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than evan that of her sister Sophia, Her sloping shoulders were saftly rounded, giving her tha faintest, slightest sgmblance of stoeping: and yet they bormowed the appenrance of breadth from the well- expanded abeat, whence the besams rose grandly. But in their luxuriance, these large glowing orbs were scareely divided in the middle—while laterally they protruded en the space occupied by the arms. The whole forng of tke Princdéas Amelia waa characterised by embaxpoint, and was soft, full, and veluptuous ia the extreme,-—leaving the waist, however, sufficiently symmetrical, though by no means sylpb-like. Indeed, her Royal Highness was a perfect Hebe in tha style of her beauty and the luscious ripeness of her charms ;—and, alike in person and in tempera- meant, did she appear to have been farmed by natura for the enjoyment of wanton pleasures. Over those shoulders so dazslingly white, — nat snowy nor like alabaster, but of the inimitable white- ness of living fleah which ig fair and saft to the eye, —over those shoulders, wa say, flowed a profusion of silky hair, not ao colourless ag flaxen nor 20 deep aa aubuarn-~hut of the bright and, glossy golden and hours, aud-days in that King’s life when Ae en- “vied the lot of the poorest of his aubjeocts, and when they would not bave envied him had all been known. Is has hitherta been the custom and the fashion to speak of George the Third ia terms of praise: histo- riage for the mast past denominate hima good King —and monarchy-worshipping panegyriats have ep- dowed him with every possible virtue. He has been called the Father of his Peeple—the Paternal Sove- reign-——and a Pattern of Virtue and Morality: the warld has been gravely told that England never was so happy, prosperous, and free as under hig rule ;—~ and it seems so natural ta speak of “the goed old timee’’ of George the Third, that thonsanda of our readers will doubtless beastenished and startled when we agsure them that a more infamous miseraant never disgraced a throne than thet man! A superstitious bigot in religieus matters-—-enter- taining the most implicit belief in the divine right of Kings—looking upon the people as having haga made for him, and not himeelf for the penple—of auch a diabalically cruel disposition that he never would exercise the prerogative of mercy, but gloated over the idea af miserable wretches being strung up in dozens and half-dozenrs at a time—so beartless)y tyrannical that he waged a sanguinary war against the brave Americans when they so gloriously threw off hia in- fermal yoke-—so wedded to despotio notiqna that he expeaded hundzeds of millians of treasure and poured forth Britiah blood in torrents in order to eambat the Fropoh Revolution avd its efacta—and of such a base, maan, oowerdly, and despicable character that he not only persecuted men with unrelenting bitterness for their political and religious opjsiags, byt also em- ployed spies, agents, and informers te get up publig meatings and diaturbanecs, ian order that the people might be mawn dawn by artillery aad cut to picees. by charging eavalry,—such was George the Third! But who was the beautiful young woman that was writing at the table om the ogoasion of which we are now especially speaking? She was the King’s favourite daughter, the Pringess Amelia. In personal agpearance and in disposition there was a great similitude between thie Princess and her sister Sophia, whom wa have already introduced to our readers. Tha beauty of Amelia. was howevez, of a more vo- luptuous cast than that of Sophie. Her complexion was dazzjingly fair ~— cariched upem the cheeks with the aweetest and most delicate vermeil bloom. When her mind was perfeetly tran- qui and her pulses were not quickened by. the ex- citemeng of thoughts, or passions, os emotians,— then did the.soft lustre of her large blue eyes shed the calmness expression over her entire countenance, giving an air of pensive repose to her features. When gently moved by pleasurable feelings, the glances of those agura osbs and the soft smile that played arouad her mouth, degoted the unien of a warm heart with a kind and geoerous uature: but when more profoundly excited, the looks and the manners of the Princesa evinced all the vivid and varying ceusibilives af an impassioned woman. Then, too, her eyes would awim in a valuptuons languer: the flush of sensuality would appear upon her counte- nance—and the heightening scarlet of the full, pont- ing, and gimoat, coaree lips would indicste strong desires and a licentious imagination. Ger figure was more ful) aad of richer contours hue which exists between. Such was the Princess Amelia ;—and although her form, expanded into the luxuriance ef womenhoad, gave her the appearance of at least three or four and twenty yeara of age,—yet in reality waa she only eighteen. It. was about a quarter paat. ten o'clock in the morning when we thus introduce air readers to the King and his favourite daughter. The former was dictating, aud the latter was writing, a letter to the Princesa Caroline. of Bruns- wick, who had already been fixed upon as the future spouse of the Prince of Walea: for whenever a mem- ber of the English Rayal Family requires a husband or a wife, as the case may be, recourse. is invariably had to the trike of beggarly German pauper princes and princesses;—and thence has it arisen that Eng- land is either infested with these greedy and dis gusting foreign leeches whose ravenous maws are never satiated with drinking the heart’s blood of the toiling, starving, oppressed, and trampled-on indus. trious classes,—or else our treasury is compelled to grapt revenues to those petty potentates who would not eveg be blessed with a thatch to their honses if it ware not for British gold. . But John Bull is the greatest fool in all Christen- doro; for not contented with ministering to.the rapa- city of those titled robbers denominated the aristo- cracy, he must need permit the paltriest German rascals anc demireps that ever bore jaw-breaking names to plunder him in the most flagrant manner, just because they are Grand-Dukes‘ or Dukes, and Grand-Duchesses or Ducheases ! Let us however continue our narrative before we lash ourselves into a fury at these iniquities. The Princess Amelia had just closed, sealed, and addressed her letter, when a page entered ta inform his Majesty that a lady and gentleman humbly besought an audignee on behalf of certain matters connected with his Royal Highnesa the Prince of Wales, At the mention of his eldest son’s name, a cloud spread rapidly aver the countenance of the King: but ehecking the ejaculation of displeasure which had risen to the very tip of his tong se, he demanded whether the lady and gentleman w.se sought an in~ terview had given their names, CO lin ©) NOOO) CO