one exhibition in the pillory, and one thousand pounds bail for ten years good behaviour.

Another maniacal attempt was made on the royal family early in February, in which a woman, genteelly dressed, found means to get into the Queen's House, and was passing to the Queen's apartments, where she was discovered by a servant, who insisted on her telling where she was going, when she replied she was going to her mother, Mrs. Guelph, the Queen, who had got some writings belonging to her; and if her mother did not give them up, she would find means to commit some horrid act. Upon this some of the servants secured her, and she was given into the custody of the patrole; and on the ensuing Monday morning, at an early hour, she was brought to Bow Street, and underwent an examination before William Addington, Esq. during which she appeared very much composed. She said her name was Charlotte Georgina Mary Ann Guelph. She persisted in the story she told at the Queen's House the night before, of the Queen being her mother, &c. She further said, that the late Duke of York was her father; that she was born at Rome; and that she was sold to a gentleman in Spain, &c.

The hopes of the nation had at this period been much excited by the birth of an heiress presumptive to the British throne; and on the eleventh of the

month, between eight and nine o'clock, her royal highness, the infant princess, daughter of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, was christened in the great drawing-room, by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. Her Royal Highness was named Charlotte Augusta. sponsors were their majesties in person, and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Brunswick, grandmother of the infant, represented by the Princess Royal.

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A very brilliant Montem took place this year, respecting which the King felt highly interested. The procession set off early, consisting of youths of the first families in the kingdom; and when they came to Salt-hill, they were met by the King and the Prince of Wales on horseback, Her Majesty and the princesses being in carriages. The King took on himself the ordering and marshalling the multitude assembled, in such a manner that the procession might pass freely round the royal car riages; many of the crowd, notwithstanding, pressed so close, that His Majesty was obliged to call them to order; and asked several of those who appeared to be Londoners, "If they were members of Eton, as he could not recognize their persons sufficiently to recollect them."

When the Montem was over, the King himself requested, that on their return home from the Windmill inn, where an elegant dinner was pro

vided, they might appear on Windsor Terrace at the usual hour of the evening promenade.

Amongst the numerous libels which issued at this period from the licentious part of the press against His Majesty, one of the most gross was by the well known Daniel Isaac Eaton, who appears to have in this case been an instance of the truth of the old adage, "that familiarity breeds contempt,”—for Eaton, as already stated, in consequence of his father or uncle having held some situation about the court, had, in boyhood, not only been known personally to His Majesty, when Prince George, but had in some measure been at times his playfellow.

At the period in question Eaton was a bookseller in Newgate Street, and had published a work stating the word "King" to mean "cunning and craft, which would soon be in disrepute in this country:"

a niggard" to mean a "king who had defrauded his subjects of nine millions of money:" adding, "Oh! Mr. Guelph, where do you expect to go when you die?" and recommending the guillotine, &c. in the true style of revolutionary jargon.

For this libel he was tried on the eighth of July, at Guildhall, and found guilty, to the great satisfaction of all loyal subjects and friends of tranquillity, after a most admirable address from Lord Kenyon, in which his lordship very appropriately observed, that the benevolent and pious monarch,

like Samuel, the Judge of Israel, might appeal to his subjects, and say, "Whose ox have I taken? whose ass have I taken? whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed?"-Questions so home to the feelings, and to the information of every unprejudiced mind, that the result of judicial investigation hung not for a moment doubtful.

It was much to be lamented that the pen of the libeller should thus have been so busy against His Majesty, whose private conduct ought to have endeared him to his subjects; and in nothing more than in this, that the clamours of faction or sedition never caused him to depart from his exertions for the public good, and the promotion of charitable purposes; an instance of which he gave this year, in becoming patron of the society for bettering the condition of the poor.

In political affairs, too, he was equally active, and in none more so than his desire, if possible, to bring about a general peace, agreeably to the wishes expressed by his subjects in numerous petitions.

Throughout this memoir we have avoided discussions on general politics; but as, in the occurrences of this year, His Majesty was personally connected with the passing events in the public opinion, and even accused of insincerity in regard to the negotiations for peace, some little notice becomes necessary.

The state of the country, at the commencement

of these negotiations, will be best understood by a few short extracts from the royal speech on the sixth of October, when he said:

My Lords and Gentlemen,

"It is a peculiar satisfaction to me, in the present conjuncture of affairs, to recur to your advice, after the recent opportunity which has been given for collecting the sense of my people, engaged in a difficult and arduous contest for the preservation of all that is most dear to us.

"I have omitted no endeavours for setting on foot negotiations to restore peace to Europe, and to secure for the future the general tranquillity.

"The steps which I have taken for this purpose have at length opened the way to an immediate and direct negotiation, the issue of which must either produce the desirable end of a just, honourable, and solid peace, for us and for our allies, or must prove, beyond dispute, to what cause alone the prolongation of the calamities of war must be ascribed."

"Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

"I rely on your zeal and public spirit for such supplies as you may think necessary for the service of the year.

"It is a great satisfaction to me to observe, that notwithstanding the temporary embarrassments which have been experienced, the state of the commerce, manufactures, and the revenue, of the country, proves the real extent and solidity of our re