-gown and night-cap to go to bed, the earance he made was as indescribable as astonished countenances of everybody who eld him. From the shape of his brocaded n, and the make of his back, he looked beI as if he had no head, and before as if he had heck and no legs. The Queen, in speaking he whole ceremony the next morning alone Lord Hervey, when she came to mention part of it, said, Ah, mon Dieu! Quand je is entrer ce monstre, pour coucher avec ma j'ai pensé m'évanouir; je chancelois autrant, mais ce coup là m'a assommée. Dites my Lord Hervey, avez vous bien remarqué onsideré ce monstre dans ce moment? et iez vous pas bien pitié de la pauvre Anne? Dieu! c'est trop sotte en moi, mais j'en re encore.' Lord Hervey turned the disse as fast as he was able, for this was ircumstance he could not soften and ld not exaggerate. He only said, 'Oh, ame, in half a year all persons are alike: figure of the body one is married to, like prospect of the place one lives at, grows so liar to one's eyes, that one looks at it meically, without regarding either the beauor deformities that may strike a stranger.' e may, and I believe one does,' replied the en, grow blind at last: but you must allow, Hear Lord Hervey, there is a great differas long as one sees, in the manner of one's wing blind."" ross as the custom alluded to in the e passage seems to us of the present it prevailed universally, among all ses of society, throughout France and land, during the early part of the teenth century. It was often carried h further, indeed, than it seems to e been in the case of the Princess al; for two years later, upon the occaof the marriage of the Prince of Wales he Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Lord Hervey says, that at nine o'clock e evening the wedding took place, the 1 family supped together afterwards, after the Prince and Princess went to the whole company was permitted to through their bed-chamber to see 1. "The Gentleman's Magazine" of -ear 1736 (April) gives a more minute unt of the whole ceremonial. After ber, their Majesties retiring to the tments of the Prince of Wales, the e was conducted to her bed-chamber, the bridegroom to his dressing-room, The where the Duke, his brother, undressed him, and his Majesty did his Royal Highness the honor to put on his shirt. The bride was undressed by the Princesses, and being in bed in a rich undress, his Majesty came into the room; and the Prince following soon after in a night-gown of silver stuff, and cap of the finest lace, the quality were admitted to see the bride and bridegroom sitting up in the bed, surrounded by all the royal family. custom seems never to have extended into Spain, for the Duke de St. Simon, who in 1722 accompanied Mlle. d'Orleans to Spain, to be married to the Prince of the Asturias, takes great praise to himself for having overpersuaded the modesty and gravity of Spanish etiquette to submit, on that occasion, to the French custom of having the whole court introduced to see the young couple in bed. The practice has been now banished from the higher classes for three generations, but it is worthy of remark, to the curious in olden customs at least, that the same thing is done to this day among the population of the rural districts in France and England, and traces of it may be found among the retired farming communities in New England. Lady Suffolk occurred in the year 1734. The open rupture between the King and The causes which produced it are familiar to the public, both from Horace Walpole's Reminiscences," and from the Suffolk correspondence; but the consequences it produced upon the habits of George II., who, either from his fondness for variety, or his ambition for the reputation of gallantry, it was early surmised, would never be contented until he had become engaged in some new affaire de cœur, have never before been told us as fully as the " Memoirs" reveal them. It is almost impossible, clearly as the details are laid before us, to assign a reasonable motive for the desire that seems to have been universally entertained and expressed by all the members of the royal family-the Queen and the daughters-that his Majesty should not suffer Lady Suffolk's place to remain vacant. We are told that the "Queen was both glad and sorry" to have Lady Suffolk removed-"glad to have even this ghost of a rival" laid, and sorry to have so much more of her husband's time upon her hands; that the Princess Royal wished" with all her heart that he would take somebody else, that mamma might be a little relieved from the ennui of seeing him forever in her room;" that the Princess Caroline hoped he would soon find a companion, for he had been “snapping and snubbing every mortal for a week;" and that the Princess Emily, though glad at Lady Suffolk's disgrace, because she wished misfortune to most people," was so tired with his airs of gallantry, the impossibility of being easy with him, his shocking behavior to the Queen, and his difficulty to be entertained," that she heartily desired he would soon adopt a new mistress. Whatever the motives of this laudable anxiety on the part of a loving wife and dutiful daughters may have been, they were not destined to remain long ungratified. With the approbation of the Queen, whose love of power was gratified by the éclat of the regency whenever he was absent, but against the earnest dissent of Sir Robert, the King resolved on visiting Hanover in the spring of 1735. she had suffered to appear while they were deferred. Yet all this while the King, besides his ordinary letters by the post, never filled sending a courier once a week with a letter of sometimes sixty pages, and never less than forty, filled with an hourly account of every thing he saw, heard, thought or did, and crammed with minute trifling circumstances, not only unworthy of a man to write, but even of a woman to read, most of which I saw, and almost all of them heard reported by Sir Rvert. for few were not transmitted to him by the King's order, who used to tag paragraphs with Montrez ceci et consultez lu-dessus de grus