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daughters and three other ladies, who were in Mr. 
Schuldham’s small room when Mr. Hobart in one 
of his chairings was coming his third round, issued 
out to meet him, near the Hall, and then proceeded 
with him to the King’s Head, his quarters. 
Perhaps you don’t know what a fine person Lady 
B. is,—tall, handsome, and extremely elegant: most 
of the ladies besides were handsome, and all young. 
To see such in the centre of a throng of stavesmen, 
rending the air with their shouts, was a novel sight, 
and struck everybody with surprise and pleasure, 
except some who might envy what they had no op- 
portunity of rivalling. It pleased the people so 
much, that they requested her ladyship to gratify 
them once more with the pleasing honour, to which 
she condescended, and the ladies took a tour round 
Mr. Hobart’s ground. 
I beg your pardon for the suspicion I entertained 
too hastily ; tis the foible natural to age. Iam very 
glad to hear I am mistaken, and rejoice at every in- 
stance of the integrity of human nature. 
I remain, dear James, ever yours, 
JAMES SMITH. 
ried on men’s shoulders three times round the place of election, 
and is frequently tost by them into the air. Those who have 
seen this ceremony will not fail to be struck with the words, 
already referred to, of a Roman historian, (Tacit. Hist. iv. 15.) 
‘impositus scuto et sustinentium humeris vibratus ;’ the exact 
agreement of which with the yet remaining practice will scarcely 
allow us to doubt that the elevation of kings, here, as well as in 
the other countries above mentioned, was the original mode of 
their inauguration.” —Taylor’s Glory of Regality, p. 29. 
