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2dmitted within the lines ; and, from 
the absence of those appendages of 
wealth and condition, it was diffi- 
cult to distinguish individuals. All 
that could be seen was, that the 
women within the line were chiefly 
in white dresses, and the men, 
with the exception of a few naval 
officers, sharp shooters, and vo- 
junteer cavalry, in red. As far 
as we had an opportunity of nearer 
inspection, it was equally difficult to 
make distinctions. Beauty was pre- 
valent in innumerable parties ; and 
_wherever beauty prevails, rank is 
always a subordinate consideration. 
The general coup d’wil was, how- 
ever, grand beyond description. His 
majesty, having passed to the ex- 
tremity of the line, returned again 
by the serpentine, and took his po- 
sition in the centre. ‘Then, on the 
signal of the seventh gun, three vol- 
lies were fired by battaliens from the 
eentre to the flanks; and on the 
firing of the eighth gun, three loud, 
universal, and unanimous cheers 
Were given, with hats and hands 
waying in the air, drums beating, 
and music playing ‘‘ God save the 
_ king.” On the firing of the ninth 
gun, the whole of the corps wheeled 
backwards on their left, by divi- 
sions ; and, having passed his ma- 
jesty in the order preseribed by the 
general instructions, proceeded by 
_ the most convenient way to their 
different quarters. 
The review being over at twenty 
minutes past one, the royal party, 
with the foreign princes, and the ge- 
nerals, returned again from the po- 
sition which his ifajesty had taken 
in the centre of the park, by the 
serpentine, and along by Rotten- 
row, to Piccadilly gate, from which _ 
they crossed over, and went on,to 
Buckingham-house, followed all the 
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way by the immense erowd. Being 
no longer restrained by the military 
employed in keeping the lines, the 
people ran in all direétions, to in- 
dulge their affection for their sove- 
reign, with a view of his beloved 
person. ‘The air resounded with 
their shouts; and his majesty shewed 
the deepest sense of their loyalty, as 
well by the satisfa¢tion which was 
visible in his countenance, as by 
pulling off his hat, and giving other 
marks of his reciprocal feelings. Ne- 
yer was such a concourse known 
with so little inconvenience. No 
one accident occurred: indeed, the 
only thing from which any accident 
could have been apprehended was, 
the extreme eagerness with which 
the crowd ran wherever his majesty 
could be seen; their impetuosity 
was such, on these occasions, as to 
break through the best-fenced in- 
closures of the Park, and it was with 
the utmost difficulty that the troops 
employed in keeping the ground 
could stop them, though the good- 
ness of the motive produced no re- 
laxation in the enforcement of this 
very necessary duty. On the re- 
turn of the corps, after the review, 
about half past one, all the windows 
in the streets through which they 
were to pass, were crowded with 
ladies. The principal houses in Pic- 
cadilly and Park-lane were filled 
with persons of the first distinction, 
as were those of St. George’s-row, 
leading to Bayswater, and several 
in Oxford-street. The small houses 
at the gate to Hyde-park, and the 
rails to the very top, had a most 
singular appearance from the num- 
ber of persons who had climbed to 
the top of them. Piccadilly was’ 
thronged with carriages of every de- 
scription, none but those of ambas- 
sadors and princes being suffered to 
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