DIGITISED MANUSCRIPTS

| Cal to the reporting of Parliamentary debates, the Free- dom of the Press, and the free representation of the constituencies in Parliament. Lord Bute’s unpopularity soon increased to such an extent that he could not venture to leave his called house without an escort of prize- fighters ‘mashers’ in those days, though of a different type from the ‘mashers’ with whom we are familiar. The young King experienced the consequences of his Minister’s unpopularity, and on one occasion, when going to visit his mother, a voice in the mob exclaimed, ‘Are you going to suck ?’ It is always pleasant to revert from the political to the private life of the King. Immediately after his accession to the throne, George III. conceived a romantic attachment for Lady Sarah Lennox, the daughter of the Duke of Richmond. Though only in her seventeenth year, she was eulogised by her admirers for a surpassing loveliness and bewitching fascination of manner, which is said to have charac- terised her even in extremest old age. She was called the chief angel of the ladies of the Court, and on one occasion at private theatricals, when she was dressed in white with her hair droop- ing down to the ground, was described as being lovelier than the most ideal representation of the ereatest painter. On fine summer mornings Lady Sarah, attired in a