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His late Majesty. George the Third, taken in his Windsor Uniform.

Pablished by W. Whittemore, Paternoster Row, 1820.

GEORGIANA:

OR,

Anecdotes of George the Third.

WITH A SELECTION OF

POETICAL EFFUSIONS

AND OTHER

EULOGIUMS ON HIS CHARACTER,

AND ON THAT OF

H. R. H. THE DUKE OF KENT.

BY INGRAM COBBIN, M. A

London:

Printed by John Hill, Water Lane, Blackfriars:
FOR W. WHITTEMORE, PATERNOSTER ROW;

AND SOLD

By Waugh and Innes, Edinburgh; Ogle, Glasgow ;
and Keene, Dublin.

1820.

226. K. 128.

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HIS MANNERS, HABITS, &c.

GEORGE III., the second child of Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of George II., and of Augusta, Princess of Saxe Gotha, was born in Norfolk House, St. James's Square, the 4th June, 1738. His constitution was sound and vigorous, though he came into the world at the term of seven months.

On June 6, 1756, Doddington, in his diary, ohserves, "I heard that a message in writing had been sent to the prince from the king, (George II.) offering him an allowance of forty thousand a year, and an apartment in the palaces of Kensington and St. James's. The answer was full of high gratitude for the allowance, but declining the apartments, on account of the mortification it would be to his mother, though it is well known

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