business of the crown, without the presence of the King. To all solicitations for his return his Majesty turned a deaf ear, wondering at the importunity of le gros homme, as he always styled the minister, and begging that portions of his letters in reference to Madame Walmoden might be referred to him. Finding all ordinary means of reclaiming his Majesty to fail, Sir Robert at last fixed upon the design of

band to bring his mistress to England, a proposition which, however shocking in its moral and social bearings,

“The tradesmen were all uneasy, as they hought the King's absence prevented people oming to town, and particularly for the birthay; the citizens made this preference he eemed to give to his German dominions a pre-inducing the Queen to invite her husence to show their disaffection, but were beore so thoroughly disaffected that it made no reat addition to what they felt, though it pened the sluices of their clamorous mouths. The ordinary and the godly people took the rn of pitying the poor Queen, and railing at s Majesty for using so good a wife, who had rought him so many fine children, so abomiably ill. Some of them, (and those who, if e had heard all this, would have fretted him Lost,) used to talk of his age, and say, for a an of his time of day to be playing these Outhful pranks, and fancying himself in love, as quite ridiculous as well as inexcusable. thers, in very coarse terms, would ask, if he ust have a mistress, whether England could ever furnish a one good enough to serve his rn, and if he thought Parliament had given m a civil-list greater than his predecessors ly to defray the extraordinary travelling

arges, or to enrich his German favorites." Pasquinades at last became abundant on the delicate subject, and squibs, actical jokes and satires kept the town l of amusement. One of them-an old, ■n, lame and blind horse, with saddle and lion-bore this inscription: "The King Hanover's equipage! Let nobody stop ! I am going to fetch his Majesty and

to England!"

At the Royal Exchange the following
card was posted:-" It is reported that
Hanoverian Majesty designs to visit his
-itish Dominions for three months in the
-ing."
On St. James' gate this advertisement
s posted :-" Lost or strayed out of this
se, a man who has left a wife and six
ldren on the parish: whoever will give
ytidings of him to the church-wardens
St. James' Parish, so as he may be got
ain, shall receive four shillings and six-
ce reward. N. B.-This reward will
be increased, nobody judging him to be
thy of a crown."

Sir Robert Walpole found it at last all
impossible to transact the ordinary

cannot fail to excite our admiration at its finesse and boldness. The Queen, staggered at first by the outrageous impudence of the proposal, at length consented to discharge her part of the business, and accordingly wrote to the King signifying her desires in the matter. She adds, that she has had the apartments of Lady Suffolk enlarged, refurnished and prepared for the proper reception of his friend. The King answers--and, as Mr. Croker says, it is impossible not to wonder at the modesty and even elegance of the expressions, and the indecency and profligacy of the sentiments they convey :

:

"This letter wanted no marks of kindness love; had it been to a man, nothing could have but those that men express to women they been added to strengthen its tenderness, friendship and affection. He extolled the Queen's merit towards him in the strongest expression of his sense of all her goodness to him and the gratitude he felt towards her. He commended her understanding, her temper, and in short left nothing unsaid that could demonstrate the opinion he had of her head, and the value he set upon her heart. He told her, too, she knew him to be just in his nature, and how much he wished he could be everything she would have Mais him. rouz voyez mes passions, ma chère Caroline. Vous connaissez mes foiblesses

il n'y a rien de caché dans mon cœur pour vous -et plût à Dieu que vouz pourreiz me corriger avec la même facilité que vous m'approfondissez ! Plût à Dieu que je pourrais vouz imiter autant que je sais vous admirer, et que je pourrais apprendre de vous toutes les vertus que vous me faites voir sentir, et aimer. His Majesty then came to the point of Madame Walmoden's coming to England, and said that she had told him she relied on the Queen's goodness, and would give herself up to whatever their Majesties thought fit.”

Madame Walmoden, however, did not

return with the King, nor did she appear
in England until after the Queen's decease.
Perhaps the most interesting, certainly the
most minute and copious details in the
two volumes of the Memoirs, refer to this
event, completing, as it did, the history of
Lord Hervey's court life. We have not
space to make the extracts from this nar-
rative which would do it justice. It is suf-
ficient to say that the Queen died as she
had lived, self-possessed, calm, and affec-emphatic than the preacher's—
tionate to those around her, but at the
same time a practical skeptic in all religious
faith, unforgiving towards her enemies,
bitter in every feeling towards her oldest
son, the Prince of Wales, and either blind
to folly or weak to wickedness towards the
faults of her husband. She refused to see
the Prince during her whole sickness, and
though frequently spoken to in regard to
his desire to approach her, she constantly
and unhesitatingly denied him the entrée
of her chamber. Hence is seen very clearly
the satire of Pope's last tribute to her
memory:-

gating many passages of the play whil
could not fail to have interested us, mus
of which barbarous work has been deze
indeed by later managers-Vandais f
history into whose hands it had fallen |
there is still not a little left, teaching es
as we remember how entirely the strifes,
the labors, the jealousies, the ambitions,
the greatness and the glory of that a
have faded and gone, in language mos

"What shadows we are, and what shadows pursue."

