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and fulsome adulation ; who would persuade the lieges that a common 

 act of justice in a private individual, becomes in a king magnified 

 into a most exalted virtue as though the humanities of society were 

 denied to that privileged class. 



" Through the high sense of honour and justice on the part of his Majesty, 

 arrangements are in contemplation, by which all the bond fide and honest 

 creditors of the Duke of York are likely to receive the full amount of their 

 claims/' 



We have not so ill an opinion of royalty as to suppose the illus- 

 trious individuals composing that class are entirely destitute of the 

 common principles of honour and correct pride, which are considered 

 of no great merit in persons of inferior station to possess. The Duke 

 of York's debts have been a positive scandal to the royal family of 

 England ever since his decease ; and when we consider the immense 

 sums of money drawn yearly by each individual of that family, our 

 astonishment is not at the high sense of honour and justice displayed 

 by his Majesty, by causing arrangements to be contemplated for paying 

 his illustrious brother's deficiencies, but that the same feeling did not 

 prompt him to do it before. It is very true that his Majesty's family 

 is numerous ; but his income is large ; and we sincerely hope that he 

 may live long to make up a tolerable purse for them. The compa- 

 ratively small sum required can never be better expended than in 

 relieving the memory of his relative from the odium which must ever 

 attach to the vices, however extenuated, of improvidence. 



It would have been a sad mockery to have exhibited the statue of 

 the deceased duke to the sneers of the populace ; and the tradesman 

 would have sighed, as he looked over his ledger, to think that the 

 illustrious original had raised more columns at the expense of the 

 people than any man in England. 



PROMOTION OF THE 3n REGIMENT OF SOUTH-DEVON ROYAL AUXI- 

 LIARY-SUPPLEMENTARY YEOMANRY CAVALRY ! The gallant yeo- 

 manry, if they are of no other use, at least afford plenty of amuse- 

 ment. Their antics on horseback are ludicrous enough, excepting 

 occasionally where they interfere with the people's comfort, by tread- 

 ing upon their toes a guacherie, which a well-bred horse of the 

 Guards would be ashamed to commit. 



" Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has been pleased to command 

 that the South Devon shall in future be styled ' The 3d Royal Devon, or 

 Duchess of Kent's own Regiment of Yeomanry.' " 



We are glad to hear the " South Devon" has deserved the honour 

 thus conferred upon it, and hope the members of the corps are some- 

 what more dexterous with their weapons than formerly. When they 

 were last called out into " active service," against some contumacious 

 rustics, one of the corps, who was more disposed for "business" than 

 his comrades, had pushed his horse in advance, which was seized by 

 some unceremonious chopstick by the bridle. The indignant miUtaire 

 aimed at him a desperate blow with his sabre, in the practice of which, 

 not having a veteran's experience, the gallant gentleman unfortunately 

 cut his charger's ear off! 



