Feb. 11. 1854.] 



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One can easily imagine that the fastueux Louis 

 XIV. Avould have no objection to such display, 

 and that his mistresses, as well as queen, would 

 be of the party, when we read, that in the royal 

 progresses two of the former were scandalously 

 paraded in the same carriage with his queen. To 

 this immoral exhibition, indeed, public opinion 

 seemed to give no check, as we read, that " les 

 pcuples accouraient 'pour voir,' disaient-ils, 'les 

 trois reines,' " wherever they appeared together. 

 Of these three queens, the true one was Marie- 

 Therese : the two others were La Marquise de 

 Montespan and Mme. de la Valliere. But to re- 

 turn to my subject. I find by the London Gazette, 

 No. G091. of Sept. 4, 1722, that Geo. I., in his 

 progress to the west of England, supped in public 

 at the Bishop's (Dr. Richard Willis) palace at 

 Salisbury on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 1722 ; and 

 slept there that night. 



The papers of the period of George II. say : 



" There was such a resort to Hampton Court on 

 Sunday, July 14, 1728, to see their Majesties dine, 

 that the rail surrounding the table broke ; and causing 

 some to fall, made a terrible scramble for hats, &c, at 

 which their Majesties laughed heartily." 



And, — 



" On Thursday, the 25th of the same month, it is 

 stated, the concourse to see their Majesties dine in 

 public at Hampton Court was exceedingly great. A 

 gang of robbers (the swell-mob of that day ?) had 

 mixed themselves among the nobility and gentry; 

 several gold watches being lost, besides the ladies' 

 gown tails and laced lappets cut off in number." 



And again : 



" On Sunday, 15th September, 1728, their Majesties 

 dined together in public at Windsor (as they will con- 

 tinue to do every Sunday and Thursday during their 

 stay there), when all the country people, whether in or 

 out of mourning, were permitted to see them." 



Besides those three occasions of George II. and 

 Queen Caroline dining in public, we have another 

 recorded attended with some peculiar circum-* 

 stances, as mentioned in the London Gazette, 

 No. 7623. of Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1737 : 



" The 31st ult. being Sunday, their Majesties, the 

 Prince and Princess of Wales, and the Princesses Amelia 

 and Caroline, went to chapel at Hampton Court, and 

 heard a sermon preached by the Rev. Dr. Blomer. 

 Their Majesties, and the rest of the royal family, dined 

 afterwards in public as usual before a great number of 



which his misgovernment had brought upon England. 

 The woman was immediately taken into custody, and 

 confessed that she had been employed by a certain 

 knight. The knight boldly acknowledged what he 

 had done, and said, " That, supposing the King would 

 read the letter in private, lie took that method of ap- 

 prising him of the complaints of his subjects." — Strick- 

 land's Queens of England, vol. i. p. 487.— Ed.] 



spectators. About seven o'clock that evening, the 

 Princess of Wales was taken with some slight symptoms 

 of approaching labour, and was removed to St. James's ; 

 where, a little after eleven, she was delivered of a 

 princess." 



This was the Princess Augusta, who was married 

 to the Prince of Brunswick Wolfenbuttel. <p. 



Richmond. 



PARALLEL IDEAS FROM POETS. 



Longfellow and Tennyson : 



" And like a lily on a river floating, 

 She floats upon the river or' his thoughts." 



Spanish Student, Act II. Sc. 3. 



u Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, 

 And slips into the bosom of the lake ; 

 So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip 

 Into my bosom and be lost in me." 



Princess, Part vii. 

 Wordsworth and Keble : 



" A book, upon whose leaves some chosen plants 

 By his own hand disposed with nicest care, 

 In undecaying beauty were preserved ; — 

 Mute register, to him, of time and place, 

 And various fluctuations in the breast; 

 To her, a monument of faithful love 

 Conquered, and in tranquillity retained !" 



Excursion, Book vi. 



" Like flower-leaves in a precious volume stor'd, 

 To solace and relieve 

 Some heart too weary of the restless world." 

 Christian Fear ; Prayers to be used at Sea. 



Moore and Keble : 



" Now by those stars that glance 

 O'er Heaven's still expanse, 

 Weave we our mirthful dance, 

 Daughters of Zea ! " 



Evenings in Greece. 



" Beneath the moonlight sky, 

 The festal warblings flow'd, 

 Where maidens to the Queen of Heaven 

 Wove the gay dance." 

 Christian Year : Eighth Sunday after Trinity. 



Norris Deck. 

 Cambridge. 



THE great alphabetic psalm, and the songs 



OF DEGREES. 



In attempting to discover a reason for the di- 

 vision of Psalm cxix. into twenty-two portions of 

 eight verses each, instead o*f seven or ten, the more 

 favourite numbers of the Hebrew, I have thought 

 that, as the whole Psalm is chiefly laudatory of the 

 Thorah, or Law of Moses, and was written alpha- 

 betically for the instruction mainly of the younger 

 people, to be by them committed to memory, a 