The page of history has long since re
corded the character of George the Sect
Lord Hervey's Memoirs of his Court w
not alter that record. "He was next
George the Third in the strength of
purposes and the rectitude of his pub
character," is the remark of his rece
British eulogist. He may have been sa-
proximus sed longo intervallo—but be wa
none the less a churl and a tyrant. M
aged from his accession to the crown
his death by the address of his wife a
the duplicity of his ministers, so that
public measures should not destroy
general weal of his subjects, and bound·
the laws of a limited monarchy the d

him in the expulsion of the ill-fated Jan - 1
he was nevertheless in heart and sa
less a tyrant than Henry the Eighth-
as much the subject of his own excess
the slave of his own vices; in his fam
chamber a profligate, and in his ver
ruffian, in his cabinet a knave, in his b
lantry-his joy and boast-a boor, Ge%
II. in his private character stands se
to no royal personage who has dis
the crown of Great Britain. He had
the impress of his vices upon his !
long before his death, and that didn'

"Hang the sad verse on Carolina's urn, And hail her passage to the realms of rest, All parts perform'd, and all her children blest." We regard the publication of the Memoirs of Lord Hervey as a valuable, we might say with equal truth, as an invalua-ger of infracting which was ever bet ble accession to English history. The extracts we have given are scarcely a sample of the character and value of the work. Especially in the portraits of the prominent men of that day, of which the volumes are full, do we regard it of unquestioned authority and unsurpassed excellence. The actors in the drama of life a hundred years ago again walk upon the stage, mingle in its scenes, contend in its strifes, and rejoice in the applause of the crowd, like those of to-day. Onslow and Jekyll, the Duke of Argyle and Horace Walpole the elder, Bishop Butler and the Earl of Chesterfield, starting from behind the curtain of the past, are again before us in all the freshness and vigor of daily life, and, for the first time, we feel that we know them as they really were. Omitting much that we desire to know, or, to continue our figure, expur

face it. Peter Pindar would have st.
him truly-

« A change in George's life you mustra
To try to wash an ass's face
Isreally labor to mis place;
And really loss of time as well as som

N821

TWO LEAVES OF REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.

TAKEN DOWN FROM CONVERSATIONS WITH GOVERNOR SHELBY.

No portion of the history of the revoluonary war is so rich in daring exploits of artisan warfare, or in bold personal adenture, as that of the Southern States. rior to 1780 the British forces had overin South Carolina, Georgia, and the eastn part of North Carolina. All the aunchest patriots were compelled to ee from their homes. Some of these fugees joined those enterprising and ring chieftains, Marion and Sumter, d carried on the war in the extreme outh. Others fled for safety to the ountains of North Carolina and Virginia, d uniting their desperate fortunes to e native intrepidity of the hardy mounineers, planned and executed continual ploits of aggressive warfare against the itish and tories who were east of the ountains.

The most important affair in all the rtisan warfare of the Revolution, both it regards the numbers engaged and its sults, was the "Battle of King's Mounn." The officers and men engaged in s bold enterprise resided in the mounns of North Carolina and the southern rt of Virginia, aided by several hundred ugees from South Carolina and the casta part of North Carolina. They were t called into the field by the government any board of war, nor by their admiran for any particular military commander. was a spontaneous and masterly effort the best energies of the patriots to ke a vigorous blow at a victorious eneWithout commissaries, or staff offi-s, or efficient military organization; and stitute of provisions and military stores; 1 without the expectation of pay for ir services, they assembled in the untains, each man carrying whatever visions he could on horseback, to attack e of the most skilful and brave officers the British service.

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Of those who participated in this memorable achievement, no one took a more prominent or active part than Col. Isaac Shelby, who was then the county lieutenant commanding the militia in Sullivan county, North Carolina. Although others are entitled equally with himself to the credit of executing the plan which was adopted; yet was he the mainspring of the enterprise, and to him is justly due the merit of projecting the exploit which was so gloriously terminated.

After the close of the revolutionary war, Col. Shelby removed to Kentucky, where he was twice elected governor. It was whilst residing in that State, that the writer knew him in his boyish days; yet is the impress of the old soldier stamped fixedly on his memory. With a stalwart frame, perhaps an inch less than six feet in height, somewhat inclined to corpulency; his thick suit of iron gray hair shortly cropped; narrow but highly arched head, with prominent perceptive developments, evincing sound practical sense, close penetration, great watchfulness, and unflinching resolution; with closely compressed lips, strongly marked features, and a long heavy eyebrow overhanging a piercing blue eye; when aroused and excited he looked as terrible as the thundercloud of his native mountains. Yet was there ever about him in private life, amidst his friends, a kindly voice, and ready smile which radiated over his countenance, like the rays of the evening's sun beaming on that same cloud when relieved of its fury.

