MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, LONDON 



descend by a flight of steps into the garden along 

 the Park wall. The rooms are lofty and well 

 arranged. In the vestibule at the entrance is 

 depicted the Battle of Hochstet. 



Outside Marlborough House in olden days 

 was the stand for sedan chairs to bear fair ladies 

 to many a gorgeous function. On George Ill's 

 birthday, June 4, 1790, sixteen mail coaches, 

 drawn by as many sets of blood-horses, paraded 

 up St. James's Street. In the year 1688 the 

 Earl of Peterborough saw a canary at a coffee- 

 house in Pall Mall that piped twenty tunes, and 

 he tried to purchase it for Lady Sandwich ; but 

 the owner was rich, and she would not part with 

 it. The Earl was determined to have the bird, 

 and he succeeded in changing it for one marked 

 just in the same way. Some time after he called 

 upon the woman and said he supposed she was 

 now sorry she had not accepted his offer. " No, 

 no," she replied ; " if your lordship will believe 

 me (as I am a Christian it is true) it has 

 moped and moped, and never once opened 

 its pretty lips since the day the poor King 

 went away." 



Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, husband of 

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