1821.] Another J 
Another consideration seems to call 
for some regulation of the public debt. 
Owing to the alteration in the value of 
the currency, all former contracts ap¬ 
pear to be undergoing a revision. The 
landlord is making a new agreement 
with his tenants, the workman with 
his employer, and government with its 
servants.—Why, then, should not a 
new arrangement be made with the 
public creditor ? 
To return to our subject. Sismondi's 
44 History of France ” forms the twelfth 
article. There are a few observations 
on particular portions of French his¬ 
tory ; but the learning, eloquence, and 
industry of the distinguished continen¬ 
tal writers, hardly receive the praise 
they deserve. 
44 High Church National Education" 1 
is the finish. It is very tame; but, as 
the poet says, there was a time when an 
offender like Mr. Llovd against reason, 
humanity and common sense, would 
not have escaped so easily. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine . 
SIR, 
r |lHE story of Hannah Lightfoothas 
-®- long been partly known; but 
anecdotes of that kind, plentiful enough 
in every court, necessarily get abioad, 
become general table talk for a while ; 
are forgotten; after a revolution of time 
are revived as novelties, and then, 
being ripe for such purpose, attempts 
for their suppression are made by the 
pious. I have no doubt but that your 
last correspondent, Inquirer's account, 
is generally correct; but, if there be 
any inaccuracy, it 4s, that the lady was 
not taken into keeping by the Prince, 
until nearly three years subsequently 
to the period stated. An eminent sur¬ 
geon, equally eminent in another far 
more lucrative profession, had the ho¬ 
nour, in the upper circles, of being 
named as the minister plenipotentiary, 
on this occasion. 
There is a singularity attached to 
these Quaker anecdotes. Half a cen- 
tu-y since, when the King’s penchant 
for Quaker beauty was a somewhat 
fresh topic of conversation, Hannah 
Lightfoot’s name was scarcely ever 
mentioned, and always with a degree 
ot uncertainty, as to whether that were 
or not, the right name. Another name 
was far more generally quoted, that of 
a very respectable family, which I need 
not now repeat. His Majesty, on one 
or two occasions, paid a distinguished 
attention to that family, which was 
'air Quaker, 41] 
partly Quaker and partly Church of 
England. A lady, the daughter of the 
Quaker branch, of great beauty and 
accomplishments, is said to have at¬ 
tracted the royal attention, somewhere 
about, or more probably before, the 
year 17fi0. Of this there was no doubt; 
but it has never been equally well 
ascertained, whether the royal George 
was, on that occasion, successful. Lady 
Sarah Lennox, also, was universally 
supposed to have been a royal favourite. 
In the year 1773, I became acquainted 
with a young gentleman of the family 
above alluded to. He was of the Church 
of England branch, and frequently 
visited an aunt in Berkeley-square. I 
mentioned to him the report respecting 
his relative, of which he said he was 
well aware; but appeared to be either 
unapprized of the circumstances, or to 
decline committing himself on the sub¬ 
ject. It is propabie that his late Ma- 
jesty, whom nature had endowed with 
super-eminent qualifications, left a very 
numerous left-handed issue, in the 
upper ranks, of which may be placed a 
late Austrian prince and general, and 
a count, not only in present existence, 
but in the enjoyment of high and dis¬ 
tinguished honours and confidence. 
Who was the lady by whom the King 
had five children, and to whom his 
attachment was so strong, that he is 
said to have conceived the strange idea 
of espousing her, when he succeeded to 
the crown; and that it was with the 
utmost difficulty that his ministry 
could divert his mind from a project 
so truly insane? It was, indeed, for¬ 
merly reported, but I know not with 
what degree of authenticity, that the 
pressure occasioned by this subject, and 
the necessity./ as it was represented to 
him, ot contracting an immediate 
suitable marriage, were the real cause 
ot the first alienation of mind which 
appeared in the young King, and the 
account of which, in Smollett’s first 
edition of the History of England, was 
suppressed in consequence of an appli¬ 
cation to the author by the Earl of 
Bute. Another Enquirer. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Maga zinc. 
SIR, 
ARIOUS plans hare of late been 
recommended, and some adopted, 
with the view of giving employment to 
the poor; such as the cultivation of 
forests, spade husbandry, (he building 
of churches, See. &e. none of which 
have 
