Royal Highness to £125,000, and £50,000 to the Princess. Twenty-eight thousand pounds were also voted for the expenses of the marriage; and £26,000 for furnishing Carlton House.

On the 7th of January, 1796, Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales was delivered of a Princess at Carlton House. The royal infant was christened in the grand audience Chamber at Carlton House on the 16th of February following.

We have now to touch upon a point, which, from its extreme delicacy, we feel reluctant to enter upon. Our readers will immediately perceive that we allude to the unhappy separation which took place between the Prince and Princess of Wales. Various causes have been assigned for this separation : but none by which it is satisfactorily accounted for. It is totally impossible, in most cases, to explain the causes of dislike between man and wife. Many persons, perhaps, will recollect the following anecdote, which we think very applicable.-A Roman Emperor was blamed by his friends and ministers for neglecting his consort: she is, said they, the most beautiful and accomplished of her sex-then why slight her?

'Look at my shoe,' replied the Emperor, 'does it not fit the foot well, and seem admirably well-made?' To this the courtiers all acquiesced. 'Yes,' said the Emperor,' but no one knows where it pinches but myself!'

The dangerous illness of the late King depriving him of the power of governing, his Royal Highness was appointed Regent of the United Kingdom; and continued to that important trust till it pleased the Almighty to call his Royal Father from all his earthly troubles; and on January 29, 1820, his Royal Highness succeeded to the throne of Great Britain; was proclaimed next day, and crowned with great splendour on July 19, 1821.

No King ever evinced a greater desire of increasing the glory and prosperity of his country than his present Majesty. Let but an impartial person view the improvements, alone, that are now making in London, under his direction and patronage-Let him remember the gift of his royal father's matchless library to the nation; and also his own collection of coins and medals, (which, we are informed, will be followed by his Cabinet of Armour ;)—his continued patronage of the Fine Arts; his anxious wish to patronize the endeay

ours of the most humble of his subjects;—his never ceasing encouragement of trade ;—and he cannot but say, that GEORGE the Fourth is one of the most enlightened and truly English Monarchs that ever swayed the British sceptre.

ANECDOTE.

In the year 1794, a French emigrant went into a jeweller's shop for the purpose of buying a sword; he saw one which pleased him, but his means were not equal to the purchase; he offered all the money he had, and a ring which he wore, in payment for the remainder; the man hesitated, and the unfortunate stranger endeavoured to strengthen his request by stating the motive which induced it—he was going to join the standard of Earl Moira. They were interrupted by the entrance of a third person, who, hearing the conversation, called the jeweller aside, and directed him to let the foreigner have the sword, and he would reimburse him. He then left the shop, when the foreigner learned that for this act of kindness he was indebted to George IVth, Prince of Wales.

JACOB HAYS.

He is a man, take him for all in all,

We shall not look upon his like again.-Shaks.

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce to your acqnaintance, Baron Nabem, a person who has a very taking way with him.-Tom and Jerry.

PERHAPS there is no species of composition so generally interesting and truly delightful as minute and indiscriminate biography; and it is pleasant to perceive how this taste is gradually increasing. The time is apparently not far distant when every man will be found busy writing the life of his neighbour, and expect to have his own written in return, interspersed with original anecdotes, extracts from epistolary correspondence, the exact hours at which he was in the habit of going to bed at night and getting up in the morning, and other miscellaneous and useful information carefully selected and judiciously arranged. In Europe there exists an absolute biographical mania, and they are manufacturing

lives of poets, painters, play-acters, peers, pugilists, pick-pockets, horse jockeys and their horses, together with a great many people that are scarcely known to have existed at all. And the fashion now is not only to shadow forth the grand and striking outlines of a great man's character, and hold to view those qualities which elevated him above his species, but to go into the minutiae of his private life, and note down all the trivial expressions and every-day occurrences in which, of course, he mercly spoke and acted like any ordinary man. This not only affords employment for the exercise of the small curiosity and meddling propensities of his officious biographer, but is also highly gratifying to the general reader, inasmuch as it elevates him mightily in his own opinion to see it put on record that great men eat, drank, slept, walked, and sometimes talked just as he does. In giving the biography of the high constable of New York city, I shall by all means avoid descending to undignified particulars; though I deem it important to state, before proceeding farther, that there is not the slightest foundation for the report afloat that Mr Hays has left off eating buckwheat cakes in a morning, in consequence of their lying too heavy on his stomach.