and presenting to him the young prince, said, "Here, my friend! I commit to your care the safety of your King's son." The man, whose humanity and generous spirit had been obscured, not entirely lost, by his vicious course of life, was struck with the singularity of the event, was charmed with the confidence reposed in him, and vowed not only to abstain from all injury to the Princess, but to devote himself entirely to her service. By his means she dwelt some time concealed in the forest, and was at last conducted to the sea

coast, whence she made her escape into Flanders.

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LE jour où, jeune encore, on revêt la puissance,

On grandit sous son poids; pour secouer l'en

fance,

Sur les dégrés du trône il suffit d'un instant,

Et l'enfant couronné devient homme en montant.

CASIMIR DELAVIGNE.

GEORGE, PRINCE OF WALES, AFTERWARDS GEORGE THE FOURTH.

HIS

IS Royal Highness, George, Prince of Wales, afterwards George the Fourth, was invested with the insignia of the Garter at the early age of three years; but even this was not his first appearance in public life, as a short time previous, he had received in person, an address from the Ancient Britons, a society which has a peculiar claim to the patronage of the heir apparent. The address was with great good sense well adapted to his infantine years, and he appeared perfectly capable of comprehending the stewards, when they told him that his royal parents remembered no period of their lives too early for doing good, and hoped that when a few short years should call forth his virtues into action, he would recollect with pleasure the occurrence of that day.

His Royal Highness, no doubt prepared by parental care for the occasion, listened with attention to the address, and distinctly repeated his answer: "Gentlemen, I thank you for this mark of duty to the king, and wish prosperity to this charity."

AT an Installation of the Knights of the Garter, at

Windsor, when his Majesty's second son, Prince Frederic, appeared very uneasy and restless under his great cap and feather, his brother, the Prince of Wales, who was but one year older, called one of his people, and said, "Go to the Bishop of Osnaburg, and tell him, I desire he will remember that he is not in the nursery.

MISS

THE PRINCESS AMELIA.

ISS Burney, in her Diary, says of the Princess Amelia: "She is a most lovely little thing, just three years old, and full of sense, spirit, and playful prettiness yet decorous and dignified when called upon to appear en princesse to any strangers, as if conscious of her high rank, and of the importance of sustaining it. By practice and example, taught her own consequence, she conducts herself upon all proper occasions, with an air of dignity that is quite astonishing, though her natural character seems all sport and humour."

"When we became a little acquainted, the Queen desired me to take her by the hand, and lead her down stairs to the King, who was waiting for her in the gar