HABBINESS <>i- KING'S ADYIS1 KS 93 



Bunks remained a sincere, well-moaning fri-nl to the 



t many days after (May 8, 1827) she write* 



.ccumxl to bar, apparently, might 



accou > alleged mean-spirited ahmbbtness: 



Wh, 11 in 1758 he again went to England, it was 



:ch unpleasant drcumstances that he was 



J to leave it to his mother to send hia trunk 



him to Hamburg." 1 The nation or mob that 



shot A Byng for incapacity f<ur months before 



th. II in.. x.-rian bandsman deserted, that cashiered Lord 



Qeorge Sackvill. f.. r less two years before, and 



ri.liciil"! tli- King's own uncle, "the poor 



"as Cumberland wan called, "the lump of fat 



crowned with laurel on the altar/' * but " were new 



pi nails to tear him to pieces the 



instant he lands,"* for a similar fault to Byng's, had 



to be reckoned with in bestowing honours on a deserter. 



So the King may have thought, and so his dilatoriness 



and apparent shabbiness may bo accounted for, as well 



as the secrecy in which the affair was shrouded during 



r lives, 



But there are circumstances which involve in still 

 greater obscurity the whole of these so-called bargains 

 between the King and William HerscheL Some years 



death of both, an English writer spoke <- 

 ingratitude of England. But there is no proof that 

 Herschel, though settled in England, was ever natural- 

 ised His sister, so far as words could go, throw off 

 her German nati but words are not law. i 



was always sure to bo noticed by the Duke of Cam- 

 ;! as his country woman," she wrote in 1835, "(and 



1 Memoir*, p. 211. Referring to a cartoon of UM dy. 



A xlpolt't Ltiim, lii 475, 284. 