homme.” The King returned from Hanover in October, 1735. His absence had been time of great relief to the Queen and his daughters, so that the extreme irritaber he manifested to every member of his family, and especially to the Queen, as soon as he arrived and constantly after wards, made life in the palace almost unendurable. Take a single example, among the numbers which Lord Hervey instances "In the absence of the King, the Queen bad taken several very bad pictures out of the great drawing-room at Kensington, and put very d ones in their places; the King affecting, for the sake of contradiction, to dislike this c told Lord Hervey, as Vice Charnberlain, tim he would have every new picture taken saat and every old one replaced. Lord Hervey who had a mind to make his court to the Ques by opposing this order, asked if his M. [ would not give leave for the two Vandykes5 1 least, on each side of the chimney, toralk instead of those two sign-posts, done by to body knew who, that had been rea make way for them. To which the K answered: My Lord, I have a great red for your taste in what you understand, b pictures I beg leave to follow my own; Is pose you assisted the Queen with yori advice when she was pulling my hore "But there was one trouble arose which her Majesty did not at all foresee. which was his becoming, soon after his arrival, so much attached to one Madame Walmoden, a young married woman of the first fashion at Hanover, that nobody in England talked of anything but the growing interest of this new favorite. By what I could perceive of the Queen, I think her pride was much more hurt upon this occasion than her affections, and that she was much more uneasy from thinking people imagined her interest declining than from apprehending it was so. It is certain, too, that from the very beginning of this new engagement, the King acquainted the Queen by letter of every step he took in it-of the growth of his passion, the progress of his applications, and their successof every word as well as every action that pass-pieces and spoiling all my furniture: ed--so minute a description of her person, that had the Queen been a painter she might have drawn her rival's picture at six hundred miles distance. He added, too, the account of his buying her, which, considering the rank of the purchaser, and the merits of the purchase as he set them forth, I think he had no reason to brag of, when the first price, according to his report, was only one thousand ducats. "Notwithstanding all the Queen's philosophy, when she found the time for the King's return put off so late in the year, she grew extremely uneasy, and by the joy she showed when the orders for his yachts arrived, plainly manifested that she had felt more anxiety than God, at least she has left the walls st. 7 nus as well as he used to do, there would | ve been none of these disputations. So again at breakfast the next morning, ile they were speaking, the King came in, t by good luck, said nothing about the pices. His Majesty staid about five minutes in e gallery, snubbed the Queen, who was drink- | g chocolate, for being always stuffing; the incess Emily for not hearing him; the incess Caroline for being grown fat; the ke of Cumberland for standing awkwardly; ord Hervey for not knowing what relation e Prince of Sultzback was to the Elector latine; and then carried the Queen to walk d be snubbed in the garden." This state of things became at last so supportable that it seemed necessary, to ve open discord in the palace, that some medy should be provided. Sir Robert Walpole, whose good sense seems never to ave deserted him in any extremity, told he Queen plainly where he thought the ifficulty was. In his own language, the King had tasted better things abroad than e could find in England. He said the Queen must not expect, after thirty years' cquaintance, to have the same influence he had formerly had; that three and ifty and three and twenty no more resemled each other in their effects than in heir looks; and that, if his advice were ollowed, the Queen would depend upon er head and not her person for her power wer his Majesty. In fine, Sir Robert adised the sending for Lady Tankerville, handsome, good natured and simple woman, to whom the King had heretofore shown a liking, and place her every evening n his Majesty's way. high favor on things going so well abroad, that he had only now and then his skin a little razed by this edge when it was sharpest, whilst others were sliced and scarified all over. Sir Robert Walpole, too, the King said, (speaking on the present epidemical rural madness,) he could forgive going into the country; his mind wanted relaxation and his body exercise; and it was very reasonable that he should have a month in the year to look after his own private business, when all the rest of the year he was doing that of the public and his prince; but what the other puppies and fools had to do to be running out of town now, when they had had the whole summer to do their business in, he could not conceive. "When the Duke of Newcastle, among the rest, asked his leave to go into the country, the King told him it was a pretty occupation for a man of quality and at his age, to be spending his time in formenting a poor fox, that was generally a much better beast than any of those that pursued him; for the fox hurts no other animal for his subsistence, whilst those brutes who hurt him, did it only for the pleasure they took in hurting. The Duke of Grafton said he why he could not as well walk or ride post for did it for his health. The King asked him his health; and said, if there was any pleasure in the chase, he was sure the Duke of Grafton could know nothing of it; for,' added he, 'with your great corps of twenty stone weight, no horse, I am sure, can carry you within hearing, much less within sight of your hounds."" Although the captious and fretful disposition of the King did not abate, Sir Robert's advice in regard to Lady Tankerville seems not to have been adopted. Perhaps the Queen may have shrunk from it at the