During the residence of Gov. Shelby in Kentucky, up to the time of his death, there existed an intimate friendship between him and the father of the writer, General Martin D. Hardin, late of Frankfort, Kentucky. And when Gov. Shelby was chief magistrate of Kentucky, he appointed M. D. Hardin his Secretary of

papers which fell into | took up the idea that Campbell was only a lieutenant-colonel at home previous to that affair. If you did so understand me, it was an error, for he was a full colonel of a regiment at home, though not the county lieutenant.

the hands of the writer, as the executor and eldest son of Gen. Hardin, were several sheets of paper in two parcels, in the handwriting of M. D. Hardin, which are headed as follows:

"Notes of the affair at King's Mountain, taken from a conversation with Governor Shelby, 16th July, 1815."

GOVERNOR SHELBY TO M. D. HARDIN.

"DANVILLE, Oct. 11th, 1819.

"Dear Sir:-On my way home from Shelbyville I could not help thinking a little about the inquiries which you made of me concerning the action on King's Mountain, and the events at led to it. And I was apprehensive you |

upon rallied his men, and ordered a charge, which was well seconded by officers and men, and the enemy were broken and fled in confusion. The rout now became complete along the whole line, and the enemy were pursued to the Eronee river, with great slaughter. Above two hundred of the enemy were killed, and two hundred prisoners were taken. On our side, Capt. Inman, who had conducted himself most gallantly, and thirty men were killed.

The broken forces of the enemy having crossed the Eronee, it became necessary to follow up the pursuit on horseback. Shelby called back his forces and mounted with the intention of pursuing the scattered Tories, and then turning against Fort Ninetysix. While consulting with Col. Clarke, a messenger arrived from Gen. McDowell, bringing a letter from Governor Caswell to McDowell, informing him of Gates's disastrous defeat at Camden on the 16th of August, and advising all officers commanding detachments to retreat, or they would be cut off.

rned that the night previous the Queen's | Col. Clarke sent his reserve, consisting of nerican Regiment, commanded by Col. | forty men, to Shelby's aid. Shelby therenes, from New York, had reached the st at the mill, and that the enemy were en from twelve to thirteen hundred ong. Just as this information was reved the enemy's patrol fell in with the vanced corps of Shelby's force. The trol was immediately fired on and driven with the loss of several men. This gave e enemy the alarm. Although the Tory rce was so much larger than had been pected, neither Shelby nor his men ought of anything but meeting them. round was selected for an engagement retching at right angles across the road, bout half a mile from the Eronee river. he army was formed, Shelby taking comand of the right wing, and Col. Clarke | i the left. Col. Williams of South Caro- | na was stationed in the road in the cene, though without a separate command. Whilst the Tory force was forming, helby and his men were not idle. Immediately after taking their places in line nd securing their horses, they commenced making breast works of logs. In half an hour they had one breast high. So soon as this was completed, Shelby sent Capt. Inman with a company of mounted men n advance to make a false attack on the nemy. This feint was well executed. Inman and his men charged on the enemy, fired their pieces, and then, as directed, ded in apparent confusion. The enemy's centre on whom the false attack had been made, seeing the flight of this force, immediately pressed forward in pursuit, in considerable disorder, shouting, “Huzza for King George." On approaching the breastwork they were unexpectedly met with a deadly fire. The superiority of the enemy in numbers emboldened them to press forward their attack, notwithstanding the advantage which our troops possessed by the breast work. After an hour's hard fighting the left wing of the enemy, composed of the Queen's regiment, drove our right wing under Shelby from their breastwork. Our left wing, which was opposed by the tories, maintained its position.

The battle was maintained some time longer, the right flank of the right wing gradually giving way, whilst the left flank retained its connection with the centre at the breast work. At this juncture

Col. Shelby, perceiving the hazardous position in which he was placed by this unexpected calamity, with Cornwallis in front, and Ferguson on his flank, immediately ordered a retreat. Taking his prisoners with him, he travelled all that day and the ensuing night without rest, and continued their march the day succeeding until an hour by sun, when they halted and fed their horses. Although they had thus been marching and fighting inces| santly for forty-eight hours, the indomitable energy of their commander permitted his troops no rest, when there was danger of losing all by delay. Halting therefore no longer than was required to feed their horses, the line of march was resumed. It was well it was so; for the news of the defeat of the tories at Musgrove's Mill had reached Ferguson, who had dispatched a strong detachment to intercept Shelby and release his prisoners. making a hard forced march this detachment reached the spot where Shelby and his men had fed their horses, within thirty minutes after they had left it. But not knowing precisely how long Shelby had been gone, and the detachment being entirely exhausted, the pursuit was relin

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