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The King's Pocket Money. The following has been stated to be at His 

 Majesty's disposal ; the expences of his Royal state, and his charities, being 

 defrayed out of the Civil List: Privy Purse, 60,000. a-year; the Duchies of 

 Cornwall and Lancaster, 25,000. a-year ; the Surplus Revenue of Gibraltar, 

 8,000. or 10,000. a-year; an obscure, but snug little matter in Scotland, 

 under the quaint denomination of " Green Wax ;" Droits of Admiralty ; and 

 a variety of odds and ends, for the diligent collection of which, a certain Right 

 Honourable Gentleman is indebted for that high degree of confidential favour 

 which he is said to enjoy, and which he has employed to so many good pur- 

 poses, both in the east and west to the benefit alike of the Christian and Jew. 

 These items (not to mention Hanover, where there are pretty pickings) amount 

 to upwards of 100,000. a-year, which is at the absolute disposal of His 

 Majesty, unburdened by any charge whatever. 



If this be true, we congratulate the spenders, whoever they may be. 

 If the King require this, with the 300,000/. a year voted for the supply of 

 his Castle, well and good let him have it. But we wish, like all London 

 besides, so see him dispense a little of the light of his countenance, inde- 

 pendently of the exhilaration of his expenditure, in town. Our theatres, 

 our shopkeepers, our nobility, and our populace, all long to know some- 

 thing more of the English monarch than they do of the monarch of Mus- 

 covy, or to have somewhat more chance of seeing King George than they 

 have of seeing Sultan Mahmoud. Let him come among them, arid they 

 will shew him more honest English feeiing in an hour than he will 

 know in a year among the circle of gas-lamps and bedchamber-lords of 

 Windsor. 



The Bishop of St. Asaph's is dead. We take it for granted that that 

 scurra Philpott will be running up to town to claim something or other 

 on the occasion. We take it for granted also, that he will have his 

 journey for his pains ; and after trying to sneak his way into Apsley 

 House (where he will never get farther than the servants' hall), he will 

 be sent off. *i$ rov tStav TOWOV. Let the wretched man's remaining Greek 

 tell him what we think of him, and what millions think of him. He 

 has obtained a celebrity of his own, which let those envy who may. For 

 this man's conduct, we feel an unspeakable disdain ; nor shall we, while 

 we have power to speak our mind, ever suffer him to fall into the silence 

 that can let him imagine himself forgotten or forgiven. 



The Dowager Queen of Portugal is dead at last, for which the 

 story goes, that the Portuguese here are about to have a solemn Te 

 Deum. This woman was but fifty-four, yet she has figured before her 

 affrighted subjects long enough to make them wish her in the Red 

 Sea, for the last quarter of a century. She was the daughter of the 

 mother of the present King of Spain, though by what father, the old 

 Queen's habits render among the most difficult questions. The matri- 

 monial connections of the Romish royal family give a striking view of 

 the pleasant complications that popery sanctions, in the flocks of its 

 royal sheep. 



Ferdinand VII., when Prince of the Asturias, married the daugh- 

 ter of the (then) King of Naples, and sister of the present King ; 

 while the latter married about the same time the sister of Ferdinand. 

 They thus became doubly brothers in-law, and Ferdinand became his 

 own brother-in-law. On his second marriage, he wedded his niece, 

 the daughter of his sister and King John VI. of Portugal. By this 



