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sonable rambles being adopted even for the whimə sical annoyance of those whom she so often treated with respect and affection.

In the intervals of rural and marine excursions, the youthful Princess was in frequent intimacy, not only with her royal Father at Carlton House, but also with the august Family at Windsor, where her sprightly playfulness, and opening mental blossoms, afforded marked satisfaction to her venerable Grandsire, who took great pleasure and indefatigable pains in training her heart to virtue.

So paternal and patriotic were the wishes of the illustrious Monarch, that the furtherance of this object seemed to be the point nearest his heart, even on that important day, the 25th of October, 1809, when a whole nation was inspired with loyal enthusiasm in celebrating the jubilee which marked his troubled, yet glorious, reign of half a century, then the longest period that any monarch had ever sat upon the English throne, with the exception of HENRY III and EDWARD III; the glory and the length of whose reigns are now surpassed by that of our heaven-stricken, but beloved Sovereignon that auspicious day, the whole family, with the

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Festivities at Windsor.

exception of the present illustrious Wanderer,* were assembled at Windsor; the Princess Charlotte having accompanied her Father, in his travelling carriage, to pay a visit of filial love and congratulation. How proud a moment for the pa ternal and patriarchal feelings of Sire and Grandsire! How gratifying, especially to the latter, in his prophetic views of future glory, when his lovely Heiress should reign over a people, then bursting the very heavens with shouts of loyal joy for the prolonged existence of a Monarch so faithfully beloved-a Monarch, whose private and domestic conduct had been a prominent and impressive example of piety, morality, and of every virtuous feeling that can adorn the sovereign, or render man estimable!

In all the family festivity of the day, the Princess partook with a satisfaction far beyond her years. With a heart open to pleasure, her mind was also peculiarly susceptible of joy-she felt the awful happiness of the important anniversary-and it was

* The Princess of Wales had a select party to dinner, in honour of the jubilee, at Kensington Palace. In the evening, her Royal Highness had a numerous party, and entertained them with a grand display of fireworks.

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evident to all around her, that she felt as a daughter, as a subject, and as a future queen; for such she had been taught most sedulously, and, with marked propriety, to consider herself.

The early impressions made upon her mind by the maxims of our beloved Monarch, were never obliterated from her memory; and these maxims were not confined to her worldly duties-they embraced a higher field a field where she is now reaping the blessed harvest of a pious seed time, and where her angel spirit waits to be rejoined by his to whom she owes much of a happy immortality.

Of this fact we have a beautiful illustration in an anecdote of a Clergyman, who had obtained the honour of admission to her presence, for the purpose of soliciting her patronage of a charitable institution. The Princess received him with the greatest sweetness and affability, and entered into familiar conversation with him; in the course of which, she asked him his idea of a death-bed, and how to make it easy. The Clergyman expressed some surprise that her Royal Highness, who could have the benefit of much superior advice, should consult him; to which she replied, that she had put the same questions to several persons, that she wished to collect different opinions, and that she had made it often the subject of conversation with her Grandfather. She added, that she must ever feel greatly indebted to Lady Elgin for her pious

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Anecdotes of Art.

instruction, that Lady having been the first who had ever put the Hymns of Dr. Watts into her hand-most of which she could repeat from memory.

Her Royal Highness was already a liberal encou rager of the fine arts, and manifested the most friendly disposition for the artists whom she patronised by many marked attentions, conferred with that delicate sweetness which evinced the goodness of her heart. Among the earliest who had the honour to be thus noticed by her Royal Highness, Mr. H. B. Chalon, the celebrated painter of animals, must be named. When the Princess was then but in her sixteenth year, she employed Mr. Chalon to paint her six beautiful white ponies. During the visits of this gentleman to Warwick House, he experienced many acts of the kindest condescension from the Princess. The prepara

tion for oil painting, it is known, occupies some time for arrangement before the painter can commence; and as this operation had been once performed in the presence of the Princess, (for the pictures were painted in one of the apartments in Warwick House,) her Royal Highness one morning waited the arrival of the painter, who was much surprised to find his easel with his canvass placed thereon, his palette set, and his brushes and pencils arranged in the same order as he had been used to place them. Mr. Chalon was at a loss to account for this, when one of the attendants whis

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pered-" It is her Royal Highness who has spared you this trouble!" The artist bowed for this mark of favour, when her Royal Highness curtsied, and with the most fascinating smile of condescension said, "See, Sir; I hope I have placed them to your satisfaction!"

That the sentiment of sorrow now so generally expressed by all who had the happiness to be employed by her Royal Highness is sincere, cannot be doubted, when it is known that her exalted rank could feel and practice, in their fullest extent, all the utmost niceties of that politeness-of that benevolence, which delights in estimating the feelings of every individual, without regard to rank. Mr. Chalon had several commissions for her Royal Highness: among others, portraits of some favourite dogs in a cabinet picture, which was not then completed. This picture the Princess wished to show to some friends, and dispatched a messenger to Mr. Chalon's house to desire it might be returned by the bearer. The artist was not in town; when Mrs. Chalon, anxious to obey her Royal Highness's commands, sought to find the picture, but in vain : she was therefore obliged to send an apology, also informing the Princess, that she had, in the absence of her husband, made every effort to comply with her desire, and to assure her Royal Highness that her disappointment in not finding the picture was very great. But how grateful must