G32 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



The spokesman for Cambridge was the vice-chancellor of the day, 

 Ralph Tatham, Master of St. John's. He rather mouthed his words, 

 and I overheard one of the " gentlemen at arms " behind ns make a 

 remark sotto voce, to a companion, contrasting unfavourably Dr. 

 Tatham's delivery with that of the Duke of Wellington. The duke's 

 voice had just been sounding in their ears. He was Chancellor of 

 Oxford that year, and had immediately preceded us at the head of a 

 deputation. As we were waiting in the Library at the Palace before 

 we were summoned to go up, we saw the Duke descend the grand 

 staircase arrayed in Academic robes and followed by many magnates 

 of Oxford. — Very soon after the close of the Queen's reply, our 

 whole party withdrew from the throne-room, all retiring towards the 

 door backward. The many rooms or galleries through which we 

 passed in our v,^ay to and fro, had grand objects of vertu placed here 

 and there on stands along the sides, and paintings suspended from the 

 walls. But the guards permitted no one to linger, however desirous 

 he might be to examine and admire. The feet, I remember, as we 

 walked along, sank in carpets of a luxurious moss-like depth of pile. 

 — The royal autograph which I preserve is attached to a Canadian 

 document of no particular interest, thus : Victoria R. — I should 

 subjoin, perhaps, a mention of two other quasi-royal relics : one a 

 volume from the library of the Queen's uncle, the Duke of Sussex, 

 with his book-plate and motto : Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos ? — 

 The other, a book with the initials W. H. of the Duke of Clarence, 

 another of the Queen's uncles, and afterwards William IV. The 

 former is a black-letter, Registrum Speculi Intellectualis Felicitatis 

 JBumance, atque Brevis Compendii de Bonce Valetudinis Cwra, piinted 

 at Nuremberg by Udalric Pinder, circa 1507. The latter is an edition 

 of Anacreon, in Greek, with a prose translation by Gilpin, beautifully 

 printed at York, by Wilson, Spencer & Mawman, in 1796. — Not 

 unallied in their subject, with these royal memorials, are some verses 

 in English £ind Latin which I transcribe from the autograph of their 

 author, the scholarly Marquis of Wellesley, brother of the Duke of 

 Wellington, overlooked by me before. " On the Burial of the 

 Princess Augusta in the Royal Tomb House, Windsor Castle [Sept., 

 1840], 



Open, ye last abodes of G-eorge's race ! 

 ' Open your consecrated place of rest ! 



Receive in Peace and hope, and heavenly grace, 

 A spotless heart, an unpolluted breast. 



