DIGITISED MANUSCRIPTS

( 4 ) Tall and full of dignity, with a somewhat florid and good-natured countenance, with a graceful and obliging manner, he combined remarkable tact and a happy facility of address. His voice was particularly fine and melodious, and his demeanour so dignified, that it was generally remarked no actor could have equalled his grace in ascending the throne. Throughout his long life, George HI. proved himself to be a gentleman in every sense of the word. Religious without bigotry, simple without affectation, courageous without foolhardiness, an excellent son, a devoted husband, and a fond parent, he ever afforded the noblest contrast to the coarseness and greed of his predecessors, and the licentious profligacy of his contemporaries. His habit was to rise in the early morning, and spend an hour in devotion before break- fast. Having attended to public business, he then passed his time until dinner in his study, or on horse- back. It was a common practice for him, whatever might be the state of the weather, to ride all the way from Windsor to London; there hold a levée, then a Privy Council, and after attending to various engagements, at a late hour return in his coach to Windsor. Hunting was for many years the chief, if not the only, sport to which he was addicted. Ascot races, however, he never omitted to patronise annually with