ste me ~ anecdotes of the king. ot Manges 
chaste, as never to draw the attention of the reader from 
the subject, will continue to be read and admired, long af+ 
ter the pompous volumes above mentioned fhall be lost ie 
the obscurity that ‘their own affectation hath engendered. 
We are not quite clear that the author’s observations 
on female education are altogether just. We have often 
imagined that there is an ease, an elegance, even in fe~ 
male compositions, superior to dat of males, which seems 
to arise from a kind of franknefs, in overleaping that kind 
of grammatical precision which often stops the flow of the 
masculine pen, and. gives it a stiffmefs that smells of pe- 
dantry. It deserves to be inquired into whether this 
stiffnefs in male writers, does not originate in an attempt 
to fetter our language by rules borrowed from Latin 
grammar, to which it will not yield. Women, who know 
nothing about that grammar, of course write the Englifh 
language in a more natural and unaffected manner than 
the great /ords of the creation, who will not be content 
without resting their words upon props borrowed from 
Greek or Latin authors. 
ANECDOTES OF THE KING. 
Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 
As any diverting anecdote relating to a reigning sove- 
reign, especially-such a one as at present fills the throne 
of Britain, seldom fails to please ‘his faithful subjects, and 
even to rivet their attachment to him, it is a pity that it 
fhould be so little attended to. My chief design, by these 
few lines, is to stimulate such as have materials, which 
would tend to make us better acquainted with the ex- 
emplary goodnefs of disposition, and easy deportment of 
his present majesty, to communicate them to the public. 
With this view I send the following ones which. have 
come to my knowledge, v2. 
