\ T OUR CHI )L'GHT 103 



shabby when the return he had to make wan net off 



he salary he received. A teacher of elocution, 



the father of Richard Brinaley Sheridan, had enjoyed 



a pension of the same amount for about twenty yean, 



utl nonce of Lord Bute, "to enable him to 



ou hi lit.-niry pursuit.-, small though the 



once wan, Herschcl preferred the pout of Royal 



Astronomer at Windsor to the troubles of a tea* 



lend Dr. Watson, not having yet 

 forgo may l> scred liable civil war be- 



tween "the sharps" and "the blunts," in which the 

 King did not figure to advantage, four years before, 

 echoed what would have been the general 

 . of scientific men, had they known, as he 

 the money part of the arrangement, when he 

 N'ever bought monarch honour so cheap ! " 

 i pleasant to look back 01 insaction 



the one-sided record of it given by Miss Herschel. 

 Well would it have been had she laid the burden of 

 blame on advisers, whom apparently she was not 

 ignorant of. Probably it added to the bitterness 

 which dropped from her pen, that in the following 

 year, Pallas, or Mr. Pallas as he was called in this 

 country, a student of George Hl.'s own University of 

 ugen, and a man of science far from equal to 

 Herschel, got an addition of 200 to his salary in 

 Russia ! * For the transaction, as we have seen, had a 

 shabbier look than appears on the surface. At least, 

 as it is represented, so it seems. Herschel was to give 

 lessons in astronomy to the Princesses of the Royal 

 Family, when called upon, and to receive the visitors 

 whom His Majesty might send. This might and did 



Memoir,, etc., i. 104. SceU Mag., 1785, p. 516. 



