The other communication which Mr. Planta made to me was embraced in a dispatch received by Lord Bathurst as Secretary of the Colonial Department, from the governor of New Providence. This paper he read to me at the instance of Lord Castlereagh. It bore date, Nassau, September the 30th, 1819, and informed Lord Bathurst, that the Seminole king, Kenadjie, had arrived at that island, with six Indian chiefs and seventeen attendants; that all these Indians had merit in the eyes of Great Britain from having been useful to the British during the attack upon New Orleans, and that they claimed the countenance and support of the governor, as representing the British government in that quarter; nevertheless the governor replied, that he would not interfere in any way in their behalf during a state of peace with the United States, and sent them home again with no other relief than that which humanity prescribed to their immediate and pressing wants.

I thanked Mr. Planta for the communications, begging him to assure Lord Castlereagh that I would promptly make known both to my government, as I accordingly did. I also in due time apprized Mr. Campbell, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at St. Petersburgh, of the assent of the British government to the Emperor Alexander, as umpire; and I gave the same information to Mr. Gallatin at Paris.

CHAPTER XIV.

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF KENT. DEATH OF GEORGE

THE THIRD.

SOLEMNITIES AND CEREMONIES CON

THE

NECTED WITH THE DEMISE OF THE CROWN. PRINCE REGENT ASCENDS THE THRONE. DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT DETERMINED UPON. STATE OF THINGS BETWEEN THE KING AND PRINCESS OF WALES. INTERVIEW WITH LORD CASTLEREAGHCATO STREET CONSPIRACY.

DINNER AT THE TRA

VELLER'S CLUB. DINNER AT MR. STRATFORD CANNING'S. MEASURES OF PARLIAMENT UNDER "THE DISURBED STATE OF THE COUNTRY. DINNER AT

SIR EDWARD ANTROBUS'S; AT MR. HOLLAND'S.

January 28. On the 23d of this month, died at Sidmouth, in Devonshire, the Duke of Kent, fourth son of the King, in the fifty-third year of his age. A character of him in the Times of a few days ago, enumerates among topics of eulogy, that he was "a kind master, and a punctual and courteous correspondent." "Referring to his rigor as a disciplinarian, even to things most minute, while in military com

mand, the same article has the following remarks: "His attention to the appearance and discipline of his regiment, was unremitting; but as he could not inspire all the military world with an equal sense of the solid value of those dry details, which ought to employ so large a portion of military life, or with an equal taste for those minutiæ of the service, of which nevertheless, when considered in the aggregate, the correct performance adds so much to the precision and efficacy of military tactics, he was, for some time, an unpopular commander. Every military man is not capable of discovering, in the best conceived order, or wisest rule laid down for his observation by superior authority, the direct relation of the means to the end. It may not be thought, at first, of serious importance that an officer's coat or sword belt, should be of a specific fashion or color; but let us consider that the excellence of an army consists in its susceptibility of collective and uniform impulses, and we must admit that uniformity in smaller things-in hourly occupations and objects of attention-nay in the form of hats, or a boot, may contribute to enforce upon common minds, the main principle of harmony in action."

The Grecian Phalanx, the Roman Legion and the army of Frederick, sustain the spirit of these condensed and well expressed remarks.

January 31. On the evening of the 29th instant, the King died at Windsor Castle, in the eightysecond year of his age. This event was announced to the Foreign Ministers by a note from the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, yesterday. The follow

ing is a copy of the one I received:

"It is with the deepest concern that Viscount Castlereagh, one of his late Majesty's principal Secretaries for Foreign Affairs, has the honor to acquaint Mr. Rush, that it has pleased Almighty God to take unto himself, his late most gracious and excellent Majesty, George the Third. His Majesty expired at the Castle at Windsor, yesterday evening at thirty-five minutes past eight o'clock, to the great affliction of all the Royal Family, and of all classes of His Majesty's subjects. Viscount Castlereagh is persuaded that Mr. Rush will participate in the general grief which this melancholy event has occasioned, and requests that he will accept the assurances of his high consideration.

"FOREIGN OFFICE, January 30, 1820."

The King's long reign of sixty years, made the earlier parts of it historical to the generation which now witnessed his death. This was the case with all Americans born at the close of the American

revolution, and was my case. To this English monarch's well known remark on receiving the first

minister from the United States, (Mr. Adams,) viz. that as he had been the "last man in his kingdom to consent to our Independence, so he would be the last, now that it was established, to call it in question," I can add another anecdote, derived from an authentic source. Mr. West, the painter, whose patron and friend the King was, being with him during the American war on an occasion when news came of a victory over the Americans, the King gave expression to his feelings. Observing Mr. West to remain silent, while all was gladness in the palace, he remarked, "Why so silent Mr. Westwhy not rejoice?" The latter replied, "I hope that your Majesty will not take it amiss if I cannot feel pleasure in hearing of misfortunes to those amongst whom I was born, and passed my early days." "Right, right, West-a good sentiment-I honor you for it," was the King's reply.

These anecdotes might have been sufficient, had there not been other duties prompting to it, to secure a respectful answer to Lord Castlereagh's note, responding to the forms of his own. I, according, sent one of that kind. The venerable age of this King, and the affliction with which he was visited during so many of the latter years of his life, made him largely an object of sympathy with all classes in England. He seems to have outlived political animosity, and to have closed his long and eventful