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    a&ifie the king to a larger company ;• not Wan in tfiose forties of pleasure which me * oompose 4 of his most intimate acq * u £ ti $ ariee ** r - - ¦ ¦ ' - * f £ li& $ eWant £ are never disturbed wifcb any unnecessary waiting ; for he is fcis motioto the

    regular « # 11 ns greatest exactness * exeept cto particular oceaskims , - when he outruns his own Orders and expsots those who are to attend him before the tune of bte appointment . This may easily be accounted for : he has a restless mind which requires constant exercise j his affairs are not sufficient to

    Ml up the day ; his amusements are without variety , and have lost their relish ; he becomes fretful and uneasy , merely for want of employment ; and presses forward to meet the succeeding hour before it arrives .

    <* Too great attention to money seems to lie his capkal felling ; however , he is always Just , and sometimes charitable , though seldom generous ; but when we consider how rarely the liberality of

    princes is directed to the proper object , being usually bestowed on a rapacious mistress © r an unworthy favourite , want of generosity , though it still continues a blot , ceases at least to be a vice of the

    fost magnitude . * " Upon the whole , he ha * some qualities of a great prince , many of a good one , n # ne which are essentially bad ; and I am thoroughly convinced that , fctves&gr , when time shall hare wore away those specks and blemishes which dullty the brightest characters , and from

    which no man Is totally exempt , he will be' numbered amonget those patriot Icings , un * ler whose government the people have enjoyed the greatest happiness . " Fl > , 4—7 . While the late King , George III ., was Kvingy It * would not have been

    decorous to l&jr before the world the picture of bis early character by his GQvejr » er ; for thjs reason the manuscript wap k ^ ptMthm the family of the writer until , Death had consigned that monarch to * he care of History .

    What he was us a man , ail the world know * i It appeals from Earl Walde-# rave ' s sketch of his youth , that his character soon disrlosec } # tself , an ^ underwent little < tah * &o chftltee frora tfctfe . Prinzes li * jfl ^ thtok , Wile they a ^ e surrowi ^ 4 onW by ^ mi ^ g free * , that the eyes of their courtiers are ^^ fijwftt th ^ ir ^ Ptiwa , wprd » and ejp f ^ i te ^ f t to gjwQ eviden c ^ for or agflftgt tp # m before tHe ^ oleinn tv % d » nai of poiteri ^ . ^ . . ?** The Prince of Wale * i * tmefm ^ into

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    his twenty-firs ^ y «« ar , aod it would be irafair to decide upon hi 9 character 1 ti the « arly stages of iife r wbca there % jbo much tiaie for iiB ^> roveii «?») t . Mfe p ^ ats , thou ^ i not exeelleBt , will be found very tolerable , if ever they are properly

    exercised . He is strictly lionet , tot wants ttmt frank and open behaviour which makes honesty appeal * amiable . When he had a v «* y scanty allowance , it was one of his favourite maxims that men

    should be yunt before they are gene rous < hk income is now very const , derabiy augmented , but his generosity has not increased in equal proportion . His religion is free from all hypocrisy but is not of the most charitable

    sort ; he has rather too mnch attention to the sing of his neighbour . He has spirit , but not ofjlhe aetive kind , and dpes not want resolution > but ii is mixed with too much obstinacy . He has a great oominand of his passion ^ , and will seldom do wrong , except when he mistake * wrong for right , but as often as this

    shall happen it will be difficult to uudeceive him , because he is uneoaimotily in * dolent , and has strong prejudices . His want of application and aversion to business would be far less dangerous , was be eager in the pursuit of pleasure ; fox the traasition from pleasure to buamflSfcy is both shorter and easier than from a \* tate

    of total inaction .. He has a kind of unhappiness hi bis temper which , if net conquered before it has taken too deep a root , will be a source pf frequent anxiety . Whenever he is displeased , his an * ger does not break out with heat and violence ; but lie becomes * sullen and

    silent , and retires to his closet ; not to compose his mind by study or contain * platlon , but merely to indulge the melancholy enjoym ^ ut of his own iiUh « mour . Even when the nt is ended * u « £ av ©« i'able symptom ^ r 0 turo which indicaie t hat On certain occAiiiona his Royal Highuesa ^ has too correct a memory . ^ . l ^

    44 Though I have mentioned . his good and had qualities , without flatteryf and without aggrayatioti , allo « vatic « 6 ahotiid still be wade , on account of his youth , and hi * bad edneaiion : for though the Bishop of Peterborou ^ ^ ja ^ rvv Bishop <^ Sali&buiry r t ^ e fHteteplop i Mv * Stowf the

    subTgovernor > ajuul Mr . S ^ tt ^ th e ^ a > - pr ^ eptdr , were itieri of teetwe , n * en of lemming , and w&rtfifL ( food men , ^ f 7 had but Mule weight * ud 4 £ ifltaenco > w mother and . thto mirsery ahvm pi «« raiiea * " During , the qouj ^ e ; &lJto& \ to * % j TB ** there has , indeed , been some alteration ; the authority of % h& mM&Wnto *» B& * £ a % AmitlmAfijMiA <* *» &&k&t & * # *** ty ^ mmmm ^ ^ ^^ m ^^^^ ^ the eutfcre coa ^ cteiic ^ ^ tttoW * *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/52/