Perhaps these lines, which he committed to memory when a child, laid the foundation of that uniform zeal, which this good king discovered for the universal distribution of the Holy Scriptures, and the education of all persons in the principles of Christianity. Never was a more generous, a more scriptural, or a more Protestant principle expressed, than that uttered by George the Third, that he wished every subject in his realms might be able to read the Bible, and might have a Bible to read.

HENRY PRINCE OF WALES,

SON OF JAMES THE FIRST.

HENRY, Prince of Wales, Son of James the First,

had such an aversion to the profanation of the name of God, that he was never heard to take it in vain, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, in his funeral sermon upon him, mentioned, in testimony of his strictness in this point, that memorable answer of the Prince, when he was asked by one why he did not swear in play as well as others, that he knew of no game worthy of an oath. The same kind of answer he gave on another occasion: His Highness being once hunting the stag, it happened, that the stag being spent, crossed the road, where a