admired. The band of the 13th light dragoons striking up "God save the King" at the moment of her landing, and the band of the 39th foot playing at the same time "Rule Britannia," produced an indescribable effect.

Lulworth Castle, the seat of Thomas Weld, Esq., was the next object of her Royal Highness's attention. From this place our most gracious Monarch and the Royal Family took their first sea trip in the Southampton frigate, the third of August 1789; and, from its picturesque situation, it has always held forth peculiar attractions to the visitors of Weymouth. It was the most anxious wish of her Royal Highness to visit that beautiful edifice, and it was not long before her wish was accomplished. Her Royal Highness was accompanied in this excursion by the Rev. Dr. Short, the Countesses of Rosslyn and Ilchester, Lady Augusta Greville, Mrs. Campbell, and the Misses Coates. To notice the particular marks of loyalty and attachment with which the royal party were greeted by the late much lamented Mr. Weld, is a tribute of respect due to the memory of that most truly revered character: they were not received with the obsequious bow of the courtier, nor with the dissembling smile of the haughty peer, but with the cordial, open, and generous welcome of the British commoner. It was the welcome of the heart untainted by personal vanity or sordid interests, and it met with a responsive feeling in the breast of the

Princess Charlotte. She was by no means a tyro in appreciating the sterling value of the human character: she knew that a coarse incrustation conceals the brilliancy of the diamond, and that a rough exterior often veils a heart in which reside the most splendid virtues of our nature. The road to her esteem was by a practical display of candour, openness, sincerity, and truth. She despised the dissimulating arts of the sycophant; and considered that person to offer a direct insult to her understanding, who, on any particular occasion, would lavish his encomiums upon her. The attentions which her Royal Highness received at Lulworth, were those of pure, unadulterated integrity of heart; and, on her return to the King's Lodge in the evening, her Royal Highness was heard to express herself in the highest terms of satisfaction at the manner in which she had been received.

On the anniversary of the jubilee, the day was observed by her Royal Highness with every testimony of regard. She directed a sum of money to be distributed amongst the poor; and to a number of children she gave Bibles, and some of the moral tales of the Religious Tract Society: nor did she forget her establishment at Bognor, which was founded by herself at the jubilee; the annual donation was transmitted, with a flattering promise of her future support and patronage.

In the evening, her Royal Highness invited a

party of nobility at the King's Lodge, to witness an elegant display of fireworks, with an emblematical device of our most gracious Sovereign. One of the attractions of the evening was the celebrated Italian minstrel, Signor Rivolta, who, in an extraordinary manner, performed a concert on eight instruments at one time, with which her Royal Highness was highly gratified, and signified her approbation of his merits in the most flattering

terms.

On the 4th of November the Princess Charlotte, with a full retinue, proceeded to Corfe Castle, the property of Henry Bankes, Esq., to view the antiquities of a place which makes so conspicuous a figure in the history of the Saxon heptarchy.

The ponderous fragments of disjointed walls, which seem ready to quit their apparently inadequate holds, engaged the serious attention of her Royal Highness, and filled her mind with astonishment. She stood for some time contemplating the scattered fragments of this once magnificent fortress; the inclined position of the towers, and the loftinessofthis extensive and stupendous ruin. Many a memento of former times lay dispersed around her; and, in the eloquence of silent admonition, spoke to her of the instability of human objects, and of human grandeur. A vast concourse of persons assembled at the castle to gratify themselves with a sight of this amiable branch of the Royal Family, and they testified their attachment by loud acclamations, which produced a very

sensible and visible effect on the mind and feelings of her Royal Highness.

A few days previously to the departure of her Royal Highness from Weymouth, she took her last marine excursion on board the Zephyr; the weather being delightful, the vessel stood some way out to sea, and it was late in the evening before the royal party reached the shore. The ocean presented one vast glassy surface, for not a ripple played upon the waters,

The wind was hush'd,

And to the beach each slowly-lifted wave

Creeping with silver curl, just kiss'd the shore,

And slept in silence.

At a distance on "the breast of the billow" blazed the beacon's fire, shooting its tremulous light across the ocean; and then arose in the memory of the Princess Charlotte the lines of the poet :

The scene was more beautiful far to my eye,

Than if day, in its pride had array'd it;

The land breeze blew mild, and the azure-arch'd sky,

Look'd pure as the Spirit that made it.

The murmur rose soft, as I silently gaz'd

On the shadowy waves' playful motion;

On the dim distant isle, till the beacon-fire blaz'd,
Like a star in the midst of the ocean.

No longer the joy of the sailor-boy's breast,
Was heard in his wildly-breath'd numbers;
The sea-bird had flown to her wave-girdled nest,
The fisherman sunk to his slumbers.

One moment I look'd from the hill's gentle slope,
All hush'd was the billow's commotion;

And thought that the beacon look'd lovely as Hope,
That star of life's tremulous ocean.

The time is long past, and the scene is afar,
Yet when my head rests on its pillow;
Will Memory sometimes rekindle the star

That blaz'd on the breast of the billow?
In life's closing hour, when the trembling soul flies,
And death stills the heart's last emotion;

O then may the seraph of mercy arise,

Like a star, on eternity's ocean.

The several trips in his Majesty's ship Zephyr, which her Royal Highness made to sea, were highly beneficial to the re-establishment of her health, as they tended to invigorate her nervous system, which had been severely relaxed by the particular circumstances in which she had been placed, and the hard trials which she had lately undergone. She reaped, also an essential benefit from the use of the sea-bath, which she used on alternate days, and her approaching convalescence having been announced by her medical attendants, her departure from Weymouth was finally determined on.

On the 15th, her Royal Highness attended by the Countesses of Ilchester and Rosslyn, with General Garth, and the rest of her suite, arrived at. Salisbury, on her way from Weymouth to Cranbourne-Lodge, and was received at his palace by the Lord Bishop of the diocese. In