THE KING.—His Majesty and his excellent consort continue to enjoy
themselves at Brighton quite like other people. We have nothing to tell about them ; and therefore, on the faith of the old adage, we may say all our news are good. They visited the Bazaar the other day ; where an old lady having dropped her reticule, the King stooped, picked it up, and presented it to its owner. The old lady and all the people of Brighton have ever since been in a trance of astonishment from dis- covering that a King may have the hands of a man and the manners of a gentleman ! In their walks and drives, the Royal party are still beset by followers, and, we fear, will be. Indeed, we are not sure that we should like to have a King that nobody followed : there is an error of excess the one way as well as the other, and the greater error of the two appears to us to lie on the not-following side. We question if his Ma- jesty himself feel so acutely the annoyance of being surrounded by crowds, as the sensitive personages about him, who complain of it. Some petitions have been occasionally presented to him in his perambu- lations ; and this too the chroniclers of his progress complain of ; as if the King could really be disinclined to listen to the petitions because of their informality. The Duke of Brunswick, we perceive by the Court Circular, went down to Brighton to see their Majesties ; and by the same document we see he has come up to town again. It is not saidhe saw them.
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