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Saturday, August i6th, his Majesty the King 

 reviewed the ships at Spithead, and expressed 

 his extreme satisfaction at the appearance of 

 the ships and the ships' companies. 



I had already passed through and reviewed 

 them the day before, and expressed my "ex- 

 treme satisfaction" as the result. That being 

 so, it was from no unpatriotic or disloyal motive 

 that I abstained from attending his Majesty's 

 Review on the Saturday, as I have said I had 

 already seen and blessed them. 



I suppose it will be within the memory of a 

 good many readers that on July igth there 

 appeared in "The Fishing Gazette" a short 

 article entitled "Trout Fishing in the Isle of 

 Wight," and that was really the secret cause of 

 my apparent disloyalty. The Major, you may 

 be sure, had an eye on this fishery when he 

 took apartments in breezy, bracing Sandown 

 bracing, I mean, for the island, which in the 

 month of August does not generally sustain 

 that character. He had accordingly obtained 

 further information from the courteous and 

 energetic secretary of the Carisbrooke Fishing 

 Association, Mr. Percy Wadham, who lives at 

 Waltondale, Newport (the very name of his 