last; perhaps the minister did not deem it prudent to carry out measures which he had announced so publicly. In place of Lady Tankerville, however, the King attached himself temporarily to Lady Deloraine, a governess to the younger Princesses, who is said to have been a very beautiful, though a very weak woman. She was now in her thirty-fifth year, though Lord Hervey says she looked ten years younger. The liason was, however, of short duration. As the autumn approached, the King began to give out hints of revisiting Hanover, much to the consternation of his family and the chagrin of his minister. No reasoning could dissuade him from his purpose, no entreaties change his design, so that, with what grace was possible, Sir Robert and the Queen as"Sir Robert Walpole was at present in such sented to the journey. Once arrived in It is certainly greatly to the credit of Queen Caroline, that, under the circumstances, she did not resent this advice. The moral aspect of the subject is one thing; but the political bearing of it, which Sir Robert alone had in view, and which indeed seemed the only course to be pursued to save open outrage from the palace-life, or the repeated and protracted absences of the King from England, was certainly another thing. The King's irritability of temper extended to every event and every subject that came before him. Sir Robert seems to have been the only person exempt from downright abuse. The Memoirs say : Hanover, his Majesty's happiness did not last long without alloy. "The fact was this: whilst the King was at Herenhausen, and Madame Walmoden at her lodgings in the palace at Hanover, one night the gardener found a ladder, which did not belong to the garden, set up against Madame W.'s window; and concluding it was a design to rob her, this poor innocent, careful servant made diligent search in the garden, and found a man lurking behind the espalin, whom he concluded to be the thief: accordingly, by the assistance of his fellow-servants, he seized and carried him to the captain of the guard then upon duty. When the prisoner was brought to the light, it proved to be one Monsieur Schulemberg, an officer in the Imperial service: he complaining to the captain of the guard of this violence, who thinking nothing but a design of robbery could be at the bottom of the affair, and that a man of that rank could certainly be no robber, ordered him to be released, "This affair made a great noise immediately, and Madame Walmoden thinking it would be for her advantage to tell the story herself first to the King, ordered her coach at six o'clock in the morning, drove to Herenhausen, and went directly to the King's bedside, threw her self on her knees, drowned in tears, and begged of his Majesty either to protect her from being insulted, or give her leave to retire. She said she doted on him as her lover and her friend, and never when she gave him her heart considered him as a King; but that she found too late, that no woman could live with a King as with a man of inferior rank." The King, surprised at the unexpected visit, upon learning what it meant, became exceedingly indignant--not towards Madame Walmoden, indeed, whom he seems never to have distrusted, but towards the captain of the guard, M. Schulemberg, and all others concerned in the affair. What strikes one as most odd in the whole matter, but to which one by degrees gets accustomed in reading of George Second's notions in regard to marital duties, is the account which he writes to the Queen of the whole affair, and the views he begs she will take of it. Speaking as if to a friend of his own sex, he asks her what she thinks of the business, adding, that perhaps his passion for Madame Malmoden might make him see it in a partial light, and desiring the Queen to consulter le gros homme," (meaning Sir Robert,) "qui a plus d'expérience, ma chere Caroline, que vous dans ces affaires, et moins de préjugé que moi dans celle-ci." Perhaps there is nothing in all w biography to compare with the reve which George II. was accustomed to me to his wife of the most minute desse: his amours. Horace Walpole says in reminiscences, that it was understood a the palace that the King always made t Queen the confidante of his fire which made Mrs. Selwyn, mother George Selwyn, and herself beautiful & of much vivacity, once tell him, that should be the last man with whCL would have an intrigue, as she kaw! would tell the Queen. Lord Campbe speaks of the same thing in his life of Le Chancellor King, and gives a note of t Chancellor in corroboration of these 2credible confessions. "On this occasi he let me into several secrets relating the King and Queen-that the King o stantly wrote to her long letters, b generally of all his actions, what he every day, even to minute things, and par ticularly of his amours, what wond admired, &c., &c.; and that the Quee continue him in a disposition to do wi she desired, returned as long letters, a approved even of his amours; not see pling to say that she was but one WORK, I and an old woman, &c., &c., by which pe fect subserviency to his will, she effect whatever she desired, without wh was impossible to keep him in bands Lord Campbell has indeed added a ve natural doubt, whether the whole of this strange story was not a fiction of W pole's over his wine to mystify the Chan ! cellor; but the concurrent and sull D detailed evidence of Lord Hervey un nately puts these scandalous transscles beyond all doubt. In addition to this, the latter says that the Queen received e letter in which the King desired her contrive, if she could, that the Prize Modena, who was to come the latter en of the year to England, might bring us wife with him; and the reason be gre for it was, that he heard her highness pretty free of her person, and that he had the greatest inclination imaginable to p his addresses to a daughter of the Regent of France, the Duke of Orleans un plaisir que je suis sûr, ma chere Caroline, vous serez bien aise de me procter quand je vous dis combien je le sochrie" The King's continued stay in Ha |