...queen, " I will give it you under my hand, if you are in fear of my relapsing, that my dear first born is the greatest ass, and the greatest liar, and the greatest canaille, aud the greatest beast in the whole world, and that I most heartily wish he was out of it." The reader...

...charged him not to embellish the fool's letters in the translation, or to mend the spelling in the Lord Hervey said the Queen had often last year done...world, and that I most heartily wish he was out of it." original. Lord Hervey took occasion upon this subject, among many other things, to say, he did not...

...speaks of him ' as the most hardened of all liars.' In another she says (to Hervey), ' My dear Lord, I will give it you under my hand, if ' you are in...; and that I most ' heartily wish he was out of it ! ' Compared with this, the King's words and feelings were mild : he only wanted to prove his son a...

...liars.' In another she says (to Hervey), ' My dear Lord, I will give it you under my hand, if ' you arc in any fear of my relapsing, that my dear firstborn...the whole world ; and that I most ' heartily wish lie was out of it ! ' Compared with this, the King's words and feelings were mild : he only wanted...

...;" the Queen did not venture to deny her husband's paternity, unenviable as it was, but she added, " my dear first-born is the greatest ass, and the greatest...canaille, and the greatest beast in the whole world, and I most heartily wish he was out of it."* In reply to the King's version of the quarrel, the Prince...

...;" the Queen did not venture to deny her husband's paternity, unenviable as it was, but she added, " my dear first-born is the greatest ass, and the greatest...canaille, and the greatest beast in the whole world, and I most heartily wish he was out of it."* In reply to the King's version of the quarrel, the Prince...

...his sou. Her Majesty assured him he was ; and then expressed her maternal feelings as follows : — " My dear first-born is the greatest ass, and the greatest liar, and the greatest canaille in the whole world ; and I most heartily wish he was out of it."J There was at least no mystification...

...attempt at concealment on either side. 'My dear first-born,' said the queen to Lord Hervey, ' is tho greatest ass. and the greatest liar, and the greatest canaille, and the greatest beast in th'1 whole world ; and I heartily wish he was out of it' This language is more discreditable to the...

...remarked to Lord Hervey — we quote verbatim from his lordship's interesting diary — "My dear lord, I will give it you, under my hand, if you are in any...world, and that I most heartily wish he was out of it." This most unnatural wish Caroline did not live to sce fulfilled. Her own end was fast approaching....

...Queen " if the beast was his son," and that while her Majesty affirmed his paternity, she would add, " My dear firstborn is the greatest ass, and the greatest...canaille, and the greatest beast in the whole world, and I most heartily wish he was out of it."[| One would fain believe that the stories of her implacable...